When The Idea Of A Xenoblade Spinoff Comes Up, It’s Usually In The Form Of A Warriors Game. And Yeah,

Okay so I’m willing to bet that we’ll see Riku as a Nopon Archsage in a future Xenoblade game. In the base game of Xenoblade 3 it’s clear that something’s up with Riku, and in the Future Redeemed trailer + some tweets by the Xenoblade JP twitter account Riku is just there even though the DLC happens a millennium before the main game. Nopon aren’t part of the cycle so it can’t be a previous incarnation of him. A regular Nopon seems to be able to live into their 200′s, but that’s not enough time for Riku to be present in both stories. He hasn’t even aged inbetween them either. Only a Nopon Archsage would be able to live that long, the ones we’ve seen generally have an age of 9,999 years. Imagine playing Xenoblade 6 or whatever in the future, the Challenge Mode DLC drops, and the Nopon Archsage running it is Riku.

I beat Xenoblade X DE. I'll get to 100% survey eventually but beating Chapter 13 is good enough for now. Very spoilerly thoughts below.

I'm still not sure how I feel about the new ending. We spent all this time on Mira and then we just have to leave and find another planet because Mira's getting destroyed. All of Mira's mysteries (the auto translation, how the humans are still alive after the Lifehold got wrecked, Lao coming back, why no one can leave, L's people, the presence of a Telethia, J-bodies, probably more I'm forgetting) are just left to never be answered or just "it's because of the Ares" (also they forgot that the Ares is supposed to be a tandem skell). Maybe if this was a proper sequel instead of a bonus chapter they could've done more and gotten around to answering some questions before leaving Mira.

I do really like Volitaris and the final segment where you're searching for your party members and the spears to weaken Void. I think you can just rush to Void without weakening it or getting anyone back (especially if you have the Ares 90 like I did), but I wanted to explore and didn't want to leave anyone behind. It was nice getting to talk to everyone one last time too, I like most of BLADE. Al letting you pilot the Ares was another cool moment, don't know why Lao's ghost was there though (still feels weird knowing he's actually dead, spent a decade thinking he was alive). I'm not sure what's up next for the cast of X, I saw the planet and thought "holy shit it's the planet from Future Redeemed go fuck yourselves Saga fans the blue light isn't KOS-MOS" but then I saw it had a ring which the FR planet doesn't so I don't think they'll be interacting with anyone from the numbered games universe yet. Sure Al has his connection to the Ares which is powered by the Conduit but it left 2's universe so who knows where that thing is now.

Happy XDE exists though, it's still one of my favorite games despite it's flaws and it's no longer stuck on a whole different console.

Bravely Default Community

The upcoming remaster of the first game is making me all nostalgic and had me wondering if there was a community for the series here. I couldn't find one, so I made one!

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A community for the Bravely Default series!

COME ON HANAMUSA GANG, WE CAN WIN THIS POLL

WE'RE A LOT LESS CANON THAN THE ACE ATTORNEY BOYS, AND THIS IS THE NONCANON GAYEST BITCHES POLL AFTER ALL

HANAMUSA SWEEP BABY

Round 7, FINALE

Part of me wants to make a list of all my ships in case anyone wants to know and/or tell me how wrong I am, but there are two problems.

1. It would be a very long list.

2. For some reason, ship names for Pokemon are never anything simple. Most of them are either one or two words that may or may not be related to the characters and the -shipping suffix (for those unaware I would like to inform you all that TrainwreckShipping is a very real ship name). Sometimes I also see ship names like hibihika and hanamusa which I think are based on the Japanese names of the characters but I’m not sure. I’ve tried searching for lists so I know what the ship names are but not only are they long and hard to search through, but about half the ships on some of those lists just make me go “now that’s enough internet for today” to put it nicely.

I never get anything done

HOLY SHIT NEW TOMODACHI LIFE