That Time Amalthus Accidentally Saved the World

[@toadboy6005]

The thought that amalthus is responsible for all of my common draws makes me hate him far more than anything else he did.

[@sdbzfan1]

those 100 core openings I did for KOM MOS Amalthus Your death won't be swift of painless, there's no easy way to say this BREAK TOPPLE LAUNCH SMASH

[@eunie9]

After watching people play the game for three years I played it knowing how rare Kos mos is and immediately got them first core crystal(that wasn’t the tutorial set one)

[@emilia935]

@@eunie9 I did the same, but had no idea how lucky I was until much later.

[@corrinflakes9659]

@@sdbzfan1 Unfortunately Break Topple Launch Smash and Break Topple Daze Burst are too merciful for him.

[@loaftreos3825]

Luxin casually dropping peak thumbnails

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

Indeed

[@LegoNinjaRobot]

"You will meme no further!" - Amalthus (probably)

[@codename618]

This didn't cover the point I thought it would, but it's still pretty cool. There's another way that Amalthus kind of saved the world unintentionally that involves spoilers for Xenoblade 1 and 2. (By the way, I'm copying a comment I made on a different video.) By technicality, Amalthus saved Alrest from Shulk. And neither of them are even aware. 🙃 In case you're wondering what I mean by that, Shulk defeating Zanza causes the World Tree to begin collapsing. This means that from Alrest's side, this was more inevitable than the Titans dying off. Because the Xenoblade 2 party ends up climbing the World Tree, Pneuma gets to stop the Tree from collapsing, plus Klaus does the whole last gift thing. However, neither of these things would have happened if Amalthus never climbed the Tree himself all those years ago. 👀 So whether he meant to or not (he definitely didn't lol), Amalthus saved Alrest. From Shulk (who also wasn't aware that he almost destroyed Alrest).

[@potatofarmergyro1720]

The man behind the unjust gacha was our true savior all along.......we truly live in a cruel world

[@ArinJager1]

_"the suffering never truly ends"_

[@goroakechi6126]

Rex and co: … Jin and co: … Lora and co: … Klaus: … Zanza: … Alvis: … Amalthus himself: … Literally everyone: … Luxin:

[@RavenGamingOverLord]

Nice lol

[@GilgameshGaming]

Wonder what Malos would think about.

[@potatofarmergyro1720]

@@GilgameshGaming "lmfao" -malos probably

[@Brothandelus]

@@GilgameshGaming INDEED!

[@corrinflakes9659]

@@potatofarmergyro1720 In-character

[@jasperjavillo686]

Slight correction. When Amalthus cleanses a Core Crystal, he removes all the collected data. This includes not only the data from different Drivers, but data passed onto the Blade from the parent Titan. Blades evolve not only through individual resonances, but by the data collected from all previously existing Blades and redistributed by the Trinity Processor. We know this because Lora is confirmed to be Haze’s only previous Driver, yet she is not a Common Blade. If Haze’s Core Crystal was truly a blank slate prior to resonating with Lora like all the Common Blade Core Crystal, this wouldn’t be the case. It would be more accurate to say that cleansing a Core Crystal makes it more like one from the initial batch that created the first Titans than one freshly harvested from a dying Titan.

[@BurstFlare]

"Lora is confirmed to be Haze’s only previous Driver" Confirmed how?

[@jasperjavillo686]

@@BurstFlare Admitted jumped the gun there. However, the fact that Lora’s resonance was expressed so strongly in Haze suggests she had few-to-no Drivers prior to Lora yet she is far more advanced than any Common Blade, suggesting that Common Blades are the result of Core Crystals that lack a lot of the data that is normally inherited from the Trinity Processor and parent Titans.

