Xenoblade Chronicles X: The Masterpiece You NEED to Play
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 มิ.ย. 2024
- Xenoblade Chronicles is a series very near and dear to my heart. Shockingly I never got around to Xenoblade X and I love mecha! So finally, I got around to playing it myself and loved it. Given the lack of content on the game I'm happy to share with you all the Xenoblade X-Perience.
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Chapters
0:00 - Intro
5:00 -The World of Mira
15:00 - Gameplay Mechanics
26:00 - Characters and Mission Structure
35:11 - Story is le good? (spoilers)
1:25:00 - Conclusion
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Hope you all enjoyed something different from me! I covered a bunch of stuff and left enough for you to find something to discover still so i hope ya check x out yourself!
Edit: 2 segments were claimed so I muted them D: s9rry for the inconvenience
Nah i need a bigger gun
Wow, great deep dive into this amazing game. Loved Xeno X. We need a remaster on Nintendo's Next System. Great job on this video 🔥🔥🔥
The First Xenoblade I'm playing is Chronicles 3. So if someone says X is amazing.....then that is an easy question to answer. Of course it is! It looks better than what I'm playing and those Mecha.....oooh yeah 👍 Story is a given.
Another ally for the cult of X. Blessings upon you
You too!
out of all the Xeno games; X is the one that’s stuck with me the most. The fun and beautiful world to explore, the class system, the actually great side quests, the amazing combat, and an actually interesting plot thot NEEDS to be continued lol
If I Don't ever see this plot continued I will snap
The exploration peaked with X due to the use of Skells and verticality for exploration.
@@ZX-Gear honestly, even before the skells; having a properly working jump and sprint button made exploring work so much better.
Xenoblade Chronicles X lets you _control_ the worldbuilding. It's possible (if not really hard) to beat the game by doing only the bare minimum sidequests. You can just run through the story. But the growth of the world is in the side quests. Especially getting new aliens to join the city. One of the features I love the most is that after you get an alien to join, if you do sidequests that feature that particular alien more of said alien begin to show up in the city. It's a visible addition to the environment. Meaning your actions literally allow you to grow the world at the pace you like. The same happens with Skells. The more Skell based missions you do the more Skells appear in the city and outside world. It's an amazing feature, to literally control the world-building instead of letting the story do it. And with the theme of exploration the game gives you essentially get to customize your own experience. Just like you can customize your character, your gear, and your skells, you also get to customize the world at large and I don't think most open-worlds do that as well as X does. It's why I'm begging for a sequel, or at least a remaster on the Switch. This game, despite any flaws, nailed what it was going for. A cool sci-fi romp where you are on an alien planet and have to slowly unlock its secrets.
Come for Skells, stay for Overdrive. Getting overdrive up full time during boss fights really clicks this game into place in a way the others didn't.
Overdrive and skells definitely make this feel unique
I really enjoyed X. Hope they bring it to the switch 2 with some big ole QoL updates. Mostly involving skells, party switching, fast travel loading time, and the ability to ultrahand Tatsu to a homemade rocket and send him to space.
Mira is probably my favorite game world, followed by XC2's Alrest, BotW/TotK's Hyrule, and Trails/Kiseki's Zemuria. Monolithsoft just made the game so fun fun to run around in and explore, I just love being able to skyrim my way up to places I really shouldn't be able to.
The story is kind of mid, unfortunately, and I blame all the content they needed to cut for that, but the sidquests are generally pretty good and the Lore is actually very interesting.
I put over 900 hours into Xenoblade X... The game never felt like a grind...
I hope future xenoblade bring back the vertically in the world, at first flight may just seem like a way to travel but it actually shapes the way the world is designed.
hour and a half of praise for my favourite game of all time? Insta-sub. Great content!
I'm glad you enjoyed!
He hates the NLA themes though. Just shows he's a complete rookie at this game and hasn't played it enough (other than the fact that he thinks he needs a healer. In XC1 and XCX using a dedicated healer is pointless).
