So finally finished all the side content I could find in xenoblade 3 and continued on with the story and reached chapter 6. I thought the end of chapter 5 was awful. Every action made no sense. Guess I gotta go into spoilers to complain more.
Why did M swap and then let the party get captured? They gained literally no advantage by waiting for the homecoming. N was still there, X was still there who probably wasn't even in M's plans to begin with, the fake queen was there, Z had a good month of time to figure it out as well. Like, M could have just let us fight N to begin with. Nothing changed about our fighting strength in that month. M died for no reason. Especially because as far as we know, M's power should work on N. He'd be helpless.
Then theres other frustrations. Why do jrpgs insist on this win in the game, lose in the cutscene bullshit. I get that I'm overleveled (i hit 99) but I won the fight with ease. Why is the fight not just a cutscene? That goes for the M fight too. I beat the fight, THEN they tell me how to beat M. Also man, Lanz strategy was actually correct, they just needed to spread out and all attack M. Literally nothing she chould do other than stop at most 2 attackers out of 6. My gameplay performance should be rewarded in the story. Don't write stories where the main player controlled party has to lose. It's really not that hard to avoid.
There's then a bit of technical mess up. When the blade calling was sealed, it wasn't stopped completely, it just disappeared before being fully formed. Seems very plausible to at least try to attack in that moment when it's partially formed to destroy the iron bars. Also, they explain earlier but the circles on lanz armor is because it's a powerframe and the circles are still lit up so he and probably sena should have been able to bash down that door without calling blades. Especially if it was just iron. The gaps are also easily large enough for the smaller party members to slip through, especially the nopon.
Why did the lost numbers not show up until right AFTER the eclipse? The had like a week of prep time and showed up minutes too late for no reason and didn't even attempt to destroy the annihilator cannon.
Finally, why didn't noah attempt to draw lucky seven? It's not a blade. Riku even tells him to draw it, Noah breaks free for a moment, and...doesn't even try. Wtf? I was so angry watching that. Every damn xenoblade has to ruin it's story in the latter half.