A Look Back at Xenoblade Chronicles 3.... Ten Months Later.. 

Wanna give a quick aplogies for some of the weird glitches in the video at around 1:23:32-1:23:51 and 2:07:57-2:08:12. Guess some oddities happened in the final render. Please try to refer to the Closed Captions if it disrupts your experience.

IT'S BEEN 10 MONTHS ALREADY?!!

I’m so glad they’re making Xenoblade more and more of a mainstay staple. From saving XC3’s reveal for the end of a direct, and even giving XC3 its own line of Amiibos.

Playing this game at launch was an experience. I basically played it like it was my job - woke up, played, had lunch, played, made sure I went on a walk, then went home and played it until bed. Never thrown myself so much into a game before. I played it so much I started dreaming about traveling with the characters. It was incredible, and I'll never forget the joy of that first playthrough.

All this time later and I still never get tired of seeing peoples' reactions to that first trailer. Something about the way everyone (me included) just completely lost their minds in excitement is so heart warming

That "fight in order to live" takes me back Xenoblade 3 was the second xeno experience I got to experiment all the hype, xenoblade 2 was my first xeno game and definitive edition was the first time I was truly hyped for the series and when that xenoblade 3 trailer dropped I lost my mind

Oh man, the launch day was one of the best days of my life. I was at a Christian camp and I had made extensive efforts for them to let me play the game on launch day, and the game released at 6 in the morning. I woke up at 5 and waited for an hour, and then I finally got to play the game, and then I played it for 2 hours straight (some people saw me and asked about the game, and one guy thought the game was final fantasy for some reason). Later in the day I found out most of the events were cancelled, so I had most of the rest of the day to play more of the game and by the end of the day I had clocked in 7 incredible hours.

1:22:14 I'm pretty confident that during Noah's weird foggy dreamscape moment, that cloaked figure showing him around is Young Noah or Child Noah, and when Mio comes in, you can hear their voices overlapping for a moment until it's just Mio Edit: Rewatched it to confirm and I'm 100% confident now that it's all Childhood Noah showing the past to present Noah

This video enhanced my appreciation for xbc3 music. I hated the idea of flutes at first, but now A Life Sent On is like a drug addiction for me, I can't wait for it to play.

Dude the editing in this video was incredible! Happy I could be a small part of it!

Watching this full on Xenoblade 3 movie while replaying the game really reminded me of all the aspects why I love the game, and also why some moments felt a bit lackluster. You perfectly explained all the goods and the bads about the game, and seeing this in the middle of my replay really does make me think about everything about the series as a whole and how far we have come. While it's hard to say which Xenoblade is my favorite considering each of them has their ups and downs. Xenoblade 3 certainly left the biggest impact on me, and the franchise as a whole will remain my favorite video game series for quite a while. Loved seeing your video, and just seeing all the love you put in to it for a game all of fans love. May Takahashi continue creating peak fiction and show us what will come next for the series.

Dude I just started getting back into this after falling off at launch. This is by far the best breakdown of how classes in the battle system have worked after watching several videos being confused on this in the past. Much appreciated. So much I forgot, and so much more I just never understood in the first place.

Really enjoyed the editing in this video! Thanks for including me in it 😁👍

27:35 LMAO 2hrs content,that is insane great job! Dude

I really like the character models in this game, especially their faces and eyes can be very subtly expressive, you also see alot of that in future redeemed. As for music, weight of the world might be my favourite xenoblade music.

Xenoblade chronicles 2 is still my favorite game of all time, but Xeno 3 is the second one, an absolute masterpiece with some minor flaws that I enjoyed so much as all games on this series

Finally finished it. My goodness loved this and love to have been a part of the Xenoblade community! I don't even know how much work was put into this but you deserve all the praise in the world for such a humongous task covering such a massive game!

Truly one of the best gaming experiences I’ve ever had

This my fav franchise. Props to such a high quality video 🎉

I didn't know the regions were just straight up made from previous games' regions, how cool!

Incredible Work!!! Hopefully the next xb saga is just as good

I love the chapter intermissions!

I absolutely love the way you are editing this and I'm only 5 minutes in

Thx for letting me VA for this, even if it was a tiny bit im glad i could be a part of it

10 months later, I am still really confident in the fact that xc3 is my fav game of all time, I loved every second playing it and I will probably replay it a few times in my, life such a journey (I even have a mondo tattoo by now, taion best character)

Its finally here. we are blessed.

