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- I hope you like movies, because here's yet another! Warning: may include a new Luxin drinking game where you take a shot every time I call something "interesting;" this game is not recommended as I apparently forgot what synonyms were throughout much of the recording of this video.
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For your sake and mine, try to avoid thinking about the amount of times I use the word "interesting" in this video, especially in the first half hour.
Yes sir
Interesting suggestion, I’ll try my best
57 I think
Interesting you'd warn us about it
Interesante then.
*Well don’t you look smug with my Collector‘s Edition on your arm?*
THE PREORDER IS NOT YOURS, IT IS MINE! YOU ARE NOTHING! IT BELONGS ONLY TO ME!
CE? CE! CE?! CE!?!? (Maniacal laugh)
32:30 it’s also hilarious that his back art shows his hair dangling in front of him as if his hair stayed the same while the rest of him turned around, which is really cursed.
Oops, looks like the Z-buffer is broken!
its just drawn as "see-through" in order to make crystal-clear concept art for the rest of the team
same with eunie's wings
15:10 Eunie's "pants" with "almost-sock-things" are called stirrup leggings. Helps the stretchy fabric not climb up your leg while you're working out or otherwise being active! Usually the strap is a little thinner, but this is still normal human clothing
they were called "calliopes" (for whatever reason) in my country, long time ago (but I don't think she has these in her final desing... even though there IS a scene with her shoes off... happens in the City, a convo with Monica follows, about Eunie "meeting" her own husk)... I wanted to comment "stirrups" but wasn't sure... thanks for mentioning that ^^
I think the clothing at that point is for before the two worlds converged.
imagine if shania was the og mobius party member before triton got created,
would explain why theres two fist fighting class and the whole soulhacker thing goes well with shania copying ghondor
That's not what's at the core of Shania though.
_Shania was right_
23:50 Shania's facial expressions are the best in the art book IMO. They really did go out with her given the story
I still prefer N's mad cuck facial expressions
Thank you so much for this
I wish I could’ve gotten the special edition
That situation was a complete mess
Man me too
35:30 that was worn by the avenger boss in teach's ascension quest
I was perplexed when I saw such a unique outfit and NPC, for a single quest, granted it was an ascension quest.
Small correction, Consul I is seen in her gear during the cutscene "The Queen's Edict"
Some of the stuff in this artbook are amazing and I really feel like we missed out. The different mech designs the origin art that never made it to the final design. The landscapes.
Man Shania initially being a hero that becomes Moebius would have really helped her story and betrayal work better and especially would have made Sena’s ascension quest feel FAR less like just a 2nd Ghondor one. It always felt weird that Sena has that one interaction with her and somehow that was supposed to be enough to make her ascension quest have emotional weight to it outside of Ghondor. Never would’ve noticed the official key art angle of that.
Has anyone noticed that the Feronis of of Colony Iota and Mu each have a resemblance or at least shared design elements to a blade from Xenoblade chronicles 2, being Orbrona and Electra respectively and that the Heros of these colonies share traits with those respective Blades.
The Colony Iota Feronis reminds me of Orbrona with her wings closed and the art is doing electric stuff, Orbrona being an electric blade. I only thought of this because Alexandria has Orbrona's Horns.
Colony Mu has even stronger design similarities to Electra than Iota does to Orbrona, the double Oni/lightning god horns and the six connected orbs that have the same design on them as Electras do. Which leads into the fact that Fiona has similar horns to Electra and wears the same symbol, which is odd. These particular designs do draw on Japanese folklore that I haven't really brushed up on but it is shared all the same.
I just think its neat.
Actually the old zohar design is in the game. They're on the consuls (the most obvious) and on buildings/doors peppered throughout the game. There are two poles at agnus castle that proceed the homecoming stage that are actually giant crosses; given all that happens during that point of the story, the symbolism was not lost on me once I noticed they weren't just poles.
Can you provide specific examples?
30:11 crys's power frame thing looks almost exactly like shulks in terms of placement and the belt it's connected to
crys could be the son of Shulk and Fiora pre-aoinios
@@Ocean_Lord_derpfish I know, right?
glad luxin is back to his normal self
I love the use of the word "nuts" in the title. I've been craving trail mix for weeks now
The biggest thing that jumped out to me when I spent hours pouring through the book when it arrived was some of the colony concepts, which are just insane- in terms of size & scale & their integration into the environment. Amazing stuff. Obviously a lot of it likely not feasible as this still had to run on a Nintendo Switch.