That first trailer you played was huge nostalgia. Was a big fan of the first game and then when I saw that trailer at e3 damn. I remember the day X came out and I got the special edition delivered (the 6 month wait after the japanese version was agonising!!) and I literally ran home from the bus stop to play it. Also bruh, NLA DAY IS PEAK!!
God, this made me so nostalgic.
I followed the marketing of this game since the reveal of the game back in Jan 2013. And it was one I really, really, REALLY wanted to play. But I didn't own a Wii U, so I had to resort to just watching the cutscenes on TH-cam once the global version released. Despite that, the game's narrative left such a deep impression on me. While I've consumed stuff like Star Wars media before, X is what really got me into sci fi, and introduced me to many concepts used in the genre. And it was my introduction to mecha. It also got me into Xenoblade, overall. I watched the cutscenes for 1 on yt a few months before I watched the X cutscenes, and while I certainly enjoyed 1's story, I became more invested in X. And I still remember my reactions to some of the big twists in that game, as well as some of the themes of the game really intriguing me. Elma in particular left an impression on me with her AWESOME mem design. To this day, she's still one of the coolest characters I've ever seen. And the music, GOD I LOVE THE MUSIC!! Some of the songs I revisit pretty often. Since then, Xeno has become my favorite media franchise of all time ( tied with Kingdom Hearts and The World Ends With You anyway ), and I've managed to play 1, 2, and 3, with 2 being my absolute favorite in the series, and one of my favorite games ever, period. These games have really affected me both as a creative, and as a person. Watching this made me so nostalgic, even though there were details I had forgotten about. It has been a few years since I last watched those cutscenes. And I'm glad to hear that you had a positive time with this game. Maybe one day, I'll finally play it myself ( please be on the next console )
I also appreciate how constructive this video was, because there are some views on this game by the general fandom that are not as constructive, if at all ( especially from the 1 elitists ) I love Xeno, but some parts of the general fandom drive me crazy.
Also: I believe Elma's xeno form is meant to be resemble KOS MOS from Xenosaga. I haven't had any experience with those games yet, but the parallels are pretty interesting ( especially since Saga might be more tied to Blade than we think )
Gosh, I’d remember playing a lot of Xenoblade X online.
XCX is the greatest game I've ever played...and possibly ever will play.
Xenogears is my favorite RPG next to FF7 - played them both on Release.
I have a Switch but never played the Xeno series. Your enthusiasm made me rethink my decisions :)
@harmen9598 same I play Xenogears first ever Xeno series game I ever play and I wish I could have got to experience Xenosaga series nows a good time to get Xenoblade Chronicles 1 on switch
Honestly this game is better than 2 to me, I invested so much time in this game. Imagine if they remastered this like they did 1.
They honestly need to. And tbh I also thought it was better than 2
I have absolutely no way to play it but i was always more interested in that one than in 1 or 2. Still hoping for a port
i only have nintendo switch, hope this game arrive on switch like xenoblade chronicles
I honestly tried my best to get into X but I struggled with the really small font size.
I hope that whenever this game gets rereleased they address it.
X released in 2015 while Xenoblade 1 came out in 2010 (or 11). I write this because I understood "2013".
I'm someone who played this game on day 1 and loved it every since. Got so engrossed that I didn't stop playing until I reached that 100% mark. Too bad so many people didn't even care to give it a chance.
I hope more people give it a chance
@@MalcadorGaming That's going to be a bit more difficult going forward, haha. Also, most people didn't give it a chance because it was a Wii U exclusive. And we all know how that console did, financially.
@@GamePlayuh9510As someone who had a WiiU from the start, nostalgiablindness for Xenoblade 1 was also a big factor. "It is not a sequel to 1? Don't want it". By the time I went off my high horse, official sales were dead and online shutdown was announced. I will have to wait until the fanservers are done, because I don't want to play an incomplete experience.
It's something about this planet indeed...
This video has me wanting to figure out on how to play the game for myself. It's nice to see such high quality video done on a game often forgotten about within the Xenoblade series discussion.
I'm glad you liked it! And I absolutely reccomend that you do. It's a little slow to get started and weirdly unexplained at times but totally worth it
Great video, love X! Hope we get a definitive edition early next year on Switch 2. Would be shame to essentially get the same version performance wise after all this time if its gets announced now...
