Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Story Explained (1/2)

The first of two parts going through a comprehensive guide of Xenoblade chronicles 3's lore.
#xenoblade3 #xenoblade #lore #plot #ending #MakaJohnson

[@Cookie_Luggi]

Thank you so much. I had a pretty messed up sleep schedule when i played the game, resulting in me zoning out during some cutscenes. For example i didnt realize how n and m became 2 seperate people. Or how the lost numbers existed. Ive been looking through websites to find anything. And yesterday i decided to rewatch the cutscenes, to get a better understanding. I got around chapter 4 when i discovered this video. Cant wait for part 2.

[@fazlo8026]

I had a effed sleep too and zoned out most cutscene I don’t feel so alone now lol

[@rhettmitchell]

lol I feel you

[@jordangonzalez4658]

Same. I do love the game but is it a coincidence? When rewatching cutscenes etc I feel bad now cuz I’m like this game is amazing but with work and my kid it was hard to enjoy the cutscenes like I wanted to.

[@Kheine89]

You deserve so much more subs! I beat the game after 209 hours (with alot of breaks with other games) ended up overleveling and beating the game pretty easily even on hard. My focus on the gameplay made me a bit lost on the story side, and also being overwhelmed. I missed so many details that I almost thought the story was a bit bad. But after you cleared things up in this video for me, I now know Xenoblade Chronicles is a goddamn masterpiece. Thank you.

[@Katerflori]

Man this was an incredible good watch from start to finish. Well done on that! you did an amazing job getting it all together and for that I am very thankful!

[@ze_darku_magician5504]

Amazing video and also explained in an easily understandable way. I've been following the few lore videos about this game so I knew some bits here and there but this is the first time I've seen everything so well explained in a single video. I wish some of these things were explained a little bit clearer in the actual game since not knowing all of that certainly detracts from the experiance overall. Excellent work. Earned a sub.

[@Maka_J]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@matyvalien]

Thank you so much, i played all the games , but this clean explanation was needed and refreshed my meory on some parts too, great video.

[@Shyuura]

Best recap and explanation video! Thank you very much for this much needed clarifications. and I really like your narration style too, so keep it up 👍

[@Kira_Yoshikage959]

Ah yes. Cosmic+existential horror: JRPG edition

[@EvilMike349]

You definitely cleared some things up for me! I think I may have missed a few details in my early morning play sessions after work 😅 Great video, my dude!

[@gusman2106]

Amazing job. Great video, explaining many things left unexplained in the game. Let's hope that they will cover most of them in the upcoming DLC.

[@superjuggalo99]

Fantastic break down. Following with hopes of continued xeno content 🤞

[@adamord8305]

Awesome video. You have a great voice for this type of thing and I hope to see you do more lore/story explanation type videos.

[@NoponSage]

24:50 This scene is the biggest mystery for me. Z steering Origin into the center of Aionios is an interpretation I haven't seen before, and could very well be the case. I was stuck on thinking the crash was involuntary on his part since it flung the origin fragments around Aionios that ended up being part of Z's undoing. I do have to wonder why Z didn't just generate Aionios around Origin though.

[@Maka_J]

Yeah I think either theory works, and that’s a good point

[@ben_sisko2149]

What a wonderful summary. It really does help to make sense of it all, unlike most other explanations.

[@TheSLX]

Amazing video. I learned a few things, thanks!

[@potentialada]

Thank you for this great summary! Just finished the game and felt like I didn't quite understand what was happening, and this really clarified things.

[@LoneOrca]

One of the most interesting stories I've encountered in video games -- thanks for this synopsis.

[@AchilleAngrisaniArmenio]

great video... looking forward to seeing the other video about XC3

[@JayKang11]

This is one of the best explanation of the xeno storyline, thank you

[@xDrako35x]

Thank you!! Just beat it and this is what I needed! So awesome and simply explained 🤓

[@brianlam5492]

Excited to see you try to fit the future redeemed timeline into the main timeline

[@daddysmurf2266]

who ever came up with the plot for xenoblade chronicles 1+2+3 is eather an absolute geniues or the most wicked evil person on earth esp the 3rt part is mind blowing

[@stevewagner6861]

Bro.... if you only knew, Tetsuya Takahashi, he has quite the ambition when it comes to story telling. Look up his ideas for the entire xeno series.