The screen flash of zee’s entire month tweet hit me like a flash bang

1:37:32 You B4STRD YOU CUT KEVES THEME JUST BEFORE THE CHORUS STARTED!!!!!! Pretty good video, apart from the glitches the format was really good, loved how you gave the music the praise it deserved and gave each Mc the spotlight they needed. Love to hear your thoughts on future Redeemed and whether it changed anything in the main game for you.

Great video man, this was a thrill to get notified and watching the whole thing I haven't played XCX or 2 but XC3 solidified Xenoblade as one of my favorite franchises since Xenoblade 1 was already one of my favorite games ever I feel like XC3 has the lowest lows but also the highest highs in the series and i personally had a blast with the expansion, Time Attack it's fun and all, but dang, Rougelike Xenoblade will keep me coming back for a long time and Future Redeemed, oh God For me that made a 10/10 game into a 12/10

Your vids are amazing how do you not get more views ands subs bec you deserve it!!!

I didn't know there were hints at xc3 before the direct, I wasn't rlly active in the fandom at that time

Yesss my Xenoblade brudda 🙏 I know you've been working so hard on this video and its paid off. Super proud of you bro, your content's quality keeps on getting better and better 🧡

It may have been 10 months and my opinion hasn’t changed. This is my favourite game of all time.

I remember where I was when this game released, it was at a con in Texas, and while I was busy there, I still had the time to play it when I could

GOAT Masterpiece video Homie

wife was out of town when this game launched. I played nearly 24 hours that weekend, and rolled credits in a week. I love this franchise so much and can't wait to see where they go from here.

2 hours of Xenopeak content!

I only finished the game and DLC recently. I’m still so sad 😞

Looking back at xenoblade 3 for me, it’s likely that capticorn peak simply wasn’t fully completed and they had quite the plan with it but simply weren’t able to finish it up because they swapped release schedules with splatoon 3. In my view this incompleteness can be seen in the great sword after a certain story event, where the huge crater area had both a high level snowy area with a very aurora like boss in it that would have been perfect for a snow area, however it feels like this area was originally gonna be a part of capticorn peak and add a lot more to the area if given more time, however it’s likely because of time constraints they weren’t able to fully flesh it out like they were able too in future redeemed.

Peak video for peak game!!!

Looking back at this video… nine months later…

As proud owner of Xenoblade Altar at home i appreciate your efforts and passion in this video. You earned a sub brother.

I remember spending so much time in Dannagh Desert in XC2 torna. Totally not because I am stuck trying to complete side quests to get up to community level 2. Nah. *Clears throat* Mythra dying so much *clears throat* Glad it's kept. I hope the quick sands are still there.

Dude binged the game so hard, he created a time paradox. Said he "beat the game after 3 days [=72 Hours] with a time of 76 hours". 😂

1:23:32 oh no, the VHS has gone bad.

Honestly this is probably the best Xenoblade game as a whole. Definitely felt weak in some aspects, but it did the impossible task of toppling both 1 and 2 by chapter 3. Don't even get me started on the masterpiece that is the music and characters.

I'm still pissed I didn't get the special Edition, it didn't Release for months here in europe and I checked every day only for it to come out and be completely sold out in 3 days I didn't check for once!

God I am so happy this game exists and is, like, objectively good and subjectively flawless and perfect! I rlly gotta play future redeemed tho man!

I would never ever play through a masterpiece in just 3 days time. I even have ample free time, since I own a small business and only work 2 days a week(5days off weekly) Savoring XC3 in 8months time was delightful!🔥

Always happy to find more Xeno fans. Vid was awesome. Even w/ the couple of hiccups. :)

Looks like our timeline with the franchise is the same, I got xc2 late 2017 as well! Exept i sadly never got to play gears or saga so I'll try to skip over any parts mentioning those games...

