What a shitty opinion. Next you'll say Xenoblade 2 revolutionized the series with its controversial changes, big tits, gacha system and a hook for the story relied on late game plot.
@@Sambrokeunique? There are so many people who consider it the best. While 3 is my favourite, and you’re entitled to think that 1 is the worst, it is not a unique opinion
I genuinely cant believe how much love XC1 got in Future Redeemed. Like when I strolled into Colony 9 for the first time, I genuinely cried. I felt the same magic of playing 1 for the first time...
saame... like walking into the area and suddenly recognizing the music, I felt my throat tense up, and seeing colony 9 made me legit cry, and at the same time realizing that there must be a reason we dont see it in the main game made me cry even more haha even watching this video and Luxin listing all these things make me tear up rn TwT
As much as I loved that moment I wish Xenoblade 2 got the love 1 did, even in the base game. XC2 is my favorite game of all time so it was disappointing that all we really got were Mor Ardain's titan and a couple vaguely familiar locations.
Man I really enjoyed future redeemed. The "to me to you" reference from the gem crafting minigame was one of my favourite callbacks because it's just such a small thing that they really didn't have to add but did anyway :)
I genuinely almost cried when Shulk refered to the Gem Man when he interacted with the old ether gem generator. The fact that that thing still functioned decades later across worlds goes to show just how well built it was to begin with.
It actually makes a ton of sene that Melia's gift to humanity is a sword that could cut through anything and Nia gave humanity the ability to gain immense power by bonding with others. In Xenoblade 1 the True Monado, a blade capable of cleaving a false god, was forged through the affinity between the 7 party members, that would also explain the Lucky 7's Monado symbol, and in Xenoblade 2 Rex was able to unlock the true potential of his blades due to the bonds between them. They are each a reflections of each games core themes and powers systems
The way I interpreted the "souls in the sword" thing was that because both have Origin metal (presumably), they both are influenced by the will of the souls stored within Origin. Not that the souls are literally in the swords. Edit: well, this aged poorly
Yeah I think a lot of people read a bit too literally into Riku saying that their friends are in the swords. I've always seen it as saying that Lucky 7 and Replica Monado are representative of hopes and dreams of their past allies.
That’s fair but it’s immensely funnier to imagine that this means that at the end of Xenoblade 3 Noah just chucked the Xenoblade 1 party into the ocean
I think shulks is just suppose to be metaphorical but lucky seven could have actual souls. Though I think its just connected to origin rather than actually inhabiting it
When the XC1 title theme started playing over your narration I actually started crying. It's so, so powerful talking about that special game with that special music.
I, along with many other people I'm sure, got into Xenoblade thanks to the playthrough that chuggaaconroy did all of those years ago. However, at the time, it was incredibly difficult to obtain a copy to play for myself so I settled for watching along and being blown away by the story and loving every second of it. Because of that though, by the time easier to obtain copies of the game rolled around (3D, the Wii U VC-adjacent version), I bought them but never played through them all the way because "well I've seen the story, I don't have to do this right now." This carried onto me playing through Xenoblade 2 before "finishing" 1, and eventually buying DE only for life to get in the way of me actually playing the first game in the series yet again. After finishing 3 however, I decided I would finally buckle down and play through the rest of DE, both because I like the game and wanted to see the new story stuff from Future Connected, but also hoping that Future Connected would supplement what I'd seen in 3. And while I'd remembered a lot of the major plot points of 1 despite never actually playing it myself, finally playing through DE at the time I did made me realize how much I'd forgotten about it. I'm glad I did it though, because having it all so fresh in my memory really made me appreciate all of the things that Future Redeemed did. That climb into Yesterdale/Colony 9 with Time to Fight! followed by the Colony 9 field music had me smiling like an idiot the whole time. And the fact that they brought back the Fogbeast battle theme _and_ did a final boss theme that's reminiscent of Zanza, the Divine means that Xenoblade 3 as a whole package contains pretty much peak RPG Battle Theme for me, which is a huge plus.
When I was playing 3 and especially FR I kept thinking “man it’s sure been a long time since I played xc1” and I wonder just how many small references I missed out on due to just not remembering them after so long
Look I’m a XBC2 head but even I was beaming when I saw the words “gem man” in FR because it’s the first thing that popped in my head when I saw the old furnace
In the part where you're talking about major musical moments, I'm very surprised you neglected to mention how a more somber rendition of Sword Valley's theme plays at the Great Sword's Base. It's one of the only direct area remixes they do and it's for an obviously major region too and definitely helps lessen the gap between 1 and 2 representation in 3.
Glad I'm not the only one who felt the Ouroboros full circle feeling with FR making so many tributes to XC1. They really went ahead by closing out the Klaus saga by tributing the game it all started with. And the fact that Xenoblade unintentionally brought back Xeno just makes the fact that Takahashi was finally able to close out his 6 part story with this series makes it so much more special.
God, Future Redeemed is such a good fucking game even just as a standalone. I can't wait for Xenoblade 4 and will be happily anticipating the day it comes. It still blows my mind how a very passionate movement from fans to bring 1 across the pond is the reason we're here gushing about how good the series is today.
Not sure if my favorite piece of 1 fanservice in this dlc is the random clifftop beyern refrence followe immediatly by “im not really feeling that” or the acknowledgement of the memey gem crafting voice lines
14:00 Poor Harry McEntire, his mind was all sorts of boggled, and things flying by him. And I'm sure he will realize one day when he gets to play Xenoblade 1.
Poor? Don't make me laugh. McEntire was directly told that he NEEDED to know about the other games in the trilogy before starting Future Redeemed. He chose ignore those warnings and play it anyway because N is in it and he only cares about Xenoblade games he can hear his own voice in.
Before 3, I considered 1 to be my favorite due to the nostalgia of having played it as a 15 year old, just getting exposed to how big games could truly be. (I only ever played Pokemon before this.) The amount of fanservice towards 1 in the dlc just makes me smile with happiness. I basically went through my latter teen years with this game and it's characters in my life. It's like watching your kid grow up or something.
I got introduced to Xenoblade back in my early-mid teens on the 3ds and playing through future redeemed was such a great experience. It was like shulk (and rex) had grown up alongside me on many different levels. Not to mention going through colony 9 and all the other places from 1. It was like stepping back into my childhood
Same. I picked up Xenoblade 1 on the Wii because I didn't have nothing to play at the time. And seeing so much coverage of this game that came out of nowhere for me and hearing about Operation Rainfall made me get it as a birthday present. I was worried I wasn't gonna like it at first because I had trouble getting out of my comfort zone when it came to unknown IPs I hadn't heard of. As well as not being into RPGs besides Pokemon and Mario and Luigi. But man I got hooked after the attack on Colony 9 and reaching the Bionis Leg. And it became my favorite video game at the time. And still is one of my favorites. Only rivaled by the other Xenoblade games. So seeing FR close out the saga by doing a massive tribute to Xenoblade 1 felt satisfying. Really pushing that Ouroboros theming of coming full circle.
@@FireFury190 Couldn’t have said it better myself. I also stayed in my comfort zone with games I already knew but I’m really glad I got into Xenoblade. Zelda was my favorite series for a long time but I think the Xenoblade series has took that place for me now. FR was such a great way to end the saga and I hope Monolithsoft continues the great work with whatever they have planned next
@@shinyy187 Had it not been for Xenoblade making me like RPGs I wouldn't have tried Fire Emblem when Awakening came out. And now that series is one of my favorites. I also gotta thank Xenoblade for showing me that Nintendo came have IPs with rich and deep stories and characters. Same with Fire Emblem. As well as in recent years what Pokemon is lacking and I wish could emulate better.
