Hey ya'll! Thanks as always for watching. As I said, there are definitely things I missed and some light theories I presented that I'm still developing, but that's half of the fun with game release hype cycles! Let me know if you have any personal theories! P.S. I dolphin dived into the ground over half a dozen times for that small skit and that might explain the slight back pain over the past few days, so... I hope you enjoy!
One thing that Enel pointed out in one of his videos on this is that the official art for each character has a faint glow of a specific color on one leg and if lined up a certain way, it creates a rainbow. This clearly means that Rein will not only be present but also majorly important to the plot (or it could be related to the Bible and the fact that the main protagonist is named Noah).
Knowing how Biblical Xeno can get, the concept of Noah with a flood and a succeeding rainbow definitely wouldn't surprise me. That's really rad, though!
You really had me with the “if you squint really hard you can see the game is coming out in September of this year!” I went like “woah, what did I miss?” and then immediately realized “OH, LOL!”
I think Mio could be a Blade that Nia bonded with, which then took on many of Nia’s characteristics, kind of like how Haze looks a lot like Lora, and Wulfric looks like an Arachno.
@@KayJulers btw my thoughts on the logo are that instead of ether particles, it could reference the fog king’s particles, maybe hinting at a bigger involvement than we’ve seen so far
Thanks so much! That’s really relieving to hear cause I was stressing the whole time whether I could actually present anything new that others hadn’t done so far.
@@KayJulers As an example the first thing I can remember was you spotting the blue disc on Noah's belt in the first shot. I've seen other people point out the discs, but not in that opening shot.
Let's go, excellent analysis my dude! Some smaller details aside (some of which were revealed on Twitter during the making of this video), you managed to capture basically all of the important details- huge props. Now, since you asked for details and theories, I think I'll throw my crackpot theory into the mix! The more I thought about this, the more sense it makes to me, and I've seen people echo similar thoughts (sorry for the length of this one lol): The people of Aionios are the founders of XCX's Samaarian Federation, and Aionios itself becomes Planet Mira. If you had asked me if XCX should connect to the mainline series a couple of months ago, I would have said no- their stories are very different, and their lore is contradictory. But considering the details present both in the trailer and supplemental information, I think it's actually quite possible. *In Theory* ... Xenoblade 3 will end with Noah shepherding the world's inhabitants out of Aionios on an Ark. This would likely be due to the fog beasts, but it could also be due to the Conduit being funky (whatever the reason, Oroboros and the clocks will likely have something to do with it). Regardless, after reclaiming and harnessing the Conduit's power, they will jump to one of the infinite parallel universes in search of their lost homeland- Earth. The world left behind becomes what we know as Planet Mira, with the only sentient race to remain on the planet, the Nopon, becoming an indigenous species. In their new world, Noah's descendants will become known as Samaarians, and they will found the Samaarian Federation- now residents in the universe of X. For context, Luxaar says "At the dawn of the cosmos, the Samaarian's arrived from another plane", and we know they were genetically identical to humans. There seem to be a lot of details that back this up. Mira is a cross-universe dumping ground of various species on the brink of extinction. Aionios is already exhibiting signs of this, with pieces of the separate universes of XC1 and XC2 getting mashed together from across time and space. Pieces of Bionis Leg, Makna Forest, and the Mechonis sword are visible in this trailer, despite the fact that they were destroyed at the end of XC1. Most clearly is the Mechonis Sword, Zanza cut that blade in twain by the hilt. Mira might be the world of Aionios just changed after the mixing of numerous worlds over thousands of years. The XCX artbook validates this, with Cauldros labeled as "old planet wroth" among other such details. I wouldn't be surprised if the ring present in Oblivia is in the world of Aionios at some point, if this idea holds up that is. The common theory is that the ring is from the Mechonis' shoulder, but I've since been informed that dialogue in the Nopon Camp in Oblivia actually suggests that it was from a flying city. So it's entirely possible that it is the large disk of a fallen Alcamoth. Whether or not we'll see Alcamoth fall in this story or if this part holds any credence at all, we'll have to see. I have to check it myself, but apparently, this is the line in question: "The rings were part of an advanced civilization floating in the sky that fell when they ran out of power to keep afloat." Other details that add up under this theory: This would also explain where X's Nopon came from (they're indigenous to the planet), and would retroactively make the easter egg's to XC1 (Hom Hom, Frontier Village, and Monado references) canonically accurate. It *also* explains where Mira's resident Telethia came from. Lastly, regarding Uroboros and the clocks, this might explain why the High Entia, Machina, and Blades are all "aging" at the same rate as humans. Funny enough, this is the part I'm least confident about, but maybe residents of this world are forced to fill up their "clocks" in order to prevent themselves from dying out, which ends up facilitating the battle between Keves and Agnus (On this topic, I liked your theory about the departed souls being turned to fuel as they're sent off, I don't think I've heard that one yet). Either way, some time-shenanigans are clearly at play in this world. Could it be that the instability of the world is brought by the encroaching fog beasts (purple fog in this trailer)? Is that why Noah would have to shepherd the lambs (literally the names of the two nations) to a new promised land where they might live in harmony? Looks like we'll have to wait until September to see lol. I think what I like most about this theory is that it lines up with Xeno as a brand, the fog beasts being similar to Gnosis, Keves and Agnus mirroring the warring nations in XG, and the whole "Return to a promised land" shtick being an element that always finds it's way back to Xeno. Let me know what you think... if you got around to reading this far lol
Damn, I'm really impressed with all of the thought and logic behind this. I always thought the rings in Oblivia were strange, but the Hom Hom mention by Tatsu in the middle of the final boss was always the biggest piece of evidence to me suggesting there was a deeper motive behind everything. You don't just drop a cute easter egg in the middle of the final boss like that. I'm really interested to see if this will be simply the capstone to Xenoblade so far or this mass crossover with all things Xeno. This game in a lot of ways will act as a gauge for me in what to expect from the series going forward.
