I mean, did Riku leave the City folk after completing the Ouroboros stone? Yeah I know he said he’d wander around Keves post DLC, but would that mean he’d have no run ins with the city folk for literal centuries?
@@LFPman he probably had to keep away from any city folk so moebius wouldn't realize he was the same nopon causing them problems. Hell he might be the reason the rule came to exist that nopon shouldn't interfere in the first place. Riku was right there in Origin. Z might've worked out that nopon had something to do with N having the sword of origin. A blade that strong and dangerous made by the nopon makes them as a species dangerous. Z probably has N as a threat to end their species if they try to go against them, threatened that they better help ensure soldiers will blindly keep maintaining the endless now. That's why they're spread out in the main game. Not only to spread secret intel between each other but just in case moebius sends anyone, they're secluded; the chances they don't get them all is higher.
I like the idea that Melia led development on Lucky Seven and Nia led development on the Ouroboros Stones. They each led something they were familiar with. One was a god slaying sword forged by a mortals (Shulk + Machina had a couple of these) One was a machine to bring about great power when two of great affinity work together. (How the Blades of Alrest work)
So you are telling me: Riku is a small mascot with twintails, lived over 1000 years, is extremely knowledgable but doesn't adequately share it, has a thing for collecting useless junk, traveled alongside not one but two hero parties and helped defeating the supervillainpon. Then i guess Xenoblade 3 should have been called Riku: Beyond journey's End
Riku Lie Counter drinking game was looking pretty reasonable until we hit chapter 5 and it suddenly looked like guaranteed death by alcohol poisoning as we went from 4 shots in about an hour to 22 more in a 10 minute burst
EDIT: So turns out I was dead wrong. Manana is the ultimate troll. 1:13:22 My heart just broke into a thousand pieces. You haven't realized - Manana knows nothing of the worlds before Aionios, nor of the true nature of the world of Aionios. She isn't an immortal; she's not an avatar of Origin. She was born inside Aionios, and so... she's not coming back. She only has a chance of being reborn down the line, likely long after Riku has passed away. Even if they were both to remember everything, every moment of their journey together, they'll... they'll never get to see each other again. Riku's one last burden is that, even if he does remember Aionios once time moves again, it'll only ensure that he knows what it is he's lost. And Manana... if she ever remembers Aionios, should she even be born again, she will likely never again see most any of the people she traveled with, and fought alongside. She'll be all alone with her memories, accompanied only by a select few nopon she'll likely never even meet. Even the people of the city are descended primarily from those who escaped the cycle, and so their genealogy will have passed them by the time the last Aionian nopon, who were primarily spared from the systems of Aionios, is reborn in the new world. I really hope I'm wrong, though - that there's something I'm missing. It's just so... unfair. The nopon of Aionios don't deserve this!
There are a quite a few ways of circumventing this. First, there is the question of people who end up not having the same spouses they had in Aionios, or just never have kids, which, unless it means that the souls just never get born, which I highly doubt, would mean that they would likely end up in a similar body, which gives her the chance to be born sooner, especially because the population of new souls is still probably small compared to the population growth in the new world, given their tiny starting landmasses compared to what they have now. That leads to the second possibility, some of the Aionios natives could just end up spawning with their bodies, because there is so much more space. As Origin is partially controlled by the will of the people within it, Manana’s and Riku’s desire to see each other again might influence how that happens. Third, with the whole Nopon maximum lifespan seeming to be optional, Riku has patience in spades, he probably would be willing to wait another millennium just to see her again. Fourth, insert here next game shenanigans that we haven’t learned about yet. Fifth, I don’t know if the Nopon Arcsage is officially non-cannon, but him pulling something just because, or Riku becoming the next Arcsage would work, this is mostly a meme, but having Riku end up an apprentice of the Arcsage, using his smithing/gemcrafting as rewards for future heroes in order to get the chance to meet Manana sounds like a great callback in future games.
Another possibility: It wouldn't be that hard to sell the idea that while rebooting Origin, a secondary process was running to gather those originally born in Aionios so they could be preserved through the intersection and brought to the later properly-reunified Earth. Basically what Alpha tried to do, but in a way that _doesn't_ screw over everyone else out of spite and impatience.
My thought with all of the Aionios-born people is that since Aionios is essentially a computer simulation, anyone born into it is “generated randomly” and therefore becomes another bit of data, so when Origin stops working, the data of those people is likely either spit out into their respective worlds (Supported by people seemingly being born with Irises so they are assigned to one of the worlds) or spit out when the worlds recombine (supported by the fact that we don’t know for sure if people are born with irises so they might not have a world). Worst case scenario is that their data would be stuck in Origin, but Tora, Shulk, and Riku can probably figure out how to get it out, maybe even using mimeosomes or smth similar
Everyone always asks "why is Riku" and never "how is Riku". Been looking forward to this since it was announced and I'll watch it when it goes up. Edit: After watching it, I now understand Riku so much more. This is to be expected, but there were genuinely things I was confused about that make way more sense now.
Riku is the unnamed hero in Xenoblade Chronicles X. That's a spoiler for the DLC chapter in Xenoblade X Definitive Edition (launch title for Switch 2 (trust me bro))
My current running theory on Riku's hair: As a young nopon growing up in Frontier Village interested in technology, he was one day investigating the Pollen Orb machine, accidentally got his real hair caught in it, which left him with a pollen orb stuck in his hair, which promptly lead to teasing and bullying by the other nopon. His mommapon (whoever that is) opted to fix the problem as best she could, by making a fur hat to cover the orb, which then turned the bullypons into jealouspons. Conveniently, the hat is more compact than his hair originally was, making it far easier for him to thoroughly investigate and tinker with more machines.
13:40 small note, Gingin and Tempapa, both have houses that look identical to the Nopon houses seen in Frontier Village from Xenoblade 1. Which imo is pretty strong evidence that they’re both from Bionis.