I loved all the fanservice of XC1 although XC2 is my favorite game. I was so happy to see Colony 9 and everything about Alvis and him being "Ontos", a thing that only fans theorized and wasn't canon yet (even if in XCDE Alvis has a core crystal), especially seeing how they explained it and seeing him in action. The only thing I'm not satisfied about is the lack of info about Pneuma and Logos. I get that FR had to be a huge XC1 recall but not seeing them (they weren't even nominated) is just a missed opportunity to explain Alvis even better talking about the relationship between them. Pyra & Mythra being only called "them", Malos being totally ignored until the end just made so much confusion into my head and things got more complicated and unknown instead of making the player understand what did exactly happen to them. They are just core crystals in N's sword and in Matthew's gloves while Alvis got huge explanation and huge character development/description
Someone on the Xenoblade subreddit noted a way in which Future Redeemed balances out the base game. The base game of Xenoblade 3 was against Moebius who are all about being stuck in the past and unwilling to move forward, with the game ultimately saying to continue onward even if you don't know what's coming. Alpha, the antagonist of Future Redeemed, takes the lesson of the base game and pushes it to its absolute extreme, wanting to burn away everything that came before to make way for the new. Future Redeemed counters this pointing out how important it is to honor the past and not forget where we came from, both in-story, and as this video points out by making so many callbacks to said Origin of the series. Each of the two game's antagonists take what the other game was trying to say and push it way too far. What's needed is _balance._ Balance between looking forward to the future and looking backward to the past, without letting either completely dominate causing one to lose sight of where they are. Unrelated, but with how important the Trinity Processor was to the DLC in addition to just Ontos, it actually kind of skews the importance of two of the founders. Both Glimmer and Nikol are Rex and Shulk's children respectively, but for Nikol, his relationship to Shulk is the most noteworthy thing about him from the get-go. Glimmer's relation to Rex actually ends up being _less_ important, because her mother is _freaking Pneuma._ She is practically A's niece and nobody in the game seems to acknowledge that. Pyra and Mythra are alluded to a few times, both as Pneuma and as Glimmer's mothers, but, as far as I can remember, never both at the same time.
A not mentioning anything about Glimmer being their niece is probably just because A doesn't exactly see it that way, since A isn't truly related to pyra by blood or genetics but would call her a sibling because they were from the same processing unit. Either way they wouldn't be able to say anything about that to Glimmer since she's a soldier trapped in the system and wouldn't understand.
Like the other guy said, Pneuma and A are not blood related and A’s had minimal interaction with Pneuma herself. In fact, I’m quite sure she’d quicker see Nikol as her nephew considering A and Shulk’s close relationship and their history rather than seeing Glimmer, who she has basically no connection to as her niece.
i got into the series with 1 and to this day its still my favorite the series overall is great but 1 just hit differently for me i was so happy to see how much it was featured in FR
I cried when I passed the threshold, familiar music started to play and Colony 9 came into view. What an amazing moment. And thank you for always making such great videos Luxin, they've been helping me through some hard times this year.
Xenoblade 1 will always be the game that shaped who i am today, never would i have expected the wii game i picked up out of curiosity back in 2010 would make me pursue a career in engineering
1:14 After FR released I remember seeing a bunch of XB2 fans lamenting the fact that FR didnt have a lot of fanservice for 2 fans, despite the fact that base game 3 had way more 2 fanservice than it did for 1. And even still, FR has heavy 2 fanservice with Rex literally name dropping the Trinity Processor cores, it centering around 2's full-series retcons with the space station/beanstalk (because at this point you cant avoid it), AND Matthew and Na'el both being descendants of Rex. So yeah, Im glad FR evened out the series representation in 3 a bit more.
I've grown to like 2 a lot, and 3 (along with Future Redeemed) are fantastic, but XBC1(DE) will always be my favourite. I'm so glad Future Redeemed leaned into it when building its story.
As a massive Xenoblade 1 fan I loved seeing all the fan service to that game. Seeing all the references to my favorite character Dunban was amazing, however I am a little let down with the lack of Reyn fanservice. Feels like all we got was the Lanz outfit and Panacea as nods to Reyn, but even then Panacea doesn't really feel like Reyn. More of a nod to Sharla than anything. It would've been cool to see Shulk's lab in Colony 9 and have an affinity scene where Shulk talks about the Monado and mentions Reyn wielding it to A or something. For a character so important to Shulk and colony 9 i'm surprised there wasn't more done with him. I'd have loved to have seen a "Reyn Time" reference. I guess you could consider the "To me" a Reyn reference but that's a stretch.
I only just played Xenoblade 1 this year, hadn't touched the franchise prior. Got it with the 2 game voucher thing and was planning on using the second on TotK, and Xenoblade would bide me time. I still haven't gotten around to TotK. I used the second one on Xenoblade 2, and then got TotK with Xenoblade 3 later. I'm still too busy doing a second playthrough of XC2 and 3 both. Anyway, when I got to Colony 9 in Future Redeemed a few months later, I still felt nostalgic even though I just played the franchise this year.
This feels so poetic to come out right now because this week I got a coworker who didn't really have much to play at the moment to try Xenoblade 1. And they seem to enjoy it so far.
I love the entire series and while yes XBC2 is my favorite game, ever that’s largely due to it being my first Xeno anything (outside of 20 hours of X) and spending 5 years of my life finishing it, so I was super thrilled to see XBC1 diehards finally get to eat with Future Redeemed. The reveal of Matthews glove and seeming confirmation about N’s sword was big enough for me anyway to let 1 get most of the spotlight here. And look I still love 1 to death so it’s not like it was a bad deal for me either. It was refreshing to balance the scales a bit and honestly there’s still so many unanswered questions for both sides after their respective games that we’ll likely never know outside of fan theory which I think was the right call despite desperately wanting to know EVERYTHING that happened to EVERYONE. That goes for 3 too as even as a prequel you could still stuff an entire other prequel with everything we still don’t definitively know about the N&M of it all. But it’s better for not trying to do all that.
I also love how Na’el’s possession by Alpha is literally stated as a parallel to Shulk and Zanza. Both have grievances and swear revenge for their people and those they hold dearest to themselves. But through this, they draw power to Alpha/Zanza allowing them the chance to create or maintain the world in which they in-vision. However, the host ultimately realises the horrible motives they have and become unpossessed, leading to the final battle with Alpha/Zanza
I think the implication with Lucky Seven is it's forged from the literal pieces of Origin metal storing the souls of the remaining five members of 1's party, plus Kino and Nene from FC. It's possible Shulk's FR Monado has some Origin metal inside it and that's why it can cut Flame Clocks, but I don't think Riku was being as literal about it storing souls as he was with L7. It seems like a run-of-the-mill Aionios copy Shulk projects with his mind, while the pre-Origin real deal is safely hidden in Melia's castle as a template for her to model L7 from. As for Melia's flashback versus the Photo, I wonder if it's because the devs' logic was that FC did the Photo's job for 1's world already? FC does give a good general indication of the direction it and its political structures were heading in, and that the cast of 1 likely settled down with comfortable lives afterwards, while the fate of Alrest was completely up in the air to the point people kept arguing over whether Pyra and Mythra even truly came back or not.
On the topic of OSTs, are you able to put in what OSTs you use in your videos? I love the ones you pick but I can't find for the life of me the Xenosaga piano arrangement that plays in your recent vids. Good work as always, Luxin!
I think this video can be resumed in a feeling. That being, how much I found myself smiling like an idiot while being hit with all these references. Colony 9 is done perfectly.
Time to Fight was the very first Xenoblade music we ever got to hear, even before Xenoblade existed. It was the bgm for the very first Monado Beginning of World Trailer
As someone whose favorite Xeno game has always been 1 (it's also my favorite game ever made since I played it in 2012), Future Redeemed took Xenoblade 3 from a great game to among my very small list of favorite games. I very much felt the lack of Xenoblade 1 in the DNA of Xenoblade 3's base game, but FR fixed all of that for me.
There is nothing that can describe that feeling of hearing the colony 9 music again going in completely blind. Out of the three games, XCDE is my absolute favorite and I’m so glad this DLC did it justice.
