Nautilus
Banned
Ok, so I just finished it, and I have to say its a fantastic game.
However, I feel confident saying that its the weaker of the three, if only because of the story(because combat-wise, its probably the best)
If I had to rank them with scores, I would say XC 2 is a 10, XC 1 is a 9.9, while XC 3 is closer to a 9.3.
So lets start with the positives:
- The combat is fantastic. I would say the game needed to be harder(I played on hard), because most of the time after 50% through the game, I was blowing past most enemies, especially the ones in the main story. But overall, it was really fun the class system. It made it so that you always had something to look forward to, so the combat and its progression was neer boring.
- The vistas/graphics were also phenominal. While they lacked a big WOW moment that XC 1 and XC 2 had with its titans, it was stronger overall.
- Honestly, everything was exce;llent, even the story that I am about to criticize.
So the negative would lie with the story. But let me start by saying that the story is very good. It was VERY clear that the focus was on the charachters. XC 1 and XC 2 always had strong charachters and the story uilt them perfectly when they wanted to, but it was clear on those games that the split between plot and carachter dram was 60/40(so plot being more important). While in XC 3 the carachters and their dramas are WAY more important, like its 70% of the story focus.
And while normally that wouldn't be an issue, its a problem here because the plot doesn't quite delivers. I have left... somewhat dissapointed once the game ended. Why?There were sooooo many questions left unanswered. What are the motes of light that comes off... everything(people, things the mud puppetss)? The game keeps contantly teasing the player about its importance, but the game never... says anything. Not concrete. You cant theorize that the motes of light are information that turn into light, which feeds back into Origin, but nothing is ever said. Same with Riku. Who REALLY is he? Again, the game teases you like 3 times about who he really is, and the best you get is a wink between him and Melia, possibly hinting that he is maybe Riki? But again, nothing remotely concrete. Same with Noah, Mio, N and M. Who are they? Why did they split up(the game says that they split up because N became the regret embodiment and Noah the hope embodiment(same for Mio) of their own person, but that's crap ,as even the game doesn;t quite settle on that)? Is there a bigger connection as to why Noah in particular has the Sword of the End, and why he could better stand Z's control? There are those and so many more smaller question(as where is the rest of XC 1 and XC2 cast? Poppi was fucking hiding in the Cloudkeep. Why did she, Nia and Melia appear in Aionios, and not the rest?And if they are anywhere, where are they? Inside Origin, but they weren't spawned? Or somehow outside of Ainious, where time is frozen? But then the game kind of tells you that at that moment, everything was cancelled by the universes colliding, and only Origin and it "simulation"(Aionios) is what existed)
So as you can see, there were too many questions unanswered, or that were answered poorly. And what's more infuriating is that probably a lot of those questions will be answered in the DLC. So in that scenario, they left key plot details outside of the main game to sell you the expansion, and that fucking sucks.
And even then, some of the revelations were underwhelming. Moebious is just... emotions? The negative emotions of people, like fear of the unknown, that took hold of Origin? Really? Maybe it was my fault, but considering this was the 3 game, I was expecting the game to connect all games far more, and to have more awesome twists, like the one at the end of XC 2. I was even expecting Z to actually be Zanza somehow, as all Moebious had a letter that came from their original names. But no, he is just an emotion that took form. Ugh.
Again, the story was still good(especially how well they kept the mysteries), and the carachter and their interactions ARE the best from the Xeno games bar none. But damn, the plot did dissapoint, mostly by not answering the own questions it made. And by the villains being just emotions. Still salty about that.
But yeah, rants over.
And yeah, Rex just owns. He has THREE WIFES!!!rEX FOR THE WIN
However, I feel confident saying that its the weaker of the three, if only because of the story(because combat-wise, its probably the best)
If I had to rank them with scores, I would say XC 2 is a 10, XC 1 is a 9.9, while XC 3 is closer to a 9.3.
So lets start with the positives:
- The combat is fantastic. I would say the game needed to be harder(I played on hard), because most of the time after 50% through the game, I was blowing past most enemies, especially the ones in the main story. But overall, it was really fun the class system. It made it so that you always had something to look forward to, so the combat and its progression was neer boring.
- The vistas/graphics were also phenominal. While they lacked a big WOW moment that XC 1 and XC 2 had with its titans, it was stronger overall.
- Honestly, everything was exce;llent, even the story that I am about to criticize.
So the negative would lie with the story. But let me start by saying that the story is very good. It was VERY clear that the focus was on the charachters. XC 1 and XC 2 always had strong charachters and the story uilt them perfectly when they wanted to, but it was clear on those games that the split between plot and carachter dram was 60/40(so plot being more important). While in XC 3 the carachters and their dramas are WAY more important, like its 70% of the story focus.
And while normally that wouldn't be an issue, its a problem here because the plot doesn't quite delivers. I have left... somewhat dissapointed once the game ended. Why?There were sooooo many questions left unanswered. What are the motes of light that comes off... everything(people, things the mud puppetss)? The game keeps contantly teasing the player about its importance, but the game never... says anything. Not concrete. You cant theorize that the motes of light are information that turn into light, which feeds back into Origin, but nothing is ever said. Same with Riku. Who REALLY is he? Again, the game teases you like 3 times about who he really is, and the best you get is a wink between him and Melia, possibly hinting that he is maybe Riki? But again, nothing remotely concrete. Same with Noah, Mio, N and M. Who are they? Why did they split up(the game says that they split up because N became the regret embodiment and Noah the hope embodiment(same for Mio) of their own person, but that's crap ,as even the game doesn;t quite settle on that)? Is there a bigger connection as to why Noah in particular has the Sword of the End, and why he could better stand Z's control? There are those and so many more smaller question(as where is the rest of XC 1 and XC2 cast? Poppi was fucking hiding in the Cloudkeep. Why did she, Nia and Melia appear in Aionios, and not the rest?And if they are anywhere, where are they? Inside Origin, but they weren't spawned? Or somehow outside of Ainious, where time is frozen? But then the game kind of tells you that at that moment, everything was cancelled by the universes colliding, and only Origin and it "simulation"(Aionios) is what existed)
So as you can see, there were too many questions unanswered, or that were answered poorly. And what's more infuriating is that probably a lot of those questions will be answered in the DLC. So in that scenario, they left key plot details outside of the main game to sell you the expansion, and that fucking sucks.
And even then, some of the revelations were underwhelming. Moebious is just... emotions? The negative emotions of people, like fear of the unknown, that took hold of Origin? Really? Maybe it was my fault, but considering this was the 3 game, I was expecting the game to connect all games far more, and to have more awesome twists, like the one at the end of XC 2. I was even expecting Z to actually be Zanza somehow, as all Moebious had a letter that came from their original names. But no, he is just an emotion that took form. Ugh.
Again, the story was still good(especially how well they kept the mysteries), and the carachter and their interactions ARE the best from the Xeno games bar none. But damn, the plot did dissapoint, mostly by not answering the own questions it made. And by the villains being just emotions. Still salty about that.
But yeah, rants over.
And yeah, Rex just owns. He has THREE WIFES!!!rEX FOR THE WIN
