Xenoblade Chronicles 3

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8.5

Generally favorable reviews- based on 1372 Ratings

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  1. Mitthrawnuruodo
    Jul 29, 2023
    3
    The music may be the only redeeming thing of this entire game. An overcomplicated combat system that you can just ignore and let it auto-attack for the vast majority of your fights. When you do have to use it, you can largely just sit and smash all the buttons while doing something else on your phone so you can actually be entertained until the fight ends. It has an open world that feelsThe music may be the only redeeming thing of this entire game. An overcomplicated combat system that you can just ignore and let it auto-attack for the vast majority of your fights. When you do have to use it, you can largely just sit and smash all the buttons while doing something else on your phone so you can actually be entertained until the fight ends. It has an open world that feels copy and pasted repeatedly, and largely empty. All exploration gets you is hundreds of different items that are so numerous and so frequent none of it feels interesting or special. They seemed to have taken some bits from MMO style gameplay, but only the most boring bits. A story that can't seem to decide on it's pacing, with many of the characters being very bland stereotypes. You have so many cutscenes that they become a boring slog to even put up with and you groan every time you have to sit through one, or just start skipping them completely. The boss enemies are just terrible attempts at I think being funny mustache twisting evil and instead are just cringy and comical in a very bad way. Hours and hours of voice acting, yet in combat and overworld you'll hear the same half a dozen lines repeated over, and over, and over.

    Save yourself the time and money and play almost any other game in the series instead, or really any other JRPG instead.    … Expand
  2. Lil_Dierk
    Jul 29, 2023
    3
    What a heavily disappointing game. I started the xenoblade franchise in 2020 when xenoblade chronicles definitive edition was released on the switch, and I instantly fell in love. Xenoblade 2 was alright, but not nearly as bad as this game. At the time of release, I was not a legal adult, and had no source of reliable income, I saved for months to buy this game on release day with the dlc.What a heavily disappointing game. I started the xenoblade franchise in 2020 when xenoblade chronicles definitive edition was released on the switch, and I instantly fell in love. Xenoblade 2 was alright, but not nearly as bad as this game. At the time of release, I was not a legal adult, and had no source of reliable income, I saved for months to buy this game on release day with the dlc. You could only imagine my disappointment. Let's start on the story. I love the story. But actually playing through it, sucked. It was really hard to follow for some reason, and I found myself googling about the part that I was at. Now let’s begin on the gameplay. All the past battle mechanics we know and love are still here. However, the auto attacks were my biggest problem in this game and xenoblade 2. If auto attacking builds your team gauge, then why is it required for me to stand stationary when positioning is so crucial in xenoblade games? This was not a problem in xenoblade definitive edition, as you were able to auto attack while moving to position yourself better, which, as previously stated, is a crucial part of battle in these games. This auto attacking problem is auto attacking this game’s rating (Mediocre attempt at humor). Other than auto attacking, there were a few gameplay mechanics that are new, but poorly designed. One of which being the weapon class system. Every character in this game has a unique weapon that they use. While that is all well and good, you can also SWITCH any character’s weapon class to the weapon of another character. That makes any strategy of who to play, completely irrelevant since you can use any weapon as any character. It also has a level system for ALL the characters and for ALL the weapons. That adds more playtime to the game that just is not fun. This mechanic also makes the characters less diversified, as the weapon you see them use in the cutscenes has no meaning to the character anymore. Which perfectly segways this review into the characters. They are really not that bad, but the character designs are amazing, but way too detailed for the switch to handle, along with the environment. It feels as if this is meant to be played on a PS5. It runs horribly. Even the menu lags due to too much detail. Now we can talk about the dlc. The hype train for the dlc fell off because of how long the waves are taking to come out. I sadly can not recommend this game to xenoblade newcomers, or anyone for that matter. Just go buy Xenoblade definitive edition.… Expand
  3. mssixi
    Jul 13, 2023
    2
    El peor Xenoblade al que he jugado. Es tremendamente aburrido,lleno de tutoriales,conversaciones de los personajes insustanciales… No es nada desafiante ni en modo difícil. He jugado muchas horas con la esperanza de que fuera a mejorar en algún momento pero vamos….Cinemáticas eternas y tocar la flauta continuamente. No entiendo cómo tiene la nota que tiene.
  4. TheXxchaKing
    Jul 7, 2023
    4
    + Soundtrack is nice, though it still pales in comparison to XC1, XC2 and even XCX
    + World and enemy design are exactly what you would expect from a Xenoblade title
    - Storytelling and dialogue is absolute drivel that makes no sense - Protagonists and villains alike are utterly unlikeable - Character class systems are too malleable, making every character play the same - Chain attack    + Soundtrack is nice, though it still pales in comparison to XC1, XC2 and even XCX
    + World and enemy design are exactly what you would expect from a Xenoblade title