@@nathanblackburn1193 I mean, considering his age is frozen, probably not but I mean if you were biologically 25 for 10,000 years, would you consider yourself 25 or 10,025? Because that's Riku's situation basically
I would kill for a prequel to the prequel of xenoblade 3 as a Xenoblade Warriors game, ending with Melia being captured and Nia in hiding. Then everyone is already there as avatars!! And since Origin brought back Dannagh Desert, it could bring back Lora, Jin, Malos, Egil, Kallian, etc. as DLC opportunities!!
Made my pfp Riku immediately after the reveal trailer. I never changed it since as his character was fascinating to me. I loved this video because it showed me so much more.
1:22:00 something to point out about riku's hair is that every nopon that has become a party member has unique hair and riki has armor that changes the color of the tips of his hair iirc 1 that makes it brown
In Future Redeemed, Riku mentioned that both Melia and Nia worked on the Ouroboros Stone in the Ouroboros power side quest, which would mean that they meet before Melia was captured. Edit: Also think that Noah had given Melia up to Moebius in the incarnation that he was labeled a traitor, probably for the promise that he and Mio could live a full peaceful together, which would give birth to Gondor. Another thing, I think why there are 2 lucky sevens is because originally, it was a combined sword that was divided into 2 parts, similar to the all the swords born from the female aspect of any trinity.
27:45 - He's voiced by Taion's actor in Japanese as well. It's my understanding that the spirit of "the six" always re-manifests in some way (hence their voices being the same in all the Noah and Mio flashbacks where we hear them). I believe M said something like "You ALL are my repentance" - which I interpreted as a more traditional application of reincarnation. As in the souls are the same, but the bodies are different (for the non-Noah and Mio Ouroboros members). This is just how I choose to read into this - I'd love to hear other thoughts.
@@hyliastone286 Does there have to be a practical reason for it? Aionios is a circle of pain and suffering, if the souls of people in Origin we're heavily linked with N and M already active, the souls of those 4 others may have been in stasis until our Noah and Mio came back due to the cycles of the cradles.
@@magicalduckye2356 I'm talking about the bodies. No other Aionian soldiers have had their bodies be different in different lives, and if they're people from the city, it means party members still within the Origin cycle are reincarnating as their own descendants.
@@hyliastone286 That is a very good point, as the bodies should not, and I don't think change, but I could see it as almost an unreliable narrator situation where N/M suppressed those memories because of having so many/not wanting to recall such lives due to the pain, thus the normal look for the Taion VA. I also think this may be the first life all 6 of them are together such as if that was another Taion. Eunie, Sena and Lanz may not have been with that group in particular. Something to that effect being almost kind of the "god luck" type situation for our Noah and Mio.
@@magicalduckye2356 Maybe. To be honest, I think Joran, Eunie, and Lanz being reborn alongside Noah in the party we see was likely intentional interference from Riku.
You know, it never crossed my mind until this video reminded me that Linka and Panacea wouldn't age, but we don't actually know what happened to them as the statues only describe Shulk & Rex. It's probably safest to assume they died for the cause in battles with Mobius, or perhaps they pulled a Shulk & Rex and retired to Origin as Avatars once they felt comfortable to pass on the dream yet again? Being house founders they would have had offspring at some point, you'd assume. I wish I hadn't thought of this. We'll never know for certain.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO SINCE XC3 CAME OUT NEARLY 2 YEARS AGO. Thank you Luxin for finally bringing this much-needed video to life, true king stuff right here
Idk if this is random but the premiere countdown I got looked a lot like Kosmos’s pod, which is fitting. Also the let it be cover was beautiful, thank you
This is no joke one of the best Nopon videos I've ever seen Never thought it was sadder to see someone outlive their friends for years and having to put up a shield to prevent too much of a personal attachment, until Manana came around
Need a theory on why nopon were allowed freedom in aionios under Z. Wtf is up with that? I think the archsage is being behind the zohar and he's been pulling strings since the early xeno games.
At some point, Nopon organized a deal with Moebius to stay out of each other's way. It should be noted that nopon are not born via Cradles and exist in a very similar manner to City folk where they have normal lifespans for their species. However how they exist within Aionios is unexplained (although the only time a birth place has ever been mentioned by Nopon has been Mira. Every other game only shows major settlements and not explicit origins). Why Z made the deal is unclear, it could've been done to prevent the deeper secrets of Moebius and Aionios from becoming public knowledge. The whole war hinges on the idea that nothing is going on behind the scenes. But once people start getting suspicious, it would be incredibly easy to overthrow a good chunk of Moebius. Nopon could easily spread rumors and suggest that things aren't as they seem as they casually peddle their wares.
So Z's powers are human specific. He's ties to the collective unconscious only encompasses the humans stored within Origin and as such he can't actually manipulate nopon by being a physical manifestation of their fears, desires ect. This is actually really funny because if a nopon ouroboros were to exist, Z couldn't seal it. To Z nopon are an existence near akin to Alpha not necessarily being effective against him but being immune to his most potent forms of attack. This makes Nopon potentially the biggest threat to Moebius and if antagonized a a sufficiently power nopon,which would need to be a really strong nopon or group of nopon to be fair, could instigate another Alpha incident. It is by sheer luck that nopon are the fun loving, go with the flow species that they are, allowing Z and Moebius to operate without a competing nopon coagulation of wills forming in origin ruining everything.
It's finally here! My birthday's in a few weeks I'll count this as a gift. For now just a preemptive like and a common variety comment and I will try to restrain from typing anything during the video because that usually ends with Luxin addressing my concern 2 seconds after I pause the video to chime in.
you actually brought up something in regards to M i'd been wondering for a while now. I think there's a good chance M did indeed know of the events of future redeemed. when mio is showing noah N's memories, these explicitly came from M, and when we see mio and M talking those memories are on screens surrounding them to represent this. but not only is it all from noah's perspective, there's things she wouldn't have been there for like him saying goodbye to his son. we can easily assume that M looked at his mind at some point over the years, especially because of how upset she was at his choices im sure she would've sought to understand what was going through his mind. not to mention that as an ally of the city for presumably a while, perhaps even soon after her being reborn as moebius and trying to cope with the morality of her new existence, there definitely would've been lots of opportunities for her to at least know of alpha's existence the main issue here is asking why the main party/mio wouldn't also know of the events of future redeemed in this case, and this has two explanations. the first is obviously the meta one that the devs arent just going to spoil future redeemed and while i imagine it probably had a finalized story around this time it was still in development, but given that M is already dropping a lot on mio, i imagine that going "also there was this guy who tried to destroy the world but that's only slightly relevant to what we're talking about the situation you're in" was considered to be a bit much. when it comes to N, it's important to keep in mind that while future redeemed added context to his motives in destroying the city, it doesnt necessarily contradict anything that's shown in the base game. the flashbacks show N agreeing to Z's request to destroy the city for M's sake, but we now know WHY Z wanted the city destroyed beyond just "they oppose me". N was still there with the intent to kill City folk to stop them from being Alpha's power source. If M knowing the Alpha context is true, I suspect the reason she omitted it (aside from not wanting to overwhelm mio) is because it ultimately didn't change much about her perspective and it doesn't change much about N and M's current relationship where he's become incredibly possessive over her. she might've also seen it as more indicative of Z's motives then N's as N still initially agreed on behalf of mio, seemingly before he was told about Alpha. the only hole in this theory i can think of is that they talk about mio having M's memories but it's not exactly specified if mio knows these things because M shared them with her or because of the body she's inhabiting. M clearly witnesses the memories of the person she inhabits, that's the entire basis of this theory, but since M was the one initiating the body swap with her and mio i dont think its implausible that she only remembered what M allowed her to see. i also think that M omitted N killing Ghondor because she understood it wasnt an active action N took and didn't necessarily want the party to judge him for it. considering she showed up right after ghondor's death as shown in future redeemed there's a good chance she saw the body, but mio doesnt seem to know anything about ghondor's death, positive or negative. a lot of this theory comes from the fact that i think N keeping M in the dark doesnt hold up when you consider she can view his memories and has very good reason to want to do so, being very upset with his actions, and if she hasn't viewed his memories then chapter 5 makes a lot less sense or you have to argue that she was making up memories she wasnt there for, which is not how the game frames it.
Yeah, it doesn’t add up from a bird’s eye view, though N could’ve also buried the memory of Alpha deep within his mind so M couldn’t have seen it, only Noah knows about the truth behind Alpha and the city’s demise after fusing with N but that’s just me
Bare in mind that M really only had two years and however long FR was to find put about Alpha. M only reincarnated as the City was destroyed. She was never aware of N killing Ghondor (at least initially, perhaps she was able to discover it at some point given she can scrape people's brains. But the game doesn't indicate she knew Ghondor was killed by N). Not trying to be morbid here, but M was more than likely trying to kill herself during the two year period post City destruction. With her only stopping once Nia gave her the Cloudkeep Key. Everything we know seems to point to N keeping things pretty secretive, plus Alpha was still very subtle with his actions and few knew Moebius was actually locked down. So while M shouldve probably known about some parts of FR, she simply wouldn't have known ALL the events of FR unless she looked into N's head. Which is a scenario that is never really confirmed or denied.
@@MiguelHernandez-lo5lg thats true but again i feel like she HAD to have looked into his mind had to given that mio shows noah memories m literally wasnt there for and m has a power that would explain that very situation
Fun fact about the possibility of riku being Kino’s kid: his name would br a combination of Riki and Shulk’s japanese name, Shuruku, which are the two people Kino looks up to most :)
some thoughts i have while watching -rex mentions in future redeemed he wish he met dunban so this implys either dunban wasnt an avatar (unlikely), died before origin (possible), or dunban died in origin before 1s cast met up with 2s so this could support riku never meeting the other 6 hammerpon -nopon were said to be neutral in origin by X so its possible riku was given lucky seven because he would be the safest hands (wings) to hold onto the sword because of his species neutral status loved the video and i wish i could have watched it live but it started during D&D so i had to wait a day but id love to join live in the future
About the Monado REX+, what if the only actual Monado replica is the one Melia has? Rex has Blade... copies? of the Aegis Swords in Aionios, so perhaps Shulk's Monado (which also functions as a Blade) is also just a Blade. The reason it looks exactly like the original Monado REX+ could be because Shulk would be intimately familiar with the construction and mechanics behind it while Rex probably only knows how to use the Aegis Swords in a fight.
I wonder, what Riku‘s exact line in japanese is, where he speaks about his dadapon in FR, the reason I wonder this, is because in german he says specifically how long telling the story would take in hours, (matching roughly the length of a typical XC1 playthrough), I wonder, if this is something added in the German Localization or if it was left out from the English localisation.
We need more deep dives into language differences anyhow. The issue is setting everything up. I am on the side working to copy over the texts for a still private german Wiki project, which takes forever as-is. But like, next problem is, who is going to translate all that? I am going to do english to german, so I can also do german to english when everything's done eventually, but getting translators for the other languages is going to be a struggle. With the obvious issue that our most important and source language, japanese, is notoriously hard to translate to western languages because of how diffrently they work from start to finish.
There is a website that can quickly grab any game text in every language (youtube wont let me post the link it just deletes my comment) and German is the only language that mentions 100 hours, all the others are just as vague as english.
@@lpfan4491 there is Xeno Series Wiki that has the "in other languages" section on each article, but those are more for just names of places/things/etc...
@@Zachruff Yeah, it's a german wiki based on the english one. There is a small chance it is never seeing the light of day because it's a "if my harddrive dies, so does it"-situration currently because I lack the funds to do anything bigger and just decided to start locally on my private PC. I'll just hope I can get it to materialize in the next decade and nothing major goes wrong along the way.