[@thenamelessnpc1000]

Oh man, I didn't even consider that the erasure would take away the parent information too..... absolutely horrific. Gods I hate Amalthus

[@sirensong1794]

@@jasperjavillo686 i suppose but its never stated that blades who have had had more previous drivers dont take as much influence from new drivers. it seems personality influence is more common than design influence as aside from haze the only visual influence we know someone likely got from their driver(s) is nia looking gormotti like, likely due to her father/driver. newer blades do seem to be more impressionable than longer lived ones, but there's not really any direct confirmation that a blade couldn't be heavily influenced by a driver later in their lifespan, and haze having an incredibly specific and strong power i feel either she came from a particularly strong titan or she must've developed her power overtime

[@ArinJager1]

@@sirensong1794 nia isn't a gormotti (but could as well be from the gormot titan - as titans "birth" new blades, could also be from Torna, though)... in her blade form, she's more akin to a "nine tailed fox/kitsune" than a "cat-girl"... _just sayin'_ (too bad we're never told/shown how the blade "evolution" works, exactly... there was a hint about how blades "evolve" into titans, but not how blades evolve from the common ones to the special ones - if that's even a thing at all)

[@chilet_]

amalthus really arranged the insides of numerous blades than rex could ever dream of

[@maagic2031]

is this the only place i can get posts like this now that your twitter is nuked

[@chilet_]

@@maagic2031 It’s back up and if you want to know what happened I already made a tweet talking about it

[@Pine2142]

No way pegging lad

[@gmaster2647]

Oh God, lmfao

[@shiningskies47]

About the core Crystal storage, aren’t Ursula and Beary two beings in one core?

[@KyogresHideout_Vegito2121]

I could be wrong but I always took it a them being 2 halves of 1 being that for some reason evolved to split in 2. But again I could very much be wrong that's just my personal headcanon explanation.

[@joshuareesor1756]

There's also Nim with Kit and Sunny, who each seem to have their own separate thoughts, though they're more of a combined being rather than separate like Ursula and Beary are.

[@ArinJager1]

what about Sheba :D

[@PaulZeroSolis]

@@ArinJager1 That's a bathtub. It's not sentient. Also it's made of solidified water controlled by Sheba's power over water.

[@Sherkel]

They're bearly able to fit in their Core Crystal!

[@RSanchez111]

At least Pyra's core crystal can hold both Pyra and Mythra. You can say it doesn't count because it's an aegis crystal but if Shulk can figure out how to mass produce monados, then Tora can figure out how to mass produce aegis core crystals to hold more than one consciousness/soul in a single core crystal

[@miimiiandco]

As well as this, a single Core Crystal also houses both Ursula and Beary.

[@YOM2_UB]

@@miimiiandco Don't forget Nim, Kit, and Sunny

[@thedontpanic]

And that's how Amalthus saved Christmas! Happy Holidays everyone!

[@ArinJager1]

Amalthus = the Grinch/Ebeneezer Scrooge

[@SanjiTyloxion]

I mean. Considering normal blade core crystals would gather information over presumably centuries. Before the blade had enough info to become a titan and use the data from its core as a titan to generate all of the life on itself, including monsters and "humans" and the such. I'd imagine the core crystals can store a significant amount of info with little problem. So Amalthus didn't really do anything to help. Other than making it so not as much info would need to be stored as originally due to many sunken titans and all their data and people being absent so didn't need to be stored when the time came but even had they remained it likely would have posed little issue for the crystals. Even less of an issue had Torna still been around likely

[@ArinJager1]

yeah, some sort of "quantum computer" shenanigans... gotta love the Clarke's third law aspect to these games (they seem fantasy and magic and stuff, but it's actually a sci-fi) "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic"

[@justajoshy]

The Endless Meme

[@Sherkel]

All of humanity yearns for it. That is why Luxin's here, you'll find.

[@justajoshy]

Luxin was here at the beginning and he will proclaim the end...

[@angeldude101]

We do have at least 3 known cases of multiple independently sentient beings in a single Core Crystal: Nim, Kit, and Sunny; Ursula and Beary; and Mythra and Pyra. Granted, two of these cases has one entity clearly as the dominant one and the others probably don't have as much of a personality, while the third is _the Aegis,_ so there's not necessarily proof that a single _ordinary_ Core Crystal can fit multiple fully independent people, but they're still worth bringing up.

[@BladeMasterIcarus]

True but remember most of those rare blades were still carrying the genetic life data of all of alrest on them at all times. The personality of a core crystal doesn’t really take up that much space compared to the life data each core crystal contains.

[@ArinJager1]

extention/proxy kinda thing...? Mythra/Pyra are "special case", they don't follow the same general rules as the other blades

[@ShadowSkyX]

Beary is purely ursula's creation; a creation that disappears when using her specials. Beary isn't truly real and acts as a giant life sized stuffed toy for her to feel safe.

