Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition and the Art Of A Perfect Story
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ส.ค. 2024
- Xenoblade DE (Definitive edition) manages to tell a story in a way that felt pretty unique and does not really show it's whole hand until the very end of the game making the lore feel super thought out and allowing for an insane amount of plot twists . It's an impressive game and i hope i have not spoiled the game , with the final boss fight or anything , for anyone wanting to play it but at-least there was a disclaimer at the start ^-^
This video was made with intent to explore what DE does to make the climax work .Sorry if it felt a little too explain-y but it had to be walked through to show the progression of how the world view completely changes as the game goes on .
Thanks for watching !
MUSIC USED -
🎶Battle !! ( Xenoblade Torna Golden country )
🎶Mechanical Rhythm ( Xenoblade DE )
🎶Outro : Roaming the wastes ( Xenoblade Chronicles 2 )
I know there are quite a few details i missed out , got wrong / slipped up my words on . i'm not used to explaining lore ^-^ . The point isn't to explain the plot to explain why i thought it worked which required a run through of the story . Sooo basically .... please go easy on me if i messed anything up
BuT hEy I tHoUgH yOu SaId XeNoBlAdE cHrOnIcLeS wAs A bAd GaMe!?!?!?!?!??!
well thanks for accelerating the end I never made it that far
Thanks for spoiling xenoblade 2 with no warning
Well quick correction, Lorithea did NOT kiss her son. You’re thinking of Yumea. Lorithea was part of the High Entia’s ministry of research, not his mother.
@@vishthefish2078 should have played it 3 years ago.
Chapter 2 also sets up zanza early “there are 2 voices in my head” is a huge hint that’s where narrative 2 begins
There are so many good moments of foreshadowing
Oddiemefav my favorite are the times Dickson straight up tells everyone he’s the villain and no one figures it out he has so much fun being evil and I love watching it
My favorite moment of foreshadowing is the alcamoth sidequest where a mother asks you to talk to her daughter who has randomly developed racism. Talk to the daughter and she says that her hatred of nopon and homs stemmed from a message from the bionis itself. Given what happens to full-blooded high entia, its safe to say that Zanza is literally grooming them
@@tonberry2670 Wow , it even runs through to side quests
@@oddiemefav1363 Talk to Desiree at some point after the Xord fight
I’ve been telling people this game has one of the best stories for years, but literally nobody listened to me.. now with definitive edition, i’m so happy that people are experiencing it 😁
Oh i loved it so much ^-^
Nobody listened? Bro this game was master seller on Wii.
honesty if they didnt put it on switch i would have probably never experienced it
You explained so well what makes Xenoblade Chronicles such an amazing experience. Well done!
Thanks alot . i didnt want it to come off too explain-y so i tried to make it fast without missing too much . Means alot to have someone say that
Xenoblade definitive edition shulk no pants run
Bro u can do that literally straight away
@@oddiemefav1363 best part
This game has one of the best stories I’ve ever seen
I wish I could just forget it and experience it all over again
One of the coolest foreshadows in the game was at the beginning,
Before shulk and reyn left on their journey ,shulk talked about how he had 2 voices in his head. One telling him to be a reasonable young man , and the other being "Kill the robot people". This can be interpreted as zanza acting his plans out really early on in the story as something like this happened at the when shulk had the chance to kill egil
There are so many small moments like that i would love to talk about but it wouldnt make great content . My favourite is how you expect dunban to die early on and how we see shulk change the visions of the future so you expect him to save fiora making it actually a shock when she dies .
Amazing story telling
@@oddiemefav1363 its too much for my simple mind to handle
In the opening cutscene, you can actually see Telethia flying over the bionis. Just a fun fact.
Not Telethia, those are Moramora. I think they were sealed alongside Zanza.
Takahashi (the Director) loves to present information that makes no sense and goes unexplained only to mindfuck the players 50 hours into the game. The writers load like 100 Chekhov’s guns at once and start releasing them just as the players interest begins to wane. It’s creates so much tension and intrigue: the payoff is brilliant. This is why I also love xenoblade 2, it employs similar narrative structure! Such a great series!