The Riki's Tenderness use near the end actually got me emotional. The song holds a special place in my heart. First time I beat Xenoblade, I was pulling an all nighter for it, it was summer vacation and I was just so excited to finish it. It was like 3 or 4 in the morning, and when I got into the NG+ menu, I heard that song and just started to cry. It was such a sweet, brilliant song to cap off one of my favorite games of all time, and the start of my love of a phenomenal series. Thank you, Luxin, for helping recreate that sensation at least in part by using it in the way you did.
1:01:22 "I think it would be extremely funny if M body swapped with Riku during the party's fight with her" is a sentence I never expected to hear. I don't know how I would feel about M speaking in a Nopon dialect.
Would post this in the Discord but uhhh, yeah. Trails may have Xenogears references, but Xenogears has Gundam references galore. Especially with Bart. Also I'll stand by people's term 1 and term 10 not exactly being the same on an individual level. Mio may be older than Ethel and Cammuravi, but I don't think their term 10 is the same as hers
Have I seen any Xeno3 content since like a year ago when I watched like 3 different LPs on it one after another?? No. Did this video show up in my Recommended list and immediately make me smile from that thumbnail? Yes :)
And this is why the Nopon are a litmus test for people. Yes, they are the comedic mascot. . .but they are MUCH more than that. Riki had remarkable depth for a character with so little plot relevance. Tora was a kid going through his own coming of age (with hiw own quirk that many people wrote him off for). . .and now we have Riku. . . who is basically the silent driving force for the entire game in the shadows. Still waiting for a Tirkin party member though.
I was not expecting a Luxin face reveal LOL Anyway congrats for the awedome video, just the Riku's song was enough to make it worth this 90 minutes. I hope you'll have fun with streaming and especially with Baten Kaitos, I loved that game!
Past Noahs inherting the black lucky seven until N decides to keep it leaving MC Noah with a gereic sword is actually a really cool explanation! Thanks luxin!
One of your best for sure. Had me laughing the whole time and I learned a lot. Also, while I didn’t actively participate in the premier, the thumbnail and title popping up early with the premier time was great for added hype and a nice laugh before I actually watched it. Well done
Fantastic video as always, Luxin! I am so, so, so happy Xenoblade content is still being made and I hope it never stops! Also, I have no idea how you don't have more subs. Your content is amazing. Much love ❤
If I may @Luxin I have a theory on the how they communicated with light Assuming these 2 worlds had there own languages and styles, light might have been the first confirmation on each other existence. Possibly, was the world's collided, there were areas of weird merge that existed in both worlds in tandem. Given the people could not talk with each other since, it would be weird as hell for 2 worlds that grew independently to both speak a common language, light and it's physics, being possibly fundamentally constant in both worlds let the find a way to reverse engineer the language system which in turn, let the communicate and then realise the were screwed. We have something similar in the Voyager space probes
“Frequent Sex Haver: Riki” is my favorite Unique Monster
Oka loves Riki's "unique monster"
Arts:
Slops Slops Munch
Daddypon smach
“Riki, the Frequent Sex Haver” is the Tyrant name of all time
I opened the comments to see if anyone else thought this was funny 😂😂😂
@@foggy8298I heard Rex has one of those too
I never want to hear the phrase “Nopon gestation cycle” ever again
😂
Luxin has "brief" and "common variety" in the title, something's up
take your bets right now for the final video duration. I'll bet 1:45:00
@@omelett32812:30:00 for sure
2:00:00 bang on
I'll go with 2:50:00
1:09:34
"Nopons are like hobbits"
Shit, you're right.
Riku saw a pic of young Rex and went ‘Damn, he’s fresh!’ and copied his hairdo
I think Riku was just legitimately excited to see a baby and genuinely didn’t know how they were made because it’s funnier
I mean, did Riku leave the City folk after completing the Ouroboros stone? Yeah I know he said he’d wander around Keves post DLC, but would that mean he’d have no run ins with the city folk for literal centuries?
@@LFPman he probably had to keep away from any city folk so moebius wouldn't realize he was the same nopon causing them problems. Hell he might be the reason the rule came to exist that nopon shouldn't interfere in the first place. Riku was right there in Origin. Z might've worked out that nopon had something to do with N having the sword of origin. A blade that strong and dangerous made by the nopon makes them as a species dangerous. Z probably has N as a threat to end their species if they try to go against them, threatened that they better help ensure soldiers will blindly keep maintaining the endless now.
That's why they're spread out in the main game. Not only to spread secret intel between each other but just in case moebius sends anyone, they're secluded; the chances they don't get them all is higher.
I like the idea that Melia led development on Lucky Seven and Nia led development on the Ouroboros Stones. They each led something they were familiar with.
One was a god slaying sword forged by a mortals (Shulk + Machina had a couple of these)
One was a machine to bring about great power when two of great affinity work together. (How the Blades of Alrest work)
So you are telling me:
Riku is a small mascot with twintails, lived over 1000 years, is extremely knowledgable but doesn't adequately share it, has a thing for collecting useless junk,
traveled alongside not one but two hero parties and helped defeating the supervillainpon.
Then i guess Xenoblade 3 should have been called
Riku: Beyond journey's End
You're so f right 😮
Riku Lie Counter drinking game was looking pretty reasonable until we hit chapter 5 and it suddenly looked like guaranteed death by alcohol poisoning as we went from 4 shots in about an hour to 22 more in a 10 minute burst
Do you ever wonder if Klaus stays in the Beanstalk because he, too, fears what he has created?
He died. When Shulk killed Zanza (Klaus other half) Shulk also killed Klaus.
@@Vugtis_El_VillaVODS it's a spy kids reference my dude
@@Vugtis_El_VillaVODShe was alive for a bit, staying in the beanstalk for fear of what he created. Duh
what a silly funny common garden variety run of the mill ordinary commonplace mundane conventional typical average plain simple variety nopon
EDIT: So turns out I was dead wrong. Manana is the ultimate troll.
