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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Switch RPG's Introduction Trailer Previews Game Mechanics, Characters

posted on by Adriana Hazra
Game launches on July 29

installment in the Xenoblade Chronicles role-playing game series, on Friday. The trailer features explanations of some of the game's mechanics and characters.

The main characters include Noah, Eunie, Lanz, Mio, Taion, and Sena. The world features large open areas, colonies with citizens, and rest spots. The game will also include auto-navigation and landmarks for warps.

In battle, players can use arts assigned to buttons, link arts for combos and chain attacks, and swap characters mid-fight. Party have a class that influences their attributes and how they battle. Classes include Swordfighter, Zephyr, Medic Gunner, Tactician, Heavy Guard, and Ogre. can change classes.

Characters can also fuse together to become creatures known as Ouroboros. Ouroboros have different forms depending on which of the two characters are in control. Additional characters called Heroes can the party as a seventh member. Heroes introduce additional classes and arts.

The game will get a paid DLC expansion that includes a new story scenario, outfits, quests, and battles, with new installments releasing intermittently through December 2023.

The game will Masatsugu Saitō, a hardcover art book, and a steel case.

Nintendo describes the game:

A vast world awaits in Xenoblade Chronicles 3, the next game in the acclaimed RPG series from developer MONOLITHSOFT. Players will step into the roles of protagonists Noah and Mio amid turmoil between the hostile nations of Keves and Agnus. Six characters hailing from those nations will take part in a grand tale with “life” as its central theme.

Nintendo launched in May 2020.

The Xenoblade Chronicles X "spiritual successor" shipped for the Wii U system in December 2015. Tetsuya Takahashi previously expressed a desire to port Xenoblade Chronicles X to the Switch.

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 shipped for the Switch in December 2017.

Source: Nintendo's YouTube channel via Gematsu


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