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Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Expansion: Torna the Golden Country - Standalone Prequel - September 2018
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Oh? Is Graphinca an animation outsourcing house that Monolith uses? Have they always used them or is it a more recent thing?
Anyway, I wanted to take a closer look at the voice actors who will be more featured in this prequel
Jin - John Schwab (The Witcher 2/3 as Dandelion)
Lora - Anna Koval (Vampyr as Carina and Dorothy)
Addam - Paul Thornley (The Witcher 3: Hearts of Stone as Olgierd von Everec)
Haze (Fan) - Samantha Dakin (Star Wars Battlefront 2 as Voice Talent)
Definitely looking forward to hearing more of them. And of course, more of David Menkin as Malos will be glorious.
It will also be interesting to see if Skye Bennet will sound any different as Mythra in the past, if either because of her now being more familiar/comfortable with the character or due to the time.
Graphinica is an animation studio formed from ex-Gonzo folks when Gonzo folded the first time round. They have been involved in cutscene production for all the Xenoblade games since the first one. Previously they did portions of it, but increasingly took on more responsibilities. For Xenoblade 2 they were the lead studio and the the two directors on the project storyboarded and directed all the cutscenes. So if you liked the action, direction, choreography, etc, that's mostly all them executing Takahashi's vision. :)
I need more of Malos's VA. His voice (and his hamming) was glorious in XC2.
I wonder if he will keep cursing everyone out?
This game brings me so much joy especially just being new to the series , can't believe how spoilt I'm getting
and still I'd prefer the original/japanese voices, I hope they will give us the option to download them
Apologies if already asked... Will the DLC be a stand-alone download to play separate from the main game, a la Uncharted Lost Legacy?
Yes, but it's more expensive than the season pass, $40 (stand alone physical release).
They are treating it as a semi full release.
Yes, that should be the case.
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Wow, it's nice that Monolith has such a resource at their disposal. I wonder if they had very limited involvement in XCX since that game's cutscenes IMO were not that great compared to the original and XB2. The only cutscenes that seemed done well that I can recall were from the Chapter where New LA was attacked and you had some neat mech vs mech action plus the Wrothian infiltration. But aside from that most of X's cutscenes were pretty dry.
Haze/Fan's VA is also better known as Maya Fey in Professor Layton Vs. Phoenix Wight. Guess I didn't notice until you listed it. I like her and Trevor White in that one, shame they couldn't carry over into the main AA series.
I think Fiora'a VA also does one of the NPCs in PL v PW as well
Both of these statements are wrong....
The '40 dollar physical' is a weird way of saying 'no, you cannot buy the season pass piecemeal'. Since that's what was being asked.
And No, you can't just buy the season pass and play this without playing the base game, which is what the second question was.
EDIT: Ok, so you can buy the physical one and play THAT seperately, but it also includes a code for the season pass, basically ?
odd.
The announcement trailer certainly looks like you can't buy it or play it without the base game, I'm wondering if something is being misinterpreted about the physical version. Download code requires the base game for the season pass, physical version comes with a code. IE: It's a box with a code and no actual cart? If that's the case you 100% need the original game then.
You can play Torna DLC standalone without base game if you get the standalone packaged, only the expansion pass stuff requires base game, naturally.
The only thing that's unsure as of now is whether you can get $30 digital pass and play Torna DLC since we have no idea if it will be its own game icon or will it be accessed from in game menu, but standalone packaged version definitely allows you to play it without base game.
Also to throw Nintendo UK into the mix, their exact wording is "Packaged version only contains the additional story", whatever that means... hence, I answered the first question as "yes".
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Yeah I just watched the 30 minute ish treehouse stream, so rather explicitly the retail package is playable stand alone yep.
And as for 'whatever that means' I'm pretty sure it means it doesn't include the base game.
1080p, unfortunately with Logos. heh
https://e3.nintendo.com/binaries/5b05cd5dfc65335483fa9252/landscapeHeaderImage.webp
I'm pretty happy that people have already done recreations of that battle theme. It's so great!
I hope we may get the full theme eventually. That rendition is good, but the trailer theme is amazing, same with FE's.