Also I think its pretty likely we'll get a sequel, in the Xenoblade 2 OST interview (3 years after X's release) the producer said he wanted to get back the X series sometime after 3. (source xenomira blog translation)
I hope that happens!
If he does, I hope he goes right into the cut content that made us so intrigued and even gives us more mysteries to fry our brains over.
For the record, there is five minutes of me screaming that didn't make it here.
The Malcador audience has been spared, and instead has a great, intelligent video.
release the 5 minutes perhaps i shall
X was my first Xenoblade game and it managed to rope me in completely. It was odd too, somehow one had managed to go under my radar even with its rerelease on the 3DS. It opened my eyes to this amazing open world that was bursting with fun characters and a tense narrative. The charm of different races that came to inhabit NLA, the first time you fly in a skell, and those moments of busting out overdrive because you knew it's the only way you MIGHT have a chance to win are all things that are burned into my mind. Even that dinky little pizza place that's downtown, it sticks in my head fondly.
Great video Xenoblade X was actually my first Xenoblade game although it didn't get me into the series that wouldn't be until later with Xenoblade 2 and DE and I need to go back to play X again not that I am an extremely huge Xeno fan
Also at 23:54 that Fear and Hunger coin flip edit out of the blue gave me a jumpscare because I am playing Fear and Hunger 2 right now as I was watching this video 😭
X is totally worth going for after oe even during the series. And me too! I'm just waiting for the next update since I've played so much termina already
Thx for the great XENO video! Really hoping for a remaster release
I hope so as well!
XCX shows so little but reveals a lot. The story does not lie in what is illuminated before us, but in the shadows surrounding them.
You creating your character is you, a stored consciousness in another world, choosing your mimeosome. There's no heal Art, but there's one called Repair. There's no poison condition, just Virus. And the collectibles are reflections of the NPCs themselves, from the naming, the descriptions, attempts to figure out their use (Scales of Justice and Mirror of Deception are particularly funny). There are also toy shops, but no kids. Adults can't reproduce either. So much could be supposed from these details.
Not all of these are shoved down our throat. XCX exploration and discovery is not limited to the physical world, but also the narrative. And this is why, as someone who doesn't say "immersive" a lot either, the game definitely deserves that tag and a remake and a sequel. XC3's DLC ending sure gives us a lot of hope tho.
The best open world game imo
The story leaves a ton of things open but I think we are in for a surprise when they finally connect it to the main series.
I hope they do and not just leave it behind
This game being locked to the Wii U is an actual crime against humanity.
Nintendo games must be legally acquired from the re4 trader
@@MalcadorGaming my Wii U is the new version with a big screen, a ps4 controller and a keyboard, thankfully.
Im gonna emulate this today. That skrell fan fiction waifu had me sold
Lin is hilarious
The reason why Uncontrollable has more views than the number of people who bought the game is mostly because of Death Battle.
In the episode where Digimon fights Pokémon Uncontrollable is used as the song for the finale where War Greymon finally brutally kills Mega Charizard and Red.
Technically Uncontrollable should have a lot more views because of that but Death Battle doesn’t credit the song for some reason and most people who watched that video never find the song.
Uncontrollable is also the only Xenoblade X song that appears in Xenoblade 2 with the Elma dlc so it got some more views from that.
Oh yea that's not surprising especially since it's a good song. Just funny to me when ya think about ut
That video has a wild comment section if you sort by recent.
Black tar has more views than Uncontrollable :-)
Fun video, it was cool to revisit this game I played almost a decade ago and remember really enjoying despite hardly understanding it lol! As a small tip, maybe you should consider muting the video while talking, lots of parts are very hard to hear due to the characters talking or the in-game music being too loud... Some cuts feel very abrupt and loud too, might be worth looking into!
