Review: 'Xenoblade Chronicles 3' is just spectacular

In 'Xenoblade Chronicles 3', your party of six grapples with the fact that they're tools of war, and each character sees the life of war from a unique perspective. — Nintendo of America/TNS

There’s a unique commentary behind Xenoblade Chronicles 3, and it grabs you from the very start. In the world of Aionios, soldiers are bred to be killed, and they live preset, finite lives. And when they do die, their deaths serve a purpose: Their souls power the machines driving the war on their respective sides.

Xenoblade lays all this out for you from the very start, setting the stage in full-on JRPG fashion, with a series of cutscenes. You see firsthand what the world is like, and you see how the entire lead party was bred for war, see them facing off against each other in a flashback scene. And you know all of this by the time you’re working through battles that you can actually control.