Xenoblade Chronicles 3

You can take this one on the go with you. As a Nintendo Switch exclusive, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is a portable, epic JRPG fantasy world you can get blissfully lost in.

Like Final Fantasy XVI, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 features a real-time combat system with party members who act on their own, letting you focus on combat with just a singular character at a time. Xenoblade Chronicles 3’s combat has more in common with traditional RPGs, however, where you’ll need to keep track of different styles, specific class roles for characters, and more status conditions than FFXVI involves. That said, the combat does expect you to lean into enemies until you get them to a staggered condition, so the pace and rhythm of the combat will feel quite similar to FFXVI’s.

Xenoblade Chronicles also features a narrative that will feel very resonant with FFXVI’s world and themes, just with some more sci-fi flavorings. Colonies are at war with one another, there’s a cosmic big bad, and a quest for liberation of people who are oppressed and exploited by more powerful forces.

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