Definitely the most polished of the Xenoblade games with improvements to basically everything. Story is more well written imo, battle is very improved with its new button layout and class system, and the world is diverse. Music is okay; that winner still goes to Xenoblade Chronicles X.

Knocking off a half star simply because travel time is a bit long, and never did like the disconnected feeling when damaging enemies by attacking the air without any visual feedback that you're hurting them.