"A game that doesn’t take on new challenges also has no future."

The message comes from the Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Limited Edition soundtrack

The soundtrack comes with a booklet that includes the message from Takahashi, but unlike the Trinity Box, the notes here are only included in Japanese.

“Rather than playing on defense, going on the offense; change rather than maintain. This is a stance that I have continued to hold for thirty years. If there is another “Xenoblade,” it will likely be something vastly different from what came before. In style and in music, I would like to make my next goal something that will betray everyone’s expectations, in a good way.”

As a huge fan of Xenoblade games, that really excite me. As much as I love these games, I want them to try something new. They were also working on that medieval fantasy game, I wonder what happened to that.

    • sdcSpade@kbin.social
      1·
      10 months ago

      I don’t think a remaster would cut it. The game clearly wanted to be an MMORPG and I think they’d have to go all in and actually remake it as one.

    • Kiosade@lemmy.caEnglish
      2·
      10 months ago

      I think an actual action rpg would be better at this point. XBC3 got really stale for me by chapter 5 when every tough enemy just turned into waiting to use that team attack, which killed pretty much everything. I initially liked the story and some of the side quests, but I quit early Ch 6 when the story was devolving into some weird KH levels of convoluted BS, and I saw that despite finishing a BUNCH of side quests by that point, there were a billion more waiting for me.

      • slimerancher@lemmy.worldOPMEnglish
        2·
        10 months ago

        Well, XC3 is one of my favourite game, and I loved every minute of it. But I agree that enemy encounters did take some time. Also, as I said above, I want them to try something new. It would be nice to see their take on action RPG.

        • Kiosade@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          10 months ago

          Oh wow are there mods like that now? Only ones they had back when I played were to make the framerate and graphics look better, pretty much.