What Made Xenoblade Chronicles So Good?

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  • @umf1e
    @umf1e  2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    It's been one week and I'm just surprised by all the positive feedback this video has gotten. It has really encouraged me to keep doing more stuff.
    I might not do excactly something like this next time but I hope it will be as interesting as this video, so feel free to subscribe the channel if you want to see what I'll do next.

  • @jimik83
    @jimik83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +70

    It was the same for me. I bought xenoblade 2 randomly knowing nothing about it. I had light fun running around as Rex for a couple hours until I got to the end of chapter 1 and then it blew my mind. What I thought was a disney-like adventure became an epic

    • @Hi-Im-Gib
      @Hi-Im-Gib 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      At first I got Xenoblade 2 along with Botw when I first got my switch 3 years ago.
      I played Xenoblade after finishing Botw, played up until the foot of the World Tree where I dropped it, eventually got Xenoblade 1 and stopped midway through the Mechonis.
      I never touched those games again, until may 2022, where I thought to myself.
      Damn I have these 2 games that ppl really REALLY like, I'll try giving them another shot.
      So I loaded new save files and Jesus Christ I finally saw what made these games so good in the first place. I loved every single second I was playing them.
      Now Xenoblade 2 sits as my 2nd favorite game of all time alongside Elden Ring. While Xenoblade 3 proudly stands as my personal Greatest Game of all time.

    • @ze_darku_magician5504
      @ze_darku_magician5504 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This was EXACTLY me in august of 2018. Post-Xenoblade "me" is a better version of my former self that I never could have become without it.

  • @lilrockstar8170
    @lilrockstar8170 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    This series has helped me heal from my trauma because it's often about moving on from past trauma as well. It really is something special

  • @linkalot7415
    @linkalot7415 2 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    great video. always cool to see people still discussing what i believe to be one of the best game franchises ever made.

  • @robertomacetti7069
    @robertomacetti7069 2 ปีที่แล้ว +29

    as someone who bought xc2 by complete chance, it take quite a while to get the combat going if you are a newcomer... and sometimes this is true with the story as well, but when you finally get it going... oh boy, "having a blast" is a huge understatement, it goes inches away from a densly packed frenetic action game
    also, the music of this series deserves way more appreciation, the game wouldn't be the same without it

    • @neondouble_
      @neondouble_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      2 was my first game as well. I'm a series fanatic now. Also, sometimes I just get lost in the music while playing the game. No other series has done that for me.

    • @robertomacetti7069
      @robertomacetti7069 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@neondouble_ yeah, i stumbled in a gem
      I'm usually the guy who don't care about the story, but man... I cried a lot at the end of the game

  • @datbarry5264
    @datbarry5264 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I remember black friday in 2018, I was deciding between $30 wireless earbuds or a game I've heard little aboit which was Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I went from only choosing the game because I had nothing else to play on my switch, to it being one of my personal favorite games ever! I hold the Xenoblade trilogy close to my heart now as I've never experienced anything like it before! I wonder what my gaming life would have been like if I chose the earphones...

  • @TimothyGod
    @TimothyGod 2 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    There's nothing quite like opening and playing a Xenoblade game. Title screens are always fire, the music always enhances. And with each title, they improve qol constantly. Characters in this game interact in ways we've been wanting sicne the first game. Some characters don't really interact, but there's been so many interacting in 3 specifically, that monolith clearly cares about its audience. I've neevr once felt like the game was trying to treat me like a baby, always treating me with respect. I like having some areas where I walk, althought I agree with a little too many instances, but having a quiet time to walk through an area and just take in the environment and music is something I like doing from time to time. I won't lie, when you started talking about cutscenes and music, I straight up got chills

  • @abbydomi
    @abbydomi 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you for making this! I love hearing people love this game so much

  • @CronoEpsilon
    @CronoEpsilon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Its always nice to see newer perspectives on the series. Xenoblade has been the pinnacle of the genre for me since its first release on Wii and nothing truly comes close.
    Outside of its themes of shaping the future with your own hands, I love its themes on youth, optimism, and life itself. No one knows what the future holds, but its those surprises that make life worth living. Its a very simple, but forward thinking message from a game that truly wants to innovate within its own genre.

  • @izaakaz6863
    @izaakaz6863 2 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    I remember watching The Completetionist do a playthrough for the 3DS version on twitch. For the next half hour before opening the game he kept complaining how much he doesn't like open world games and if it wasn't for the sponsorship he wouldn't be playing it. Then after playing through the prologue he realized his greatest fear was never real and got really into it.

