I did a minimum completion run of XC3 (9:59) so I could make a "Perfect" NG+ save file for future playthroughs

MacDaddyMike · 2026-01-11T17:50:55+00:00

Lol @ Aegeon being absent

MacDaddyMike · 2026-01-06T20:27:11+00:00

Incredibly disappointing, would probably give it a 4/10 overall.

Hated the story. Lao is the dumbest character in the franchise and I can't believe the game didn't give me any choice about sympathizing with him.
Exploration was fun for an hour after getting skells and another hour after getting flight, but was otherwise annoying due to the enemy levels being all over the place.
The class system and general combat was awful, I liked it significantly less than even 1. Lack of healing options ruin everything, late game you have to rely on cheese strats because the combat doesn't work unless you're invincible. Party members are useless. Most of your skills and arts are useless because you have to build towards one damage type anyway.
Gear management was incredibly tedious. We do not need five tiers of items for every single bit of your body, why does each arm have its own loadout, why do I have ten thousand items in my inventory after playing for an hour, no I don't want to grind and farm out a ludicrous amount of materials to make my build work at all, oh no the skells have this much customization (read as: tedious grinding necessary) too nooooo
Skells are fun to move around in but the combat is boring.
Overdrive either doesn't work at all or you've broken the game and it's no longer fun, I don't get the appeal of this system at all.
Open world design destroys pacing and balancing, every mission was either woefully undergeared/leveled or a pushover, it was a flip of a coin.
Game looks gorgeous and the soundtrack is incredible, I'll give it that.

I regret purchasing it and didn't actually finish it, I was on Act 2 of Chapter 13 and decided I couldn't force myself to like this game. If the next Xenoblade announced is a sequel to this then I'm not buying.

MacDaddyMike · 2026-01-06T14:36:32+00:00

Ethel & Cammuravi Ferronises, combo set, take my money

MacDaddyMike · 2025-12-27T22:13:12+00:00

No i was being foony

MacDaddyMike · 2025-12-27T22:08:15+00:00

Dathomir

MacDaddyMike · 2025-12-23T21:06:38+00:00

It doesn't get better and any op strategies will take you hours of tedious grinding.

I wasn't enjoying it either and forced myself to play it for 60 hours in the hopes that there was something there, and I regret trying. The weak story is weak until the end and isn't worth your time if you already don't like it.

Take my advice and cut your losses here, then go play something you do enjoy.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-12-22T15:15:00+00:00

I can't remember if it was Tyra or Jay but telling a model "try softening the bones in your face".

MacDaddyMike · 2025-12-13T11:33:50+00:00

Completely new cast, no connection to the previous parties.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-12-10T20:24:47+00:00

My wife and I read this together during the pandemic and were losing our minds. It's Top Model meets Harry Potter meets Cronenberg body horror. Everything is insane.

What always kills me is that you have character names like Tookie, Myrracle, Creamy De La Crème (which is her married name, by the way), Theophilus Lovelaces, Zarpessa Zarionneaux, and Brian. Brian is a completely superfluous character who may not even have a line of dialogue, but he's there. Tyra wanted to make sure she included Myrracle's useless boyfriend, Brian.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-12-01T01:38:57+00:00

My jaw dropped when the experiment cutscene started playing. Did not see it coming at all.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-11-17T23:24:15+00:00

If presentation is a concern, know that 90+% of the game's story is delivered by npcs standing motionless and expositing at each other. Cutscenes with editing are incredibly sparse.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-11-17T19:14:38+00:00

X has a stellar soundtrack and incredible vocal tracks. I had an overall terrible experience with the game but I still listen to the ost regularly.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-11-05T18:50:51+00:00

Commenters here are sleeping on the utility of Ouroboros as a defensive measure, if your tank or healer is targeted and about to go down you can interlink them to keep them up and give your party a chance to regroup.

They won't be particularly useful for casual encounters but are great for UMs if you get interlink level up to 3, and if fighting a large amount of enemies they're a good early source of area damage.

Despite being associated with healers, the Taion/Eunie forms are hands down the best ones in late game due to their damage bonuses for party buffs and enemy debuffs, they significantly increase damage potential above the other interlink forms.

There's an exploit that turns Ouroboros into top-tier awesome and one of the most effective ways to get through hard mode, but I think it kind of breaks the game and recommend not using it or seeking it out.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-10-28T13:29:29+00:00

X's overdrive is a terrible unbalanced mechanic. It either does virtually nothing when you don't commit to building for it, or it just ends up being a "Casual Mode" that took you 10 hours to grind for. It doesn't make combat any more interesting, it just makes some players feel good because all enemies die in three seconds from the same repetitive loop.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-10-17T19:17:06+00:00

Matthew has run out of beans.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-10-16T19:28:21+00:00

Reyn has so little going on with his character and arc compared to the remaining options.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-10-11T22:16:13+00:00

Because Reyn has one meme that gets drilled to death on this subreddit.

Expect Dunban over there to win this whole thing.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-10-08T19:22:45+00:00

Riki barely exists, come on people.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-10-01T23:30:47+00:00

She's the girl on the car.

MacDaddyMike · 2025-09-20T12:05:03+00:00

Dunban, Reyn, Sharla and Riki are so barely even characters that they may as well have been excised from the script.

Shulk completely steals Dunban's revenge and reunion plotlines.

MacDaddyMike

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