Trivia / Xenoblade Chronicles X

• Abandonware: On March 27th, 2023, the Wii U eShop closed down for good, and bringing the final death of the Wii U itself with it. Xenoblade Chronicles X is one of the very last remaining system exclusive games on the console that never got ported off the system by that date. While retail discs for the game itself can still be bought second-hand, the closing of the eShop means it is now impossible to download the game's data packs that most players found essential to enjoy the game to its fullest extent^note The data packs install much of the world data into the Wii U's internal memory, greatly reducing load times.
• Ascended Meme:
  • In perfect modern Treehouse/8-4 tradition. The "Classic" (Shulk) option (and a couple of others, like the Rebel option) for Rook will, in fact, mention "really feeling it" during combat.
  • An early NPC asks you to "Please understand" about the delay in getting the West Gate open.
• All-Star Cast: For a J-game that doesn't use all-union talent, the English language track features a wide variety of VAs, such as Caitlin Glass, Cassandra Lee Morris, Carrie Keranen, Michael Sinterniklaas, Matthew Mercer, Patrick Seitz, Cindy Robinson, Kirk Thornton, Mela Lee, Kaiji Tang, D.C. Douglas, Doug Erholtz, Josh Grelle, Cherami Leigh, Alexis Tipton, Kira Buckland, Robbie Daymond, Benjamin Diskin, Erin Fitzgerald, Kate Higgins, Yuri Lowenthal, Mary Elizabeth McGlynn, Bryce Papenbrook, Tara Platt, Keith Silverstein, Cristina Valenzuela, Dan Woren, Brian Beacock, Lauren Landa, Erica Mendez, Christopher Corey Smith, Julie Ann Taylor, Kyle Hebert, Stephanie Sheh, Christine Marie Cabanos, Wendee Lee, Amanda Céline Miller, Michelle Ruff and Spike Spencer.
• Bad Export for You: The American Special Edition includes a USB stick, but it only includes ten tracks from the OST and comes with clumsily-implemented DRM, which effectively only allows it to be run on a Windows PC and can corrupt some school or business networks. At least it looks cool.
• Cowboy BeBop at His Computer: Several sites, such as Siliconera and Dualshockers reported Lynlee's age had been changed to 15 for the western release. This is factually incorrect, since Elma plainly says she's still 13 years old during her introductory scene in the English version (@7:14-8:01). The confusion actually stems from a question around the character herself, since it's unclear if she was thirteen at the time of her Brain Uploading and is now "eternally 13" as a mim (despite being chronologically fifteen), or if she was eleven at the time and has been "growing" via mim updates.
• Defictionalization: FrontierNav (an interactive video game map viewer and data repository) takes its name and inspiration from this game, and has since expanded to include the rest of the Xenoblade series and many other games.
• Dueling Works:
  • Loosely with Final Fantasy XV; Xenoblade Chronicles X supporters claim Monolith Soft is stepping in the right direction by enhancing and/or fixing elements from the previous installment, all the while attracting newcomers to the Eastern RPG genre, whereas Final Fantasy XV is alienating its own fanbase and changing its formula too much. Regardless of the reasons, Fandom Rivalry between Final Fantasy and Xenoblade (including its predecessors) are inherent.
  • A looser one with Fallout 4, due to being a Eastern and Western Wide-Open Sandbox released around the same time and being sequels to critically acclaimed titles, and being mutually exclusive releases (Fallout releasing on the PC, PS4, and Xbox One, while Xenoblade is exclusive to the Wii U).
• Fake Brit: Celica has a British accent in the English dub, but is voiced by American voice actress Mela Lee. Averted with the Classic Avatar voice choices, those being the extremely British Adam Howden and Carina Reeves of the original Xenoblade cast.
• Orphaned Reference: The lyrics for "Black Tar" still refer Skells as "Dolls" outside of Japan.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: The closure of the Wii U eShop has made purchasing this game digitally impossible. If you had previously purchased it, it can still be re-downloaded, but you'll otherwise need to find a physical copy to play this game.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The game was originally going to have a fixed main character, but was changed halfway through development due to the addition of online play. Concept art of the original protagonist resembles Yelv.
  • According to the developers the project got so out of hand, especially after the decision to add multiplayer, that the amount of content cut and changed rivals the entirety of the three Xenosaga games, the series of which they come from was infamous for its Troubled Production.
  • Concept art of planet Mira shows that it was originally going to be bigger, with more continents, an orbital space station, and an enormous tower located at its north pole. Strangely, it also appears to have dark purple "cracks" in its surface. There's also what appears to be a second human city on the opposite side of the planet, "New Tokyo". Many fans hope that if a sequel emerges, some of these might be made into elements of it.
  • The Qlurians were originally going to have a much bigger part in the story, but were almost entirely absent from the game in the end. The only remnants of them are Celica, a brief mention of the Trion Barrier being their technology, and the Neilnail Skells that can be fought in a Time Attack mission.

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