A very special game that I will look very fondly in the next years to come, thus concludes my journey through the Xeno series in this wild Takahashi ride. Gameplay wise it is an absolute joy especially after the horrendous combat from 2, it feels perfectly balanced and fair on the difficulty, never felt it was too easy or too hard, enjoyable puzzles, quick and sweet enemy encounters, there is really nothing else to polish here besides the pacing which affected more the story than the gameplay. The music is stellar and perfect, there is really nothing more to say than that. About the story, the environment story telling and all the detail put into it, but it still has problems in the characters interactions, it never feels genuine or grounded at all, a lot of screen time for a lot of characters never felt deserved because they almost got no time to develop anything besides Shion which they did a fantastic job with showing how much a flawed protagonist can be. A very good example is chaos, that joined since the beginning of episode 1, did almost nothing or had any relevance until the finale, there was supposed to be 6 episodes, and it got cut to 3 so that explains a lot. It would have been fine if they only did focus on world building and way less on characters, empathy doesn't feel genuine even though it tries too, but maybe that's just a personal problem of mine to fail of seeing that empathy. Still, it managed to keep me hooked until the very end, especially considering the development hell it had, that is a thing to be praised for.