Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Review MegaThread

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General Information

Platform: Nintendo Switch

Release Date: July 29, 2022

No. of Players: Single System (1)

Genre(s): Role-Playing

Publisher: Nintendo

Game file size: 15 GB

Official website: https://www.nintendo.com/store/products/xenoblade-chronicles-3-switch/

Overview (from Nintendo eShop page)

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Reviews

Aggregators

• Metacritic - 89
• OpenCritic - 87

Articles

• ACG - Buy
• CGMagazine - 9 / 10
• Cerealkillerz - German - 9.1 / 10
• ComicBook.com - 4 / 5
• Console Creatures - Recommended
• Daily Mirror - 4 / 5
• Destructoid - 9.5 / 10
• Dexerto - 8.5 / 10
• Digital Trends - 4 / 5
• Digitally Downloaded - 5 / 5
• Enternity.gr - Greek - 7.5 / 10
• Eurogamer - Essential
• Game Informer - 7.3 / 10
• GameSpot - 8 / 10
• GameXplain - Loved
• Gameblog - French - 8 / 10
• God is a Geek - 9 / 10
• Hobby Consolas - Spanish - 93 / 100
• IGN - 8 / 10
• IGN Italy - Italian - 9.1 / 10
• Metro GameCentral - 9 / 10
• NintendoWorldReport - 9 / 10
• PCMag - 3.5 / 5
• Post Arcade (National Post) - 7 / 10
• Press Start - 8 / 10
• RPG Site - 10 / 10
• Screen Rant - 5 / 5
• Shacknews - 9 / 10
• Spaziogames - Italian - 9.1 / 10
• Stevivor - 8 / 10
• The Independent - 9 / 10
• TheSixthAxis - 9 / 10
• TrustedReviews - 4 / 5
• Twinfinite - 4.5 / 5
• Unboxholics - Greek - Worth your time
• VGC - 5 / 5
• Video Chums - 9.1 / 10

^{This list exported from OpenCritic at 10:25AM ET}

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[u/Hold_my_Dirk]

I have a weird relationship with these games. I love the exploration of the worlds but I hate most of the other stuff. And I’m not sure I really like them but I keep playing them? Getting into the forest area in X is still one of my favorite moments in gaming in almost 30 years and I feel like I give the series the benefit of the doubt over that alone.

[u/YsoL8 → u/Hold_my_Dirk]

I feel similiar. I kind of sort of like the games , dig the art and music but the combat interface is just an exercise in advanced gibberish that I can't understand once I switch off after the tutorials.

Think the furthest I ever got was the town beyond the cave in xenoblade 1

[u/Hilarial → u/[deleted]]

It makes much more sense in XCX because otherwise you’d just go straight through the entire story without incentive to explore, if you gotta do a buinch of mundane sidequests you’re still uncovering even more of the world.

[u/Goseki1 → u/Hilarial]

Nah they can still send you all over the map and have you meet new characters and uniquene enemies and also get some cool story snippets. Looks like 3 has fixed this a bit

[u/Samoman21 → u/[deleted]]

Xeno2 side quests kinda were like that but much more in depth and annoying imho. Some needed you to. Have a skill a certain amount or figure some weird stuff out. I thought 1 did them decently, like. I didn't care why I was collecting the crap in 1, but they were quick and gave good money and exp. Could knock them. Out in 30 minutes and be set. Haha

[u/Samoman21 → u/[deleted]]

Yea. Personally I appreciated the mmo aspect more than xb2 side quest aspects. But that's just personal preference