Xenoblade Chronicles 3 launch trailer
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has finally released worldwide on Switch, and a launch trailer has been shared to celebrate the game’s release, giving players another look at the game’s cast of characters and gameplay.
More information on the game and the trailer can be seen below:
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 receives Noah, Mio trailers
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Ahead of Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s imminent launch, Nintendo has put out a character trailer focusing on Noah.
As previously detailed, he’s an off-seer from Keves. Nintendo notes that “Noah’s fate is entwined with another whose aid will be instrumental in saving Aionios.”
Xenoblade devs want to keep the series “going as long as possible”
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We already heard from Monolith Soft’s Tetsuya Takahashi that Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is the “culmination” of the series and “summary for moving on to the next step”. However, on Nintendo’s side, producer and director Genki Yokota has stated that he wants to keep the series “going as long as possible”.
That comment came about in the final section of Nintendo’s official interview regarding Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Speaking about the future, Takahashi and Yokota said:
Xenoblade 3 devs thinking of making story DLC as big as Xenoblade 2’s Torna: The Golden Country
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Monolith Soft has teased the scope of the story DLC for Xenoblade Chronicles 3.
According to Nintendo’s Genki Yokota, “we are thinking of making its volume of content as large as Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna – The Golden Country.” He would later say in the same interview that the DLC “will be quite a high volume of content that will not let you down” when it comes to volume.
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Xenoblade 3 devs on the huge amount of content, total walkable area over five times larger than Xenoblade 2
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The developers of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 have weighed in on the huge amount of content that the RPG offers. Monolith Soft’s Tetsuya Takahashi and Koh Kojima, along with Nintendo’s Genki Yokota, weighed in on the topic.
Yokota said at one point that “the amount of content exceeds that of the first and second titles.” Additionally, Kojima mentioned that “the total walkable area in this game is over five times larger than in the second title.”
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 day one update out now (version 1.1.0), patch notes
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Ahead of its full release tomorrow, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has received a customary day one update, and we have some patch notes for it. This update seems fairly minor all things considered; it’s enabling Expansion Pass functionality, adding a new menu shortcut, and fixing a few smaller issues to make for a more comfortable experience.
Here are the full patch notes below.
Design for Xenoblade 3’s Noah was “a hellish process of trial and error”
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The team behind Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has spoken about the character designs in the game, which was apparently “a hellish process of trial and error.”
Monolith Soft’s Tetsuya Takahashi said in a recent interview that the characters were made taller and they were designed “to be not too flashy to match the tone of the story.” Coming up with the look for Noah in particular was no easy task.
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 tech analysis, including frame rate and resolution
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is just a few days away, and Digital Foundry has now come out with a technical analysis that tackles the game’s frame rate and resolution. We also get to hear more a number of aspects as well.
Here’s the full roundup of highlights:
Xenoblade 3 devs on the more serious story and reason for 10-year life span plot
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Nintendo and Monolith Soft have discussed the more serious story of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 and having the 10-year life span as a major plot point.
Monolith Soft senior director and chief creative officer Tetsuya Takahashi, the studio’s director and producer Koh Kojima, and Nintendo director and producer Genki Yokota weighed in. Kojima actually initially felt that Takakhashi ” was deliberately trying to remove the sense of ‘Xenoblade-ness’ of the series” because of how serious the world is and having a different design. However, through “trial and error”, the team “found a good balance” and captured the series’ essence.
Xenoblade 3 is the “culmination” of the series, “summary for moving on to the next step”
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Tetsuya Takahashi, senior director and chief creative officer at Monolith Soft, has said that Xenoblade Chronicles 3 marks the “culmination” of the series. However, rather than marking the end of the franchise, it’s instead a “summary for moving on to the next step”.
Takahashi shared that information as part of a newly-published interview, which also features director / producer Koh Kojima and Nintendo’s Genki Yokota. Here’s the relevant excerpt from that discussion:
