Xenoblade X: Definitive Edition - An Exorbitant Analysis

[@Luxin_Xeno]

Day 1 patch notes: -I did forget that the Enemy Index does list the items each enemy drops, but a proper item index to let you search for them from the reverse direction would still be really helpful. -I mentioned 1DE's autosave feature, and given how 3 included one as well I'd be very surprised if this game did not also add one to X. -If they include tombstones (they should), there should be an option in the Enemy Index listing for Tyrants you've already defeated to skip travel directly to their tomb. -Since you now need NSO to participate in the online features, there should be some way to get tickets offline for players who don't have it beyond the free trial. This could be some form of soloing the existing online missions, or a new grinding method that's less efficient than multiplayer. -Speaking of online, I'd love it if they did something similar to the Switch Splatoon games and added a pseudo-Miiverse feature limited just to this game. -The Wii U version legitimately has USB keyboard support. I don't know if the Switch as a whole even supports that, but it would be neat for there to be a proper text chat room for people on your friend list. -Tatsu's dad should be revealed to be Riku in the new story.

[@number-kg3ul]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@MonadoBoyFlameRock]

the game itself has behemoth amount of content compared to the other entries they're gonna need to put in double or even triple the work to make the QOL changes feel like a whole new experience with tons of added features/changes

[@Queentism-cv3vi]

The splatoon idea sounds amazing

[@wolfnews1788]

The switch does have keyboard support, I remember using it when I played MHGU

[@Nelsito99]

Something fun I noticed is that the DEs have sequal content while the DLCs have prequel content

[@EnelXC]

I don't think this is long enough

[@SogonD.Zunatsu]

That's what she said, sadly.

[@sporbodi]

the goat

[@10k-Noodles]

We need moar! This video was two hours too short.

[@lemmyxpro]

Don't worry, Enel, he'll make another one soon... 😂😂

[@danieltinsleykhvsff9622]

Your right it should be 7 hours long lol. 😂 . Nice meeting you here by the way.

[@actone4822]

Shortest Luxin analysis:

[@shelbybayer200]

Right

[@Sleiyphnus]

Agree 😂

[@PhoenixX1030]

Nice profile pic @actone4822

[@dazzza153]

Luxin I’m convinced Monolithsoft is your number 1 fan and waits to purposely drop news based off whatever you say

[@dbzfanjodi]

My speculation is that X2 is the next mainline game in the series and Monolith is re-releasing X now to get the fans ready. X DE will most likely have a new epilogue similar to Future Redeemed & connected, that’ll be a few extra hours of story content and gameplay that’ll be set ups for what’s to come later in the sequel X2. And before anyone says “they didn’t announce an epilogue” give it some time. When XCDE was originally announced they didn’t announce Future Connected alongside it initially. I assume we’ll get a Xeno focused direct towards release that’ll reveal the epilogue or whatever new story content they have planned.

[@NoonDragoon]

I want an X2 solely for another full Sawano soundtrack. I love the soundtracks of 2 and 3 but X is something special and hasn’t been replicated in any other titles.

[@sollato0293]

I’m not sure how general audience would take if the next mainline entry is X2 given how different X is to the numbered games, it’s not story or character focused and is instead more side content focused, it would dissapoint many people if the next mainline entry is like that.

[@Magic_Ice]

After a year and a half of saying Saga will get a remaster/remake before X, this is so satisfying as an X fan lol.

[@MonadoBoyFlameRock]

you know there's probably an alternate timeline where we got saga instead of X but let's not worry about that 😅

[@homebrewGT2]

I know! Payback bitch hahaha

[@NoonDragoon]

I gotta admit, I did feel very vindicated to see this announcement as someone who has been saying since FR that X was more likely to happen than Saga.

[@-lord1754]

As a fan of both I'm just happy by whatever happens by now

[@octavia8836]

I always found the saga theories stupid, they've got a full game ready to go with a bit of work with X why not?

