{"id":99710,"date":"2019-09-05T16:45:00","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/video_heres_how_xenoblade_chronicles_switch_remaster_compares_to_the_wii_original"},"modified":"2019-09-05T16:45:00","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T16:45:00","slug":"video-heres-how-xenoblade-chronicles-switch-remaster-compares-to-the-wii-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/09\/05\/video-heres-how-xenoblade-chronicles-switch-remaster-compares-to-the-wii-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Here&#8217;s How Xenoblade Chronicles&#8217; Switch Remaster Compares To The Wii Original"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d438342aba6bf\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d438342aba6bf\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/d438342aba6bf\/1280x720.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\">[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mvh1UpOnz04?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507]<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Yesterday&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2019\/09\/round_up_everything_announced_in_the_september_2019_nintendo_direct\">Nintendo Direct<\/a> ended with a wonderful little moment for Shulk fans: yes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/xenoblade_chronicles\"><strong>Xenoblade Chronicles<\/strong><\/a> is getting a remastered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/xenoblade_chronicles_definitive_edition\"><strong>Definitive Edition<\/strong><\/a> release on Switch. And we&#8217;re <em>really feeling it<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>When we were watching the show live, we were actually so distracted by the game&#8217;s beautiful music track playing throughout that we didn&#8217;t really notice the visual upgrades. Sure, it looked quite pretty, but we weren&#8217;t exactly blown away.<\/p>\n<p>Putting the new release side-by-side with the Wii original, though, we can see just how much of an improvement players can really expect in the new Switch version. The folks over at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mvh1UpOnz04&amp;feature=youtu.be\">Nintendo World Report<\/a> have put together the comparison video above; the shot with Shulk lying on the ground is a particular highlight, but there are several scenes here that show off some serious upgrades. As you can see, the new game&#8217;s looking beautiful.<\/p>\n<p><em>Take a look for yourself and let us know if you&#8217;re excited for this one in the comments below. Have you played the original on Wii? Will this be your first time experiencing the game?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[youtube https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mvh1UpOnz04?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1&#038;w=900&#038;h=507] Yesterday&#8217;s Nintendo Direct ended with a wonderful little moment for Shulk fans: yes, Xenoblade Chronicles is getting a remastered Definitive Edition release on Switch. And we&#8217;re really feeling it. When we were watching the show live, we were actually so distracted by the game&#8217;s beautiful music track playing throughout that we didn&#8217;t really [&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-99710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99710","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=99710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/99710\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=99710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=99710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=99710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}