#xb2 spoilers

[sonocomics]

Just some silly musings I had one day :p

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[magpandy]

Flabbergasted

#xb2 spoilers #pandoria #zeke von genbu #xenoblade chronicles 2 #magpandy art #(I had to remove the ai portion in my url as it's very outdated and not supporting the current trend) #(may have to retag)

[maagicmushies]

#xb #xb2 #xb2 spoilers #xc2 spoilers #maybe? playing it safe #i wanted to add a non looping version of this gif that just sat on malos's ass for the final frame but it was too big #malos #rex #jin #pneuma #xenoblade #flashing gif #flashing #flashing lights

[citan-uzuki]

I half to wonder how many Xeno fans are just going to groan if the Zohar/Conduit comes back down the line. Like, this thing has been messed with across so many different universes (games) and has caused so much trouble that it becomes a case of 'for the love off everything will you people stop trying to make the god like artifact into a tool!?' It's just kind funny to me, In a good way.

Turning God into a tool appears to be a reoccurring theme in the Xeno franchise.

While there is the central conflict of the Zohar or Conduit getting used for the selfish desires of a false -God-, this theme repeats in smaller ways throughout the "series". For example, in Xenogears and Xenoblade 2, Ethos and the Indoline Praetorium use God as a tool to control the masses. In the first Xenoblade, the Bionite Order worships and serves the Bionis despite knowing that doing so will cost them their lives.

At this point, it would be shocking to see a Xeno game where the antagonist has a healthy level of fear and respect for the divine.

Someone should probably be reading the Old Testament passages about God's wrath to these anime twinks before they get any ideas lol.

#xenogears spoilers #xb2 spoilers #xb1 spoilers

[wheres-all-the-tea-gone]

I’ve been thinking,

Xenoblade 1 and 2 answered all questions and left nothing (or very little or that which was inconsequential) unanswered.

So it feels very weird that they would leave A LOT unanswered in XB3 and even Future Redeemed. The endings are unsatisfying(outside of the main plot line), which XB1 and 2 and even their extra games/dlcs weren’t.

So why suddenly do this now? Why suddenly take a very strange left turn at the end of the Klaus saga?

I also find it very strange that Future Redeemed didn’t have a Point of No Return before fighting Alpha/Ontos. All the other games have one and ask “are your sure?” before sending you into the last boss fight and cutscenes.

So why now?

I’m wondering, what if FR isn’t the end? I mean it could continue in XB4, or I could be looking into this too much/wishful thinking. But what if there’s still more? What if we get another update to FR and it gives us an epilogue? Or what if there’ll be a second dlc that we have to pay for?

Idk I’m just really sad and feeling betrayed by xb3 and fr.

#xenoblade #xenoblade spoilers #xenoblade 3 #xenoblade 2 #shulk #Rex #alvis #xb1 #xb2 #xb3 #future redeemed

[illmakethisquick]

#xenoblade chronicles #xenoblade chronicles 2 #fan la norne #haze xenoblade #jin xenoblade #xbc2 #xb2 #xc2 #xenoblade chronicles 2 spoilers #| #haze #jin #2 #my posts

[kutekite]

take a milton sketch!

#testing out procreate #it is definitely way easier to draw #we’ll see where it goes #milton #xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles #xenoblade chronicles 2 #xbc2 #xb2 #xc2 #torna the golden country #no spoilers i haven’t finished

[beepiiboop]

me now that i've finished xb1 + watched its epilogue story yesterday; * rbing a TON of content for it without worrying about getting spoiled going through its tags WOOOOO *

#chey speaks #plus a bit of xb3 rbs but can't go through the tags fully yet as ive started playing it today + on chapter 2 rn for it #so i'll avoid going into tags for that one #as for xb2 i dont care abt spoilers for that one as im doing it last + will be watching it on yt instead of playing it

[ehksidian]

Legitimately just curious, why is Nia trans? (I already know she's bi)

so like, Officially she's not.

