This game is currently on sale at 33% off (i.e. the cheapest a first-party Nintendo game will ever be). Is it worth it? I thought the first Xenoblade Chronicles on the Wii was alright but I wasn't too keen on the second game.
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This game is currently on sale at 33% off (i.e. the cheapest a first-party Nintendo game will ever be). Is it worth it?
3 is more like the first one.
Nah, if you only thought 1 was alright and couldn't gel with 2 I would honestly not recommend you try 3. Maybe X if that ever gets a port since that one is quite a bit different. But as for whether you should get 3, probably not.
It's very good.
>crotch completely covered
Laaaame. Even Capcom, as much as they pander to Americans, still show Cammy's crotch when she's wearing the leotard. Very shamefur display by Monolith.
The "something covering the swimsuit bottom" thing seems to be a measure a lot of devs are taking to go around ESRB/CERO restrictions nowadays.
I've seen it in a bunch of other games recently, like the Atelier Ryza ones.
It seems CERO got a lot stricter around the tail end of 2018. Xenoblade 2 could probably not have been done the way it is today.
Xenoblade is Cero C anons. Smash Bros has to skirt restrictions, absolutely, but Xenoblade does not. In fact, the webm anon posted was from Street Fighter 6 which is also Cero C so that's a moot point really.
Xenoblade 3 is still a step to the more cautious side in comparison to 2 regardless.
I mean yeah that's my point. There was no external reason that forced Xenoblade 3 to be more toned down in that regard. It's not because of CERO or ESRB. The people who pushed for that were either within Monolith or from other Nintendo departments.
Takahashi himself probably saw all the "controversy" surrounding certain elements in Xenoblade 2 and purposefully tempered it while saying it makes sense anyway because the game has a darker tone,
The restraint is evident even in the choice to have all characters only designed by two people as opposed to dozens like 2 leading wildly inconsistent artstyles and even models.
Eh that was more of an exception for 2 because of the whole gacha concept. Many mobage gachas have various designers for characters. And while it didn't always work out great, I really appreciate that they mostly just told the artists "draw what you wanna draw".
Monolith Soft had probably taken some criticism towards Xenoblade 2's design philosophy to heart when making 3. It makes sense if they wanted to make a more serious game from the ground up, but even stuff they brought back from 2 like the DLC character outfits were taken down a notch.
Ganker literally begged for it to be toned down for years.
Doesn't it use the black void, which is even worse?
Not the swimsuit, no.
It does pretty much the exact same thing as Eunie's in XC3.
I'll be sticking with the first game once I get around to it. Black voids and bikini obscuration a shit.
Ryza 1 does the same thing so I don't see your point here.
Only Ryza 2 has an "uncovered" swimsuit.
I'll take pantsu over bikinis. Mind you, no black voids in Ryza 1 is hearsay from my perspective. Not like there's some vidya pantsu repository for me to fact check this shit.
blame Biden and dummycrats
homie SF6 came out after Xenoblade 3 what are you on about? Monolithsoft just pussied out, that's all.
>safe horny
It depends on what areas you liked more about the previous games.
Story-wise, 3 has a more similar tone to 1, but the gameplay is closer to 2's.
the better release than its predecessor, its insane how unbearable and shitty xc2 is
before all the schizo's show up
3 is pretty good. it's more like the first game than the second game even if it has kinda meh environments compared to the other two games. combat is pretty solid but lacking in some aspects (half the characters use the combat from 1 that charges over time but can't auto attack while moving which matters a little because they ALSO can use extra combat actions from 2 which recharge with auto attacks so in some cases it leads to having to just kinda sit there otherwise you recharge slower)
the class system is cool though and the party's overall dynamic might be the best in the series even if there are some weak links as individual characters
>before all the schizo's show up
It's pretty hilarious how Ganker is incapable of actually talking about Xenoblade because it attracts half-a-dozen schizos while the rest of the Internet can talk just fine about it
>while the rest of the Internet can talk just fine about it
Ehhh, maybe the non English speaking spaces. Because in the EN sphere you can get some pronoun moronation.