[@captianblitz]

I said this the second I saw the trailer "Luxin is gonna explode"

[@xylasatanari525]

Crashing the Xenoblade X DE teaser into a random Tuesday morning! HOW LONG HAVE YOU BEEN IN THE FORCE!?

[@TheMemer08]

​@@xylasatanari52540 seconds

[@voryntheriolu2525]

Ok but if the knight ends up being Moebius A. I will laugh.

[@steffanocavero5872]

A Jukebox-esque mechanic in the barracks or menu would be pretty neat, imagine having a radio for all of NLA or your Skell

[@James.Hill.]

Only Luxin could make an hour plus video about a 3 minute trailer and have it drop within 24 hours

[@FoxSiR]

"Bring the Boob Slider Back!"

[@MonadoBoyFlameRock]

1 hour xenoblade chronicles x analysis by luxin? we are definitely eating good!

[@xxargonautxx9790]

Dude, next year can’t come any faster. Totally dlc will be released to seal off the cliff hanger.

[@skyletoft]

Smaller file sizes are partially because of flash storage. When storing on a spinning disk (either a bluray disc or a harddrive) you need to duplicate a bunch of data a bunch of times to cut down on loading speeds. So this is an increase from the internal storage versions to these new cartridge versions.

[@xarchist]

I'm betting they'll retcon a few lines in the near-Earth space battle scene.

[@sinom]

The cat's tail has more polygons. 10/10 remaster

[@lustykong7591]

Xenoblade X DE before Silksong

[@FrancisYorkMorganFBI]

i would love so see them reuse the poppibuster as a skell design. it was originaly intended as a skell design during the development of x but was eventually cut. would be pretty cool to

[@KaiAfterKai]

It ain’t December, but the wind blows all the same.

[@Sleiyphnus]

Xc De : future connected Xc 3 : future redeemed XcX De : future revealed (i guees)

[@KnightGamer724]

It's going to be Future Expanded.

[@woketacha6112]

@@KnightGamer724 could you say "Xpanded"?... i'll see myself out

[@sinom]

It is kinda funny that I watched that previous video only hours before the xenoblaxe XDE announcement dropped

[@glutenmom]

I'd finished it the night before, and just had the bit where he said there'd probably not be anything echoing in my head for the entire runtime of the trailer

[@aesgsadg322314]

Fun fact too, in JP, both Gwin and Malos share the same JP VA, so its unlikely the black knight is Malos.

[@ZanbonSen]

Not even 2 hours, smh. Kidding, another certified Luxin masterpiece, thank you.

[@RadicalCapitol]

Xenoblade 2 conduit leaving at the end of the game..... .....Conduit shows up in the new Xenoblade X content. ...okay, but imagine tho..

[@deaderontheinside6871]

The zohar has come back with the milk at last.

[@samuelchallis3420]

Your Gradivus footage makes it look like his nickname is The Headass Emperor. Also I don’t expect the black knight to straight up be Malos but I could see him and Lao paralleling Malos and Jin’s relationship I subscribe to the idea that 2 and 3 formed from the original story plans for X that were cut. JBSphereFreak and SparksOpus collaborated on some videos that laid this idea out in a fairly convincing manner

[@xenofirescholar]

I also think that X is the origin for 3's concept ever since they said they had the concept of 3 before making 2. X and 3 have a lot of similarities, so it would make sense that they realized they had to change a lot of things (and make 2) to make the concept fit in with the events of 1 so they kept X as is and separate, otherwise they would have had to scrap most of it.

[@spoogtastic]

So i found xeno at 2, went back to play 1de and then 3 and its my favorite series ever. X now coming to switch is INCREDIBLE. I tried playing on wii emulator but it just wasnt the same. Im so damn jazzed for this release.

