Even better, your Mystic Meg-like sword will warn you if a random object will be used in a future side-quest, so you don’t accidentally bin it. You don’t have to return to a quest giver for a reward, as it’s gifted to you the second the task is complete. You can pick your fights and run away from any battle. You can warp to any landmark, instantly – the impressive loading-free jumps of Wii are intact on 3DS. It’s as if Monolith created a giant list of everything you hate about JRPGs and banned it outright. As so many JRPGs struggle to find their place in the 21st century, Xenoblade delivers one of the most confident visions in years. Then there’s the substrata of minor bugbears that have been wiped out: the party auto-heals at the end of every battle, there are no potions or items to manage and, most importantly, death merely boots you back to the nearest landmark, all character progress intact. Or the ability to change your party leader at will, giving you a whole new set of Arts to master. Like a mystical soothsaying sword that alerts you to incoming fatalities and gives you ten panicked seconds to alter your grisly fate. On this rock-solid foundation, Monolith build all kinds of cleverness. Much is fixed by having the camera sit closer to the action, though this does require you to adjust it more often to keep darting enemies in the frame – easy enough, due to the New 3DS’s analogue nubbin. It generally makes for rougher battles compared to the Wii version, but it’s manageable. Larger boss creatures are prone to serious frame rate drops when all three party members start launching special attacks that better resemble firework displays. The command bar takes up more of the screen and zooming out to better frame the action makes it hard to judge enemy positions – a key tactical point, as some attacks do extra damage from the side or behind. Yet all this does make combat harder to decipher. Good luck with that last one – we can’t find the toy anywhere. Save up Play Coins, StreetPass a fellow player, or touch a Shulk amiibo to the console and you’ll earn tokens for the raffle. Aside from the obvious 3D, the only major addition are models and music tracks unlocked using 3DS functions.
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