{"id":75810,"date":"2019-01-15T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/01\/xenoblade_chronicles_2_is_getting_a_gorgeous_new_art_book"},"modified":"2019-01-15T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-15T12:15:00","slug":"xenoblade-chronicles-2-is-getting-a-gorgeous-new-art-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/01\/15\/xenoblade-chronicles-2-is-getting-a-gorgeous-new-art-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Is Getting A Gorgeous New Art Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a780005631a0d\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a780005631a0d\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Xeno\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a780005631a0d\/xeno.original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/a780005631a0d\/xeno.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Xeno\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<p>Nintendo and Kadokawa are set to release a brand new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_2\"><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles 2<\/strong><\/a> art book called &#8216;Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Official Artworks Alrest Record&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The book will feature illustrations from the game&#8217;s main character designer Masatsugu Saito, four special illustrations by rare blade designer CHOCO, and contains art from both Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_2_torna_-_the_golden_country\"><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna \u2013 The Golden Country<\/strong><\/a>. Characters, weapons, rare blades, titans, monsters, objects, and more will all appear.<\/p>\n<p>It also includes lines from the game&#8217;s most memorable moments as part of a &#8216;story playback&#8217; feature, and all of this content is wrapped up inside the gorgeous, 352-page book shown below. It&#8217;s A4 in size and is available in paperback.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\" \/>\n<p>Pre-orders have now gone live on <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.co.jp\/dp\/4047333670\/\">Amazon Japan<\/a> (the book is scheduled to launch on 2nd February) and costs \u00a5 3,132 (approx. \u00a322 \/ $29). While no western release has been confirmed, Amazon Japan does offer international shipping to most areas so importing shouldn&#8217;t be an issue.<\/p>\n<p><em>Are you a Xenoblade fan? Would you like an official art book for your collection? Let us know if you&#8217;re considering buying a copy in the comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nintendo and Kadokawa are set to release a brand new Xenoblade Chronicles 2 art book called &#8216;Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Official Artworks Alrest Record&#8217;. The book will feature illustrations from the game&#8217;s main character designer Masatsugu Saito, four special illustrations by rare blade designer CHOCO, and contains art from both Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and Xenoblade Chronicles [&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-75810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75810","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=75810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}