Sure but Xenoblade X takes half the time it takes to get to HW :p
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[AIRHORNS]
(apologies to all ffxiv fans)
Yeah the best stuff is like. Literally the end of the game where they drop like 5 plot points in a row haha
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Torna isn’t as good as I remember. I haven’t played it since before 3 came out and I think 3 might have raised my standards for xenoblade writing. I’m still having a really good time, though. I think they nailed the combat system in this one, and the characters are still fun.
Currently trying to see if I can beat it at a reasonable pace in under 24 hours… I think it should be possible.
On one hand X continues to be kind of whatever (I did get my Skell though) and the game keeps dropping random-ass low-level recruitable dudes on me, but on the other hand this is probably the game I’ve played that comes closest to the specific vibes of Mass Effect 1.
Like, half the time is driving around on barren alien planets mindlessly button mashing on resource nodes and the other half of the time is betting on if the next alien you meet is going to be either A Wacky Little Guy or A Sexy Human With Makeup
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Now that you have a Skell it’s gonna be way easier to get them low-levels up to speed if you want at least! Get someone in a skell and they’ll stomp infantry-scale enemies but get the same experience, they’ll gain levels fast.
(The introductory lv20 Skell you get also sucks badly, the lv30 ones are way better. But also, get ready to spend a LOT of money.)
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X making me wonder why I ever fucking tolerated the nopon
does it matter that Riki and Riku were chads when Tatsu is this fucking obnoxious
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Tatsu is the worst, holy shit
just picture Riki in your mind. do it for him.
tatsu aint no heropon…
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Very good video that made me realize I’ve never given Fiora the time of day she deserves. I was too much of a kid when I first experienced xc1 and was like “you’re boring” and never changed my mind about her but she is actually an interesting character!
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I should finish XB3… I got so close to the end and got busy with other stuff.
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oooo I love Fiora so this might not be news for me but I will still watch >:)
rare revie effortpost
XC3 spoilers, discussion
I’ve come around on a criticism I’ve had of Xenoblade 3 for a while, which is that while it tries to be a game about death, it almost never truly kills off a character. Everyone is saved at the last moment, or comes back reincarnated, sometimes even with their memories intact. And while I do think this decision lessens the impact of some of the game’s tense moments, I now understand why they did that.
Xenoblade 3 is in conversation with a variety of genre conventions and specific works of fiction, as well as the Xeno series itself, but one of its bigger influences is Star Wars.
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Let’s look at Star Wars, recently… Well, over the last decade or so since the Disney acquisition, they’ve done the sequel trilogy as well as a large slew of live action TV productions. Luke and Leia are back! R2 and C3PO are back! Palpatine is back! Boba Fett is back! Han Solo and Chewie are back! Even Yoda’s back! And, in the case of Peter Cushing, Disney is almost literally bringing people back from the dead.
All your favorite characters are back, exactly as you remember them. Luke’s voice always sounded the way it does in Mandalorian. Haven’t you always wanted to know what Obi-Wan was doing in the desert for 20 years? What about that random hot guy from Rogue One, what’s his story?¹ Haven’t you wondered where Han’s last name came from? Well, wonder no more, beloved fan. Star Wars is forever, Star Wars is infinite, and in time I’m sure we’ll have a definitive answer for everything that’s ever sparked your imagination. Put your mind at ease, safe in the certainty that everything has been explained, and everything will be explained. Nobody’s from nowhere, and nobody’s ever really gone.
“I’ll remember you, I promise”
Xenoblade 3 takes place in a world frozen in time, where people live for merely ten years and spend all of them fighting to the death, all for the sake of maintaining the status quo into eternity. People’s lives are recycled over and over; it’s not enough to kill you once, every spark of your life must be sucked from you again and again so that those in power can live forever.
Jorun’s back. Miyabi’s back. Nimue’s back. Even Ethel and Cammuravi are back. Nia and Melia are back. Shulk and Rex and Alvis are back. M and Mio switched places. Mio stops N’s sword just before he beheads Noah. The city’s a ferronis. Nobody is allowed to die. Nobody can be forgotten. We’re not finished with you yet, you’ve still got more in you.
At the end, Moebius is defeated, at least for now. Noah throws his sword - the sword, The Xenoblade if there ever were one - into the sea², and the world braces itself for an uncertain, unknowable future. Noah asks if it’s really okay to leave all this behind, and Monica and Ghondor surprisingly affirm the need to move on, even if it means they will never have existed.
And at last, the world - and the series - is allowed to end.
Monolithsoft have made clear this is the end of Xenoblade, or at the very least the “Klaus Trilogy”. While they are still making games, it’s likely we will never see these beloved characters again. Except, of course, we can always replay the games, we can always write our own stories or have fun speculating with friends about how Nia became a Queen or what Noah’s sword is really named. We may never have ‘official’ answers for such things, but isn’t it wonderful to be able to wonder?
- Okay, that one’s actually worth it.
- And he actually means it, unlike a certain Skywalker.
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Might clean this up and put it on cohost. One last xenopost for the fans…
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It’s a good one.
Might be better served by another couple paragraphs drawing lines between XC3 and SW, how Noah is basically Luke/Anakin, how both works wrestle with the idea of “don’t form attachments” and how they define attachment…
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Now at the point of writing this where I’m trying to convince myself that N slaughtering the first City is an allegory for the Disney acquisition and subsequent culling of EU material
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