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Nintendo Direct: Xenoblade Chronicles announced for Switch

By Jack Taylor – 5 September 2019

Xenoblade Chronicles, widely considered one of the Wii's best RPGs, is being remastered for Nintendo Switch.

Revealed at the end of the latest Nintendo Direct presentation, Xenoblade Chronices: Definitive Edition is a fully remastered version of the Wii classic, and launches for Nintendo Switch in 2020.

The game, developed by Monolith Soft, follows the story of Shulk and his friends Fiora and Reyn around the titanic continents of Bionis and Mechonis as they fight against the hostility of the dangerous Mechon.

The first trailer for the game can be watched above.

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