Also, excellent video!
Thank you ^-^
Nia's true identity was foreshadowed so often even
Drifting souls lyrics sound like pyra's song at first but when you find out about Nia
It literally turns into her song
That scene with Shulk convulsing on the ground with his eyes rolling up his skull makes me SO uncomfortable man... You used it so much it gave me anxiety xD
Such an amazing game. Also props to the voice actors for bringing the characters to life. ( Adam Howden's screaming is my favorite thing. )
It really struck me that scene and god his voice is amazing
@@oddiemefav1363 I know, it really slaps you in the heart, doesn't it ? Another scene i'll never forget is that one moment before the Apocrypha generator. You know the one.
These screams of agony were too real man... I don't know how Adam Howden does it, but it makes me wince every single time.
@@corruptedteka he’s such a good actor I did a double take when I first heard Zanza speak after he shed Shulk’s body, you have to listen really hard to hear that they have the same voice because the delivery is so different. Same goes for Klaus, in the experiment cutscene he sounds more confident than Shulk but not as serene and imperious as Zanza. A really impressive performance all around
@@brickwallace99 Dang right ! He's good-
One detail that I really love about the story is Zanza who is giving Shulk the visions, always uses plots 1 and 2 to get shulk to do plot 3. Zanza wants Shulk to go to Prision Island to free his body so he teases that Metal Face will be there and that he will be able to destroy him. Zanza wants Shulk to destroy Egil so Zanza gives a vision that Fioria will be in galahad fortress because Egil is there and it will lead to Shulk getting more motivation to destroy Egil. But once inside of the Mechonis, Zanza stops giving Shulk visions because Shulk is already on the path of defeating Egil so he doesn’t need to point him anywhere because Shulk is going to do it on his own.
Thats pretty much the point and its amazing . Knowing of zanza makes you realise the whole story was not to kill metal face or get fiora . It was all zanzas plan ... except for him dying of course lol
@@oddiemefav1363 zanza is just nux taku, a super villain with a dumb high 189 IQ
@@oddiemefav1363 When the party finds Melia unconsious in Malkna Forest, Shulk gets a vision of them (Melia included) fighting a telethia.
If you look closesly they are actually fighting Lorithia! Did that vision come from Zanza? Is Alvis giving Shulk visions that early in the game?
@Xenomaniac Maybe? Idk I made this comment a year ago but I feel like Zanza can show stuff like that to Shulk without Alvis.
Very well made. It's shocking that this 80 hour JRPG has one core story arc from beginning to end and I'm impressed they pulled it off.
I would agree that 2 has a slow start, but 1 roped me in instantly back when I first played it. Out of all the jrpgs ive played I thought XC1 was the fastest at getting me interested. Not to say 2 was bad whatsoever, I love them both
Love how you don't hate on xc2 like seemingly everyone else I've seen talk about xc1. They both got great stories, gameplay, exploration, and a beautiful connection
Thank you . It seems people cant really talk about either game without saying they dislike the other . Except for Luxin and Enel . They are the quality XB2 content creators
@@oddiemefav1363 well yes, but enel had some stupid hate talk on xb1. Haven't played 2 yet but im rrally looking forward it.
@@amitaish1055 yh luxin is cool but enel is toxic af, he says xc1 is the worst xeno game
Enel still makes xc1 content tho. Everyone has their favorites and least-favorites. I personally think torna is kind of a mess, but I still think people should check it out because it might resonate with other people more than it did with me.
@@lpfan4491 roght now he is way better. There was some dramas some time ago.
Alvis is the 3rd Aegis, Ontos, from Xenoblade 2 as well 🤓.
I’d love to see a video following up on this where you discuss how this game handles foreshadowing. The direct visions, the misleading of the player, and the masterfully simple yet not obvious signs of things to come really should be discussed. This game is great at foreshadowing.