The reaction you had with hearing colony 9 entrance, was the same when the main party of three goes to meet Nia and we hear any angelic version of drifting souls. As someone who started the series with 2, play Definitive and Future connected and then 3, hearing not only the angelic but the battle version of drifting soul made me nostalgic and happy then words could say. It was like seeing a old friend you haven’t seen in awhile, sure they look older and little different, but they are still the same
Honestly making the dlc a xc1 love letter makes sense, since xc2 sold much better than xc1 more people know of xc2 than xc1 so the more die hard fans are more likely to get the dlc as opposed to the people who only played xc2 or xc3
I don't care that much about how many callbacks xeno 1 or 2 had to 3 and FR, but I appreciate how the trilogy was made it. My favorite is 2, then 1, then 3.
Shulk: I get all the references and call backs. Rex: What about my game? Shulk: Barely anything, but you can spam again double spinning edge. Rex: Deal.
for the souls into the weapons, i just think that's a metaphor. Cause that would imply Melia and Riku found and used Zanza's method to fusing a soul into a weapon and applied it to origin. And even though there's some sort of symbolism about humans, no matter how hard they try, always go back to their roots and a necessary evil being needed for the good of the future. I'm positive it's just a metaphor........like at least 60% positive.
I know a few people have already mentioned this, but I always thought it was neat that Colony 9 in FR resembles the Colony 9 we see in the final cutscene of XC1.
XC3 felt very XC1 skewed overall, though with the context of XC3 being the final love letter to the initial saga that THAT GAME set up, in addition to lore XC2 introduced being FAR too important to just drop in later entries, the bias is definitely justified, especially in FR, even if a more evenly balanced game would've been "fairer" for lack of other words.
@@jairekambui7738 I have never agreed with this outlook, its like Nia had more screen time and lore than Melia RIGHT at the end of the game and all of a sudden everyone just forgets how skewed gameplay, design and story was towards XC1 in the other 90% of the damn game
@@ajrxc2 That’s true, 3 definitely feels more like 1 than 2. I hope the spirit of 2 comes back in a future entry. 3 is supposedly a mix of 1 and 2 in terms of the characters, plot and world aspects, but in terms of tone and character design it’s much closer to 1. It even brings back colonies. I think it really worked for this game, but I like 2 a lot more than 1 so I hope the next entry can be more in the spirit of 2. I really hope 2’s vibe and aesthetic wasn’t a one time experiment even if some people complained about it. I wish the Agnian side characters looked more interesting, they kinda just look like Xenoblade 1 interpretations of xenoblade 2 characters.
1st thing, I love how all of the xenoblade expantions add previews of game mechanics for the next installment. 2nd thing, i really hope the next xenoblade will show a true merged world where the old protags and party members are living happily. 3rd thing, i really want Logos/Malos to return in a protagonist roll. 4th thing, I'm honestly starting to believe in the joke that Xenoblade X is the tenth game in the series and that we are playing catch up. 5th thing, squareinex and monolithsoft need to make an agreement/comprimize to remaster and rerelease the xenogears and xenosaga games. thank you for you time
I had a big old grin on my face watching this. FR completely blew me out of the water, and it's incredibly fun to hear you gush about it the same way I do. The only point I'd disagree on is that A is 1:1 Alvis - I think that, while being "only" a fraction of him, they're also more than him in a way, two distinct sides of the same person, not entirely unlike Pyra/Mythra (albeit with metaphysics closer to Pneuma/Mythra)
I didn't realize the sword literally had souls in them, I just thought he just meant that it carries memories with it, like you look at it and remember those dear to you, in a "your friends will always be in your heart" sort of way
I don't think, at any point, it is explicitly stated that there are LITERAL souls in Lucky Seven. It's just the fact that they specifically bothered to number 'seven' souls is what gets people. It doesn't really make sense for there to be any literal souls in the sword anyways, people just accidentally took it a bit too literally.
@@dattos140 I said literal souls. What Riku says could still be an analogy for the culmination of those people's beliefs. Were he to say something along the lines of how and/or why the souls were there, THAT'D be direct confirmation that he means it literally. However, the vagueness provided implies something less straight-forward. Assuming the souls are there because Lucky Seven is made of Origin metal containing the backups of those people, as mentioned in the video, this has some dark implications. The possibility of removing a soul from Origin to make a sword, likely nullifying that person's reincarnation after Origin's restoration, is a really odd decision from someone who had a hand in building the glorified back-up drive. Not to mention all the shards the main party picked up and used to augment their own Blades. Or the boat. And then Noah tosses Lucky Seven in the ocean. You'd think Melia would give it more sentimental value if it contained her most cherished friends' literal souls. She was still around; she could've taken Lucky Seven back. Riku too. Instead, she just told Riku to give away the thing holding her friends' spirits to someone "worthy" without even letting them know what the sword contained. Very uncharacteristically careless of her. In addition, that'd remove the possibility of likely candidates we KNOW are important to Melia, like Sorean or Kallian, being one of the seven because they died way too long ago to be backed-up into Origin. And in terms of evidence, we have no evidence of anything similar ever happening in the series. The closest is Zanza splitting himself between the Monado, Shulk, and Arglas. And he's a god. Melia potentially having a superior version of that ability is pretty jarring. Oh yeah and Luxin mentioned Riku implied that the REX+ also had souls in it, so I guess Shulk just felt like doing it too one day when he was tweaking his REX+? Good on him for apparently shoving peoples' entire nonphysical beings into his old FC science project. And... what about N's sword?
@@Fioriole I don't think the statement about shulk having everyone with him is as literal as the statement riku gave about the lucky seven having the souls of very important people in it, that shit was a direct statement and should be taken at face value, unlike the previous statement which could be interpreted literally, as for what they refer to as a "soul", that's more so open to interpretation like you said, but whatever those "souls" are, they are a physical thing that can be put in a blade. N's sword is pretty normal, it's made out of origin metal so i guess it has some souls in it by proxy lol, probably not as important as the ones in noah's sword but whatever, As for noah throwing the lucky seven into the ocean, even IF you don't think it has the souls of the party members in it, it DOES 100 percent have the pnuema core in it, meaning it's fucked either way! I wouldent worry about it, i'm sure rex will just go salvage it later, he probably knows where it is since he's currently upholding the worlds integrity.
I too remember the new side quests about georgio and all that with so much nostalgia and love. I felt the love for Xeno 1 and, it totally deserved that. I actually wanted something with Xord's grandaughter even, or maybe Kenny Rohan's son or something? haha Nice vid pal
Xenoblade is the only series where it can reference this one npc with like 2 or 3 extremely minor quests involving them and make me pog irl. They also made us literally do the generic quests you get from nameless npcs, and I was like "hell yeah, FETCH QUESTS" And when Shulk referenced the repetitive gem crafting dialogue???? I actually shed a tear. Such a damn good series, even its most minor (and sometimes, frankly bad) aspects make me nostalgic lmao
I’m so happy future redeemed DIDNT go into what happened to Pyra and Mythra. Xenoblade 2 got a lot of love in the main game and I’m happy they did. But xb1 felt so left behind. But future redeemed restored balance by adding so many references to 1 and adding more detail the characters. Xenoblade as a series was done properly! Xenoblade 1 is my favorite but all of xenoblade has my heart
I know it's probably done half-jokingly, but I do get slightly annoyed when people ask what happened to Mythra's kid, and they were disappointed that the game never addressed it. I just think they didn't have a story to tell, or her child didn't end up being important. The way Monolithsoft makes their games is very deliberate and meticulous. If they wanted to answer questions about certain things, they would have. People should try to consider possible reasons for their decisions instead of attack the decision itself.