    • @neondouble_
      @neondouble_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sounds like Xenoblade

  • @JustJulyo
    @JustJulyo 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You deserve more subscribers! Absolutely looking forward to what you produce on 2023!

    • @umf1e
      @umf1e  2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Thank you! It'll probably be something different, but I certainly will continue producing more videos.

  • @silvershield9217
    @silvershield9217 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I remember playing Xenoblade Chronicles 2 for the first time in 2017, I'm very glad I gave the franchise a chance with that game.
    Now, is my favorite franchise of videogames.

  • @MahriBlade
    @MahriBlade 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Dude incredible video! I absolutely love Xenoblade so much!

  • @GalickGon
    @GalickGon 2 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Love xenoblade. Was surprised to hear how you felt about mechonis field maps in xc1. They’re easily some of my fav maps from that game.

    • @thecursed_1lordofcats738
      @thecursed_1lordofcats738 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I'd say it looks cool, but has a similar problem to 3's Chapter 5. It's just a big chunk of space where nothing really big happens with nothing to really break it up. Sure it isn't as big of an issue as it is in chapter 5, but that's a pretty low bar to reach, which hurts since my favorite scene in 3 lies at the end of chapter 5.

    • @lucasdellamaggiore
      @lucasdellamaggiore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thecursed_1lordofcats738 Yeah, luckily chapter 6 gives us the trademark snow area and the Coludkeep to boot, leaving Candensia behind for good

    • @thecursed_1lordofcats738
      @thecursed_1lordofcats738 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lucasdellamaggiore and chapter 6 has 2, potentially 3, heroes to obtain so long as you did all the quests required for the final main-game hero. Plus the music in the area is amazing!

    • @lucasdellamaggiore
      @lucasdellamaggiore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@thecursed_1lordofcats738 Yeah, tbh Erythia really just is Eryth Sea and Leftheria coming back with a vengance, like, it's obviously better than both since the water to land ratio is much better, there's more interesting side quests taking place there like Fiona's and Triton's and the boat beats the literal minutes of putting the controller down and letting autorun do it's job, but it's still carries both those areas' feeling of "Fuck, this place is big!"

    • @thecursed_1lordofcats738
      @thecursed_1lordofcats738 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@lucasdellamaggiore I small TH-camr I watch just recently released a video trying to figure out the actual size of Aionios, and I think the Aerythia Sea region makes up 70 some odd percent of the world. So it does make sense the area feels so big. Because in comparison to the other parts of the map, it's the biggest by a large margin.

  • @z33chie
    @z33chie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    beautifullll video, super well done and makes me love the franchise i love to pieces even more :)

  • @Super_Spectral
    @Super_Spectral 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    This is my favorite game series of all time, loved the video!

  • @robertcajucom3203
    @robertcajucom3203 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Funny thing, I have my desktop background set to bliss, so the title screen for xc1 matches colors.

  • @AdrastarZ
    @AdrastarZ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I remember picking up for my first time ever a Xeno game, it was a few years after the release of Torna, I had played many awesome switch games at that time but I was getting bored of it being to repetitive, so I just bought Xenoblade 2 for the sake of getting something to play (also the cover looked cool), as I said I’d never heard nor seen anything about Xeno.
    So, at first when I started playing through the tutorial I got kind bored because it was throwing so much info at me, however, as I was discovering, talking and testing the buttons in Argentum I started to give it a bit of a chance and for the fact that I bought the game already so I had no choice, once I realized the intentions of Mhalos and Jin it got me pretty good throughout the entire game not to mention that the landscapes were beautiful, just to think that I was standing on a giant titan and I was able to explore most of not all parts of it (Uraya was my favorite). Once I finished the main story I always kept thinking on what happened 500 years ago that Jin and company kept talking about, so I bought Torna as well, and boy what a fun adventure as well, it got me a bit to understand the new form of combat and to remember all arts and passives Lol
    After I finished playing both Torna and the main I decided to check if the story of XC1 and 2 are related somehow, I was still thinking on what happened to Ontos at the time, so I decided to watch a full video of 13 or more hrs with all the XC1 cutscenes ( at that time Definitive edition wasn’t even announced so I thought there wouldn’t be a chance to play it) I was amazed by all the story, it was a masterpiece, plus the fact both worlds are related in a certain way, a few moths after XC1 DE gets announced and I was so exciting and disappointed about it as well, mostly because I already have seen the story, but still it was a great experience to play and get to see those beautiful landscapes in even better graphics than the old XC1 Wii version, I found it very hilarious that Shulk and the others even though I already passed through a few zones on Bionis I was still too far away from my destination due to Bionis and Mechonis being gigantic 😂😂.
    Finally once I finished both games including their respective expansion, it got me thinking, what would happen if both worlds reunite or something, at the end both worlds where created by the same apocalypse, and then 2 years laters it was announced XC3, gotta say that the story was the one that made me cry the most between the 3, currently I have over 200 hrs of gameplay already in the game and still looking for more to do, it also gave me many new questions about several events, I’ll be waiting with huge excitement the extra story to see if those questions will be answered .
    Without a doubt Xenoblade Chronicles is my favorite saga of all time
    PD:
    My favorite things of each
    XC1: humongous landscape and story
    XC2: Graphs, colorfulness and Characters
    XC3: Story and landscape nostalgia

