{"id":717,"date":"2017-09-25T15:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/09\/nintendo_highlights_the_visual_changes_in_xenoblade_chronicles_2"},"modified":"2017-09-25T15:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T15:15:00","slug":"nintendo-highlights-the-visual-changes-in-xenoblade-chronicles-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/09\/25\/nintendo-highlights-the-visual-changes-in-xenoblade-chronicles-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Highlights The Visual Changes in Xenoblade Chronicles 2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_2\"><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles 2<\/strong><\/a> is all set to be an enormous &#8211; and likely intimidating &#8211; release at the end of the year. Since its announcement it&#8217;s nestled comfortably on plenty of wishlists, as it&#8217;ll be the first hefty RPG from Monolith Soft on the Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n<p>Nintendo is keen to demonstrate, too, how the game continues to progress in development. An interesting tweet highlights visual differences with Rex in a cutscene, for example.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">You may have seen some changes in our latest <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/XenobladeChronicles?src=hash\">#XenobladeChronicles<\/a> 2 footage. With new facial animations, Rex appears much more spirited! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dFc9IAucGm\">pic.twitter.com\/dFc9IAucGm<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Nintendo of Europe (@NintendoEurope) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NintendoEurope\/status\/912330899886411778\">September 25, 2017<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>The recent screen also shows increased detail around his outfit. The two trailers in question &#8211; from January and then this month&#8217;s Direct &#8211; are also below.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Nintendo Switch Presentation &#8211; January<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p><strong>Nintendo Direct &#8211; September<\/strong><\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[embedded content] <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>It&#8217;s pretty clear, we think, that the development team has been doing plenty of optimisation and polish through the course of this year; here&#8217;s hoping the end result delivers the quality we&#8217;re all hoping to see.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is all set to be an enormous &#8211; and likely intimidating &#8211; release at the end of the year. Since its announcement it&#8217;s nestled comfortably on plenty of wishlists, as it&#8217;ll be the first hefty RPG from Monolith Soft on the Nintendo Switch. Nintendo is keen to demonstrate, too, how the game [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}