1:13:22 My heart just broke into a thousand pieces. You haven't realized - Manana knows nothing of the worlds before Aionios, nor of the true nature of the world of Aionios. She isn't an immortal; she's not an avatar of Origin. She was born inside Aionios, and so... she's not coming back. She only has a chance of being reborn down the line, likely long after Riku has passed away. Even if they were both to remember everything, every moment of their journey together, they'll... they'll never get to see each other again. Riku's one last burden is that, even if he does remember Aionios once time moves again, it'll only ensure that he knows what it is he's lost. And Manana... if she ever remembers Aionios, should she even be born again, she will likely never again see most any of the people she traveled with, and fought alongside. She'll be all alone with her memories, accompanied only by a select few nopon she'll likely never even meet. Even the people of the city are descended primarily from those who escaped the cycle, and so their genealogy will have passed them by the time the last Aionian nopon, who were primarily spared from the systems of Aionios, is reborn in the new world.
I really hope I'm wrong, though - that there's something I'm missing. It's just so... unfair. The nopon of Aionios don't deserve this!
There are a quite a few ways of circumventing this.
First, there is the question of people who end up not having the same spouses they had in Aionios, or just never have kids, which, unless it means that the souls just never get born, which I highly doubt, would mean that they would likely end up in a similar body, which gives her the chance to be born sooner, especially because the population of new souls is still probably small compared to the population growth in the new world, given their tiny starting landmasses compared to what they have now.
That leads to the second possibility, some of the Aionios natives could just end up spawning with their bodies, because there is so much more space. As Origin is partially controlled by the will of the people within it, Manana’s and Riku’s desire to see each other again might influence how that happens.
Third, with the whole Nopon maximum lifespan seeming to be optional, Riku has patience in spades, he probably would be willing to wait another millennium just to see her again.
Fourth, insert here next game shenanigans that we haven’t learned about yet.
Fifth, I don’t know if the Nopon Arcsage is officially non-cannon, but him pulling something just because, or Riku becoming the next Arcsage would work, this is mostly a meme, but having Riku end up an apprentice of the Arcsage, using his smithing/gemcrafting as rewards for future heroes in order to get the chance to meet Manana sounds like a great callback in future games.
@@ruandalserept Thank you. These theories make me feel a lot better, actually c:
Another possibility: It wouldn't be that hard to sell the idea that while rebooting Origin, a secondary process was running to gather those originally born in Aionios so they could be preserved through the intersection and brought to the later properly-reunified Earth. Basically what Alpha tried to do, but in a way that _doesn't_ screw over everyone else out of spite and impatience.
@@VanymStorm Quite possible, though that WOULD create quite a few logistical issues.
My thought with all of the Aionios-born people is that since Aionios is essentially a computer simulation, anyone born into it is “generated randomly” and therefore becomes another bit of data, so when Origin stops working, the data of those people is likely either spit out into their respective worlds (Supported by people seemingly being born with Irises so they are assigned to one of the worlds) or spit out when the worlds recombine (supported by the fact that we don’t know for sure if people are born with irises so they might not have a world). Worst case scenario is that their data would be stuck in Origin, but Tora, Shulk, and Riku can probably figure out how to get it out, maybe even using mimeosomes or smth similar
hyped to watch another luxin feature length film
He needs to start his video with that edit “you are watching a master at work”
Everyone always asks "why is Riku" and never "how is Riku".
Been looking forward to this since it was announced and I'll watch it when it goes up.
Edit: After watching it, I now understand Riku so much more. This is to be expected, but there were genuinely things I was confused about that make way more sense now.
You unironically hit the nail on the head. Riku was sooooo underappreciated, even by me.
"Riku okay". Adds another to the Riku lie counter.
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This is brief for Luxin
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I mean, you mean to tell me this isn't common for him?
Riku is the unnamed hero in Xenoblade Chronicles X. That's a spoiler for the DLC chapter in Xenoblade X Definitive Edition (launch title for Switch 2 (trust me bro))
When was this last edited? big trust?
Clearly false they're not waiting for the switch 2 to release x de
My current running theory on Riku's hair:
As a young nopon growing up in Frontier Village interested in technology, he was one day investigating the Pollen Orb machine, accidentally got his real hair caught in it, which left him with a pollen orb stuck in his hair, which promptly lead to teasing and bullying by the other nopon. His mommapon (whoever that is) opted to fix the problem as best she could, by making a fur hat to cover the orb, which then turned the bullypons into jealouspons.
Conveniently, the hat is more compact than his hair originally was, making it far easier for him to thoroughly investigate and tinker with more machines.
13:40 small note, Gingin and Tempapa, both have houses that look identical to the Nopon houses seen in Frontier Village from Xenoblade 1.
Which imo is pretty strong evidence that they’re both from Bionis.
"noted frequent sex-haver Riki"
Never change Luxin
thankfully, Manana is just Manana
Wait until you see both them affected by M control
Manana is the real Moebius M@@Alban_Blade_Memer
Manana is the infernal guldo
Okay but how old is Manana? Because Riku's been around for a while so is she a similar age or... (is Riku actually way older than Manana? Ew)
@@nathanblackburn1193 I mean, considering his age is frozen, probably not
but I mean
if you were biologically 25 for 10,000 years, would you consider yourself 25 or 10,025? Because that's Riku's situation basically
I would kill for a prequel to the prequel of xenoblade 3 as a Xenoblade Warriors game, ending with Melia being captured and Nia in hiding. Then everyone is already there as avatars!! And since Origin brought back Dannagh Desert, it could bring back Lora, Jin, Malos, Egil, Kallian, etc. as DLC opportunities!!
Same. We would fight X, Y and Z as well as Alpha as the true final boss. It would also clear up the remaining mysteries about Xenoblade 3's world.
Can’t bring back Malos. Too busy being sword
Welp, the artbook confirms one thing about this common variety nopon:
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He's Riki son.
And he was in fact lying about the origins of Lucky Seven. Add one to the counter.
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Also every single Nopon in Aionios is FUCKING IMMORTAL
*reads title* So, set aside 2 hours. Got it.
Made my pfp Riku immediately after the reveal trailer. I never changed it since as his character was fascinating to me. I loved this video because it showed me so much more.
