I wanna say thanks for the quality information and doing your best despite the embargo, I really appreciate you answering my questions especially, even directly on Twitter! Looking forward to when you make a review, I'll definitely watch it just outta respect for the way you've been helping the general community and care for the series, as well as the clear quality it will have. Big thanks again mate!
Im 135 hours in Normal NG, AND FINALLY GET ALL BLADES!! (Minus 3 from LoC, because the challnge is really hard, will try it later when im strong enough). Thanks to Gold Chips, Break pierce accesories, Luck boost, and UM Stanley Farm. Last blade i open is Floren
first of all, great video! 2 questions: can you cancel an art into another one and finish off with a special like in xc2? can you cancel into a dodge/dodge into a cancel art?
@@sharebear421 nah I remember beating xenoblade 1 in a week because I was so excited for it. He seems to have played the other xenoblade games so he is an experienced player so it isn't unlikely
@@sharebear421 highly doubt it's shorter considering how many things it's trying to tell. Not only tell it's own story, but also serve as a sequel to both XC1 and 2.
Visually, how do you feel the environments compare to 2? Do you think it looks better/has more detail or do you feel as if it’s been paired back a bit?
From listening to other previews, 3 will definitely have superior environments compared to both 1 and 2. They're a lot bigger, they look visually more impressive too. There's also a lot more verticality compared to past games.
Expect it to looks better, but not a huge bump in resolution (remember that the Switch Hardware is really old). However, the frame rate looks a lot more stable.
@@user-li8sr9zo9l I like the sound of that a lot. Exciting stuff! I do wonder how the environment will compare to Xenoblade X's seamless open world though. To this day, Mira is my all-time favourite open world. I really hope this one will be as good.
@@vgnvideogameninja2930 Well there's still separated by loading screens, however most reviewers have said each area is as as big as multiple areas from 1 and 2 combine. If you've seen their screen shots and gameplay, both the prologue and chapter one areas are all in 1 loading screen. In my opinion, it'll definitely beat X in terms of scale and variety. It just won't be seamless.
Oh sweet baby Jesus, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the original audio mix left something to be desired. Thankfully the mixer in settings isn't too bad on either DE or 2.
Perhaps it triggers different conditions for some side quests (imagine you need to see an important ruler and you aren't allowed to proceed until you clean your clothes, or a different quest where you must prove that you are doing hard work and the conditions to proceed are to dirt your clothes xD).
I gotta stress this because I appreciate the preview, but this is something I've noticed that people are trying to change the definition of: Xenoblade games (excluding X) are NOT Open World games. That is a gaming term I'm desperately trying to stop from getting so muddied as it just causes more confusion than it's worth. An Open World game CAN have loading zones, however, an Open World is defined by a singular large map which connects them all. Xenoblade 1, 2 and likely 3 by nature of being linear stories in which the game requires you to progress through particular areas in particular orders means that it literally cannot be Open World or else the stories they are praised for would fall apart. Large areas CAN exist inside a linear game. This does not mean that the linear game stops being linear, neither does this mean that linear games are bad otherwise I wouldn't love them so much. Now would this mean that Orcarina of Time is an Open World? Almost. I know people would argue the case, but it's missing just barely enough freedom of choice to make it one (glitches don't count), and I wouldn't quite say the map at truly connected the whole instance, though it was huge for it's time. ANYWAY, Xenoblade 3 by the sounds of it still sounds like it's structured like a Xenoblade game but they aren't open world. An Open World game is always accompanied with exploration, but a game with exploration isn't always an Open World game. We could literally fit most Metroidvanias into the Open World category if that were the case, and that wouldn't help anything.
@UC96lzfdMQFPl3VY-D-1UVeA He is exactly right. Some people call Nier Automata an open world game, which is wrong. It is an hub based game similiar to Ocarina of time or other classic Action Adventures which has som bigger zones but also as many linear areas. It is divided by loading zones and many of the background assets are not reachable. The focus of the game is the story main quest. An Open World game - like e.g. Witcher 3 - has even larger areas which are filled with stuff you lose yourself in. Besides some loading zones between the larger maps everything is seamless and while you can follow the main quest it is by no means necessarily the main focus of the game. Nier Automata is no open world game. Dark Souls is no open world game. Xenoblade games (except for Xenoblade Chronicles X) are no open world games. Breath of the Wild is an open world game. Skyrim is an open world game. Witcher 3 is an open world game. Compare the first list and the second list in structure and design and you will notice the difference.
@Honey Dew He is exactly right. Some people call Nier Automata an open world game, which is wrong. It is an hub based game similiar to Ocarina of time or other classic Action Adventures which has som bigger zones but also as many linear areas. It is divided by loading zones and many of the background assets are not reachable. The focus of the game is the story main quest. An Open World game - like e.g. Witcher 3 - has even larger areas which are filled with stuff you lose yourself in. Besides some loading zones between the larger maps everything is seamless and while you can follow the main quest it is by no means necessarily the main focus of the game. Nier Automata is no open world game. Dark Souls is no open world game. Xenoblade games (except for Xenoblade Chronicles X) are no open world games. Breath of the Wild is an open world game. Skyrim is an open world game. Witcher 3 is an open world game. Compare the first list and the second list in structure and design and you will notice the difference.
@Honey Dew No it is not. You didn’t even read or comprehend what I have written. Just get your facts straight regarding the definition, it is not up to me to lecture you.
XC1 isn't open world, it's put together to feel like an open world. XC2 was even less of a quasi-open world. XCX is the only true open world Xeno game since XC3 sounds closer to XC1. Which is fine!
Can confirm files did get leaked and have played through some of chapter 1 and 2 myself over the last few days, thankfully for those trying to avoid spoilers, there's nothing xc1 seventh party member levels of spoilers in this short time I have played but suggest that those of you who don't want to be spoiled to still be wary since people may be further than I am rn
So far it seems everything is an improvement in this game. Combat, Character Customization, No Gacha, Character Designs, Graphics, and Music. Can't fucking wait!
