A character tier list would be funny as hell and be good content maybe? Like dont include all of the characters, that's too many and sounds painful, just maybe the main party members/ story important ones?
I love collecting things so a xeno collection video could be cool like you could show off the special editions and the siren model kit you showed in one of your vids and of course the xenosaga videos
I think a video going over things that are in every Xeno game would be cool. For example every game has a character with either a person/personality inside of them. Fei/id, kosmos/mary, shulk/zanza, pyra/mythra, all of the games has a version like this. Would be cool to see more details like this that exist in them all.
@@Sayyble Alternatively, I think it would be hilarious to do an actual tier list of EVERY Xeno character. I doubt anyone else has ever done that, so that could be a funny claim to fame.
@@Tohlemiach I know Enel made a video like that, but I don't know if he did literally *every* character or just the most important ones / party members
I could barely do it once. How do you have that much time (I can rephrase that to “HOW DO YOU NOT EVEN KNOW THE *CONCEPT* OF HAVING A LIFE,” but I won’t because I don’t want to be rude).
I love the xenoblade series, but I can't, for the life of me, 100% this game, let alone finish it. I can't force myself to backtrack and talk to every npc just so I wouldn't miss anything. Or am I doing it wrong?
With DE, they actually added heart to heart in the event theater. So, you can just view all of the choices there instead of saving and reloading the game. You can pick out outfits, weather, and time of day too.
I haven’t watched yet, but anticipating your suffering and learning what coping mechanisms you used to combat the sheer volume of side-jargon in this game has me on the edge of my seat!
Xenoblade DE is an all time great and I agree with you that exploration is one of the best aspects of the game. I had so much fun discovering things around the world. The game taking place on a titan's body makes the world so much more interesting to think about when you contextualize it in that way as you explore. Looking around and seeing past/future landmarks on lower or higher parts of the body gives Xenoblade such an epic & grand sense of scale. For example I adore how you can see Colony 9 from around the Colony 6 area by looking down. Another cool moment is jumping off the Mechon base at the end of Sword Valley because you load into the Fallen Arm area instead of dying. I love Xenoblade so much it has upped the bar for JRPGs. MonolithSoft are a master class in crafting worlds and that's only one aspect of the game that makes it so good.
Just bought the game and I’m sooo excited to finally play it for the first time. Your videos have HEAVILY inspired me to finally give the series a try, so I just wanted to say thanks for what you do. Your channel is really awesome and I can’t wait to see whatever you make next!
im a big fan of these retrospective videos! youre good at communicating your thoughts and feelings in a way that i can understand what you mean as someone who has never played xenoblade. keep it up :)
I love re-falling in love with this game after a while away from it, from the music to the visuals and story beats. It'll always have a special place in my heart I don't think any other game could replace it
For anyone who wants to attempt this, I have to recommend one resource that is incredibly useful. There exists a Xenoblade 1 DE 100% checklist people have made and can find on a few Reddit posts. It’s a checklist, so you check things off as you do them. It covers absolutely everything, even stuff like locations and landmarks as well as weapon/armor appearances. It also has a bunch of useful information including where to find certain collectibles/art books, expiration points for every relevant quest, NPCs you can trade quest items from, locations and spawn requirements for every Unique Monsters and so on. The only thing it doesn’t cover is Time Attack Ranks and the full affinity chart, which you’ll have to use other resources for. Best of all is that there’s a spoiler and no spoiler version if you want to do it on your first playthrough. And there’s even one for Future Connected as well. And just the best piece of advice I can give is to chip away at things over the playthrough instead of all at one point. Reset for advanced art book drops on every Unique monster’s gold chest as you kill them instead of dedicating six hours to get them all at the end of the game. Start chipping away at obnoxious achievements during the playthrough, like doing the trick to advance days fast for Happy New Year when questing. Don’t leave every expiring quest for right before the major cut-off point. And know when to cut out RNG like using the Time Attack shop not only for Colony 6 but also for some of the collectipedia, or using trades for quest items instead of relying on drops.
Thank uuu! Ive been using two guides to knock off npc affinity nodes and side quests. Is it recommended to just play through DE casually the 1st time then go for 100% on NG+?
I did a like ~95% run when I first played it and it was definitely an experience. I did all quests for except I think ~13, since they expired before I realized they had gone/decided to be completionist. I did get every achievement though, so whichever aspects are needed for that I did. I wasn't able to beat all of the superbosses however, I could only take down Final Marcus and Despotic Arsene. I had a lot of the same struggles. Keeping track of the affinity chart for quest unlocks as well as the branching paths was definitely tough and I definitely referenced the wiki or a guide many times. The hardest part was definitely some of the record achievements. Use a chain attack 1000 times, achieve burst affinity 2000 times, and defeat an enemy 10 levels higher than the party leader were probably the worst for me.
You poor soul I can't even stand doing colony 6. I absolutely agree with finding next locations its so nice to see a beautiful or secret place. Also colony 6 is cool to rebuild its just long as hell to grind for which I only did colony 6 and terry town when I came to rebuilding or building towns
I completed this game to 100% completion as well and I really enjoyed it for the most part. I think it's quite tragic how so many good side quests are buried underneath countless fetch quests or how heart to hearts were locked behind high affinity between party members. There's some really great stuff but not everyone is going to see them because of how much you need to go through to find it. You're spot on about the exploration. I was amazed at how many secrets the world has! I really enjoyed the lore behind the giants, especially since you don't learn much about them through the main game. I thought it was so cool how you could find King Agni's tomb in the main game and then his birthplace in FC! I think the thing I hated the most was the missable content and 3 specific achievements (Happy New Year, Roots Around The World, and Complete 180). Sometimes I wonder what the devs were thinking with some of these achievements 😂
Don't forget "____ The Betrayer". A sidequest that needs to be seen to be believed. It's a missable side quest and the finale to a chain of quests that spanned the whole game. It ends with a Unique Monster boss fight and uses "A Tragic Decision", a track otherwise reserved for sad or hopeless boss fights.
