Project X Zone 3 (TenchiMuyoFan97)

Project X Zone 3 is a tactical crossover RPG between Bandai Namco, Capcom, and Sega, along with Nintendo returning with Fire Emblem and Xenoblade Chronicles franchises. It is a sequel to Project X Zone 2.

Gameplay
Like its prequels, players strategically maneuver their characters across a field to battle with the enemy. Characters are paired up into Pair Units, with Solo Units consisting of a single character able to assist them when linked together. In battle, players use well-timed attacks and combos to do as much damage to the opponent as possible before their turn ends. Unlike Project X Zone 1 and 2, some chapters will include a couple of battles with different enemies and bosses to face.

New Gameplay Additions
Example: Fuuka Yamagishi can fully heal a pair unit with Oracle.
 * Navigator Units: A new type of unit that can be equipped to a pair unit alongside a solo unit. Unlike solo units, they can assist a unit they're equipped with once per battle, such as healing the unit, raising the unit's stats, inflicting the status condition on enemies, curing the unit's status condition(s), decreasing enemies' stats, etc.


 * Single Unit: Similar to Namco X Capcom, but unlike it, a solo unit or a pair unit with one of the people from it can temporarily be alone to fight during certain parts of the story, like Labrys against Sheath and the boss battle with Alisa for example, just in cases when a hero is brainwashed, betrays the group, goes off alone, etc. However, they don't get experience as a result.


 * Overworld Animations: Not 100% gameplay, but during the story outside of cutscenes, certain characters do different animations in the overworld to show their reaction to something happening or if they’re doing an action, not just walking, like in the Persona series. And during gameplay, whenever an enemy damages a unit or a boss does a normal attack to a unit, the unit (depending on the character shown from the pair unit) will have an attacked animation to show them being hit.

Episodes
The game contains 42 chapters and 8 prologues.

Prologues

 * Prologue 1 - The Return of Shinra (Project X Zone)
 * Prologue 2 - Objection! (Ace Attorney)
 * Prologue 3 - Sonic's Advanced Adventure (Klonoa/Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Prologue 4 - Play the Sega Saturn (Segata Sanshiro)
 * Prologue 5 - Return of the Fire Emblem (Fire Emblem)
 * Prologue 6 - The Shadow Operatives (Persona 4 Arena)
 * Prologue 7 - The World Revision (.hack)
 * Prologue 8 - The Dragonturtle Mk. II (Project X Zone)

Chapters

 * Chapter 1 - Brainwashing Program, Activate (Project X Zone)
 * Chapter 2 - The Party’s Just Begun (Persona 3/Space Channel 5)
 * Chapter 3 - Ulala's Swingin' Truth Show All Night (Persona 4/Space Channel 5)
 * Chapter 4 - G Havoc (Tekken/Street Fighter)
 * Chapter 5 - 6th King Mistake (Tekken)
 * Chapter 6 - GG Rudies (Jet Set Radio)
 * Chapter 7 - Tatsumi Streets (Streets of Rage)
 * Chapter 8 - The Sigma Virus (Persona 4 Arena/Mega Man X)
 * Chapter 9 - G Corporation Raid (Tekken)
 * Chapter 10 - Shinra's Back (Tekken/Digimon)
 * Chapter 11 - Purge TV Show Season 2 (Space Channel 5)
 * Chapter 12 - Zero's True Purpose?! (Mega Man X)
 * Chapter 13 - Rolling Around at the Speed of Sound (Sonic the Hedgehog)
 * Chapter 14 - Vesperia (Tales of Vasperia)
 * Chapter 15 - Endless Frontier (Super Robot Wars OG Saga: Endless Frontier)
 * Chapter 16 - The God Eater is Back (God Eater)
 * Chapter 17 - Like a Dragon of the End (Yakuza: Dead Souls)
 * Chapter 18 - Swords of Honor (Shinobi/Soul Calibur)
 * Chapter 19 - You Will Know Our Names Once Again (Xenoblade Chronicles)
 * Chapter 20 - Samba de Janerio (Samba de Amigo)
 * Chapter 21 - Status Commando (Captain Commando)
 * Chapter 22 - Devil or Vampire (Darkstalkers)
 * Chapter 23 - The Third Coming of Valkyrie (Adventures of Valkyrie)
 * Chapter 24 - The Return of Shadaloo (Street Fighter)
 * Chapter 25 - To Hack Or Not To Hack (.hack)
 * Chapter 26 - Shadow Operatives Reunited (Persona 4 Arena)
 * Chapter 27 - Rhythm Rogues are Back (Space Channel 5)
 * Chapter 28 - Shake Your Groove (Power Stone)
 * Chapter 29 - Case Closed (Ace Attorney)
 * Chapter 30 - Dungeons & Druaga (The Tower of Druaga)
 * Chapter 31 - Ninja Shade (Strider)
 * Chapter 32 - Misadventures of Tron Bonne (Mega Man X)
 * Chapter 33 - Anti-Gnosis Project (Xenosaga)
 * Chapter 34 - Virtua Fighters (Virtua Fighter)
 * Chapter 35 - Moving Out (Valkyria Chronicles)
 * Chapter 36 - Lunatea's Veil (Klonoa)
 * Chapter 37 - Ghosts 'n Demons (Ghosts 'n Goblins)
 * Chapter 38 - Wicked Witch (Bayonetta)
 * Chapter 39 - A New Anti-Shadow Weapon (Persona 4 Arena/Project X Zone)
 * Chapter 40 - Unified Worlds (Project X Zone 3)
 * Chapter 41 - Arisu in Multiland (Project X Zone 3)
 * Chapter 42 - The Final Battle (Final Chapter) (Project X Zone 3)