[@victoraponte-jh5ke]

I'm so glad that I'm not the only one who remembered that the Aegis Cores are used to splitting apart & becoming 2 entirely different people. I can see the Black Knight being Malos' version of A, while the Alpha version (the part without any of the humanity that's mostly a logic-focused way of thinking) could potentially be the Great One that the Ganglion worship. Only because it would take some sort of higher power to strengthen the Ganglion & make them confident enough to break away from the Samaar Federation.

[@linkkicksu]

In terms of links to the rest of the series, I recall there being a collectible you could find in the sea around Noctilum that was a figurine clearly referencing the Bionis and Mechonis on top of that, the Verus skell is actually a mistranslation and is meant to be Wels, which is what it's called in the Japanese version as in the Wels from Xenogears

[@nerooblivion]

Please, raise the level cap and give me more super bosses. I want to fight level 200 raid bosses with the boys

[@windy4566]

“Uploaded 1 minute ago” perfect timing lmao

[@liamruiz3196]

I agree with X being an alternate universe and that the Samaarians and Ganglion are actually the original humans from Klaus’ universe who were sucked into the X universe because of the experiment. Also, gotta say, massive props to talking about the people who said you’d be upset with X being ported instead of saga and saying how X is still an important game, I respect you so much more than i already did before, Luxin.

[@Amadeus_]

What a goated moment in gaming history. New Nintendo hardware is about to launch? It's time to launch a new Xenoblade game as well!

[@irekaias]

A lot of people forget that for the portable consoles of Nintendo, it is very typical to have games that run on both and upscale something while using the enhanced hardware, they did it wit the Game boy color, the expansion pack for the N64, they did it with the Wii U, it would not suprise me that X has enhancements on the switch succesor

[@Starcat5]

A Luxin video to round out my Birthday. Truly I have been blessed.

[@mariah6607]

Been waiting for this since the trailer dropped, whenever we get a trailer always look forward to the long videos you put out!

[@MelodiCat753]

SPOILERS: I just feel that Klaus's Experiment and White Whale fleeing the earth are going to be one and the same. Even if retcons are necessary, it makes too much sense, and the radio really supports this in Future Reedeemed I believe?

[@jumbopiece2301]

Yggralith Zero Co-op Online Battle, I CAN'T WAIT

[@alfonsobiggers2452]

After the initial excitement wore off, I immediately thought of you and what you said merely a day and a half prior. MonolithSoft is watching you, Luxin!

[@levelseven9726]

New Xeno game means it’s time for the best part of the hype cycle - new feature length Luxin videos

[@kingjonny394]

Watching your last video I was watching the X footage in the background and thinking how I really hope a definitive edition comes out next year and then two days later they announced it. Perfect timings

[@therealseanw.stewart2071]

I've been waiting for this!! This feels like the hype for the original Wii U version of Xenoblade X, all over again. No joke. Let me tell you, after spending 2015 obsessively watching and re-watching trailers and guides for X, that was a Christmas to remember. I remember the feeling well. I'm so excited for this Definitive Edition. March cannot come soon enough.

[@sandman8920]

Yes it was huge for us few fans of the WiiU. I’m not liking how Nintendo has treated us though if you look at the switch library there are so many WiiU games just feels like a smack in the face sometimes as someone who supported them through difficult times.

[@ancientrunekrp6895]

ironically i think the new voice sounds like Matt Mercer which would obviously have a lot of implications seeing as he is the voice of Lao himself. Lao's eyes are the same in both shots too.

[@NoonDragoon]

I thought it was just Lao speaking when I first saw the trailer lol

[@derfuchs3296]

The best thing about this is that it opens the possibility of X2 being made, if X sells well

[@Mecht]

Cant wait to see you and Enel casually in matchmaking hopefully

[@xxargonautxx9790]

Honestly, this proves switch 2 will be back compatible with switch games. Monolith will show their new ip game on switch 2, while ALL of Xenoblade can be played on switch 2. Monolith has been KILLING it this gen. Every game on the switch and X cost an arm and leg to be port to switch. Tho monolith deserved it. They carried nintendo this gen.