About lucky 7 and the monado REX, I feel like those 7 people actually meant every party member of 1 + future connected besides Melia and Shulk. About the Riki situation, characters haven't forgotten about their previous lives, and still remember the places from their old world even if they are merged, as Nia remembers Land of Morytha even if it was merged with the Nopon forest from XC1. My guess would be that Origin holds the lives of all people that died during the impact or couldn't get into Aionios on one way or the other, so as a metal conductions, those souls wouldn't be physical but some kind of energy that is shared through the whole origin at the same time, including their metals (like how you can have hot metal, and if you cut it in 2 and don't change conditions, their temperature shouldn't be lower or higher, should be the same as if the object was still together.) and both swords because of the fact that they are made from it. Also, the Riku tomb could be made by actually anyone ngl, from what it seems clocks and Moebius only target humans, which is explained on base XC3 with how monsters grow up and have children, but humans can't, and from extension to that Nopons are also like monsters for Origin because there is no Nopon bound into the cycle of life in Aionios (which makes me wonder how Nanana ended up allying with Agnus and no one never questioned why she lived longer), so just making math, assuming Riku is Riki's grandson, and Riki himself had 11 CHILDREN, then there is a chance literally every Nopon in Aionios descends from Riki himself, as his bloodline would be powerful enough to survive the collision, some Nopon, anyone of them could have made that tomb for Riki, maybe Riku because it seems like he was one of the favorites, or maybe even Shulk as he was searching people to join the city. It is weird from a lore perspective (gameplay wise makes sense ngl) that a dragon Superboss would be there just to not let us get the Riki item from his tomb, it is like he was actually protecting it for many years.
1 will always be my favourite for nostalgia reasons and future redeemed made me have to put down my switch multiple times cause i was just so overcome with emotion
XC1 is my fave in the series, but I have to say that despite most of the things you say are true, I felt they still gave the middle finger to Shulk and XC1, for starters I don't know how to put this into words but I wasn't satisfied with the ending of FR (disclaimer, this might seem like I'm being a hater, but trust me, I want to love everything about Xenoblade and the Xeno series), to me it felt like most of the lore in XC1 was throwed out the window and replaced with XC2 lore in which I was never able to like, the concept of drivers and blades was a big miss to me, then in terms of how the protags work in combat, I've never seen something as broken as rex in any rpg I've played in my entire life they really just forgot to make him unkillable for the shits and giggles (the only bad thing I could say about him is that he dies all the time which I find annoying if trying to play as him), meanwhile Shulk being based on Dunban arguably the most OP character in XC1 has definitely the worst set of skills in the entire game being borderline useless, his arts are in my opinion the strongest of the characters but being from Keves (i.e. their arts recharge slower because fuck you) makes them not stand out as say Matthew who recharges his arts almost immediately, even in the extended affinity chart Shulk has a plus 30% more aggro by dealing damage which is half of the skill in the main game (60% more aggro) and a measly 5% agility might as well call the skill "Fuck you Shulk" (although I also think this might be because Monolith is shit at designing tanks), meanwhile rex gets 100% unblockable and also the highest base stats in the game with highest attack and dexterity (which makes no sense since he is missing an eye), and then in terms of how the other characters treat them, when Shulk dies in combat everyone says something along the lines of "oh snap Shulk is dead lol" and if rex dies it's "impossible, we can't do this without you, you are so strong". Personally it still felt like a kick in the nuts for me when remembering all the XC2 fan service in base game, and sadly I was never able to like XC2 or rex and I'm really not trying to be a hater (I have clocked almost 1000 hours in XC2, played it 3 times and 100% it once) but I was left with a sense of dread thinking that going forward XC2 lore is going to take over my favorite franchise, I'm sorry if this felt negative but I wanted to get it out of my system
Honestly I feel the same way too, I like XB2 but I feel Monolith just likes XB2 more and became their favourite child especially with the ending of base 3 with the photo. And I agree that as cool as the ending of FR was it would have been nice to see all the characters together (mainly to seeing characters from XB1 and how they're doing) in the combined world. I felt they just didn't think much when designing Shulk compared to Rex, I just wished they just gave more respect to Shluk the same that Rex got and went crazy with Shulk too. Still I'm happy with the throw backs in FR tho 😁
@@azurelight6932 yeah, rex is undoubtedly the best attacker probably in the whole of Xeno but I would even say in whole of RPGs, very easily they could have made Shulk the best defender at least in Xeno 3, but I'm also convinced that monolith not only has a huge bias in favor XC2 but they are also dogshit at designing tanks
XC1 is a masterpiece and will always be. The following games surpassed it. It doesn't make xc1 bad in any way. If you account for inflation, xc1 is better. But xc2 and 3 are objectively better. And, of course, I expect that the next xeno series to be better then gears and saga and blade.
I actually have a pet theory about the two lucky sevens. If you look at the art book with them side by side, you can see that they both have little spike thingies on them and noahs has one and n's has two. My theory is that given the large amount of theming where things from xc1 have one of something and things from xc2 have two of something (like members of the trinity processor in each world, cores in the ouroboros form, and number of functioning arms on their agility tanks), noah's L7 is from xc1 and N's is specifically from alrest. This is supported by riku giving Noah his L7, of course. Just a pet theory though. Not really enough evidence.
Well said, summarized everything I've been feeling about future redeemed since beating it. Still can't believe the payoff and follow-ups from the retcons in DE
@@ASMRbyJIO Well Luxin talked about how Future Redeemed is mostly about XC1 fanservice. The joke I made is that the gameplay says otherwise, because it's so Rex-centric
@@ASMRbyJIOThey explained this in their original comment. Rex is extremely strong, and Shulk is terrible. It's not like the base game where all the characters are basically identical.
everything is a love letter to XC1. God made earth as a tribute to shulk making the universe.
Dead. Lmaooo
God also created sex as a tribute for Rex's legendary deeds.
The Holy Trinity is a reference to the Trinity Processor
@@MaxWelton Due to Matthew defeating Alpha at the end of FR, God even asked him to write parts of the Bible.
The Bible was written foretelling the glory of Xeno
Luxin forgetting that the XB1 main theme gets really loud and it overshadowing his voice at 24:39 is truly one of the Xenoblade references of all time
real, that made me smile a whole lot
me when xenoblade cutscene has crazy loud music and i can only understand what they're saying from the subtitles (biggest W ever)
This is the best part of the video 👌🏻
Alvis was there at the beginning and he proclaimed the end.
YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
We were right there with alvis when we saw two great titans come into existence at the very start of the game.
As someone with Xenoblade 1 as their all time favorite game this DLC was special for me. I’ll revisit it many times.
Pretty unique having the worst game in the trilogy as your favorite
@@Sambroke That was rude and uncalled for.
Xenoblade 1 did atleast have an amazing story though@@Sambroke
What a shitty opinion. Next you'll say Xenoblade 2 revolutionized the series with its controversial changes, big tits, gacha system and a hook for the story relied on late game plot.
@@Sambrokeunique? There are so many people who consider it the best. While 3 is my favourite, and you’re entitled to think that 1 is the worst, it is not a unique opinion
I genuinely cant believe how much love XC1 got in Future Redeemed. Like when I strolled into Colony 9 for the first time, I genuinely cried. I felt the same magic of playing 1 for the first time...
Absolutely. Its not the same replaying the xc1 remakes or original, but a new world with old stuff in it
saame... like walking into the area and suddenly recognizing the music, I felt my throat tense up, and seeing colony 9 made me legit cry, and at the same time realizing that there must be a reason we dont see it in the main game made me cry even more haha
even watching this video and Luxin listing all these things make me tear up rn TwT
As much as I loved that moment I wish Xenoblade 2 got the love 1 did, even in the base game. XC2 is my favorite game of all time so it was disappointing that all we really got were Mor Ardain's titan and a couple vaguely familiar locations.
Man I really enjoyed future redeemed. The "to me to you" reference from the gem crafting minigame was one of my favourite callbacks because it's just such a small thing that they really didn't have to add but did anyway :)
That one made me laugh. It was the perfect nod.
@@hallaloth3112same here. That and the affinity scene on raquel lake
I genuinely almost cried when Shulk refered to the Gem Man when he interacted with the old ether gem generator. The fact that that thing still functioned decades later across worlds goes to show just how well built it was to begin with.
I didn't think the words "to me" could send me, but they sure did.
It actually makes a ton of sene that Melia's gift to humanity is a sword that could cut through anything and Nia gave humanity the ability to gain immense power by bonding with others. In Xenoblade 1 the True Monado, a blade capable of cleaving a false god, was forged through the affinity between the 7 party members, that would also explain the Lucky 7's Monado symbol, and in Xenoblade 2 Rex was able to unlock the true potential of his blades due to the bonds between them. They are each a reflections of each games core themes and powers systems
Then there's alvis still reflecting and echoing 2's world mechanics via blade system
The way I interpreted the "souls in the sword" thing was that because both have Origin metal (presumably), they both are influenced by the will of the souls stored within Origin. Not that the souls are literally in the swords.
