Essentially, your time with Dustoff Z will be spent chasing the next upgrade collecting your coins and tokens in order to purchase the next best helicopter, or improve your shooters’ accuracy just one more time. Progressing through the game allows access to new shooters and new helicopters, too, each one allowing for better upgrades. As for your helicopter, you can upgrade its speed, armour, and the amount of ammo it can carry on board. For your teammates, each of whom comes equipped with a different firearm, you’ll be able to upgrade their accuracy, their rate of fire and their damage. Hopefully.Ĭollecting coins, cogs and tins of beans (?) by successfully completing missions, you’ll be able to upgrade your teammates and your aircraft. But as long as you can keep your chopper out of danger, all should be fine. You can’t aim where they’re shooting, though, so how successfully you take out hordes is more or less down to pot luck. You’ll fly left or right on a 2D plane, and holding down the right trigger will instruct your comrades to shoot at zombies as you go. Missions start out very easy, and you’re kitted out with a basic helicopter. Set out very much like a mobile game, this isn’t going to set your world on fire, but it’s an entertaining little timesink. Taking control of a helicopter, you’ll make your way through a series of straightforward objectives, shooting zombies, rescuing survivors and collecting supplies. And only you, your rag-tag crew of shooters, and your, uh, helicopter, can save the day. It’s the same old story: the world’s been overrun with zombies. You can finally also use your Nintendo Switch Joy-Cons with Steam now. Next: Liked Xenoblade Chronicles 3? Here are the best JRPGs on Nintendo Switch you can check out. Who knows? You may play this game first, and then go back and play others, just as I did after finishing Xenoblade 2. While the tutorials may get a bit annoying for seasoned players, they provide plenty of information and are easy to review later on from the system menu.Įven if you haven’t played a Xenoblade game before, Xenoblade 3 looks to be a very accommodating entry point into the series. A great entry point to the seriesĭespite being the third (technically, the fourth) Xenoblade game, Xenoblade Chronicles 3 does an excellent job of explaining both the story and its gameplay for newcomers. You can also read our detailed Xenoblade Chronicles 3 character guide to know more about the main characters. This time around though, you'll also be able to seamlessly switch between characters during battle sequences, which should mix up the gameplay quite a bit. Once again, you’ll be able to freely switch and play as any of the characters in your party while you're out in the field. Unlike in Xenoblade 2, this group of characters grew up together, and already know each other deeply. But so far, I like the group dynamic between Noah, Eunie and Lanz in the first few hours of the game. I haven't yet met the entire six-character party. Their costumes aren’t too flashy, and better match the story’s tone according to an interview (opens in new tab) with Nintendo. Just as in Xenoblade 2, Monolith Soft has once again picked Masatsugu Saito to design the characters for Xenoblade 3.įor this entry in the series, Saito decided to make the characters look more mature by making them taller. A large cast of fully playable charactersīesides its unique battle system and excellent storytelling, the Xenoblade series also shines a spotlight on its characters and their big personalities. This helps when coming up with a strategy during more difficult fights. The new target lines now make it much easier to know which enemies are attacking certain party members. Likewise, icons above enemies out in the field show you whether they’re normal, elite, unique or lucky monsters.īased on what I’ve played so far, exploration will likely be one of the main draws for me in Xenoblade 3, but the combat is just as engaging as ever. I’m also enjoying the addition of a star next to NPCs who have something new to say, as you don’t have to waste time talking to everyone you encounter. It’s also worth noting that you can zoom in all the way to play the game in first person if you’re looking for even more immersion. Instead, I preferred to take the long route, searching for secret areas, picking up collectibles and doing my best to engage low-level enemies while avoiding the more powerful ones. ![]() This time around, Monolith Soft has really outdone itself when it comes to making the world feel inhabited, as well as colossal in size.Įven though Xenoblade 3 shows you the shortest route to your quest objective, I rarely, if ever used that feature. While I’ve just scratched the surface of Xenoblade 3’s 80-100 hour story, the world of Aionios has already drawn me in.
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