[@plipflip416]

We are so back

[@rigferd4694]

My eyes hurt looking at the looped footage containing a microsecond of another scene at the beginning of it😵‍💫

[@arnaldorodriguez8188]

All I ask is that we get a skin or something regarding the artifice Siren from XC2. That would be fire.

[@thatloner2831]

15 Gb, Jesus fuck. And as someone who has played both Xenoblade X and Elden Ring, I can say that the latter has a bigger file size while having less content in it. Nothing against Elden Ring, it's a good game with lots of stuff in it but compared to what X has to offer it falls way behind.

[@chandler2581]

I want to jump on your point about how they could expand on L's character. I noticed during my last playthrough of the game that he only ever refers to himself as "we." If he does that in other languages too, I would love for them to explore that. I'd argue that he's fluent enough in English to know that referring to himself as "we" is grammatically incorrect. It's really just idioms he struggles with. He could be referring to his entire species, but he's the only member of his species that we see. We don't even so much as see any signs that are other members of his species on Mira. I want to know what's going on there.

[@TheMegamaster44]

so anyone wanna read my theory about how Mira is inside the Zohar?

[@KnightGamer724]

Hit it!

[@10k-Noodles]

Namco has their own Nintendo-centric studios. Maybe the rumors of a new Switch remaster from Gamecube was supposed to say From the Gamecube era. In which case, Xenosaga could be on the table. Or maybe it’s just Kid Icarus. But a man can dream.

[@AnotherGuyTheXone]

No idea which rumour you are talking about, bit it could be Baten Kaitos

[@benjaws5263]

Luxin lol literally jinxed it

[@dropthebates]

ITS HEREEEEEE LETS GOOOO

[@samuelline9573]

Elma's new face is more androgynous. Her jaw is closer to Alvis's so that might be what your noticing. I'm just surprised how much they warmed her skin up. She was very cool toned in the original

[@techmo7085]

been waiting for this since the announcment lets goooooo

[@FelixS.]

I am sure the re-release of X with additional content will work as "bridge" to the next mainline arc. Considering the Klaus saga culminated in XBC3 future redeemed. The will make X now fit in the canon somehow, which isn´t that much of a task considering how FR already made hints for all Xeno games being connected in one way or the other. So in retrospective X will be some kind of glimpse we already got long ago what direction the series will go for eventually. And I am pretty pretty sure we will see characters of both - X and the mainline series - in future entries together.

[@yun_0002]

The alvis key thing absolutely killed me wth

[@Toon418]

Love you Luxin!! Thanks for always putting out fun videos after Xeno news drops. Been refreshing all day!

[@xarchist]

They have a huge opportunity to improve the appearance of the food in the infamous cutscenes.

[@10k-Noodles]

Give me the option to have my character share the VA of the Heropon Riki.

[@Jiggly_WigglyPuff]

The cat actually has increased polygons. Look at its tail. It looks similar, but I’m not sure if it’s the same model.

[@10k-Noodles]

How massive are the enemies in this game? The Gradivus, The Headless Emperor enemy at around 53:40 has toenails five times the character’s size. Makes Rotbart and Gonzalez look like cubs.

[@whitts_creation_location]

Positively gargantuan. Having played it myself, just the comparison of size between ground gear and skells is pretty hefty, and enemies STILL dwarf you. Milesaurs like Gravidus are def among some of the bigger ones. That said, they are by no means the largest. The Zu Pharg is like... a small mountain in size? Good fight too, imo.

[@TheRedlightning2]

1 hour and 18 minutes LETS GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@theladymeyneth6775]

Another banger from the Necrit of Xenoblade, lets go

[@lionel7360]

Been waiting for this since the announcement yesterday morning, thanks for the good eats goat.

[@artemis2227]

My fav tradition after a xenoblade trailer drop

[@Erkki_Mela]

53:19 I love the original X. One of my gripes with it was battling huge enemies like these, and the camera allows you to just see their feet.

