Xenoblade Chronicles - Blog Posts

realized the reason no one was seeing this is bc i posted it privately, soooo here you go!

[XC1] a portrait of alvis

My friends convinced me to play Xenoblade and as a Zelda fan, I really enjoy it! Idk if you guys can tell who's my favorite.

NO SPOILERS PLS

I actually tried underpainting and i think i actually enjoy it a lot! The colors look pretty cohesive. Not fully perfect, but I don't think I'll ever be

Also let's give it up for the tiny doodle in the corner.

I zoomed into his 3D model and he probably definitely maybe has a hood LOL

[XC1] a portrait of alvis

My friends convinced me to play Xenoblade and as a Zelda fan, I really enjoy it! Idk if you guys can tell who's my favorite.

NO SPOILERS PLS

I actually tried underpainting and i think i actually enjoy it a lot! The colors look pretty cohesive. Not fully perfect, but I don't think I'll ever be

Also let's give it up for the tiny doodle in the corner.

I zoomed into his 3D model and he probably definitely maybe has a hood LOL

xc2 ocs😥 Pierre and his blade Messiah :3

his backstory is that he was going to become a skiier in the tantal mountains but he broke both of his legs in a freak accident, he healed immediately the next day and he decided he'd become a driver instead.

he has a silly carefree personality and is almost so clumsy its worse than zeke's bad luck

Messiah is more stoic and quiet but just as goofy as Pierre mostly :3

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.

Been playing Xenoblade X DE while my computer's busted, having a good time. It's great to be back on Mira, there's a lot of quality of life changes (follow ball works now and changing party members/grinding affinity is a lot easier). Have some screenshots before I go back into the void.

New version of the Skell Flight theme!

Hard to decide if I like this or the original more, they're both good.

Nintendo of America made some tweets about the new characters in XDE. Here's the one about Liesel (the Hraesvelg pilot).

No pronouns specified for them here, I'm willing to bet that Liesel's nonbinary. Tweets about Juniper and A from 3 never used pronouns for them, and we ended up with they/them Juniper and no pronouns "Ontos was meant to stand somewhere between" A. And posts about other characters do use gendered pronouns (like Neilnail below), it's not like they avoid pronouns for everyone.

WAKE UP BLADES NEW XENOBLADE X TRAILER

GANG WAKE UP NEW XENOBLADE X DEFINITIVE EDITION TRAILER

So I found this character sorter for Xenoblade characters. It's pretty neat, has plenty of filters and even has options to include people from Xenogears and Xenosaga. Can take a while though, I spent over an hour on mine.

These are my top 20. I know it shows 22 characters but I'm combining the Shulks and Alvis/A. Excluded characters from Gears, Saga, and Torna since I haven't played those yet. I'd say mine's pretty close, wouldn't change much in the top 20 and the bottom 2 being Tora and Tatsu is perfect.

The Nopon are Here

I found a Picrew where you can make a Nopon from Xenoblade! Here's the link.

Her name is Lillil and she is a silly billy.

When the idea of a Xenoblade spinoff comes up, it’s usually in the form of a Warriors game. And yeah, that’d be cool and I’d spend 500 hours on it. But I like the idea of a racing game, just because I think there’s potential for cool courses and these characters deserve a chance to just have fun. Anyways Nintendo/Monolith please consider making Xenokart real.

Xenoblade 1:

Vehicles from this game could be modified versions of the mobile artillery and Face Mechon units.

Course Ideas: Tephra Cave, Bionis Leg, Satorl Marsh, Eryth Sea, Alcamoth, Sword Valley, Fallen Arm, Agniritha, Bionis Interior, Memory Space

Xenoblade X:

Skells already have a pseudo car mode, and also regular cars are here. Also time travel cars exist too.

Course Ideas: NLA, Talon Rock, Nopon Braidbridge, Divine Roost, around the Yawning Giant, Lake Ciel, the general O’rrh Sim area, White Phosphor Lake, Mount M’gando

Xenoblade 2:

I got nothing for Xenoblade 2 inspired vehicles.

Course Ideas: I guess just the titans, along with the inside of the World Tree and the First Low Orbit Station? I think you should be able to ride on that ring around the planet connected to the First Low Orbit Station too.

Xenoblade 3:

Levnises are the vehicles here.

Course Ideas: Alfeto Valley, Eagus Wilderness, Great Cotte Falls, Maktha Wildwood, the City, Origin

There are probably other good course ideas, but I don’t remember too much of 2′s environments and since areas in 3 are hybrids of areas from 1 and 2 I don’t want to repeat things too much. Expecting X content is also unrealistic but I’m biased and the environments are cool and unique. If you guys have ideas for courses, vehicles, character rosters, or whatever, feel free to share them.