[@UltimaPhoenix-dx3kt]

And by climbing the world tree and getting both aegis cores, Amalthus essentially did a butterfly effect that culminated in not only Alrest being saved at the end of xc2, but also *both universes* not destroying each other in 3 lmao

[@ArinJager1]

I was wondering, what if Amalthus awoken Mythra instead of Malos (and Addam would then awoken Malos instead of Mythra)... like, Addam "imprinted" on Mythra (she's kinda like his kid or something)... worth noting is that they have different powers, too... how would that play out, lol

[@MK73DS]

1:30 I don't think core crystals store memories, only soul/DNA. It's why a blade lose its memories after going back to its core. Also, memory backup and restore are a thing in Xenoblade 1 (Egil can freely explore memories of his face mechons and edit/delete them, in a way very similar to how memories show during interlinking in Xenoblade 3 by the way). All of that makes even more sense considering Origin is half from XC1, half from XC2. They had to merge these two technologies to make backup and restore of full human souls and memories possible.

[@alexstewart9592]

When Rex was stabbed in the heart by Jin, Pyra copied his entire mind, complete with memories, into her own Core Crystal, and had a conversation with it inside a virtual environment created from one of the memories inside her Core Crystal, an image of the Hill Overlooking Elysium from before the experiment, and when she gave Rex half of her Core Crystal so it could perform instant heart surgery it also copied his mind back from itself into Rex's brain - complete with a new memory of the conversation inside her core crystal.

[@brianyang1151]

Hey at least it's better than being turned into a living library for all the memories of the world

[@Kool-Jay]

The thought of Amalthus cleansing the Core Crystals and that's what the Common Blades come from is interesting. I think it's one of the main things that could actually be true in this video. 👍🏿

[@ArinJager1]

cleansing the core crystals = factory reset (but it doesn't change the "evolved" aka special blades, into the common variety ones, though... like reverts their form)

[@ZX-Gear]

So that is why Titans are dying and there are less being born?

[@thedarkdevil1661]

When Amalthus's English name refers to both the living situation of Alrest and how part of him is a part of the aegis, Malos. Where as his Japanese name, Marubeni, (Sounds like a flipped version of Benimaru) probably refers to the bloodshed he causes 4:31-4:35 (Beni = Deep red), as a result of the rituals he conducts with the core crystals 3:16-3:22 (Maru = Circle). Overall, it foreshadows how said rituals lead to massive bloodshed in alrest. (3:22 Also he basically kills blades in his rituals as well)

[@krimsonkatt]

@@fury_blade9303 But fetuses can't think or feel until at least the third trimester, (no nerves and therefore no feeling or thoughts) and a good 99%+ of abortions are done in the first trimester very early on, not the third. Also planned Parenthood does a lot more than just abortions as they help with female and LGBT+ health care in general and are one of the only providers for that in the US. Also if you bring up religeon the Bible says that the soul only enters the body upon birth, not upon conception which has been the mainstream belief of Christains until the 1950s and the belief of Jews and Muslims even to this day. Tho imaging bringing politics into a Xenoblade meme video lmao.

[@fury_blade9303]

@@krimsonkatt can’t say I didn’t see this coming, but I really don’t want to do this here. I will say one thing though, you can’t say what Christian’s do and don’t believe, because we believe the soul enters the body at conception. Disagree all you want but we both know arguing about this not going to change either of our minds. I Only drew that connection because I thought the developers might have been trying to send a message like that.

[@dinosaurusrex1482]

@@krimsonkatt not sure where you heard nerves don't develop until the 3rd trimester but that is 100% wrong

[@shulkash8799]

true, but you forgot that successful flesh eater are implied to have at least 2 souls in the core crystal, the blades and the driver’s cells and soul they absorbed. It a thing that is mentioned in game that all flesh eater except Minoth, have a human life inside them, which means the human soul is registered in that blade’s core crystal. And there is a possible way, to recreate that soul register in that blade’s crystal.

[@PJDAltamirus0425]

And it seems like the closer the bond blade and driver have to each other and the closer to death the blade is the more they see of their formally alive driver. So does that mean Nia could see her original driver in her dreams? Did Rex kinda marry and impregnate four women?

[@shulkash8799]

@@PJDAltamirus0425 I mean if you think that he got with all 3 then sure. Although I think more that the baby Nia is holding is a recreated of her driver/sister’s soul.