    - Storytelling and dialogue is absolute drivel that makes no sense
    - Protagonists and villains alike are utterly unlikeable
    - Character class systems are too malleable, making every character play the same
    - Chain attack system breaks boss fights in an unforgiveable manner
    - Graphics and abysmal draw distance somehow look worse than XC2    … Expand
  5. Phuz
    May 16, 2023
    0
    Nintendo are doing a great job in recent years of ruining legendary franchises. They turned Zelda in to a walking sim, mixed it with Minecraft and took away the great music and made a kiddies empty fetch quest walkathon.

    Then Fire Emblem, a masterpiece right through to 3 Houses, which really brought it to the future, had these great story path choices, beautiful design, adding stunning    Nintendo are doing a great job in recent years of ruining legendary franchises. They turned Zelda in to a walking sim, mixed it with Minecraft and took away the great music and made a kiddies empty fetch quest walkathon.

    Then Fire Emblem, a masterpiece right through to 3 Houses, which really brought it to the future, had these great story path choices, beautiful design, adding stunning music. Then Engage happened and ruined it all. I don't care how good the chess bit is when everything else was ruined. Nasty ear piercing, boring anime characters that I wanted to kill, not save and in a fooking illuminous game world.

    Then Xenoblade, guess what? Yes ruined. The 3rd of Nintendo's best franchises given the **** treatment on the latest gen.

    How did they manage to downgrade everything from the Wii and WiiU? All they had to do was combine the two and ditch Nopons. The gameworld, graphics, speed and fun of XC X on WiiU mixed with the Story and music of XC1 on Wii. Instead they literally destroyed everything. I am really at a point now where I don't believe the hardware of Switch is as good as WiiU. I don't think the Switch is capable of the WiiU game world in Xenoblade Chronicles X. On paper Switch maybe better but in the real world, I haven't seen the Switch come close to XC X on WiiU.

    I am also starting to believe that people are paid to add reviews. Some of the reviews are outright lies.

    Great characters. If you're 6 y/o possibly.
    Great story. Yeah, I'm just 30 hours in and the story has done practically nothing and the cuts enes are boring as it gets.

    Edit: Got to 40 hours and it was still bad and got hit with loads of filler just as the story was about to move. Went to CEX and traded this junk. Good riddance.

    I can't even be bothered listing every part of the game. It is bad in every way. Go play XCDE and XC X and comeback and tell me this isn't a downgrade in every possible way.

    It's childish with characters and dialogue. With the removal of the old combat bar (I know they did this in 2 but I haven't played it) combat can feel like a lot of waiting around. Characters constantly glitching out and humping scenery. High quality but very forgettable music. I've never spent so long on such a terrible game. Absolute waste of my life.

    I'm not sure how so many people can criticise SAO games and then praise this because the poor dialogue is very reminiscent of SAO. Hollow Realisation is actually a better game than this though.

