A speedrunner of Xenoblade Chronicles X managed to squeeze in a single final world file earlier than Nintendo shut down the Wii U’s on-line servers, making it the final file ever.
Final month, Nintendo did the at finest fairly annoying, at worst outright damaging factor of shutting down its on-line servers for each the Wii U and 3DS. That left quite a few titles outright unplayable, and others with on-line modes which are not accessible. Xenoblade Chronicles X was one such recreation with a web based mode, however now you possibly can’t play it anymore due to the servers being shut down. It is a lesser identified entry within the beloved RPG sequence, however one which many hope will get a Swap port someplace down the road (or possibly at this level a Swap 2 port). Because it seems, speedrunner YMG-C really carried out one final run of the sport’s on-line mode proper earlier than the servers shut down, and within the course of beat the world file, as shared by a fan on Twitter (thanks, GamesRadar).
With the Wii U’s servers now offline, this additionally makes it unattainable for anybody else to speedrun the web mode in any respect, that means YMG-C will perpetually be the world file holder. Although, if nobody else had determined to do a run earlier than the servers shut down, it would not matter a lot, as they have been the earlier world file holder anyway. Their earlier file was two hours and 57 minutes lengthy, whereas this new file is a minute shorter at two hours and 56 minutes, and that would be the file perpetually extra. Even when the sport does get a Swap port, speedrun classes may also be positioned throughout varied platforms, and with the Wii U being a era behind, that will clearly trigger discrepancies in issues like load occasions.
Whereas a port of Xenoblade Chronicles X may be a little bit of a pipe dream, it is not like the sport is not getting new entries: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 launched in 2022, and even obtained some DLC the next 12 months, so there’s nonetheless a future for the sequence someplace in Nintendo’s library.