2 hours holy moly, you cooked

This is usual reaction 1 + 2 Resonance 2 + 1 Dissonance (1 &| 2) + 3 Resonance 3 + (1 &| 2) Undefined, no case study

I loved xenoblade 3 kinda sad its over now tho just hope we get another game one day

Spoilers below 17:40 When I first discovered "Place of heroes past" and fought a monster I had Nia in the party so "kaleidoscopic core" started playing. Either I had nevre been in battle with Nia before or I just didn't notice, but as someone who played xenoblade 2 first, this was REALLY special (especially after the ending cutscene with *that* photo

Having played all three Xenoblade games (I'll get to X one day), I have to say that Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is my favorite. Especially if you add in Future Redeemed. The emotions I felt while playing can't be matched. The plot twists, the characterization, the story, and the symbolism, all worked together to create a great experience at least for me. While there were some things that kept it from being the best story-wise (the villains), I still think that overall experience does put it up there close to the top. The music, oh man, is the best in the series. Even though, objectively XC2 may have a better OST overall, I think how the music often carries the narrative is what pushes it over for me. The music doesn't just complement the story but tells the story, too. Not to mention that music is GORGEOUS. Like seriously, if you listen to the area themes in full with headphones on, you really feel immersed. Maybe not as bombastic as previous games, but good nonetheless. Overall I still think XC1 has the best story. XC2 has the best area designs and the most post-game content and replayability, which is important to the overall longevity of the game. XC3 though, man even with some of the issues it did have, has the highest highs in the franchise. Its message is something I think we all can learn from. Future Redeemed granted us the grand finale that we all really wanted, and it put in perspective just how much was riding on the main cast and their actions. Amazing.

I haven't tried the first 3 waves of DLC yet. I bought it a few hours before Future Redeemed released. That's my kinda DLC. More Fallout, where you get basically mini-new games, and less Trails of Cold Steel where it's mostly7 cosmetic crap.

In the frensh 2nd trailer commentary section I said I was hype and I hoped Xenoblade 3 would become my favorit. In the end I really enjoyed Xenoblade 3 but 2 was still my number 1. More I think about it more Xenoblade 3 get close to Xenoblade 2 level. I won't playing Xenoblade games as much as I want this summer but maybe Xenoblade 3 will cross the line. In the end it doesn't matter Xenoblade x is the only one I tried and manedge to 100% rip my wii u And don't worry I like 1 as well

I'm still recovering from the xbc3 hype....and I'm still only 430 hours into the game...

A Look Back at A Look Back at Xenoblade Chronicles 3.... Ten Months Later.. Ten Months Later..

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best game ever made i mean its alright i guess i kinda like it

Aww Spoilers for Xenosaga as well? Then I can't watch this video D= After Future Redeemed, I now await a Xenosaga Remake so I want to wait with playing it.

ELPYS RUINS NO WAAAAY I HAD NO CLUE

I played them all twice including X. 3 is my favorite. It fixed all the issues I had with 1 and 2. I really want to replay it but I am hoping it gets a Switch 2 port with 60fps is available. or until emulation gets really good.

10:22 FUCK that was loud

Not s xeno 2 fan not tht good, but my god 1 and 3 are masterpieces

For future videos, please change the music/cutsce se volumes. The music is just too loud compared to your voice. Other than that, pretty good video :)

definitely my favourite story if the three. I love a good romance, and the emotions in this game do it justice. The tragedy really hurts though. I was hoping we’d get a happy ending like in past games

Does Xenoblade 3's story have a fair deal of unexplained plot beats? Yep. But at the end of the day, I think Aionios is my favorite world the series has to offer because I was so fascinated by its worldbuilding and am still thinking about it after finishing it. I can completely understand feeling confused by where the story is going, but I do overall find XC3's plot to be wonderful in concluding the Klaus trilogy. Where 1 focuses on the future and 2 focuses on the past, 3 focuses a ton on the present and its themes on the present resonate with me the most. I'm somewhat still sitting on Xenoblade 3 to determine if it's outclassed Xenoblade 1 for me, recency bias is a thing I'm aware, but man it definitely is the best the series has to offer by far.

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I actually have to admit.. i never finished the game. I had fun while playing it, but at some point... it just lost me. It's a shame. I don't see myself returning to it anytime soon with Zelda on my plate at the moment. Now that i think about it, i never finished XC2 either... maybe XC just isn't my franchise. I finished XC:DE though

Fair, captocorn peak was a bit weak... also what the FUCK is that concept art??

Easily my least favourite game in the series but I still love it and it’s a fantastic closure to the series, especially with future redeemed as well.

So the reason that XC2 seemingly had more content post launch was because the initial release of XC2 had a severe lack of QoL features and a good majority of the "free content" was adding things in after the fact that we're intended to be in the initial release. The same cannot be said for XC3, which was a much more complete package on release, when compare to XC2

i wish there was a button to HIDE all on screen stuff so i can watch & enjoy the animations!