@@KayJulers Very well put! I've seen a lot of people suggest that this might be the end of the -blade line of games, but since Takahashi has expressed interest in continuing the world of X, I do think revisiting that world is next in some form or another. The question that remains to be seen is whether or not the mainline trilogy will be a part of it. This isn't exactly a theory I *desperately want* to happen either, just a collection of ideas that I thought made sense when put together. If they go a completely different route and end the mainline story separately from X, I'd be perfectly content. I never expected XC3 to be a sequel in the first place, I thought XC1 and XC2 both had satisfyingly conclusive endings, so this combined sequel feels more like a bonus lol
Taion actually has the mark on his palm that you can see in one of the shots of him running, and Mio has it on her neck if you look at her official art
I commented this with someone else, but it really feels like a game of I Spy trying to find some of these. I would've never considered his palm haha. Thanks for the info!
I think there’s a big theme of some sort of time manipulation, as the mechonis sword is fully in tact while in Xenoblade 1 it was split in half. And the ages of characters like eunie and lanz not lining up with their “childhood friends”. How can lanz and eunie be 18 like the rest of the cast but aging significantly slower, my only guess atm is some sort of time manipulation. This wouldn’t surprised me as clocks play a big role in this game as seen by the trailer.
I didn’t realize the “tattoo” designs might indicate what role someone plays in society. That idea is unique and I haven’t heard that from anyone yet! Good analysis!
13:50 I don't know about the joker and Akhos, but our boy HB will never stop excelling. 14:45 I can't remember who brought it up, I think it was Enel but I'm not certain, drew parallels between this line about people being fuel, the names of the countries and Deus from Xenogears as well. It's interesting to think about the ways that XC3 might be the Xenoblade universe' retelling of the Xenogears story, or something similar anyway. An interesting thing about those landscape shots is how reminiscent some of them are to Mira from XCX. The distant fingertip looks out over an area with terrain the reminds of the the plateaus and grasslands of Primordia, the Agnus Mech with the waterfalls in the background reminds me of areas from Noctilum, the desert shot of what might be the Fallen arm is reminiscent of Oblivia's landscape, the floating islands with the grind rail are probably the floating reefs from Erith sea, and wouldn't you know it, but there's an area in Oblivia literally called the Floating Reef. In fact, the giant floating city thing might be the giant Ring that dominates the Oblivia skyline. Coincidence? Probably, but a guy can dream right? Is it a bad thing that when someone first mentioned that Melia might be talking about a third organization working from the shadows called Ouroboros that my mind immediately went to the Trails series?
Theory about clocks and ouroboros: Perhaps clocks count down someone's lifespan, which they can prolong by killing ("fighting to live, living to fight", maybe also connected to the soul/ether/whatever particles). They're part of a short lifecycle where they're constantly replaced to continue the war. I think at least some people are either clones or genetically engineered soldiers built for this purpose. Then Ouroboros could be people who have somehow rejected this cycle and get to escape the ticking clock to live past their assigned lifespan. This would explain why the clock symbol is replaced by an ouroboros symbol. Those particles could also be the fuel mentioned. Soldiers are engineered to die and produce this fuel which the offseers send back to the ones controlling it all (it would be very Xenoblade for them to think they're eulogizing the dead when they're actually key to maintaining the cycle).
Been looking forward to your thoughts on the trailer since it dropped and you did a great job going over things you noticed and it was quite entertaining so thank you KayJulers!
Another thing I noticed: Eunie's wings change colour, and this colour flip *could* be related to the way New Vandham's hair colour is negated from his XC2 design. The style is almost exactly the same so the fact that the colour is flipped seems significant.
Very fun video and giving a nice overview of all the new info. Loved the part where you talk about the Machina genepool being screwed up, shame on you, Dunban!!1 :D
Great video. There is so much about this trailer and the supplemental information surrounding it that confuses me, yet it's intriguing at the same time. Every major character with one exception has been confirmed to be 18 years of age. Mio is 19, but all of the others are 18. Can it really be a coincidence that all of them have such similar ages? Does Ouroboros refer to an evil organization, or does it refer to the party of playable characters? What exactly is a "flame clock"? I don't have any answers to these questions, but all of them are so intriguing. The one thing I wonder about the most is why the world is called Aionios. It is supposed to be a merged form of both XC1 and XC2's worlds, so why is it not just called "Alrest" or something like that? I don't think that the world of XC1 had a name (and if it did it was never mentioned, apart from the Bionis and Mechonis), but XC2's world did have a name. I just don't see why they would change the name of their world like this, unless it doesn't take place on planet Earth at all. Maybe the Earth of XC2 was somehow transported completely into XC1's universe or vice versa, and that's how the two worlds came to be merged. Hard to say, but it's an interesting possibility. (Also, a small nitpick. The word kéves technically means "sheep" (as in an adult sheep) rather than "lamb" in Hebrew. It is sometimes translated as "lamb" into English, but that's not what it really means. Agnus is actually the Latin word for "lamb" though, so I do think it's still significant that both nation's names have to do with lambs and/or sheep. It's possible that the names might be another religious reference, since the phrase "Agnus Dei" means "Lamb of God" in Latin, which was an epithet of Jesus.)
