Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (Xeno Retrospective)

[@PeterGargan]

XC2 is up there with the original Xenoblade as one of my favourite games of all time. It is by far my favourite Switch-original first-party Nintendo title on the system and I don't think it has been topped by anything else on the Switch since it came out.

[@fikaieldjou]

it would be me if I liked the taste of shit

[@izzy1356]

Honestly I thought Pyra's accent was a pretty clever choice. All of the blades have an american accent, and with how much the game hammers in the difference between blades and drivers as beings, I always thought that accent was to add into that narrative. Granted Pyra probably sticks out because she's the most mellow blade of the party and the heroine. 😅

[@xenosanctum2531]

I will admit a cynical part of me just hates how some Americans will dump all over the British voice actors in this and XB1 for there funny voices then praise the US actors in this game and XBX. So I will admit a bit of my criticism comes as a rebuttal to those people.

[@wurzelbert84wucher5]

Xenoblade 2 has such a beautiful atmosphere, I love walking through the various cities and landscapes, just listening to the fantastic music and collect some stuff :D

[@badlatency9979]

Actually, minor correction for you. Torna uses a new engine as well. They used Torna as a testbed for developing future games in it. It's not a major leap, but it does have improved lighting and rendering over the engine they used in X and 2.

[@AndrewRayGorman]

Did they use the new one for the remastered x1?

[@badlatency9979]

@@AndrewRayGorman they ported everything over to it yeah. You can see that the most in FC of course. Until you adjust to it, there is an immediate visual difference between base DE and FC. At least for me.

[@xenosanctum2531]

Its a modified engine based of the one used for 2 so I wasn't entirely incorrect.

[@TayeTalks]

I really enjoyed this video, really well done. This game pretty much got me into JRPG, interesting enough when project rainfall was announced it was the last story I was really looking for.. but my days, Xenoblade blew eveything put of the water.

[@BOTG_Adventures]

X is brilliant!

[@nintendold]

fuck, I just realized I was Linly's age when I first played Xenoblade X and Rex's age when I first played Xenoblade 2, so in my head they're both still my age today. I keep getting shocked to see Lin is still a child when I'm now 17...

[@jonglejuice]

ayyy shoutout to a fellow trombone player! great vid.

[@wesmeyer1888]

The best instrument

[@xenosanctum2531]

Well I guess I should be first to say, Pyra in Smash Bros!

[@xenosanctum2531]

Again Sorry this video took so long. I think I might of warn myself out by playing too many Xeno games one after another. Not too worry only 2 more to go and they are both really short.

[@HowdyFolksGaming]

Where have you been all my life?? So glad I just found your channel!

[@xenosanctum2531]

I've been in Adelaide, South Australian since 2006 ;)

[@GigasGalvantula]

i think PYra having a american accent fits perfectly seeing that most blades have american accents

[@GigasGalvantula]

i'd heavily disagree with the gacha system being bad for the reason that it gives the series a insane amount of replay value

[@Player-jh4ko]

Ehh I don't. Although I am sooo in for good replay value, a gacha system is the last thing you should implement lol.

[@bishopcruz]

In order to replay you need to get through the game once. Somethibg I could not be bothered to do

[@fikaieldjou]

replay value of playing the same gameplay for every blade over and over and over agian, shit the base game gets stale pretty quick already LMAO

[@vivid8979]

Funny thing is most of the Powerful blades are just given to you for free if you bought the expansion pack anyways. Heck the most powerful blade is even a story blade (Kind-of) so if you just don't want to collect all the blades because the Gacha mechanic you can do so.. (Which is for me a bit forgiving in itself). And as a player who played a bit of mobile Gacha games.. The Gacha in this game was very well implemented tbh. Technially rolling for blades is free (You just need to farm the legendary of course) but of course you need to grind for it, which is the point of the endgame.. I kinda appreciate that Monolith is trying things to spice up the endgame.. Since there ate alot to do in this game compared to the other 2 Xenoblade games.. Tho I kinda agree there's a better implementation to implement endgame aside from the Gacha Mechanic it's just a design choice since Monolith is rushing it's release for holiday 2017..