Those pages are WILD.
Also theory crafting on what were most likely just placeholder characters on environment pages but imaging what they would be if they weren’t and what it would’ve meant.
...God I really wish we got one last visit to the urayan mountains.
...maybe during the dlc, we get a look to what it was like before I straight up death starred off Aionis.
...then again I also imagined they'd want us to see the city of the deep past, so.. doing that would be intuitive
57:06 you can see ALCAMOTH on top of the ferronis. This is the best concept art ever.
(Haven't watched the whole video, sorry if he already mentioned it.)
He didn't, no
I love the very in depth videos you make about Xeno content. For a video this long, I watch it in parts, but I always remember to come back to it to progress through it. Great job as always!
One thing that really interested me about Mio concept art was the highlighting of her bracelet on the offseer page which you can never really see under her sleeve- and then the Ouroboros sketch highlighting an anklet- making me wonder if it was an important keepsake or something from Nia perhaps or other family with some significance in one draft of the story.
Also I wish the Ouroboros pages weren’t on a black background, it works fine for Agnus but the Keves ones lose a lot of detail because it blends into the dark background.
I’m so glad he uploaded this literally as I’m looking at the artbook for the first time since i just beat the game
I find it funny that 4 of the 6 main party members have a different eye color reflection than their main eye color.
Mio has blue
Sena, Lanz and Eunie has purple in there reflections.
Maybe it related to their parents or something.
The art book had Nia thigh high 10/10
Where :(?
Edit: Fine, I'll do it myself 1:24:56
The thigh squish... ABSOLUTE TERRITORY OH MY GOD
Rex had some fun with that one huh. lol
_the holy thighble prophecies were true!_
This is the quality content I subscribed for
I knew you said this would be a big one but this is amazing.
Cant wait to give it a proper watch in a bit :D
finally had time to watch the video. great work Luxin!
super interesting to finally see all of this, since i couldn't secure a special edition myself
55:34 / 57:06 you can actually find another version of this placeholder character in the Xenoblade Defintive Works Artbook on page 182/183. She looks near identical to the one shown here EXCEPT for not having High Entia wings. I assume the artwork on these two pages were new ones drawn for Future Connected so I think it's interesting that this placeholder character was shared/used for scale for both XCDE/FC and XC3, and they decided to add wings to her for XC3 concept artwork.
Also for 1:05:29 I think it's very possible that the High Entia placeholder Founder IS or was modeled after the very same placeholder character, just going off of the silhouette/open leg skirt outfit (though you'll need to look at it from your artbook or a more clearer picture than Luxin's to see it clearly and compare)
A LONG LUXIN VIDEO JUST IN TIME FOR DINNER LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
54:00 I took it that originally the cloudkeep was going to be off the sea. But then it was moved to enable Miyabi story to go in there for pacing of the end of the story potentially?
Great and comprehensive video as always, keep up the good work
thank you so much for this break down, it took me a while to finish but this was amazing !!!
17:25 If you look closely at Taion's Ouroboros form, his tassels have Zohar-shaped objects attached to them. Rather curious considering they could've used literally any other shape.
I'm surprised you didn't bring this up after talking about how the party's outfits are supposed to be from the city and how the emblem on the back of Eunie's earlier jacket was removed likely because of that, but one thing that's bugged me for a very long time is that Lanz and Taion's outfits (which are supposed to be from the city) have the Keves and Agnus emblems on them. It just seems like a mistake that was never caught.
i never noticed it on lanz but i like to think that taion didnt even change into anything and just threw a scarf on, thus the agnus emblem
Lanz just cuts off the sleeves of his old jacket, the rest is new though.
@@AlujaBING the fur around his neck is noticeably thicker in his post-ouroboros outfit than in his Kevesi jacket
@@photonbreak9158 Yeah because it falls loose, so it shows more fur.
@@AlujaBING The two jackets are also completely different colors though
I appreciate you making this given the fact that I missed the artbook several times due to being a few seconds too slow.