Riku really embodies the saying: "He who knows the most speaks the least."
This video has exponentially added to my love of Riku. He was already one of my faves but damn now its so much higher
I’ve been waiting for this little blue dudes trickery to be luxinized. Luxin you absolute blessing to this community you
What a jumpscare of a video to see on my feed
Shit is getting real
Moooooom this man made me cry in a video about a talking blue potato
*dies* "Jesus and a half" I'll start using that from now on. Thx
Missed the Premier, but definitely down for more of them!
Can’t wait for the 5 hour long video
wait for when we see a 10s trailer of next xenogame for that (it can be 6 hours)
1:22:00 something to point out about riku's hair is that every nopon that has become a party member has unique hair and riki has armor that changes the color of the tips of his hair iirc 1 that makes it brown
In Future Redeemed, Riku mentioned that both Melia and Nia worked on the Ouroboros Stone in the Ouroboros power side quest, which would mean that they meet before Melia was captured.
Edit: Also think that Noah had given Melia up to Moebius in the incarnation that he was labeled a traitor, probably for the promise that he and Mio could live a full peaceful together, which would give birth to Gondor.
Another thing, I think why there are 2 lucky sevens is because originally, it was a combined sword that was divided into 2 parts, similar to the all the swords born from the female aspect of any trinity.
27:45 - He's voiced by Taion's actor in Japanese as well. It's my understanding that the spirit of "the six" always re-manifests in some way (hence their voices being the same in all the Noah and Mio flashbacks where we hear them). I believe M said something like "You ALL are my repentance" - which I interpreted as a more traditional application of reincarnation. As in the souls are the same, but the bodies are different (for the non-Noah and Mio Ouroboros members). This is just how I choose to read into this - I'd love to hear other thoughts.
I am not necessarily against this thought thematically - I just don't understand what this would mean in practical terms.
@@hyliastone286 Does there have to be a practical reason for it? Aionios is a circle of pain and suffering, if the souls of people in Origin we're heavily linked with N and M already active, the souls of those 4 others may have been in stasis until our Noah and Mio came back due to the cycles of the cradles.
@@magicalduckye2356 I'm talking about the bodies. No other Aionian soldiers have had their bodies be different in different lives, and if they're people from the city, it means party members still within the Origin cycle are reincarnating as their own descendants.
@@hyliastone286 That is a very good point, as the bodies should not, and I don't think change, but I could see it as almost an unreliable narrator situation where N/M suppressed those memories because of having so many/not wanting to recall such lives due to the pain, thus the normal look for the Taion VA. I also think this may be the first life all 6 of them are together such as if that was another Taion. Eunie, Sena and Lanz may not have been with that group in particular. Something to that effect being almost kind of the "god luck" type situation for our Noah and Mio.
@@magicalduckye2356 Maybe. To be honest, I think Joran, Eunie, and Lanz being reborn alongside Noah in the party we see was likely intentional interference from Riku.
I like how monolith turns around and hands us (some of) the answers like a week after you upload this.
I am afraid
You should be
A over-an-hour-long analysis on Xenoblade? Common variety video, truly.
You know, it never crossed my mind until this video reminded me that Linka and Panacea wouldn't age, but we don't actually know what happened to them as the statues only describe Shulk & Rex. It's probably safest to assume they died for the cause in battles with Mobius, or perhaps they pulled a Shulk & Rex and retired to Origin as Avatars once they felt comfortable to pass on the dream yet again?
Being house founders they would have had offspring at some point, you'd assume. I wish I hadn't thought of this. We'll never know for certain.
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS VIDEO SINCE XC3 CAME OUT NEARLY 2 YEARS AGO. Thank you Luxin for finally bringing this much-needed video to life, true king stuff right here
This is the exact kind of thing I'm subscribed for. I think you've made Riku one of my favorites too, this was a treat to listen to
Idk if this is random but the premiere countdown I got looked a lot like Kosmos’s pod, which is fitting.
Also the let it be cover was beautiful, thank you
Just what I needed for my half marathon. Thanks Luxin.
Ah yes brief and Luxin two word that pair well together
Thank you for making me cry over riku lmao, great vid as always
This is no joke one of the best Nopon videos I've ever seen
Never thought it was sadder to see someone outlive their friends for years and having to put up a shield to prevent too much of a personal attachment, until Manana came around
Need a theory on why nopon were allowed freedom in aionios under Z. Wtf is up with that? I think the archsage is being behind the zohar and he's been pulling strings since the early xeno games.
At some point, Nopon organized a deal with Moebius to stay out of each other's way.
It should be noted that nopon are not born via Cradles and exist in a very similar manner to City folk where they have normal lifespans for their species. However how they exist within Aionios is unexplained (although the only time a birth place has ever been mentioned by Nopon has been Mira. Every other game only shows major settlements and not explicit origins).
Why Z made the deal is unclear, it could've been done to prevent the deeper secrets of Moebius and Aionios from becoming public knowledge. The whole war hinges on the idea that nothing is going on behind the scenes. But once people start getting suspicious, it would be incredibly easy to overthrow a good chunk of Moebius. Nopon could easily spread rumors and suggest that things aren't as they seem as they casually peddle their wares.
So Z's powers are human specific. He's ties to the collective unconscious only encompasses the humans stored within Origin and as such he can't actually manipulate nopon by being a physical manifestation of their fears, desires ect. This is actually really funny because if a nopon ouroboros were to exist, Z couldn't seal it. To Z nopon are an existence near akin to Alpha not necessarily being effective against him but being immune to his most potent forms of attack. This makes Nopon potentially the biggest threat to Moebius and if antagonized a a sufficiently power nopon,which would need to be a really strong nopon or group of nopon to be fair, could instigate another Alpha incident. It is by sheer luck that nopon are the fun loving, go with the flow species that they are, allowing Z and Moebius to operate without a competing nopon coagulation of wills forming in origin ruining everything.
55:02 To be fair, Ghondor did say The City was movable in chapter 6
It's finally here!
