NanaMiku
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Review embargo is July 26th https://opencritic.com/news/2569/xenoblade-chronicles-3-review-embargo-details
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 |OT| To Guide The Dead is My Lot
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NanaMiku
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Nice, it's like Iwata Asks
Davevil
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and it's playable on steam deck
what a time to be alive
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PhaseJump
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Playable is probably debatable. The other games run like absolute shit on Deck. XC2 is broken. Slow as hell and tons of graphical issues in the background.
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The intro to this game is god damned ridiculous. . .and long. Very long. I'm not sure what they were going for with that. It does set the lore of the world up (getting real
vibes here) but Jesus, tell me about to watch anime episode or something before I sit down with dinner going in the kitchen.
. . .as for the game itself, looks wise this would probably be insane on a PC or something with stronger hardware. Just from the cutscenes themselves you can see what kind of game MS would make aesthetically without the limitations of the SWITCH (or Wii/U). For sure better looking than XC2, but boy if there was ever a game that was begging for anti-aliasing.
Never Let Me Go and Logan's Run
. . .as for the game itself, looks wise this would probably be insane on a PC or something with stronger hardware. Just from the cutscenes themselves you can see what kind of game MS would make aesthetically without the limitations of the SWITCH (or Wii/U). For sure better looking than XC2, but boy if there was ever a game that was begging for anti-aliasing.
Dream-Knife
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It and 2 will likely get remasters or remakes on the next Nintendo console.
NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt
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Hell I would rebuy those games lol
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NanaMiku
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NanaMiku
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jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
I've got a couple of days off work starting tomorrow, and I'm planning on curling up with this game. My copy just shipped from Amazon, hoping it gets delivered on time. 
Been keeping myself in the dark on most aspects of this game - I only watched the original reveal trailer.
Been keeping myself in the dark on most aspects of this game - I only watched the original reveal trailer.
Danjin44
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Croga
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Try not to explode from sheer joy when you can finally play it!
First impressions, for someone who plays the Switch almost entirely in handheld mode, this looks and runs SO much better then 2 and Torna. I'm really impressed so far!
Exentryk
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Lol, it's interesting because they probably don't even have a concept of reproduction given how it all works in their world.
But yeah, the scene was interesting for sure.
NanaMiku
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Chukhopops
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First impressions:
- runs really well handheld, still blurry but way less than XC2;
- tons of cutscenes in the beginning, looks really high budget compared to previous episodes;
- soundtrack is amazing.
- runs really well handheld, still blurry but way less than XC2;
- tons of cutscenes in the beginning, looks really high budget compared to previous episodes;
- soundtrack is amazing.
The game is full of cutscenes and well into Ch. 3 they haven't stopped. It has also been a shockingly linear game so far.
. . . and the hand-holding has not let up; genuinely curious if we'll get the same criticism of it here that folks like to throw at UBI-Open Worlds. The AI is also braindead and I'm hoping they're just holding off on the drip feed of game systems to add in a more refined party control system.
Beyond that, definitely an 8/10 game so far lately carried by the story and combat depth (even if there are some major issues with combat including the AI and general combat feedback). The game also has an impeccable balance of maturity and anime-cheesecake.
Not until you get to Ch. 2. Even then it's going to be a slog. The difficulty is not well balanced at all, particularly in the opening hours. It's basically just the enemy becomes a damage sponge, which is good for actually seeing combat but when you face bosses or stronger enemies you can see where the tedium is. It's just not balanced for how many missing features there are in the beginning.
. . . that said, I did it (I'm in Ch. 3 after 10 hours) but it really needed a content pass in terms of balancing.
. . . and the hand-holding has not let up; genuinely curious if we'll get the same criticism of it here that folks like to throw at UBI-Open Worlds. The AI is also braindead and I'm hoping they're just holding off on the drip feed of game systems to add in a more refined party control system.
Beyond that, definitely an 8/10 game so far lately carried by the story and combat depth (even if there are some major issues with combat including the AI and general combat feedback). The game also has an impeccable balance of maturity and anime-cheesecake.
Not until you get to Ch. 2. Even then it's going to be a slog. The difficulty is not well balanced at all, particularly in the opening hours. It's basically just the enemy becomes a damage sponge, which is good for actually seeing combat but when you face bosses or stronger enemies you can see where the tedium is. It's just not balanced for how many missing features there are in the beginning.
