History VideoGame / XenobladeChronicles3

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** The Nopon lack their signature CatSmile, being replaced with a more generic mouth shape, although some of them will still do a CatSmile as part of their situational expressions.

* ConvertedIntoAWeapon: According to [[WordOfGod the artbook]], [[spoiler:some people from Alrest and Bionis manifested as objects in Aionios]]. One such item is [[SwordOfPlotAdvancement Lucky Seven]], which the art book claims is [[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1 Fiora]].

** Downplayed with the Collectopaedia, where a maximum of eight items can be requested on each card. These quests do not affect other quests in the game [[spoiler: (unless the requested material is "Colony Iota Goods")]].

** Downplayed with the Collectopaedia, where a maximum of eight items can be requested on each card. These quests do not affect other quests in the game.

* LegacyOfTheChosen: [[spoiler:The six heroes aren't the first to wield the Ouroboros powers, as the City has records of them going back over a thousand years, with the first ones having statues built of them in the City's Memorial Hall. The story of the Founders is the main focus of ''[[VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles3FutureRedeemed Future Redeemed]]''.

* HappyEndingOverride: ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'' ended with an optimistic outlook where "in this new world all life will walk towards the future, hand in hand." However, the world of Aionios which was created due to the worlds of Bionis and Alrest being fused features a [[WarIsHell war]] between the nations of Keves and Agnus. This war has warped the lives of both populations; every citizen is a short-lived incarnation who gets conscripted into a war they aren't expected to survive [[spoiler:and gets reborn back into the war after death]]. [[spoiler:Ultimately however, it's a [[DownplayedTrope downplayed]] example with the ending reverting the worlds back to how they were before Aionios was made over a thousand years ago and it being unclear just what impact Aionios ended up having on anyone]]. At least, until ''Future Redeemed'' reveals at the end that [[spoilers:the positive bonds formed between the people of both nations won out over their hatred, allowing the two to come together as one to restore planet Earth]].

* InEscapablePrisonEasilyEscaped: Li Garte Prison Camp is established to be extremely secure, with only one person having escaped in its history (and even then, at the cost of the lives of the rest of the group who tried to escape with her). However, when the heroes reach the prison it's clear that it only has a handful of guards who are too inept to notice the [[FlashyProtagonistsBlandExtras brightly colored protagonists]] sneak in amongst the ''actual'' prisoners. This, combined with the fact that prisoners are allowed to continue using their weapons in order to carry out their PrisonersWork means that it's incredibly easy for the protagonists and their allies to bust out when the time comes. [[spoiler:The only reason the prison break doesn't work out for Noah and the others is because [[TheMole Shania]] snitches about their escape plan.]]

In the world of Aionios, two nations are locked in a ForeverWar: Keves, a technological powerhouse brimming with combat vehicles and mobile weapons, and Agnus, a magic-based society specializing in ether technology and autonomous weapons. Both nations' human populations consist solely of DesignerBabies, "born" at the equivalent of age 10, raised to do nothing except fight the opposite side. Those slain in battle (provided they are killed by a Blade weapon) get their remaining LifeEnergy drained into the enemy colony's "Flame Clock," which sustains the lives of its troops. The few lucky enough to live for ten years -- the end of their lifespan -- get the honor of getting a proper send-off by the queen of their respective nations.

[[caption-width-right:350:''Futures Connected'' [[note]] From left to right: [[PintSizedPowerhouse Sena]], [[TheBigGuy Lanz]], [[NiceGirl Mio]], [[TheHero Noah]], [[TheSmartGuy Taion]], [[DeadpanSnarker Eunie]]. [[/note]]]]

* HealingSpring: There used to be several hot springs in Aionios, but most dried up or got destroyed in the ForeverWar. Isurd's Ascension Quest revolved around finding one in Cadensia. This hot spring restores HP when entered.

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* FirstPersonDyingPerspective: [[spoiler:When Shania shoots herself, the camera changes to her perspective as a GoryDiscretionShot. The final thing she sees is Ghondor and Sena running to her as she falls to the ground.]]

* FirstPersonDyingPerspective: When Shania shoots herself, the camera changes to her perspective as a GoryDiscretionShot. The final thing she sees is Ghondor and Sena running to her as she falls to the ground.