My birthday's in a few weeks I'll count this as a gift.
For now just a preemptive like and a common variety comment and I will try to restrain from typing anything during the video because that usually ends with Luxin addressing my concern 2 seconds after I pause the video to chime in.
I put it here but since M can brainjack both Riku and Manana in the same time maybe they share one brain cells
I love commenting for the algorithem, it's my favorite hobby
NEW LUXIN CONTENT YESSIR
you actually brought up something in regards to M i'd been wondering for a while now. I think there's a good chance M did indeed know of the events of future redeemed. when mio is showing noah N's memories, these explicitly came from M, and when we see mio and M talking those memories are on screens surrounding them to represent this. but not only is it all from noah's perspective, there's things she wouldn't have been there for like him saying goodbye to his son. we can easily assume that M looked at his mind at some point over the years, especially because of how upset she was at his choices im sure she would've sought to understand what was going through his mind. not to mention that as an ally of the city for presumably a while, perhaps even soon after her being reborn as moebius and trying to cope with the morality of her new existence, there definitely would've been lots of opportunities for her to at least know of alpha's existence
the main issue here is asking why the main party/mio wouldn't also know of the events of future redeemed in this case, and this has two explanations. the first is obviously the meta one that the devs arent just going to spoil future redeemed and while i imagine it probably had a finalized story around this time it was still in development, but given that M is already dropping a lot on mio, i imagine that going "also there was this guy who tried to destroy the world but that's only slightly relevant to what we're talking about the situation you're in" was considered to be a bit much. when it comes to N, it's important to keep in mind that while future redeemed added context to his motives in destroying the city, it doesnt necessarily contradict anything that's shown in the base game. the flashbacks show N agreeing to Z's request to destroy the city for M's sake, but we now know WHY Z wanted the city destroyed beyond just "they oppose me". N was still there with the intent to kill City folk to stop them from being Alpha's power source. If M knowing the Alpha context is true, I suspect the reason she omitted it (aside from not wanting to overwhelm mio) is because it ultimately didn't change much about her perspective and it doesn't change much about N and M's current relationship where he's become incredibly possessive over her. she might've also seen it as more indicative of Z's motives then N's as N still initially agreed on behalf of mio, seemingly before he was told about Alpha.
the only hole in this theory i can think of is that they talk about mio having M's memories but it's not exactly specified if mio knows these things because M shared them with her or because of the body she's inhabiting. M clearly witnesses the memories of the person she inhabits, that's the entire basis of this theory, but since M was the one initiating the body swap with her and mio i dont think its implausible that she only remembered what M allowed her to see. i also think that M omitted N killing Ghondor because she understood it wasnt an active action N took and didn't necessarily want the party to judge him for it. considering she showed up right after ghondor's death as shown in future redeemed there's a good chance she saw the body, but mio doesnt seem to know anything about ghondor's death, positive or negative.
a lot of this theory comes from the fact that i think N keeping M in the dark doesnt hold up when you consider she can view his memories and has very good reason to want to do so, being very upset with his actions, and if she hasn't viewed his memories then chapter 5 makes a lot less sense or you have to argue that she was making up memories she wasnt there for, which is not how the game frames it.
Yeah, it doesn’t add up from a bird’s eye view, though N could’ve also buried the memory of Alpha deep within his mind so M couldn’t have seen it, only Noah knows about the truth behind Alpha and the city’s demise after fusing with N but that’s just me
Bare in mind that M really only had two years and however long FR was to find put about Alpha.
M only reincarnated as the City was destroyed. She was never aware of N killing Ghondor (at least initially, perhaps she was able to discover it at some point given she can scrape people's brains. But the game doesn't indicate she knew Ghondor was killed by N).
Not trying to be morbid here, but M was more than likely trying to kill herself during the two year period post City destruction. With her only stopping once Nia gave her the Cloudkeep Key. Everything we know seems to point to N keeping things pretty secretive, plus Alpha was still very subtle with his actions and few knew Moebius was actually locked down.
So while M shouldve probably known about some parts of FR, she simply wouldn't have known ALL the events of FR unless she looked into N's head. Which is a scenario that is never really confirmed or denied.
@@MiguelHernandez-lo5lg thats true but again i feel like she HAD to have looked into his mind had to given that mio shows noah memories m literally wasnt there for and m has a power that would explain that very situation
42:56 Head of maintenance on "Colony 9".
Now, which one?
Fun fact about the possibility of riku being Kino’s kid: his name would br a combination of Riki and Shulk’s japanese name, Shuruku, which are the two people Kino looks up to most :)
some thoughts i have while watching
-rex mentions in future redeemed he wish he met dunban so this implys either dunban wasnt an avatar (unlikely), died before origin (possible), or dunban died in origin before 1s cast met up with 2s so this could support riku never meeting the other 6 hammerpon
-nopon were said to be neutral in origin by X so its possible riku was given lucky seven because he would be the safest hands (wings) to hold onto the sword because of his species neutral status
loved the video and i wish i could have watched it live but it started during D&D so i had to wait a day but id love to join live in the future
About the Monado REX+, what if the only actual Monado replica is the one Melia has? Rex has Blade... copies? of the Aegis Swords in Aionios, so perhaps Shulk's Monado (which also functions as a Blade) is also just a Blade. The reason it looks exactly like the original Monado REX+ could be because Shulk would be intimately familiar with the construction and mechanics behind it while Rex probably only knows how to use the Aegis Swords in a fight.
I wonder, what Riku‘s exact line in japanese is, where he speaks about his dadapon in FR, the reason I wonder this, is because in german he says specifically how long telling the story would take in hours, (matching roughly the length of a typical XC1 playthrough), I wonder, if this is something added in the German Localization or if it was left out from the English localisation.
We need more deep dives into language differences anyhow. The issue is setting everything up. I am on the side working to copy over the texts for a still private german Wiki project, which takes forever as-is. But like, next problem is, who is going to translate all that? I am going to do english to german, so I can also do german to english when everything's done eventually, but getting translators for the other languages is going to be a struggle.
