Tatsu is also the most innocent Nopon party member we have gotten in the main games, Riki has children, Tora is....Tora, Riku is wiser than he let's on, so far Tastu can't even battle, he is so innocent he can't even contribute, he is just a child age wise too. I think he is adorable, has the most visual accessories of any average nopon or even elaborate ones. Also he is the only Nopon I ever drew. He is so fuzzy too, haha.
There’s an old anime I loved called Excel Saga where they referred to the dog Menchi as their emergency food supply nearly every episode because they were always broke as hell. I then named my cat Niku (Meat) for the same reason. 🤷♂️
Call it a hot take, but X didn't end on a cliffhanger. We got a solid ending and then some sequel bait after the credits. I dislike the way people make it sound like we got an unfinished game story.
My opinion on Skell combat is that Skell OVERDRIVE is wasted. Ground overdrive is so complicated and then Skell overdrive is a glorified stat boost with a little bit more of a chance to trigger the ultimately random cockpit view art reset. Ground base combat is already a little slow. But is made up for by overdrive. Skell overdrive should be the same.
Random thought for a conceptual upgrade to Skell overdrive: Make it reliant on the manufacturer of the different Skell weapons or something. Different manufacturers only exist in game to separate weapons into neat groups and lock them off until points in the game. Maybe have a system whereby different manufacturers weaponry has different synergies with each other and these are activated during overdrive. This could be passive like a boost based on the number of Sakuraba weapons equipped or such. Or active such as Sakuraba into Grenada triggers an effect.
X’s plottwists > numbered trilogy plottwists (except for 2’s big one) Luxaar > Z (rly doesn’t mean anything lol) Lao > Jin/N (Lao is the good guy that lost everything and turned evil, it feels like they reused that trope every game, rly wish they mix it up for the next game cause it’s getting tiring) Xenoblade is either set on titans or on mixed and mashed weird worlds that u can’t get away from and I kinda prefer the weird mash ones more than the titans cause of the mystery aspects, but purely visually speaking i prefer the cloud sea with the titans on it. Elma is a cat person, you can’t change my mind!
Would say some people like repeated jokes and some doesn't. But yeah some jokes are a good thing as they break up the otherwise overall plot of impending doom. Skell combat can be fast depending on how you build them, there are parts that target every appendage of all enemies. So you sorta do a trillion hits all at once. Also regarding the fuel that is a bit of a mixed bag, if you sorta do frontier nav right you will never ever run out of money. But some players might not get it and then it becomes insanely expensive to repair Skells.
I have to disagree with the skell thing. I like how clunky they are & that they need fuel. I have been a big fan of fuel in vehicles in games since Body Harvest on N64. It's just something to think about & to manage. I mean, the whole map becomes a mini game where you have to make "Business" decisions to maximise your profit. If you do it correctly, you won't have any issues about fuel in the endgame. "Power fantasy" games are enough out there, so I enjoy if they make skells a lot more meaningful with the whole fuel, breaking / repairing system. Heck, I would prefer if there were no QTEs when your skell explodes. Let them pay up, or at least use your insurance. Let people suffer. I know it's a punishment, but once you get the hang of it, managing fuel & avoiding destruction of the skell, it's REALLY rewarding. And please, no Ares 90 in XCX2. I know it's super strong, but 90% of people online used it. I wish to see different builds, & Not everyone going for the Most basic meta ever.
I actually really dislike 2 parts of the combat in X. 1) Soul voices. As mentioned in a previous video, it's difficult to know how to build them, and seem to try to take the place of any support/healer character classes. As a result I find that I'm very squishy, and if I simply can't kill the enemy quickly, I die first since there is no healer class option. It upsets the balance typically achieved in JRPGs. 2) And this is the hot take part, Overdrive. In theory it would be cool, but the fact that it breaks game balance to the point you feel required to use one of a few meta builds to survive (hello Ghost Factory) and the extremely convoluted way you must chain arts to build numbers just amounts to memorizing a few important color combinations. It would also be better if 1 and X didn't have the combat UI on a side-scrolling bar. This would be fine if it were a PC game, but when you have to left right and select them with the controller, it's very clunky. These two factors also mean that at late game, NPC allies basically don't exist because they die quickly, leading you to have to solo everything with Overdrive.
