Xenoblade Chronicles X Switch Review, GDC Recap, and a Persona 4 Remake Wishlist

Axe of the Blood God: An RPG Podcast

Kat Bailey

Leisure, Video Games, Technology

4.6 • 674 Ratings

🗓️ 24 March 2025

⏱️ 108 minutes

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Summary

Living here in New LA, fighting villains from afar. You got to find first gear in your giant robot car. The Xenoblade saga on Switch is now complete with the inclusion of Xenoblade Chronicles X (Xenoblade Cross if you're nasty). But it's been 10 years since the original release on WiiU; has it aged well? The very idea of video games "aging well" is a concept invented by tech-capitalists so don't ask me that. Instead ask "How much of the current open-world RPG landscape do we owe to it, do the gameplay elements designed for the WiiU transpose to the Switch well, and exactly how fantastic a game is it?" All these questions and more will be answered by Kat, Nadia, Eric, and Victor on this interstellar episode of Axe of the Blood God! Tune in to live recordings of the show every Saturday morning at https://www.twitch.tv/bloodgodpod, subscribe for bonus episodes and discord access at https://www.patreon.com/bloodgodpod and celebrate our 10th Anniversary with new merch by Nina Matsumoto at https://shop.bloodgodpod.com Also in this episode: Tuning the skill floor of the player vs the encounter Kat's many adventures at GDC Palworld's still at it What we want out of a Persona 4 remake Timestamps: 08:00 - Main Topic - Xenoblade Chronicles X 53:50 - Random Encounters 1:01:54 - Tavern - GDC 1:32:30 - Persona 4 Remake Wishes 1:40:40 - Nadia's Nostalgia Nook Music Used in this Episode: Do Your Best - [Breath of Fire III] A Curious Tale - [Secret of Mana] Your Voice - [Xenoblade Chronicles X] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:32.6	You know, Welcome to another episode of Acts of the Blood God and Independent RPG podcast.
0:47.3	I'm your host, Kat Bailey, joining me.
0:49.3	As always, my lovely co-host, Nadia Oxford.
0:52.3	Hello, Kat.
0:53.3	Good to have you back. I can't remember what we said happened last week. I just remember
0:57.5	it. I think he dissipated or I don't know, but I'm glad to see you're with us still.
1:02.6	Up in a puff of smoke.
1:04.7	Pugh. Peeo! Also joining my equally lovely co-host, Eric Van Allen.
1:11.4	Hi, hello.
1:12.3	We're all back together again.
1:13.9	After a little bit of the time apart, we always come back and talk about the greatest sicko game known to man.
1:20.9	I'm really excited for today's episode because Victor and I are going to be firmly aligned on the sicko boundaries.
1:27.7	The sicko squadron has never been more firmly aligned.
1:31.4	So back, baby.
1:33.7	And straight from the editing bay,
1:36.2	it's our pal,
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