[@phoenix9531]

Obligatory Xenogears comment

[@IanJulian02]

I GOT SO INVESTED 😭 and now I have to wait for part 2. Great video

[@jasondetilly5647]

Amazing video! Great job!

[@tji7046]

Well done with this video👌🏾

[@mo_musashi_284]

Amazing job! 👏 I appreciate the way you explained the story from the beginnings. It gives you a full grasp & understanding of this amazing game. I recently completed it and now I appreciate the story even more! Also when I first saw the statues of the founders I was thinking yeah , there definitely gonna make a DLC out of this . Anyways I’m curious what happened to Noah’s son tho ‘ , cuz I just started Future Redeemed.

[@zoehrwashington7508]

Fantastic work

[@tji7046]

I know right, well made video

[@sakura368]

i like whenever rex asks if they're ultra powerful

[@charlesshaw2464]

Love it thanks bro

[@tinachen9728]

I am guessing the fourth one in the series is going to be trying to teleport between dimensions and group all the different races into one area to be safe from both worlds colliding together.

[@shattia]

Great content thanks 🙏

[@glacierfox5237]

this partly needs an update give Future Redemed and that Rex, Shulk, and Alvis knows what is up. Man the Future Redemed Cast is just a great all star one given Rex is partying up with his Daughter and his Great Great Grandson.

[@edgarlopez1195]

Such a wonderful video explaining specially the first part of the lore of this game

[@Midna78]

Good video. I rarely watch such long videos until the end without skipping parts... but this one I watched till the end. The only thing that hurts is when you spell "Keves" wrong

[@Maka_J]

Spell? If you’re talking about the subtitles those are auto-generated

[@Fatalinvesting]

Bro Monolith Studios are just amazing.

[@VatchGaming]

So Z is like an AI gone rogue created by Origin through feelings.

[@linkalot7415]

nice vid, but how does future connected fit into this?

[@astraySparrow]

and they say Persona lore is complicated... great video! :3

[@xoGenesisox]

This is a good attempt of telling the story of Xenoblade Chronicles 3, but unfortunately it is incorrect. The City and all of its inhabitants come from N and M. The 7 founders mentioned in this video were not linked to Nia, they were the founders of the second city.. after N destroyed the first one.. which he did to live forever in the "now".. this was the choice Z gave him if he wanted to stay with Mio forever.. The sword of origin was not built, it is a weapon only Noah can draw once he has overcome his own dispair (moebius). It is a weapon of the embodiment of hope. The sword of origin can only be drawn in interlinked form. Thus impossible to build, as it is drawn directly out of ourborous chest. The story of Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is the story of Noah. He is the only one who can right Origin. He is like Shulk in XC1 he alone can decide Aionis fate.

[@MariMari-mz8mp]

So good!

[@LoadingGears]

This video helps make a lot of things more understandble but...i have to wonder....how much is actually part of the lore...and how much is just theories spoken as actual canon

[@raphaelalavi9385]

Homecoming used to just be an execution as seen from ashera’s quest

[@AstonishingRed]

Not sure why, but XC3 “clicked” with me in a way that the previous two games simply could not. I never even finished XC2. I really can’t put my finger on what the devs did differently to make the game so fun to play. Maybe it feels more “accessible”. Maybe it’s the characters. Not quite sure. But all I know is I truly enjoyed XC3 from beginning to end.

[@gagongflip389]

Lol! The conduit was the Frickin Zohar. After Xenoblade is Xenosaga in my opinion if ot ever was connected.

[@DoraKage]

the conduit... is this the Zohar from the other Xeno games?

