io9’s Favourite Characters of 2022

Every character in the primary crew of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is great, both standing alone or voltron’d into one of many strongest JRPG events in a long time, however a selected spotlight in its extremely likeable solid is the rough-and-ready Eunie. Initially one of many workforce’s healers, the truth that she has a penchant for both desirous to take the piss out of, or chew the top off of, anybody who comes close to her is hilarious, however as you get to take a seat along with her extra, and as she navigates the trauma of every thing she thought she knew about her and her buddies’ lives because the cogs of an infinite battle between two nations, she blossoms right into a compellingly delicate determine. One that additionally stays bitingly hilarious, her curse-laden dialogue delivered by Kitty Archer in a fantastically tacky and endearing approximation of a London cockney accent—the very last thing you’d anticipate to listen to out of most RPG heroes, not to mention a petite lady with wings rising out of her head. – James Whitbrook