I feel it is definitely a strong part of the game which is great considering the whole concept of visions . I will definitely think about doing a video on it
@@oddiemefav1363 If you do I will be there for it ! Foreshadowing and flash-forwarding is such a great topic with this game-
Ah yes the game where Monado boi gets his waifu killed by Starscreen the decepticon
The conclusion being about moebius is just insane now that we have Xenoblade 3
Just discovered this video on my recommended yesterday, and I have to say that I largely enjoy it. You definitely nailed as to why Xenoblade Chronicles is a game and now series that became so revered even by its somewhat niche audience.
And as much as I love XC1’s story, zi definitely agree with you XC2’s story is great one its own right as well, and it’s sad to see plenty of hardcore XC1 stans trash simply due to its slow opening, along with standing in the first game’s shadow. I’ll admit, the twists and foreshadowing aren’t as mind-blowing 3D-chess like as in XC1, but the late game twists of how it’s connected to XC1 still entirely blew my mind, and even fixed some of my problems with XC1 as well. Being that it makes Zanza more than just a one-dimensional villain (since as much as the story goes apeshiet after he emerges, it sadly traded Egil for a much weaker villain) and explained Alvis’s character a lot better than the end of XC1 did. XC2 does have its flaws, don’t get me wrong, especially when it comes to the voice direction at times and some intrusive gacha elements, but I went from being lukewarm on the game to putting 215 on it and Torna combined. And definitely don’t regret.👌🏽
So tl;dr, while XC1’s story deserve its praise, which’s why I clicked on this video why I got it in my recommended, I’m just glad to see you give XC2 its due props rather than throwing it away just because “anime tiddy bad.”
I 10000 percent agree . i have had so many angry comments about me linking XB2 and definitive edition together , its fine to not like 2 but damn , let people like stuff
Are you sure that “hardcore XC1 stans trash it simply due to its slow opening”? Are you aware of the fact that people that haven’t even played XC1 also tend to have major criticisms against XC2? A big portion of Xenoblade 2’s story can be ruined for you with just one simple question; why? You wanna see how?
Why did Tora save Rex and Nia? To him, they were just some random criminals fighting back against being arrested by the Flamebringer herself. What reason could he possibly have for saving these two strangers? The “best” answer we get is that he just “doesn’t like those mean bullies.” That’s no reason to attack a high-ranking military member, take them to your house, and then show them your super secret multi generational family project. Good thing he didn’t meet Theory and Praxis before Rex and Nia. He’d be dead if he had.
Why did Rex trust Pyra after Morag told him that she killed two Titans, and probably tens of thousands of people? He even looks back to her to see her reaction, and she’s looking down in shame not even trying to deny it. I can understand why Rex wouldn’t let Pyra be arrested during this. Rex’s point that Morag could just be trying to use her as a weapon is very valid. That’s what militaries do. However, one would expect Rex to have a lot of questions for Pyra after the fight, right? So what follows this fight? ...the generic bonfire scene where the fire flares up for no reason, Pyra calls it beautiful, and Rex says “the fire is beautiful because you made it, Pyra!” ...even though the only reason Rex even wanted to go to Elysium was to save people from the dying Titans, Rex doesn’t even ask Pyra about the fact that she killed two Titans and probably tons of people as well. It’s not that he doesn’t believe that Pyra did this. It’s not that he feels uncomfortable asking her this. It’s not that he just simply has rose-tinted glasses from his crush to her. This situation with the death of two life-sustaining Titans is WAY too important for any of those situations to be a legitimate factor. No well-written character capable of speech is stupid enough to ignore a red flag that massive. It’s that the writers just didn’t care. The writers wanted a scene where Rex defended Pyra unconditionally, so they included it. They didn’t want to deal with the repercussions of that scene, so they DIDN’T include it. It’s that simple.