Aw yea! I've been waitin' for this!
15:04 When he doesnt know what stir-ups are LMAO. Great vid btw, sweet of you to share this with folks who couldn’t grab the collectors edition!
The ferronis concepts really remind me of the shots of the bionis and mechonix in xb1s opening, with how high they stand and and being partially in clouds. Plus a lot of the art gives the vibe on the ferronises roaming around, like xb2 titans. I think having the ferronises be parallels to titans is actually really cool and would've given the world a very different vibe. Less traditional rpg and much more isolated and shadow of the colossus-y
This artbook looks pretty cool. I hope they make a larger artbook not limited to the special edition like they did for the other games. I have both the one for xenoblade 1 and 2 and I want to complete my collection.
I believe the core crystal concept was for the giant blue cubes that are in Origin around the amphitheater. I already assumed they were influenced by them but it seems originally it was just straight up meant to be core crystals that Nia and Melia stored everyones memories and souls in
9:14 Ah yes. Mio, your regular, Flesh Eater, Agnian Crown Princess with three moms and a dad. Total normal.
15:04 "very very cursed almost sock things" my friend those exist IRL, they're stirrup leggings and they're fairly common.
thank you luxin, your notification always makes me smile😁
1:31:48 "At one point, the explanation for how Origin stored people was..." I was completely expecting "Monolith Software"!
1:19:05 We do see large core crystal like objects that the bottom of Origin outside Z's amphitheater, presumably what the souls of the people and general data of the two world were being stored in. The devs were probably trying to decide what they should look like in the final game.
I love the little mondo tutorial. Someone posted it awhile ago, and now I currently have a bunch of the little guys around my desk!
1:17:37 I think they're meant to be a symbolic statue at the rememberence stone, and they're just different designs they went through in order to come up with one that they liked. As we know however, they decided to scrap the idea wholesale.
About gender balance. Note that the founders plaques do not gender the founders in Japanese (except Doyle saying that she might be the sister and Vandham the brother.) They could have told the localization team of the genders of Reid and Cassini but I wouldn't put it past them to have just made it up since they never show up in game.
When japanese is translated to English gender is defaulted to male which created a small bit of confusion about Juniper or other heroes that are female
So the localizers would had to have been told that they are female other wise male or no gender
That means the founders are 2 men and 4 women? Plus the 7th one, who probably is a man/male nopon so it would make 3 men and 4 women in total.
@@Nelsito99 Juniper is non-binary though.
@@NuiYabuko I know I brought them up as it was very debated before release of the game making some confused as to what they are as the game itself has juniper under 2 for gender when 0 is male and 1 is female
Amazing analysis on the artbook and i've been waiting weeks for your take on stuff from it! I would just like to point out that we do in fact see Consul I/Irma right when Melia bot gives the order to eliminate Ouroboros and that the outfit you talked about was worn by the boss in Teach's storyline quest when you find out he is called Oleg. I do think I agree with you on your analysis of the early party images and you make very convincing arguments and I dont think those are supposed to be the founders as they look like the party overlooking a slightly more massive take on Keves Castle if anything. The scrapped Colonies all look amazing and it's really sad we didn't get to see those in game. We know of a colony psi that we never see and Eunie also says that the Agnian colonies all go up to Psi so I wonder what happened there. Are we going to be visiting more colonies in the next dlc... maybe the super massive story dlc will have some? I dunno but it sure is INTERESTING to think about right? I also think it's worth mentioning that the artbook has moebius weapons that we dont see in the game or at least I feel like i'm sure of it but you skipped that page I think. For the ZOHAR part of Origin I do think that Origin was originally incredibly massive and possibly its own region where we would actually get to fight all the main Moebius and even the side story ones like H, S, and V which would make sense since X and Y's deaths look very unfinished and the number of control towers in Origin suggests there was more to it before. I think the revelation of the Zohar and Xenogears stuff down there would have been incredibly insane especially if Z was just revealed to be named Zohar itself, lmao which is why all the Zohar emulators are there and the Xenosaga one but given that they scrapped it or maybe are going to use it for dlc we dont really know what happened. My guess is copyright issues definitely and they couldn't make it work with the overall story since Xenoblade 3 is supposed to be like Perfect works Episode VI which is the world after God/ the Zohar so to speak. And just to mention cause I thought it was funny but... a Xeno title without any KOS-MOS reference would be insanity considering how much CHOCO loves her and said as much in the KOS-MOS FIX 20th anniversary artbook.... there's even this whole broken English interview comic between him and Takahashi in it. All I'm trying to say is KOS-MOS is everywhere as Takahashi's daughter so even if the Perfect Works stuff stops with Xenoblade 4 i'm CERTAIN there will still be some form of KOS-MOS in it.
