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100% Completion - Story cleared, all areas, locations, landmarks, containers, husks, skirmishes, Side Quests (Standard, Hero, Side Stories), Info Conversations, Collectipaedia entries, Affinity Chart entries, Unique Monsters, Soul Hacker Upgrades, Superboss Challenges, Gem Upgrades, Recipes, LVL 99, All classes maxed

This game is perfect, especially for people who have played the rest of the series (Xeno and Xenoblade Chronicles). Almost every system in the game works to create one of the most detailed worlds in a JRPG. Any praise that can be offered to its predecessors also applies here. It is perfect

Luckily for you, I'm not that articulate, so you're not getting an essay on how this improves and every single shortcoming of the previous game and how this is probably one of my favourite games on the Switch now. But what I will say is, I enjoyed this from beginning to end.

The characters and voice actors were great, the nopon were bearable, and the music, whilst not as memorable as the original, was just as lovely. The orchestral variations of the off seer flute music were rousing and reminded me of Joe Hishashi.

The locations were great, and true to video game stereotype. Green, sand, snow, technojunk.

The story and cutscenes, while daft, and often far too fucking long, were great and I was quite moved at times. I wasn't expecting this to be worse than two, but I wasn't expecting it to be better than the first game. I loved it so much more.

I'm gonna have to get the dlc.

Best game of all time
Man I just love this game, such a step up for the Xenoblade Franchise, this game helped me a lot to look up for myself and always moving forward, something about no longer repeating cyles and improving ourselves is something that this game teaches us a lot. Noah and Mio are such amazing characters from which I learned a lot from an introspective point of view, this game helped me to improve myself as a person. Thank you Tetsuya Takahashi, you made another masterpiece.

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I reserved a special place in my heart for xbc1, the story was phenomenal, the characters were all fun (I loved dunban), and the combat was nice, not too complex or hard to understand but it had some depth. Satorl march night is still one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard in a game.

And this game, is even better. The cast of characters having their own chemistry amongst their initial groups of three, soon forming into one unit, uncertainty at these people who were at first enemies, eventually being on the run they find the ability to work together albeit slowly.

Difficult battle after difficult battle would wear them down but they'd stand together, they'd bond in the free time they had growing closer together. Eventually beginning to understand beings that could live for more then 10 years. Slowly growing closer and closer.

Chapter 5 had me in a chokehold before it even came down to it's conclusion, I was 100% convinced that Sena and Lanz were gonna die, and it honestly almost pushed me to tears, but I refrained, and then the prison scene happened, and then the execution scene happened. I was just crying, I was so unbelievably sad, honestly more shocked then anything though.

The rest that came after was alright, it was definitely still good, but not as good as what came before it, xenoblade 3 with just one chapter alone defined why having an interactive experience with a game makes games art. You can build relationships with characters in movies, in books, hell you can even have some interactivity with say, table top games and choose your own adventures, but the sheer amount of freedom given by games, within the confines of it's engine. Can lead to such beautiful and telling moments like this.

I will never forget xenoblade 3, I will never forget how it made me feel. Another game has made me sadder, but it is still just as unforgettable.

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Game freak already released their best Pokemon game ever with Pokemon SV. Beating up pals and capturing humans is funny but its just a one time novelty in this otherwise blatantly unoriginal game. Game Freak has nothing to learn from Palworld, the higher ups just need to let the devs finish and fully realize their games.

Having not played breath of the wild, I have no comments about the claims that this game is similar.

But Tears of the kingdom in a vacuum is hands down my favourite open world game. At every corner, there's something to do. You walk 10 meters in one direction, and theres something you can scan, fight, build, transport. There is no other open world game that comes close to this level of content density with the exception of elden ring.

I am shocked they managed to pull of so much with so little, with the switch having the hardware that it does.

This game filled me with such wonder and whimsy and made me feel like I was inside adventuring in another world, which is all you can ask for from a zelda game.

Fixes almost every issues with the base game

AND HOLY SHIT NOTHING BEATS THIS EXPANSION ENDING

Fantastic story coupled with a phenomenal sound track and an interesting gameplay loop.

Every time I start the next game in the Dragon Quest series, I always wonder if it's gonna be like the last game or will it take a turn and be something different? I already wasn't familiar with the Dragon Quest series as a whole, but I would sometimes hear or see things about one of the games...this one is the one game I had listened (but not watched) a review from SomecallmeJohnny some time ago and I did so because I didn't think I'd ever really want to play the Dragon Quest series due to how archaic it seemed on the surface.

All that above is important to mention, because while the past games were great in their own right. DQ5 seems to be the turning point when the series goes to telling a much more compelling story while still focusing the importance of the adventure.

Being that I played the DS version, I found the graphics do look slightly better than DQ4. the world is much more vast, with all of it connecting quite well. This game seems to focus much more on dungeon set pieces over elaborate towns and castles. I really like how the continued moving the enemies seem to get more animated with each battle, and the character drawings seems to have found it's sheen here.

Speaking of sheen, so far I believe this game has the best collection of musical pieces I've heard in the series. As I played the past games, I felt the music was good, but I often felt I heard either the same song or tune in spots, while this one has a vast fitting soundtrack for each area and moment.

Something that hasn't changed too much is the game play. everything seems pretty much in order that the games have been doing...except this time it takes a "monster trainer" approach and let's you recruit monsters as your party members giving you plenty of choices of party building. Other than that, a lot of it is just normal Dragon Quest affair.

Where this game shines it's best is the story. I won't give anything away from it, other than to say that it tells an amazing story that as goofy as the series is, it tends to mix those moments and the story with no tonal whiplash. Serious parts are treated with a grounded tone and silly weird moments are used to not bog down the emotions too deeply. So far this is the best story in the series (from DQ1 to DQ4) and the best cast of character bar none. For the story alone it must be played and nothing I could say could even touch the magic being told in this game.

Now while I've given the game praise, can I think of any flaws? Yes. A small few.

- I don't know if it's just me, but I felt grinding was required for this game, due to recruiting monsters and party members coming and going, money and gear grind is at the forefront.

- The monsters have level caps to them, so rarely do they stay useful for too long at points.

- While the story was written well, the only way you'll learn about your party members once they join is the party talk command, if you don't frequent that you'll lose out on a lot of lore and the character most effected is your main character.

As you can see, I really couldn't find too much issue with this amazing game, and even the few I wrote felt like kinda personal nitpicks, but I really loved this game and it brought my opinion of the series much higher than before.