Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition

 Switch
Metascore
87

Generally favorable reviews - based on 93 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 91 out of 93
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 93
  3. Negative: 0 out of 93
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  1. Impulsegamer
    Apr 3, 2025
    74
    While Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition is not a perfect remaster by any means. It has several notable and avoidable flaws. However, it is still one of the best remasters in modern years and the new content makes it an incredibly attractive remaster for fans.
  2. Irish Independent
    Apr 1, 2025
    60
    Xenoblade Chronicles X remains stuck in the game design of 10 years ago, padded with hackneyed dialogue, pinballing the player from silly quest to tired kill quotients. Sure, it occasionally surprises you with a stunning panorama or confronts you with a colossal enemy. Even then, though, it’s not long before you’re engaged in a repetitive combat loop where your attacks trigger automatically and your optimum strategy relies on approaching enemies from the rear.
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  1. 3DJuegos
    May 27, 2025
    Xenoblade Chronicles X at its peak. Long, beautiful and super fun! [Recommended]
  2. The A.V. Club
    Mar 30, 2025
    And yet, despite my complaints, what I’ve ultimately come away with from this interplanetary stroll down memory lane is this: Ambition is that element of game design that is the hardest to copy, and the easiest to invite forgiveness. Ten years after its release, there’ve been games that have replicated the genuinely coolest things about Xenoblade Chronicles X. (If you told me that no one who worked on the world design of The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild had ever spent time with these vast vistas of “How the hell do I get over there?” I’d be genuinely shocked.) But very few games have ever tried to work at this level of both detail and scale. Mira remains unmatched as a space to explore, a world that feels breathtakingly alive and hostile and glorious; a planet where cresting a hill to see the next view spread out before you remains its own shining reward. Xenoblade Chronicles X wasn’t a perfect game before, and a decade of time hasn’t magically made a perfect game of it since. But it is singular, and singular has only gotten more precious to me as the years have gone by.
  3. The Verge
    Mar 18, 2025
    For a certain kind of player, it’s worth pushing through the game’s fussiness. Because even now, 10 years after it debuted, there’s still nothing quite like the sense of stunning sci-fi exploration that Xenoblade Chronicles X offers. You even get a mech suit eventually. The Switch version doesn’t change much, but it does make that incredible world portable, which is more than enough reason to jump in — either again or for the first time.