Even though a second game will probably never be made, I actually quite love that open ending about the planet keeping everyone alive and allowing them to communicate, it makes the whole game feel so... Well, ALIEN, and I kinda love that, it's constantly shifting your perspective, what you're fighting for, what you believe in, and that final twist, regardless of how much it stings that it feels like cut content/sequelbait for a sequel that'll never come to be, it also feels perfectly in line with everything else
ah yes some parts are screwed up from audio editing making em not muted, thought i got em all. And ireally do hope for that 2nd game.
I think the post-c4edit scene is great. It really makes the mystery of Mira (which was already touched on in the story) even greater.
For the insurance you actually understood it wrong you hit the Soul Challenge perfectly when your Skell is destroyed, your insurance will not drop by
1 point. You also have all of your secondary cooldowns filled. If you only hit good, you will lose 1
insurance point, and you simply escape unscathed during the battle. If you miss the Soul Challenge you
lose insurance, and you also get reduced to 1 HP.
Note that if you have 0 insurance left, you don't have any insurance at all any more, so it doesn't matter
if you hit the Soul Challenge perfectly or not - your insurance aren't covering the repairs, you need to
pay for it yourself or use a Salvage Ticket. Once you reach 0 insurance, consider unequipping the Skell,
selling it and buying the same model Skell again. This costs around 25% of the cost of the Skell, but
gets your insurance back - instead of risking paying the entire cost of the Skell (or a Salvage Ticket)
every time your Skell is destroyed
We need this on Switch ASAP. I'll buy two. Also, I wish the story quests weren't gated behind menial ones. Weird to stumble upon a huge lifehold and not be able to interact with it in any way until the story quest is active.
I forgot to mention that but that was really weird and annoying. Imo they should have just been main quests or not required at all. No in between
I really want Nintendo to port this to the Nintendo switch successor or switch 2
switch 2 is more likely at this point tbh
Xenoblade X was supposed to have multiple planets and a structure similar to the World Tree on Mira, so I guess they replaced Mira with Alrest and a potential Earth visit with...Earth... Additionally in 2 Klaus did use Pneuma and Logos to re create life in a similar way as you might have tried in X. So unfortunately , X 2 is probably pretty impossible to make without rehashing Xenoblade 2 and 3 in some way.
11:18 yes, XCX is the greatest game on Wii U.
Note: this comment is in two LONG sections
- Part One: my recommendations of games equally as amazing as this one (which I recommend to people the most of all), short thoughts on the game itself + the context for how I came to play & complete it
- the second part (demarcated by a border line after Part One) is my further thoughts on the game PLUS where I agree with this video!
Skip to past the line of ==== to see thoughts on the Video + the game itself in full…otherwise, ENJOY!
Part One:
Xenoblade Chronicles X is probably the game I’ve recommended to anyone who would listen to my ramblings THE MOST with:
- Shin Megami Tensei [III]: Nocturne (2003)
- NieR (2010) [Gestalt on 360 in Japan/ base game outside of JP until 2021]
- Star Ocean First Departure R [Remake of the original Star Ocean; 2008 on PSP & 2019 on PS4/Xbox One/PC]
- Star Ocean The Second Story R [remake of SOtSS on PSX originally released in 1999; 2009 on PSP & 2023 on PS4/ Xbox One/ PC/ Switch]
- Star Ocean: Till the End of Time [2004 exclusively on PS2; 2017 “HD Re-Release” on PS4], a game so reviled by fans of the first two games of the series that it’s written off COMPLETELY by both that segment of the fandom AND by Tri-Ace (for the most part)…but beloved by people who have completely finished it on Galaxy/Universe/4D Difficulty and found interesting connections with its (extremely controversial) Plot Twist and the story of the game itself and its many minor characters! I fall into the latter category and also think The Last Hope is an excellent game as well! Speaking of…
- Star Ocean: The Last Hope (aka Star Ocean 0: rigin) [originally an Xbox 360 Exclusive in 2009 but got an “International Edition” on PS3 in 2010; HD Remasters of the “International Edition” for PS4/ Xbox One/ PC in 2017!]
- Drakengard 1 (2003) + 3 (2014)
- Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE [Encore on the Switch re-release], the then-long-awaited but “disappointing” collaboration of Atlus’s Megami Tensei series & Intelligent System’s Fire Emblem that plays like the former but looks more like the latter; absolutely unforgettable & underrated GEM!