I'm playing Xenoblade DE right now, and during one heart to heart between Dunban and Shulks in Satorl Marsh they're saying that the lights in the Marsh is ether and that it might be depleted at some point in a hundred or a thousand years and that before that point they should find a different kind of fuel. It strengthens the theory that the dead are being used as fuel allowng us to understand Taion's " They're not your friends anymore, they're his fuel !" and the Ouroboros. Are they caught in a eternal loop of life and death. Is the world a purgatory?
It is interesting to see how much he actually got right about this game from the trailer, even as some things were totally off base. I really couldn’t figure out even that much from it.
I think the guy who looks like vandham is an alternative version of him from the xenoblade 1 universe because he is wearing mainly black clothes like the other keves characters
12:24 I seriously herd this voice line serveral times and not once did I think it sounded like Rex. NOAH SOUNDS NOTHING LIKE HIM AND YES IM COMPLAINING ABOUT SOMETHING PROBABLY STUPID BUT YOU CANT STOP ME HAHAHAHHAAHHAHAH I’m having a stroke please help
One thing I'm thinking the combat will do is have both the 1 and 2 style of combat systems. Keves will fight like a xc1 character and Agnus like an xc2 character. They're different armies who've learned different fighting styles. And Agnus specifically is described as a nation that uses ether, which is characteristic of specials from Xenoblade 2. Xenoblade 1 has no specials and the only ether attacks are by using an Ether rifle or staff (only eunie). So I'm pretty sure at the very least, Agnus will have specials but Keves won't (maybe they'll have talent arts)
Dumping this wherever I can but we see a new Vandham and Uraya is in the game and I've not seen many people mention Garfont Village/Mecenaries. While I don't think this new Vandham is a direct descendant of Rex they can still be an homage/successor to both him and the OG Vandham via the mercenaries especially when it seems like he's a third party to the war much like in Xenoblade 2. It'd also be a good explanation for having the accent while not being Urayan if they were an orphan taken into the village possibly even by an older Rex. The name too if they are actually called Vandham.
I looked at the official art of Mio for I don't even know how long and never noticed the mark on her neck. I swear it's like a bloody game of I Spy with these things lol. Thanks for pointing it out!
@@KayJulers Yeah, it's kinda hidden on the like the very edge of her neck. But it's there. The only one we don't have full confirmation of having the mark is Taion. Though there is a frame in the trailer (where they are running on the beach) where we can see a black dot or something on his left palm.
The symbol in the logo can also be barely seen on the side of Mio's neck in her art, and in the scene where Taion is running in front of the big yellow dinosaur looking thing, you can see something on the inside of his left hand. It's really hard to make out, but it's probably the same symbol
Another really cool detail that doesn't really matter is that as well as the foliage that you can see grown on the Mechonis' Sword, you can also see frost gathering on its hilt, which makes sense as it's really freaking tall
It feels like these characters aren't so much descendants of prior ones, but like Mechonis’ sword existing in the same world as a fallen titan, the worlds, and possibly some of the people of the two games, have overlapped. What if our heroes are halved, different variations of previously existing, or even fused together, heroes? Perhaps the Architect, in an attempt to undo his mistake, brings everything together into one reality, folding worlds on top of worlds. Some elements/things/people retain their selves, but it seems like our main cast have to fuse together, combine two halves, to create a whole self… just seems to be a theme I’m picking up. Things undone, things coming together. Good thing we don't have to wait too long to fine out!
I feel like the characters ages might not be time related but perhaps connected to the cycle of war. I think the fighters might all be genetically engineered clones of some kind. This would explain why dead characters might return in a different form (like Vandham, or "they're not your friends anymore!"), and why some characters seem to have a mix of characteristics of previous characters: Vandham/Zeke in New Vandham, Brighid/Cassandra in Sena, Lanz being Machina and also kind of Indoline, and why Mio is so similar to Nia and has the same flesh eater core crystal. This would thematically fit with how some of the weapons seem to be combinations of other types. The ages could then relate to some kind of genetically engineered aging process rather than the natural aging of Machina, Homs, or High Entia.
20:07 I was thinking maybe instead of interrupting you awkwardly to use field skills, just walk past it like XC1, and it will tell you all the items you can and all the field skills used in a notification in the middle right hand corner of the screen.
With my predictions currently rendering, I am so relieved you don't know much about Xenogears, because Xenoblade 3 is perfect works 5 (Xenogears/some portion of Xenosaga 3's mashing of the remaining parts into one). The lines "I refuse to believe you're him" and "They're not your friends anymore, they're his fuel" have a LOT of significance if you know about Xenogears' plot. This is one of the better analyses I've seen for Xenoblade 3 though, especially the level of depth in trying to match the environments.
Its strange that people call the vandahm-look-alike just straight up vandahm. Vandahm is urayan and has some strange rock like scales on the side of his face.