Why does the game act as if the Blades fighting for their Drivers is some sort of “Cowardly” act? The game never gives a satisfying answer for why the Blades aren’t the ones always fighting, and only the villains ever use their Blades like this. Dughall flat-out states that if the Blade dies it’ll regenerate, while if he dies the Blade will effectively also die because of the loss of its memories. He’s 100% correct. This statement makes perfect sense. What are our hero’s rebuttals? They call him a coward for putting his technically immortal Blade in harm’s way before they beat him up. They didn’t even try to give a good reason for why he would be wrong. Blades are canonically stronger than their Drivers since they’re choosing to share SOME of their powers with them, and if the Driver dies the Blade also effectively dies by the loss of their memories. Drivers have a great reason to stay out of fights, and Blades have a better reason to fight, but the game never directly tells us why they don’t do just that. It gets close, but chickens out. In a Heart-to-Heart with Tora, he flat-out states that Poppi would be a better fighter than he is if he programmed her to be one. What is Nia’s response? At first she’s impressed, but then she says some bullcrap about how “Poppi shouldn’t have to fight alone.” That’s it. The scene ends after this. That didn’t even made sense, as Poppi would presumably still be a part of the team. They acknowledged the fact that this Blade system is stupid, then essentially said that it’s mean to even consider “putting Blades in harm’s way.” Bullcrap.
The story of XC2, while it has its moments, is mostly garbage up until the last third or so. It gets much, MUCH better later, but even then it takes a long while. I didn’t even go hardcore on the spoilers here. Two of these three questions happen near the beginning of the game, and the other one is just never answered. The rest of the game is FULL of “Why?”s that ruin the story like this.
You have NO IDEA how well describing the story as a "Moebius strip" has aged
This game is not the equivalent of playing 4th dimensional chess.
It’s the equivalent to thinking you’re playing 4th dimensional chess when you’re actually playing 16 dimensional chess with Zanza- except Zanza didn’t realize he was actually playing 97 dimensional chess with Alvis aka Sexy Jesus, aka Master Tactician.
This honestly describes 1 way too well lol.
Oddiemefav: "But we're just going to refer to her as best girl."
*Fiora has entered the chat*
Fiora better leave the god damn chat
Oddiemefav I see so no place for Miqol in the chat?
@@lobstr417 I am not sure if this comment is blessed or cursed or blursed.
3:38 How DARE you disrespect the Heropon!
Good vid btw.
Riki is a plague . And thank you ^-^
@@oddiemefav1363 hes one of the funniest characters tf?
I'm going to disagree about the slow start of XC1. The game first becomes compelling with the mechon attack on Colony 9, which is quite early on. The game is a little dry from Makna to Alcamoth, though.
yeah i put the game down at alcamoth and just looked up the story.
can’t wait for your analysis on why Melia is best girl
i dont have the time to make a 20 hour video tho
BUUUURD LADY
I still don´t get why. She is so boring.
@@xSpyroTheDragon Fiora is more boring imo
@@lmprodigal2861 thats why oka is best girl
The XBox live chat joke works even better when you're fighting a voice-acted boss. Lorithea sounds like she recorded all her lines with the mic in her mouth.
Egil isn't ugly, peasant
I always laugh when someone new plays this game and goes nani what is going on. This game is far too big brain for new players
Egil has pretty eyes
XC was the reason I played XC2 despite not being able to finish it before. I really enjoyed XC2 a lot that when the Definitive Edition came out I had to buy it again on switch so i can finally finish it.
I love how these 2 games inspired me to get and play the other. Both are amazing in their own ways.
"The Mario Kart 8 map design of narratives" is one of the best lines I've ever heard
Sirfetch'd using the Monado is a thought that has never crossed my mind, and it's forever a scary thought.
Xenoblade 1 is good from the beginning and becomes better and better slowly but surely.
Xenoblade 2's start is good too, but then it becomes slow and seems to do not know where to go. And then at chapter 7 it sky rockets and become an actual Xenoblade game with greek philosophy and plotwists
(Huge spoilers for Xenoblade 2 don't read further if you haven't completed the game)
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Seriously Mortytha being a big city of Earth, maybe something like New York is incredible. Like Alrest is Earth, our world that we humans destroyed because of our greed. Such a good plot twist.
6:34 I love how "Kingpin" has the same voice as Daddy Pig in the game.
2:29 the description of Sharla caught me so off guard, well done 😂
Ay yo dis content _really_ good.
^-^
@@oddiemefav1363 nice vid!