With the obvious issue that our most important and source language, japanese, is notoriously hard to translate to western languages because of how diffrently they work from start to finish.
@@lpfan4491 also is this just for a German xeno wiki? Would be cool to have one in addition to the english/italian ones.
There is a website that can quickly grab any game text in every language (youtube wont let me post the link it just deletes my comment) and German is the only language that mentions 100 hours, all the others are just as vague as english.
@@lpfan4491 there is Xeno Series Wiki that has the "in other languages" section on each article, but those are more for just names of places/things/etc...
@@Zachruff Yeah, it's a german wiki based on the english one. There is a small chance it is never seeing the light of day because it's a "if my harddrive dies, so does it"-situration currently because I lack the funds to do anything bigger and just decided to start locally on my private PC. I'll just hope I can get it to materialize in the next decade and nothing major goes wrong along the way.
"A brief Common Variety Video"
Video Length: 1 Hour plus.
Okay im getting my popcorn 🍿
That Riku song in the beginning was beautiful
I would gladly take a Luxin paper 50 question quiz of Xeno. From gears to FR. Send me the pdf and give me a 30 minute timer
Thanks for thugging it out and making this. I’ve been looking forward to this for some time now
Thismis gonna be a four hour video on riku kore and i am so ready
damn, that initial ending made me tear up with the music and conclusion. incredible video :)
The Riki's Tenderness use near the end actually got me emotional. The song holds a special place in my heart. First time I beat Xenoblade, I was pulling an all nighter for it, it was summer vacation and I was just so excited to finish it. It was like 3 or 4 in the morning, and when I got into the NG+ menu, I heard that song and just started to cry. It was such a sweet, brilliant song to cap off one of my favorite games of all time, and the start of my love of a phenomenal series. Thank you, Luxin, for helping recreate that sensation at least in part by using it in the way you did.
I’ve literally been eagerly waiting for this video since you first mentioned there would be a riku video
1:01:22 "I think it would be extremely funny if M body swapped with Riku during the party's fight with her" is a sentence I never expected to hear. I don't know how I would feel about M speaking in a Nopon dialect.
Would post this in the Discord but uhhh, yeah. Trails may have Xenogears references, but Xenogears has Gundam references galore. Especially with Bart.
Also I'll stand by people's term 1 and term 10 not exactly being the same on an individual level. Mio may be older than Ethel and Cammuravi, but I don't think their term 10 is the same as hers
YEAHHHHH RIKU VIDEO IS REAL WOOOOOO
yesss!!!
A feature length Riku video?
Only the best for our King.
Have I seen any Xeno3 content since like a year ago when I watched like 3 different LPs on it one after another?? No. Did this video show up in my Recommended list and immediately make me smile from that thumbnail? Yes :)
the premiere was very fun! thank you luxin for another great video!! :)
Ok. This intro makes it already perfect.
And this is why the Nopon are a litmus test for people. Yes, they are the comedic mascot. . .but they are MUCH more than that. Riki had remarkable depth for a character with so little plot relevance. Tora was a kid going through his own coming of age (with hiw own quirk that many people wrote him off for). . .and now we have Riku. . . who is basically the silent driving force for the entire game in the shadows.
Still waiting for a Tirkin party member though.
"brief" So five hours then?
I was not expecting a Luxin face reveal LOL
Anyway congrats for the awedome video, just the Riku's song was enough to make it worth this 90 minutes.
I hope you'll have fun with streaming and especially with Baten Kaitos, I loved that game!
Past Noahs inherting the black lucky seven until N decides to keep it leaving MC Noah with a gereic sword is actually a really cool explanation! Thanks luxin!
Knowing how much the Japanese like puns, I'd say Riku is Riki's kid just by the name alone. Yes, I'm totally serious.
10 hour long video incoming
I did not attend the premiere unfortunately, but I would have loved to if I were able!
One of your best for sure. Had me laughing the whole time and I learned a lot. Also, while I didn’t actively participate in the premier, the thumbnail and title popping up early with the premier time was great for added hype and a nice laugh before I actually watched it. Well done
Riku is my favorite interpretation of the Gandalf archetype
We definitely like an abundance of content.
1:21:44 Why tf does he know about my psychology exam's date...?
Fantastic video as always, Luxin! I am so, so, so happy Xenoblade content is still being made and I hope it never stops!
Also, I have no idea how you don't have more subs. Your content is amazing. Much love ❤
4 hour video incoming
Riku saw a picture of Rex’s hair on Multiversal face time and thought it looked cool
I saw "brief" in the title and thought heh a brief luxin video must be like half an hour or something lol and then i saw the actual runtime o_O
Takahashi's comment on Riku just cements this common variety Nopon as a big fat liar. 😂
One hour in, no signs of stopping
38:35 at least you got the homecoming music for this lmao
Great video Luxin. Can’t wait for the Artbook analysis!
If I may @Luxin
I have a theory on the how they communicated with light
Assuming these 2 worlds had there own languages and styles, light might have been the first confirmation on each other existence. Possibly, was the world's collided, there were areas of weird merge that existed in both worlds in tandem. Given the people could not talk with each other since, it would be weird as hell for 2 worlds that grew independently to both speak a common language, light and it's physics, being possibly fundamentally constant in both worlds let the find a way to reverse engineer the language system which in turn, let the communicate and then realise the were screwed. We have something similar in the Voyager space probes
Fantastic video, real enjoyable.
Thanks for the great work my man - we do love riku
Why would they not just tell us who the father is...i mean are they waiting for an empire stikes back moment or just being cruel......WWHHHYYY!?!?!
"Brief" "Common variety" "luxin video" i could not hit x harder
This guy is king a future xenoblade ideas and knowledge
I haven't watched a luxin video in too long.
This is the perfect one to come back to.
Maybe the real common variety was the friends we made along the way
Just wanted to leave a comment for the algorithm. This video was well worth the wait, keep up the great work Luxin!!!
Same