The City Luxin talks about around 50 minutes kinda reminds me from the machina settlement in future connected. I wonder if there was going to be a more clearly Bionis shoulder inspired area in the final game we never saw.
there are So many things in this art book that I want as posters
Something that I found interesting was that the artwork on the back of the book with like all the characters in front of the Mechonis Sword piercing Uraya, it looks like that’s what they tried to recreate with the title screen after you beat the final boss. Obviously they didn’t really do a good job of this but it was something I found cool.
Thank you Luxin. I’ve been scared to open mine cause I fear I’ll rip it or mess it up. I’ll do it I just need to prepare first
Just watched a complete lore video of Xenogears and there are way more comparisons in Xenoblade 3 that I originally thought! Now the Fei and Elly vibes from Noah and Mio are even stronger!
The twist of Noah and Mio being stuck in a cycle of reincarnation where at the end they're always seperated or die is the same as Fei and Elly being stuck in that same loop. Krelian who is a major antagonist of Xenogears also looks a lot like Zed. Consul D also seems like he took a lot of design cues from Grahf, though their roles in their respective games ended up being pretty different.
And Ouroboros is one giant reference to Omnigears.
And Noah is kind of a reference to both Fei and Citan. The role he plays in the story is very similar to Fei where not only is he dealing with reincarnation, but also other selves who end up being antagonists (Fei/Id vs Noah/N), but the katana moveset he gains with Lucky 7 is a callback to when Citan gains a sword in Xenogears and pretty much every katana user in Xeno games period do some callbacks to Citan.
@@24hr-Gaming But isn't N more like Grahf? I dont think he fits id like at all but I get where you are coming from. Krelian also helps you as a floating head in the final battle and Z is a floating head as the last boss here haha.
@@kos-mos2084 I think N is more like Id. D personality and storyrole isn't really Grahf, but if you compare his helmet to Grahf's, they have a lot of similar design points.
6:30 i had the same reaction. Things looked mashed together without a care in the world. It looked like the apocalypse went down.
Luxin: I'm not sure you know this, but Noah's VA Harry McEntire has been doing a play-through of XC3 the past few weeks and while you likely won't get any unknown info out of him due to NDA's and such, it is interesting to hear his perspective on things. It's funny since all he really knows about the game is Noah and N's voice lines and whatever background he was given by monolith. He streams on monday apparently.
I already saw image of the artbook and it's full of theory element.
However sometime it's sad to see some great concept didn't inclued in the game.
1:31:14 I do think the Xenogears save icons around the amphitheater look a lot more haunting in design than the core crystals do. Primarily the top left one where the amphitheater is in a huge body of water and the eclipse-looking ring moon at the top. But I do agree that using the core crystals was a better idea as it makes more sense lore-wise.
1:33:40 The artbook showing the Zohar in Origin makes me go full fanfic mode that the DLC story should be an epilogue where the worlds are gonna crash again years later and the protagonists of the 3 games are gonna need to go on an interdimensional hunt to get the Zohar/Conduit to install into Origin. That way their worlds can properly merge together and not have another Z accident again. As it was the thing that caused their worlds to separate in the first place and what was likely keeping them from merging together before Klaus and Zanza bit the dust.
You'd have Alvis return and be the one who allows the party to enter the world where the Zohar resides after it left Rhadamanthus. And that all 3 of the trinity processors are gonna be needed to properly use the Conduit inside Origin once it's installed. This would be how I want all 3 trinity members to finally interact with each other. Explain that Malos is still alive just sleeping inside either Pyra or Mythra's cores. As for Consul A, they could be a Moebius who acts as a contingency plan if Z ever lost. And their main goal would be to return the worlds back to the state of Aionios and thus recreate the endless now. You could also have A restore the memories of certain Consuls to assist them. Dirk is a good example as I think he would be one who would love to go back to that Aionios lifestyle. And I just want him to do more since his usage in the base game was disappointing.
