Nintendo and Monolith Soft have announced plans for a Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Expansion Pass, delivering additional downloadable content “from the game’s launch through the end of 2023.”
Priced at £26.99 ($29.99), that content will be released in four waves and will include “Helpful items, new outfits and colour variants, challenge battles, new quests, new Hero characters and a new story scenario.”
Nintendo has confirmed that the “content packs cannot be purchased separately,” and that the timetable for their expected release is as below:
29th July 2022 (Xenoblade Chronicles 3 launch day)
- Helpful items
- Outfit colour variants
Releasing by 31st December 2022
- Challenge Battle
- New Hero character and quests
- New outfits
Releasing by 30th April 2023
- Challenge Battle
- New Hero character and quests
- New outfits
Releasing by 31st December 2023
- Brand new story scenario
Set in a new world that will “connect the futures” of Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade Chronicles 2, in Xenoblade Chronicles 3 you will play as protagonists Noah and Mio “amid turmoil between the hostile nations of Keves and Agnus.”
There will be six characters from those nations that will join you in a grand tale with “life” as its central theme, who search for the truth behind their conflict and set their sights for Swordsmarch – a land pierced by a giant sword.
You will journey to end the cycle of violence between the two opposing nations, having the chance to customise your party and change their classes to better suit the situations you are confronted with. If certain conditions are met in battle, each of the tag-team pairs – Noah and Mio, Lanz and Sena or Eunie and Taion – can combine into a giant form called Ouroboros that each has its own powerful moveset.
Xenoblade Chronicles 3 will release at retail and digitally on the Nintendo eShop for Nintendo Switch worldwide on 29th July 2022.
