Board 8 > Rate the VG Story Day 499: Xenoblade Chronicles 3

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Todays game is Xenoblade Chronicles 3. How would you rate the story on a scale from 1-10?

You can still rate previous days games if you want or change your score, just post the name of the game and the score. If you want to know which games you have rated or what score you gave a game, just ask me. If you want to know what you rated a previous game just let me know. Nominations for future days are welcome.

Previous Results:
Clannad - 9.75 (4 votes)
Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers - 9.68 (11 votes)
System Shock 2 - 9.63 (4 votes)
Outer Wilds - 9.61 (22 votes)
Silent Hill 2 - 9.5 (20 votes)
Planescape: Torment - 9.5 (13 votes)
Higurashi When They Cry - 9.5 (9 votes)
Eternal Darkness: Sanitys Requiem 9.38 - (13 votes)
Final Fantasy XIV: Endwalker - 9.33 (10 votes)
Judgment - 9.29 (7 votes)
428: Shibuya Scramble - 9.27 (9 votes)
Nier Automata - 9.25 (31 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - 9.23 (21 votes)
The Forgotten City - 9.2 (4 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations - 9.19 (35 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel III - 9.17 (9 votes)
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West - 9.15 (10 votes)
Deus Ex - 9.14 (13 votes)
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 9.13 (15 votes)
The House in Fata Morgana - 9.06 (11 votes)
The Witcher III: Wild Hunt - 9.04 (8 votes)
Yakuza 0 - 9.03 (13 votes)
Red Dead Redemption 2 - 9 (8 votes)
System Shock - 8.98 (4 votes)
Umineko When They Cry - 8.97 (15 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - 8.95 (31 votes)
Steins;Gate - 8.94 (9 votes)
Lunar: Eternal Blue - 8.93 - (7 votes)
Mother 3 - 8.91 (15 votes)
Zero Escape: Virtues Last Reward - 8.89 (22 votes)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 8.85 (10 votes)
Silent Hill 4: The Room - 8.83 (6 votes)
Suikoden II - 8.75 (13 votes)
Nier - 8.75 (18 votes)
Omori - 8.75 (8 votes)
Grim Fandango - 8.75 (14 votes)
Final Fantasy XIV (overall) - 8.73 (12 votes)
Xenogears - 8.73 (24 votes)
Suikoden V - 8.7 (10 votes)
Metal Gear Solid - 8.68 (28 votes)
Final Fantasy Tactics - 8.67 (27 votes)
Shadow Hearts: Covenant - 8.67 (6 votes)
Persona 3 - 8.64 (23 votes)
Pyre - 8.64 (7 votes)
Final Fantasy XIV: Heavensward - 8.64 (11 votes)
Disco Elysium - 8.63 (18 votes)
Bastion - 8.63 (12 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 8.63 (32 votes)
AI: The Somnium Files - 8.59 (13 votes)
Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 8.58 (6 votes)
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together - 8.56 (8 votes)
Marvels Guardians of the Galaxy - 8.55 (4 votes)
Tales of Berseria - 8.54 (16 votes)
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - 8.53 (18 votes)
SOMA - 8.5 (6 votes)
Undertale - 8.49 (43 votes)
Persona 4 - 8.49 (33 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask - 8.48 (29 votes)
The Great Ace Attorney: Resolve - 8.48 (11 votes)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 8.47 (16 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - 8.47 (13 votes)
Portal 2 - 8.46 (20 votes)
Dragon Quest V - 8.44 (16 votes)
Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean - 8.44 (8 votes)
Mass Effect 2 - 8.44 (29 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Spirit of Justice - 8.42 (17 votes)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 8.39 (20 votes)
Shadow Hearts - 8.38 (8 votes)
Blasphemous - 8.38 (4 votes)
Shenmue II - 8.38 (4 votes)
Chrono Trigger - 8.37 (42 votes)
Fate/Stay Night - 8.37 (13 votes)
Terranigma - 8.36 (7 votes)
Snatcher - 8.33 (6 votes)
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - 8.31 (17 votes)
Final Fantasy X - 8.29 (57 votes)
Final Fantasy VII - 8.29 (39 votes)
South Park: The Stick of Truth - 8.25 (18 votes)
Dead Space - 8.25 (8 votes)
Resident Evil: Code Veronica - 8.25 (6 votes)
The Secret of Monkey Island - 8.25 (6 votes)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - 8.23 (6 votes)
Lunar: Silver Star Story - 8.22 (9 votes)
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - 8.2 (20 votes)
Parasite Eve - 8.19 (9 votes)
Dragon Quest XI - 8.19 (17 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - 8.19 (43 votes)
Persona 5 Strikers - 8.17 (9 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies - 8.15 (17 votes)
Wolfenstein: The New Order - 8.14 (7 votes)
Final Fantasy VI - 8.14 (44 votes)
The Last of Us - 8.13 (35 votes)
The Witcher - 8.13 (7 votes)
Tales From the Borderlands - 8.12 (7 votes)
Conkers Bad Fur Day - 8.11 (9 votes)
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals - 8.11 (9 votes)
The Walking Dead Season 1 - 8.11 (23 votes)
The Wolf Among Us - 8.11 (15 votes)
Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance - 8.11 (17 votes)
Hellblade: Senuas Sacrifice - 8.1 (5 votes)
Fallout: New Vegas - 8.07 (14 votes)
Horizon: Zero Dawn - 8.06 (18 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - 8.05 (19 votes)
Lost Judgment - 8.05 (4 votes)
Batman: The Telltale Series - 8 (6 votes)
Life is Strange - 7.98 (33 votes)
Fire Emblem: Three Houses - 7.98 (15 votes)
Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna: The Golden Country - 7.98 (5 votes)
Xenoblade Chronicles - 7.98 (28 votes)
Uncharted 4: A Thiefs End - 7.97 (16 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails of Cold Steel - 7.97 (15 votes)
Portal - 7.96 (27 votes)
Hades - 7.96 (22 votes)
Inscryption - 7.93 (10 votes)
God of War (2018) - 7.93 (14 votes)
Ace Attorney Investigations 2 - 7.92 (13 votes)
Persona 5 - 7.92 (27 votes)
Alan Wake - 7.91 (8 votes)
Spec Ops: The Line - 7.9 (17 votes)
Cyberpunk 2077 - 7.9 (7 votes)
Bloodborne - 7.88 (20 votes)
Kid Icarus: Uprising - 7.86 (13 votes)
Tsukihime - 7.81 (8 votes)
Night in the Woods - 7.8 (15 votes)
Silent Hill - 7.8 (15 votes)
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors - 7.77 (33 votes)
Deadly Premonition - 7.77 (11 votes)
Killer7 - 7.77 (11 votes)
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - 7.75 (14 votes)
Silent Hill 3 - 7.75 (8 votes)
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future - 7.75 (6 votes)
Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain - 7.75 (4 votes)
NEO: The World Ends With You - 7.75 (4 votes)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 7.75 (4 votes)
Mario & Luigi: Bowsers Inside Story - 7.73 (11 votes)
The Last of Us: Left Behind - 7.73 (11 votes)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor - 7.73 (11 votes)
Mega Man Zero - 7.71 (7 votes)
Kentucky Route Zero - 7.7 (10 votes)
Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia - 7.7 (6 votes)
The Sexy Brutale - 7.75 (6 votes)
Until Dawn - 7.68 (19 votes)
Vagrant Story - 7.67 (6 votes)
Final Fantasy IX - 7.66 (27 votes)
Skies of Arcadia - 7.63 (15 votes)
Paper Mario: The Origami King - 7.63 (6 votes)
Saints Row 2 - 7.63 (4 votes)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II - 7.63 (4 votes)
Radiant Historia - 7.62 (13 votes)
Celeste - 7.61 (27 votes)
Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver - 7.6 (5 votes)
Final Fantasy VII Remake - 7.58 (20 votes)
Ys IX: Monstrum Nox - 7.57 (6 votes)
Doki Doki Literature Club - 7.56 (29 votes)
Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake - 7.54 (12 votes)
Suikoden - 7.53 (16 votes)
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - 7.53 (32 votes)
Bioshock - 7.52 (25 votes)
Policenauts - 7.5 (5 votes)
Erica - 7.5 (4 votes)

