I really did not expect to get hit this hard by this game's story as I did, even though I felt the same way when I played Xenoblade 3 and should've expected this one to be the same.
This game takes all of the themes presented in the last two episodes and present them in an even stronger way, the feeling of loneliness, existentialism, religion, relationships, failure, longing for the past, etc, each of these themes unify and form such an amazing story, everything feels so real despite how fantastic and sci-fi the world may be, it's genuinely amazing.
And despite me being completely hypnotized by how good the story of this game is the gameplay is also pretty good, it's really fun, idk what happened in XSII where the gameplay wasn't fun at all excluding when you were in the E.S. which was pretty fun, but this game changes the whole gameplay but keeps the fun of the E.S. and also makes the normal gameplay fun too.
Definitely one of the best games I played period, it's up there with Xenoblade 3 and Future Redeemed if not better, but I can't truly bring myself to compare those games when all of them are in reality just amazing.