There's a conversation with a machina child in XB1 that suggests that machina are able to adjust the rate at which they age; claiming his friend's growth algorithm is malfunctioning. So that might be what's going on?
A. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe anything in Xenoblade 1 explicitly states that Machina age slowly. Machina live a hell of a long time, but it could very easily be a situation where they age up to adulthood around 18 and simply stop aging. They are primarily machines after all, maintenance can keep a machine going infinitely.
I'm willing to bet that the fog beasts from future connected are going to be vital to the plot. I also like to think that this is the new world from XC1, after the recreation of the world, merged together with XC2s dying world.
@@KayJulers"Ahh I see you've been playing Mario kart 8 deluxe and super smash brothers ultimate.... WHAT'S THIS!? 1000 hours in the xenoblade series!? I'm impressed kid"
I wonder why Mechonis' great sword fell on this land. Didn't the whole titan disappear by the endgame of XC1? Probably some time altering or just esthetic?
But Nia is a flesh eater. Not a normal blade. She has human parts, so she could potentially reproduce. And the voice doesn't sound anything like Rex. He sounds more like Milton. Which has a different voice actor.
Ok, so time is a loop of war, in which off seeing of the fallen causes an extension of the timeloop....but if i blow your flute, and you blow mine, then something xeno happens zohar style...then you fight God. Noah and the flood parallel along the way maybe?
I've been seeing people mention the concept of Noah and the flood in the comments, and I think it's a strong possibility. What is our figurative flood? I'm not entirely sure.
Maybe in the consecuences of being a blade eater, Nia was able yo have children sice she was half human? Aldo I think the ages in the twitter thing are mostly saying how they look or maybe how they present themaelfs being that if they were older maybe they knows of things That they souldt and is a spoiler or idk im just doing random theories xD Im really curious to what will be the nature of the World like Yeah it could be a merge of 1 and 2 something created from both or just a third alternate universe created from using the Zohar, maybe characters like mio being the Nia we Know come from the original timeline knowing that there are ways to travel between worlds we saw kos mos shulk and elma as more than fanservice generally IDK IDK IDK 💀
Mio, Taion, and Sena: You are designated as A team. The leader shall be Mio. Noah, Lanz, and Eunie: you will be K team, with Noah as the leader. There are times when a single button can make three worlds go extinct. Life is simply unfair, Don't you think? K: How did I get here
Wouldn't be surprised if the game ends with Noah leading mankind into space while Aionios gets destroyed by the war or some greater threat. Knowing Takahashi, there must be correlation between Noah's name and Noah's ark from the bible.
Hope the mc is better than reks. And please get more varied voice actors for eng dub, enough with 100% British voices only. And hope they kill off the nopon
Hey ya'll! Thanks as always for watching. As I said, there are definitely things I missed and some light theories I presented that I'm still developing, but that's half of the fun with game release hype cycles! Let me know if you have any personal theories!
P.S. I dolphin dived into the ground over half a dozen times for that small skit and that might explain the slight back pain over the past few days, so... I hope you enjoy!
Ok
How on Earth would you need over half a dozen takes for that
One thing that Enel pointed out in one of his videos on this is that the official art for each character has a faint glow of a specific color on one leg and if lined up a certain way, it creates a rainbow. This clearly means that Rein will not only be present but also majorly important to the plot (or it could be related to the Bible and the fact that the main protagonist is named Noah).
Reyn will be the cause of the flood
Knowing how Biblical Xeno can get, the concept of Noah with a flood and a succeeding rainbow definitely wouldn't surprise me. That's really rad, though!
CAN'T HAVE A RAINBOW WITHOUT REYN, BABY"
You really had me with the “if you squint really hard you can see the game is coming out in September of this year!” I went like “woah, what did I miss?” and then immediately realized “OH, LOL!”
I have to make sure I keep everyone on their toes lol.
16:40 Reyn Has The Ability to Allyoop Though Time and Space which are harnessed by Rainbows
I think Mio could be a Blade that Nia bonded with, which then took on many of Nia’s characteristics, kind of like how Haze looks a lot like Lora, and Wulfric looks like an Arachno.
Screw sleeping at a reasonable time, I want to watch my half an hour kayjulers video!
Oh God! I'm unintentionally encouraging poor sleeping habits!
@@KayJulers btw my thoughts on the logo are that instead of ether particles, it could reference the fog king’s particles, maybe hinting at a bigger involvement than we’ve seen so far
Hyped not only for Xenoblade 3, but for the video essays about it. Keep up the great work!
Thank you, will do!
This was actually my favourite analysis to watch so far, even some new things I learned!
Thanks so much! That’s really relieving to hear cause I was stressing the whole time whether I could actually present anything new that others hadn’t done so far.
@@KayJulers As an example the first thing I can remember was you spotting the blue disc on Noah's belt in the first shot. I've seen other people point out the discs, but not in that opening shot.
Really happy to see your analysis is here I’ve been looking forward to it. Can’t wait for Xenoblade 3
Thank you and I hope you like it! Only 7 more months!
Let's go, excellent analysis my dude! Some smaller details aside (some of which were revealed on Twitter during the making of this video), you managed to capture basically all of the important details- huge props. Now, since you asked for details and theories, I think I'll throw my crackpot theory into the mix! The more I thought about this, the more sense it makes to me, and I've seen people echo similar thoughts (sorry for the length of this one lol):
The people of Aionios are the founders of XCX's Samaarian Federation, and Aionios itself becomes Planet Mira. If you had asked me if XCX should connect to the mainline series a couple of months ago, I would have said no- their stories are very different, and their lore is contradictory. But considering the details present both in the trailer and supplemental information, I think it's actually quite possible.