Edit: well, this aged poorly
Yeah I think a lot of people read a bit too literally into Riku saying that their friends are in the swords. I've always seen it as saying that Lucky 7 and Replica Monado are representative of hopes and dreams of their past allies.
That’s fair but it’s immensely funnier to imagine that this means that at the end of Xenoblade 3 Noah just chucked the Xenoblade 1 party into the ocean
@@arambles1 Noah is a Xenoblade 2 Elitist confirmed.
I think shulks is just suppose to be metaphorical but lucky seven could have actual souls. Though I think its just connected to origin rather than actually inhabiting it
@@baked7423 I think you're right about it just being metaphorical in Shulk's case.
There are so many XC1 locations in FR that it feels sometimes like Rex got Isekai'd into XC1 world lol.
His potential was so great he was the only one allowed to stay. He'd become too strong with the power of friendship 😂
Fuck I forgot how hard Xenoblade 1's title theme hits me in the gut with emotions. What an absolutely stellar song.
One of the best things of the Xeno series is that they gave us Luxin, we love you Luxin!!
When the XC1 title theme started playing over your narration I actually started crying. It's so, so powerful talking about that special game with that special music.
From Giorgio's curry to Shulk reminiscing his gem furnace quotes, these references made me feel really nostalgic.
The true takeaway from this video, BOTW is Xenoblade X2 and Tears of the kingdom is Xenoblade X3
Lol.
True there is a Ygas symbol on the fraisie quest. It's the final one of her arc it's in Claudross
Luxin have you even realized that You have just given the possibility, that Lucky Seven, the legendary blade of Xenoblade 3 is powered...
By Juju.
Makes sense why he got crucified in xc1 now doesn't it...
I, along with many other people I'm sure, got into Xenoblade thanks to the playthrough that chuggaaconroy did all of those years ago. However, at the time, it was incredibly difficult to obtain a copy to play for myself so I settled for watching along and being blown away by the story and loving every second of it.
Because of that though, by the time easier to obtain copies of the game rolled around (3D, the Wii U VC-adjacent version), I bought them but never played through them all the way because "well I've seen the story, I don't have to do this right now." This carried onto me playing through Xenoblade 2 before "finishing" 1, and eventually buying DE only for life to get in the way of me actually playing the first game in the series yet again.
After finishing 3 however, I decided I would finally buckle down and play through the rest of DE, both because I like the game and wanted to see the new story stuff from Future Connected, but also hoping that Future Connected would supplement what I'd seen in 3. And while I'd remembered a lot of the major plot points of 1 despite never actually playing it myself, finally playing through DE at the time I did made me realize how much I'd forgotten about it. I'm glad I did it though, because having it all so fresh in my memory really made me appreciate all of the things that Future Redeemed did. That climb into Yesterdale/Colony 9 with Time to Fight! followed by the Colony 9 field music had me smiling like an idiot the whole time. And the fact that they brought back the Fogbeast battle theme _and_ did a final boss theme that's reminiscent of Zanza, the Divine means that Xenoblade 3 as a whole package contains pretty much peak RPG Battle Theme for me, which is a huge plus.
When I was playing 3 and especially FR I kept thinking “man it’s sure been a long time since I played xc1” and I wonder just how many small references I missed out on due to just not remembering them after so long
Look I’m a XBC2 head but even I was beaming when I saw the words “gem man” in FR because it’s the first thing that popped in my head when I saw the old furnace
In the part where you're talking about major musical moments, I'm very surprised you neglected to mention how a more somber rendition of Sword Valley's theme plays at the Great Sword's Base. It's one of the only direct area remixes they do and it's for an obviously major region too and definitely helps lessen the gap between 1 and 2 representation in 3.
Glad I'm not the only one who felt the Ouroboros full circle feeling with FR making so many tributes to XC1. They really went ahead by closing out the Klaus saga by tributing the game it all started with. And the fact that Xenoblade unintentionally brought back Xeno just makes the fact that Takahashi was finally able to close out his 6 part story with this series makes it so much more special.
24:40 LUXIN SPEAK UP, LUXIN I CAN’T HEAR YOU, LUXIIIIIIN
God, Future Redeemed is such a good fucking game even just as a standalone. I can't wait for Xenoblade 4 and will be happily anticipating the day it comes. It still blows my mind how a very passionate movement from fans to bring 1 across the pond is the reason we're here gushing about how good the series is today.
Not sure if my favorite piece of 1 fanservice in this dlc is the random clifftop beyern refrence followe immediatly by “im not really feeling that” or the acknowledgement of the memey gem crafting voice lines
14:00 Poor Harry McEntire, his mind was all sorts of boggled, and things flying by him. And I'm sure he will realize one day when he gets to play Xenoblade 1.
Reminding me that I still need to finish watching that.
Right, i was waiting for him to release the videos in youtube, what happened to that?
Poor? Don't make me laugh. McEntire was directly told that he NEEDED to know about the other games in the trilogy before starting Future Redeemed. He chose ignore those warnings and play it anyway because N is in it and he only cares about Xenoblade games he can hear his own voice in.
Before 3, I considered 1 to be my favorite due to the nostalgia of having played it as a 15 year old, just getting exposed to how big games could truly be. (I only ever played Pokemon before this.)
The amount of fanservice towards 1 in the dlc just makes me smile with happiness. I basically went through my latter teen years with this game and it's characters in my life. It's like watching your kid grow up or something.
I got introduced to Xenoblade back in my early-mid teens on the 3ds and playing through future redeemed was such a great experience. It was like shulk (and rex) had grown up alongside me on many different levels. Not to mention going through colony 9 and all the other places from 1. It was like stepping back into my childhood
Same. I picked up Xenoblade 1 on the Wii because I didn't have nothing to play at the time. And seeing so much coverage of this game that came out of nowhere for me and hearing about Operation Rainfall made me get it as a birthday present. I was worried I wasn't gonna like it at first because I had trouble getting out of my comfort zone when it came to unknown IPs I hadn't heard of. As well as not being into RPGs besides Pokemon and Mario and Luigi. But man I got hooked after the attack on Colony 9 and reaching the Bionis Leg. And it became my favorite video game at the time. And still is one of my favorites. Only rivaled by the other Xenoblade games. So seeing FR close out the saga by doing a massive tribute to Xenoblade 1 felt satisfying. Really pushing that Ouroboros theming of coming full circle.
@@FireFury190 Couldn’t have said it better myself. I also stayed in my comfort zone with games I already knew but I’m really glad I got into Xenoblade. Zelda was my favorite series for a long time but I think the Xenoblade series has took that place for me now. FR was such a great way to end the saga and I hope Monolithsoft continues the great work with whatever they have planned next
@@shinyy187 Had it not been for Xenoblade making me like RPGs I wouldn't have tried Fire Emblem when Awakening came out. And now that series is one of my favorites. I also gotta thank Xenoblade for showing me that Nintendo came have IPs with rich and deep stories and characters. Same with Fire Emblem. As well as in recent years what Pokemon is lacking and I wish could emulate better.
@@shinyy187 The Xenoblade franchise is a very close second place after the Zelda series for me.
I loved all the fanservice of XC1 although XC2 is my favorite game. I was so happy to see Colony 9 and everything about Alvis and him being "Ontos", a thing that only fans theorized and wasn't canon yet (even if in XCDE Alvis has a core crystal), especially seeing how they explained it and seeing him in action.
The only thing I'm not satisfied about is the lack of info about Pneuma and Logos. I get that FR had to be a huge XC1 recall but not seeing them (they weren't even nominated) is just a missed opportunity to explain Alvis even better talking about the relationship between them. Pyra & Mythra being only called "them", Malos being totally ignored until the end just made so much confusion into my head and things got more complicated and unknown instead of making the player understand what did exactly happen to them. They are just core crystals in N's sword and in Matthew's gloves while Alvis got huge explanation and huge character development/description
Someone on the Xenoblade subreddit noted a way in which Future Redeemed balances out the base game. The base game of Xenoblade 3 was against Moebius who are all about being stuck in the past and unwilling to move forward, with the game ultimately saying to continue onward even if you don't know what's coming.
