Splatoon is proof that Xenoblade is the savior of the JRPG.

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FunFan said:

Valdath said:

Uhh? it's been what... 3 years? and the Wii U still doesn't have a retail RPG.

 

In fact it's my biggest disappointment about the Wii U, don't get me wrong i love my Wii U but in the RPG department it's a spit to the face:

No Fire Emblem home console game

No Paper Mario RPG home console game

No third party exclusives like Pandora's Tower or The Last Story

And the worst of all, of all the JRPGs that they could have chosen (Golden Sun, Shin Megami Tensei 3rd party exclusive, Advance Wars, Dragon Quest Spinoff, Final Fantasy Chronicles, ETC ETC ETC) they pick a Idol ultra weaboo "rpg" with singing battles and highschool girls fighting dragons in a theater stage.

Seriously, there's so many legendary franchises that deserved the home console treatment... and this garbage gets choosen?

If anything, the Wii U shows Nintendo officially abandoning the RPG genre, Xenoblade isn't enough.

 

The 3DS is an amazing RPG machine though.

Well, you know. I did say "a little bit". Thing is, the support that XCX is receiving from Nintendo (NoA in particular), is noticiably better than with the original. I'm willing to bet that the production values are much higher this time. I don't know, because I haven't played it yet and won't be able to play the game until christmas week due to lack of time T.T, but I'm interested to hear, from those that can play it, if Nintendo put more effort into XCX than in the original.

There is a difference between supporting a game for the sake of a franchise and supporting a game for the sake of a genre. In this case, Nintendo heavily supporting xenoblade X is to make the franchise grow, not because they are trying to be a major player in the rpg genre. Otherwise they would have an rpg on the wii u by now