[@PJDAltamirus0425]

So…. That just makes it weirder and kinda adds to the joke that Mio and Nia looked more like sisters months before xbc3 came out. So Mio is half her own personality and half Nia’s driver personality.

[@shulkash8799]

@@PJDAltamirus0425 yeah, I think she has her father’s dna, but the soul that made Mio is actually Nia’s sister, who may also be named Mio. I like the idea that Mio is named after Nia’s sister/driver.

[@ninjapotatolorf6237]

4:02 I have to correct you on this point, because Wulfric did very much have a previous Driver in the form of the Arachno you fight. I'm not really sure where the whole "seeing him be awakened for the first time" thing comes from.

[@grantcantgame]

What Luxin meant was we saw the very first awakening of Wulfric from the Arachno. He doesn’t mean that we see the awakening itself, he means we see what effect the arachno had on the core upon awakening. TLDR: he meant we saw the effects of the first awakening, not the awakening itself

[@ninjapotatolorf6237]

@@grantcantgame right, but the Arachno being the first Awakening isn't a confirmed thing. Even if there is a lot of circumstantial evidence to back it up.

[@ArinJager1]

wulfric is a special, not a common, he's "evolved", therefore had a many awakenings (and thus drivers) before the two we witness in the game

[@venobladebionicles6228]

I love that thumbnail so much...

[@PowerOf47]

i initially thought this would be: "he killed a lot of people, so there were less people on Alrest's side that needed their memories saved"

[@Antasma1]

I actually thought those things in Origin resembled the Omega Fetter

[@grantcantgame]

Probably similar technology, since the computer omega fetter was a part of Ophion’s synthetic brain, and core crystals are synthetic brains.

[@ArinJager1]

omega feta cheese

[@professionalweirdo3391]

Can’t wait for the next meme theory where he talks about how Riki getting into debt with Frontier Village causes a chain reaction of events that leads to Origin’s activation and indirectly saves both worlds.

[@MrTTnTT]

More specifically, how Riki's and Oka's horniness did, since it led to what? 14 children or something? It was feeding them that got him in so much debt, at least the second time.

[@ArinJager1]

well, the games are heavy on destiny/fate... and everything happens exactly as it does (only then it works)... there are variables like exclusive side quests with different outcomes, and heart to heart/dialogue options, but that hardly has any effect on the overal story >:D

[@ArinJager1]

@@MrTTnTT to be fair, some of these children are adopted

[@MrTTnTT]

@@ArinJager1 Yeah, but I didn't know at the time, and most probably wouldn't be, considering the family's economic situation.

[@Sherkel]

What does Riki do that's indispensible to XB1's story?

[@RaeSig]

damn I can blame Amalthus for all the common blades I got trying to get KOS-MOS? I hate him even more now!

[@DylanBandicoot]

Shower thought I had a couple of weeks ago: What if in Xenoblade 3, the villain of the game was not the Z we know of but instead it was consul Z: Zanza and consul A: Amalthus. The memories people had of Zanza and Amalthus stored in Origin could have made Origin choose Zanza and Amalthus as the leaders of Mobius. Now wouldn't that have made for a cool final battle and more interesting villains.

[@Axecon1]

I thought Z would be Zanza reborn before seeing him officially. I was mildly disappointed.

[@jstar3382]

wait if amalthus never fought them they never would even have progressed far enough to find a way to survive the merging of the worlds.

[@djpiercy1235]

Well, we know that they must have created their own new core crystals for origin, because how else could the xenoblade 1 side have gotten them? That being said, Amalthus might still have helped, by giving them more blank crystals to study and reverse-engineer.

[@ArinJager1]

it seems like the same or very similar technology, or an evolution thereof... the Xenoblade 2 core crystals are semi-truncated (4/6) octahedrons, the ones in origin are cubes (cubes and octahedrons are "dual" with each other, btw - whatever that's supposed to me, if anything, you can never know with these games)

[@alexstewart9592]

​@@ArinJager1 I can explain how they are "dual" with each other. A cube has six faces and eight corners, while a regular octahedron has six CORNERS and eight FACES, and if you line up the corners of one with the centres of the faces of the other you also line up the inverse (I.E. the centres of the faces of the first one are also lined up with the corners of the second). There are two other 3D shapes I know off the top of my head that have this property - the 12 and 20 sided regular polyhedrons form a pair, and the 4-sided regular polyhedron is dual with itself. Interestingly, these are the ALSO the only regular polyhedrons that can simultaneously have all faces be the same shape and all angles between adjacent sides be equal, which makes them the only shapes that produce fair dice without the use of internal weights.