I know there are people that like the idea of Alvis being Consul A, but wouldn't go well with this idea. And I don't really know what reason there would be to have Alvis suddenly turn evil. At the very least I think the DLC should still be an epilogue that basically goes full fanservice by having a story that truly connects all 3 games properly to end the series on a high note while still keeping base XC3 a standalone experience. Only issue would be that people who start with 3 and play the DLC are gonna be lost on info needed to know from 1 and 2.
It's clear Consul's dont all walk in lockstep with Z so Alvis being Consul A can still work as he worked with Zanza's Trinity, an observer disguised as a follower of the antagonist
1:06:25 I think we’re looking at 1 Agnian and 2 Kevesi founders. You can see each statue is between two white floor rectangles, and we see one to Noah’s right. Plus I think the angle is wrong to be looking only at the right side of the room, and M or a Gormotti would make more sense as an Agnian founder.
8:32 I’d say that “building blotch” looks a lot like a monolith, specifically Monolith’s monolith in their logo.
14:05 Yesss, Eunie’s the boss. 14:36 They don’t have any High Entia, but a wing symbol would still be fitting for them since they consider Mellia their queen as shown in that postgame quest.
28:25 Aw yeah! Mwamba baybe! It’s Moambing time!
Anyway great video as always Luxin.
18:23 the second expression on the bottom had me rolling lmao
56:16 They tease my love for Xenoblade X with those very Sylvalum-esque thin vertical pillar things even tho i know its gotta be like metal
1:28:20 look at the very end of the picture and the final silhouette looks like Ino more than any of the party members in my opinion
A bit late to the party with these ideas, but watching through again and seeing the scrapped or potential heroes we never got in the final game:
Really wish we'd gotten a tank class Mondo-wielding Nimue after Taion's side story, possibly a buff-centric tank class which we never really got, and it would allow for a possible Agnus tank to be...actually a good class
A sacrificial kevesi healer in Joran, possibly after defeating D and J in the cloudkeep but with alternate events where J forcibly de-interlinks with D or something, where the playstyle is something like a blood mage, reducing your own HP to deal lots of damage and heal the rest of the party
A City (Kevesi maybe, since she's from house Reid) attacker class in Shania, again, maybe in her Mobius form. I don't really have any great ideas for what her class's playstyle might have been, but I would've liked to see her actually use her sister's pistol as the weapon, or maybe in theme with her character, create a brand new blade weapon we never see, symbolising her coming into her own and being original to what she wants for herself. (Paintbrush, ill leave it at that)
MWAMBA
A Kevesi attacker in Crys would have been cool since his take on the heavy guard's giant sword thing has always stood out to me, but I'm honestly happy with how his arc ended. Maybe take some musical themes ala Kitharode from FR and make him a musician class or something.
If we saw more of the floating island and colonies concept art in the actual game, that would've been so sick
The colony/Ferronis concept is giving my inner mecha fan goosebumps. I’ve thought before about how both Gundam and Xenoblade usually contain strong anti-war themes, and how both Turn-A Gundam and Blade 3 blend together different timelines, so that got me thinking about how kickass a Gundam AU of Xenoblade would be.
It’s at this point that I realized I was literally just describing Xenogears, Xenosaga, and Chronicles X.
Square, Namco, Monolith. *Give us the damn remakes.*
Gundam Noah: _Fighting N_ I'm positive! This guy has acquired abilities of Moebius with the help of *_Z!_*
_Dramatic unsheathing of Lucky Seven_
This sword of mine glows with an awesome power! It's burning edge tells me to defeat you! Take this! My love, my anger, and all of my sorrow! *_INFINITY BLADE!!_*
Noah: A lot of the guys back at Side 9 liked to joke that my Blade’s red coating made it three times faster than theirs.