[@osuppas321]

I think this is the first Luxin video that I actively anticipated in excitement for lol

[@Hectoreo]

46:30 I do want to mention this animation *was* used in the trailers for the original version, which you can see if you rewatch the exploration trailer from january 2015. That said, here, The "Xenoblade" and "Chronicles" are split apart at first, whereas the logo was fully formed there.

[@scarfy6035]

Thank you luxin i cannot live without your 1 hour videos about a 2 minute trailer

[@eseph9899]

The black knight is a new incarnation of logos. My dad is nintendo.

[@DaCrazyHand]

It's a wild ride, this passage of fate.

[@Zajkong]

Welcome back from the brief vacation

[@ShiftedPyro]

Another luxin banger to have on while working

[@gmaster2647]

I so desperately want this to answer a lot of hanging questions the original left, but I have a feeling that just like XC1DE that the new story content is gonna be fairly brief, maybe answer a couple small things, and mostly serve only as a setup to the next X game. Which is funny to say when the original ended on a gigantic cliffhanger, but you know. But this also just means more Xenoblade X content in 2025 and a very real possibility of a sequel to it in the near future since the original trilogy is done, and I couldn't be happier. As for ideas, I had an idea that since Xenoblade X is the most like an MMO experience but still very much mostly a single-player game, that Xenoblade X could be re-released and treated like one where it gets expansions as story continuations rather than sequels. Because the way X is designed seems perfect for the idea of expanding the playable game world, adding new sidequests and multiplayer missions, more classes, etc. Obviously that likely won't happen with this version, but I think it's an interesting way to go about it. Of course this'd also pose a problem for a Nintendo console which traditionally has a criminally low amount of storage space.

[@xxargonautxx9790]

This could be a reason for that nintendo online mmo they did with the 10k players. Imagine a switch 2 with this as a sequal but on a better system. Seeing rumours that the switch 2 has a bigger storage can lean to monolith going into a mmo style for xenoblade x. Plus they’re working on another ip too.

[@penguwave4025]

God, watching that video then waking up the next morning to the announcement trailer was hilarious

[@soliquidsnake3990]

LETS GO HOUR LONG LUXIN VID

[@alexstewart9592]

Three things: Firstly, IIRC XC2's engine is more or less a modified port job of X's engine due to them simply not having time to wait for Nintendo to make the proper base Switch engine - an issue shared by all the big launch year titles except MK8D, which doubled as both a game release and the test paylod for the development of said engine - so we have no idea how much of X was already ported to Switch or how much of it would just work if they put it into the final XC2 engine, so that answer doesn't really tell us anything about if they already had plans for this to happen. Secondly, one of the really weird tradeoffs in game development is that you can use duplicate copies of assets to reduce loading times at the cost of increasing file sizes - loading times include time spent searching for the assets being loaded in the file system, and duplicate copies of assets can be used to create bundles of assets that can be loaded as a group with a single file search - so the question of if the original game did this to any extent is important because if it did its filesize becomes useless for comparisons. Thirdly, I am personally sceptical of claims that the Switch 2 will be next year. Our one Direct for the year had way more 2025 stuff in it than I would expect if they were launching it in the first half of next year, particularly since it was allegedly focused on games releasing this year, and given how well a first half launch worked for the Switch, I am sceptical of any claims of Nintendo launching a new console in the second half of any year.

[@DGenHero]

X GONNA GIVE IT TO YA

[@keeysOST]

I was literally waiting for you to drop a video after watching the trailer lol

[@isaackerr2793]

I am so here for your future conspiracy theories!

[@MrShadownetwork]

11:41 thank you yes bring back the thing that was only removed in the western version

[@amorimjt]

I was already waiting for this video!!! So happy it’s here!!! Now we need remake of Saga and specially GEARS!

