yvannairie | The woes of enfranchisement

So, I finished Xenoblade 3: Future Reclaimed

What a confusing, incoherent note for this series to go out on.

Like I am generally a positive person, I tend to find things to like in everything I play, but somehow instead of fixing the weak ending of the main game, FR just created a second, equally weak ending, and didn't really give me anything to go on as far as the main game went.

Like... overall, this was just an excercise in paying off two games that I do not too too terribly care about in the context of the game I just played. I was not the target audience for this. This was not for someone who liked Xenoblade 3, this was for someone who was nostalgic for the first 2 games.

IDK. I thought I'd have something interesting to say, something to write a proper review around, some grand reveal to tie it all together and give this series coherence... and there was just nothing. I legitimately don't know what to say about any of the things I liked other than "they were good", and what I have to say about the things I hate I've already pretty much said. The story doesn't have a coherent emotional core, it doesn't... it just doesn't work. The arc of the drama doesn't work on its own, it's trying so hard to serve every possible player except the ones who played 3 and liked that one.

It's a sequel to two different games, but ironically not the one it's a DLC to. And also, it simply confuses the worldbuilding more, doesn't try to address the conflicts swiftly resolved at the end of the main game to give them more strength... IDK.

"What am I doing here?" I kept thinking while playing it.

I feel like for something this competent... the DLC can't have been this bad.