Tatsu is really not bad. He even brings you lunch in the middle of your mission. He's just an imbecile for doing so, but that was sweet of him! :D But really, I'm playing Xenoblade X in Japanese and it's so much better than the English dub. It's a crime that the game wasn't packed with Japanese language for the Western release (and was censored to boot). But yeah, as much as I love Lyn (her being the youngest and smallest member, an engineer and mecha otaku, all things that point to a frail backliner unit, and yet she is THE TANK is such an unexpected but welcome contrast, I can't help but finding her endearing), one criticism I have of her and Tatus's relationship is that the food joke gets overplayed. It would have been fine if it faded after a while, but they keep the joke for the entire game, it really diminishes the bond they have, especially because Tatsu ends up not doing jack for the plot despite being supposedly the ambassador between humans and Nopon! One thing I HATE about Xenoblade X, though, is the mission structure. Since the game is shaped like a pseudo MMORPG, where you can explored all of the world before doing the relevant story quests where the areas and segments become relevant to the plot are introduced, a lot of the plot suffers from it! In my first playthrough I found a Life Point long before I did the Kizuna Quest that makes Nagi playable became available, and if you're paying to the story FINDING THOSE LIFE POINTS IS YOUR MAIN MISSION IN THIS GAME! Yet, you can't do jack with that knowledge until you go to the console in the Blade Home and select to start the story mission. It also somewhat spoils the role Lao will play because the game forces you to do Lao's first Kizuna Quest before you can progress through the story at one point. Also sucks that, since the game is entirely based in those mission-like structures, you need to be constantly removing from or putting characters in your party to begin them. And since they don't all gain levels passively like in any other JRPG or Xenoblade game, since the characters aren't just out of your active party, they're busy dicking around somewhere else, the characters you don't use are just going to be severely under leveled and you will lack the Affinity necessary to begin their following Kizuna Quests. And since you're not limited to the places you can physically go to in order, like a traditional JRPG, your gear is limited by your level. All the gear in the game is the same from start to finish, changing between the Arms Manufacturers, but they're limited to your character's level instead of through story progression, so you can see exactly what a max level equip set will give you (which is just more of the same, just objectively better). No surprises to be found as you progress, but the game does give you means of making any piece of equipment you own into better gear, provided you spend your limited resources on them. Sure, you can farm for the items and Miranium you need, but farming for items means you have to break enemy parts for the CHANCE to get what you need (and you need to have fought the enemy first to know what it drops and from what part, so you either look up online or fight every living thing in front of you), and Miranium is limited by time, storage, probes and Mechanical Level. Your ability to strengthen armors from the very beginning and then unlocking more upgrade options early on after unlocking the Ma'non is useless for the most part as those resources are better used elsewhere and you will naturally get objectively better items if you level up, at which time you want the money to buy them! The issue is so grave the Japanese release had to make DLC Quests to make grinding infinitely less cumbersome by essentially removing the need to fight enemies that have the items you want! The international release already came with those quests that reward tickets for exchange for items baked in the base game! Also, the Dolls starting combat with smaller enemies just by running into them is such an annoyance! I just want to collect the blue items lying around, but now I have to stop everything I'm doing because I stepped on the toes of a Level 11 pig... BITCH, I'M LEVEL 40 WITH A GIANT MECH, GO TAKE A HIKE!
As the game the followed Xenoblade on Wii. I thought Xenoblade X was a true sequel with Mira being the world of Bionis and Mechonis with the Earth in X being a different Earth to that of Xenoblade 1, and the White Whale slipped into a dimensional pocket where Mira is kept. Then Xenoblade 2 came out and kinda crushed that idea, then we had a DLC with Elma and considered the theory plausible again. Only to have Xenoblade 3 show us that the worlds did indeed merge after all back into a new Earth. So now im left wondering. Is Mira just the left over "trash" after the worlds merge and kept in a pocket dimension. Is Mira the actual combined world set far into the future after the events of 3. (i say trash in that it seems like a dumping ground of environments just slapped together) I cant wait for Xenoblade X DE and i hope it can serve as a foundation for new games in the X universe because I really love flying around in giant mechs!