[@nightwolflocky]

If nopon couldn't build a skell tren how to we explain Poppi Lila Poppi Buster Rosa Torna's artificial Blade army And Origin

[@lightningmtaylor]

As someone who played this game ten years ago, on behalf of the fanbase we need request these quality of life changes, 1) Toggle off the NLA night theme, 2) Allow the Full overdrive song Wir Fleigen to play, 3) Fix the repetitive swim sound, 4) Skell flight theme delay.

[@doopydoops2064]

I really needed this video.

[@jsj0520]

I’ve been waiting for this video ever since the announcement 😂

[@sofern2681]

16:50 dynamic resolution doesnt affect the ui in xenoblade games from what i remember. Ui is always max resolution.

[@jujuthehoms5482]

The Black Knight is Laos real human body that snuck on the White Whale

[@notsure6915]

Damn Juju, that's a good theory

[@jackconey5948]

Superb video, honestly getting xenoblade x definitive edition is just brilliant cannot wait to run around mira and fly a skell for the first time. aaah im hyped 😂

[@thelegacyofgaming2928]

This is the one we were waiting for.

[@kyurei4478]

Luxin's Exorbitant Analysis now in your local cinema. Film's length around 1h 20.

[@PoPo-qp8zq]

We're so back!

[@SirSailorStar]

An hour 🫨 Aaah, I'm so excited for the character creations.

[@princessoscar3089]

I AM A HUGE FAN OF KH AND XENOBLADE BOTH LOL SO IT IS PERFECT FOR ME.

[@robertwahlstrom]

I think Xenoblade Chronicles X should be it's own series simply because it just is that good. Hopefully it becomes the best selling Xenoblade game on the Switch, it really deserves success.

[@honeyispure]

WAS WAITIBNG ON YOUUU

[@ruandalserept]

Random idea: Remember the place the Aegises could visit? It was some sort of mental world that feels similar to that spot where Noah hesitated about ending the endless now. Since when they visited there, their bodies didn’t vanish, I believe it is some conceptual or soul based world, which the people on Mira are connected to, which could keep them tethered despite the Lifehold database being destroyed. That place seems to have something to do with the Trinity Processor (guess what the Lifehold looks like), and because of that I personally expect that that world is where Lao and the Black Knight are, in human bodies, because that is how they see themselves. We then have plenty of open room for Zohar shenanigans, whether or not it connects back to 1, 2, 3, and Saga. Personally, I don’t see Cross coming into the Radio Saga, because custom character, but Elma is very likely if it connects. (Insert here several paranoia filled paragraphs ranting about the Nopon Arcsage. They were a severe tangent.) If X and the Radio Saga are connected, then I see that as a possible connection point, with the rifts creating some connection between the worlds. The one thing that bugs me about this is the aliens, as Saga very clearly doesn’t have aliens, and connecting them would either mean taking only a few characters from X, connecting the Saga and X galaxies, or completely isolating every alien on Mira from their civilizations. All 3 could be done, but they would all have to be handled very carefully. Given their previous work, I think they could handle it, but it feels almost like unnecessary complexity that would dilute the story with things that don’t contribute proportional to the amount of time they would demand. Additionally, X is an alternate reality, and if the MCU has taught me anything, it is that a multiverse and time travel are the easiest ways to destroy all investment in a long running series. So I would probably would prefer that the universes remain separate, because Blade and Saga have the excuse that they were definitely all the same world the whole time, X requires a complete alternate history that opens a door that can’t be closed. The Arcsage seems to be able to bypass this, but at this point, I am half convinced that he is an Upper Domain being, and therefore, doesn’t have to follow any rules, which could be why Nopon are seemingly native to every Zohar created pocket dimension. (Thinking about this last sentence has gotten me even more paranoid about Nopon being connected to the Upper Domain.) I am pretty sure I had a point I was working towards at some point. I think it was that I think that Mira is or has a Trinity Processor type soul space that fits into the updated Radio lore better.

[@Wolfy400]

Thoughts on if nintendo will bring back the mira survival guide videos?

[@TM-45.]

They hate your predictions luxin 😭