but her arc in xenoblade 2 is the single most trans thing i can think of in a game that isn't LITERALLY about a trans person.

xb2 spoilers i guess but i don't respect xb2 as a whole to censor it beyond this but. with the bathhouse scene, i didn't realize it was about her core crystal. i thought it was her actually being trans and going "please don't out me until i'm comfortable with that" but no it wasn't that.

she still ended up being closeted and hiding who she "really was" and it's extremely telling how she went from wearing a big baggy set of clothes that totally cover her (such as, idk, a dysphoria hoodie!) to something far more revealing (which i have issues with that but that's just a general xb2 "why did saito have to make all the main female blades in the party Like That" critique) like...a fair amount of trans people also tend to do. also the whole "This is who I really am!" bit, too, feels trans as hell like someone coming out as trans to people.

one can argue that nia being forced to become a flesh eater in and of itself strengthens that - forced to go through something that left her body permanently altered against her wishes. kinda like what puberty does!

also her core is blue and pink and light reflecting off it can make it white which i don't think was intentional trans flag imagery (given all flesh eaters have that and the pink is more meant to be red, as seen by jin) but also it's a very funny coincidence.

so that's why i think of nia as a great trans character even if, by all accounts, she's cis. but god, you couldn't make a more trans-coded character without just making them trans.

(the presence of juniper and A in xb3 and its DLC also makes me think that nia's arc being so very trans coded wasn't accidental...)

#ehks asks #xena asks #xenoblade 2 nia #xenoblade 2 spoilers

[infinitebrians]

Here’s illustrations for my top five favorite games of the last year, hit the read below if you’d like to see close up drawings for all of these along with some of my thoughts!

Favorite game of the year: Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (PLEASE BE COOL, I'M ONLY IN CHAPTER 5 NO SPOILERS)

I haven't even finished the game yet and i absolutely love it enough that I know it's my favorite of the year. I'm a bit sad I didn't actually finish it but I'm more happy to not have rushed through it for whatever arbitrary end of year thing. One thing I'll never get over with this game is that you spend the whole game with a cast of six main characters and they are all great, I love all of these dorks. On top of that a big reason why I'm still only in chapter 5 after like 70 or so hours in is I just cannot NOT do all the side quests and see all of those side stories completed. Something that I really liked in XB2 and even more in Torna was how much value I felt came out of doing the side quests in either game play rewards, story, or both. I'm going to finish this game some day (XB2 took me literal years to finish and I'm so glad I did) but I'm probably just going to have to take my time with it and enjoy the ride.

Signalis

A game I entirely tried based on how cool it looked, not expecting to stick with the whole game since I thought I just did not like the survival horror genre anymore. I was completely surprised by how much I enjoyed the game, losing myself in the incredible visuals and vibes from it.

Kirby and the Forgotten Land

I find it incredible that this is the first 3d Kirby game because it is just feels so naturally a Kirby game from the start. Just fun and beautiful like Kirby. The abilities in this game are (almost) all super fun, my favorite being spike which just turns Kirby into a game of katamari.

Over this past week I got to reexperience the game through seeing my nephews play the game in coop and just absolutely love it. My nephew lost his shit over seeing giant sword Kirby for the first time (he was right to do this, it fucking owns.)

Destiny 2: The Witch Queen

Hey, shout out to my raid group for both putting up with me and for getting me to see some of the coolest stuff this game has to offer. Its my second most played steam game now for a reason and it’s because of them.

Witch Queen also added a really good campaign mode that on legendary was a blast to struggle and think my way through, this game’s always at it’s best when you’re using every tool you got to work your way out of tough situations.

Splatoon 3

This game is mainly just just More Splatoon, and I am still entirely very cool with that.

This one has Big Man in it.

