Absolutely love the game. After nearly 170 hours I STILL haven't done everything on my first playthrough and can only say that it exceeded almost every single one of my expectations. Can't wait to see what the DLC story has in store for us.
@CritsVG Жыл бұрын
Quick heads up @Aero : Someone is in your comments pretending to be you telling people to text them!
@illidion6 Жыл бұрын
Love and sadness in the same time. Love cuz story, music, gameplay... Charming feelings then you are in the game. Sadness cuz no endless now anymore, game passed, but... i just need more of this story. Even 160hrs is not enough!
@nishquikpops Жыл бұрын
My feelings on this game have only grown stronger over the months following me beating the game. Easily my game of the year. No other game this year has everything I look for in a game: quality gameplay, gripping story, enchanting music, beautiful world design and presentation. People shouldn't sleep on this one. Thanks for all the coverage leading up to release and your streams were fun to watch too!
@Hohlopidor Жыл бұрын
Mh sunbreak better
@slaymakerprime7 ай бұрын
This is the strongest XBC; and it only grows stronger if you played the first two, yet it doesn't require that you have. A true masterpiece among masterpieces.
@CurrieG16 Жыл бұрын
Tbh i think a huge reason people didn't like the soundtrack as much was because people didn't really hear the night themes (when you fast travelled it set your time and by default it would set it to morning) Anyways I do like this game a lot and this video is pretty cool, criminally underrated in fact, should've had 5k views so far smh, you worked so hard on this and I can really tell. Especially with you using the XC3 UI thingy for the video chapter names and all and the script too Also Ethel
@machodgdon Жыл бұрын
I just beat the game like 2 weeks ago and I already wanna play it again. That’s how you know it’s Game of the Year
@rushpatriot2866 Жыл бұрын
Yeah it was no where near close and it didn't do anything exciting or innovative enough to break past his niche barrier of fans to goty status
@tomdaturtle5792 Жыл бұрын
Ethel, look how high I can jump! ETHEL!
@linkalot7415 Жыл бұрын
14:26 beautiful. Ribbi flats has amazing sunsets
@slipneira2 ай бұрын
Also, you’ve been liked and subscribed to. Thank you for the excellent analysis.
@Himmelschenk Жыл бұрын
Ethel! I have watched during work shift, great essay! Looking forward to part 2
@karmaopg7820 Жыл бұрын
Ethel, also amazing video Aero! If I would to choose a video that sums up my thoughts on Xc3 it’d be this one for sure. This game being the one that brought me into the series while always hold a special place in my heart. Sure Xc1 is still my favorite but that does not mean I don’t love the others as well (I wanted it to beat out Xc1 for me 😭). One of my favorite things is how simplified it is compared to other Xenoblade games, and since my second favorite thing about the series is the combat, it also incredible how it managed to mix the best parts of Xc1 and Xc2’s combat as well. These are pretty much thoughts non-spoiler wise, and again good job on the vid Aero excited for the story one!
@CritsVG Жыл бұрын
Ayyy, been waiting for this! Happy I can finally dig in! Edit: One point I feel a bit differently on is the voice acting, I think it's absolutely amazing in this game. Yes, Adam Howden as Shulk is legendary, but to me personally, XC3 absolutely did manage to match XC1's quality in voice acting overall. No single character manages to hit the same hights as Shulk consistently (though I think N and Mio are examples for characters that punctually come really close), but the fact that most non-side characters are acting on a very high level throughout the whole game and more often than not get multiple chances to shine makes this aspect go toe to toe with XC1 to me, which is a pretty huge achievement.
@gemodemplay4156 ай бұрын
Nah, the ambiental music while traversing the game's areas is majestic, is beautiful and it fits not only the environment but also the story. When playing this game I feel like I am playing Chained Echoes, and I am saying this in the best way possible. Both XC3 and Chained Echoes are in my top 15 games of all time, and I played hundreds of them at this point.
@gemodemplay4156 ай бұрын
Also, Ethel
@illidion6 Жыл бұрын
Ethel, man. I especially love this OST. The whole 12 hours of pure emotions contains in it, damn. It's just sparking amazing! And ye, about VA and characters... I missing them, their identities, chating styles and emotions are dope. I wanna know the end of everyone's story. I hope they will show us largest epilogue ever.
@AngelofAmbrosia Жыл бұрын
There hasn’t been a new game that hit me the same way as this one did. Xenoblade series is one of my modern favorites.
