How Similar are Bionicle and Xenoblade?

[@frogmouth2]

Yesterday me and my wife got a sonar of our future child. I saw him and thought “he’s curled up like a bohrok from bionicle”. Such a cool reference fr fr.

[@thrillhouse4151]

Legend of the Dragoon also has elementally themed heroes fighting gods of destruction and stuff like that. I’m pretty sure I played Xenogears around the same time I built my first toa so I’m fascinated in this. 9:49, mmm wasn’t expecting to see my beautiful opening sequence Zakus in such a video, well done!

[@PaleozoicBricks]

Its not a JRPG if you don't fight god at the end also they aint Zaku's but Hi-Zack's, it the opening of Zeta

[@BattlePeak]

This video was wild. I only knew a bit of stuff about the Bionicle lore and I never really got too deep into it because there was always just so much. You managed to break it down and cover a whole other IP at the same time in a digestible manner. Great video! -Jesse

[@Bionickpunk]

Great, now we need a video about the similarities of Bionicle and the Horizon video game series.

[@thobsandst]

IT ALL MAKE SENSE NOW WHY I CONNECTED TO XENOBLADE SO WELL!

[@Makutros]

One very essential part of both stories differ extremely, at least in my perception. Maybe there is some subtext that I don't see. But the concept of destiny seems to be the exact opposite in the two stories. In Bionicle destiny is inescapable and the only way to deal with it properly is acctepting it, as Matoro did in his sacrifice. Even Teridax, who thinks he outsmarted the system, just gets a step closer to achieving his destiny by taking over the GSR. Destiny, at least in the main universe, does not fail. And it will benefit the heroes in the long run. When all prophecies are fulfilled, peace has arrived. In Xenoblade everything is about acting out against what is predestined, chosing a way that's not predetermined by higher forces. The future is weaponized against the heroes by Zanza. The passage of fate leads to destruction and recreation.

[@PaleozoicBricks]

Good ol Determinism vs Indeterminism

[@imheretowatchstuff9102]

I think you were invented by the youtube algorithm specifically to appeal to my favorite media

[@PaleozoicBricks]

So what media is that exactly?

[@imheretowatchstuff9102]

@@PaleozoicBricks xenoblade and bionicle of course!

[@M0torsagmannen]

so you and RRSlugger release Bionicle videos this close together, very suspicious indeed... EDIT: very interesting parallels to the stories though, thanks for this. would have never found out about this otherwise

[@Bionickpunk]

Hmm suspicious...

[@PaleozoicBricks]

Didn't even know a video of his came out today. And its on Bionicle today

[@blue_acid]

Wait, do you spoil xeno 3?

[@DarthIllustrious]

I really wish Nintendo would sell Monolith soft. Like I love the Xeno games but hate Nintendo with a passion rn and am boycotting them. Its just amazing what Monolith can do with Xenoblade creating some of the best games of all time on Nintendos shit hardware