
Please take a moment to download and install this update while your Nintendo Switch console is connected to the internet. Every character that Mr Saito designed is in this illustration! I bet there’s a way to see this elaborately drawn image of everyone in all of its glory in-game.On 3 September 2020 a new software update for Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country became available for download. Torna - The Golden Country feels so grown up! And it’s finally released, nine months after the main game came out.Ĭharacter designer Masatsugu Saito drew an illustration to commemorate the release of Torna - The Golden Country and the conclusion of the Expansion Pass.

You definitely have to hear the groove in the battle music, and the new ending sung by Jen. They have a real jazzy and acoustic sound. There are also 11 new songs, including some arrangements of existing music, that Mr Mitsuda and others composed just for this game.

What was Jin thinking back then? And Lora? What about Mythra? Their stories were touched on only in fragments in the main story, but will now come to light. The plan was to fit this story between chapters seven and eight in the original plot, but now that it’s its own additional scenario with more quests, we gave it a much larger scale. The story of Torna - The Golden Country is centred around Jin and Lora, and follows the events from 500 years before the main story. Granted, this doesn’t have anything to do with how fun the game is, so it might not matter all that much…but take a look at the difference between the grass in Gormott versus Torna. The fields of Torna are an area where you can easily see the difference. This comes at a transitional period for MONOLITHSOFT, as we look ahead to future projects, so the results of the change are slight – but it does look a bit nicer than the main game. There’s a new rendering engine in Torna - The Golden Country. This title is set up as an additional scenario to the main game, and in fact, adds quite a few changes and renovations.įirst, the technical aspects.

The last part of the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Expansion Pass, Torna - The Golden Country, is finally available. The standalone prequel story Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country is out now on Nintendo Switch, either as part of the Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Expansion Pass or as a standalone version at retail! In this new story mode, uncover the full history of Jin and the fall of Torna that took place 500 years before the events of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.ĭirector Tetsuya Takahashi prepared some production notes to tell us more about the release.