#drawdogs #daily art #long post #writing #game of the year #goty #game of the year 2022 #xenoblade chronicles 3 #xenoblade #signalis #destiny 2 #kirby #kirby and the forgotten land #splatoon #splatoon 3

[phoslux]

Spoilers for Xenoblade 1 and 2

With Xenoblade Chronicles 3 being out soon, I was trying to remember all the things regarding Klaus, the Conduit and how the worlds are connected, so I rewatched a lot of scenes. Thought I might as well share in case anyone else needs a refresher:

-In 20XX the Conduit, a mysterious thing that in theory allows interdimensional travel, is being found in Kenya, Africa.

You will say "wait, that's not from Xenoblade" and you are right. It's actually from Xenosaga, but I heard some booklet that came with one of the XB2 figures confirmed these events for XB too.

-The organization Aoidos is formed to research the Conduit.

-The unified world government builds three "bean stalks", space elevators that connect to an orbital ring around the planet. They are named Rhadamanthus, Aecus and Minōs. The Conduit was transfered to space bcs it was deemed too dangerous to stay on the planet.

-Aoidos create an AI, called The Trinity Processor. It's made up of three cores, named Ontos, Logos and Pneuma. These three parts have been raised in VR to obtain a personality which was necessary so they could properly maintain the Conduit. The Trinity Processor is located on Rhadamanthus where the Conduit is as well.

-In order to protect the Conduit and the orbital ring, the Trinity Processor uses energy from the Conduit to create Artifices, huge mechs.

-As the orbital ring is being attacked by rebels, a researcher named Klaus defects and locks himself in the control room for the Conduit, planning to activate it bcs he believes it will help humanity become Something More. Another researcher, Galea, tries to stop him but fails.

-The Conduit gets activated, portals appear all over the planet and most of humankind vanishes to who knows where. Most places on Earth also seem to disappear. Galea and Klaus' half body also disappear to another universe (half his body remains (no he's not dead)). There they take the forms of the gods Zanza (as the soul of the titan Bionis) and Meyneth (as the soul of the titan Mechonis) which leads to the whole story of the first game.

I won't talk about the cycle of life in XB1 as I think that won't be important (if any of this will be important at all lmao).

-The half of Klaus that remained becomes the Architect from the second game.

-He regrets what he did and wants to atone for his sins. So he wants to recreate life. First he creates a "special particulate substance with the ability to restore deterioated matter", called the Cloud Sea. It dissambles matter and rebuilds it in its original image. That is supposed to restore the world (buildings, etc) to their former state.

Then he creates miniature vessels containing memories of all the planet's former lifeforms, Core Crystals. He scatters them in the Cloud Sea.

The crystals bond with it and become the titans, who were originally not at all titans but tiny creatures. As they evolved they grew larger and lager and became like the huge titans seen in the game. However, the tiny creatures didn't JUST lead to the big titans, but actually to all living beings, including humans.

Worrying that one day someone might be as stupid as him and cause another apocalypse, he creates the Blades to take care of humans and prevent the worst. The first ones were Ontos, Logos and Pneuma. However, Ontos triggered a space-time distortion and disappeared to the world of XB1 (he's Alvis/the Monado). Logos (known as Malos) and Pneuma (Pyra and Mythra) were supposed to manage all other Blades. The Blades relay all kinds of information to those two, who then process this data and return it back to the Blades' Core Crystals, allowing them to come back in a more evolved state. As Blades "die" and go back to the state of a crystal and get awakened again and again (everytime this happens they lose their memories) they eventually become titans, which in return again create new life and also serve as the living space of other beings.

-Core Crystals were originally not meant to become Blades and titans. They were actually an invention by the last remaining humans, living in what is later called the ruins of Morytha. They were meant as replacement for human brain cells. People wanted to use them to become immortal. However, that failed and they mutated into monsters. Klaus then used their technology as the starting point for the creation of Blades and titans.

-Klaus senses that he will soon cease to exist. He knows Shulk and the others are about to defeat his other half, Zanza, in the world of XB1. As Shulk's words can be heard in XB2, Klaus grants the people of this new world a final gift: he orders all of the huge titans to move towards the world tree (which is the space elevator leading to Rhadamanthus), below the Cloud Sea, to form new landmasses above the ocean.

