Oh shit, Xenoblade thread, I have found my home
I just finished up Future Redeemed maybe a week ago, the only Xenoblade (Or Xeno in general) game I haven’t finished at this point is Xenoblade X (Pied Piper doesn’t count, its a japan-only flip phone game and I read the fan translation). I’ve been meaning to try and get my thoughts on it together in a more complete and centralized form, I might need to work on that and come back to it. What I can say already is that its highly emblematic of the themes of the entire series, including Gears and Saga, particularly with regards to one specific character (who will remain unnamed for now because I don’t like tagging one word in a sentence and tagging the whole sentence feels like overkill when just the name is the problematic part), and it was really emotional basically the whole way through, although I think Xenosaga 3’s ending is still my favorite ending of any in the series
Question for xenoblade enjoyers. Does XC1 for 3DS have any new content like extra bosses or weapons or story? Or its it more just visual improvements + QoL stuff
Not meaningfully, but it does have a model viewer for all the armor and such, and you unlock new models with play coins and via streetpass, which is fun. Its probably something of a downgrade, qol-wise, compared to the wii version (I haven’t played the original, but the draw distance on 3ds is abysmal), but I’m honestly a fan of those chunky graphics. The switch version is pretty indisputably the best one, all things being equal, but if you don’t have a switch, or don’t have 60 bucks to drop on a new game, the 3ds version still pretty damn good
The Switch version does have new story btw
How did I forget Future Connected, it had one of my favorite Xenoblade moments, full stop.
Switch version also adds an arena, with time trial fights that unlock cosmetic armor (mostly swimsuits and recolors of swimsuits) if you do well enough
Switch version is definitely the version to get.
Can I ask which? I honestly don’t remember much of that story, I should probably replay it at some point.
The ending, after the final boss. To be more specific,
Summary
All of the Telethia working together to help you seal the rift and defeat the fog king for good, after spending the rest of the story off on their own, and all of the main game under the control of Zanza.
In complete fairness though, its another one of those “I like it because it calls back to Xenosaga/Xenogears” things, its like… the one thing to ever convince me a theoretical Xenosaga 4 has legs, although any more details than that needs… quite a lot of writing. The short, non-spoiler version is that it feels like the second half to a moment from Xenosaga 3 that stuck with me for a long time
I’d believe it but then I also think the theme of that Buzz Lightyear movie is “please for the love of God don’t make us start making a new Buzz Lightyear extended universe thing”
I honestly only asked because i saw a copy of 3ds XC and was thinking about getting it, but unsure about a 2nd copy of a game i already had (but didnt do NG+ for yet)
3DS is my most recent nintendo console, so i doubt ill be enjoying anymore of the series than i already have.
I need a decent lore video or something to peruse, my playthroughs of the series have been so staccato and generally I stop before I actually beat the game to the point where my understanding of the story can be best described as dreamlike.
ngl i kinda miss the colours of the OG but the UI has had such a massive improvement it cancels out
Really liking these teasers for the new side story
The increased font size means that this version of the game was made exclusively for me.
I’ll be honest I don’t know who the previous font size WAS for. Shit was just way too small
so real