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I still do not see them dropping saga references in fr without a reason or just as an easter egg. There is method to takahashi's madness!

4:18 This aged like wine, Xenoblade X is coming for the Switch!!!

Welp, JB showed me a thing or three! 😅

It's also really cool that Klaus' psyche splits when he makes the decision to activate the conduit- In the same way that Noah and Mio' souls/psyche seem to split when they become mobius. It's because it's no longer some outside threat testing the heroes, the enemy isn't the other. It's ourselves

Considering all the Jungian themes in these games, i think the fact that the artifice is called Aion is pretty important. As in, no matter what Klaus actually did, the world was going to change dramatically and violently. We just get to see what plays out because he DID act the way he did

Xenoblade Cross is Takahashis magnum opus that only 840,000 people worldwide were able to witness. I was one of those people and nearly a decade later, I cannot wait to enjoy it once more....

I LOVE that there were not any characters from 1 or 2 aside from the Queens. The Queens were so beaitifully woven into the stories narrative as the designers of Origin and the fail safe of the Ouroborus stone should Origin fail.

Xenoblade fans fail to remember that Xenosaga was planned to be six episodes. So I’m not surprised that there’s so many connections in these Xenogames. Takahashi wants his full story out there and he’s gonna do it any way he can 🙌🏽 just like Nomura using Kingdom Hearts to bring in Versus 13.

so was he speaking about Xeno X tho ? Like the legacy linked to the Wii U

thanks, it is mind boggling a lot of the confusion and plot holes are all explanined in the artbook instead of the game itself. Also about Linka and Panacea and basically thwe rest of the NPC Liberators, there is actually a dialogue with Linka that kinda explained their existence in FR. You get this conversation with Linka when you save all the city npc and registered Linka with the golden Affinity ring. Basically what she said is: "Us Liberators originally lived in separate worlds" "When Aionios was born, most people were assimilated by Origin, but there were also exceptions such as us" Matthew asked why they are not assimilated "That I do not know. The reason for our existence here is unclear" "It may we have a role to play in this world. something like that"

I can wait for the story, just want to see what else is different for the gameplay itself. Hopefully higher level cap, new superbosses/enemies, maybe a new place to explore, new skells, new classes etc. Don't know if some of those are too much to ask for but would love to have easier augment grinding and different viable builds.

anyone saw how they added a light when the earth gets destoryed? before the earth explodes. might have changed it or just an edit for the trailer.

Good timing for this video. It has been on my mind all year! Glad its coming back.

X is your fav Xeno? Knew you had impeccable taste 😎 The possibilities for the new story stuff are really intriguing and every video I see brings up a new angle I hadn't considered (the pioneer plaque being important here for example). It'll be interesting to see which unanswered questions and threads they pick up here and which they save for down the road. I definitely agree the Ghosts themselves need the sequel though. They strike me as way too big to just be bolted on in a remaster.

Finally, its coming to Switch!!!!!

Your description of XCX is better than the current version of the game. Let's hope someone from Monolith Soft has seen your video from when you published this and realised their vision of the original game isn't as good as your vision of the game, when it comes to releasing XCX DE. Only time will tell. Also I had no idea there was cut content of XCX, and so I was quiet intrigued.

“I’d like to emphasize that the sword of the end isn’t actually Malos’s core crystal.” Welp

Ooh peak has returned, theory might get a comeback

To me, X's story always felt like as just a prologe to a full story. Also im sooo looking for this game, to finaly play it again.

They better tell us why everyone speaks the same language now

Great video JB (commenting to support the algorithm)

I know the game has been out for 2 years now but i love hearing peoples predictions. Very fun watch

I’m honestly ok with any and all retcons Takahasi and the crew want to do; in order to get all the Xeno games to connect, I am all in for this wild ride.

I think anyone hoping for a full story expansion is going to be disappointed. "New Story Elements" tells me they adjusted some of the more wonky parts of the story, and have added a few post game missions to tie up a few loose ends and then tease a sequel. Maybe even some very very loose klaus saga connections, but nothing concrete IMO. I also think that the Black Knight is totally Lao, it just makes too much sense "Fancy seeing you here" is a great line when you run into a copy of yourself lol

watch us get at least half of the stuff in this video in the remake

X is already connected to Klaus' saga!