*In Theory* ... Xenoblade 3 will end with Noah shepherding the world's inhabitants out of Aionios on an Ark. This would likely be due to the fog beasts, but it could also be due to the Conduit being funky (whatever the reason, Oroboros and the clocks will likely have something to do with it). Regardless, after reclaiming and harnessing the Conduit's power, they will jump to one of the infinite parallel universes in search of their lost homeland- Earth.
The world left behind becomes what we know as Planet Mira, with the only sentient race to remain on the planet, the Nopon, becoming an indigenous species. In their new world, Noah's descendants will become known as Samaarians, and they will found the Samaarian Federation- now residents in the universe of X. For context, Luxaar says "At the dawn of the cosmos, the Samaarian's arrived from another plane", and we know they were genetically identical to humans.
There seem to be a lot of details that back this up. Mira is a cross-universe dumping ground of various species on the brink of extinction. Aionios is already exhibiting signs of this, with pieces of the separate universes of XC1 and XC2 getting mashed together from across time and space. Pieces of Bionis Leg, Makna Forest, and the Mechonis sword are visible in this trailer, despite the fact that they were destroyed at the end of XC1. Most clearly is the Mechonis Sword, Zanza cut that blade in twain by the hilt. Mira might be the world of Aionios just changed after the mixing of numerous worlds over thousands of years. The XCX artbook validates this, with Cauldros labeled as "old planet wroth" among other such details.
I wouldn't be surprised if the ring present in Oblivia is in the world of Aionios at some point, if this idea holds up that is. The common theory is that the ring is from the Mechonis' shoulder, but I've since been informed that dialogue in the Nopon Camp in Oblivia actually suggests that it was from a flying city. So it's entirely possible that it is the large disk of a fallen Alcamoth. Whether or not we'll see Alcamoth fall in this story or if this part holds any credence at all, we'll have to see. I have to check it myself, but apparently, this is the line in question: "The rings were part of an advanced civilization floating in the sky that fell when they ran out of power to keep afloat."
Other details that add up under this theory: This would also explain where X's Nopon came from (they're indigenous to the planet), and would retroactively make the easter egg's to XC1 (Hom Hom, Frontier Village, and Monado references) canonically accurate. It *also* explains where Mira's resident Telethia came from.
Lastly, regarding Uroboros and the clocks, this might explain why the High Entia, Machina, and Blades are all "aging" at the same rate as humans. Funny enough, this is the part I'm least confident about, but maybe residents of this world are forced to fill up their "clocks" in order to prevent themselves from dying out, which ends up facilitating the battle between Keves and Agnus (On this topic, I liked your theory about the departed souls being turned to fuel as they're sent off, I don't think I've heard that one yet). Either way, some time-shenanigans are clearly at play in this world.
Could it be that the instability of the world is brought by the encroaching fog beasts (purple fog in this trailer)? Is that why Noah would have to shepherd the lambs (literally the names of the two nations) to a new promised land where they might live in harmony? Looks like we'll have to wait until September to see lol.
I think what I like most about this theory is that it lines up with Xeno as a brand, the fog beasts being similar to Gnosis, Keves and Agnus mirroring the warring nations in XG, and the whole "Return to a promised land" shtick being an element that always finds it's way back to Xeno. Let me know what you think... if you got around to reading this far lol
Holy crap. I got to the end of this comment and realized i missed the whole video. (Not a bad thing) Time to watch again.
Damn, I'm really impressed with all of the thought and logic behind this. I always thought the rings in Oblivia were strange, but the Hom Hom mention by Tatsu in the middle of the final boss was always the biggest piece of evidence to me suggesting there was a deeper motive behind everything. You don't just drop a cute easter egg in the middle of the final boss like that. I'm really interested to see if this will be simply the capstone to Xenoblade so far or this mass crossover with all things Xeno. This game in a lot of ways will act as a gauge for me in what to expect from the series going forward.
@@KayJulers Very well put! I've seen a lot of people suggest that this might be the end of the -blade line of games, but since Takahashi has expressed interest in continuing the world of X, I do think revisiting that world is next in some form or another. The question that remains to be seen is whether or not the mainline trilogy will be a part of it.
This isn't exactly a theory I *desperately want* to happen either, just a collection of ideas that I thought made sense when put together. If they go a completely different route and end the mainline story separately from X, I'd be perfectly content. I never expected XC3 to be a sequel in the first place, I thought XC1 and XC2 both had satisfyingly conclusive endings, so this combined sequel feels more like a bonus lol
Taion actually has the mark on his palm that you can see in one of the shots of him running, and Mio has it on her neck if you look at her official art
I commented this with someone else, but it really feels like a game of I Spy trying to find some of these. I would've never considered his palm haha. Thanks for the info!
I think there’s a big theme of some sort of time manipulation, as the mechonis sword is fully in tact while in Xenoblade 1 it was split in half. And the ages of characters like eunie and lanz not lining up with their “childhood friends”. How can lanz and eunie be 18 like the rest of the cast but aging significantly slower, my only guess atm is some sort of time manipulation. This wouldn’t surprised me as clocks play a big role in this game as seen by the trailer.
