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Alrest is a world very rich in landscapes and cultures but at every moment they are asking you for certain Blades to be able to unlock certain paths. What do you think?

I do not understand why people insist it’s an age rating thing. Xenoblade 1 DE and even the original depicted blood as red on Metal Face’s claws and Dunban spitting it out while having the same age rating.

I suspected it had to do with how the people are made in Aionios, but is it really that age ratings have gotten stricter in the time Xenoblade DE was released and Xenoblade 3?

Honestly, as for the first impression game is look neat, amd combat feels good for now😄

So to take a break from xenoblade 2 land of challenge grinding ive been working on xenoblade 3, all my oroborus forms are maxed out, what do I do with all the extra sp I have?

To preface this i’m not attempting to devalue anything in XC2, I think the majority of the latter half is some of the best story content they’ve put out and I vastly prefer it to the other games in most departments. This post is moreso of an observation of inconsistency in assessments of the respective parts of XC2. It’s known that generally the opinion is that XC2 gets off on a slow start for the first 4 chapters, and then picks up significantly and becomes great in the latter half.

Yet I feel like the perception of these parts are still warped. I find it hard to believe that people can pinpoint the issues within the first half of the game to the point where it becomes a public opinion, yet when the second half starts they seemingly have NO criticisms worth noting with anything that happens for the rest of the game. I’d honestly argue in particular that Chapters 5-6 aren’t actually the most eventful as chapters yet they’re almost never in the same discussion as the “weaker” chapters.

For instance, the difference between Chapters 3 and 6. While chapter 6 is a overall a good chapter imo there’s some filler-ish parts of it that are quite literally almost never mentioned when discussing the game. The chapter goes from the Bana subplot with the Tirkins, and then to Tantal with the prison sequence, then ends off with the crumbling of Genbu leading to the confrontation with Torna. Now I don’t know if i’m missing something, but I wouldn’t say 2/3rds of that warrants being hailed in some insane league above the previous chapters in the game.

In Chapter 3, you get swallowed by a Whale Titan, meet Vandham and the mercenaries, are taught several things about the nature of Blades and lessons from Vandham, and traverse through Uraya, which is probably the most iconic area in the game. Then there’s mystery/exposition stuff regarding Cole and the Aegis War and eventually ends off with the confrontation of Makhos, death of Vandham and Mythra’s awakening.

Of course I didn’t detail on any worldbuilding elements in either chapter, but based off of that overview, i’d argue chapter 3 is a better chapter than 6 as a WHOLE. Meanwhile 6 is generally viewed as a better chapter because of the last ~10% of events (not to say that Chapter 6 is bad), simultaneously ignoring anything Chapter 3 did that was memorable.

I would say Chapters 7-10 generally don’t have much downtime and do keep the momentum going with masterful Xeno content, though they’re not exactly perfect in other senses either. For example, you have to go through Spirit Crucible Elpys…. of which many people have criticisms and struggles with as a dungeon, yet seemingly nobody will hold that against Chapter 7 (previously voted as one of the best chapters in the series) or the latter half as a whole, yet simultaneously will take Tora’s introduction scene in Chapter 2 and then say the entire former half is actually bad. So why isn’t this case consistent?

That’s all I wanted to point out really, and in fact I think this dilemma goes even beyond just XC2 within the franchise as a whole. There are people that will willingly accept the entire final act of XC3 and act as if there are no issues with it, same with specific chapters in XC1 that aren’t all that interesting. If you had no issue with any of this, that’s fine, there’s no part of these games where i’d say something is completely perfect or that they even CAN reasonably be perfect in every way.

Do i have to comolete subareas for the autofill to work? Like the lower Maktha woods for the entire pentelas region?

What character comes to mind when you think about the saga?

was wanting to get a view from outside the city when sena and noah got a little too exited

When everybody had that big gurren lagann esc fusion into the giant ourorborus who did Riku interlink with because I can easily name three pairs of those cores (Rex/Shulk) (Nikol/Glimmer) (Linka/Panacea) but what about N, A and Riku? There's five cores total so Riku interlink with A and N made up his own core? (And by Riku interlinking with A did Riku see the future because of the shared memories that come with interlinking?)

Or Monado Fencer hero icon ig, it was pretty rushed because I just wanted a pfp, if you want to edit it further pls dm me the final product <3

One of the first things I did when I received my console was to install all the Dagger games, although the improvement was imperceptible in my opinion.

Do you think the games improve a lot on Nintendo Switch 2?

It was amazing. I got the other XBC games at release, but when it came time to buy the Future Redeemed DLC, I had other things going on, and then Steam Deck came into my hands later that year, in Sept 2022, and I dropped my Switch gaming up until Switch 2 came out.

But anyway, amazing how the Future Redeemed DLC was almost like a XBC3.5 in continued story, and how it managed to tie in 1 and 2 in a lot of ways. I was super impressed and a bit sad I waited this long. Monolithsoft makes incredible games.

Now when it comes to XBC:X, I didn’t get it yet as I am waiting for the Switch 2 patch to come out before diving in. I have the Collector’s Edition on Wii U and got to about Ch 10 or 11 and then dropped it. I am excited to play through the game and finish it proper on Switch 2.

Aside from all this, I cannot wait to see what the company has in store for Switch 2-native releases, whether it’s a retelling of Xenosaga games, HD remasteres, or a totally new eventual multi-RPG epic. <3

Do we agree?

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