I'm about to finish Xenoblade 2 and haven't even started Xenoblade 3 yet, but from what I have seen, it could be implied that the intergalactic war that destroyed Earth was the event that led to the creation of Shulk's and Rex's worlds, with Klaus' experiment being the thing that "destroys" the planet. Tentacle lady says they got engulfed by a mysterious light and got teleported to Mira, and the opening cutscene shows said light forming slightly above Earth. If we're dealing with multiple universes, it is possible that Klaus' experiment was taking place there and created Shulk's world with his left part becoming Zanza (the part with his heart), his right side (the reasoning) becoming The God of Creation, and in this universe he probably becomes some sentient force that makes all races show up in Mira and understand each other. I'll theorize that to be the "will" or something ethereal like that.
@TwilightWolf032 as it stands right now in both Xenoblade 1 2 and X its not even remotely possible. You will understand at the end. Anyone who says it's possible leaves out some inconvenientl truth simply because " I want it to happen" That said X DE could totally retcon everything. But right now, not even remotely possible for the experiment and alien invasion to happen on the same earth at the same time or in and around the same time.
Anyone else just notice how the one main Asian character is the one constantly making jokes about eating a sapient creature who the rest of the cast and the audience aren’t meant to actually see as food?
Xenoblade x. its not my favorite...but I still have some good memories with this game..I also, dislike Lin so much lol..tatsu gets victim blamed all the time
I just can't wait to do a million quests to recruit the greatest girlfailure in history.
It took me like 200 hours to get her. Literally got the ares 90 before Mia bro.
no joke i got 3 ares 90s before i got her xd
Tatsu is also the most innocent Nopon party member we have gotten in the main games, Riki has children, Tora is....Tora, Riku is wiser than he let's on, so far Tastu can't even battle, he is so innocent he can't even contribute, he is just a child age wise too.
I think he is adorable, has the most visual accessories of any average nopon or even elaborate ones.
Also he is the only Nopon I ever drew.
He is so fuzzy too, haha.
Tatsu gets victim-blamed
Elma's new face pretty much doubles her waifu appeal. Don't look at me like that, we were all thinking it.
Tatsu is waifu
There’s an old anime I loved called Excel Saga where they referred to the dog Menchi as their emergency food supply nearly every episode because they were always broke as hell. I then named my cat Niku (Meat) for the same reason. 🤷♂️
JMully with another Xenoblade banger 🔥🔥🔥
Xenoblade X 2, fight under water giant alien sea monsters.. and skells in your party can merge like power rangers! On switch 2!
Call it a hot take, but X didn't end on a cliffhanger. We got a solid ending and then some sequel bait after the credits. I dislike the way people make it sound like we got an unfinished game story.
My opinion on Skell combat is that Skell OVERDRIVE is wasted. Ground overdrive is so complicated and then Skell overdrive is a glorified stat boost with a little bit more of a chance to trigger the ultimately random cockpit view art reset. Ground base combat is already a little slow. But is made up for by overdrive. Skell overdrive should be the same.
Random thought for a conceptual upgrade to Skell overdrive: Make it reliant on the manufacturer of the different Skell weapons or something. Different manufacturers only exist in game to separate weapons into neat groups and lock them off until points in the game. Maybe have a system whereby different manufacturers weaponry has different synergies with each other and these are activated during overdrive. This could be passive like a boost based on the number of Sakuraba weapons equipped or such. Or active such as Sakuraba into Grenada triggers an effect.
X’s plottwists > numbered trilogy plottwists (except for 2’s big one)
Luxaar > Z (rly doesn’t mean anything lol)
Lao > Jin/N (Lao is the good guy that lost everything and turned evil, it feels like they reused that trope every game, rly wish they mix it up for the next game cause it’s getting tiring)
Xenoblade is either set on titans or on mixed and mashed weird worlds that u can’t get away from and I kinda prefer the weird mash ones more than the titans cause of the mystery aspects, but purely visually speaking i prefer the cloud sea with the titans on it.
Elma is a cat person, you can’t change my mind!
Tatsu's name alone is even a food joke. He's a 'potato' after all...Tater Tatsu...
Tatsu will be fondly remembered this time around
Hot take:
Alexa is Lin done right.