[@ArinJager1]

@@alexstewart9592 I knew what all that (platonic solids, the duality) is, but thanks anyway (cube and octahedron are dual, dodecahedron and icosahedron are dual, and tetrahedron is self-dual... I actually use these shapes as elements in my own game I'm making, lol - xenoblade is a huge influence on it, too... By elements I mean fire, ice, electric, water, ice, and wind - like in xenoblade 2... or how these shapes are associated with said elements, or at least with fire, water, earth and air... and aether, no ice, but since tetrah. is fire and self dual, ice is also tetrah. - funny, right?)... by "whatever that means" I meant as in the context of the games (the core crystals in 2 being octah.s and the ones inside of origin in 3 are cubes) ^^ no harm done, but you misunderstood my original comment (or I explained it poorly - or both)... cheers, mate also sorry for replying 2 months later, but I randomly came back to this vid today (after the Future Redeemed DLC for Xenoblade 3 is already out)

[@KARLOSPCgame]

Remember that coffee with milk touched Jins flesh eater core, and they maybe, just maybe they got uploaded to Origin (or even the entirety of Xenoblade 2 Blades+Humans since the blades record their humans data and upload them)

[@ZX-Gear]

IPOS:In a way,is Amalthaus not justified in his actions?

[@goggles8691]

It's a Christmas miracle!

[@ArinJager1]

it's a Pi$$mass miracle*

[@ArinJager1]

so, the "common blades" are "protoforms" of sort... (I like their designs, and I think they're pretty cool)

[@ArinJager1]

what if: Amalthus awoken Pneuma/Pyra/Mythra instead of Logos/Malos? Would she be evil... and Rex would then awoken Logos/Malos, instead (and he'd be a good boy)... it wouldn't be a love story, but a bromance, lol [no, actually, Addam would awoken Malos, first, if Amalthus awoken Mythra instead]

[@DrewTNaylor]

Suffering from Success

[@magicfish8213]

I hate amalthus even more for delaying me getting Kos mos

[@conorb.1901]

It's really not as hard to get KOS-MOS as people make it out to be. Just like every other game in the franchise, if you know what you're doing it's pretty easy. Don't use common cores, they're garbage. Always use at least one justice booster because the game will then consider justice as your highest idea level and make it more likely to pull dark and light blades. If you need core crystals, smash farm Vampire Bride Marion in Uraya (requires the quest "The Titan Scholar to be completed) because it drops gold chips which increase drop rates, then smash farm one of the superbosses or Relentless Arduran (I use Arduran) with your newly acquired gold chips and as many treasure sensor blades as you can equip. You can easily go through hundreds on hundreds of cores within a matter of hours.

[@magicfish8213]

@@conorb.1901 Two things I have bad luck I suck at the game and hate grinding

[@sibro4747]

@@conorb.1901 bro i have 1450 hours in Xenoblade chronicles 2, and I still haven't got KOS-MOS.

[@conorb.1901]

@@magicfish8213 you can actually have the ai do all the grinding for you, and it's preferable that way since you'll need to be picking up the drops anyway. Just put Tora with Poppi QT pi and Rex with the Aegis and Roc on the party and play as someone else. With that method KOS-MOS goes from a 1 in 1000 to somewhere in the ballpark of 1 in 300ish. Rather dramatic increase. You can get ~200 cores with relatively little effort. Like I said before, the gacha system doesn't have inhumane odds, and obtaining all the rare blades isn't even that bad. It certainly beats XC3's soul crushing gem grind.

[@magicfish8213]

@@conorb.1901 good method but one big problem I have stupid

[@miimiiandco]

Amalthus must be desperate to get a 5 star common with max Orb Master.

[@RedTheWeeb]

Dont core crystals already track all living being information already? I assume most humans in alrest would be in that system

[@grantcantgame]

Aegis cores have the info of every living being, not regular cores.

