Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Yash K. Productions)

Xenoblade Chronicles 3, known in Japan as Xenoblade 3 (Japanese: ゼノブレイド3, Zenobureido Surī), is a role-playing video game published by Nintendo and developed by Monolith Soft for the Nintendo Switch.
==Gameplay==
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 reverts to the combat system used in the original Xenoblade Chronicles. Arts now recharge over time, but the "Driver Combo" mechanic from Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Break -> Topple -> Launch -> Smash) also makes a return, now known as "Status Combos". Similarly to Blade Specials, Talent Arts now charges up as you use Arts, and recharge more upon cancel attacks.
Chain Attacks function the same way they did in Xenoblade Chronicles: Once the Party Gauge is maxed out, a Chain Attack can commence. Using Arts of the same color and performing Status Combos will increase the chain count (MAX chain is x5), and Talent Arts are "wild cards".
When one segment of the Party Gauge is full, the player can perform a "Torch Pass", allowing another party member to use any of their arts (including Talent Arts).
New to Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is the ability to craft weapons. Additionally, once Reiya joins the party, Hazel can embed an ether crystal into an existing weapon to give it special properties.
==Synopsis==
===Main Story===
The events of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 take place 1200 years after the ending of the first game, in the new world created by Shulk, now known as "Atheos". Hazel's home village, Sorgfalt, is attacked by a rogue special forces unit from the Kingdom of Cliast. In the process, their leader, Charles, inadvertently kills Hazel's younger brother, Regus. In the aftermath, Hazel, as well as the Kleosian Mercenary captain, Leon, set out to find Charles and bring him to justice for his crimes. Over the course of their journey, they encounter new allies, including the Cekician Mercenary Captain, Anika, as well as the Tari'th princess Reiya.
===Episode Zero===
Episode Zero takes place twenty years before the events of the main story and follows Hazel's mother Galia as she goes on a quest to discover the truth of her true ancestry. This story features new and recurring characters, and has an improved combat system, akin to Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna - The Golden Country.
==The World of Atheos==
===Empire of Kleosius===
The country from which Hazel, Leon, and Mykhael come from. Kleosians value honor and glory above all else. The Kleosian capital is Gala Katelis, which rests on the former site of Colony 9, and its Emperor is Leonidas Kleaides II.
===Khaganate of Cekicia===
A peace-loving country neighboring Kleosius, currently ruled by their khatun for the past twenty years, Ayla. Cekicians deplore war and fighting unless it is absolutely necessary, and they do not care about the affairs of other countries. The Cekician capital is Sivrilit.
===Kingdom of Cliast===
A technologically advanced nation that has been at peace with the Kleosians for twenty years. This truce had ended after Charles' attack on Sorgfalt Village. The current ruling monarch is Wilhelm von Cliast.
===New Mechonis===
A nation founded by the last remaining members of the Machina race. They are led by Vanea, the daughter of Miqol. The Machina continues to worship Meyneth even after her demise 1200 years ago at the hands of Zanza.
==Characters (Main Story)==
===Playable===
*Hazel (Age 16) - The protagonist of Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Hazel is a young swordsmith from Sorgfalt Village in the Kleosian Empire. She becomes a Mercenary after her home is attacked.
**Full Name: Hazel Meyneth Karatasou
**Weapon: Metersaber
**Role: Attacker
**Talent Art: Secret Dance
**VA: Ai Maeda (JP), Cherami Leigh (EN)
*Leon (Age 23) - Hazel's childhood friend and the captain of the Kleosian Empire's Mercenary Guild.
**Full Name: Leonidas Kleaides III
**Weapon: Split Sword
**Role: Attacker/Tank
**Talent Art: Duel to the Death
**VA: Daisuke Namikawa (JP), Matt Mercer (EN)
*Anika (Age 28) - The captain of the Mercenary Guild in the Khaganate of Cekicia. She is the younger sister of the Cekician Khatun, Ayla.