What even attracts schizos to Xenoblade? Is it just because it’s a big JRPG that’s a switch exclusive?
First Xenoblade was a JRPG that fans had to fight for to get a western release, and it had a fairly serious tone. Xenoblade X was a pretty forgettable experience and didn't seem to deliver the same spice that the first Xenoblade did.
Then 2 comes out and is a very contentious game in many ways. It has a less serious tone, going for more anime style and humor, and the game is obviously a bit unpolished and beginner unfriendly which many attribute to Monolithsoft having to work on Breath of the Wild at the same time. But the game also has a stellar story, fun gameplay once you figure out how it works, the characters and villains are perhaps even better than the ones in the first game. In other words it's a sort of unpolished gem, a game that legit "gets good 20 hours in". You either fall in love with the game for what it is, or hate it for soiling the legacy of Xenoblade as a "serious" series of games or find it cringe. The game was shitposted for much of its lifetime before Xenoblade 3 was revealed, and Xenoblade 3 "inherited" much of the shitposting, at least before release.
Once Xenoblade 3 came out, I think it was praised by most people from both camps, but it probably didn't reach the same highs for most people as the two predecessors did and might've felt like a milquetoast amalgation of the two. Nowadays I think most people shitpost in these threads because they've done it for so long and find it fun or meaningful.
2's story sucks balls, what the frick are you on about?
>Is it just because it’s a big JRPG that’s a switch exclusive?
Yes, the big schizo for these threads is the same one who keeps having melties in the Famitsu threads
Can second this anon's post. 3 is great but not without flaw. Probably the Xenoblade I put the most hours in, but lacking in some regards as the game can be a little drab. Lots of doomer shizos love to exacerbate those flaws though while whitewashing the previous games.
Don't pay for shit, boot up Cemu and play X instead.
As others have mentioned, it's closer to the first Xenoblade in tone. The DLC campaign is also filled with references to it. Good chance you'll enjoy it.
>pozzedblade 3
XC3 is a pretty good game. It is a lot less tropey than XC2 and the combat is more interesting in the early game (although XC2 combat arguably is better by the end). The plot is basically you are a bunch of child soldiers fighting an endless war then shit hits the fan.
Yes
All the Xenoblade games rank in my top 3 JRPGs of all time.
Probably the best jrpg of the last few years
Holy shit how bad does a first party Tendo game need to be for them to discount it?
They routinely discount everything on the eShop, but 33% is indeed the lowest they get so they're still asking $40 for a digital copy.
I'm pretty sure I've seen Xenoblade 2 on discount several times on European e-shop. This was before Xenoblade 3 came out though.
They've actually done more discounts than usual.
The big thing is that before the Switch, they used to have the Nintendo Selects for discounting any games that popped over a certain unit sales threshold.
My guess is that, given that Sports games seem to be excluded, this is more of a sale on games that Nintendo is seeing a lot of interest in but not enough to justify the base price. It would be a lot more concerning if you saw Tennis Aces and Golf in there too.
Aces gets discounted once or twice a year. I see this is also the first discount of Xenoblade 3 and it's been almost a year since it launched. Pretty standard.
>Is it worth it?
No, it's full of woke characters and dialouges
>woke
>t.shill
Yep, it's pozzed.
Shonen tier plot, combat is good.
You should play 2 before 3.
nah is terrible by far the worst story in any xeno game and gameplay if it wasn't for the fact that xenosaga 2 is thing.
Just replay the first one and pretend 3 doesn't exist.
Dunkey's video on this game had the exact same effect in less than 10 minutes that Spoony had on Final Fantasy 8 over several hours.
If i ever play it, i don't think i'll be able to take it seriously.
Go woke go broke.
It's the overall better game than 2 by a huge margin. My only complaint is that it doesn't reach the highest highs of 2, but that's an exceptionally small price to pay to avoid the fricking mariana-trench lows.