@@oddiemefav1363 Seriously, this is like 500k subs quality
Incridible video, i am french so i don’t have the habitude of watching english man, but i realy like your channel
My friend and I were talking about the use of foreshadowing in this game, and he brought up the point that you could tell which side was the actual antagonist from the opening cutscene. You know, the one where Bionis and Mechonis are fighting?
Basically, what would you do (in a setting where both parties had swords) if somebody walked up and started attacking you? Would you attack back, or play more defensively?
That can be applied to this cutscene. Judging by movement and posture, it doesn't take much to see that Bionis is clearly the attacker. This is also reinforced throughout the entire game, really, *especially* once the Mechonis arc begins.
Fiora best girl, it’s just a fact bro
Who else got spoiled about Fiora from Smash?
Not me thankfully
@@oddiemefav1363 she as a mechon is in shulks final smash and has a spirit
Such a well made video. I actually understood pretty much everything I needed to know from this game in just a short 12 minutes
9:18 Lorithia isn't Kallian's mum. That's Yumea. Lorithea is just some random person.
Man i put so much work into this vid and half the comments are pointing out the one little joke that i forgot to edit correctly . i know lol i just forgot when editing that to clarify that , so my bad ^-^
Oddiemefav its okay man. We all make mistakes sometimes. - Reyn, 2011
one bit of lore is that alvis is ontos as he got lost presumably to the world of xenoblade one
Awesome vid, i played the 3ds version 5 years ago and wanted to refresh my memory!
Played this on the Wii because it was next on my gamefly list and I couldnt believe how blown away i was. I'm so glad the game is getting the recognition it deserves.
Acabo de encontrar este video y realmente me encanto :')
You put Radiance wings on your character and I stg you nearly gave me a ptsd flashback
as resident xenoblade chronicles nerd the only things I think you might have gotten wrong were lorithea being kallian's mother and zanza's soul inhabiting arglas in prison island. zanza's soul was sealed inside the monado and moved to lay dormant inside shulk as a child when the monado was found on valak mountain. Arglas was just essentially zanza's flesh since he had been posessed during the fight with the mechonis and held some of his will if I recall correctly. good video though. 10/10
I was trying to pin it down but didn't quite know how, your 3 narratives explanation is perfect! The way this game made me feel when I finished it is unmatched. As it was throwing all those punches at me at the end, so many previous scenes with dialogue that didn't make sense at the time just hit me. It excels at foreshadowing and setting characters and arcs up. All JRPGs have grandeur concepts like this, but very few can bring it full circle like this and stretch for so long without boring me tbh. Definitely my game of the year.
Lothirita made my day lmao
Ngl, if someone told me the twist that it's all computer simulation before starting or finishing the game, I would have lost interest. But after witnessing it first hand, it actually makes sense. People were not kidding when they said that last few chapters would blow your mind.
Correction Meyneth and Fiora did not want to kill Egil,only stop his plot of revenge
Which the only way to do so , was by killing him . i know they didnt want to directly but saying they wanted to kill him was just a quicker way to say "they wanted to stop him but he wouldnt stop so they were forced to try to kill him " But yea you are correct ^-^
5:54
(Shows Nier Automata)
"Nothing special"
*How dare you*
Good vid btw
That description of sharla is perfect.
Riki is football with 4 arms XD thats the best line XD
i've never heard about or played this game, i just wanted tips on writing a good story and now i'm extremely confused
I recommend you go play the game personally . And as for a story idk , focus on world building , Main characters shouldn't always be the centre of the universe . Hope i have helped you in your quest to write an English exam
@@oddiemefav1363 thanks!
very epic indeed
I gave a thumbs up the moment you rightfully called Melia "best girl"
Why does Klaus look like Shulk? I get that Zanza used shulks body to reside and that is why he looks like that when he first appears or is it that zanza always looked like that. When Zanza says that shulk was chosen because “he happened to be there at the time,” then why would klaus someone who lived before look just like him. Zanza would’ve to make shulk appear that way to resemble himself. To me, it seems the game just makes it a coincidence that they look similar, klaus and shulk, instead of Zanza saying shulk was designed by him to look that way. Idk, maybe I missed something
Same , i never really found reason to that , especially since there are so many characters relating to each other their , they could have been a little more distinctive . Its probably because of parallel world stuff
Literally just coincidence. I think it’s meant to drive home the whole theme of “gods aren’t all powerful, there is no such thing as fate.” As if to suggest that Zanza was winging it the whole time and in his arrogance thought that he was seeing the future. Something can line up so perfectly and still just be the product of chance.