HIT THAT YOINKY SPLOINKY, PLEASE

Compilation of Xenoblade “X, hit that yoinky sploinky, please!” videos because they’re important pieces of culture. As far as I know there isn’t one for Future Connected, Torna, or any older stuff like Xenogears/Xenosaga. But if you guys do find/make one for those, let me know. I’m just happy X has one, it’s usually left out.

Xenoblade 1:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B0xjdzyWBg&t=0s

Xenoblade X:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zuxc-dBCsTU

Xenoblade 2:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ak7geBu00U

Xenoblade 3:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDP_roAkP1A

Future Redeemed:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KOV4pQ0OqY

We’re getting English tweets about the Future Redeemed cast, today was Matthew and A. Nothing unusual about Matthew, but look at the one about A.

No pronouns for A, while Matthew is referred to as a he in his tweet and in A’s. A might be nonbinary, Juniper also wasn’t addressed with any specific pronouns leading up to the base game’s release and was confirmed as nonbinary when it came out when we saw them referred to as they/them.

I need to process the stuff I saw in the Xenoblade 3 DLC trailer, I’ll spoiler it all just to be safe.

There’s six party members we know of for the DLC. They’re Matthew, A, Nikol, Glimmer, Shulk, and Rex. We also see Na’el (I think that’s the right spelling?), Alvis, and Riku.

-Matthew is probably N’s great-grandson, with the old guy we saw get killed by N in the trailer being his grandpa/N’s son we saw in the flashbacks. Probably Founder Vandham. He punches people, kinda looks like Mr. Xenogears, part of me wants him in Smash. He’s an attacker, makes sense.

-A has some kind of connection to Alvis. She has an earring that looks like his core crystal, the silver hair, class name seems to be Monado Fencer, and her name is A. She’s probably Consul A, outfit looks like it has elements from Alvis’s outfit and I’m seeing a bit of M’s outfit in there too. She’s a healer, didn’t expect that.

-Nikol is probably Shulk and Fiora’s son, but like Mio he’s not the original, just one of many incarnations of him throughout however long Aionios has been going on for. Probably Founder Ortiz. He’s a defender, we’ll get back to that.

-Glimmer is probably Rex and Pyra’s daughter, and another Aionios incarnation like Mio and Nikol. She has a very Pneuma hairstyle and the green core crystal, I’m also getting Lora vibes for some reason. Probably Founder Rhodes. She’s a healer, seems about right.

-Shulk’s back, he grew his hair out and lost an arm. He’s also a defender now, so lots of Dunban inspiration and maybe passed that down to his kid Nikol. He’s the mentor to Founder Reid but there’s no sign of them anywhere.

-Rex is also back, but he lost an eye. He’s an attacker and he mentioned some meme lines in the trailer, hopefully he’ll tell us the fifth rule of the salvager’s code. He’s the mentor to Founder Cassini, but we also don’t see them anywhere.

-Na’el seems to be an NPC from what we’ve seen. She’s probably Founder Doyle, making her Matthew’s sister. I think it’s lame that Matthew and Na’el look so similar to their great grandparents who were the same gender as they are, like give Matthew the core crystal or Na’el the blue eyes just SOMETHING.

-Alvis is here, he looks so pale get this man to a doctor. He’s got the Zanza-looking wings and still has the core crystal.

-Riku is here for some reason, and I don’t think Nopon are part of the cycle. Why is he here.

The Founders: -Known: Vandham (Matthew), Doyle (Na’el), Rhodes (Glimmer), Ortiz (Nikol) -Unknown: Cassini, Reid, mysterious 7th founder

I’ve seen some people say that A is either the 7th founder or possibly Shulk/Rex’s student, just hard to be sure since we don’t know what those 3 looked like.

With Mio and Glimmer, the only Rex kid we’re missing is Mythra’s. Really hope we get to see them. Since we also see people with the Ontos and Pneuma core crystals, maybe we’ll get lucky and see someone with the Logos crystal yes I know Malos died but anything’s possible.

There’s another thing in the trailer I wanna talk about, and the weird part is that I’ve seen literally no one talk about it.

This is Na’el/Founder Doyle, probably the sister of the DLC’s main protagonist Matthew. And here she is, looking like a member of Moebius with the outfit and mask, including THE ONTOS CORE CRYSTAL. WHY DOES SHE HAVE THIS. WHAT IS THE LINK BETWEEN HER, A, AND ALVIS. WHY DOES SHE LOOK LIKE SHE’S PART OF MOEBIUS. WHAT IS GOING ON.

xenoblade chronicles 2 was a serious game guys trust me

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