3 is good, but as someone who adores 2 it's a disappointment. It's definitely more in-line with 1.
This is actually a good take even if I prefer 2. 2 is much more reckless and unafraid to stumble over itself, and I feel it ends up tackling its themes and characters and locales better because of that trait, but it DOES stumble.
3 is overall more solid but safe. It never takes that final leap into 'amazing' territory for me. 2 is a game I still think about even 6 years later. 3 is a game I acknowledge that I liked but don't really dwell on it that much.
I was hit so hard by 2's lows (absolutely abysmal gacha luck on my first run made the game simultaneously a joke and a slog by FLOODING MY PARTY WITH HEALERS) that I genuinely cannot bring myself to enjoy it fully even now, even if I acknowledge it's just the kind of game I should love. My original experience with it was eighty hours of hot fricking nothing, then ten hours of "hey, that might've been cool if I still had an ounce of enthusiasm left" for the home stretch.
>mariana-trench lows.
such as what?
The only thing I can fault XB2 for harshly it is its slow start. in both mechanics and story. And also it chugs on Switch so much that they needs to do all these glaring optimization tricks.
he probably thinks the Gacha stuff is bad
I liked the gacha because it creates a unique gameplay for every player and more importantly, it's free.
If they made it pay 2 win, it would be the worst thing ever.
I got Newt early on in the game and I just randomly started getting into it all the sudden.
Who wouldn't get into game if you rolled this?
Terribly slow start, dependence on luck (both in gacha and in what sidequest blades you get access to- forgive me for not going full completionist, 2's sidequest design somehow rubbed me even worse than 1's, so I just did what presented itself easiest to me), genuinely bad menus that not only take too long to navigate but obfuscate information if you don't want to look shit up (blade affinity charts telling you about, say, enemies to kill, without the game giving you any information on where those fricking enemies are), blade affinity in general retaining all the worst parts of 1's sidequest design while also making you MANUALLY CHECK IN ON THEM ONCE YOU COMPLETE THEM, THE ONE THING 1'S SHITTY THROWAWAY SIDEQUESTS DID RIGHT JESUS FRICKING CHRIST, grind if you want to meaningfully specialize your build beyond "heehoo i am using six attacker blades"
The first hour of chapter 4 is legit fricking awful, and I say this as someone who has XC2 in his top 10. Just baffling worthless filler only useful for introducing Roc.
Everything else I think ranges from 'okay' to fricking amazing though.
It's been a while since I played XC2 and I don't remember too much of the story (which probably isn't a great indicator to start off with), but I especially remember Emperor Niall's sacrifice being utterly contrived and stupid. In fact a lot of the character "deaths" felt meaningless, often because they were revived straight afterwards. Plus the start of the game is pretty poor, the voice acting was just straight up bad to begin with (although it did improve later in the game) and the enclosed environment at the start of the game highlights just how janky the camera is (which becomes less of an issue when you reach the more open areas later on in the game).
Worst OST of the trilogy.
Worst world design of the trilogy..
Worst story of the trilogy.
Worst party members of the trilogy. Noah and Mio are as vanilla as possible but the others are insufferable.
Combat system is better than XC1's but worse than XC2's.
7/10 game at best.
>combat system is better than xc1's but worse than xc2's
Better than both.
>everything is cluttered because lmao seven party members onscreen
>chain attacks are the most boring they've ever been, break the game, and override the music
No.
>regular arts actually do things and aren't just building up to specials
>can form builds without spending three fricking hours rebuilding your party
Yes.
Do you like japanese cartoons aimed at 10 year old boys? Go for it, it's like a (barely) interactive one of those.
On the other hand if you thought the first one was "alright" i'd skip it coz it's just more of the same except they turned the shounen up to 11
xenogears was the last time I ever trusted weeaboos with any opinion on anything japan related
objectively bad game, they would not stop blowing just because it was japanese