[@ArinJager1]

@@grantcantgame aegis cores have the info of every living being FROM regular cores (that they come in contact with, I might add - what's not recorded is lost, pretty much)

[@JustJulyo]

Luxin dropping this kinds of knowledge before the end of 2022 is the most Luxin thing he can do

[@ArinJager1]

Luxin is a nopon sage - confirmed

[@Paradox1012]

They use the same model as the omega fetter.

[@ArinJager1]

_omega feta cheese_

[@chaos4654]

Now presumably, all technology Klaus used even as the Architect, was all technology from before he blew up the old world. Meaning Core Crystals, are replicable technology that possibly did not require the Conduit in their construction- or if they did, it's likely Ether, which is the main powersource in Blades, was what jumpstarted the ability to create Cores. Maybe Klaus blowing things up spread or awakened Ether throughout each universe, which seems to effectively self perpetuate. There might even have been some machinery or datalogs remaining that could tell the people of Alrest (and of Bionis) how to create Core Crystals or how to come real close to doing so. Assuming someone such as Tora didnt just manage to recreate them from scratch or reverse engineer them from an existing Blade Core as a base.

[@ArinJager1]

I think it's a hologram (and I don't mean like doctor from star trek voyager hologram, but the thing you can put a lot of data into, because it's got layers and stuff - the original meaning of the word hologram) fractal quantum computer A.I. technobabble bull$h*t (lol)... it's like the age of enlightenment when the Traveler was discovered on Mars in Destiny games (and then it all gone to $h*t not long after - sounds familiar?)... They had advanced technology and science and space travel and $h*t... and so do the people in the futuristic Earth where they found the conduit (most all of that tech comes from it... the trinity processor cores are like emulator Zohars - like in Xenosaga games... the conduit is basically like the zohar in those games... or in xenogears, that game has a zohar, too)... The Trinity Processor is a quantum biocomputer... and then it had the A.I.s (raised in a virtual reality to develop personalities and stuff)... and then these A.I.s were making their own technology without humans (artifices like Siren - these don't have an onboard power source, but they get their power from guess what: the "not-zohar" aka conduit - the trinity redistributes the energy, and the energy is endless - a perpetual machine)... Funny is, that the core crystals were originally meant to replace brain cells - neurons... and that there's DNA inside of core crystals (as shown in Torna tgc - the creepo priest dude shows it to somebody, don't remember to whom)... and that the Architect tells the heroes that BLADES ARE HUMAN TOO... it's pretty crazy... The ether is something that doesn't really exist in the regular world, but maybe it's something that the conduit brings with it (but then the conduit f*cks off, but ether remains, so, probably not)... it's certainly something "alien" for sure (maybe even, no, not even, but for sure, extradimensional, from a higher plain of existence - Galea calls it "meta-universe manifold"... and it's described as "magnetic abnormal matter" - it could as well be made out of or be the Ether itself)... I know, TL:DR >.> sorry (but not sorry, though) also: Z is like a 4th A.I. (either just an OS of the origin that caught a computer virust/got corrupted, or he spontaneously emerged from the background noise extrapolated as a pattern or whatever)... as the Origin mirrors certain thematical aspects from before (too long to list here)

[@johanstenfelt1206]

Huh, well, that’s a funny thought.

[@TainoMoya]

Now with this thumbnail amalthus has about 45 fanarts 👁️👄👁️

[@sirspaffer]

Not related to the vid but this has been ringing in my head for a bit. In xenoblade 2's challenge DLC when first meeting Elma didn't Rex and the gang appear as fog like creatures? The same as Noah's group did to the colony leaders in 3? I haven't played X so I'm not sure if it's somthing to do with that game instead but it's just somthing I've been thinking about.

[@33link333]

They just looked like one of the alien factions from X, not the amorphous fog creatues Ethel saw. I would also bet my entire fortune that challange mode isn't in any way canon. Edit: They looked like "Prone" in case you wanted to look them up.

[@ArinJager1]

@@33link333 yep, prone

[@skylandersfan6954]

Im pretty sure the Core Crystals can stack multiple people as evidenced by Xenoblade 2's ending

[@ArinJager1]

not true, not exactly, anyway... aegises/trinity processor cores work differently (they're basically like "zohar emulators", only 3 this time, instead of 12)

[@hiodom8971]

shortest luxin vid known to man

[@zacharyczarnecki2597]

TASK FAILED SUCCESSFULLY

[@rhettmitchell]

Luxin you never cease to amaze

[@tsyumamatsuthehavenofguard32]

...WHERE WAS THIS IN ORIGIN? I Don't remember this many core crystals before Z

[@BladeMasterIcarus]

It was the elevator ride down before you fight z

[@lemmyxpro]

Lmao, this is actually crazy to think about!