This was epic gamer moment
Now if only the whole Zanza plot was way more subtle, this game would actually be perfect if they straight up didn't show like Alvis and Lorithia CLEARLY plotting bad shit in some scenes and Alvis straight talking to Zanza with his own equally obvious replies. Dickson too, "I feel bad deceiving these kids" and everytime he's spying on them for "no clear reason" You could figure out Egil isn't the last boss by the time you're done with prison island and alcamoth, and that's before you even properly meet Egil too. I love Xenoblade 1 a ton, but I just wish the obviously intended plot twist near the end wasn't...well not a twist.
I agree.
Just finished the game.
There is no story in XC1, more like an attempt to have a story.
And it was a good attempt despite the fact that it failed in any possible way in almost anything it was trying to do...
@@poketratatoing3352 I mean, I wouldn't go that far tbh. Just make the plot point more subtle and we're good. Remember a lot of the game is mechonis stuff and at least I think that was pretty well handled.
@@Krookzior I liked XC1 despite everything we pointed out.
There is also a good level of balacing between gameplay and cutscenes.
In my opinion the story in XC1 is decent at best.
@@poketratatoing3352 Well, unlike Zelda games, this one gets a 6/10.
@@poketratatoing3352 disagree. The game is narrative masterpiece.
I found the one video that praises XB1 without hating on XB2.
A mobius narrative, huh? I think thats just xenoblade 3
I think Yumea is actually Kallian’s mom. I don’t think Lorithia is related
so... anyone going to tell them about how important the mobius strip is to the plat of xenoblade 3?
fr fam, and especially since it's literally the end of the video lmao
What do you call Bana when he got caught?
A dunban-dit
It rain tim
10:47 best moment of the video
6:19 what did ya say about my handsome boi egil?!
Now I wouldn’t say it’s a perfect story like some villains could be a little more flushed out don’t get me wrong the story is great but I don’t think it’s perfect also screw Melia and Fiora Riki is best girl
Ahh . I see you are not worthy of an opinon . Riki is a plague
A princess who wants to make the world as good as it can be and a girl who wants to help people and get her body back to not be a burden or a 40 y/o fluff ball that is paying for the food he eats
Xenoblade chronicles was one of those games I owned on the wii (I live in England so they're not that rare over here). But i never finished it. I think I got stuck in Valek Mountain even though I loved what I had seen of the story and the characters. But being able to play the definitive edition and finishing it really opened my eyes to how amazing the story was and how the whole story fleshed out into something so much more than how it started.
You explaining this made me question what the fuck was going on so really close to the source material
Kaillian is not lorathia son
Perfect...no
Amazing...YES
The way they presented the plot twists in this game felt like the writers just kept going "SIKE! That thing we just explained earlier... well, that's not exactly how it went. It actually goes like this instead!" And they do it like 8 times to the point where it felt like the story spiraled out of control. It felt like the writers were just trying to shove in plot twists for the fun of it. The Dickson plot twists was predictable, as well as some of the mechonis stuff. It's the classic, "the bad guys aren't really bad guys" thing. I liked the game a lot. But man, it felt like fan fiction by the end of it.
Xenogears would like to have a word with you
a thing i always found funny is that a lot of people don't seem to realize that zanza is the soul of the bionis... at least not until the mechonis core.
the game gives people plenty of hints that the giant you see is just a shell.
it all becomes pretty clear once you get to learn about meyneth.
she is:
1. a soul stuck in fioras body
2. the soul of the mechonis
3 said mutiple times that she faced/confronted the bionis and confronted zanza (literally saying that yes he is the bionis)
plus there are more direct hints from zanza:
1. mutiple cutscenes show the monado being wielded by the bionis and zanza
2. zanza tells reyn that it morphs to the will of it's master (this explains how the small monado could be wielded by the bionis. he still says that he wielded it tho.)