Alpha, the antagonist of Future Redeemed, takes the lesson of the base game and pushes it to its absolute extreme, wanting to burn away everything that came before to make way for the new. Future Redeemed counters this pointing out how important it is to honor the past and not forget where we came from, both in-story, and as this video points out by making so many callbacks to said Origin of the series.
Each of the two game's antagonists take what the other game was trying to say and push it way too far. What's needed is _balance._ Balance between looking forward to the future and looking backward to the past, without letting either completely dominate causing one to lose sight of where they are.
Unrelated, but with how important the Trinity Processor was to the DLC in addition to just Ontos, it actually kind of skews the importance of two of the founders. Both Glimmer and Nikol are Rex and Shulk's children respectively, but for Nikol, his relationship to Shulk is the most noteworthy thing about him from the get-go. Glimmer's relation to Rex actually ends up being _less_ important, because her mother is _freaking Pneuma._ She is practically A's niece and nobody in the game seems to acknowledge that. Pyra and Mythra are alluded to a few times, both as Pneuma and as Glimmer's mothers, but, as far as I can remember, never both at the same time.
A not mentioning anything about Glimmer being their niece is probably just because A doesn't exactly see it that way, since A isn't truly related to pyra by blood or genetics but would call her a sibling because they were from the same processing unit. Either way they wouldn't be able to say anything about that to Glimmer since she's a soldier trapped in the system and wouldn't understand.
Like the other guy said, Pneuma and A are not blood related and A’s had minimal interaction with Pneuma herself. In fact, I’m quite sure she’d quicker see Nikol as her nephew considering A and Shulk’s close relationship and their history rather than seeing Glimmer, who she has basically no connection to as her niece.
i got into the series with 1 and to this day its still my favorite
the series overall is great but 1 just hit differently for me
i was so happy to see how much it was featured in FR
6:47 it goes even further than that since all of his arts and even his unity pairing attacks are all homages to Dunban's arts.
I cried when I passed the threshold, familiar music started to play and Colony 9 came into view. What an amazing moment.
And thank you for always making such great videos Luxin, they've been helping me through some hard times this year.
The way that Main Theme was swelling as the final thesis of the video was delivered was so
Another song they reused from previous Xenoblade games for base Xenoblade 3 was Shulk and Fiora in Melia's Ascension Quest btw
Happy to have another round of luxin talking about random xeno things. Love your vids keep up the great work.
Xenoblade 1 will always be the game that shaped who i am today, never would i have expected the wii game i picked up out of curiosity back in 2010 would make me pursue a career in engineering
1:14 After FR released I remember seeing a bunch of XB2 fans lamenting the fact that FR didnt have a lot of fanservice for 2 fans, despite the fact that base game 3 had way more 2 fanservice than it did for 1. And even still, FR has heavy 2 fanservice with Rex literally name dropping the Trinity Processor cores, it centering around 2's full-series retcons with the space station/beanstalk (because at this point you cant avoid it), AND Matthew and Na'el both being descendants of Rex. So yeah, Im glad FR evened out the series representation in 3 a bit more.
9:07 and she got the better pre-final-battle speech to the troops
your voice with the climax of the xc1 title theme is beautiful im gonna cry
I've grown to like 2 a lot, and 3 (along with Future Redeemed) are fantastic, but XBC1(DE) will always be my favourite. I'm so glad Future Redeemed leaned into it when building its story.
As a massive Xenoblade 1 fan I loved seeing all the fan service to that game. Seeing all the references to my favorite character Dunban was amazing, however I am a little let down with the lack of Reyn fanservice. Feels like all we got was the Lanz outfit and Panacea as nods to Reyn, but even then Panacea doesn't really feel like Reyn. More of a nod to Sharla than anything.
It would've been cool to see Shulk's lab in Colony 9 and have an affinity scene where Shulk talks about the Monado and mentions Reyn wielding it to A or something. For a character so important to Shulk and colony 9 i'm surprised there wasn't more done with him. I'd have loved to have seen a "Reyn Time" reference. I guess you could consider the "To me" a Reyn reference but that's a stretch.
Great video! I love how the DLC was about preventing a second Xenoblade 1 while appreciating how great that journey was.
Despite everything they still couldn't help making Rex the undesputed best character in the game.
I only just played Xenoblade 1 this year, hadn't touched the franchise prior.
Got it with the 2 game voucher thing and was planning on using the second on TotK, and Xenoblade would bide me time.
I still haven't gotten around to TotK. I used the second one on Xenoblade 2, and then got TotK with Xenoblade 3 later. I'm still too busy doing a second playthrough of XC2 and 3 both.
Anyway, when I got to Colony 9 in Future Redeemed a few months later, I still felt nostalgic even though I just played the franchise this year.
17:06 they de-maidified Origin. That’s the most important job.
I also loved it when Shulk said to you by the gem creator referencing when you do it with Ryen
5:05 it’s also Aiconic in the eyeonios skailine
This feels so poetic to come out right now because this week I got a coworker who didn't really have much to play at the moment to try Xenoblade 1. And they seem to enjoy it so far.
When I first got to Colony 9 in this DLC and heard that sweet Colony 9 music, it was pure bliss and nostalgia for me.
I love the entire series and while yes XBC2 is my favorite game, ever that’s largely due to it being my first Xeno anything (outside of 20 hours of X) and spending 5 years of my life finishing it, so I was super thrilled to see XBC1 diehards finally get to eat with Future Redeemed. The reveal of Matthews glove and seeming confirmation about N’s sword was big enough for me anyway to let 1 get most of the spotlight here.
And look I still love 1 to death so it’s not like it was a bad deal for me either. It was refreshing to balance the scales a bit and honestly there’s still so many unanswered questions for both sides after their respective games that we’ll likely never know outside of fan theory which I think was the right call despite desperately wanting to know EVERYTHING that happened to EVERYONE. That goes for 3 too as even as a prequel you could still stuff an entire other prequel with everything we still don’t definitively know about the N&M of it all.
But it’s better for not trying to do all that.
Absolutely beautiful video, I felt things.
I also love how Na’el’s possession by Alpha is literally stated as a parallel to Shulk and Zanza.
Both have grievances and swear revenge for their people and those they hold dearest to themselves. But through this, they draw power to Alpha/Zanza allowing them the chance to create or maintain the world in which they in-vision.
However, the host ultimately realises the horrible motives they have and become unpossessed, leading to the final battle with Alpha/Zanza
Luxin your content is my blood and your voice is my heart
Video: talking about how important Xenoblade 1 is to the whole series because of what Xenoblade 3 dlc did
RUclips: labels the video as Xenoblade 2
I think the implication with Lucky Seven is it's forged from the literal pieces of Origin metal storing the souls of the remaining five members of 1's party, plus Kino and Nene from FC.
It's possible Shulk's FR Monado has some Origin metal inside it and that's why it can cut Flame Clocks, but I don't think Riku was being as literal about it storing souls as he was with L7. It seems like a run-of-the-mill Aionios copy Shulk projects with his mind, while the pre-Origin real deal is safely hidden in Melia's castle as a template for her to model L7 from.
As for Melia's flashback versus the Photo, I wonder if it's because the devs' logic was that FC did the Photo's job for 1's world already? FC does give a good general indication of the direction it and its political structures were heading in, and that the cast of 1 likely settled down with comfortable lives afterwards, while the fate of Alrest was completely up in the air to the point people kept arguing over whether Pyra and Mythra even truly came back or not.
Another great day for a Luxin video
On the topic of OSTs, are you able to put in what OSTs you use in your videos? I love the ones you pick but I can't find for the life of me the Xenosaga piano arrangement that plays in your recent vids. Good work as always, Luxin!
The music taking over the voice at the end of the video, is a great reference to Xenoblade.
