The failure of the Wii U has turned out to be a big win for the Switch. While Nintendo’s previous console was its worst selling, it was still home to some of its most inventive games. Over the years, Nintendo has steadily brought many of them — ranging from Captain Toad puzzles to various Donkey Kong adventures — to a much larger audience on the Switch. In fact, the Switch’s best-selling game, Mario Kart 8 Deluxe, is an updated version of a Wii U classic.

And even now, with a new-generation console on the horizon, the Wii U still has more to give. This time, it’s an absolutely massive sci-fi RPG — and one that is just begging to be explored.

Xenoblade Chronicles X first launched in 2015. The story involves an ark-like spaceship that left Earth after an an alien invasion and eventually crashed on an untamed world called Mira. Your character is a part of the early stages of the settlement process. Much of the planet is unexplored, and the crashed ship has been turned into a city of sorts, dubbed New Los Angeles. X has more of a hard sci-fi setup compared to other games in the series, and it’s also a standalone experience, so you don’t need to have played any other …

Read the full story at The Verge.

This post was originally published on this site