**Full Name: Anika Hanim Cekicia
**Weapon: Chain Whip
**Role: Attacker/Healer
**Talent Art: Judgement
**VA: Marina Inoue (JP), Eden Riegel (EN)
*Mykhael (Age 48) - Leon's father and the former captain of the Kleosian Mercenary Guild. He now serves as a general in the Kleosian Imperial Army.
**Full Name: Mykhael Kleaides
**Weapon: Mega Edge
**Role: Evasion Tank
**Talent Art: Kleosian Buster
**VA: Jouji Nakata (JP), Jamieson Price (EN)
*Reiya (Age 39) - A member of the Tari'th and the princess of the Eternian Empire. The Tari'th age is at one-third the rate humans do, so people often mistake Reiya for a thirteen-year-old girl.
**Full Name: Reiya ziari Ven'gan ki'th Eternia
**Weapon: Ether Bow
**Role: Healer
**VA: Hitomi Ōwada (JP), Cassandra Lee Morris (EN)
*Charles (Age 32) - One of the primary antagonists of the main story, before joining the party in Chapter 6.
**Full Name: Charles von Kriegenburg
**Weapon: Gunblade
**Role: Attacker
**VA: Shunsuke Sakuya (JP), Liam O'Brien (EN)
===Supporting characters===
*Regus (Age 10) - Hazel's younger brother.
*Nidas (Age 54) - The Emperor of Kleosius, Leon's uncle, and Mykhael's older brother.
*Ayla (Age 32) - The khatun of the Khanate of Cekicia, and Anika's older sister.
*Ven'gan (Age 150) - The Emperor of the Eternian Empire.
*Jey'so (Age 74) - The Eternian Prince, Reiya's brother, and Emperor Ven'gan's son. He fought alongside Mykhael twenty years prior to the events of the main story.
*Vanea (Age ??) - The leader of the Machina, one of the last remaining races that lived during the time of Bionis and Mechonis.
==Characters (Episode Zero)==
===Playable===
*Galia (Age 16) - A thief and courtesan who also works as a tavern dancer in the Cekician capital of Sivrilit. Although Galia was adopted and raised by a Cekician family in her youth, both of her birth parents were Kleosian. In the Main Story, she is Hazel's mother.
**Weapon: Twin Daggers
**Talent Art: Extra-Special Dance
**VA: Ai Maeda (JP), Cherami Leigh (EN)
*Hana (Age 15) - Galia's adoptive sister who is also a dancer. She accompanies Galia after being freed by Mykhael.
**Full Name: Hana Baykara
**Weapon: Chain Whip
**Talent Art: Hakimiyet
**VA: Aoi Yuki (JP), Erica Mendez (EN)
*Mykhael (Age 28) - The captain of the Kleosian Mercenary Guild. He is the brother of the Kleosian Emperor, Leonidas Kleaides II.
**Full Name: Mykhael Kleaides
**Weapon: Ultra Edge
**Talent Art: Max Buster
**VA: Daisuke Namikawa (JP), Matt Mercer (EN)
*Bishop (Age 22) - Mykhael's apprentice. He is a skilled weapon maker as well. In the Main Story, he is Hazel's father.
**Full Name: Bishop Karatasas
**Weapon: Metersaber
**Talent Art: Blade Breaker
**VA: Daisuke Ono (JP), Chris Hackney (EN)
*Jey'so (Age 54) - The Eternian Prince, Reiya's brother, and Emperor Ven'gan's son. He is skilled with Ether.
**Full Name: Jey'so ziara Ven'gan ka'th Eternia
**Weapon: Ether Tome
**Talent Art: TBD
**VA: Masaya Onosaka (JP), Yuri Lowenthal (EN)
==Gallery==
===Main Story===
Hazel (XC3).png|Hazel.
Leon (XC3).png|Leon.
Anika.png|Anika.
Mykhael.png|Mykhael.
Reiya (Human Form).png|Reiya's human form.
Reiya (True Form).png|Reiya's Tari'th form.
Charlie (XC3).png|Charlie.
===Episode Zero===
Galia (XC3).png|Galia.
Mykhael (Young).png|A younger Mykhael.
Prince Jey'so.png|Prince Jey'so.
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