I think this video can be resumed in a feeling. That being, how much I found myself smiling like an idiot while being hit with all these references. Colony 9 is done perfectly.
Time to Fight was the very first Xenoblade music we ever got to hear, even before Xenoblade existed. It was the bgm for the very first Monado Beginning of World Trailer
If i imagine XCX takes a part of creating games like BOTW or even Elden Ring.. Its such an awesome Game and MS in general an awesome Company
As someone whose favorite Xeno game has always been 1 (it's also my favorite game ever made since I played it in 2012), Future Redeemed took Xenoblade 3 from a great game to among my very small list of favorite games. I very much felt the lack of Xenoblade 1 in the DNA of Xenoblade 3's base game, but FR fixed all of that for me.
There is nothing that can describe that feeling of hearing the colony 9 music again going in completely blind. Out of the three games, XCDE is my absolute favorite and I’m so glad this DLC did it justice.
The reaction you had with hearing colony 9 entrance, was the same when the main party of three goes to meet Nia and we hear any angelic version of drifting souls. As someone who started the series with 2, play Definitive and Future connected and then 3, hearing not only the angelic but the battle version of drifting soul made me nostalgic and happy then words could say. It was like seeing a old friend you haven’t seen in awhile, sure they look older and little different, but they are still the same
Can we talk about the fact that the grand final boss of the entire saga is the literal Xenoblade?
Excellent video, thank you so much
New Luxin video, let's gooooooo
Honestly making the dlc a xc1 love letter makes sense, since xc2 sold much better than xc1 more people know of xc2 than xc1 so the more die hard fans are more likely to get the dlc as opposed to the people who only played xc2 or xc3
They made a to you to me joke in the ether furnace sidequest. I think that's more than enough evidence
I’m pretty sure that “souls being in the weapons” was metaphorical not literal
Shulk's replica monado most likely has origin metal because it can destroy the flame clock
At first I didn't get the hype for Xenoblade 1. But recently I played it, and holy crap, it's phenomenal
I don't care that much about how many callbacks xeno 1 or 2 had to 3 and FR, but I appreciate how the trilogy was made it.
My favorite is 2, then 1, then 3.
Shulk: I get all the references and call backs.
Rex: What about my game?
Shulk: Barely anything, but you can spam again double spinning edge.
Rex: Deal.
Xenoblade 1 was there at the beginning and Xenoblade 1 will proclaim the end.
NEW LUXIN VIDEO!!!!! LETS GO!!!!!!! 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
2:05 ignoring Na’el, which so much else did.
Great video, let's see what the future awaits us
when i first reached colony nine yes i just started crying it was that impactful for me
for the souls into the weapons, i just think that's a metaphor. Cause that would imply Melia and Riku found and used Zanza's method to fusing a soul into a weapon and applied it to origin. And even though there's some sort of symbolism about humans, no matter how hard they try, always go back to their roots and a necessary evil being needed for the good of the future. I'm positive it's just a metaphor........like at least 60% positive.
I know a few people have already mentioned this, but I always thought it was neat that Colony 9 in FR resembles the Colony 9 we see in the final cutscene of XC1.
XC3 felt very XC1 skewed overall, though with the context of XC3 being the final love letter to the initial saga that THAT GAME set up, in addition to lore XC2 introduced being FAR too important to just drop in later entries, the bias is definitely justified, especially in FR, even if a more evenly balanced game would've been "fairer" for lack of other words.
Xb3 base was more Xeno 2 skewed especially with the ending so it’s only fair especially with the full circle thing.
@@jairekambui7738 I have never agreed with this outlook, its like Nia had more screen time and lore than Melia RIGHT at the end of the game and all of a sudden everyone just forgets how skewed gameplay, design and story was towards XC1 in the other 90% of the damn game
@@ajrxc2 That’s true, 3 definitely feels more like 1 than 2. I hope the spirit of 2 comes back in a future entry. 3 is supposedly a mix of 1 and 2 in terms of the characters, plot and world aspects, but in terms of tone and character design it’s much closer to 1. It even brings back colonies. I think it really worked for this game, but I like 2 a lot more than 1 so I hope the next entry can be more in the spirit of 2. I really hope 2’s vibe and aesthetic wasn’t a one time experiment even if some people complained about it. I wish the Agnian side characters looked more interesting, they kinda just look like Xenoblade 1 interpretations of xenoblade 2 characters.
1st thing, I love how all of the xenoblade expantions add previews of game mechanics for the next installment.
2nd thing, i really hope the next xenoblade will show a true merged world where the old protags and party members are living happily.
3rd thing, i really want Logos/Malos to return in a protagonist roll.
4th thing, I'm honestly starting to believe in the joke that Xenoblade X is the tenth game in the series and that we are playing catch up.
5th thing, squareinex and monolithsoft need to make an agreement/comprimize to remaster and rerelease the xenogears and xenosaga games.
thank you for you time
I had a big old grin on my face watching this. FR completely blew me out of the water, and it's incredibly fun to hear you gush about it the same way I do.
The only point I'd disagree on is that A is 1:1 Alvis - I think that, while being "only" a fraction of him, they're also more than him in a way, two distinct sides of the same person, not entirely unlike Pyra/Mythra (albeit with metaphysics closer to Pneuma/Mythra)
Mythra was hit with emotional trauma and split from it
Alvis was hit physically and split from it.
I didn't realize the sword literally had souls in them, I just thought he just meant that it carries memories with it, like you look at it and remember those dear to you, in a "your friends will always be in your heart" sort of way
I don't think, at any point, it is explicitly stated that there are LITERAL souls in Lucky Seven. It's just the fact that they specifically bothered to number 'seven' souls is what gets people. It doesn't really make sense for there to be any literal souls in the sword anyways, people just accidentally took it a bit too literally.
@@Fioriole Riku literally says that there are souls who are deeply important to melia residing within lucky seven.
@@dattos140 I said literal souls.
What Riku says could still be an analogy for the culmination of those people's beliefs.
Were he to say something along the lines of how and/or why the souls were there, THAT'D be direct confirmation that he means it literally. However, the vagueness provided implies something less straight-forward.
Assuming the souls are there because Lucky Seven is made of Origin metal containing the backups of those people, as mentioned in the video, this has some dark implications. The possibility of removing a soul from Origin to make a sword, likely nullifying that person's reincarnation after Origin's restoration, is a really odd decision from someone who had a hand in building the glorified back-up drive. Not to mention all the shards the main party picked up and used to augment their own Blades.
Or the boat.
And then Noah tosses Lucky Seven in the ocean. You'd think Melia would give it more sentimental value if it contained her most cherished friends' literal souls. She was still around; she could've taken Lucky Seven back. Riku too. Instead, she just told Riku to give away the thing holding her friends' spirits to someone "worthy" without even letting them know what the sword contained. Very uncharacteristically careless of her.
In addition, that'd remove the possibility of likely candidates we KNOW are important to Melia, like Sorean or Kallian, being one of the seven because they died way too long ago to be backed-up into Origin.
And in terms of evidence, we have no evidence of anything similar ever happening in the series. The closest is Zanza splitting himself between the Monado, Shulk, and Arglas.
And he's a god.
Melia potentially having a superior version of that ability is pretty jarring.
Oh yeah and Luxin mentioned Riku implied that the REX+ also had souls in it, so I guess Shulk just felt like doing it too one day when he was tweaking his REX+? Good on him for apparently shoving peoples' entire nonphysical beings into his old FC science project.
And... what about N's sword?
@@Fioriole I don't think the statement about shulk having everyone with him is as literal as the statement riku gave about the lucky seven having the souls of very important people in it, that shit was a direct statement and should be taken at face value, unlike the previous statement which could be interpreted literally, as for what they refer to as a "soul", that's more so open to interpretation like you said, but whatever those "souls" are, they are a physical thing that can be put in a blade.
N's sword is pretty normal, it's made out of origin metal so i guess it has some souls in it by proxy lol, probably not as important as the ones in noah's sword but whatever,
As for noah throwing the lucky seven into the ocean, even IF you don't think it has the souls of the party members in it, it DOES 100 percent have the pnuema core in it, meaning it's fucked either way! I wouldent worry about it, i'm sure rex will just go salvage it later, he probably knows where it is since he's currently upholding the worlds integrity.