-He also knew the Conduit (which, yes, was still There) would soon disappear into another dimension. Ontos, Logos and Pneuma were all originally powered by it. As was the space station. Logos/Malos died. We don't really know what happened with Ontos/Alvis in XB1. Pneuma (Pyra/Mythra) sacrificed herself to blow up Rhadamanthus so it doesn't crash onto the Earth. She returns as two separate people in a post-credits scene.

My assumption here is that Pneuma and maybe ALL Blades lost their powers after the Conduit disappeared. This would mean there could be no more new titans, so turning the existing ones into landmasses might have been the only way to save everyone's future. This could also explain why there are no Blades in XB3 (not in the same sense as in XB2 at least. Some characters very much LOOK like Blades).

-With Zanza dead and Shulk as new god, at the end of XB1 Alvis asks him what he wants to do with the world, now that the Mechonis has been destroyed and the Bionis is collapsing as well. Shulk wishes for a new world without a need for gods.

It very much seems like the remains of the titans, including all living beings from XB1 have been brought to the Earth. In the DLC "Future Connected" you can see they now live on a flatter surface, close to the ocean.

#xenoblade #xenoblade chronicles #xenoblade chronicles 2 #xenoblade 2 #xenoblade 3

[sonocomics]

Building the community took hard work

But only seconds to tear down

:(

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[tsfs-dragon]

Just a little venting here,

Spoilers and stuff so you have been warned.

The big plot twist of Xenoblade 3 of how the world was split in two into the worlds of Xenoblade 1 and Xenoblade 2 and now being pulled together as one like a magnet is just a straight up retcon. All of this information does not connect to what everyone knows about the first game.

In Xenoblade Chronicles (DE) we learn at the end of the game that this world was created new, with nothing of the old world really being carried over only the souls of two people who became Zanza and Meyneth. And this new world was small and limited containing sky, sea, and the two Titans Bionis and Mechonis which were both Zanza and Meyneth respectively. With Alvis talking about how one man destroyed a universe and created a new one. After all was explained about how the world became what it was Shulk wanted the world to change into one “with no need for gods”. This scene is shown in a way that shows the world transforming as if it was a Big Bang. Looking as if this is a truly brand new world beyond anything they could imagine.

The connections Xenoblade Chronicles 2 had with the first game was handled really well. Cause with the first game many people would think that the original world being destroyed meant that it no longer exist, but we see that it does exist and the aftermath of creating a new universe it leave the old one destroyed. And we the player can see what became of that old world and the destruction that was left in the wake of it all. Bringing things together but with small changes that don’t fundamentally change the story in a big way. For example, the space station where the events that made those two worlds. In Xenoblade the station is shown not pointed downward and connected to the Earth while in Xenoblade 2 it is shown pointed down it an elevator of sorts connecting the station to the planet (the way it was shown in the first game carries over to the Definitive Edition when they could have edited it to look like how it would be in XB2). In the Definitive Edition to the first game it shows Alvis with a core crystal showing how he’s related to Pyra, Mythra, and Malos.

So with all that how can I possibly agree with this idea that what caused everything was the world being split in two. What’s more is that a lot of the framing for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 makes it centered around a single planet and not... you know, a freaking universe. Because universes were affected by this but it never dives into those ideas cause that would be building off ideas presented in the previous games. Heck a major thing about these games are while 1 and 2 are connected it wasn’t like those games are required to understand each other and can stand on their own. But Xenoblade Chronicles 3 can’t stand on its own because it so heavily tried to tie the games together that things don’t make sense without that knowledge. And with said knowledge makes things worse cause aside from the world splitting plot point this game spits on all the lore and story those games built up. As much as there are things a enjoy about the game, mostly the characters, this game feels more of a disservice of what has come before and that the characters should have been part of a much better game.

