Topic: Xenoblade Chronicles 3

@Mioaionios My playthrough was 79 hours! I didn't do all the sidequests yet but that's what I'm gonna be doing now! I can't lie, I really think this might be my favorite Xenoblade

I'm gonna need to update my banner now lol

@Vortexeo
At 79 hours of playtime, you still have plenty of side quests waiting for you.
I think you might be surprised by how good some of them are.

My guess is XC3 is going to turn out to be many people's favorite of the franchise.
It's a masterpiece in my opinion. Aside from 1 single regular quest, I can't think of anything else to criticize the game with.

I have a question about the last part of Chapter 2 and for throught the whole game.

i just defeated the first Consul/Moebius by turning into two Ouroboros.

Is that an automatic thing pretty much during whatever big boss battles?

the other battle gameplay mechanics i understand getting the hang of it such as Pressing + for the super combo finishing move stuff but still curious about the whole Ouroboros thing

@XandertheWise no, it is something you will fully control soon. The only thing about it is that you have a timelimit and a cooldown mechanic (literally lol)

I finished the story in 85 hours. I've gone back and finished all the sidequests and done more exploring an additional 40 hours. I just don't want to stop.

Seems a lot of you are starting to wrap up the main story. I’m a little though Chapter 7 after getting all the Origin metal, and defeating Consul C, and I assume I’ll be entering the final region very soon. So far I’ve put 42 hours into the game.

I don’t do that… and to be honest I should. I’ve spent a lot of time just going through the map and filling it in manually, since my OCD just can’t accept a half filled map. It was a little less tedious than it seems, partly because of the soundtrack. Music is amazing in virtually every area. Love the more beautiful, serene tracks over the bombastic epic ones like Millick Meadows. Erythia Sea’s one of my favourites for that reason.

As for the interchanging biomes, I love it too. The transition’s so organic, almost every time I didn’t even notice that I had walked into a completely different area. The maps are huge, and a pleasure to explore. Only thing I’d complain is that it’s all the same stuff we’ve seen in other mainline XC games… but that’s not a bad thing at all.

@TheJGG
One more thing on filling in the maps: when you're at a high level late in the game, it becomes way easier to do because monsters stop attacking you every 5 feet.

@TheJGG well Xenoblade 3 has invisible wall blocking that prevents from you from wandering off too far from the beginning area youre supposed to go to.

filling out the map/wide open spaces was easier to do in Xenoblade 1 though. Xenoblade 2 i put on the backburner for now until later on whenever i get tired of Xenoblade 3.

Said I was gonna ignore side content, but I've been beavering away at exploring all of those question marks in the ocean anyway.

The consuls in this chapter are certainly refreshingly different than usual.

last night while i was watching the scenes after the first Consul/Moebius, those other Consuls or whoever they are their red metal outfits resembled old timey castle jesters

@Mioaionios you had a problem with one particular quest? Which quest was that?

@Vortexeo
One involving an Armu farm on an island.

@Mioaionios I don't think I've done that one so I guess I'll experience it myself 😅

@Vortexeo
You'll know it when you come across it.
It's the only quest I needed a guide for and I doubt it's solvable without a lot of trial and error.

I have all Heroes now! And quite a few fully unlocked. Probavle have all colonies too but I thought the same two colonies ago lol.

Well into chapter 5 right now. I love the Hero Monica not just because she has Smash and I needed a good Defender, but also I just love her character. She reminds me of Elma from Xenoblade Chronicles X, for some reason, and I Elma was my girl.

Game also has a ring of The Matrix to it, does it not? I know the similarities are a bit thin, but it just reminds me of it, in a good way. Maybe it's the big hidden city where the last true humans live, or the fact humans are grown by machine like entities (well, not really, but their Moebius form resemble machines).

@JaxonH
Never made the comparison to Matrix myself, but now that you've mentioned it... yeah, I can see it.

Just finished Ch. 5 and... wow, what a ride that was. I'm sure they'll retcon what happened next chapter with some metaphysical BS, but it was an interesting bit of raw, sustained storytelling. Kinda expected Noah was going to rush forward and stab Mio at the end there to prevent her from being absorbed by the queen, since that somehow apparently ejects them from the cycle of rebirth, but I guess not..

I've played this game for over seven hours today. My eyes hurt.