

The reason we request designs from outside is because Monolith Soft doesn’t have a character designer.We needed plenty of Blades, so it was already decided on that we’ll need to get help from numerous character designers.Some felt that it was a little awkward to select Arts while moving and controlling the camera in past titles, so we’ve made the controls more intuitive this time around.I end up wanting to work with him after not doing so for a while.” Tetsuya Takahashi: “Mitsuda-kun (composer Yasunori Mitsuda) is a mother ship-like being to me.Xenoblade Chronicles X’s development revolved around the enjoyment of exploring an open world, but Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is story-focused like Xenoblade Chronicles.

They got the green light after Nintendo producer Hitoshi Yamgami said “This, this is it!” At the time, Monolith Soft had no idea about the specs of the Nintendo Switch, so they began working on its plans while simply imagining what kind of hardware it’ll turn out to be.Xenoblade Chronicles X took a different direction from Xenoblade Chronicles, so the developers grew impatient after hearing fans ask “Why did you change it?”.Monolith Soft was working on Xenoblade Chronicles X at the time, but began work on Xenoblade Chronicles 2 at the same time.Plans for Xenoblade Chronicles 2 started back in July 2014.Xenoblade Chronicles 2’s executive director Tetsuya Takahashi and composer Yasunori Mitsuda recently talked about the upcoming Switch RPG in an interview in this week’s issue of Famitsu magazine.