I always had the same impression of Keves vs. Agnus arts, for the same reasons. Glad to see someone who has played confirm as much, especially since you seem to have a firm grasp on combat in this series.
9:03 Thank you for answering this question about the auto attack combo system! I did not like that feature in XC2, it made me focus on counting my auto attacks instead of enjoying the combat. So I'm glad that it is not returning, along with stutter stepping being gone. I never hated the quick time events, but I agree, I'm glad that they are gone to focus on other aspects of combat more. I laughed at the cleaning your clothes description, such and odd and trivial feature. I subscribed to get more info from this channel once the embargo lifts.
Do arts level up at all? I just realized that I have not seen anything about AP (Arts Points) or leveling up arts. You get Exp, CP (Class Points), and Gold from fighting. You get SP (Skill Points) from quests. And you get Exp from discovering landmarks, but I have not seen anything about AP.
It's because the newer generation or maybe just some people who have not been gaming that long are using certain terms and correctly when some people think of open world they're probably thinking of like wow where for the most part is just one massive map and you can walk across the entire map when open world just means you're not pretty much going down a hallway like you pretty much only have one direction you can go in or people think of like Skyrim is open world where you can literally traverse the entire overworld with no load screens outside of towns so it's just the way people are using the word. But I feel like anybody who's played enough JRPGs definitely understand the difference between when a game is open world and when it's not. It's kind of like I feel like the term for MMO is being misused and now even by companies because some of these games that are considered MMOs are more like multiplayer online games to me and not necessarily MMOs. I've accepted that the lingo for gaming is shifting through the decades but it's annoying when you're trying to talk to somebody in both of you have a very different meaning for a single word It's kind of like pay to win also people throw that around just because there's microtransactions or if you could buy an experience potion it's paid to win and I feel like people don't really understand what pay to win really is
10:00 God I remember in XBC2 right after the water tower fight against Morag, I could NOT find where to go after the campfire scene, and I got the game a day early so there were no guides. I couldn't find my way to that nopon ship for probably three hours, just trying to find a way up that damn titan
I got lost CONSTANTLY in XC2 and it got super irritating. Even though I enjoyed the game, I ended up skipping a lot of sidequests because it was just too frustrating to find what I was looking for.
I appreciate Xenoblade 2 trying to make the world design more challenging, but it just didn't translate well from paper. Gormot for example is just a nightmare to traverse, you see where your supposed to go, you skip travel near there, but because the entirety of gormot is a giant 3D maze, it's almost always a bad idea to skip travel to then earest point, you have to skip travel to some other point and go this weird abstract route climbing roots and dropping down here before you reach your destination and you almost always have to reference TH-cam tutorials. Many maps were like this and paired with field skill checks that you either just can't do or have to re-arrange blades to do makes it, not fun sometimes.
I would sum up Xenoblade 2 as requiring constant internet connection, not because the game needs it, but because you need it to play the game. I literally can't imagine what it would be like if I wasn't looking practically everything up on youtube or google at almost every step and it was constantly annoying because sometimes I just wanted to lay on the bed and play Xenoblade 2 but I would inevitably very quickly reach point after point where I would either have to get up to go to my computer or pull out my phone too figure out how to progress.
Honestly great review but I want to address a issue I have with most reviewers and reviews of XBC3. You guys keep comparing 3 with 2 as if its the latest monolith game when XBC DE and torna exist. Compare the tutorials of those game with 3 , compare the resolution and performance of the game with those games.
The thing is, xcde looks worse than xc2. They didn't fix all the graphical issues with it. Xc2 still looks better than it since its still the first xc at its core. U definitely have a point with torna tho, but torna wasn't very complex or difficult to get into. Xc3 is more similar to xc2 than torna in terms of tutorial necessity, so it wouldn't do much comparing it to that.
Odd to hear there is no run button, as I'm pretty sure I saw a (possibly Japanese) clip where a "sprint" was mentioned.. I'll see if I can find out if I remember that incorrectly or not.
@@created3612 It's hard to tell but I feel like there's a speed increase during the running though, instead of a comparison before/after setting a gem, but eh, I guess we'll see after it comes out. :)
How does leveling arts even work? Kinda dumb if you can’t level them up tbh especially with cool down for keves and overall damage max output. Is there a transmography type of mechanic where you can change outfits even without using a certain class? Can you find new weapons like 1 and X or you’re stuck to a single weapon of whatever class you’re using like 2?
So for hero classes we know that one character will obtain the class when you first recieve the hero and then you have to build affinity or something like that for the others to obtain the class. But is it possible to give the other teammates the class through having the member who already obtained it use it for a period of time or do you absolutely need the hero in your party for the others to obtain it.
What I'm really hoping for is that I can get away with one tank because I already have a party set up in mind I want one tank one melee DPS paired with him arranged DPS who's similar to an archer with someone who is similar to a mage which will be pretty much the two main characters, I also want two healers one focused on healing one focused on healing and party support with buffs and stuff and then the hero character pretty much has another DPS so we can have four DPS or I'll just make both tanks won a resistance tank one and an evasion tank and just the main characters and the hero as the DPS I don't know but that's how I want my party set up and I'm kind of hoping if I want to do the whole pair of the melee DPS with the tank setup that I can get away with only having one tank
One of my issues with XC2 was the combat audio. With 3 characters and 3 blades + Gramps and all of your enemies saying random battle lines constantly, the audio during battle was often a complete mess. Does XC3 have the same issue?
Does the collection orbs/points act more like xenoblade 1, where you walk to it and the items you get are random or more like xenoblade 2 where you need to grab them but gives you an specific set of items? or is it a mixture of both?
From the gameplay previews it acts more like the orbs from 1. The only difference seems to be that they are modeled after the type of material you’ll be picking up.
Question here, if/when you can answer! One of my biggest complaints in regards to XB2 was how the minimap was fixed north and could not, would not rotate. Is this same issue present in XB3, or does this minimap have the option of rotation? I sincerely hope it does...