#xenoblade chronicles 3

[fallen-arm]

xb3 endgame spoilers below the cut!

I think a really interesting way to look at xb3's story is as a sort of echo of Klaus's experiment, and I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone else talk about it. Like Klaus, the queens created a machine to try to play god. They only wanted to save the world, not to create a new one or rule over it, but it doesn't change what they did. When it reacted to the emotional states of the worlds people and froze time rather than recreating the worlds as it was supposed to, that was still a result of humans trying to exert control over the world on the level of gods.

Actually, huh, now that I've typed this out Klaus himself is kind of a Moebius, isn't he? In xb1 he wants to rule over a world that's unsustainable without his influence and maintains a very familiar cycle of death and rebirth to that end. In xb2 he represents the more sorrowful side that created M and N, wishing to hold the world back forever in a futile attempt to fix his mistakes rather than moving forward. In a sense, the desire to create an endless now IS what keeps creating the awful dystopian worlds that keep resulting from these experiments. I guess although it was the queens who facilitated origin's creation, the world who's emotions origin reacted to in creating Moebius are kind of the Klaus of Xenoblade 3.

#xenoblade chronicles 3 #xenoblade chronicles 3 spoilers #sorry this is a little rambly i didn't really know where i was going with it #i just wanted to get some of my thoughts about endgame stuff and how it relates to the other games out there

[300iqprower]

How much do you care about XBC3 spoilers? because yeah ALOT to unpack there

I hate every xenoblade game that isn't 1, and know jack shit about 3.

In other words, did they make Xb2 2? Don't care.

Did they go back to XB1 where it's actually good writing with interesting characters with funny voices, and not a shitty shitty shitty amalgamation of all the worse things about Jpop anime? then yes I care about spoilers and probably need to get XB3.

#video games #never thought i'd get an ask

[wheres-all-the-tea-gone]

I was up late last night and idk maybe I’m crazy,

BUT I was listening to annapantsu’s recent cover of Once Upon A December and just-

Picture this:

The clock ticking, and it starts off with the clock in the square where young Noah is. Then a shot of Nimue/Isard/Taion’s pocket watch. Then a flame clock.

Then,

Dancing bears (Ursula playing music with Beary), painted wings (any shot of a high entia character from XB1/Future Connected.

Things I almost remember (older Noah frowning)

And a song someone sings, Once upon a December (young Noah looking toward the stone arch/alley in the after credits, listening to Mio’s flute)

Someone holds me safe and warm (a shot of Noah and Mio holding hands)

Horses prance through a silver storm, Figures dancing gracefully (unfortunately not sure here. 😅)

Across my memory (excitement picks up. Shots in a whirlwind of good and bad. Good times with his friends, heroes, fights against mobius and Z. Stuff about N.)

…

…

Someone holds me safe and warm (Noah and Mio kissing.)

Horses prance through a silver storm, Figures dancing gracefully, Across my memory (more of the good and bad of his life/lives. Friends, enemies, heroes)

Far away, long ago (maybe a few brief shots of XB1 gang and then XB2 gang 🤔)

Glowing dim as an ember (Noah and Mio running toward each other as the worlds split again)

Things my heart used to know (Noah and Mio playing music together, both as Off Seers and that bit they do together, happily playing the flutes when at a campsite.)

Things it yearns to remember (friends. Lingering on Mio)

And a song someone sings (young Noah looking toward the alley again. Maybe also Mio playing by herself, I think there’s at least once she does this in a cutscene.)

Once upon a December (young Noah going towards the stone arch/alley)

#idk I just got excited and needed to get it out #oh if I had the video editing skills and energy I’d be unstoppable #XB1 and XB2 crew make appareances because I’m hoping for an epilogue DLC game with the possibility of Mio related to Nia and Noah knowing #crys who might be Shulks kid #xenoblade #xenoblade 3 #xenoblade chronicles 3 #xenoblade 3 spoilers #noah #Mio #amv idea #sorry for long post not sure how to shorten or read more on mobile