BLADE is just the organization that's in charge of rebuilding the society on the new planet. The player joins in the rebuilding process through "unions" that are part of BLADE. We don't know really anything else about the story, I personally want it to be a surprise. 

As for the themes of the series, they are certainly sci-fi (Xenoblade 1 not so much), but have their fantasy and philosphical/religious tones. "Gods" exist within the series, but I don't think that excludes it from being sci-fi. This game won't relate to past games aside from sharing some of those themes, so it stands alone. There's hours of reading involved if you want to know what the past games dealt with

Ok cool, thanks for the info! I was just a little concerned it was going to have a very similar story to the last one. That bothered me with the Tales series - I couldn't really enjoy Abyss because it was so similar to Symphonia.

English sub have been added for anyone wanting more specific details.

Figured I'd update in case anyone has missed this. More info uploaded to the Japanese site with translations.

Details on the battle system and characters came out on Friday, it's been translated.

Target has pre-order cards out for this now.

I am more hyped for this game than anything else announced for 2015. Even Zelda Wii U.

Forgot to update this thread for anyone who may have missed the Japan Direct that focused on the Mechs and Online from a few days ago. It's got subtitles too





The wait is killing me!

I'm finally playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3D and it's so great. So now I am officially excited for Xenoblade X. I wasn't really paying attention to the game since I didn't know whether it would appeal to me, but I can safely say it will.

Awesome! I really hope more people hop on board once we have an official worldwide release date as this game is shaping up to be one of the best rpgs in a long time. Creative games like this won't exist in the future if people don't support it!

I just picked up my copy of XBC 3D, but I doubt I'll want to go through the whole thing too soon since I beat this game around this time last yr. 

New trailer, the first that's entirely made up of cutscenes! Japan gets it in just over a week, the wait is agonizing

Edit: subs added

GOOD NEWS EVERYONE! An English Direct with a hands on gameplay session is starting tomorrow and 11AM PST!!
Finally some news for North America!

http://www.nintendo.com/nintendo-...

Here's about an hour of new gameplay footage from Nintendo



And a brief overview with nothing new besides a few localized names:

I'm very excited. The Wii U is my most desired current gen system. I may finally be ready to lay down the scratch when this one comes out.

Xenoblade seemed really obnoxious to me at first, but on my second attempt at playing through, I noticed how well all the systems fit together, and if quests gave you a little more experience I think it would be an extremely good game. As it is I think it's a very polished title with incredible presentation.

The new Direct showed a lot of XCX and it looks absolutely amazing. I think this might be my most anticipated game right now. I'm currently working through Xenoblade Chronicles 3D which I've really been into since I started playing it. Between that and the new Direct footage... wow. The world looks huge and my god the graphics are gorgeous. Even the story sounds very interesting. I was interested to see more of the game prior to this but now I am officially pumped up for it. I can't wait!

Lots of live streams (some American too) will be starting today since it's now out in Japan if anyone wants to see what the first bit of the game is like.

I'm very tempted to watch more but I think I want to wait. I don't want too many spoilers. I want to be "wowed" when I first play the game.

Even though the official soundtrack release is May 20th, some tracks have been recorded from the game with hopefully more to come. Really liking the forest day and night themes!

New E3 Trailer and 12/4/15 NA release date





Badass trailer, but December is devastating.

When the clip started to play during the stream, all I kept saying was "Please just give me a release date, please just give me a release date.."

I'm super pumped for this release!

Soooooooooooooooo Dope! Can't wait!!
Any news on collectors edition?

This is a JRPG published by Nintendo, highly doubt it lol. Nintendo doesn't seem to do those lately. Something might come, but no news yet.

Ah come on, they did one for Smash Bros, Mario Party 10 and Windwaker! This is there big holiday release, I'm sure they'll do somethin, at least a console bundle. And probably some amiibos, lol

a console bundle with xenoblade? eh I doubt that

That trailer was really good.

"it's time to suit up"

*boner