I too remember the new side quests about georgio and all that with so much nostalgia and love. I felt the love for Xeno 1 and, it totally deserved that. I actually wanted something with Xord's grandaughter even, or maybe Kenny Rohan's son or something? haha Nice vid pal
Xenoblade is the only series where it can reference this one npc with like 2 or 3 extremely minor quests involving them and make me pog irl.
They also made us literally do the generic quests you get from nameless npcs, and I was like "hell yeah, FETCH QUESTS"
And when Shulk referenced the repetitive gem crafting dialogue???? I actually shed a tear.
Such a damn good series, even its most minor (and sometimes, frankly bad) aspects make me nostalgic lmao
I wish Xeno would release one large data book on where we are in the series. Similar to perfect works.
People who press thumbs down on XC1 is probs baby fans who missed the first game on WII, XC1 is the game !!!
I’m so happy future redeemed DIDNT go into what happened to Pyra and Mythra. Xenoblade 2 got a lot of love in the main game and I’m happy they did. But xb1 felt so left behind. But future redeemed restored balance by adding so many references to 1 and adding more detail the characters. Xenoblade as a series was done properly! Xenoblade 1 is my favorite but all of xenoblade has my heart
I know it's probably done half-jokingly, but I do get slightly annoyed when people ask what happened to Mythra's kid, and they were disappointed that the game never addressed it.
I just think they didn't have a story to tell, or her child didn't end up being important. The way Monolithsoft makes their games is very deliberate and meticulous. If they wanted to answer questions about certain things, they would have. People should try to consider possible reasons for their decisions instead of attack the decision itself.
The beginning and the end
Matthew is also related to nia and Rex
About lucky 7 and the monado REX, I feel like those 7 people actually meant every party member of 1 + future connected besides Melia and Shulk. About the Riki situation, characters haven't forgotten about their previous lives, and still remember the places from their old world even if they are merged, as Nia remembers Land of Morytha even if it was merged with the Nopon forest from XC1. My guess would be that Origin holds the lives of all people that died during the impact or couldn't get into Aionios on one way or the other, so as a metal conductions, those souls wouldn't be physical but some kind of energy that is shared through the whole origin at the same time, including their metals (like how you can have hot metal, and if you cut it in 2 and don't change conditions, their temperature shouldn't be lower or higher, should be the same as if the object was still together.) and both swords because of the fact that they are made from it. Also, the Riku tomb could be made by actually anyone ngl, from what it seems clocks and Moebius only target humans, which is explained on base XC3 with how monsters grow up and have children, but humans can't, and from extension to that Nopons are also like monsters for Origin because there is no Nopon bound into the cycle of life in Aionios (which makes me wonder how Nanana ended up allying with Agnus and no one never questioned why she lived longer), so just making math, assuming Riku is Riki's grandson, and Riki himself had 11 CHILDREN, then there is a chance literally every Nopon in Aionios descends from Riki himself, as his bloodline would be powerful enough to survive the collision, some Nopon, anyone of them could have made that tomb for Riki, maybe Riku because it seems like he was one of the favorites, or maybe even Shulk as he was searching people to join the city. It is weird from a lore perspective (gameplay wise makes sense ngl) that a dragon Superboss would be there just to not let us get the Riki item from his tomb, it is like he was actually protecting it for many years.
1 will always be my favourite for nostalgia reasons and future redeemed made me have to put down my switch multiple times cause i was just so overcome with emotion
XC1 is my fave in the series, but I have to say that despite most of the things you say are true, I felt they still gave the middle finger to Shulk and XC1, for starters I don't know how to put this into words but I wasn't satisfied with the ending of FR (disclaimer, this might seem like I'm being a hater, but trust me, I want to love everything about Xenoblade and the Xeno series), to me it felt like most of the lore in XC1 was throwed out the window and replaced with XC2 lore in which I was never able to like, the concept of drivers and blades was a big miss to me, then in terms of how the protags work in combat, I've never seen something as broken as rex in any rpg I've played in my entire life they really just forgot to make him unkillable for the shits and giggles (the only bad thing I could say about him is that he dies all the time which I find annoying if trying to play as him), meanwhile Shulk being based on Dunban arguably the most OP character in XC1 has definitely the worst set of skills in the entire game being borderline useless, his arts are in my opinion the strongest of the characters but being from Keves (i.e. their arts recharge slower because fuck you) makes them not stand out as say Matthew who recharges his arts almost immediately, even in the extended affinity chart Shulk has a plus 30% more aggro by dealing damage which is half of the skill in the main game (60% more aggro) and a measly 5% agility might as well call the skill "Fuck you Shulk" (although I also think this might be because Monolith is shit at designing tanks), meanwhile rex gets 100% unblockable and also the highest base stats in the game with highest attack and dexterity (which makes no sense since he is missing an eye), and then in terms of how the other characters treat them, when Shulk dies in combat everyone says something along the lines of "oh snap Shulk is dead lol" and if rex dies it's "impossible, we can't do this without you, you are so strong". Personally it still felt like a kick in the nuts for me when remembering all the XC2 fan service in base game, and sadly I was never able to like XC2 or rex and I'm really not trying to be a hater (I have clocked almost 1000 hours in XC2, played it 3 times and 100% it once) but I was left with a sense of dread thinking that going forward XC2 lore is going to take over my favorite franchise, I'm sorry if this felt negative but I wanted to get it out of my system
Honestly I feel the same way too, I like XB2 but I feel Monolith just likes XB2 more and became their favourite child especially with the ending of base 3 with the photo. And I agree that as cool as the ending of FR was it would have been nice to see all the characters together (mainly to seeing characters from XB1 and how they're doing) in the combined world.
I felt they just didn't think much when designing Shulk compared to Rex, I just wished they just gave more respect to Shluk the same that Rex got and went crazy with Shulk too. Still I'm happy with the throw backs in FR tho 😁
@@azurelight6932 yeah, rex is undoubtedly the best attacker probably in the whole of Xeno but I would even say in whole of RPGs, very easily they could have made Shulk the best defender at least in Xeno 3, but I'm also convinced that monolith not only has a huge bias in favor XC2 but they are also dogshit at designing tanks
XC1 is a masterpiece and will always be.
The following games surpassed it.
It doesn't make xc1 bad in any way.
If you account for inflation, xc1 is better. But xc2 and 3 are objectively better. And, of course, I expect that the next xeno series to be better then gears and saga and blade.
I actually have a pet theory about the two lucky sevens. If you look at the art book with them side by side, you can see that they both have little spike thingies on them and noahs has one and n's has two. My theory is that given the large amount of theming where things from xc1 have one of something and things from xc2 have two of something (like members of the trinity processor in each world, cores in the ouroboros form, and number of functioning arms on their agility tanks), noah's L7 is from xc1 and N's is specifically from alrest. This is supported by riku giving Noah his L7, of course.
Just a pet theory though. Not really enough evidence.
Well said, summarized everything I've been feeling about future redeemed since beating it. Still can't believe the payoff and follow-ups from the retcons in DE
9:57 are you sure Origin Metal didn’t exist under a different name at that time?
Just finished XBC 1 for the 1st time and I'm now working on Future Connected
Why aren't you working on it?
@@elinacarmina3050 Because I finished it and I'm now working on XC2. And auto correct went off and I didn't even noticed it 😐
While I understand why it couldnt be that way, I personally wish we could have said this about 3 on its own.
Counterargument: Rex is busted in this game and Shulk hits like a wet noodle.
The XC2 favoritism is impossible to overcome
What does that have to do with the video?
@@ASMRbyJIO Well Luxin talked about how Future Redeemed is mostly about XC1 fanservice. The joke I made is that the gameplay says otherwise, because it's so Rex-centric
@@Napoleonlikespie in what way is the gameplay about Rex? That’s a players choice
@@ASMRbyJIOThey explained this in their original comment. Rex is extremely strong, and Shulk is terrible. It's not like the base game where all the characters are basically identical.