@@AetherLocke Eh, it’s like using inverted camera control: some people are more comfortable with it. Me, I like to orient myself, so that my ‘destination’ is north for me on the map.
Why in the world would you not want it fixed north? Botw had the mini map not fixed north by default and was very disorienting. I was fighting a swiveling compass for an embarrassingly long 15-ish hours during my first playthrough before i finally noticed why I was having such a hard time going north. I couldn't see the castle from where I was. Once I set it north, traveling to any marker I had set became a lot easier after that.
Stutter stepping wasn't patched because it was literally part of the battle system. It wasn't a mistake that needed to be removed. And it was so easily discoverable its baffling way too many people had zero idea you could do that.
I would argue that it may not have been originally intended, since there were no tutorials even hinting about it. However, given that it became such a mainstay of the combat system by the fans, they may have just chosen to not patch it out.
Having done a very little amount of coding myself, I think a likely reason that they never patched it out is because... 1. It's not game-breaking enough to where it _needed_ to be fixed 2. It likely would've been very annoying to code, potentially having to rewrite a majority of the code for how characters attack (this one combined with the 1st seem the most likely to me) 3. They didn't notice, somehow, despite how widespread the knowledge became. For example, the pity blades for Column 5 (or Seed 5) were never patched despite it being pretty common knowledge among the more serious community, similar to stutter stepping
@@AzureRoxe Exploit or not, It was never patched, so you could say even monolith was okay with people using it, it doesnt really break the game, nor the pace of combat, id say it improves it lol having it xenoblade 3 would of been nice but I guess it caused more issues combat wise in xc3 in comparison to 2
I hope playing healer in this game can sort of feed my urge to play healers in mmo or multiplayer games. Only reason I don't play them is because I don't have time to invest into a live service game, or most good ones required a subscription fee.
In that case, I'd recommend FFXIV's free trial if you haven't tried it yet! There's no playtime limit, and it allows you to play all the way to the 1st expansion's end. Great way to step your toes into the MMO scene without shelling out money as a prerequisite 👌
Elder Scrolls Online doesnt require fees, its a one time buy and then you can choose to buy the expansions. Once you hit Level 10 you can do daily dungeons which is short multiplayer areas that you can complete in less than an hour.
I dont know if this is a question that can be answered or not but what im wondering is that are monsters spawns and items shown in game in a book like other RPG's or would I have to be constantly looking at a wiki for locations.
Surprised no one asked about some of the bigger cities or colonies like 1 and 2 had or if there’s only those tiny base camps in the beginning. And if you saw any possibilities of other vehicles besides the boat
I'll tell you right now those are both questions that can't be answered because of preview embargos. They're only allowed to talk about up to chapter 1/the first area right now.
Do I have to use the Shulk amiibo more then once? As in if I turn the off the game after saving I lose the Monado when I turn it back on and I have to reuse the Shulk amiibo to get it back.
@@ArceusDX And some previews have it in their footage and others don't. I think it's a bug? There's no consistent cause I can identify as camera position doesn't seem to trigger it consistently.
Damn it really sucks to hear that about the audio mixing. It's really disappointed me. The first Xenoblade had perfect audio mixing so no idea what has happened since then 🙁 Is it really really bad? The previews gave me the impression that they got the audio mixing right this time but I guess not.
@@kirbinato5201 probably because you'll be starting to control ouroborus by then and obtaining out of party classes, their (master) arts, and then start getting access to fusion arts. Its a typical rule to make you gain more experience for the last move - its usually one of the more powerful moves, if not the character's best move they can learn after all. Depending on how fast you can grasp the battle system, leveling up and gaining CP (Class Points) shouldn't be too hard.
I haven't watched the video whole, cuz I want to avoid knowing more than I already do, can you leave any of the main cast on the bench? Like not using any of them if you don't want to?.
i think its on the right stick so that you can use the left stick to direct where you want the dodge to go. Using the left for clicking and directing at the same time would be really awkward
why does the grass disappear wherever the characters go? Its like th eopposite of what games do. THey are removing assets from under player's feet. It looks so so so odd.
I really don't like how those grass disappear way ahead of the characters, idono looks so wired to look at, just nitpicking, I know this game is a day one buy for me
It's actually something I'm curious about because in that part, the official Xenoblade JP account showed footage in that same area where they switched characters. In THAT footage, the grass was disappearing just like it was here. Later on, Nintendo of Europe posted footage in that SAME area to also demonstrate character switching. Strangely enough, in THEIR footage, the grass didn't disappear like that despite capturing similar footage. I wonder if maybe the camera angle effects that?
@@TheFrostedfirefly It's all camera... If camera is too close to the ground the grass goes transparent for visibility. If you play the game with the camera a bit far away from the characters, It won't dissappear like that.
Within the preview period you cant level down. That means it unlocks in the future wooohooo. Othereise, he would not feel the need to say in the preview period
It means either it's a NG+ feature which would also confirm NG+ on launch unlike 2, or it is unlocked after chapter 1 and thus they aren't allowed to talk about it. I'm happy it's in but I do hope it's available during the main campaign
I want to literally level down everyone by 5 levels on hard mode so that all unique monsters feel very strategic and challenging. I hope they at least balance hard mode to a point where with zero bonus camp levelling, similar level of challenge happens. Hope it is not ng+ either. This is a very simple feature who enhanves the game. Even if it is not in the game, hope hard mode makes up for it. I wont level on camp sites at all and do all sidequests. Hope I dont get over levelled :D
He said there are no field skills "in the preview area" (which at the beginning of the video he explained didn't imply anything about content after Chapter 1). That being said, it doesn't appear that there's anything comparable with XC2's field skills. It appears that there *are* field skills (probably learned from Heroes; for example the rail-grinding thing from Juniper), but it won't be the sort of thing where you have to micromanage your party to get the right number of points like in XC2.
This is a tiny one, and i'm not sure if it's something that can be mentioned: Do you get any bonusses for playing the other games on Switch? DE gave you a cash bonus for playing 2, so i was wondering if you also got something for playing DE and 2 in this game...
