It’s been so long since I’ve touched Xeno 3 so y’all refresh me
Storywise, are all these characters connected to the 6 founder statues?
Gameplay wise, can we observe any combat system changes like Torna?
Only three of the party members are the founders. Matthew is Vandham, Nikol (boy with mechanical Poppi Buster looking arms) is Ortiz, and Glimmer (girl that looks/sounds like Pyra) is Rhodes. Na'el, the cat girl, is Doyle but she doesn't appear to be playable. No idea why she's wearing Aegis armor with an Ontos core and Seven gun drones at the end. She's supposed to be Matthew's sister. The two that Shulk and Rex are supposed to be mentors to (Reid and Cassini) are nowhere to be seen.
The A girl was not foreshadowed at all and is the most fascinating. She appears to be a girl Alvis. She even has his Cross Ray art (the one he uses during the three telethia fight in Makna in xc1), and Vision as a Talent Art. The relationship chart calls her Matthew's partner so my random guess is she's some sort of reborn version (or emanation?) of Alvis as a Blade and Matthew is her Driver.
For gameplay changes, it doesn't look as different as Torna from xc2 at a glance. The big difference is ouroboros are gone, instead characters look to have Chrono Trigger inspired dual techs. You can stock charges of these like the launch all in the Challenge Gauntlet. We see Nikol and Glimmer use a dual tech called Hellstream. It looks like Matthew's dual tech is with Shulk and Rex's is with A oddly. Maybe you can mix and match them? They all seem to inflict Burst with the only difference being Monado Crash (Matthew + Shulk's dual tech) is AOE. We do see the new Jojo-esque stand version of Ourboros when Matthew uses certain moves but there's nothing to say this is anything more than purely visual.
It's the same deal where left side Arts have to be a different shape/recharge style than right side Arts but we have no indication if left side Arts are gained through different classes or how that works. Shulk's one left art is a Monado Art (a new one that inflicts Target Lock) though which makes me think both sides of Arts come from the character. I'm a little worried each character will only get six Arts - three of each shape with no customization.
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Anyways, for those saying this will be shorter than Torna: yes all the custscene titles were found in the datamine as well as the name for all the campsites. The number of cutscenes is slightly greater than Torna's (not
that much more though). It's safe to say this will be Torna size. It's likely not getting the same treatment Torna got for not being newcomer friendly rather than anything to do with size. Future Redeemed looks to heavily depend upon the series' lore whereas Torna was easier to market as a jumping on point (though Kyle Bosman's stream made me doubt how well that actually worked out lol). Torna was also in the second year of switch - the same year where all they had for e3 was smash and trailers for 2019 games (Three Houses and Daemons x Machina), I can understand why they made a bigger deal of Torna and played up the idea of it being newcomer friendly.
And of course, Riku is immortal, why not?
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