The sack that lingers under those chicken things enemies beaks , they put those there because they knew nobody would play the game
My hot take is that this is absolutely part of the Harry Pottwr universe and if you can’t put it together then I pity you
Would say some people like repeated jokes and some doesn't. But yeah some jokes are a good thing as they break up the otherwise overall plot of impending doom. Skell combat can be fast depending on how you build them, there are parts that target every appendage of all enemies. So you sorta do a trillion hits all at once.
Also regarding the fuel that is a bit of a mixed bag, if you sorta do frontier nav right you will never ever run out of money.
But some players might not get it and then it becomes insanely expensive to repair Skells.
I have to disagree with the skell thing.
I like how clunky they are & that they need fuel. I have been a big fan of fuel in vehicles in games since Body Harvest on N64.
It's just something to think about & to manage. I mean, the whole map becomes a mini game where you have to make "Business" decisions to maximise your profit. If you do it correctly, you won't have any issues about fuel in the endgame.
"Power fantasy" games are enough out there, so I enjoy if they make skells a lot more meaningful with the whole fuel, breaking / repairing system. Heck, I would prefer if there were no QTEs when your skell explodes. Let them pay up, or at least use your insurance.
Let people suffer. I know it's a punishment, but once you get the hang of it, managing fuel & avoiding destruction of the skell, it's REALLY rewarding.
And please, no Ares 90 in XCX2.
I know it's super strong, but 90% of people online used it. I wish to see different builds, & Not everyone going for the Most basic meta ever.
I actually really dislike 2 parts of the combat in X.
1) Soul voices. As mentioned in a previous video, it's difficult to know how to build them, and seem to try to take the place of any support/healer character classes. As a result I find that I'm very squishy, and if I simply can't kill the enemy quickly, I die first since there is no healer class option. It upsets the balance typically achieved in JRPGs.
2) And this is the hot take part, Overdrive. In theory it would be cool, but the fact that it breaks game balance to the point you feel required to use one of a few meta builds to survive (hello Ghost Factory) and the extremely convoluted way you must chain arts to build numbers just amounts to memorizing a few important color combinations. It would also be better if 1 and X didn't have the combat UI on a side-scrolling bar. This would be fine if it were a PC game, but when you have to left right and select them with the controller, it's very clunky.
These two factors also mean that at late game, NPC allies basically don't exist because they die quickly, leading you to have to solo everything with Overdrive.
thanks now I want someone to recreate a Binging with Babish episode with Lin's model in the blade barracks kitchen
Mira is way better than anything og xeno has. Its unknown.
Tatsu is really not bad. He even brings you lunch in the middle of your mission. He's just an imbecile for doing so, but that was sweet of him! :D
But really, I'm playing Xenoblade X in Japanese and it's so much better than the English dub. It's a crime that the game wasn't packed with Japanese language for the Western release (and was censored to boot).
But yeah, as much as I love Lyn (her being the youngest and smallest member, an engineer and mecha otaku, all things that point to a frail backliner unit, and yet she is THE TANK is such an unexpected but welcome contrast, I can't help but finding her endearing), one criticism I have of her and Tatus's relationship is that the food joke gets overplayed. It would have been fine if it faded after a while, but they keep the joke for the entire game, it really diminishes the bond they have, especially because Tatsu ends up not doing jack for the plot despite being supposedly the ambassador between humans and Nopon!
One thing I HATE about Xenoblade X, though, is the mission structure. Since the game is shaped like a pseudo MMORPG, where you can explored all of the world before doing the relevant story quests where the areas and segments become relevant to the plot are introduced, a lot of the plot suffers from it! In my first playthrough I found a Life Point long before I did the Kizuna Quest that makes Nagi playable became available, and if you're paying to the story FINDING THOSE LIFE POINTS IS YOUR MAIN MISSION IN THIS GAME! Yet, you can't do jack with that knowledge until you go to the console in the Blade Home and select to start the story mission.
It also somewhat spoils the role Lao will play because the game forces you to do Lao's first Kizuna Quest before you can progress through the story at one point.