[@TainoMoya]

Amalthus the true hero

[@dennisgartner6592]

Wouldnt Rex and company not clearly recognize Shulk as Zanza from the other world? I mean, sure, the Architect was way older looking, but Shulk also ages getting a view wrinckles and the voice is the same. Couldnt this have ended in battle, the heroes from Alrest clearly know the Zanza of Bionis as evil... Im sure at least Rex would have clashed with Shulk. Monolith, give us input on that.

[@krimsonkatt]

Nope. Very few people knew of the other world's existance or Origin and even then it's very likely no one from Alrest ever knew about Zanza being a thing. Plus they likely wouldn't recognize Shulk as the Architect and it's likely anyways that Shulk never met the others in canon. (XB2 Land of Challenge and Smash Bros are non-canon) The only people who even knew of the other world were Melia, Shulk, Nia, Rex, Pyra, Mythra, and Tora. Zanza was likely never brought up in Nia and Amelia's conversations who were the only ones who ever talked.

[@dennisgartner6592]

@@krimsonkatt well, maybe I just wish for cool stuff to happen in vol.4 DLC.🤔 I'm one of those guys not pleased with the plot of XC3. At least, why didnt Noah go full Shulk on Z Moebius? 😭 Instead he got destroyed with 🌈 LOVE 🌈. To be honest, my memory of XC2 is perhaps a bit blurry...

[@krimsonkatt]

@@dennisgartner6592 No Artifice Aeon/Malos also got an awesome finishing attack from Rex in XB2 just like Shulk did for Zanza in XB1. Zed in XB3 just got nothing nearly as cool. I have a strong feeling that base Xenoblade 3 is only the first half of the story, and the "story expansion DLC" will be a lot bigger than we could ever expect, like a whole second 50+ hour campaign... It can't just end with as disappointing a finale as Zed was compared to the last two games. Even X was better with it's insane ending cutscene even if the final boss sucked. "There's something about this planet" indeed. Zed in XB3 seems a lot more of a "part 1 final boss" like Id in Xenogears or Proto Merkabah in Xenosaga, not the real final boss of the whole trilogy. Hopefully I'm not proven wrong...

[@dennisgartner6592]

@@krimsonkatt total agree with you on that. For sure, also Malos got his arse handed by Rex. I only bring up Shulk directly just because he was the first impression like that in the XC series, also for me there has gone so much epicness along with the final clash with Zanza that it set a new pinnicle of final battles for me personally. Yeah, monolith really have to deliver in DLC, it may decide if the franchise has a future. Its not like the story in itself sucks, but its the same like with XCX, you want like the wholeness of that universe, it didnt give you anything other than some sci-fi gundam szenario. XC2 managed to do so, so satisfying battling Malos and out of nowhere he uses Monado-Art. Meeting the architect and you already had a feeling there is more to him. And, bamm! Zanza is the architect. Finally, Rex' final move on Aeon Malos, also epic, but then, the cutscene where Zanza heard Shulk and we then knew this happens parallel. Therefore XC2 even did enhance XC1, cause if you played 2, now when you play 1 they are tied together. Just awesome storytelling! So, how does that fit XC3? Sure, you have your eastereggs, the Bionis/Mechonis rune in Keves castle (* cough...Alcamoth...cough *), also the ring at the base of Lucky 7 and, of course, Waifu-Fanservice with Melia and Nia. But tell you what: This is simply not good enough! Leaving it like this would simply be a disgrace to the legacy of the first entries. I think thats why XCX is not well received by the fanbase and Monolith really should have learned from that. I'm totally fine with them conclude that in DLC next year. They go like Big Boss "Kept you waiting, huh?", I go like " Oh, you bloody bastards!🤣"

[@ArinJager1]

@@dennisgartner6592 well, you were wrong, Rex and Shulk are best buds (that's not to say they didn't cross swords the first time they met, but the DLC doesn't really mention anything about it... it doesn't even explain how TF Rex and Shulk are even there)

[@ivythay4259]

This video came sooner than expected.

[@RealBrain]

I jumped when I saw the length