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Eurogamer's 80 most anticipated games of 2025
Eurogamer counts down its 80 most anticipated games of 2025, from Avowed to Wuchang: Fallen Feathers.
Sure, Team Ladybug is perhaps better known for its sidescrolling shoot 'em ups than their Metroid-likes (see Touhou Luna Knights, Drainus etc), but I adored the studio's 2020 game Record of Lodoss War: Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth, and Blade Chimera looks to be very much more of that - albeit set in a demon-infested, cyberpunk-infused version of Osaka than the lauded 90s anime series. It's a fantasy action-RPG inspired by the likes of The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and Shadow of the Colossus, with a bit of Monster Hunter thrown in as players venture out into a cataclysm-struck "open zone" world - scrambling around 25-meter-high climbable creatures known as the Arks in order to secure resources needed to create new weapons and armour back at a base camp. Its strain of sci-fi is quite a bit harder than its numbered stablemates, featuring mechs, modern cities and an intergalactic threat, but when you first step inside its enormous metal suits and discover there's a whole other layer to this impossibly large world, Xenoblade Chronicles X retains that same sense of awe and wonder that made the series so brilliant in the first place.
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