    Avoid this crap. Reviews are clearly from primary schoolers. There is nothing for teenagers, or adults here.    … Expand
  6. AnimeConnoisseu
    Jul 1, 2023
    0
    Easily the worst Xeno game. Which says a lot because Xenosaga 2 exists. Awful main party, awful villains, and all colonies look identical. Also the localization is awful.
  7. Flippoo
    Jun 11, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I played and finished both XB1 and XB2 and really enjoyed both. So I thought there was no way XB3 could fail. Unfortunately XB3 made several design and story decisions that did not captivate me.

    First was the military theme, just didn't enjoy that aspect of it. XB games are more fun and interesting when they have a more homey or medieval theme. Could just be me that feels that way, I don't know.

    I also didn't like the whiny lead character Noah. So weak. I mean I didn't like Rex that much either at first but at least he was tenacious so I had to give him respect for that - and eventually Rex won me over. Noah just wants to talk about emotions the whole time and I want to roll my eyes.

    Also the UI felt like a step backwards, the combat also wasn't better than XB2, the villains were stupid, and the environments seemed dark and ugly. Not an enjoyable universe to be in at all. Somehow they did the impossible and released a terrible XB game.    … Expand
  8. DJBobRokk
    Jun 8, 2023
    4
    Just One Word: BORING.. nothing more than boring.. silly story/dialogues, totally unrewarding gameplay and terrible graphic quality (on TV)
    let me go to play another Yakuza..
  9. Xenobladekille
    May 25, 2023
    0
    Gráficos: malos Jugabilidad: malísima
    Combate repetitivo
    Historia aburrida y sin sentido Una estafa por lo que cobran y lo que dan. Es lo que hay j
  10. yoh457
    Apr 26, 2023
    3
    I was really disappointed with this one. It was like torture treatment playing through it mainly because it was just so boring. The combat is not very interactive or interesting and the story and cutscenes drag on and on and aren't even interesting. The open world felt bland and lifeless just going from point a to b fighting enemies with barely any variety. The characters were allI was really disappointed with this one. It was like torture treatment playing through it mainly because it was just so boring. The combat is not very interactive or interesting and the story and cutscenes drag on and on and aren't even interesting. The open world felt bland and lifeless just going from point a to b fighting enemies with barely any variety. The characters were all uninteresting. It took me a year after it came out of playing it barely off and on to finally finish it and I had to force myself to finish it. This was actually the first Xenoblade Chronicles game I played and it makes me shudder thinking about playing the others. Games like these that get good critic reviews anyway make me wonder if critics just like garbage.… Expand
  11. HunterSeeker
    Apr 6, 2023
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This is a game that has many good ideas but the execution of it is rather sloppy. First off, it's really cool that you get up to 7 characters on screen at once all participating in battle. However, the story wants to be a super complex story but has many plot holes and contrivances. For instance, the game basically says someone has 3 months to live, yet the party is okay meandering around doing things that aren't their main objective despite their time constraints. There's a moment where the main character summons a sword from his chest; yet never explained why this happens. Sometimes, the plot only moves forward because the writers force characters to make absolutely asinine decisions. For example, the party finds themselves in the heart of enemy territory and all agree that they have to get away as soon as possible. But no, the protagonist walks more into the territory rather than running; he does this for no reason and it's never explained. The game features completely one dimensional and overdramatic villains. It's a darn shame that the counsel of villains all have extremely similar personalities. There's even a scene where one of the characters tells the villain that they would join their side cuz of "friendship" even though the villain murdered all the character's friends. Let me tell you, if one of my friends murdered my other friends, I'd be pretty pissed about that. There's a part where one character switches bodies with another character. It's never explained why this can occur and how this is possible. It just happens because the writers needed a way to progress the plot and couldn't think of a logical way to do it somehow.

    The gameplay itself is really fun. If you love tab targeting MMO's, you'll like the gameplay of this game. Exploration feels smooth, but some of the maps have issues telling the players which items are on which floor. One of the biggest foibles of this class based game is that when a new class is unlocked, it's not unlocked for every character. This is huge oversight because other games in this genre will allow all characters to use a class once it's unlocked. Why this game went against that good game design is beyond me. Also, the game fails to explain that you can't unlock classes if you're fighting mobs that are 5+ levels lower than you. This is awful design to an otherwise well designed class system.