Thnxs so much to be honest I dont like chapters beacuse if is NOT chapters more exiting if is it NOT like nr 1 in the series but maybe a good thing for many people but not for me but anyways this game goona be good maybe the best wee see.
I mean, it's blatant that Noah's weapon is Monado-like. Even one of the artworks for the pass shows Shulk's replica Monado, Rex's Aegis sword in Pyra's form and Noah's sword together.
Is there any actual player-driven role-playing in this game or is it all passive cut-scene storytelling? I remember the first game had those affinity discussions or whatever, and I feel like X might have allowed you to select your character's lines (although they probably didn't really affect anything). 2 and its expansion I never played and probably never will, but I'm slightly curious about this one, just hoping it might allow you to at the very least make some decisions... Probably won't, I have a feeling even 1 had a big set-up for what felt like a choice that changes the direction of the narrative only for Shulk to make the choice without even stopping lol.
JRPGs are most definitely focused more on defined stories rather than player driven roleplaying like western RPG's are. If it's anything like 1 & 2 it's going to be the former
X actually did have moments where your decisions had big impacts. You could affect whether characters live or die, and you could *totally fuck up* the Orphean species by using senirapa water unwisely.
Well it's a Japanese role playing game. They focus more on developing it's story/character driven stories. If you want the roleplay you're looking for, you'll have better luck with western RPGs.
as soon as you said "stutterstep" I knew I was finally seeing a competent player / xeno fan talk about this game
"Competent" is probably going too far but I'll take "fan" ;)
I never used the stutterstep because it felt like cheating lmao
@@daze3x87 it was better on some blades than others
@@daze3x87 i played through the whole game at launch w/o "intentionally" doing it. only learned the name thanks to Chuggaaconroy's LP.
Yeah
I can tell you know your stuff, looking forward to listening to your review the most
I wanna say thanks for the quality information and doing your best despite the embargo, I really appreciate you answering my questions especially, even directly on Twitter!
Looking forward to when you make a review, I'll definitely watch it just outta respect for the way you've been helping the general community and care for the series, as well as the clear quality it will have.
Big thanks again mate!
Thank you very much for taking the time to answer community questions!
I JUST GOT KOS-MOS FROM EARLY CHAPTER 7, YESSSSS!!
I CAN'T HAVE IT 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬 IT'S MY 50 LEGENDARY CORE CRISTAL!!!!!
It's a bit funny how Kos-Mos has the lowest drop rate, but when you do NG+ and unlock T-elos, she has one of the highest.
@@AzureRoxe no joke ? If you unlock telos, Kos mos have more chance to come ? No way ?
Im 135 hours in Normal NG, AND FINALLY GET ALL BLADES!! (Minus 3 from LoC, because the challnge is really hard, will try it later when im strong enough). Thanks to Gold Chips, Break pierce accesories, Luck boost, and UM Stanley Farm. Last blade i open is Floren
first of all, great video!
2 questions: can you cancel an art into another one and finish off with a special like in xc2? can you cancel into a dodge/dodge into a cancel art?
For the first question yes you can cancel art and then cancel into a special
@@famillesabot5719 much appreciated, I assume the art to art canceling works too
You can cancel arts with aguns classes, keves classes can only cancel attacks
Thanks, John. As always, you’re my favorite person to listen to regarding anything Xenoblade. Can’t wait for the game!
So you had beat the game already!? 😂 look forward to the review!
Either he rushed through or the game is shorter than the others haha
@@sharebear421 nah I remember beating xenoblade 1 in a week because I was so excited for it. He seems to have played the other xenoblade games so he is an experienced player so it isn't unlikely
@@sharebear421 Previewers got the game since June 25th. 2 and a 1/2 weeks seem like a reasonable time to finish an RPG like Xenoblade.
@@taymatosama yeah I’m guessing he played 4-5 hours everyday and im sure he didn’t do a crap ton of side questing or end game like most of us will
@@sharebear421 highly doubt it's shorter considering how many things it's trying to tell. Not only tell it's own story, but also serve as a sequel to both XC1 and 2.
Visually, how do you feel the environments compare to 2? Do you think it looks better/has more detail or do you feel as if it’s been paired back a bit?
From listening to other previews, 3 will definitely have superior environments compared to both 1 and 2. They're a lot bigger, they look visually more impressive too.
There's also a lot more verticality compared to past games.
Expect it to looks better, but not a huge bump in resolution (remember that the Switch Hardware is really old). However, the frame rate looks a lot more stable.
@@user-li8sr9zo9l I like the sound of that a lot. Exciting stuff! I do wonder how the environment will compare to Xenoblade X's seamless open world though. To this day, Mira is my all-time favourite open world. I really hope this one will be as good.
@@vgnvideogameninja2930 Well there's still separated by loading screens, however most reviewers have said each area is as as big as multiple areas from 1 and 2 combine.
If you've seen their screen shots and gameplay, both the prologue and chapter one areas are all in 1 loading screen.
In my opinion, it'll definitely beat X in terms of scale and variety. It just won't be seamless.
I hope that in XC3 are as much cities and villages as in XC2
I have a hype for this game that is not even NORMAL!! Like my heart pounds more and more the closer we get to the 29th!!
Seriously, great vid. Can’t wait for the release
Oh sweet baby Jesus, I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought the original audio mix left something to be desired. Thankfully the mixer in settings isn't too bad on either DE or 2.
Thanks for answering my question! Maybe one day Monolith Soft will get a decent audio mix...
At leads DE had kinda good mixing… This is my favorite game series but I can sat none of then had the best audio mixing.
Maybe clothing cleanliness impacts aggro / the range at which enemies can spot you?
Perhaps it triggers different conditions for some side quests (imagine you need to see an important ruler and you aren't allowed to proceed until you clean your clothes, or a different quest where you must prove that you are doing hard work and the conditions to proceed are to dirt your clothes xD).
