Roxas01

I was extremely disappointed in XC3. Though it has the best music, opening sequence, and the most polish out of any of the mainline games, it fails at creating a satisfying end to the story of the previous games and wrap up the Claus/Zanza saga (unless you pay for the nostalgia full DLC). But even when choosing to make a new player friendly world, it also consistently retcons some of it big emotional moments, sacrifices and deaths later in the story to be trivial. If the devs took the risk and made a game where the factions of XC1 and XC2 were actually fighting, people who die stay dead, as the war between who gets to use Alvise’s core crystal this game would have been amazing. Instead, it is a game that for older players feels like constant nostalgia compared to the side story that actually concludes the trilogy.

As someone who loves the franchise. Torna polishes and fixes many of the things that the base game got wrong, while adding more the incredible story with many more character moments that will make you smile. The only bad part about the DLC in my opinion is that you will to do the side quests to progress the story. But honestly they are much better than many of the side quest in the base game and XC1 and XC3, and they add to the world of Alrest 500 years in the past. Out of all the side stories, this one is my personal favorite and is definetly worth your time