…among XCX as excellent games that are worth everyone’s time!
I personally had it on my radar as far back as its release in 2015, but found having to buy a Wii U to be excessive & costly. This, for the most part, is why I feel like this game floundered despite its premise and its absolutely incredible visuals and game world!
Fast forward to 2021, my best friend offloaded his Wii U to me so that I could finally play the game and enjoy whatever other games he had like Sm4sh, Arkham City [ARMORED Edition] & Arkham Origins…and to “keep it in the family”, so to speak.
I looked at the “How Long To Beat” page of the game, watched videos about peoples’s experiences with playing through such a looooooong game and told myself…
“If I can make it through this absolutely grindy and at-times tedious JRPG with my brain & sanity intact, maybe I can make it through the next 3-4 years of getting completely sober!”
At the time, I was struggling with addiction to Fentanyl & Oxcodone and very nearly dead during the 8 years of addiction that stole my 20s from me. The same week I got the game and the Wii U from my best friend, I started a regiment of Suboxone and began Treatment at an In-Patient Counseling Center/Support Group for similar people like myself. I looked at all the free time I would then have for myself and began pouring it all into whatever games I have on my bucket list to finish before I began with “being a real grown adult” once the years long treatment for addiction was over and began with this MONSTER of a game!
It took me 5 months of playing daily for 5-16 hours a day, but after 750 Hours + lots of Online Play (which is amazing in this game) + Co-Op experiences + fun with Skells + 100s of hours of grinding for 100s of one or two types of Materials…I completed it a few days after New Years 2022 (began in early August 2021) and was so extremely happy that I very nearly started another profile just to do it all over again! 😂😂😂
Glad I didn’t because that began my long journey through my Backlog of games and my proselytizing of said Backlog that every gamer has AND ABSOLUTELY SHOULD FOCUS ON MORE THAN NEW GAMES!
I thank MonolithSoft and Nintendo for making it possible…and if it never makes it to the Switch? Even better! The Switch could not ever COME CLOSE to replicating such a special title or its experience as a game. MonolithSoft should, however, find means of making it for other platforms in order to make more people able to enjoy it.
Just not the Switch because it’s just a glorified Baby’s Tablet with motion control Controllers and crappy everything else…
==================================================================PART=====TWO===============THOUGHTS====ON================THE=====VIDEO=====AND=====XENOBLADE=====CHRONICLES===X
EDIT: after actually watching through the Video, I found myself agreeing with many of your points! For starters, the OST is easily one of the best I’ve heard in some time thanks to the Composer’s indelible ability to not just compose music for Anime (where he’s best known) and just gameplay in general! In particular, the Squad Menu theme [Melancholia] is still a track I listen to on the regular while out and about due to its EPIC mix of Anime Theme Song + Nu-Metal Cheese + the Session Rapper just spitting some corny yet awesome bars + a female vocalist just GETTING REALLY INTO THE SONG! Melancholia, Unstoppable [the “Tyrant” (aka “Boss-level Enemies) Theme Song], Don’t Worry [the “Skell Flying Theme”], and The Key We Lost [(Spoiler)’s Theme] in particular are worthy of ANY playlist!
Fun Fact from my playthrough: the first time I took flight in the Skell, after 400 hours of running around on-foot [and 150 hours of those in the Skell w/o the Flight Module], the “Flying Song” started playing and I immediately put down the GamePad and zoned out because it was SO EFFING SURREAL to just…hear a J-Pop song BLARING through the speakers of your TV and especially your GamePad 😂
In terms of Combat, the OverDrive mechanic is easily a Top 5 of all time in terms of Combat in a JRPG imo and while it’s hard to master…pulling off a long chain with a character like Elma, Nagi [pronounced Nuh-Guy btw], and especially Yelv (a walking XCX 2 hint) is just pure bliss! It’s not as intuitive as the Chain Combos in XC:DE or even how they did combat in totality in XC2, but it’s in a league of its own once you get it down pat.