* AbandonedCampRuins: During Side Story: Eunie, [[spoiler:Colony 5 is destroyed by Moebius L and X. When the Colony is reached and their Flame Clock is destroyed to free the survivors, all the tents and levnises are eerily abandoned]]. This location stays abandoned for the rest of the game.

* TheTalk: [[spoiler:After seeing their first newborn baby in a maternity ward, Dr. Hollis outright teaches the party where babies come from, though we don't see the details onscreen.]]

Toys/{{amiibo}} figures of the two leads, Noah and Mio, are in the works, and are slated for release on January 19, 2024.

** {{Downplayed|Trope}} with the playable cast. Noah is the only character who has a completely mundane Western-style name. Eunie is a fairly uncommon Greek name that Eunice happens to be derived from. Lanz is a [[SpellMyNameWithAnS slightly more fantastical variation]] of the mundane name Lance. Meanwhile Mio, Sena, and Taion all have names derived from Japanese, as is typical of Blade/Agnian naming conventions (some of which was LostInTranslation due to DubNameChange). Mio and Sena are fairly mundane Japanese names for women, but Taion is a minor Japanese goddess.

''Xenoblade Chronicles 3''[[note]]simply ''Xenoblade 3'' in Japan[[/note]] is an EasternRPG {{sequel}} to ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles1'' and ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles2'', the third numbered installment in the ''VideoGame/XenobladeChronicles'' series, and the fourth ''Xenoblade Chronicles'' game overall. It is developed by Creator/MonolithSoft and published by Creator/{{Nintendo}} for the UsefulNotes/NintendoSwitch, and was released on July 29, 2022.

* ControllableHelplessness: Just to start the TraumaCongaLine moving that is Chapter 5, the game [[SarcasmMode kindly allows you]] to rattle the doors [[spoiler: of the prison cell that the entire party are trapped in except Mio who is in the cell next door so they can't even see her]] three times before the cutscene takes over and to start letting the DarkestHour truly sink in.

** [[spoiler: Cammuravi and his class Seraph]] in particular heavily stands out as this due to a lot of his arts dealing damage to himself, but in the exchange that a lot of his and the classes arts do incredible damage output that can not be replicated by many characters.

* PoorCommunicationKills: All in all, Guernica Vandham did a ''phenomenal'' job of [[spoiler: explaining to the party everything they needed to know to survive Aionios as Ouroboros [[AlmostDeadGuy before dying]].]] Well...except for the minor detail that [[spoiler: when he says "Moebius," he means "Consuls," which is the public name of the villainous faction perpetuating the ForeverWar.]] [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] since the party was able to survive against an Interlinked Moebius long enough to become Ouroboros and force them to retreat, all with no prior experience with this new type of enemy. The whole party falls under ElitesAreMoreGlamorous (with the possible exception of Manana), and once Noah cuts the Colony 4 Flame Clock, the party has no trouble at all getting rid of K once he reveals what Consuls really are.]] Also [[JustifiedTrope Justified]] by Guernica [[spoiler: being of the City, a place that almost exclusively refers to Moebius as their true name, and he may have briefly forgotten to explain what Moebius are in a way the party could parse.]]

* RedBaron: Most recruitable Heroes have a unique title that can be seen on their select screen. While the only titles brought up in the story are "Silvercoat" Ethel and "Smoldering" Cammuravi, we still get nicknames like "Undying Blade" Ashera, "Dawnhero" Isurd or "Wrathfist" Ghondor. The only Hero who ''doesn't'' get a cool title has "[[YouAreNumberSix No. 7]]" in its place.
** D calls himself [[spoiler: "the man who was Blackblaze Dirk!", allowing Taion to recognize him as a SociopathicSoldier who was cruel and twisted enough to get a mention in a Moebius-issue textbook. Or maybe that's Dirk's version of a brag.]] Ironically, he [[spoiler: was Interlinked with Joran at the time, and Joran has art in the Xenoblade 3 Artbook implying he may have been a recruitable Hero earlier in development, Like Shania and Mwamba.]]

** The world the game takes place in is called Aionios, after the Koine Greek adjective meaning "that which is without end in sight". Sure enough, [[spoiler:Sure enough, the endless nature of Aionios is not truly infinite, and the world will eventually be swallowed into oblivion by Annihilation events at some indeterminate point in the future. It's up to the heroes to bring Aionios' unnatural lifespan to a permanent end by kickstarting the regeneration of the real world before it's too late]].