Namco probably could if they wanted but Square, they're pretty stingy
yeah, the six are (from left to right): proto-Eunie, proto-Taion, proto-Mio, proto-Noah, proto-Lanz, and proto-Sena (as you say: very early draft)... Love that picture, tho' (the game that could've been, huh... I'm always buffled by the concepts, for any game... not that I'm ungrateful for the game we got in the end)
this game's "torna golden country" DLC will be (as you put it) NUTS! (can't wait... 1 year away >.>)
The Zohar doors you talked about kind of remind of where U.R.T.V. are born in Xenosaga... and I feel like soldiers born in cradles is directly taken from Xenosaga as well. Also did you know there is quite literally Solaris in the artbook? I dont think you showed it in this video but I am sad so many references were scrapped.
I’m not 100% on this, but I have a theory that characters like Taion, Teach and maybe Juniper aren’t actually blades but actually had core crystals implanted through Origin recreating the world. *Actual* blades like Mio and Sena have more unique crystal designs (like 2’s blades) compared to other XC3 characters’ more generic Jin core crystal, which could be the case since it’s not actually “their” core crystal. This could just be coincidence but I figured it could be some Agnus equivalent to Keves soldiers using Power Frame’s to summon Blades.
I'm surprised so many people simply concluded that everyone in agnus is just a normal blade, my assumption was always that a lot of them were blade eaters after my friend pointed out that all of the clearly non-blade agnus heroes have core crystals visible. Though I don't think the cores/power frames have anything to do with summoning their weapons, the weapon summoning is done with the Iris system, I think the cores are just what makes them stronger. Stronger soldiers means not only do they last longer, but also that the battles between them would be cooler, which is exactly what moebius would want, and how better to strengthen the non-blade agnus troops than to turn them into blade eaters. Since moebius literally make the soldiers, it makes sense that they could implement the cores perfectly while also toning down the abilities so that the blade eaters aren't able to pose any real threat to them.
Takahashi said in an interview that Taion was Inspired from blade eaters, although not an out right confirmation still points to that possibility.
@@shulkash8799 Oh interesting. So maybe they're not literally blade eaters, but just a similar idea? Something only possible cause of Aionios? Thanks for the info!
I’m glad im not the only one who thought this. Juniper’s, Teach’s, and Fiona’s core crystals looked like they’re glued on.
Thank god, someone else expresses some love to my favorite npc soona ❤️
Page 256, bottom right. Looks like the final encounter in Future Redeemed within Origin to me all right!
59:54 Another thing to note about the double-pointed spear, a double-pointed spear *is* used in the base game, and by another agility tank like Mio no less. It could be that Ashera got carved off from the bits of the original concept that weren't used.
33:22 lmao it looks like a shoebill stork facing forward
50:39 reminds me a lot of the prison town from Xenogears
You're not alone with a softspot for the green floof. They're adorable (even Kite is in on this one)
Mine shipped on the night before I woke up the next morning with a horrible cold, so…yeah, that was quite a fun way to forget about how horrible my sinuses were acting.
Okay, so i find it curious if you are right about how the different versions of Noah are regarding his weapons goes from probably using what we know as the replica monado rex or 2 swords to a sword conceling another sword which can be coinsider a different evolution of the replica Monado... Because it's ironically very similar to the weapons of a character of an anime that kind of evolution, in fact by the end the final weapon of that character, it's a sword that's actually sheathed and contains a more powerful inside, and both XC3 and this anime share some ideas regarding the character progression while done in different ways through different idiologies.
59:11 I think these might be the protagonists of the DLC - whoever that might be.
Don't forget that there's a seventh founder who's statue was replaced by a Ouroboros Stone. So we don't know the physical appearance of three of the founders, not two.
Just me theorizing, but the city at 52:11 I think may have been a concept city that once took place on the Mechonis arm, or more specifically, in the palm of its hand. At 48:55 in the bottom left, the hand looks very similar to the Mechonis hand in a similar pose. Around where the palm would be, there is a dome-shaped structure, and the concept settlement art looks to be within a dome. It could be that, rather than being inside the sword, the city might have once been in the Mechonis hand during development, much like how the hidden Machina village once lived on the hand. (Though that might be a stretch on my part)
I think Ghondor's goggles are either standard City goggles, or the ones Guernica wore (at least my memory seems to remember he wore them at the start of the game), becoming an heirloom kinda thing. 🤔
13:19 To be fair, a lot of aspects about the Ouroburos ended up being blatant Ultraman references in the end. You CANNOT convince me that at some point in development, the placeholder sound for the Ouroburos timer wasn't just a Color Timer sound
I'm sure you've mentioned this somewhere but something you said near the end reminded me of a question I wanted your take on. What are your thoughts on pre-release marketing and materials saying you don't need to play the other Xenoblade games to understand/enjoy this one. While I think that can be true on a purely surface level, that feels incomplete and I can't verbalize for myself why that is.