@leahtheanimationfan40 Жыл бұрын
I've played Xenoblade Chronicles 3 for over 200 hours since it came out, finished the main story in September, and have just been doing side content since then. I absolutely love this game! I'll probably do a New Game+ speedrun sometime soon, just for fun
@DarkDezhel Жыл бұрын
Ethel! Yes you comment a lot of things that I liked about XC3 the music it’s amazing, I was “forced” to play XC2 and I ended up loving it! But yes it was complicated sometimes xD
@5000PokemonMaster Жыл бұрын
Ethel. What an amazing and nicely edited video! I can’t wait to play this game, it seems so good and fun! Will play after XC2 and Future Connected. I already finished XC1.
@tyoshiro6447 Жыл бұрын
I do really hope the dlc is a sequel not a prequel. Please nintendo.. for goodness sake..
@maynardburger7 ай бұрын
Very well put together and scripted video man. I just finished the main story and so am now on my typical 'seek out KZbin videos on the game now that I dont need to avoid spoilers' trek and I have to say yours is probably the best video I've seen on the game so far. I often get a bit tired of longer videos when I feel people are just padding out their runtime in lieu of more concise scripts and editing, but yours was compelling all the way through. Also thank you for not trying to be funny every 10 seconds. Shit is so grating. lol
@dannybz74213 ай бұрын
I never thought I’d play this game but last night I was at Walmart and saw the physical game was $30 (which is significantly cheaper than everywhere else) so I caved and bought it. Now I begin my journey starting at the 3rd one
@SethaaSchneegepardАй бұрын
It's really funny that I see some things the other way around. I played 3 first, then 1 DE and 2. I found the overworld music in 1 and 3 partly too cheerfully and adventurous or the surrundings! Also the B button action. I was overwhelmed by these at first and paniced a lot xD "where is the B button, ahhhhhh" xD
@raen5256 Жыл бұрын
Ethel! Loved this video
@silberbullet Жыл бұрын
Ethel. Amazing vid for an amazing game!
@ReadGameCraftCook Жыл бұрын
I love Xenoblade 3 as well and appreciate the thought out into this video. I put this video on to convince my husband whose never played one before, but he found the comparisons between the other games confusing and long winded. I would’ve probably titled this “Xenoblade 3 vs 1 and 2” or something.
@champansara3 ай бұрын
Ethel! Great vid 👌
@Gabe_29 Жыл бұрын
Easily game of the year for me. XC3 became one of my favorites games ever. The whole experience was such a wild ride! Also... Ethel
@andrewfaser9477 Жыл бұрын
Ethel
@leonardomartinez6887 Жыл бұрын
Ethel This game have become one of my favorite games of all time, maybe just below Zelda botw, but maybe it could surpass it, It's just a fantastic adventure, incredible experience, is so good, I love the Xenoblade franchise as a whole
@slipneira2 ай бұрын
Ethel.
@juanmanuelesis9797 Жыл бұрын
ethel, and yes... there are people that hear the full half hour video. Really enjoy it an give the other half of yoru critic/essay about Xenoblade Chronicles 3
@MilkLadsForever7 ай бұрын
Ethel. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is such an amazing game.
@skolvuk Жыл бұрын
I love this game, and this series. The music for the series is gorgeous. One of my favs from this one is A Step Away, which plays in Chapter 5 during THAT scene (you know the one). Also the end credit song. They're both vocal tracks. They're really beautiful, sung by top-notch people. The instrumental ones are great of course, but most of them don't pull at me the way the vocal ones do, (except for Thoughts Enshrined from 1. I CANNOT hear that one without tearing up).
@b.h.4249 Жыл бұрын
Ethel Thank you for the extensive review, I really enjoyed it!
@damndanielcruz6754 Жыл бұрын
I've been looking forward to this
@karnotik9 ай бұрын
I'm on chapter 3 of Xb2 and I cannot wait for this one- it seems to have some of that dark atmosphere that xs3 did.
@Sweetroll_EXE6 ай бұрын
"Ethel" ahah I was unsure if buying ff7 crisis core or xenoblade 3 these days. I already played the first on the psp and xeno 2 at the time and It was so great that i had to buy xenoblade 3, especially after viewing this video showing how incredible the game is. I cant wait to play It!
@arnaldosantoro68124 ай бұрын
Ethel! The problem with the soundtrack is that YOU INTERRUPT IT BY ACCESSING THE MENU.
@speedystu100 Жыл бұрын
Ethel Only on chapter 4 but I am loving this game!
@Creeper0224 Жыл бұрын
Happy Birthday Xenoblade 3!!
@snowpony56 Жыл бұрын
so far it is my favourite game of the series and it is really fun using the chain attacks once you understand how it works ^^
@danielcarpenter4107 Жыл бұрын
Ethel. Well done
@KirianLara Жыл бұрын
Ethel Can't wait for the DLC story, this game is so wonderful and fun and sifjskffifk I LOVE IT, great stuff!
