Cooldowns help keep the combat reasonable, so you can’t just keep spamming attacks. Players can now switch Blades on the fly, and when a new Blade takes the lead role, it triggers a power move. Even though the physical act of fighting is primarily automated, the player still has to manage each battle with timed button presses for various arts and combos, as well as character placement in each battle. Players juggled Blades, Arts, Specials, weapons, skills and more, and since this is an RPG, there was no shortage of combat. For better or worse, the combat in the main game was complicated, to say the least. The biggest change in T he Golden Country comes from refinements made to the combat system. There are still plenty of side quests to take on and complete, but the focus here is clearly on telling fans old and new the story of Lora and Jin, a story that is eventually completed in the core game. Part of the allure of this outing is that the adventure is contained to just two Titans, Torna and Gornott, and as a result, the 20-25 hour run time feels more refined. Lora and Jin quickly find themselves swept up in an adventure across the Titans of Alrest as they search for her long lost mother. Players meet a new protagonist, Lora, a Driver, and her trusty Blades, Jin and Haze. Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country is set 500 years before the events of Xenoblade Chronicles 2. ![]() ![]() In short: this expansion tells the story of the Blade, Jin, and his fall from hero to villain, it explains more of who and what Malos is, and it gives Pyra/Mythra more context for her actions - and explains her importance - in the future. ![]() This adventure takes place before the events of the core game and fills in the backstory and motivations for a handful of important characters. Nearly a year later, Nintendo and developer Monolith Soft have released an expansion to that epic game - Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country. Working through the 100+ hours of content was a daunting task for many gamers, myself included. When Nintendo released Xenoblade Chronicles 2 last winter, it marked a new chapter in the Xeno saga, one that helped usher in a new age of RPG’s for the relatively new Nintendo Switch.
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