I gotta stress this because I appreciate the preview, but this is something I've noticed that people are trying to change the definition of:
Xenoblade games (excluding X) are NOT Open World games. That is a gaming term I'm desperately trying to stop from getting so muddied as it just causes more confusion than it's worth.
An Open World game CAN have loading zones, however, an Open World is defined by a singular large map which connects them all. Xenoblade 1, 2 and likely 3 by nature of being linear stories in which the game requires you to progress through particular areas in particular orders means that it literally cannot be Open World or else the stories they are praised for would fall apart.
Large areas CAN exist inside a linear game. This does not mean that the linear game stops being linear, neither does this mean that linear games are bad otherwise I wouldn't love them so much.
Now would this mean that Orcarina of Time is an Open World? Almost. I know people would argue the case, but it's missing just barely enough freedom of choice to make it one (glitches don't count), and I wouldn't quite say the map at truly connected the whole instance, though it was huge for it's time.
ANYWAY, Xenoblade 3 by the sounds of it still sounds like it's structured like a Xenoblade game but they aren't open world. An Open World game is always accompanied with exploration, but a game with exploration isn't always an Open World game. We could literally fit most Metroidvanias into the Open World category if that were the case, and that wouldn't help anything.
@UC96lzfdMQFPl3VY-D-1UVeA He is exactly right. Some people call Nier Automata an open world game, which is wrong. It is an hub based game similiar to Ocarina of time or other classic Action Adventures which has som bigger zones but also as many linear areas. It is divided by loading zones and many of the background assets are not reachable. The focus of the game is the story main quest.
An Open World game - like e.g. Witcher 3 - has even larger areas which are filled with stuff you lose yourself in. Besides some loading zones between the larger maps everything is seamless and while you can follow the main quest it is by no means necessarily the main focus of the game.
Nier Automata is no open world game. Dark Souls is no open world game. Xenoblade games (except for Xenoblade Chronicles X) are no open world games.
Breath of the Wild is an open world game. Skyrim is an open world game. Witcher 3 is an open world game.
Compare the first list and the second list in structure and design and you will notice the difference.
@Honey Dew He is exactly right. Some people call Nier Automata an open world game, which is wrong. It is an hub based game similiar to Ocarina of time or other classic Action Adventures which has som bigger zones but also as many linear areas. It is divided by loading zones and many of the background assets are not reachable. The focus of the game is the story main quest.
An Open World game - like e.g. Witcher 3 - has even larger areas which are filled with stuff you lose yourself in. Besides some loading zones between the larger maps everything is seamless and while you can follow the main quest it is by no means necessarily the main focus of the game.
Nier Automata is no open world game. Dark Souls is no open world game. Xenoblade games (except for Xenoblade Chronicles X) are no open world games.
Breath of the Wild is an open world game. Skyrim is an open world game. Witcher 3 is an open world game.
Compare the first list and the second list in structure and design and you will notice the difference.
@Honey Dew No it is not. You didn’t even read or comprehend what I have written. Just get your facts straight regarding the definition, it is not up to me to lecture you.
@Honey Dew 🤡🤡🤡
Really makes you wonder why would they call it "boundless world" in the direct when it isn't
XC1 isn't open world, it's put together to feel like an open world. XC2 was even less of a quasi-open world. XCX is the only true open world Xeno game since XC3 sounds closer to XC1. Which is fine!
I would say not open world but large "open" areas/zones.
The people who were asking you about openworld mean that, XB3 is not a streamed openworld in the same sense as BOTW or Xenoblade Chronicles X.
Oh rip. I thought it was a X idea remake so an open world. Fall damage should tell me I was wrong.
Can confirm files did get leaked and have played through some of chapter 1 and 2 myself over the last few days, thankfully for those trying to avoid spoilers, there's nothing xc1 seventh party member levels of spoilers in this short time I have played but suggest that those of you who don't want to be spoiled to still be wary since people may be further than I am rn
So far it seems everything is an improvement in this game. Combat, Character Customization, No Gacha, Character Designs, Graphics, and Music. Can't fucking wait!
While it's not necessary, something about doing laundry makes me want to do it
I always had the same impression of Keves vs. Agnus arts, for the same reasons. Glad to see someone who has played confirm as much, especially since you seem to have a firm grasp on combat in this series.
9:03 Thank you for answering this question about the auto attack combo system! I did not like that feature in XC2, it made me focus on counting my auto attacks instead of enjoying the combat. So I'm glad that it is not returning, along with stutter stepping being gone.
I never hated the quick time events, but I agree, I'm glad that they are gone to focus on other aspects of combat more. I laughed at the cleaning your clothes description, such and odd and trivial feature. I subscribed to get more info from this channel once the embargo lifts.
Torna I think didn’t have auto attack progression either, and it generally just sped up the combat.
@@TheShanicpower Torna definitely had auto attack progression.
19:10 c'mon you know you wanted to say "Agnussy" 😂
The official term is Agnean actually.
The only question I want to know is how much did your gaming chair cost and is it good? what brand is it? lol
Well past Reyn time...? B-but, it's always Reyn time...
Except in Smash, it’s always Reyn time
Do arts level up at all? I just realized that I have not seen anything about AP (Arts Points) or leveling up arts. You get Exp, CP (Class Points), and Gold from fighting. You get SP (Skill Points) from quests. And you get Exp from discovering landmarks, but I have not seen anything about AP.
It's because the newer generation or maybe just some people who have not been gaming that long are using certain terms and correctly when some people think of open world they're probably thinking of like wow where for the most part is just one massive map and you can walk across the entire map when open world just means you're not pretty much going down a hallway like you pretty much only have one direction you can go in or people think of like Skyrim is open world where you can literally traverse the entire overworld with no load screens outside of towns so it's just the way people are using the word. But I feel like anybody who's played enough JRPGs definitely understand the difference between when a game is open world and when it's not. It's kind of like I feel like the term for MMO is being misused and now even by companies because some of these games that are considered MMOs are more like multiplayer online games to me and not necessarily MMOs. I've accepted that the lingo for gaming is shifting through the decades but it's annoying when you're trying to talk to somebody in both of you have a very different meaning for a single word It's kind of like pay to win also people throw that around just because there's microtransactions or if you could buy an experience potion it's paid to win and I feel like people don't really understand what pay to win really is
Hype!