[@ryukthegodofdeath5906]

The bext part about the first 2 games is you can play them in any order xenoblade 3 is the true sequel new players should wait to play the others for

[@erick0116]

Im having a hard time finding the song that starts at 37:51 so can anyone name it or link it?

[@redrobin4903]

thanks

[@teenprez]

What I don’t understand is how Noah and Mio continued to enter the cycle of rebirth after being liberated from their flame clocks. Are the two things not directly related?

[@Maka_J]

Nope, being released from the flame clock just means you don’t need to harvest life to keep living, you’ll still return to the cycle of rebirth after you die

[@teenprez]

@@Maka_J Thanks so much for clearing that up! I’m interested to replay the game now that I have a better understanding what’s going on. I think they were very subtle with a lot of the exposition.

[@brandonlalone2104]

How do you still pronounce keves wrong

[@ByronCastroBCSC]

Is this man saying worlds or walls?

[@shanenspitaler5790]

So from my understanding of the story. If Rex and shulk are in ionios that should also mean there's a version of them still alive in there respective universes. Meaning when time resumes and ionios is erased from ever existing shulk and Rex should be alive Because whilst aionios is thousands of years old and shulk and Rex died there (probable a few times) there respective universes are frozen in time so by the end of the game when everything is reset shulk and Rex should be alive on there planets because the ones on aionios are simply just a copy made by origin. God this is a very confusing game which is why in my opinion the first game is still superior but this is a close second. Edit: actually no shulk and Rex died of old age at like 80 or something explained by there statues so they would have been brought back and that's why we don't see them in this.

[@termina2737]

Why only six ouroboros? And then how was Nia able to make so many stones? Is it that you can have as many stones as you want, but only six people can be activated from them at any given moment?

[@migu6528]

Yes the game established that only 6 ouroboros can exist at a time and thats why the candidates act harsh towards the group when they show up in the city. I don't know if a reason is given but I do remember that the stone was found after a long time( the one from chapter 1)

[@Twilink36]

Nia mentioned her power was limited. Maybe that’s one of the limitations.

[@LoadingGears]

Where in the game did they say that the emotions that created Z were the emotions inside origin?

[@Maka_J]

Well we know that Moebius was created from the emotions of uncertainty and fear within us all, as Noah explains in the final battle, and 'us all' refers to all the people in aionios, and all the people in aionios were stored in origin.

[@edgarlopez1195]

Melia and N gave that hint when Our grown up Waifu said “there might be something of moebious inside you” when talking to the gang and N said before disappearing that he was made of “grudge” and other emotions whereas Noah was mode of hope and stuff. Melia also said that Z is a person and the same time he isn’t and finally, When entering origin Mío sensed moebious al around Origin and in the final Battle they said something along the lines that Z and the moebious are just emotions and stuff. So when you get all those things together you get the wonderful explanation you heard here

[@JeffHawthorne]

Never going to play the game. But love the summary. Killed me that it’s a two parter ! Looking forward to the next one!

[@phoenix9531]

Oh thats interesting, did you play the first 2 games? Or is this video basically a big movie for you?

[@packlesswolf1]

Where's Rex and pyra? I seen the photo at the end but I refuse to believe they just " Grew old and died"

[@Maka_J]

There’s a good chance they were apart of the founders, but I’ll probably have a video dedicated to going into it in depth

[@ValorDucky]

I came here looking for an explanation why there is even a 2nd Noah when N was around... Explanation here didn't make much sense either. It's just that N split in 2 at the crossroads... Somehow. Just seems like random universe rule that came out of nowhere, but convenient to the plot.

[@abdelgafoorelboraie3640]

That's a star wars

[@ChimaAnya]

damn so the story was actually pretty good, shame it was presented in such a laborious way. I traded Xenoblade chronicles 3 in cause it took too long to establish a meaningful reason for me to keep playing and the combat was so repetitive (break, topple, daze, repeat). Made it through 1 and 2 (and X also) however. Thanks for this break down

[@koko6504]

Damn this game had me confused

[@kelden952]

What’s good man would you mind sending me #2,3 for the quizz thanks love you 😘

[@Maka_J]

No problem my lovely, right away 🥰

[@xoGenesisox]

Looks like this lore video is going to be outdated the moment Wave 4 comes out... As it doesn't include anything related to Alvis; which seems to have played a predominant roles in the beginnings of Aionis..

