The game serves as a spiritual reboot of Supermassive’s previous horror flagship Until Dawn. However, the one that really stood out was The Quarry. This was a fantastic year for horror games, including Mortuary Assistant, Iron Lung, and Phasmaphobia. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 ties together all the themes of its predecessors and makes the trilogy an unforgettable experience. Watching each group learn what it’s like to leave war behind and use their talents to live lends enormous weight to all the side quests involved in freeing them. The story is centered around two nations in perpetual conflict, with each colony representing a different facet from black ops to engineering. The best part of the game is how narratively it tackles the horror of war from several different angles. This game introduces an inventive job system that is based around recruiting optional characters to join the party as a final member, and it’s probably the closest anyone has ever come to making something as diverse and fun as Final Fantasy VI. It can be a bit overwhelming at first, especially if this is your first time in the world, but if you just go along with it you’ll eventually be mastering multiple matrices at once. Mechanically, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 combines the best parts of the previous two games. It’s so big and well done that it’s almost impossible to describe in a single paragraph. From a narrative standpoint, the three Xenoblade games have crafted something that rivals Robert Jordan’s Wheel of Time in scope and magnitude. Once the worlds start to collide, things get epic in a hurry. Like its predecessor, players will have no idea that the games’ stories are connected until a fair way through the experience. Xenoblade Chronicles has supplanted Final Fantasy as the preeminent JRPG series, and the third game proves it. Screenshot from Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Xenoblade Chronicles 3 I’ve put more than 200 hours into this game, and I’m nowhere near done playing. However, simply beating the game is fairly easy and doesn’t feel like a consolation prize. The game’s difficulty ramps up dramatically in the fourth world, and only the very best will be able to complete all the challenges. Character customization is also top notch, including hijabs and gender neutral options. Extra kudos go to the game’s soundtrack, which foregoes the Tony Hawk Pro Skater route and keeps things low key with trip hop. The game also has this glorious anti-capitalist messaging that pairs well with the punk rock aesthetic. The playstyle is the same deceptively deep trick-based one that has always been in the series, but now it’s accompanying a stellar cast of characters and a series on whimsical locations that add up to a pretty decent story. The third game in the OlliOlli series turns a simple sidescrolling skateboard game into an epic quest to become an actual Skate God. I played OlliOlli World until I damaged the thumbstick on my controller, and I firmly plan on getting another just to keep playing it on the highest level. Screenshot of OlliOlli World OlliOlli World
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