[@xenosanctum2531]

The problem with Gacha Mechanics is the fact that you are rqured to taken on a bunch of garbage generic blades for the one rare blade. Then you need to go though and release all you worthless blades which feels pointless. Personally I think the whole mechanic should of been replaced with just named core crystals which all have predetermined blades in them like Crosett and Corvin.

[@xenosanctum2531]

@Hkg 1 Yes but I and most other players do not want some generic grey guy in our team even if he is really good.

[@fieldkaiju]

@Marxrit but no one want to play with them because they look like shit, everyone want the rare blade and like 2% of the players care about their common blade.

[@RudiMyDear]

All I can really say about this video is... Yep. Edit: Actually; I have one disagreement, but I think it’s one that makes sense for you not to understand- the gacha in this game is a MASSIVE upgrade to XcX’s postgame farming mechanics, where killing the same enemy 10k to 20k Times isn’t an exaggeration for getting 1 piece of the best gear in game.

[@xenosanctum2531]

Improvement or not its still annoying. And I wish it wasn't in the game.

[@rghennig1]

@@xenosanctum2531 Just go and farm Crabs At Mor Ardain #2 Dock You do this by salvaging Use cylinders And kill crabs Monster's And they drop rare coral crystals Real quick Type How to get Rare core crystals quickly And once do you get 99 Core crystals And get 999 luck Then Spam them Like crazy This is how I got kos-mos To basically do this repeatedly And Spam them until you get the blade you want Edit this is really easy to do I Suggest You do this

[@xenosanctum2531]

@@rghennig1 So in other words play the game to almost completion then get all the blades that you wanted to play with during the game? Whats the point of getting KOS-MOS if you can only use her on the final boss?

[@rickweiss2793]

Xenotactics anyone?

[@somerandomguy4281]

Me!!

[@wesmeyer1888]

Xenoblade Warriors first

[@rickweiss2793]

@@wesmeyer1888 yes! From ALL FRANCHISES!

[@LilianTheNinkasi]

I remember when I saw the reveal trailer for that game. XC1 is one of my favourite games of all time and I was so hyped. And then Rex appeared. Then Pyrrha. Then the entire boatload of all the cringiest anime tropes from the 2010s. It was such a letdown. It's one of the biggest disappointments I've ever had in video games along with Final Fantasy XV. Xenoblade Chronicles was akin to those mecha anime shows from the 90s, with the adult looking characters, the deep stories, the politics, the philosophy. And the occassional annoying mascot characters. Which were a flaw but not that present in the big picture. XC2 is like those 2010s isekai were a childlike main character gets a harem of big boobed girls (which he does, the ending of that game is literally him getting together with Pyrrha and Mytthra). This game is everything anime shouldn't be. The serious bits are always undermined by the cringe moments and the dirty jokes (but kept PG13, so you get nor the dirty side nor the visual part of it). It ended up flooding the XC1 Definitive Edition with the additionnal content being full of annoying Nopons and no one of the main cast besides Shulk and Melia. Truly one of the worst additions to the franchise and to JRPGs as a whole, I'm so sad this sold well because now the series will likely go in that direction to rack in money and please the people who can't just play games and watch hentai at different times.

[@bishopcruz]

This. Whenever U hear how great this game is... I feel like I am taking crazy pills. Outside of graphics and music... thisbgame is worse than itsnpredecessors in every way

[@fieldkaiju]

@@bishopcruz yes it is, but the people that got into xenoblade thanks to 2 will never admit it

[@yeaboy707]

X2 is amazing. Maybe the “big boob hentai girl” thing doesn’t bother me as much, but I found the story, characters, and world to be much more interesting in X2, not to mention a much better battle system. If anything the worse part of X2 is the gotcha blade system, otherwise I personally find X2 to be superior to the first game.

[@fikaieldjou]

@@yeaboy707 no they're all bad