. . . that said, I did it (I'm in Ch. 3 after 10 hours) but it really needed a content pass in terms of balancing.
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Exentryk
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I started hard, but enemies just take longer. The battle doesn't really change much. And you don't really have the tools to do much differently due to limited combat options. So hard mode is not recommended at the start at least. Let's see how it unfolds once you have more options.
got it, i will start in normal then, and maybe ramp it up to hard in chapt 2 and 3 depending on how it feels by then
combat is my favorite part of xenoblade, its incredibly solid and deep, at least 1 and 2 were, in my opinion
I mean try HARD for yourself before you say this isn't something you want to do. I died like ten minutes into the game when attacking a group of similar level enemies guarding a treasure. I couldn't do it and if I had kept the game on HARD until at least the beginning of Ch. 2 I probably would have peaced out. I still don't feel that you have as much control as you need to effectively manage HARD in Ch. 3 but it's not as pernicious as the beginning.
To give an example: AI will try their hardest to use their ARTS effectively, but they just don't understand the game as well as you do, so I'm often in a situation where a characters combo ART is on cooldown because they've used it, and there's no way to control that - so far; another thing is characters not taking advantage of buffs in the field, especially classes that have positional attacks - they'll try and stay in position for their attacks instead of coming in to use buffs when they are off cooldowns. I'm glad they have the regroup option, but while that is on, characters won't do anything, which is annoying.
Again, maybe this will flesh out a bit more as the game is VERY slow, and is seemingly taking its time with not just the story but gameplay mechanics as well. I'm sure by the mid-game all of this will be moot.
I absolutely would not be playing this game if it weren't for the combat. The story for sure is good, even if I don't know what's going on (I am getting a bit sick of the - well I guess they are English accents, but they are accents I've NEVER heard an Englishman use outside of cinema when you want the audience to know a character is REALLY British and "posh" I think is the word). But, so far, the world is not even close to being engaging enough with things to do for me to say it is a selling point (it is a lot less whimsical and bright than XC1 and for sure XC2; the first two chapters are just barren land except for a brief stop).
yeah xeno 2 also took its time, i quite enjoyed getting new mechanics 30 hours in still
Diseased Yak
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My copy is still out for delivery, bleh! Was watching some streams on Twitch and Cohh mentioned that he's had one game crash, with a few others mentioning crashes as well. Hopefully nothing too hard for the devs to find a fix for.
Hosam6xavi
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Played first 30 minutes
Man monolith soft know how to make me live in the world's they are creating
I Loved every second of the game until now
Man monolith soft know how to make me live in the world's they are creating
I Loved every second of the game until now
Danjin44
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NanaMiku
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The tutorial is like that because many people complain about the tutorial in Xenoblade 2. Monolith Soft always take their criticism to heart lol. They even made a VR training room. The AI is a bit better than 1 and 2. They still properly execute combo. You can also change party member you control in battle, so you can directly control them.
Gonna have to just disagree about the AI. They certainly will execute a combo properly. . .IF the ability is off-cooldown. This will not stop characters from "ability staggering" leading to inefficient use of the combo system. And yes, obviously I know you can directly control characters; this does not stop characters from "wasting" abilities leading to long stretches of poor enemy control.
. . .as for the tutorials, if they don't think people know how to equip items in an RPG (so much so that they give you the tutorial twice) then boy do they not have any confidence in their playerbase.
Kataploom
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UX is a really delicate kind of work, you better treat your userbase like complete ignorants or you risk the complete ignorants (that there will always be) will get lost unattended. But well, there are good ways and not so good ways of doing tutorials (Doom Eternal is an absolute flow killer in that regard, they should be not copied)
Mercenary09
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Nvm
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ZL + Right Stick when you're not in a cutscene.
Go_Ly_Dow
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Massive help! Thanks.
Indeed. The game doesn't tell you it (and the UI element pointing it out is really small) and it was definitely wearing on me in the beginning. Discovering it increased my enjoyment of combat immensely.
xellos2099alpha
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The job system and sub quest to unlock more Hero unit is awesome.
Mister Wolf
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Learn something.
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