I didn’t realize the “tattoo” designs might indicate what role someone plays in society. That idea is unique and I haven’t heard that from anyone yet! Good analysis!
Thank you!
13:50 I don't know about the joker and Akhos, but our boy HB will never stop excelling.
14:45 I can't remember who brought it up, I think it was Enel but I'm not certain, drew parallels between this line about people being fuel, the names of the countries and Deus from Xenogears as well. It's interesting to think about the ways that XC3 might be the Xenoblade universe' retelling of the Xenogears story, or something similar anyway.
An interesting thing about those landscape shots is how reminiscent some of them are to Mira from XCX. The distant fingertip looks out over an area with terrain the reminds of the the plateaus and grasslands of Primordia, the Agnus Mech with the waterfalls in the background reminds me of areas from Noctilum, the desert shot of what might be the Fallen arm is reminiscent of Oblivia's landscape, the floating islands with the grind rail are probably the floating reefs from Erith sea, and wouldn't you know it, but there's an area in Oblivia literally called the Floating Reef. In fact, the giant floating city thing might be the giant Ring that dominates the Oblivia skyline. Coincidence? Probably, but a guy can dream right?
Is it a bad thing that when someone first mentioned that Melia might be talking about a third organization working from the shadows called Ouroboros that my mind immediately went to the Trails series?
Theory about clocks and ouroboros:
Perhaps clocks count down someone's lifespan, which they can prolong by killing ("fighting to live, living to fight", maybe also connected to the soul/ether/whatever particles). They're part of a short lifecycle where they're constantly replaced to continue the war. I think at least some people are either clones or genetically engineered soldiers built for this purpose.
Then Ouroboros could be people who have somehow rejected this cycle and get to escape the ticking clock to live past their assigned lifespan. This would explain why the clock symbol is replaced by an ouroboros symbol.
Those particles could also be the fuel mentioned. Soldiers are engineered to die and produce this fuel which the offseers send back to the ones controlling it all (it would be very Xenoblade for them to think they're eulogizing the dead when they're actually key to maintaining the cycle).
I am so so excited for this game. Played xc2 in 2019, and it is now my favorite game. So excited to see how they bring these two worlds together.
Been looking forward to your thoughts on the trailer since it dropped and you did a great job going over things you noticed and it was quite entertaining so thank you KayJulers!
That's very kind of you! Thanks for watching!
Man I'm addicted to these analysis videos lol. You did a great job kay!!
Thank you!
Another thing I noticed: Eunie's wings change colour, and this colour flip *could* be related to the way New Vandham's hair colour is negated from his XC2 design. The style is almost exactly the same so the fact that the colour is flipped seems significant.
Very fun video and giving a nice overview of all the new info. Loved the part where you talk about the Machina genepool being screwed up, shame on you, Dunban!!1 :D
Great video. There is so much about this trailer and the supplemental information surrounding it that confuses me, yet it's intriguing at the same time. Every major character with one exception has been confirmed to be 18 years of age. Mio is 19, but all of the others are 18. Can it really be a coincidence that all of them have such similar ages? Does Ouroboros refer to an evil organization, or does it refer to the party of playable characters? What exactly is a "flame clock"?
I don't have any answers to these questions, but all of them are so intriguing. The one thing I wonder about the most is why the world is called Aionios. It is supposed to be a merged form of both XC1 and XC2's worlds, so why is it not just called "Alrest" or something like that? I don't think that the world of XC1 had a name (and if it did it was never mentioned, apart from the Bionis and Mechonis), but XC2's world did have a name. I just don't see why they would change the name of their world like this, unless it doesn't take place on planet Earth at all. Maybe the Earth of XC2 was somehow transported completely into XC1's universe or vice versa, and that's how the two worlds came to be merged. Hard to say, but it's an interesting possibility.
(Also, a small nitpick. The word kéves technically means "sheep" (as in an adult sheep) rather than "lamb" in Hebrew. It is sometimes translated as "lamb" into English, but that's not what it really means. Agnus is actually the Latin word for "lamb" though, so I do think it's still significant that both nation's names have to do with lambs and/or sheep. It's possible that the names might be another religious reference, since the phrase "Agnus Dei" means "Lamb of God" in Latin, which was an epithet of Jesus.)
I'm playing Xenoblade DE right now, and during one heart to heart between Dunban and Shulks in Satorl Marsh they're saying that the lights in the Marsh is ether and that it might be depleted at some point in a hundred or a thousand years and that before that point they should find a different kind of fuel. It strengthens the theory that the dead are being used as fuel allowng us to understand Taion's " They're not your friends anymore, they're his fuel !" and the Ouroboros. Are they caught in a eternal loop of life and death. Is the world a purgatory?
Super well made video as always!!!
Also I really liked that you are one of the few youtubers that correctly pronounces the word "xenoblade” 😅
Always love your Xenoblade videos man early congrats on 10,000 subscribers
Thank you so much!
It is interesting to see how much he actually got right about this game from the trailer, even as some things were totally off base. I really couldn’t figure out even that much from it.
I'm hyped for the new osts yasunori mitsuda and ACE are gonna make! I'm still playing Elysium in the blue sky years later
Excellent video KayJulers! It was super in depth and made with finesse. I'm excited to see how your predictions will turn out once the game comes out.
