Xenoblade Chronicles

With the Definitive Edition coming up, I guess I'll go back to the Seven business for a while.

For once they're not spoiling it. First time ever actually, given all the crossover and advertising stuff where they've just had Seven front and center.

So Bionis Shoulder is visited in the epilogue story. This is after the Bionis collapses, which would explain Alcamoth's displacement.

An analysis on the newest trailer. Some QOL and UI from X and 2 has been imported.

I admit I'm not too thrilled about the new Nopon companions.

Edited by RAlexa21th on Mar 29th 2020 at 1:55:11 AM

It looks fairly obvious that the green nopon is the healer and the pink one is the tank, since neither Melia or Shulk are particularly useful in either role, but are decent enough.

Yeah, otherwise Shulk and Melia are one of the worst combo.

Why wouldn't they just have the seven party members? And what would happen to the Telethia in Alcamoth?

I guess they flew out of Alcamoth and infested the Shoulder.

Shulk + Melia + Riki is a very functional combo if you control Melia and make Shulk be focused on spamming Monado Armour and Shield, and base your strategy around using a Chain Attack to put a stupid high damage multiplier on the damage over time effect of Summon Earth.

Lets you fight enemies way above your level without any specialized equipment or boring topple lock.

That's assuming they don't remix Shulk and Melia's arts pallets for Future Connected. I noticed earlier that Melia's staff there is pretty clearly based on the Monado.

Also, here's four silhouettes overlooking the party. Who do you think they are? I can see a skell, Elma, Tatsu and Lin if I squint. Or maybe that's the wishful thinking talking.

Edited by Watashiwa on Mar 29th 2020 at 4:58:36 AM

Playable Tatsu or we riot.

I just assumed Melia went out on her own and Shulk followed her to keep an eye out.

That being said, I wouldn't be suprised if they allowed the rest of the party in post-Mechonis Core if you've beaten Future Connection.

Considering the emphasis on space-time rifts, I wouldn't be suprised if they brought characters from 2 alongside X.

If it means getting to pummel Rex and Mythra into the dirt with each other, I'm all for it.

Now that's something I approve.

Well, one thing I was hoping for was dashed: the Japanese site mentions that model viewer and sound test from the N3DS port will not be in Definitive.

But that doesn't make it definitive.

That's a really strange omission. Why cut that out?

IMO every game should have an in-game music player, there's basically no reason not to at this point.

Perhaps to avoid overlapping the different versions, which is strange because it is called the Definitive version.

So apparently someone made a page for the Xeno series.

I personally don't think there should be a page because the three series are separate series and they are impossible to be in the same franchise.

That's also not how you make a franchise page.

EDIT: Sent a PM to the page creator. It will either be expanded or cut.

Edited by Discar on Apr 1st 2020 at 7:40:27 AM

If we're going to fix it I suggest making it a Tetsuya Takahashi page as he's the prominent element they have in common.

I mean, isn't the Conduit a Zohar by any other name? There might not be a specific direct link between the different Xeno-series, but I can understand how people feel they thematically and Zoharly belong to an unofficial spiritual franchise.

And it's just that. Unofficial.

Ehhhhhhh.... there's enough timeline differences at this point that I don't think Blade really folds into the old canon very well.

Of course if Fei and Elly show up in Future Connected then we're off to the races.

Unless something at Square-Enix changed significantly, don't count on that particular cameo. KOS-MOS is a different matter as Namco are on a lot friendlier terms with Monolith.

The reason I mentioned Fei and Elly is that they both showed up in Saga as representatives of the will of U-DO.

Or, well, Abel was, Nephilim was a time paradox. Eternal recurrence, yay!