Side Chapters
The 1st side chapter will take place between Chapters 6 & 7, the 2nd side chapter will take place between Chapters 10 & 11, the 3rd side chapter will take place between Chapters 12 & 13, and the 4th side chapter will take place between Chapters 40 & 41.
 * Side Chapter 1 - Kazama's Subconscious Mind (Tekken)
 * Side Chapter 2 - Love And Rhythm (Persona 4 Arena/Space Channel 5)
 * Side Chapter 3 - Reasoning for Sho (Persona 4 Arena)
 * Side Chapter 4 - Sho vs the God (Project X Zone 3)

Fan-made Characters/Forms

 * Mimic - Mimic is a boss unit that debuts in Chapter 38. An anti-shadow weapon created by Ouma with the Kirijo Group's files that Saya stole as a counter-measure to Aigis and Labrys. Despite that, he isn't equipped with a Persona. Being a part of Ouma, he is loyal to Saya & is willing to do whatever she pleases to make sure Ouma's plans succeeds, but cares for nobody that isn't part of Ouma, nor allied with them, and uses his shapeshifting skills to transform into anyone he wants to be to use his victims for the good of Ouma or to rid them of existence. Despite being created by Ouma to take down the Shadow Operatives and Shinra, even though he, Aigis, and Labrys were created by two different groups, he refers to the two as his 'sisters' and decided that it'll be better to convince Labrys to return to Ouma and Aigis to join Ouma.
 * Byaku Shin mk II - Byaku Shin mk II is the final boss. He is Byaku Shin's upgraded form that Ouma gave to her after summoning her once again. Like in Project X Zone 2, her goal is to unify the worlds through Shibuya to rule over the unified world as its god. But this time, after Mimic succeeds on distracting Shinra, the Shadow Operatives, and their allies, she was summoned by Ouma once again and succeeded on unifying all the worlds together, trapping everyone inside the unified world until they defeat her.

Characters
Note: Characters with * symbol are initially a rival unit, characters with Bold text are newcomers.

Personas
All playable Persona characters have them prior to PXZ 3, and a couple of other characters will get Personas after encountering their shadows and accepting them.

Trivia

 * Zero becomes a rival unit when he transformed into Awakened Zero.
 * Jin Kazama becomes a rival unit when he transformed into Devil Jin.
 * Despite Mew bring a protagonist in the Jet Set Radio series, she gets brainwashed by Purge into becoming his bounty hunter, hence her being a boss unit.
 * Eri Minami and Yuuta Minami from Persona 4 makes a cameo in a cutscene where Purge, alongside Saya, Sheath, and Shadow, activates his device filled with antennas and transmitters with dozens of television sets to force Inaba to dance.
 * In the cutscene, the two can be seen running away and dodging the beam after witnessing a civilian being hit by the device's beam and being forced to dance, along with the Morolians coming out of the TV from the Midnight Channel.
 * Not counting her times in Persona 4 Arena & Arena Ultimax, Labrys gets brainwashed 4 times throughout the game, once by Ouma with the hacked Aura and their hypnotic frequencies in Chapter 1-Chapter 3, twice by Purge in Chapters 3 & 11 and Side Chapter 2 with her hypnotic trigger song, and once by Sigma with the Sigma Virus in the end of Chapter 5-Chapter 8.
 * However, the first time she gets brainwashed by Purge in Chapter 3, she doesn't become a rival unit, compared to her other times where she gets brainwashed and turned against the heroes. Same for Side Chapter 2, as Labrys' solo battle with the Morolians happens before Purge brainwashed her.
 * After the rival battle with Nemesis, he redeems himself after his intelligence grew even more, assisting the heroes later on throughout the story as a solo unit.
 * Despite him being playable temporarily in Chapters 3 & the beginning of Side Chapter 3, Sho Minazuki is the last character to be recruited permanently throughout the story.
 * Not counting Side Chapter 4, he gets recruited in Chapter 40 after the heroes find him severely beaten by Byaku Shin mk II.
 * Purge, Kazuya, and Sigma's shadow selves were unseen, but were mentioned by the three as to how they got their Personas.
 * Two different versions of Shadow Labrys appear in the game. One that acts as Labrys' shadow self and appears in the cutscene where Alisa got infected by the Sigma Virus, causing Labrys to get really mad and triggered her shadow self to take over once again. The other acts as a copy created by Ouma using Labrys' data, but was destroyed by the Shadow Operatives.
 * This is what made Saya decided to create Mimic later on to counter both Aigis and Labrys after the destruction of her Shadow Labrys.
 * Despite Ouma's Shadow Labrys being created as a part of Ouma, she's not a boss unit.
 * This is the first time Fuse's appearance was shown.