@dialga627 Жыл бұрын
Ethel. This game is truly a masterpiece!!!
@tallnerdgirl Жыл бұрын
E-ethel...
@Creeperhunter160 Жыл бұрын
Ethel Shoot, i gotta get 1 sometime so im not outta the loop for 3 lol
@supagcn Жыл бұрын
Ethel no spoilers. Still finishing the game
@igemm78 Жыл бұрын
My first xenoblade and absolutely loving it! Close to 60 hours in and it's fantastic....I'm kind of annoyed with myself for not starting with the first one now, wondering if it's worth playing the other two after I finish this?
@maynardburger7 ай бұрын
The first one is gonna be hard to go back to in a number of ways. It's still a great game, but it's likely gonna feel quite simplified compared to XB2 and XB3. XB2 is definitely not simplified and so will probably feel most 'similar' to XB3, but the technical aspects of the game are also quite a bit rougher and it's simply not as refined and has less quality of life advantages that will irk after coming from XB3. Still, you do need to play them if you loved XB3. I'd go back to the first game, then to the second as a finale.
@zemocon28687 ай бұрын
Xenoblade 3 best rpg ever.
@Decubitus Жыл бұрын
Great review of the game. Only point I disagree with is the Chain Attacks in 3 not being as brokenly powerful as those of 2. They are. In fact, I'd argue they're even more busted because you don't even need to set up the proper Blade combo orbs before launching it, just race to fill your meter and you'll overkill the enemy 98% of the time if you know what you're doing.
@maynardburger7 ай бұрын
Playing on Hard goes a long way to fixing this issue, also not using 'broken' hero characters like Ashera all the time. But yea, it is unfortunately a game where I think you need to do some self-imposed limits to keep the game challenging. Cant understand why they didn't just give us ability to Level our characters from the start ala XB1 DE's Expert Mode.
@thomaslheureux3846 Жыл бұрын
Ethel I skipped back and forth a little bit but I also just bought the game and will play it tonight.
@kevdogg664 күн бұрын
Ethel
@keeysOST Жыл бұрын
Honestly the more I listen to the OST the more I disagree that 3 has the weakest area music. I would personally put it slightly behind 1.
@somethin7020 Жыл бұрын
Honestly same. At first I didn't enjoy them quite as much as the past games', but after listening to them for a couple dozen times or so, I grew to enjoy them just as much as the past games', but for different reasons. Also for me personally, being able to easily memorize the melodies isn't really a high priority when it comes to music, so it doesn't really matter to me that they're not "memorable".
@badboy250984 Жыл бұрын
I've played and complete Xenoblade Chronicle Definitive edition and is a great game with good story. I then played Xenoblade 2 and i reckon I'm around 50% into the game and I never really got into the game. Not sure why but I think is to do with the messy UX in certain area that puts me off and battle seems to take forever compare to xenoblade 1. I've recently bought xenoblade 3 and i hope is better then xenobade 2.
@TheHornet79 Жыл бұрын
Finished the final DLC. After replaying the previous games I made a rating for my favorite games. 3>X>1>FR>Torna>2
@Dionaea_floridensis Жыл бұрын
The thumbnail aged well
@imprudentdev15035 ай бұрын
My only gripe with XC3 was the hope speeches, but then again I'm just not a fan of those in the first place
@TripleARMS Жыл бұрын
You missed each character's Side Stories. This replaces the Heart-to-Hearts the other games had.
@ActualAero Жыл бұрын
No I did them all
@kurry8196 Жыл бұрын
Ethel!!!
@famillesabot5719 Жыл бұрын
27:42 Hmm no it's brocken well used. Espacially when at the third or fourth round you use a smash with power charge.
@stany1720 Жыл бұрын
Ethel! 😂
@TonyDaExpert Жыл бұрын
Yes
@robertomacetti7069 Жыл бұрын
i much prefer xc2 for both gameplay and story actually but man... xc3 chain attacks are perfect, best thing in the franchise by far gameplay wise... even though, i beg to differ, this are the most broken of the entire series, you can kill anything from full health with no setup (like the orbs in xc2) as long as the party is properly built for that purpose... what was the record again? 400 milion? yeah, there is not a single enemy in the game that can survive a properly done chain attack once you are in the endgame with a good build
@rahmahashi2553Ай бұрын
ethel
@piwan9007 Жыл бұрын
Love this game
@skabo__o5 ай бұрын
ethol
@N.karayannis9 ай бұрын
Shulks voice acting ruined xenoblade 2 for me, it was that good.
@jordanwillis7316 Жыл бұрын
EHTAL
@andrej81758 ай бұрын
Not a masterpiece if the make a fuzzy looking game for the switch knowing it would look shit.