Still peak

20 months??? God deam it xc4 when???

for once the year wasn't 2022 😱

Make your video louder I can’t hear it over the plane 😂😂😂

Honestly, something I will never really like lorewise is how Xenoblade 2 and now 3(I didn't play 3 or X yet for reference, but I'm not particularly spoiler-avoidant, that's why I watch these videos to begin with) mold Xenoblade 1 for their own purposes instead of either working with whatever already existed or simply not trying to be connected in certain ways. That is actually kinda what I appreciate about X in retrospect because it is rather hands off and standalone outside of some eastereggs, it does not pull an "Alvis was just an unrealiable narrator"-bandaid out of thin air to justify being connected despite the lore either being awkward or not lining up. Sure, a Telethia does show up as a superboss, but it is not like the game makes a big deal out of it, it could be seen as just another easteregg until Xenoblade 1 itself decided to come up with an explanation in Future Connected(Which is that random Telethia just sorta dive into interdimensional rifts which we can assume catapulted them into a parallel world, lol). Of course, all of it is just sorta half of the whole thing. I still appreciate and enjoy Xenoblade 2 as its own thing and even tho it kinda annoys me a lot more in 3 because the connections are a lot more central and heavyhanded(And that Future Redeemed is kinda fanfiction-city premise-wise), I'm still more than ready to give it its individual shot when I eventually play it, instead of being mad that I think they botched a narrative. Tbh, the gameplay of 7 people running around with an "ultimate battlesystem" and doing giant &Knuckles-style combos during chain attacks looks incredibly dope already. On a sidenote, I also wish I had confidence in finding an entrypoint into the pre-Xenoblade games. I heared a decent amount of times that the Xenosaga 1+2 retelling on DS would do just that because the other games are less casual-friendly(Which I assume means to push them back until I am already into it), but the issue is that the release is exclusively in Japanese. Well, almost exclusively in japanese, the community at least gave it a menu-fantranslation, even tho that is still very unhelpful for a storyheavy RPG series like Xeno.

Xenoblade 3 is a great game but easily my least favorite in the trilogy, didn't care much for the story, villains, world and especially the music, the last 2 are really a shame because xenoblade 2 nailed those aspects for me. Future Redeemed is the xenoblade 3 i wished we got instead of the main game simply because the dlc went by way too fast and the pacing felt off

coming off of 2 which is one of favorite games of all time and is a game that all my issues with where fixed with dlc/update content so one of the few games i consider flawless (outside the golden country which sucked) i was utterly disappointed with 3 in more ways than one my two biggest gripes being how utterly worthless and waste of money the expansion pass was (future redeemed being just as bad as TGC) and that goddamn piece of crap ending it was a good game but probably my least favorite xenoblade game its just worse than X and 2 in every way it wouldve went over X in the story department of it wasnt for that ending.... really the ending of 3 really ruined it for me and left a huge sour taste in my mouth

Ah yes the weakest of the trilogy gets its turn. This one is without a doubt the weakest of them all. The other two games had a few similarities to Marvel already (at least they were very subtle and you had to really know Marvel to pick up on them) but this one is so blatant it is unreal. The story is quite literally a trio of fear based entities are controlling the world (much like Nightmare and the other Fear Lords of Marvel have done for short periods of time), they have super strong minions to act as generals, and they have themselves clone armies that must feed on the life force of others to survive (just like Galactus must feed on the life energy of planets to survive). Then it turns out there are people who aren't clones that are trying to stop the fighting and they convince two groups of clones that they are working for the bad guys and they must stand together. Talk about a weak ass story with too much inspired by Marvel.

Weakest Xenoblade for me and no matter how many cracks FR fills in (while creating gigantic questions of its own), it doesn’t absolve XC3 of its sins. A great game in its own right but a disappointing sequel.

man i hated this game. loved xc2 but this story man. ass

Xeno 3 is worst game I've played in a long time in terms of story and villains. It's like an emo-teenager wrote it after breaking up with their girlfriend after maybe one week. The villains were so unrelateable and messed up i couldnt stop sighing and wishing i was playing literally anything else. What a joke of a game.

All this game is is cutscenes. They are honestly kind of ruining the game for me. Walk two steps and then 20 more minutes of boring af cutscenes. I have never seen anything like it in my life. Just let me play the game please!

I looked back at it when its DLC came out, it's still the worst out of the trilogy with none-relatable bland cast, huge empty locations and an outright bad final villain. The only good thing going for it is the battle system. It's by far the most disappointing game of 2022 and doesn't hold a candle to the previous two installments.

Riku has the n word pass. Nopon