New story elements ? I smell an XCX:2 on the horizon :D

But what about this: Klaus > Japanese La / Ra pronunciation > Kraus ... > Cross 😱😱😱

If they're going to tie this to the "numbered" series, I want it when XBX have its own trilogy Haha :D. But it wouldn't be bogus in my humble opinion, if someone mentioned that Monolithsoft can tie up XBC-X, XBC 1 to 3, Xenosaga and Xenoblade in one universe :D. If they just mention Zohar, it will probably have a link somewhere down the line :D

Slightly off topic but what kind of aliens do you think thr Ghosts are? Their ships and mech designs imo imply a sort of hive mind, swarm race.

I always assumed that Cross was the Lone Hero given that they seem to be from outside of everything and their the default design is basically chaos.

Really hope they would improve some side and main quests too. Hell, I even wish for a MC with a personality to have a stronger story, Hope it won't just be the same, kinda feels like a missed opportunity to not wait for the next Nintendo because the environments, I just want to explore them again, never I have ever enjoyed doing so in other open worlds. Hope for a new area also.

I’m hoping our dialogue choices will actually factor into the story this time, even if it just minimally changes the plot. I’ve only gotten to Chapter 5 in the original version, so I can’t say I know a whole lot about what goes down in the major events, but I would REALLY love it if our dialogue options could somehow get the boss antagonists on our side. Goetia is all, “Blegh, humans are filthy creatures. I’m racist for one reason or another. Also, please enjoy this shot of my perfect butt. TAKE IT IN. I’M SEXY AND MEAN AND THAT’S MY CHARACTER.” Okay-WHY does she and the other hot alien baddie hate humans? Humans escape from Earth because they’re caught in the crossfire of an interstellar war between two factions that see them as bugs to be ignored. To be able to talk through our differences and find a definitive reason WHY they hate humans would be a great reason to have meaningful dialogue options. Plus, if Goetia is on my side, I can cackle every time she unleashes a devastating electrical AOE attack. Good times.

The Pioneer Plaque is showing us that the Ganglion found it and were terrified seeing humans were alive, and manipulated the location of that battle with the Ghosts to have an excuse to get rid of them

NGL I’m tired of Gnosticism and I’m tired of perfect works as a story format. Let’s just explore some new ideas Takahashi.

There needs to be a lot of improvements made for this game before it's released!

Meh.. i would rather it tie into the blade games

even with the launch of this remaster i dont know if this will be enough to give us a way to 100% connect it to the other xenoblade games. like, i see they coudl make a connection (like showing that the hoded figure is malos for example) but i think we will need a xenobalde x2 to see it fully

Bro I genuinely just want Takahashi San to rework the story to add that "novels worth of writing" we always heard about. I don't blame him for X being kinda dry with story I know it's Nintendo's fault but I need him to redeem Xs future

Maybe Xenoblade XDE will end with humanity returning to Earth and showing that they were the light at the end of FR

If I don't get to kill Lao in the most excruciating way then this game will be a major disappointment. Such a terrible character I wanted to shoot Lin to get to him.

2:07 To be fair, Goetia & the rest of the Ganglion High Command (Except Dagahn probably) are competitive racists compared to Elma’s more casual approach. Speaking of the Ganglion High Command, I hope they’re fleshed out more and get to be as intimidating as the other villains in the series… especially given Luxaar's complete clownery!

