An immense planet that delivers a genuine thrill of exploration, magnified the moment you unlock the Skells. The story unfolds slowly and jargon abounds, but the sheer scale of the world stays unmatched on the console.
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Category
Action RPG1 player12+
Description
An expanded port of Monolith Soft's open-world RPG first released on Wii U, published by Nintendo in 2025. After a colony ship crashes on the planet Mira, survivors explore a gigantic continent on foot, then piloting flying mechs called Skells. This edition adds content, comforts and a proper conclusion to the story.
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4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Gameplay
"Masterful"
The real-time combat, dense with positioning, arts and gauges to manage, unfolds fully once you pilot the flying Skells. The freedom of movement, on foot and in the air, offers gameplay of rare scope, rewarding for anyone who masters its workings.
Fun
"Pleasant"
Addictiveness
"Obsessive"
Mira's sheer vastness feeds a bottomless curiosity: a new ridge reveals a fresh biome, a colossal beast, a side quest hiding ten more. Unlocking the flying Skells multiplies exploration and the urge to map everything, locking the player into a dozens-of-hours compulsion to discover.
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Massive"
The continent of Mira is one of the genre's largest: exploration alone swallows dozens of hours, before counting the hundreds of side missions and Skell customization. The definitive edition adds still more content, pushing an already outsized adventure to a genuinely colossal volume.
Mira teems with Tyrants, colossal creatures far above the ambient level, spotted from afar with a jolt of dread. Bringing them down takes preparation, coordination and often a Skell, delivering titanic showdowns among the genre's most memorable.
An underrated gem
Long trapped on the Wii U, this colossal open world is finally reborn. For the dizzying scale of its planet, the freedom of its flying mechs and its density of content, it's a gem too many players had missed, now at last within reach.