Skell Combat is especially amazing if you’re into Turn-Based Combat! I likened it to a more version of what XenoGears (the original game in the “Xeno” franchise from 1998; made under Squaresoft originally as the potential FF VII until Takahashi got the OK to make it his own IP) did.
The sky truly is THE LIMIT when it comes to the Skells and what they can achieve Combat-Wise with them, which is why I’m also disappointed it’s taking SOOOOO LONG for them to finally pull the trigger and make a Sequel. Maybe even actually finally tying it into the first 3 Xenoblade Chronicles games and y extension XenoSaga (if the hints/leaks of upcoming Remakes are any indication…) would substantially help their chances at getting it to the same level of prominence that XC1-3 have!
Thank Y’all for coming to my TED Talk!
Whenever I see the letter "X" by itself in any title I always think of that song by DMX "X is gonna give it to ya". lol
Lmao nice
Xenoblade Chronicles X is how I got into the Xenoblade series!
A good entry point !
@@MalcadorGaming I was blown away when you really could travel anywhere at any given time
same. first one I played. it's the reason I love the rest of the series
I really do hope MonolithSoft finds it in them, or at least the money, to remake X or do a sequel for the Switch’s successor.
It feels like a good idea to re-released or remaster but I wonder if ninfendo will allow it
X is still my favorite of the xenoblade stuff lol i was hoping for a switch port
I don't think it will be a switch port at this rate, more likely for the switch 2 or whatever it is
@@MalcadorGaming Yea my hopes are for switch 2 now lol
More awareness for Xenoblade X, good!
I hope more people try it!
Great video, keep up the great work!
Thanks! I'm glad you liked it!
I bought the Wii just to play this game and OMG!!! i was blown away by it. For me it's one of the greatest games ever made/played.
Agreed
I would've already played if Nintendo had already released it from the shackles of Wii-U.
One day I hope but for now I'd emulate
Kinda sad that since it’s no longer online, we cannot farm materials to build an Ares skell ever again… 😢
I think it just came offline before I uploaded which sucks
Have been waiting almost a decade for a sequel. This game was legendary
The xenoblade x soundtrack just hits so hard.
Hi good video, but there are parts where there is no Sound or you and cutscene-Audio overlap each other.
there is also audio overlap that he needs to work on
I think that might have been on purpuse. The mixing of the music and voices are notoriusly baad. You have relly impactfull hartfellt voiceacting or Key plot lines being kombleatly dominatied by the cutsene music blearing as loud as possible. So I think he purpusfully did the same thing as a gag🤣
Muted parts were claimed and I had to do a quick fix, audio overlap I'm working on fixing. I tried a new method of mixing audio with eq in da Vinci which screwed my first layer and some things slipped
Also yea this is just bad in some parts
Guy makes a xenoblade x video and dont mention running around noctilum with that epic song haha though i havent played this game since the wii u. I been holding on to the hopes it be remade someday. My favorite xeno game. Though I admit the story was lacking for me, the world and how alive it felt had me so invested. Great video, i love to see more people talk about this game. In hopes we might see a continuation. I enjoy it a lot better than the main line chronicles.
The world is definitely the real appeal of x
Can you explain what you meant when you said you had the lighting set wrong? What setting in the emulator is that? If you remember, I'd appreciate it
One of the best games ever made in my Opinion. Great Video .
It absolutely is!
I still have stuff to do in it so yes I need to play
For the alien knowing the game it may be due to the fact that ALL the alien are humans made.
Its the case of the Zabugon and Luxar spices it's true.
Also if X is canon to xenosaga and xenoblade trilogies then the fact Xenoblade x get Alien life contradict xenosaga "only human life" unless they were biological artificial creatures. As for the fauna it's still stands because it's a lot like earth creatures.
That makes sense but honestly is just a nitpicky thing I'm not a huge fan of. I just like my aliens looking more alien
@@MalcadorGaming yeah the mass effects exemple was pretty good.