    Overall, there's nothing wrong with a straightforward story. If the writers wanted to make a complex story, they can do so without having so many plot contrivances and plot holes.    … Expand
  12. Joxpe
    Feb 26, 2023
    3
    pues lo jugué más de 10 horas, ya no lo soporte más, los niveles se suben sin ningún chiste, subes exp por hacer nada, llego un momento que ya no me interesaba saber de la historia y solo le adelantaba y aun así subía experiencia sin hacer nada más. gráficamente no me gusto, El Xenoblade 1 me había encantado por eso empecé a jugar este, pero no lo aguante, y luego las miles depues lo jugué más de 10 horas, ya no lo soporte más, los niveles se suben sin ningún chiste, subes exp por hacer nada, llego un momento que ya no me interesaba saber de la historia y solo le adelantaba y aun así subía experiencia sin hacer nada más. gráficamente no me gusto, El Xenoblade 1 me había encantado por eso empecé a jugar este, pero no lo aguante, y luego las miles de configuraciones de personajes me abrumo. total este juego no es para mi.… Expand
  13. karambia
    Jan 26, 2023
    0
    The story is lame and predictable, and the character's personalities and dialogue are cringes. There's no point in winning battles because you will lose in cutscene anyway. The map is big but empty, and the side quest is repetitive. The battle is not fun because the enemy's HP is too thick, like a sponge. It's not challenging, just boring. The battle mechanic is funny because the developerThe story is lame and predictable, and the character's personalities and dialogue are cringes. There's no point in winning battles because you will lose in cutscene anyway. The map is big but empty, and the side quest is repetitive. The battle is not fun because the enemy's HP is too thick, like a sponge. It's not challenging, just boring. The battle mechanic is funny because the developer is pulling the dragon ball move lmao.
    The game has this feature of saving time by wasting your time. Chain attack animation is unskippable, so you have to waste your time watching the same thing over and over again. The game also has this thing called fabricator, by producing items that you can collect inside the game in large quantities, but not big enough. It can only run it once at a time, so you have to run it dozens of times so you can get enough amount, wasting your time because the animation is also unskippable, great.    … Expand
  14. RicardoDavid
    Jan 17, 2023
    1
    The story is even more stupid than Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and that is saying something. These games are supposed to be good because of the story yet you can feel dumber every hour you spend listening to it.
  15. DolphinReviews
    Jan 14, 2023
    0
    Cringe voice acting, awful characters, and a terrible story. The game all around is sexist with it's revealing women's clothing 0/10.
  16. Garchomp102
    Dec 24, 2022
    1
    I don't like the fact that they are so eager to supplement with Download contents.
  17. Jed512
    Dec 23, 2022
    0
    It's disappointing and angry
    You created XC and XC2 with your own hands, but chose to destroy everything in XC3.
    What was once a fantasy world, has become a cliche world.
    Is it fun to tell the cliche?
    This is a game, sir.
    This is a game, sir.
    This is a game, sir.
    Before you choose to reason, please finish the game first.
    A fun game, not a bad one.

    It's a perfect joke, isn't it?
  18. Pockeey
    Nov 16, 2022
    0
    bad graphics, poorly optimized

