While the story never quite hits in the way the first game did, Xenoblade 3 is arguably the best overall experience of the trilogy (poor X, maybe you’ll get a port one day). At worst, the two main protagonists are the blander members of the ensemble, but everyone is fairly entertaining in their own way. There’s no blatant dead weight or irritants. The battle system has also improved to become the one I’ve had the most fun with.

Villains have been a mixed bag for these games and 3 is no different. For the most part, Moebius are entertaining mustache twirlers with amazing boss themes whose motivations rarely go beyond amusing themselves. One of the main antagonists is well done but the actual big bad is lacking and his fight is excruciatingly long (Oh did you die? Enjoy doing it again for the next 20 minutes! No, you can’t skip all of the cutscenes.)