The Xeno series is my favorite video game series, and Xenoblade 3 is personally my favorite game of all time so I find it interesting that I still haven't played X. I've always wanted to but then end up getting distracted by some other new game that releases or just being completely unmotivated to actually set it up on my PC. This video is definitely the push I needed and has motivated me to actually play the game so thanks for that! : )
Im glad! I hope you like it as much as i did
Great vid I bout a Wii U just for this game , I never got to finish due to life .
new LAs themes are one of those kind of songs that i find most people including my self start to like it after awhile but mostly would hate it initally. a few more tracks are also like this, but man i enjoy fully listening to the full ost every so often.
i still consider Xs combat tied with 3s for my fav combat. main issue with it is how restricted you are early on before you start getting the right stuff to beable to make tones of unique things, eventually having access to overdrive builds. should be bin a lot more not restricted to equipment augments from missions instead of needed to heavy go out of your way to make some nessasary ones for builds for pacing reasons, but at least the game is build around the lower end builds till you get to lvl cap.
one thing i remember from my early game of X is how i couldnt get to 1 probe ontop of the arch in the first area, i tryed far to many times. then the flying unlock quest is like "ya go get that place weve had trouble getting to even for us and shove a probe up there", that single quest was so vindicating on the fact it was intentional.
despite not playing this game for a long time, i actually still remember the majority of the different char stories, names im always terrible with names, celica and her companion rock always felt like one of those cut content full extend of what their deal with, but still enjoyable that they were there....well also providing one of my fav arts in the game zerozero. nagi just being amuzing of a hardent vet shoved in a political role, but can skill kick your ass. rivalry between murderess and irina. just a lot of enjoyable ones that kinda dont exist in something like xenoblade 2 because how they got blades setup lore wise.
from what i can remember, XCX actually sold well despite it being sold on the wii U, and i think it was actually the main reason that they conitnued to work with nintendo, so much so that they helped work on breath of the wild and from my understanding is where the majority of Xs team went to. now that tears generally is done its overall development, i can actually see something to continue on Xs story actually come to fruition, or at least a good port of X onto a not dead console to test the sales of that game specifically. because after that hell of a cliffhanger, holy hell at least something.
I'm marking 6:44 because that "NO!" is priceless 🤣. It's just a mixture of despair and laughter.
Xenogears is my favorite and i was hyped for this title, unfortunately i never bought a wii u
Hey I love the LA music!!!
And you will love it too once you get past the 1002hr mark!!!
The Crazy thing is that you can actually play the game in multiple ways as well. I played one time where I tried to do all the sidequests.
Then I did another playthrough where I tried to kill all superbosses which threw me in pretty hard into the online componenets to farm for the best Skells and stuff like that.
Also that twist in chapter 5 is one of my favorite twists of all time in any game, it's just brilliant.
My favorite game in the series
Celica was my favorite by far. It's sad she's kinda missable but it's rewarding when ya go for her
Watched the first 15 minutes of your video and looking forward for the rest, but whats the OST that plays at 15:47 ?
sounds like the piano arrangement of requiem from the xenoblade x OST titled X-BT4
Xenoblade X is still to this day the most "alien" alien world I've experienced in a game. Most other series might have convincing alien creatures but a world that just emulates environments were familiar with from our own world. Like Anthem, with a budget of "yes", just gave us a rain forest planet.
Growing up with a Wii U as my only console this game gave me about 120 hours of game to play, really helped me through a lot
What guide did you use for emulating the game? I was also planning on emulating the game so if you have any advice, that would be great!
Cemu! (th-cam.com/video/j82yK6z8Oj4/w-d-xo.htmlsi=TVrQwtzkej59Dgd5)
@@MalcadorGaming Thanks!
I love watching people gush about one of my favorite games!!
Me too!
I love the OST, and NLA soundtrack is just awesome
30:33 perfectly cut scream for this particular NPC
Did you do Yelv's post game mission? That was also a massive cliffhanger
i did but way later
If it comes to switch hopefully not censored with clothing I hate when it is added and it’s crap when they change a belly showing top to a covered one.
that would be nice, im not sure exactly what is censored but i dont like any of any type
@@MalcadorGaming As I recall it just is Lin having a two piece swimsuit. They decided it wasn't befitting a 13 year-old girl. (Appearances and all)
The key we've lost is still one of my favorite final boss themes❤
Great video man, but I will die on this hill. NLA day and night theme are bangers. I have stockholm syndrome with it.
