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The game was first announced in 2013 under the working title " X", set for a release date the following year, but was later delayed to 2015. The music was created by anime composer Hiroyuki Sawano. The implementation of online multiplayer both proved challenging due to the team's inexperience, and the game required a comprehensive story rewrite to recast the protagonist as a player-created avatar.
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The team set themselves the challenge of creating an expansive world for players to explore within a tight development budget. The staff also included Xenoblade Chronicles director Koh Kojima and producer Shingo Kawabata, Xenoblade Chronicles scenario co-writer Yuichiro Takeda, and Xenosaga artists Kunihiko Tanaka and Kouichi Mugitani.
#XENOBLADE CHRONICLES X A PRESENT FOR HOPE SERIES#
After being rescued from a hibernation pod by a woman named Elma, the player character, a customizable Avatar, becomes a member of BLADE, which protects NLA and seeks the Lifehold - vital to their survival - while fending off the hostile Ganglion and investigating Mira's secrets.īeginning development after work finished on Xenoblade Chronicles, Xenoblade Chronicles X features multiple returning staff from earlier Xeno titles, including series creator Tetsuya Takahashi as executive director and scenario co-writer. One such ship, the colony New Los Angeles (NLA), narrowly escapes and crashes on Mira. Following Earth's destruction during an alien war, humanity attempts to escape, with only a few ships surviving. Xenoblade Chronicles X takes place on the uncharted planet Mira. Carrying over several gameplay elements from Xenoblade Chronicles, players explore the open world planet Mira, completing a variety of quests and unlocking new regions to explore and gather resources from across Mira's five continents. Xenoblade Chronicles X forms part of the Xeno metaseries, being a spiritual successor to Xenoblade Chronicles without any narrative connections to prior Xeno titles. Xenoblade Chronicles X is an open world action role-playing video game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo for the Wii U console.