Xenoblade Chronicles

Man, keeping up with Chugga is hard.

Is is going for 100%?

She has plenty of tragedy though (not as much as Melia, and she gets the chance to come back from it) what with being murdered, mutilated into a Cyborg, and then the fact that she's been slowly dying since the second fight with Egil.

But yeah, Melia still has it worse, because everything that's been done to her can't be undone.

And here I was thinking that it was cool that despite the fact that Melia goes through a lot of shit, people don't use it as an excuse to bash Fiora.

That being said, Zelenal has not said that's the reason, so I can't really make that assumption.

Because her character seems to not exist beyond Shulk so she's rather boring.

goddamn, why wont seven ever daze an enemy who's toppled?

its definitely in her active skill list...i could probably have beaten lorithia last time if she'd dazed the 3 opportunities she got.

Well that's not true, there's the moment where she...

...Umm, there's that time in Agniritha when she...

Ummm, the Heart-to-Heart with Reyn reveals that she's good at cooking! ...

...Oh dear.

edited 23rd Feb '15 4:52:24 PM by TheMageofFire

That Heart-to-Heart involves and largely centers around Shulk as well. Seriously, the more screen time he gets, the less bad I feel about shipping Shulk/Melia.

4xWhat I meant, but not necessarily what I wrote.

Because it is true, Seven does not have character beyond Shulk.

3xMaybe her Daze animation takes effect too slowly? Or she keeps using it when they aren't actually Toppled because the damage is too good to ignore?

Or maybe because all Dazes have ridiculous cooldowns, and she couldn't keep up with the Topples.

He?

edited 23rd Feb '15 5:06:40 PM by Ekimmak

This thread is going full-on spoilers right now.

Anyway, I can't really blame a character for being focused on someone else after several years of friendship, a good long while of murder'd, and then come back to turn out to be essentially on death row and headed to a sequence of suicide missions while they're at it.

I wouldn't say Seven, or anyone else in this game for that matter, is a completely one-note character. There's her whole relationship with Meyneth and her concern about what people think of her Mechon body, for instance.

Not that it forgives how blatantly her character revolves around Shulk (*coughInnocenceSkillBranchcough*), but it's there.

To be fair to Fiora Shulk is just about as fixated on her as she is with him. He just happens to have had a lot of the game where she is supposedly gone to have other stuff happen, while Shulk has taken the role of leader of the group of seven and thus everyone provides support for him. She takes on the role of speaker for Mechonis among the group later on, since she shared a body with Meyneth for a while, so her contributions tend to be focused on Meyneth's wish in relation to their adventure.

I admit I find a bile sort of amusement in how utterly hopeless Melia's romantic affections for Shulk are on a second playthrough (and somewhat noticeable on the first playthrough), both in terms of Fiora's feelings for Shulk and Shulk's feelings for her back, especially when the shippers (not actually referring to anyone in the thread, necessarily) get all riled up about the shipping.

edited 23rd Feb '15 5:34:58 PM by Alfric

Even after Seven joins, Shulk as plenty of scenes that focus on other aspects of him. Like everything after you reach the Mechonis Core. Then there's all of his Heart-to-Hearts which only focus on Seven when she's in them (at least, the ones Chugga has viewed that I remember haven't made any real mention of her). After the Mechonis Core, I think there are only two or three times where Shulk specifically focuses on Seven.

Oh, by the way, am I the only one who got a Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann feel from the cut scene that played during and after that fight? I mean, badass hero discovers that the love interests that he's quested for is going to die to her artificial body then, after a brief breakdown, he goes full badass and kicks the ass of a major villain with her help (well, at least in the anime).

All of Shulk's current abilities are thanks to Spiral Power.

I wonder if Chugga is going to try and wrap up the rest of the story in the next video. It's episode 100 so it would be fitting but if he did the video would probably be over 40 minutes. I don't think he typically makes videos that long.

Maybe. Only one way to find out.

He said he would.

Oh really? We might be getting a 40 minute video then. Heck, it might even be 50 minutes depending on how long the fight takes.

edited 23rd Feb '15 7:04:05 PM by Kostya

He did do one 50 minute video before, so it won't be that far off.

I wonder if he's going to do the tradition of beating the final boss, getting 100%, and then tearing the final boss a new one to end things.

edited 23rd Feb '15 7:16:09 PM by Zelenal

I don't think you get anything special for beating the final boss again so probably not.

Is the video going up tomorrow?

@Seven: While I like Seven, there's no denying that Xenoblade kinda fails the Bechdel Test where that's concerned.

8 minutes of Xenoblade Chronicles 3D.

Xenoblade Chronicles Model Viewer and Jukebox.

edited 24th Feb '15 11:48:33 AM by Halberdier17

Does it look better than the Wii?

The lighting seems to look better but the textures are flatter. It still looks close to the Wii version.

Also, only one voice track language. Predictably, for Europe and North America, that'll be the British dub, while Japan naturally gets the original Japanese voice track.

While I'm fine with this (since I beat the entire game with the English actors and thought it was an excellent dub), some people on NeoGAF are really losing their heads over this. I suppose if you had your heart set on the Japanese voice tracks, this is disappointing news, although I can't wholly empathize, I'm afraid.

... they could just play the Wii version again, I'm pretty sure that it already had the Japanese tracks (I gave it a shot. Turned it off one battle later because I couldn't stand it).

That would require finding the Wii version. Good luck doing that if you didn't get it on release.