    if that Kiddyhandheld hype should get sustainable there have to come better things
  19. Luisguerreroa
    Nov 14, 2022
    2
    No me gustó, me parece un juego aburrido y repetitivo, con una historia con potencial desperdiciado y falta de desarrollo en los personajes
  20. Geo3891
    Nov 11, 2022
    0
    Juego tonto, decepcionante, un despropósito y horrendo en todo el sentido de la palabra, para empezar, la historia es ridícula a mas no poder, es un fanfic malo hecho por un adolescente de 14 años y se confirma mas aun con ese final tan terrible, los gráficos son horripilantes, el popping siempre abunda y es molesto siempre, la historia no se toma en serio ni a si misma y cuando laJuego tonto, decepcionante, un despropósito y horrendo en todo el sentido de la palabra, para empezar, la historia es ridícula a mas no poder, es un fanfic malo hecho por un adolescente de 14 años y se confirma mas aun con ese final tan terrible, los gráficos son horripilantes, el popping siempre abunda y es molesto siempre, la historia no se toma en serio ni a si misma y cuando la historia quiere verse mas seria termina por dar una vergüenza ajen, y la optimizacion tampoco se queda atrás porque también es terrible, la banda sonora es bastante estándar simplemente cumple y no llega al mismo nivel y jamas llegara a otras bandas sonoras como la de Sonic Frontiers, God of War Ragnarok o Zelda Breath of the Wild y las batallas son igual de repetitivas que el de Xenoblade 2 solo que lo único que tiene de "nuevo" es que ahora puedes tener a 8 personajes en lugar de 3 personajes en combate, el mundo abierto es la cosa mas vacía y sin vida que he visto y jugado en un juego de mundo abierto, encima esta cosa tiene un montón de tutoriales hasta para la cosa mas insignificante este juego solo se trata de un tutorial para completar tutoriales, simplemente la decepción del año.
    Que la gente diga que este es el mejor Xenoblade tampoco es mucho porque esta serie de juegos nunca deja la vara tan alta y todos sus juegos son mediocres, el único juego decente de Xenoblade (decente, mas no bueno) es Xenoblade X    … Expand
  21. truthbetold1981
    Nov 11, 2022
    0
    This game is a steaming pile of garbage. The greedy developers are charging $60 for a mobile game. The graphics are a joke. The ground textures are pathetic, it literally looks like it was ported from a GameCube game. The story is terrible. The combat is boring and repetitive.
  22. lalahand
    Oct 23, 2022
    0
    Mediocre. Story is meh. A big drop compared to the first two in the series. The map is big but empty. Battle system gets repetitive very soon.
  23. Lecum
    Sep 30, 2022
    4
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Chapter 5 had a 1hour cutscene to explain something we could know in 10 minutes. I think they treated the player as he/she wasnt smart enough to understand the story… Expand
  24. Catsup
    Sep 29, 2022
    1
    Easily the worst game ever made. First, off its an RPG and the graphics are very trash and the story is complete dog shi* DONT BUY THIS GAME
  25. MxCarnage
    Sep 23, 2022
    2
    Being totally new to the series I went in fresh. After about a dozen hours of play my thoughts are:

    + Automatic hack & loot action RPG that is easy to pick up and good for on-the-go plays + Nice graphics considering the obvious compromises made to run the game on the legacy hardware. - Terrible storytelling, cliche, slow paced and overwrought. - Emo-teen cast, cliched storylines    Being totally new to the series I went in fresh. After about a dozen hours of play my thoughts are:

    + Automatic hack & loot action RPG that is easy to pick up and good for on-the-go plays
    + Nice graphics considering the obvious compromises made to run the game on the legacy hardware.

    - Terrible storytelling, cliche, slow paced and overwrought.
    - Emo-teen cast, cliched storylines and very repetitive voiced (combat)lines
    - “Open world” blocked by invisible walls and one-shot enemies that forces you to stay on the main route
    - The many systems “layered” upon one another are rather superfluous. The combat mechanics are rather easy and enemies fall (too) quickly. This causes you to level-up (too) fast which in turn means you are overpowered for many encounters.