Still playing it, unique game ♥️
whilee I'm really happy to see another xenoblade X fan, you really need to check your video. sure, the game audio mixing is a bit over the place, but not being able to actually hear you over the game is a big problem, same with having the audio be too loud randomly.
also, personal opinion, I don't think that going over the whole story of a game doing a quick resume of the events for each scene is a "review", that's just commentary.
I hope you take this as constructive criticism, gl!
for me this is the second best Xenoblade Game since after X they bloated the battlesystem too much, while X had essentially just an improved and expanded version of the battlesystem of the first game.
LOVE THIS GAME
Im sure there's lots I could still do in this game... love it, and you can play it on the gamepad only!
The game does have tutorials but they're in the wii u pause menu (yes that exists and the devs actually used it for this game 😅)
It also explains overdrive mechanics and the color combinations for alternate debuffs/buffs/healing. You can even extend overdrive by chaining one green art into a blue art for added time based on the number in the center clock.
Also Yelv, Alexa, and Boze were DLC for the Japan release. Given for free when brought elsewhere.
53:30 Is comedy gold.
Hell yeah
Hell yeah
Great video, though would be nice if you could lower the volume of the game when you're talking over it at the
same time. There were a couple of times when i couldn't hear anything you were saying due to the gameplay in the background. Otherwise great video
Duuuude play shin megami tensei 5 literally one of the best exclusives the switch has EVER gotten. My first SMT game and I fell in LOVE same way I fell in love with XB2 which is my first XBC game
love to see more people talk about xenoblade X, and lol wtf with kojima video 🙈
If this game isnt announced to be ported then ill hop on after Paper Mario
I live the Nopon
I hate Tatsu. Hes just the worst parts of riki without the mellow moments that make me love Riki. When he was a dad to the team, taking a step back to really help us
Black rock shooter for psp is my favorite type of rpg. I've never played anything like it. Not sure how to categorize it. It's an action rpg but not quite. It's a turned based rpg but not quite. It's a shooter adventure as well. I haven't seen anything similar to it to this day. Wish there were more games like it.
My gf has a plush from that series which is my only exposure. Been meaning to look into it
Nah NLA day and night actually slaps but so does this video and your taste in games. Good job.
Glad you liked it, I'll admit I'm slowly getting Stockholm syndromed into liking it
i love this game. hipster healer with permanent overdrive is my favorite build xDDD
I love X!
What slaps: Remaster version only for Switch 2
Hoping for a sequel or remake. I feel like Tetsuya wants to redo the game though.
The good thing is that in CEMU you can replace any music, turn off the song for the flight, add online missions in single player mode and remove Offline from the left corner.
It's actually a great feature. I didn't just for the sake of authenticity
Not being able to control the music volume is a huge oversight...the rest is a masterpiece of story and exploration
i cant believe i forgot about that, i got so used to the mixing i forgot
It;s a good series. Long and I would argue somewhat confusing story wise - but VERY original setting and premises.
best jrpg ever created IMO. the Wii u gamepad gave another level of gameplay while you used it for the main map and drilling.
I need to finish playing Xenoblade Chronicles X on emulator on my laptop via Cemu at some point. Especially since I still have all the files.
I'd be inclined to play it if i ever could, sadly I'm no owner of a wii u nor a powerful enough PC to emulate it
I would love to play it. But I'm never going to buy a Wii-U in order to do so. So when Nintendo puts it on a modern console, I'll happily jump in.
I wish but the grind for mats is made next to impossible without the online functions. That and have fun still having a WiiU these days.
That grind is the only reason I didn't really bother to go for the ares or skells like it. I could but didn't really want to
@@MalcadorGaming Yeah. It is made much worse after the fact. Could the drop rates at least be adjusted post-game as an unlockable or last patch? The Skells and what little customization I had was what made me love this game. I wished any HD Port would go harder with that and maybe bring back some features or add more to better make use of this.