Thanks for the review and Q&R session 🎮🤝🏾😃
10:00 God I remember in XBC2 right after the water tower fight against Morag, I could NOT find where to go after the campfire scene, and I got the game a day early so there were no guides. I couldn't find my way to that nopon ship for probably three hours, just trying to find a way up that damn titan
I got lost CONSTANTLY in XC2 and it got super irritating. Even though I enjoyed the game, I ended up skipping a lot of sidequests because it was just too frustrating to find what I was looking for.
I appreciate Xenoblade 2 trying to make the world design more challenging, but it just didn't translate well from paper. Gormot for example is just a nightmare to traverse, you see where your supposed to go, you skip travel near there, but because the entirety of gormot is a giant 3D maze, it's almost always a bad idea to skip travel to then earest point, you have to skip travel to some other point and go this weird abstract route climbing roots and dropping down here before you reach your destination and you almost always have to reference TH-cam tutorials. Many maps were like this and paired with field skill checks that you either just can't do or have to re-arrange blades to do makes it, not fun sometimes.
I would sum up Xenoblade 2 as requiring constant internet connection, not because the game needs it, but because you need it to play the game. I literally can't imagine what it would be like if I wasn't looking practically everything up on youtube or google at almost every step and it was constantly annoying because sometimes I just wanted to lay on the bed and play Xenoblade 2 but I would inevitably very quickly reach point after point where I would either have to get up to go to my computer or pull out my phone too figure out how to progress.
Honestly great review but I want to address a issue I have with most reviewers and reviews of XBC3. You guys keep comparing 3 with 2 as if its the latest monolith game when XBC DE and torna exist. Compare the tutorials of those game with 3 , compare the resolution and performance of the game with those games.
XC not XBC...
@@andrexg.7559 boo hoo 🎻 🦀
@@andrexg.7559 exactly it's called XenoChronicles, not XenoBladeChronicles after all, ppl can sure be stupid...
@@andrexg.7559 I use XC but it's don't matter
The thing is, xcde looks worse than xc2. They didn't fix all the graphical issues with it. Xc2 still looks better than it since its still the first xc at its core. U definitely have a point with torna tho, but torna wasn't very complex or difficult to get into. Xc3 is more similar to xc2 than torna in terms of tutorial necessity, so it wouldn't do much comparing it to that.
Odd to hear there is no run button, as I'm pretty sure I saw a (possibly Japanese) clip where a "sprint" was mentioned.. I'll see if I can find out if I remember that incorrectly or not.
th-cam.com/video/8Ufm2s0BGM0/w-d-xo.html Here it is!
Although the change in speed isn't super noticeable, you do sometimes see the distance to the party increase for a sec..
Looks more like Quick step gems or something like that.
@@created3612 It's hard to tell but I feel like there's a speed increase during the running though, instead of a comparison before/after setting a gem, but eh, I guess we'll see after it comes out. :)
There is a dash but you can only use it while targrting a distant enemy.
How does leveling arts even work? Kinda dumb if you can’t level them up tbh especially with cool down for keves and overall damage max output. Is there a transmography type of mechanic where you can change outfits even without using a certain class? Can you find new weapons like 1 and X or you’re stuck to a single weapon of whatever class you’re using like 2?
You can change outfits without changing into the class. I believe the Japanese website shows the interface for this.
i think arts upgrade automatically from level ups if im not mistaken
Are we getting or are they re-releasing special edition again?
Nice! I was waiting for this one.
Good video and definitely looking forward to this in 2 (?) weeks!
So for hero classes we know that one character will obtain the class when you first recieve the hero and then you have to build affinity or something like that for the others to obtain the class. But is it possible to give the other teammates the class through having the member who already obtained it use it for a period of time or do you absolutely need the hero in your party for the others to obtain it.
You absolutely need the Hero active in the party for the other heroes to increase their affinity with the hero to unlock their class.
What I'm really hoping for is that I can get away with one tank because I already have a party set up in mind I want one tank one melee DPS paired with him arranged DPS who's similar to an archer with someone who is similar to a mage which will be pretty much the two main characters, I also want two healers one focused on healing one focused on healing and party support with buffs and stuff and then the hero character pretty much has another DPS so we can have four DPS or I'll just make both tanks won a resistance tank one and an evasion tank and just the main characters and the hero as the DPS I don't know but that's how I want my party set up and I'm kind of hoping if I want to do the whole pair of the melee DPS with the tank setup that I can get away with only having one tank
One of my issues with XC2 was the combat audio. With 3 characters and 3 blades + Gramps and all of your enemies saying random battle lines constantly, the audio during battle was often a complete mess. Does XC3 have the same issue?
ik its to late to ask questions but please does the hearts to hearts work
Looks wierd when grass disappear near the okayer when moving around
Thanks bro
Does the collection orbs/points act more like xenoblade 1, where you walk to it and the items you get are random or more like xenoblade 2 where you need to grab them but gives you an specific set of items? or is it a mixture of both?
From the gameplay previews it acts more like the orbs from 1. The only difference seems to be that they are modeled after the type of material you’ll be picking up.
I really didn't like the Affinity Chart in XB2, so I hope that is gone entirely, as well as pouch items.
Question here, if/when you can answer! One of my biggest complaints in regards to XB2 was how the minimap was fixed north and could not, would not rotate. Is this same issue present in XB3, or does this minimap have the option of rotation? I sincerely hope it does...
Minimap can rotate in xb3
@@질풍신뢰-s1p YEEEEHAW! To quote Krillin, ‘just went from a 9 to a 10!’
@@AetherLocke Eh, it’s like using inverted camera control: some people are more comfortable with it. Me, I like to orient myself, so that my ‘destination’ is north for me on the map.