Ok wow , you brought some crazy ideas up , sounded interesting. "Plaque" I completely forgot this , thanks for the reminder But for my ideas this cant be Logos / Malos cuz it wouldnt fit with the timeline i think of. "Klaus Saga" I stick to XC3FR made it clear that all Xeno games (Blade , Gears , Saga , Cross) have the same point of Origin , which is the same Earth and the same Klaus white light moment , but have no connection to what happens within the canon of the pocket dimensions of XC 1 2 3. "White Light Moment" vs "Earth Destruction" Here too , i stick with unreliable narrator , the players and Portags of XC 1 2 3 only got fed the info they needed for the plot to make sense. For Example : Shulk didnt need to know that there was a Saviorite Rebel attack and that the Space Station was actually a Orbital Ring Station. Which is more clear to think , since even tho XCDE came out after XC2 , it did not include the updated informations presented to XC2 players. "Unreliable Narrator Lin" "Manipulated Memories" In the Intro Cutscene of XCX Narrator Lin says Earth was Destroyed In the Cutscene that plays when the Player reaches NLA for the first time , Narrator Lin says that Earth was swallowed in a shroud of white light In the end Cutscene Narrator Lin says "Everyone else says Earth died that day" but she dosnt believe it , and one day she wants to go out there looking for it. Looking for earth is a Saga theme ... The Narration can also be unreliable because at the after credit cutscene we saw how the Life Hold Core was essentially destroyed from the very beginning , so everything we played and thought was true , might not be true at all. In addition Yelvs whole manipulated memories and JBody thing is also a thing that exists in XCX. So at this point we know absolutely nothing. "Saga Connections" I bet we get a lot of Saga connections in XCXDE , there wasnt any in the original XCX , but i bet they will setup XCX canon to play in the timeline between the Klaus Saga and Xenosaga plots . This would give them further chances to explain why the Core Processor of the Life Hold looks like a Zohar Emulator (or should i say Conduit Emulator to be in Blade canon) And they could further establish Vectors involvement in everything. It would also be possible to bridge the time gap between Cross and Saga by saying Yuriev used a Mimeosome for the time being. "Sakuraba Industries" IIRC in the cut content the original idea was that Sakuraba Industries would be a Arms Manufacturer of another Japanese Exodus Ship , so they could also replace it for a retcon with Vector without having to do much editing in the files since the second exodus ship was cut anyways. But they could also just change any of the Arms Manufacturers if they so chose. They could also introduce a second exodus ship ... "Cut Content" Include things like a Second Japanese Exodus Ship with a japanese themed resort and a huge Sakuraba Industries Headquarter , the idea to explore 3 planets not just one , Lucifer , Black Knight , Qlurian and their Space Ship that was originally planed to be stationed above NLA , not the Manon Ship ... the Qlurian ship should also have been much bigger in size. There was also a idea to have the player have a controlable Space Craft for exploration. Im sure they can use some of this content as additional content for XCXDE , maybe even tease at the end a XCX2 that will then use the rest of the cut content that didnt fit cuz of time or money into XCXDE. "Not Malos" Malos was a persona created by the bond between the Logos Trinity Processor Unit and Amalphus , if anything Logos could come back in some way shape or form without being tainted. Beyond the Logos Artificial Destiny Emancipator ... Logos new persona would also not sound like Malos . The Black Knight Model had a purple light in the chest , the artwork had a blue one tho ... so this might just have been the first concepts for what later became the Blades in XC2 . Elmas forehead Crystals were also meant to be a Core Crystal Concept design of some sorts ... but was never a thing in the game. So im sure Logos will at some point re-appear in the overarching timeline of the Xeno franchise as a whole , but we will see if he actually comes back for XCXDE. What is intriguing tho is ... if we couldnt know who the guy with the black hood is ... then why bother hiding his face under a hood in the first place. "Additional Continued Content" vs "Seperated Epilog Content" I would much rather have it in direct continuation with getting Lao back too , so the training and Heart to Hearts on him wouldnt be wasted. But it is more likely that it will be an Epilog Content playing on Mira but in a linear fashion , with a second exodus ship crashing on Mira shortly after the main plot ends , or before that on a Continent prior not existing / seen. Plot could go as follows : Lao and Black Knight meet up at the beach , both are playable characters , both make their way to the second japanese exodus ship with a huge Qlurian Ship flying over it. At some point there starts some conflict between the Qlurian and the Ghosts and / or another Human faction. Human faction could then turn out to be Elma , Lucifer and Celica / Rock and this would lead to them joining up with the party with additional Main or Sidecontent for Lucifer and Celica and the Qlu. The main Antagonist would be the Ghosts. This could also bring Elma and the Black Knight together , if that guy is the Original Hero , this could be also Main content , And if the Content leads us back to NLA we could also get the Original Tandem Ares to play with. This setup would give them plenty of opportunities to include a bunch of cut content. And would let them present us with a plot that could actually answer a bunch of open questions. Especially if a second exodus ship has a fully functional Life Hold Core and also a Conduit Emulator.

The faction calling itself Ghosts being remnants of Souldata within an Origin-esque contraption (or Origin itself) would make a scary amount of sense, etymologically-speaking at least.

“Rather than playing on defense, going on the offense; change rather than maintain. This is a stance that I have continued to hold for thirty years,” writes Takahashi. “If there is another ‘Xenoblade,’ it will likely be something vastly different from what came before. In style and in music, I would like to make my next goal something that will betray everyone’s expectations, in a good way.” I don't think monolithsoft is doing either xenoblade 4 or cross 2 next but completely new IP. They need that rest and refreshment from those games in order for games not becoming stale conveyor. I would bet on heavily rumored fantasy-style game with more action gameplay elements, especially since Takahashi was salty at Hashino for developing Metaphor ReFantazio, as he had similar idea and would need to compete with it in a sense.

Peak is returning

Elma being racist is one of the many reasons why I love her😊

I actually think the "thought you had my number" is the weakest line of the whole game. Whether in Aionios or the city, we never saw a single phone, making this line kinda weird