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Xenoblade Chronicles 3
File:Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Official Artwork.jpg
Developer(s)Monolith Soft
Publisher(s)Nintendo
Artist(s)
  • Masatsugu Saito
  • Koichi Mugitani
Composer(s)
Series
Platform(s)Nintendo Switch
ReleaseJuly 29, 2022
Genre(s)Action role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Xenoblade Chronicles 3[a] is an upcoming action role-playing game developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch. It is a part of the Xenoblade Chronicles series, itself a part of the larger Xeno series, and is scheduled for release on July 29, 2022. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 depicts the respective futures of the worlds featured in Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2.

Gameplay

Like its predecessors, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is an action role-playing game with a large open world to explore. Unlike previous Xenoblade series entries, which limited the number of active party members to three, the game allows for up to seven party members to participate in battles at once, including the main party of six and one of several different characters that appear over the course of the story. Party members will also gain the ability to change their character class, granting them access to different abilities. Under certain conditions, specific pairs of party members—Noah and Mio; Lanz and Sena; and Eunie and Taion—can utilize the new "Interlink system" to combine into an Ouroboros, a larger form with more powerful moves.[1]

Setting

Set after the events of Xenoblade Chronicles (2010) and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017), Xenoblade Chronicles 3 takes place in the world of Aionios, where the mechanically proficient nation of Keves and the ether-oriented nation of Agnus are at war with one another.[2] Among both forces are "off-seers", soldiers who play special flutes to mourn the passing of the dead. The game will feature two protagonists: Noah, an off-seer from Keves accompanied by his childhood friends Lanz and Eunie; and Mio, an off-seer from Agnus accompanied by fellow soldiers Taion and Sena.[3]

Development

According to Tetsuya Takahashi, creator of the Xenoblade Chronicles series, the key visual depicting the broken sword of the Mechonis from Xenoblade Chronicles (2010) and the wounded Titan of Uraya from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (2017) was first conceived between the end of development of Xenoblade Chronicles and the beginning of development of Xenoblade Chronicles 2.[4] In May 2018, Takahashi pitched Xenoblade Chronicles 3 as a new game concept to Nintendo. The first production group of Monolith Soft, known for their work on the Xenoblade Chronicles series, started development on the game in August 2018 after Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country went gold.[5]

Xenoblade Chronicles 3 was announced in February 2022, and was initially set for release in September. It was later shifted to an earlier release date of July 29.[6] The game is described as featuring a narrative that will depict the respective futures for the worlds of the previous two entries.[7] Following the announcement, a blog post on the official Nintendo website revealed preliminary details about the game's development. Takahashi was confirmed to be working on the game in an executive director position, while various other returning staff members from previous Xenoblade Chronicles games were revealed to be reprising their duties, including the composing team behind the first two entries and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 lead character designer Masatsugu Saito, returning to work on the game's art alongside Xenosaga and Xenoblade Chronicles artist Koichi Mugitani.[4]

As with previous numbered games in the series, the game's soundtrack was written by Yasunori Mitsuda, Manami Kiyota, ACE (Tomori Kudo and Hiroyo "CHiCO" Yamanaka), and Kenji Hiramatsu. They are joined by Mariam Abounnasr, who arranged tracks for Xenoblade Chronicles 2.[4][8]

Notes

  1. ^ Known in Japan as Xenoblade 3 (Japanese: ゼノブレイド3, Hepburn: Zenobureido Surī)

References

  1. ^ LeBlanc, Wesley (April 19, 2022). "Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Release Date Moved Up From September To July". Retrieved April 20, 2022.
  2. ^ Lada, Jenny (10 February 2022). "Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Characters Designed by Masatsugu Saito". SiliconEra.
  3. ^ Stenbuck, Kite (10 February 2022). "Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Characters and Japanese Cast Revealed". SiliconEra.
  4. ^ a b c "An introduction to Xenoblade Chronicles 3 from Executive Director Tetsuya Takahashi". Nintendo. Retrieved 2022-02-10.
  5. ^ Giuseppe Nelva (20 May 2020). "Xenoblade Chronicles Developer Monolith Soft Teases a New Game in The Works". Twinfinite. Archived from the original on June 8, 2020. Retrieved June 8, 2020.
  6. ^ Romano, Sal (April 19, 2022). "Xenoblade Chronicles 3 launches July 29". Gematsu. Retrieved April 19, 2022.
  7. ^ Diaz, Ana (2022-02-09). "Xenoblade Chronicles 3 announced by Monolith Soft". Polygon. Retrieved 2022-02-09.
  8. ^ Mitsuda, Yasunori (2022-02-10). "Nintendo Direct". Our Millennium Fair (Mitsuda's Diary) (in Japanese). Retrieved 2022-03-16.

External links

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