Xenoblade Chronicles , known in Japan as Xenoblade (, Zenobureido), is a role-playing video game published by Nintendo and developed by Monolith Soft for the Wii console and Nintendo Switch . The game was announced during E3 2009, when a trailer was released to media. The trailer shows a futuristic sword-wielding character battling giant robots and creatures as well as third-person exploration gameplay. In January 2010, the game was renamed from Monado: Beginning of the World to Xenoblade to honor Tetsuya Takahashi, "who poured his soul into making this and who has been working on the Xeno series". STORY Join the fight between man and machine in the definitive edition of this critically-acclaimed RPGDiscover the origins of Shulk as he and his companions clash against a seemingly-unstoppable mechanical menace. Wield a future-seeing blade, chain together attacks, and carefully position your party members in strategic, real-time combat as you journey across a massive world, only on