At today's Nintendo face-to-face meeting, Monolith finally released "Alien Excalibur 3", which will inherit the worldview of "Xenoblade 1" and "Xenoblade 2", and at the same time enable the dual-protagonist setting, the official scheduled to be released in September 2022, landing on Switch, supporting Chinese.
According to the news of series director Tetsuya Takahashi, "Xenoblade Excalibur 3" has entered the final polishing stage. The game's "flute" will be one of the key themes. The game's characters will continue to be designed by Shoji Saito and Koichi Maigu. The musical side includes an ultra-luxurious composer lineup of Yasunori Mitsuda, Ai-Wai Kiyota, ACE Kudo, CHiCO, Kenji Hiramatsu, and Mariam Abounnasr.
Excalibur 3 is set in six teenage girls in two rival countries in the world named Aion, "Corvis" and "Angenus". The male protagonist "Noah" (ノア, provisional translation) and the female protagonist "Miao" (ミオ, provisional translation) are the "send-offs" of the army of Corvis and Angnus, both of whom have questioned the war after many lives have passed. Aion has a magnificent natural environment, huge protists, and the "Iron Giant" who acts as a war machine.
In the official screen, it can be seen that the game can act in groups of four, and there is a vehicle-like setting. At the same time, the huge broken sword in the game logo screen and the body of the giant god beast are intertwined with the huge background, the two protagonists stand on the other side of the sea of clouds, through the setting of the iron giant god and the giant god beast, may intertwine the worlds of "Alien Excalibur 1" and "Alien Excalibur 2".