  • @gabrielegenuardi3214
    @gabrielegenuardi3214 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I bought the first one in 2020 without knowing anything to try something new, I didn't know I'd have loved it the way I do with the second and the third chapters, a truly masterpiece of trilogy. Thank you for this amazing video!

  • @pyrojinn
    @pyrojinn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    It's understated how gigantic the scale of Xeno's worlds are. I think paradoxically Xenoblade shows too much of the world scale, because somehow one single element in their previous series, Xenosaga, did in spade.
    So you and your crew (with the best girl Kos-Mos) went onto this ship Durandal. And you don't really know how big the ship until you get out of your other ship. Turns out you need shuttles to move into different parts of the Durandal, there's a whole biome area, and it then docks into the Kukai Foundation to acts like a giant sky scapper. The thing is 4km long. It's almost overwhelming to think about how Mechonis and Bionis and the titans in 2 when they're scaled to match, they are like our own versions of continents, and no open world games to this date achieve that sense of scale.

  • @jamesa.646
    @jamesa.646 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Thank you youtube for recommending me this gem. Fantastic analysis!

  • @lucasdellamaggiore
    @lucasdellamaggiore 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I once thought RPGs weren't my thing but Fire Emblem Three Houses had proved me otherwise. A year afterwards i decided i'd try Xenoblade to broaden my taste in RPGs and to my surprise it blew Fire Emblem out of the water and quickly became one of my favorites ever, i then finished it and not a week after purchasing two three was announced and my hype levels overloaded, the following months i played nothing but Xenoblade, essentially playing the whole trilogy back to back by sheer coincidence, with 3 capping it off as a great ending and probably my new favorite game ever, i love this franchise, so much! I wouldn't trade it for the world, i might have been late to it, but i'm glad i played it nonetheless.

  • @Mnemoniforma9.00
    @Mnemoniforma9.00 2 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I get the impression that 3 in particular succeeded the way it did because it took the massive Gnostic self-determination epic of 1, combined it with the collectible character roster of 2 and used it as a pretext to roast the stale, excessively monetized team eSports genre while continuing to call back to Xeno titles that preceded the current series.

  • @patyos2
    @patyos2 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That moment when you realize that Z in Xenoblade 3 is the Moebius of you know who from Xenoblade 1 and 2

  • @Cobaltios
    @Cobaltios 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I remember playing a bit of the first game when it first came out... I was intrigued, but for the life of me, it didn't really do much for me at the time. I eventually bought it when it finally came out in the West, but never bothering to play it for a whole host of random reasons. I later bought X, nearly finished it... then dropped it. 2 was the first time I actually got hooked into the journey, and finally saw the appeal of this series. 3 grabbed me, and never let go.
    I'm now in the process of going back and revisiting the world of Bionis to see if I can learn more about that world. I'm already very familiar with Alrest, but now, I need a new place to learn about to connect the rest of the stuff im not familiar with in 3.

  • @vantagehgc3499
    @vantagehgc3499 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    nice video, you have a lot of talent and i think you could make it far if you keep up this standard of editing and such.

    • @umf1e
      @umf1e  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      thank you! I'm glad you enjoyed the video

  • @neondouble_
    @neondouble_ 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How is this video only 15 minutes long? I could talk for like 6 hours straight about it...
    THIS GAME MADE ME CRY OVER A TIRKIN THAT WAS IN 6 MINUTES OF UNREQUIRED CUTSCENES HOW DOES MONOLITH KEEP DOING THIS TO ME?!

