It took 3 games but the writers finally got over their fears and wrote an actual story! There's genuinely great character moments, development of the cast and even some conflict between Lan and co. I knew this game was beloved for many reasons but yeah, story is one of the biggest areas of improvement here.
There's also some great additions to the core gameplay formula that I'm excited to see come back in 4 and onward. The main one is obviously the Navi Customizer. It's like that abilities manager thing from Kid Icarus Uprising but with even more nuanced and complex stipulations. The system just has a lot of complexity in general and that makes it very fun to optimize.
My main frustrations are still the backtracking and filler that's been in place since the first game, and also the dungeon design really falls apart in the second half unfortunately. The bosses are also kind of hit or miss, why do so many of them camp in the rightmost lane for the entire fight?
Regardless this is easily the best game of the 1-3 trilogy and wraps things up very well narratively and mechanically. Banger final boss too btw
There's also some great additions to the core gameplay formula that I'm excited to see come back in 4 and onward. The main one is obviously the Navi Customizer. It's like that abilities manager thing from Kid Icarus Uprising but with even more nuanced and complex stipulations. The system just has a lot of complexity in general and that makes it very fun to optimize.
My main frustrations are still the backtracking and filler that's been in place since the first game, and also the dungeon design really falls apart in the second half unfortunately. The bosses are also kind of hit or miss, why do so many of them camp in the rightmost lane for the entire fight?
Regardless this is easily the best game of the 1-3 trilogy and wraps things up very well narratively and mechanically. Banger final boss too btw