3. he literally says that he used it to defeat mechonis (we still get cutscenes with him and the bionis swinging the sword. a few times zanza and bionis together at the same time.)
4. the memory cutscene in agniritha shows the bionis getting hit and then jump to zanza screaming in pain.
all clear hints that he is like meyneth, but so far i have maybe seen two people early on discover that he is the soul of the bionis while everyone else has this OH moment right when they literally say he is in the mechonis core.
the game is really great at setting this sort of stuff up. like how lorethia and alvis work for zanza.
alvis is a bit more obvious because of that one "i could have easly stood in for you" cutscene on top of prison island, but both lorethia and dickson have some hints that they are working directly for zanza as well.(which are not really all that clear on the first playthrough.) most of them are around the prison island and sword valley cutscenes.
The most amazing thing about xenoblades story is it actually makes The Monadology fun and interesting. Not because Its ridiculously bs takes on causality and the horribly depressing theological determinism of the pre established harmony of events suddenly became better, or was seen in a new light... but because I literally got to murder it! I literally killed one of my most hated classes as the climax of a videogame. Ha ha Suck eggs Leibniz!
WHY DO U NOT HAVE MORE SUBSCRIBERS...
How dare you spoil the game for me smh
God damn , shoulda put a disclaimer or somethin . my bad bro
@@oddiemefav1363 yeah man smh
@@sleepyred2178 don't you mean smh my head?
its kinda like attack on titan if u think about it
I felt Fiora got tortured a bit much.
She really did , She is more of a catalyst for the plot than an actual character
But it doesnt matter because melia exists ^-^
OMG I can't believe you forgot that Reyn "uses" the Monado without crippling himself.
i learned nothing and everything at the same time
I wouldn't agree that xenoblade 1 and 2 have similar stories but everything else about the video Is pretty good
Damn... I hope I forget all this before I start playing the game...
I wouldn’t say perfect it is rlly good but them trying to make us feel sorry for Egil... it does the Persona 5 issue of trying to make us feel sorry for someone who’s killed lots of people and it’s not deserved
Lorathia isn't Kalians mother. Messed up a bit, also said Zanza killed the Bionis' spirit, and that's him.
Honestly X also has a slow start. But its story ends on a cliffhanger...so
I love stories that build up their hero to be some super badass special chosen one who was born to be the hero and save the world, and then at the exact moment they were meant to complete their purpose, they get knocked off their high horse, discovering they werent special at all, they were just dumb and lucky to get their special ability therefore their victory can no longer be garunteed as if it were predetermined destiny, forcing them to realize how powerless and human they are. Then xenoblade took the extra step of just killing its MC and droping the atomic bomb of plot twists that shulk wasnt even really a person with true free will, but a corpse being puppeted by a malevolent god who made all the decisions leading up to this point for him. And then the game takes another step past that and hits you with the fat fucking uno reverse card when you find out the gods themselves are no more special than that hero, since they were just normal ass humans lucky to find themselves the conduit (retconed in 2 to further enhance this point) and become gods. So when shulk awakens the true monado he gains his own true unique personhood in which he can actually act on his own free will to seize his destiny, claiming Zanza's place in the universe and remaking it without gods to break the cycle of manipulation he experienced firsthand alongside Arglas and Egil. The way it loops in on itself makes replaying the game infinitely enjoyable and is the reason im on my 5th playthrough right now going for 100% and why ive watched several other people's blind playthroughs and lets plays because whether im experiencing the game for the 3rd 4th or 5th time, or getting to see someone else go through this roller coaster for the first time or even repeat time where they get to notice the foreshadowing they were at first oblivious to, it just never gets old.
I don't think it's perfect, now that I played after 8 years it made me realize it is, in fact, just nostalgia talking, I like all Xenoblade games equally, and Xenoblade 1 story is really not that great in my opinion, but it's not bad. The execution is really good unlike Xenoblade X story which picked up in the final chapter only. Xenoblade 2 has great story and characters all well balanced, and Torna too. Xenoblade 1 has problems keeping things interesting, and some characters in your party are just for show, like Riki that it's... just there, and Sharla that only knows one word.