Why in the world would you not want it fixed north? Botw had the mini map not fixed north by default and was very disorienting. I was fighting a swiveling compass for an embarrassingly long 15-ish hours during my first playthrough before i finally noticed why I was having such a hard time going north. I couldn't see the castle from where I was. Once I set it north, traveling to any marker I had set became a lot easier after that.
Am I able to assign AI behavior? Like prioritize party healing for medics, prioritize getting agro for tanks etc??
Yes with the tactics button
Stutter stepping wasn't patched because it was literally part of the battle system. It wasn't a mistake that needed to be removed. And it was so easily discoverable its baffling way too many people had zero idea you could do that.
Stutter stepping wasn't a part of the system, it was an exploit.
I would argue that it may not have been originally intended, since there were no tutorials even hinting about it. However, given that it became such a mainstay of the combat system by the fans, they may have just chosen to not patch it out.
Having done a very little amount of coding myself, I think a likely reason that they never patched it out is because...
1. It's not game-breaking enough to where it _needed_ to be fixed
2. It likely would've been very annoying to code, potentially having to rewrite a majority of the code for how characters attack (this one combined with the 1st seem the most likely to me)
3. They didn't notice, somehow, despite how widespread the knowledge became. For example, the pity blades for Column 5 (or Seed 5) were never patched despite it being pretty common knowledge among the more serious community, similar to stutter stepping
@@AzureRoxe Exploit or not, It was never patched, so you could say even monolith was okay with people using it, it doesnt really break the game, nor the pace of combat, id say it improves it lol having it xenoblade 3 would of been nice but I guess it caused more issues combat wise in xc3 in comparison to 2
I hope playing healer in this game can sort of feed my urge to play healers in mmo or multiplayer games.
Only reason I don't play them is because I don't have time to invest into a live service game, or most good ones required a subscription fee.
In that case, I'd recommend FFXIV's free trial if you haven't tried it yet!
There's no playtime limit, and it allows you to play all the way to the 1st expansion's end.
Great way to step your toes into the MMO scene without shelling out money as a prerequisite 👌
Xc1 will definitely give you that if you play as Sharla.
@@danielstuckwisch9343 yeah let me cool off while my party dies
@@user-li8sr9zo9l you asked....
Elder Scrolls Online doesnt require fees, its a one time buy and then you can choose to buy the expansions. Once you hit Level 10 you can do daily dungeons which is short multiplayer areas that you can complete in less than an hour.
I dont know if this is a question that can be answered or not but what im wondering is that are monsters spawns and items shown in game in a book like other RPG's or would I have to be constantly looking at a wiki for locations.
During overworld exploration, levels show up on top of enemies when you get nearby without targeting them. Can this be disabled?
Lylat wars on N64 is great.
Finally, someone is paying attention!
“Are the healers actually fun to play?”
I know they didn’t just slander Nia, Fiora, and Ahkos like that. Even Morag and Zeke were good at healing.
Do tell me more (evil voice)- johnnn
Surprised no one asked about some of the bigger cities or colonies like 1 and 2 had or if there’s only those tiny base camps in the beginning. And if you saw any possibilities of other vehicles besides the boat
I'll tell you right now those are both questions that can't be answered because of preview embargos. They're only allowed to talk about up to chapter 1/the first area right now.
Do I have to use the Shulk amiibo more then once?
As in if I turn the off the game after saving I lose the Monado when I turn it back on and I have to reuse the Shulk amiibo to get it back.
So since noone is talking about it.. is the fishing from the 2nd just gone?
what's with the grass disappearing as you move, looks so strange
It's definitely weird, considering they fixed it in footage from a couple months back.
at least it only occurs when the camera is close to the ground
@@ArceusDX And some previews have it in their footage and others don't. I think it's a bug? There's no consistent cause I can identify as camera position doesn't seem to trigger it consistently.
@@monolith_hard8505 Nope, ive seen footage with a closer camera and the grass didnt disappear. It was one of the Japanese gameplay clips.
didn't know gun jesus was in to xenoblade
Revolver Jesus
the only thing i want is for a character to say "my external appearance is down 90% i need to be cleaned with fire"
Damn it really sucks to hear that about the audio mixing. It's really disappointed me. The first Xenoblade had perfect audio mixing so no idea what has happened since then 🙁
Is it really really bad? The previews gave me the impression that they got the audio mixing right this time but I guess not.
X's mixing was pretty good too for most parts, till it randomly took a dump here and there.
I only have one make or break question, is there ANY gacha mechanics?
There's none. Other reviewers have confirmed it. You can also infer that based on the fact that blades aren't a thing here.
They learned from the amazing idiocy that was the Blades.
I feel like Keves Arts would be outclassed by Agnus Arts, especially if XC3 has haste and/or double-attack gems/accessories buffs.
Well, considering each character is forced to use 3 Agnes and 3 Keves arts, even if they do end up a little unbalanced, i think its okay
@@kylerqaz22 you only get your second master arts at level 30 so there's a massive stretch where it doesn't even out
Wouldn't monolith also put accessories that help Keeves classes lol, do you think they are that dumb?
@@kirbinato5201 probably because you'll be starting to control ouroborus by then and obtaining out of party classes, their (master) arts, and then start getting access to fusion arts. Its a typical rule to make you gain more experience for the last move - its usually one of the more powerful moves, if not the character's best move they can learn after all. Depending on how fast you can grasp the battle system, leveling up and gaining CP (Class Points) shouldn't be too hard.
Are there towns and cities like Xeno1/2?
I haven't watched the video whole, cuz I want to avoid knowing more than I already do, can you leave any of the main cast on the bench? Like not using any of them if you don't want to?.
Awesome
Is the grass disappearing as you walk? That looks kinda weird @5:40
Yeah, I think it was done for better performance. On certain camera heights it's not noticable.
Wait, you said there was no running in the overworld, but didn't they showed sprinting in one of their tweets??
I have a question, can I have your copy? 🙏🏻👀
Does defeating unique monsters put down a tomb stone like xeno 2 so you know you defeated it before?