Hey, thank you so much!
gran video kay
Already watched like 4 hours from all kinds of XC3 Analysis. Time to watch yet another!
Lmao the tangent about Lonz was fucking hilarious
7:00 Before you show Addam Xenoblade Torna battle theme.
Enjoying your latest content improvement and diversity in terms of going for a bit more comedy
Yaaaay, I've been waiting for this!! Love your videos 😤👍
6:56 Addam popping up like that made me laugh more than it should have lol
I can't have enough of these!
I think the guy who looks like vandham is an alternative version of him from the xenoblade 1 universe because he is wearing mainly black clothes like the other keves characters
12:24 I seriously herd this voice line serveral times and not once did I think it sounded like Rex. NOAH SOUNDS NOTHING LIKE HIM AND YES IM COMPLAINING ABOUT SOMETHING PROBABLY STUPID BUT YOU CANT STOP ME HAHAHAHHAAHHAHAH I’m having a stroke please help
9:50 probably Rex, or the flow of ether wills the return of Vandham to the earth
One thing I'm thinking the combat will do is have both the 1 and 2 style of combat systems. Keves will fight like a xc1 character and Agnus like an xc2 character. They're different armies who've learned different fighting styles.
And Agnus specifically is described as a nation that uses ether, which is characteristic of specials from Xenoblade 2. Xenoblade 1 has no specials and the only ether attacks are by using an Ether rifle or staff (only eunie). So I'm pretty sure at the very least, Agnus will have specials but Keves won't (maybe they'll have talent arts)
The KayJulers analysis!!! Inject XC3 directly into my bloodstream
Another Day Another Theory
It might not be the first one, but it also certainly won't be the last.
Dumping this wherever I can but we see a new Vandham and Uraya is in the game and I've not seen many people mention Garfont Village/Mecenaries. While I don't think this new Vandham is a direct descendant of Rex they can still be an homage/successor to both him and the OG Vandham via the mercenaries especially when it seems like he's a third party to the war much like in Xenoblade 2. It'd also be a good explanation for having the accent while not being Urayan if they were an orphan taken into the village possibly even by an older Rex. The name too if they are actually called Vandham.
The face mechon at the beginning reminds me of Gadolt.
20:53 looks like the Titan weapon Jin used in temperantia
That symbol is on Mio. It can be seen on her official art on the right side of her neck
I looked at the official art of Mio for I don't even know how long and never noticed the mark on her neck. I swear it's like a bloody game of I Spy with these things lol. Thanks for pointing it out!
@@KayJulers Yeah, it's kinda hidden on the like the very edge of her neck. But it's there. The only one we don't have full confirmation of having the mark is Taion. Though there is a frame in the trailer (where they are running on the beach) where we can see a black dot or something on his left palm.
I JUST FINISHED XENOBLADE 2, THANK GOD AFTER 70hs I CAN FINALLY WATCH THIS VIDEO
The symbol in the logo can also be barely seen on the side of Mio's neck in her art, and in the scene where Taion is running in front of the big yellow dinosaur looking thing, you can see something on the inside of his left hand. It's really hard to make out, but it's probably the same symbol
Another really cool detail that doesn't really matter is that as well as the foliage that you can see grown on the Mechonis' Sword, you can also see frost gathering on its hilt, which makes sense as it's really freaking tall
It feels like these characters aren't so much descendants of prior ones, but like Mechonis’ sword existing in the same world as a fallen titan, the worlds, and possibly some of the people of the two games, have overlapped. What if our heroes are halved, different variations of previously existing, or even fused together, heroes? Perhaps the Architect, in an attempt to undo his mistake, brings everything together into one reality, folding worlds on top of worlds. Some elements/things/people retain their selves, but it seems like our main cast have to fuse together, combine two halves, to create a whole self… just seems to be a theme I’m picking up. Things undone, things coming together. Good thing we don't have to wait too long to fine out!
5:49 I prefer to use the term "Shword", as coined by a certain sword-obsessed Aussie man.
24: 45 You mean like the Malice from Breath of the Wild or Malos.
How long do Indoline people live? I always wondered what happened to Stannif. Maybe he’s involved somehow...
Mio also has the mark on her neck, check the key art carefully
I feel like the characters ages might not be time related but perhaps connected to the cycle of war. I think the fighters might all be genetically engineered clones of some kind. This would explain why dead characters might return in a different form (like Vandham, or "they're not your friends anymore!"), and why some characters seem to have a mix of characteristics of previous characters: Vandham/Zeke in New Vandham, Brighid/Cassandra in Sena, Lanz being Machina and also kind of Indoline, and why Mio is so similar to Nia and has the same flesh eater core crystal. This would thematically fit with how some of the weapons seem to be combinations of other types. The ages could then relate to some kind of genetically engineered aging process rather than the natural aging of Machina, Homs, or High Entia.
Yeahhh buddy
Blade pregnancy is definitely possible, ever heard of *Vess* ?
Yes, but those children were born from the deceased wife of her Driver, not Vess.
@@KayJulers wait really?
What about the monado? Or why malos had a certain weapon? Does Alvis have a pneuma form? Or Mayneth?
20:07 I was thinking maybe instead of interrupting you awkwardly to use field skills, just walk past it like XC1, and it will tell you all the items you can and all the field skills used in a notification in the middle right hand corner of the screen.