I'm glad you love them all equally though, just like me. You should try X someday, although its forte it's the gameplay and the open world exploration (flying in your own personalized robot!)
I think it drops the ball in many areas but if it was an anime movie as opposed to a game i think it would be genuinly mind blowing
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Oh god you confused me when you said Lorithia makes out with her son, but yeah I got Lorithia and Yumea mixed up a ton as well and even had to make sure just now that Yumea was the prince's mother
So….it’s a refined version of the FF13 trilogy’s plot.
Wait until you find out about x
I had to stop watching because I want to play this
Imo the true reason people tend to throw XB2 in the trash is purely based around the voice acting, which lets BE REAL, ISN'T GOOD. Not that it matters, lots of games have fuckawful voice work. The issue is that us who played XB1 we're used to this concept that a game holding the title of "Xenoblade Chronicles" would have godlike voice work. I fucking love XB2, 1 is still godly though, carried by our succulent sexy british accents
OK, Ok, ok.
We argue about Melia and Fiora... and a bit a Sharla, let's be real.
But the question is,
Why?
They still haven't explained what that monolith is, where it came from, and why it disappears when Zanza died but the two universes remained intact. I wonder what's happening in the next game. Also there's this weird nopon archsage who appears to have incredible powers, and while I don't think it's canonical story, it's a bit weird.
I thought Zanza was in Shulk the whole time.. and that's why Shulk is alive and stuff. I've always had trouble getting my head around the Arglus thing to be honest...
Zanza was kinda in shulk i think his soul is trapped in arglus but some of his powers are inside the monado and so shulk gets those ... I think
@@oddiemefav1363 The explanation that I saw some fans providing was that Zanza's soul is fragmented, to where part of it exists inside the Monado (as perhaps the unconscious part), part of it in Arglus (the conscious part), and part of it in Shulk (as perhaps the subconscious part, since he does seem to be possessive throughout the game and somewhat aware of Shulk). Obviously it is hypothetical, but given the situation in Xenoblade 2, we already know that Zanza's soul has been fragmeted across universes, so it is likely that it was just fragmented even more in the XC1 universe itself. Given that Zanza was described to have sustained Shulk's life though, it is explained that he was with Shulk ever since the Monado expedition and that he gained his life force back when Meyneth sacrificed herself, implying that she gave him the rest of her life force.
I love this game, but it's not as deep as you make it to be...
One piece of foreshadowing that totally blew my mind was alvis's voicelines. He quotes famous computer AIs... turns out he's an AI from earth
Alvis is just the perfect cherry on top
Alvis is just amazing.
There are a few reasons why I vastly prefer 1 over 2. One major reason is that i feel that 1 is more consistent in tone than 2, 1 doesn’t really have very many comedic scenes or anime tropey scenes, there is the scene of riki’s introduction but that’s much less than 2 which from memory I can think of things like gramp’s death fakeout, the introduction of poppi, zeke before he joined the party and the tirkins being chef's instead of assassins. these arent exactly bad scenes and if they were in another game but because it was xenoblade i had expectations of a certain tone that wasnt there. the plot iself also didnt really catch me the same way that xc1 did, i didnt really care for the characters or their goals so i wasn't that engaged with their goals. There are also more minor complaints like the voice acting being worse but this mostly falls on rex rather than the rest. i wont deny that nostalgia is a part of why i prefer the first game but i guess my expectations were too high
I don't think a tonal contrast means tonal inconsistency, the game does start of lighthearted but gradually grows more serious as the game progresses
@@skylandersfan6954 well yeah it doesn’t necessarily mean that but for me in this case it does. And yes while the game does become
More focused and serious by the end it just doesn’t land for me because I
Personally haven’t gotten attached to any of these people so I personally don’t care once the game decides to reign it in
@@robindabank9616 I really dont understand the issue of not being able to enjoy a lighthearted story
@@skylandersfan6954 it’s just not what I personally wanted from a sequel to a game I hold really close to my heart, is it a petty reason? Yea probably but unfortunately I can’t change how I feel about it