    Despite the many lack luster elements, the hack & loot mechanic has me hooked and frequently returning. As such, I currently rate this a 6 but perhaps it will improve as the game slowly opens up with more play.    … Expand
  26. Miya233
    Sep 21, 2022
    2
    The plot is OK， but playing method is very poor and boring. I don't recommend this game. Playing this game is a kind of torture. You want to know whether the heroine is dead or not, but the playing process near the end is just miserable. If you really want to play, buy the cassette
    I'm an Asian player, and I don't think this game deserves more than 8 points
  27. Moriquendi
    Sep 18, 2022
    0
    He jugado a todos los títulos anteriores y empecé este con gran ilusión llevo 10 horas por el momento no me está gustando:
    -Graficos: reconozco que se ve bien las cinematicas el estilo anime está bien, pero cuando lo comparo con el Xenoblade X siento que estoy jugando un juego peor que un juego del 2015 les costó mucho más esfuerzo y les hizo ganar menos por lo optarán por el camino    He jugado a todos los títulos anteriores y empecé este con gran ilusión llevo 10 horas por el momento no me está gustando:
    -Graficos: reconozco que se ve bien las cinematicas el estilo anime está bien, pero cuando lo comparo con el Xenoblade X siento que estoy jugando un juego peor que un juego del 2015 les costó mucho más esfuerzo y les hizo ganar menos por lo optarán por el camino fácil.
    -La primera horas de banda sonora me recuerdan al primer Xenoblade no me parece algo original.
    -Algunos personajes me parecen calcos de los primeros Xenoblade's.
    -Sistema de combate sigue siendo el mismo que crítico la gente con el Xeno2 olvidándose de la gran variedad de habilidades de otros xeno.

    En general lo que más me ha gustado son las cinematicas la personalidad de Mio, Taion, Lanz(Mola pero su personalidad es horrible) el resto es copy paste.
    Una gran desilusión me estoy llevando espero que ha más horas de juego cambie de opinión.    … Expand
  28. papa_zebra
    Sep 12, 2022
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Pros: lots of cool classes to play; good voice acting

    Cons: I really don't understand how anyone can give this game a good review, unless you just really like to watch people die for fun, especially young people. I mean there a lot of people like that, so I guess that explains a lot. The story is a complete mess, the music is usually dry (some tracks are good), and the gameplay is kind of boring. But my main issue is that the main bad guys are so generically bad, 2D, and mono-black morally that it's kind of hilarious. Like watching an old Disney movie where the bad guy is just pure evil for the shock of it. I prefer stories with a least a little substance and antagonists, not villians who want nothing more than to see the world burn for absolutely no reason. This game is like burnt, stale bread.    … Expand
  29. kazama0
    Sep 4, 2022
    3
    I do not recommend playing unless you are a fan of this game series. I've been playing for over 20 hours and still get boring tutorials.
  30. Cheesefingies
    Aug 30, 2022
    0
    The graphics are terrible, I would rather run my ballsack through a cheese grater than spend more time in this game. Cheesefingies is not happy :(
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 122 Critic Reviews

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  1. Positive: 116 out of 122
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 122
  3. Negative: 0 out of 122
  1. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 25, 2024
    100
    Ultimately, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 represents the pinnacle of the series, both gameplay-wise and narratively. The characters are another highlight of the game. They are well-drawn, with only a small amount of formulaicness. [Issue#321]
  2. Nintendo Force Magazine
    Nov 9, 2022
    100
    I began XC3 knowing I'd enjoy it because of the fun I had with the previous games. What I didn't expect was for this to become one of my favorite JPRGs of all-time! With its engaging open world, engrossing combat system, loveable characters and gripping story, this game is a masterpiece of the genre! [Issue #62 – November/December 2022, p. 67]
  3. Easy Allies
    Oct 11, 2022
    90
    Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is a clear improvement over its predecessors in almost every way. It streamlines so much and avoids past pitfalls, though there’s still work to be done in terms of balancing the difficulty. There’s a grounded story here with a solid cast of characters, and the basic plot is much easier to digest. The world design exceeds past efforts with ease, and the implementation of Hero Quests is a game changer. While the devs have done an admirable job making the battle system easier to grasp, it feels like the series has fully explored and exhausted these core combat mechanics, signaling it’s time for the next game to change things up. As a whole, it stands as a phenomenal RPG with a one-of-a-kind sense of exploration you can’t find anywhere else.
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