Funni sword game feature length luxin movie my day is made
Woo peak content!
You can see a Kevesi off-seer in the top left corner at 35:06
He just drops such a good joke out of nowhere 9:13
When I attempted to order the special edition for the definitive edition of Xenoblade 1, after a couple weeks of attempting to get the order through does it kept saying it was sold out by the time I got there, I eventually got the order in and waited till the day of. I went there and as soon as I got there they said there isn't a special edition for me. As soon as I said that I looked at my email and that morning they gave me an email saying that there wasn't any going to be shipped to me so my money was refunded. I was so pissed
I still haven’t gotten mine…
And I ordered it a month before launch
I like the fact, that M and N also have color Lights it so, at the bottom of their artworks, just like the Main Party
Thank you so much for the link. I tried to get my hands on the Artbook but due to complications during the ordering process I couldn't get one in my country. I tried Japan but it isn't that easy. The shop I ordered through couldn't buy one for me and my own account doesn't work in japan. So everything I tried that way got canceled
At the end of the video, page 256, a theory I have with the whole zohar illustration is that this area would have potentially been used for the final phases of the Z fight.
Instead of origin opening up, almost in similar manner to xenoblade 1, the party would somehow end up in this "outer space" esq area.
Potentially we'd arrive here because Z is dying, his power over the endless now is fading, as the universes attempt to competely merge into one universe again we see this place...
Or another theory is that perhaps Z had more of a connection to claus / Zanza and or even the Zohar itself. And wasn't the embodiment of "the endless now." Mayhaps this would lead to MORE connections to xenosaga/gears.
If the developers original plan for xenoblade 3 was the total xeno series conclusion, and this concept art was from a very loose and early variation of the game, Z being short for Zohar isn't that far of a stretch considering how much the other concept arts seem to have referenced it.
( buuuuuut at the same time its a xeno game, soooo there really isn't any solid evidence proving that was the intention of the zohar references )
I'm gonna go off the deep end into crazy lunatic theorist land for a second...
What if the original plot was far, far more convoluted? Let's say that it wasn't JUST the xenoblade 1 and 2 worlds merging... But ALL the multi-verses? What if at their convergence origin formed? Let's say theoretically there's 7 universes in the xeno series ( I haven't played saga or gears, I've only read up a bit on them )
Now, these 7 universes may not all be known in the lore. Like maybe the universe had already seen another split or reformation sometime before the split that claus would cause....
I kinda lost where I was going with this, and the more I'm writing this out the less lucid I become. Sooooooo Goodluck decoding this 5am mostly asleep decent into madness.
Great video thanks alot . I wanna ask something, could the few pictures regarding the conduit and the zohar indicates that the conduit is something like a zohar prototype ?
Huh, a very interesting Video, very much appreciate it.
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banana bird, idk why I giggled so much at that...
You know what I would love, if someone made Nimue's watch like a working one, I'd buy that so fast and hard!
L’s helmet is straight up identical to Terra’s from KH.
17:30 GODDAMN TAION, so that's where Eunie's traits went.
1:23:35 the theory that Noah's sword was ment to be Shulk's make more sense when you thing about the monado 3 the only monado that is symmetrical that Shulk uses and the last real monado in the XC1 world
Man while I do think the art shown off at around 50:00 is concept art for the City, I really cannot get the idea of D Block from Nortune in Xenogears. Maybe because of the decrepit nature of it, but a lot of the architecture reminds me of those prison slums, particularly whatever the building with that red roof and the water tower in the background. It really makes me wonder if that was going to be an intentional Gears reference and if they were considering doing something similar for Li Garte's prison area. Though of course with the area over it, I also can't rule out the fact that it looks a lot like the Sector 7 Slums from FF7