9.5

Kept me intrigued throughout its 150 hour journey. Some of the most memorable side quests in a video game, a great cast of characters with so much character development, innovative and well executed lore and overall just an amazing story.

Looking to play this soon.

KamikazePotato posted...

Looking to play this soon.

Same. Almost snagged it for $40 on Gamefly yesterday

10

Objectively, there are some flaws here and I could speak about them. But this game and the themes in its story resonated with me emotionally in a way a game hasn't... pretty much ever. And that media in general has a number of times I can count on one hand. The way the story works thematically is close to flawless IMO and I love the cast to pieces.

7.5

Good cast and some excellent sidequests, but the villains suck, the ending was awful, and the game was a real thematic failure in general.

7.5 seems about right. The cast is good and the concept of the world is both interesting and very well fleshed out through the side quests, but the plot is extremely predictable with almost none of the series' hallmark twists. Definitely doesn't help that the game hits a climax several chapters before the ending and then does absolutely nothing of consequence with the remaining time.

3

has a couple moments but the overall plot is ultimately trash that crumples into dust by the end - as it pertains to the overarching XB franchise plot it's a major let down, but whatever it's got its own plot too right?.... except no because the Moebius are a complete and total joke existence that he game itself gives up on writing

even early doors was very lol though, I remember thinking "oh wow sure is convenient we got this lucky seven thing" and by the end well uhm yeah it is what it is

Nominate God of War: Ragnarok

They kiss at the end 10/10

9

7, getting carried by some specific scenes. Chapters 6 and 7 are just kinda meh. I might've given a higher score if they explained what Riku's deal is

7/10

very high highs but lots of lows too. namely the power rangers level villain nonsense

6/10

Easily the worst story in Xenoblade series

8/10 no plot bad battle system but amazing characters side quests and exploration

8.5/10. This achieves what the series has been building to, which is a vast story told through its world and side content not the main narrative. Fantastic characters also. There are some truly fantastic lead story beats too like the Chapter 5 ending for instance.