[@Maka_J]

Yeahhhh probably, I might make an updated video lore video once all the dlc comes out to fix whatever has been outdated though

[@badchowchow]

I won’t lie I dozed off lol still interesting though.

[@kyurei4478]

The thing that still doesn't make much sense is the homecoming. I get that it was a pretty smart way to motivate soldiers to fight and to give life force to the moebius. But as said, people who reach the homecoming are freed from the cycle of rebirth so it's not for Z's benefit in the long run. That means Z's plan couldn't go on forever this way. People manage to reach their homecoming eventually. The annihilation events are another proof that Z's plan was destined to fail over time because even Origin couldn't prevent them entirely.

[@Maka_J]

Yeah that didn’t make much sense to me either, but perhaps the dlc will expand on its purpose a bit

[@kyurei4478]

Yes I hope so ^^. Because for me the only major thing that I find underwhelming in this Xenoblade compared to the others is the lack of explanation for major things. That being said, that surely doesn't ruin the whole experience of the game for me. But I think having many answers in the DLC, maybe as a prequel, would make the initial game even better, much like Torna did for Xenoblade 2.

[@OvranoPhanekh]

It's possible that Z allowed the homecoming not just for motivation for the flame clock people but also to remove humans who reject the endless now by accepting their deaths. Since he is the personification of the mass human consciousness stored in Origin, souls in Origin that do not want the endless now would not be to Z's benefit. Homecomings were very rare too anyways

[@kyurei4478]

I see. So for people like Noah or Joran for exemple or people who completely refuse to fight no matter what. But that also means the homecoming would certainly have to cease to exist at some point when all the people who would reject the endless now would have died. The thing is, it's said in the game that the homecoming was a form of reward for the brave soldiers who survived this long to reach their homecoming. So it was for all the survivors, even those who accept it. Lanz particularly accepted it and wanted to fight to get his homecoming at the beginning for exemple. It really looks like a way to thank them for giving so much life force. But again, it makes no sense for Z to do that. And we didn't see what happens to someone who completely refuses to fight. But maybe it was just a way to maintain the illusion after all. Because killing someone right before they reach the end of their life would make Z lose the trust of the soldiers who would refuse to continue the fight. And even doing the ceremony and killing them in a secret place would look suspicious at some point I guess. So he really had no other choice maybe ?

[@jafar257]

Actually if you did Ashera's 2nd Hero Quest, she explained that at the beginning there was no "homecoming", consul literally just execute anyone that was close to end of their term.

[@SkelvinKnight]

Who is Ontos?

[@DnVFMVs]

Alvis I think

[@GuyApollo]

Still no fan fiction

[@brachialplexus100]

I think I love you

[@angeldude101]

Probably the main question I have is... What did M have to regret? She didn't _do anything!_ She never _chose_ to become Moebius; never _chose_ the Endless Now. Those were fates thrust upon her by N and Z with no option to refuse. The most I can think of M regretting is not stopping N, and it seems like she wasn't born yet until _after_ he burnt down the City.

[@Maka_J]

I guess she felt guilty by association, the one who she gave her heart to sacrificed others for her, so I’d say that’s plenty to feel guilty about

[@yourtrubers1728]

Yeah...a lot of this isnt canon...

[@kingrebastian3954]

Noah was a simp

[@Maka_J]

Suddenly the whole story seems a lot more shallow

[@DnVFMVs]

Rex the gigachad

[@SanyaBane]

Nintendo plot twists is on the level of 8 years old child 😂

[@Maka_J]

I don’t think there’s a single Xenoblade game without one of your past companions betraying you

[@atwoseconds]

I have no idea what this game is about, thank you for this 🫡

[@Maka_J]

My pleasure good sir