  • @dammit3048
    @dammit3048 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The gameplay of xenoblade is my absolute favorite gameplay in any game franchise. I never enjoyed turn based so the automated combat is such a breath of fresh air. It's even better in 3 with 7 characters at once. I was fighting a unique monster and left while the fight was still going letting the ai handle it and I come back to the unique monster dead. I freaking love this game

  • @illusion6546
    @illusion6546 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    39 subs wtf very underrated

  • @captianblitz
    @captianblitz 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Is it the memes? Its probably the memes.

  • @BigBossCQCLegend
    @BigBossCQCLegend 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    XenoBlade Chronicles 3 is a Beautiful MasterPiece and it’s My Favorite Switch Exclusive Game of All Time and it’s in my Top 5 Games of All Time

  • @camma12
    @camma12 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Xenoblade's title screen always reminded me of FF7's

  • @famillesabot5719
    @famillesabot5719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    In few elements
    Big Swords
    Waifu
    Big damage number
    Music.
    No seriously I discover Xenoblade with Shulk in Smash and since I have all Xenoblade (even X) and discover the all Xeno series. I really fall in loved with the stories, the character and the thematic showed in all those game. The gameplay is fun as well but it's not that transcendant compared to how good is the story. The music however is as good as the story even better sometime.

    • @umf1e
      @umf1e  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      damn I have to play Xenoblade X. The OST alone makes me want to try it.

    • @famillesabot5719
      @famillesabot5719 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@umf1e it's the same speach I give to players who want to try X...
      Great game play with emulator or buy a cheap Wii u. However X strengh don't come from the same as the other Xenoblade. What is really fun is the open world. The main story is okay but it's the weakest among the Xeno series.

  • @boredhuman6512
    @boredhuman6512 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Its Eunie. Come on who else?

  • @iwanttoputkamuistoesinmymo5938
    @iwanttoputkamuistoesinmymo5938 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Agree with u saying xenoblade 2 has the best areas. Uraya is the coolest area i ever seen in a jrpg by far. Even taking xenoblade x into consideration

  • @Dionaea_floridensis
    @Dionaea_floridensis 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I agree origin was dull but I didn't think it was one of the most boring areas I'd ever been to in a game lol, but I can see how one might feel that way with the World Tree and Bionis Interior having been much more interesting

    • @umf1e
      @umf1e  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      yeah I guess I was exaggerating it a bit much. Mechonis field had some great areas at the end but the first few floors felt a bit dull. I quess it's also a matter of preference. Sci-fi environments don't seem to really do it for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @lesslighter
    @lesslighter 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    at least... for gods sake square........ remake Xenogears or somethin..... :X though I still really wonder if High Entians being Telethia is infact a reference gag to the final portions of Xenogears, where humans are mutated to become angels and become part of the final boss which is a planetary destroyer weapon

  • @david_8916
    @david_8916 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Everything

  • @Runningwritingreading
    @Runningwritingreading 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    The characters

  • @GhostTwinkek
    @GhostTwinkek 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'd argue this is a well executed advertisement.
    The cuts and mixing were on point.
    Did a beautiful job utilizing the immersion and message of the games for sure.

  • @cabecorra91
    @cabecorra91 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    One word: Waifus.

  • @The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung
    @The_Prizessin_der_Verurteilung 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Welsh cat girls.
    EZ.

    • @umf1e
      @umf1e  2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Welsh cat girls indeed.

  • @Sir_Serpent
    @Sir_Serpent 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    You forgot xenoblade X it connected
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    Xenoblade X the ganglion have fear of real human body, so they fear Zanza if real body find monado, Mira was totally bionis and meckonis but very later and not moving so even if is not easy to place in timeline is a part of the story.

  • @sebsebsn7263
    @sebsebsn7263 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Damn. I loved xc2 and 1. But 3 was a downer. Although The battle system and leveling and looting was much fun the story sucked so hard that it was sometimes even embarrassed watching it. Pathetic and illogical. When xc2 was sometimes really funny (even up to a little childish) and the protagonists lovable I struggled to build any connections to the ones of xc3 as most of their decisions seemed implausible. But maybe this was just the result due to the totally illogical motives of the antagonists. The forced plot twist (every xc had one and it was great!) In xc3 with m and n was a joke. At no time have been their motives plausible. Really sad as everything else in the game was fantastic.

  • @topasu9454
    @topasu9454 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    i physically cringed at the title

    • @trueNahobino
      @trueNahobino 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Then why did you click on it?