I think this retroactively makes me like the base game of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 less, because this blows it out of the water in almost every single way.
This feels like what 3 always should have been and while the base game has great moments, some of the best in the whole franchise, Future Redeemed feels like what the marketing would told us 3 would be.
The OST is better, the progression is better, the cast is better (though that's mostly due to Rex and Shulk coming back and being quite faithful to their initial representation), and it does the whole message and theming of 3 in about 1/4 the amount of time in a way I enjoyed more.
The expansion does suffer from weird pacing issues but at least there's not a map-wide fetch quest right before the final dungeon!
This feels like what 3 always should have been and while the base game has great moments, some of the best in the whole franchise, Future Redeemed feels like what the marketing would told us 3 would be.
The OST is better, the progression is better, the cast is better (though that's mostly due to Rex and Shulk coming back and being quite faithful to their initial representation), and it does the whole message and theming of 3 in about 1/4 the amount of time in a way I enjoyed more.
The expansion does suffer from weird pacing issues but at least there's not a map-wide fetch quest right before the final dungeon!