Also sucks that, since the game is entirely based in those mission-like structures, you need to be constantly removing from or putting characters in your party to begin them. And since they don't all gain levels passively like in any other JRPG or Xenoblade game, since the characters aren't just out of your active party, they're busy dicking around somewhere else, the characters you don't use are just going to be severely under leveled and you will lack the Affinity necessary to begin their following Kizuna Quests.
And since you're not limited to the places you can physically go to in order, like a traditional JRPG, your gear is limited by your level. All the gear in the game is the same from start to finish, changing between the Arms Manufacturers, but they're limited to your character's level instead of through story progression, so you can see exactly what a max level equip set will give you (which is just more of the same, just objectively better).
No surprises to be found as you progress, but the game does give you means of making any piece of equipment you own into better gear, provided you spend your limited resources on them. Sure, you can farm for the items and Miranium you need, but farming for items means you have to break enemy parts for the CHANCE to get what you need (and you need to have fought the enemy first to know what it drops and from what part, so you either look up online or fight every living thing in front of you), and Miranium is limited by time, storage, probes and Mechanical Level. Your ability to strengthen armors from the very beginning and then unlocking more upgrade options early on after unlocking the Ma'non is useless for the most part as those resources are better used elsewhere and you will naturally get objectively better items if you level up, at which time you want the money to buy them!
The issue is so grave the Japanese release had to make DLC Quests to make grinding infinitely less cumbersome by essentially removing the need to fight enemies that have the items you want! The international release already came with those quests that reward tickets for exchange for items baked in the base game!
Also, the Dolls starting combat with smaller enemies just by running into them is such an annoyance! I just want to collect the blue items lying around, but now I have to stop everything I'm doing because I stepped on the toes of a Level 11 pig... BITCH, I'M LEVEL 40 WITH A GIANT MECH, GO TAKE A HIKE!
As the game the followed Xenoblade on Wii. I thought Xenoblade X was a true sequel with Mira being the world of Bionis and Mechonis with the Earth in X being a different Earth to that of Xenoblade 1, and the White Whale slipped into a dimensional pocket where Mira is kept.
Then Xenoblade 2 came out and kinda crushed that idea, then we had a DLC with Elma and considered the theory plausible again.
Only to have Xenoblade 3 show us that the worlds did indeed merge after all back into a new Earth.
So now im left wondering. Is Mira just the left over "trash" after the worlds merge and kept in a pocket dimension. Is Mira the actual combined world set far into the future after the events of 3.
(i say trash in that it seems like a dumping ground of environments just slapped together)
I cant wait for Xenoblade X DE and i hope it can serve as a foundation for new games in the X universe because I really love flying around in giant mechs!
I'm about to finish Xenoblade 2 and haven't even started Xenoblade 3 yet, but from what I have seen, it could be implied that the intergalactic war that destroyed Earth was the event that led to the creation of Shulk's and Rex's worlds, with Klaus' experiment being the thing that "destroys" the planet.
Tentacle lady says they got engulfed by a mysterious light and got teleported to Mira, and the opening cutscene shows said light forming slightly above Earth.
If we're dealing with multiple universes, it is possible that Klaus' experiment was taking place there and created Shulk's world with his left part becoming Zanza (the part with his heart), his right side (the reasoning) becoming The God of Creation, and in this universe he probably becomes some sentient force that makes all races show up in Mira and understand each other. I'll theorize that to be the "will" or something ethereal like that.
@TwilightWolf032 as it stands right now in both Xenoblade 1 2 and X its not even remotely possible. You will understand at the end.
Anyone who says it's possible leaves out some inconvenientl truth simply because " I want it to happen"
That said X DE could totally retcon everything. But right now, not even remotely possible for the experiment and alien invasion to happen on the same earth at the same time or in and around the same time.
I am the only Tatsu enjoyer
My hot take: Ghost walker/Blossom dance builds are boring. None of my overdrive builds use it.
My hot take is that your accent sounds like UwU talk, there I said it !
Tatsu wasn't that bad
Anyone else just notice how the one main Asian character is the one constantly making jokes about eating a sapient creature who the rest of the cast and the audience aren’t meant to actually see as food?
Before I get cancelled, I don’t actually think this is deliberate or anything, it’s a Japanese game ffs
Xenoblade x. its not my favorite...but I still have some good memories with this game..I also, dislike Lin so much lol..tatsu gets victim blamed all the time