Yeah, that was confirmed in Twitter updates shared by Monolith, so rest assured, that feature we all love will be back 👍
We see XC2 unique monster tomb on trailer.
I really hope that the quick move is actually on the left stick and not the right stick, that seems a bit awkward if it was
i think its on the right stick so that you can use the left stick to direct where you want the dodge to go. Using the left for clicking and directing at the same time would be really awkward
@@dreg9124 Not that bad honestly, most games have you initiate a dash with the left stick while moving that direction, such as XCX
Higher difficulty modes should reward the player with better items quality and quantity and more rare drop chances.
Is there any auto battle like XC2?
Can you play as a solo character?
Does anyone know if you can turn off the constant talking of party members in fights? TY
Yeah you can
Is there any fanservice?
When does the review embargo end? :0
probably around 3 or 4 days before launch
The night before release day is most embargo restrictions.
If your really lucky a week before
Oh man im so disappointed to hear that it still drops resolution when too much is going on, that was a huge bummer in XC2.
Can you control the hero characters?
why does the grass disappear wherever the characters go? Its like th eopposite of what games do. THey are removing assets from under player's feet. It looks so so so odd.
YES M8 Xenoblade chronicles X so ahead of its time it has a run button and Xenoblade 1-3 don't LOL talk about de-evolution in gaming.
How is the battle gameplay? It looks at first glance it takes notes from the first game which I’m not an fan of. I prefer the gameplay of Xenoblade 2.
I really don't like how those grass disappear way ahead of the characters, idono looks so wired to look at, just nitpicking, I know this game is a day one buy for me
It's actually something I'm curious about because in that part, the official Xenoblade JP account showed footage in that same area where they switched characters. In THAT footage, the grass was disappearing just like it was here.
Later on, Nintendo of Europe posted footage in that SAME area to also demonstrate character switching. Strangely enough, in THEIR footage, the grass didn't disappear like that despite capturing similar footage.
I wonder if maybe the camera angle effects that?
@@TheFrostedfirefly It's all camera... If camera is too close to the ground the grass goes transparent for visibility. If you play the game with the camera a bit far away from the characters, It won't dissappear like that.
The most important question is..... IS THE GACHA SYSTEM BACK?
I wonder if we get a hero, then the hero dies but we kee0 the class
20:12 lmaooo expected it tbh
My question is when i can pre order the collectors edition
I wonder if dirty clothes lets your characters gain affinity slower, perhaps.. But eh, maybe it's just a lesson that self-care is important 😝
Within the preview period you cant level down. That means it unlocks in the future wooohooo. Othereise, he would not feel the need to say in the preview period
It means either it's a NG+ feature which would also confirm NG+ on launch unlike 2, or it is unlocked after chapter 1 and thus they aren't allowed to talk about it. I'm happy it's in but I do hope it's available during the main campaign
I want to literally level down everyone by 5 levels on hard mode so that all unique monsters feel very strategic and challenging. I hope they at least balance hard mode to a point where with zero bonus camp levelling, similar level of challenge happens. Hope it is not ng+ either. This is a very simple feature who enhanves the game. Even if it is not in the game, hope hard mode makes up for it. I wont level on camp sites at all and do all sidequests. Hope I dont get over levelled :D
THANK GOD. NO FIELD SKILL BULLSHIT!
That was really annoying smh
He said there are no field skills "in the preview area" (which at the beginning of the video he explained didn't imply anything about content after Chapter 1). That being said, it doesn't appear that there's anything comparable with XC2's field skills. It appears that there *are* field skills (probably learned from Heroes; for example the rail-grinding thing from Juniper), but it won't be the sort of thing where you have to micromanage your party to get the right number of points like in XC2.
This is a tiny one, and i'm not sure if it's something that can be mentioned: Do you get any bonusses for playing the other games on Switch?
DE gave you a cash bonus for playing 2, so i was wondering if you also got something for playing DE and 2 in this game...
He awnsered this in the video he said if there was any bonus he didn't notice it
He literally answered this in the video. At least WATCH the dang thing before asking something.
@@AzureRoxe Well, that's me dumb for forgetting... My bad!
Noah makes me doubt myself...
I wonder if the game let change the character's outfits like X1
It was confirmed in the direct, but not to the extent of 1. The outfits only change the clothes from other classes.
It's not as open world as Xenoblade chronicles X
Thnxs so much to be honest I dont like chapters beacuse if is NOT chapters more exiting if is it NOT like nr 1 in the series but maybe a good thing for many people but not for me but anyways this game goona be good maybe the best wee see.
Bro, do you even barrel roll?
All day every day. Can't stop. Send help.
Can you tell us when the embargo ends?
"kevussy"
Does Noha wield a monado replica like shulk?
I mean, it's blatant that Noah's weapon is Monado-like. Even one of the artworks for the pass shows Shulk's replica Monado, Rex's Aegis sword in Pyra's form and Noah's sword together.
@@AzureRoxe yeah, but what exactly is Noah's weapon?
Is there any actual player-driven role-playing in this game or is it all passive cut-scene storytelling? I remember the first game had those affinity discussions or whatever, and I feel like X might have allowed you to select your character's lines (although they probably didn't really affect anything). 2 and its expansion I never played and probably never will, but I'm slightly curious about this one, just hoping it might allow you to at the very least make some decisions... Probably won't, I have a feeling even 1 had a big set-up for what felt like a choice that changes the direction of the narrative only for Shulk to make the choice without even stopping lol.
JRPGs are most definitely focused more on defined stories rather than player driven roleplaying like western RPG's are. If it's anything like 1 & 2 it's going to be the former
X actually did have moments where your decisions had big impacts. You could affect whether characters live or die, and you could *totally fuck up* the Orphean species by using senirapa water unwisely.
1 had some side quests where a character would die if you made the wrong decision, but 2 had almost nothing like that.
This is not an immersive sim.
Well it's a Japanese role playing game. They focus more on developing it's story/character driven stories.
If you want the roleplay you're looking for, you'll have better luck with western RPGs.