Imma be real with you chief no matter how good this was going to be there's not really much one can really do to salvage the fragmented and confused plot that is the base XB3 game so I'm glad that they kinda did their own thing here. I do think that a main selling point of the base game was its connection to the first two games, so I think putting most of that stuff in the DLC is a little lame. That being said, the plot and cast of characters were solid, the music goes hard, and they turned the whole thing into a mfin collectathon so that's pretty cool. Basically proves that a solid and satisfying xenoblade game can be made without it having to be 50+ hours.

is it kino? nah. But still solid enough and worth checking out if you already own the base game methinks