
It is the goal of every soldier, though very few get to reach this milestone.

Those who survive their ten-year sentence get what is called a “homecoming” and they get sent off as legends of the nation. You fight to survive, and you survive only to continue to fight. Both Keves and Agnia sit in a perpetual state of war, where biologically engineered soldiers are created with a lifespan of just 10 years, called “terms”. His job is to put to rest the fallen soldiers and harness their life force by playing a ritual on a flute. The game focuses on Noah, an Off-Seer for the nation of Keves. You are thrust into a conflict in the world of Aionios, where the technologically advanced nation of Keves and the ether-based nation Agnia are at constant war. You are then taken to an ongoing bloodbath of a battle, which introduces you to the gravity of violence that the characters face. In the opening cutscene, people are seen going about their lives in the city, only for everything to stop and freeze. Immediately at the beginning of the game, you can tell it took a more serious tone than it has in previous installments of the Chronicles series. Nintendo Xenoblade Chronicles 3 starts off with a bang

But with that being said, this is the best Xenoblade Chronicles entry yet. The incredible story often stumbles upon weakly built bosses, and occasionally poor writing. The title improves upon nearly every aspect as its predecessors, yet can still fall prone to the same mistakes. For them, the formula in the workplace has been their key to success, not just their formula in game design. The studio is known for its incredible workplace culture as well as for hiring young untested game designers to test their mettle. Games that hit on a formula of success tend to stick to that formula to sustain that success, but Monolith Soft has a history of experimentation and taking their titles to new heights. With the experience I had playing the second title in what has been an incredibly well-received series, I was eagerly waiting for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 to come out. Titles rarely manage to hold my attention for the entire narrative, let alone almost a hundred hours. But amazed at the time commitment it had received from me. I was a huge Pokemon fan and was fresh off the high that I had gotten from playing Octopath Traveler. Japanese titles weren’t my strong suit, they seemed extremely foreign to me as RPG titles went, and I was used to the Skyrims and Mass Effects of the world that I nary had ventured outside the realm of Western RPGs.īut then it dawned on me that I had been playing JRPGs my entire life. “But it’s a JRPG title, though, so I’m not sure if you’d like it,” he told me.

A coworker of mine had recommended the title shortly after I got my Nintendo Switch and had told me about how much he loved both Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles X. My first introduction to Xenoblade was Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