With my predictions currently rendering, I am so relieved you don't know much about Xenogears, because Xenoblade 3 is perfect works 5 (Xenogears/some portion of Xenosaga 3's mashing of the remaining parts into one). The lines "I refuse to believe you're him" and "They're not your friends anymore, they're his fuel" have a LOT of significance if you know about Xenogears' plot.
This is one of the better analyses I've seen for Xenoblade 3 though, especially the level of depth in trying to match the environments.
Its strange that people call the vandahm-look-alike just straight up vandahm. Vandahm is urayan and has some strange rock like scales on the side of his face.
"Fighting in order to live, and living to fight, that is the way of this world, AION iOS."
"Leave room for AlvIs!"
There's a conversation with a machina child in XB1 that suggests that machina are able to adjust the rate at which they age; claiming his friend's growth algorithm is malfunctioning. So that might be what's going on?
A. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't believe anything in Xenoblade 1 explicitly states that Machina age slowly. Machina live a hell of a long time, but it could very easily be a situation where they age up to adulthood around 18 and simply stop aging. They are primarily machines after all, maintenance can keep a machine going infinitely.
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Lmao how'd i get first lmao
I got itchy all over by seeing that grass dive
I can confirm I had to brush off a lot of grass and I had a bit of a reaction to it lol
30: 30 What is that song please.
30:11 Is that you.
Yes finally my favorite English teacher makes a video! on XC3!
I'm willing to bet that the fog beasts from future connected are going to be vital to the plot. I also like to think that this is the new world from XC1, after the recreation of the world, merged together with XC2s dying world.
Xenoblade chronicles 3 was just Xenoblade chronicles 2 - The Twin Cats after all.
SISTERS
Yo, I would totally play a Xenoblade stealth game where Psycho Malos reads my micro SD Card.
@@KayJulers"Ahh I see you've been playing Mario kart 8 deluxe and super smash brothers ultimate.... WHAT'S THIS!? 1000 hours in the xenoblade series!? I'm impressed kid"
So when do we get a Dramatis Personae for Zeke?
Still cannot believe it actually exist, also great analysis
Thanks!
What's the music at 26:37?
11:36 I personally think this could be a descendant of Shulk and Fiora
I could definitely see that. They give me a lot of Fiora vibes.
I wonder why Mechonis' great sword fell on this land. Didn't the whole titan disappear by the endgame of XC1? Probably some time altering or just esthetic?
But Nia is a flesh eater. Not a normal blade. She has human parts, so she could potentially reproduce. And the voice doesn't sound anything like Rex. He sounds more like Milton. Which has a different voice actor.
Senas hair also looks like hugos
Most important thing about this analysis, the shrieking sound of all Xenoblade fans getting this game before the end of the year
Ok, so time is a loop of war, in which off seeing of the fallen causes an extension of the timeloop....but if i blow your flute, and you blow mine, then something xeno happens zohar style...then you fight God. Noah and the flood parallel along the way maybe?
I've been seeing people mention the concept of Noah and the flood in the comments, and I think it's a strong possibility. What is our figurative flood? I'm not entirely sure.
@@KayJulers its a jrpg, there is always a figuative flood.
Maybe in the consecuences of being a blade eater, Nia was able yo have children sice she was half human?
Aldo I think the ages in the twitter thing are mostly saying how they look or maybe how they present themaelfs being that if they were older maybe they knows of things That they souldt and is a spoiler or idk im just doing random theories xD
Im really curious to what will be the nature of the World like Yeah it could be a merge of 1 and 2 something created from both or just a third alternate universe created from using the Zohar, maybe characters like mio being the Nia we Know come from the original timeline knowing that there are ways to travel between worlds we saw kos mos shulk and elma as more than fanservice generally IDK IDK IDK 💀
seeing nia made me a thousand times more interested in this trailer
Nintendo twitter said that Eunie's weapon is called a gunrod lol
Pardon my excuse me. Did you say gunrod?
I can't tell if I love or hate that name.
1:00 By the time I watch this your TH-cam have 10k subscribers are you going to do something special.
Mio, Taion, and Sena: You are designated as A team. The leader shall be Mio.
Noah, Lanz, and Eunie: you will be K team, with Noah as the leader.
There are times when a single button can make three worlds go extinct.
Life is simply unfair, Don't you think?
K: How did I get here
Solid nia
Liquid nia
Solidus nia
Big nia
Punished venom nia
17:27 and 19:27 Is that a meme or that is you.
Where is mythraaaa ? ):
I'm so conditioned by TH-camrs now that every time you said "speaking of (thing)..." I expected you to go into a blatant ad read.
Wouldn't be surprised if the game ends with Noah leading mankind into space while Aionios gets destroyed by the war or some greater threat. Knowing Takahashi, there must be correlation between Noah's name and Noah's ark from the bible.
Vanea x Otharon = Lantz
Okay what if the characters have to kill a evil god that want to take over the world with the power of friendship
That would be something completely new and a very bold direction for the series to take!
Funny how reproduction was brought up.....
Babies? You guys got any babies?
31:18 every analysis keeps calling em a girl but i don't see it other than long hair. Guess time will tell
Hope the mc is better than reks. And please get more varied voice actors for eng dub, enough with 100% British voices only. And hope they kill off the nopon
I think the blonde flute player is a guy personally.