Yup it was a dang grind. Shoutout to Enel for all the guides on how to do it efficiently. I did literally everything except for getting the costumes and weapon skins for all the characters; I didn’t do it in NG+ cuz I was kinda like eh, but it was fun nonetheless.
Getting all costumes is not really that hard, maybe except the new ones they added (I'm looking at you beach costume for Shulk) as most of them you can buy, the weapons are another story, there are some missable weapons, ones that you only get from enemies that can be missable, and one specific for Melia where you have to talk to Kallian at a specific time, but they are like, 3 or 4 if memory serves. Edit: I gess there can be more missable weapons if you don't buy them at specific places? I'm not sure as I have the habit to buy equipment every chance I get...
@@DragonshotProductions for sure! Xenoblade has soooo many thing it can be overwhelming, I'm just a sucker for completing these kind of things because I like to dress up the characters depending on which area I am xD (I love the makina and the mekon costumes ❤) and, of course, the weapon has to match the outfit hahahahah
Breath of the Wild has a town you can build up from scratch and invite people to, which also has a growing soundtrack and visual improvements, it’s really cool
I 100%ed it a few months ago. 225 hours playtime. I really maxed and completed everything, every side quest, S rank on every challenge, maxed out affinity chart, 5 stars in every village, every achievement, maxed out Colony 6, defeated all the superbosses and so on. Hell, I even got Level 99 with all techniques maxed out in Future Connected. That took some time. Now I can definitely say, Xenoblade Chronicles is my alltime favorite game. And I got no hobbies.
So cool watching so much appreciation for so many details of this amazing piece of a game. Currently on my 100% run as well, but really taking my time with it. :)
Yeah, I was actually sad that some of these were out of Xenoblade 2, for example, I loved the afinity chart between npcs, it makes the world so much alive, and the subquest have more meaning behind them. I hope we get it again in Xenoblade 3.
I'm currently starting this now and I'm only in chapter 11 clocking at 50 hours already and trying to complete all quests in every area. I agree with you the exploration is the key enjoyment in this game. Especially for me, a new gamer in "consoles", I appreciate the huge amount of content.
Is nice to see how much your perception of the game and the saga has evolved over time for you, I remember watching your first playthrough of xc1 and to see your latest videos is like night and day. Thanks a lot for sharing all of this! PS: AND XC3 IS AROUND THE CORNER!
I actually managed to 100% both Xenoblade 1 and 2 without a guide. normally my first playthrough's of jrpgs are very meticulous, with me making my best effort to ensure i do literally everything within a game. then again i am quite the completionist when it comes to games, i almost never play a game without completing it 100%
I think Noponstones is the best upgrade on the definitive edition. The time trails are not only fun but an efficient way to gain a currency that gets you access to every art at max level. They even let you buy items for colony 6 which turned me on to “100%”ing the game. This game will have a really strong grip on my neck as this 3rd title releases. Because I do see xenoblade chronicles as the pinnacle of exploration/adventure rpgs
I completed the game back in Jan 3 2021. What it did to ME, was make me feel complete and accomplished. After countless hours of grinding, 13 hours a day, for weeks. Just grinding DLC for Arts, and base game for Art Points. Just constant grind. Tho it wasn't my first completed game, it did get me into completionist playstyles. I ended up completing BoTW right after. Then DOOM, then HADES, Terraria, Persona 4 Golden, 3 Sonic games, Metal Gear Rising, and a bunch of other indies I can't wait to complete Xenoblade 3. I gotta finish completing XC2. I finally got Torna
I remember on my first playtvrough, basically my first big jrpg ever, I ignored basically all optional stuff and had no village over 1 star and was underwhelmed by the game even though I still liked it didnt see the big big hype, god I was stupid replayed it again and loved it, I did like 40 quests overall
@@Nelsito99 I'm pretty sure it is all of the colony 6 items. I know I kept getting upset when the guide said I could buy all the colony 6 items from Time Trials, but that option never showed up until I was almost completely done with colony 6, and basically didn't even need it.
I enjoyed exploring in Xenoblade 1 and I think Xenoblade 3 will have a great world to explore as well with the addition of borrowing a more open structure similar to X
100% quests in the origional is a nightmare. I would periodically run around the towns. A different times a day looking at the minimap because the marker would only show up if they were close to you.
one thing i hate about Xenoblade YT content-or really just any JRPG content-is that creators will say “not gonna spoil too much” and then they still spoil stuff ICANT but you actually do such a fantastic job of avoiding so much that this video can really just act as a review for newcomers. and as a review, you don’t even touch on the stuff that everyone always does, like “basically it is an RPG with auto attacks and also the story is CRAZY and the world is this big in comparison to Skyrim.” everything you bring up here is rarely talked about in reviews and whatnot, yet so important to what makes Xeno games so special.
I came close to 100% on DE and 3D, I just didn’t beat all the super bosses. That said, I printed out the lists of all super bosses and quests from the Xenoblade wiki and kept track with a highlighter when I completed a quest/unique monster fight. Without that, I probably would have missed something for sure.
I did all the quest lines in my first play through no problem (I hate to miss things so I didn’t leave an area with any timed quests). But those heart to hearts. That got me. Trying to get all the different affinity of all the characters up is so time consuming.
I had to basically 100% XC1 two times since the first time I did it(on the wii with extra pain) I missed some of the missable unique monsters because I didn't even think about it. When I did actually do it in DE though from a fresh save, it took ~120 hours to do everything(except for 999 coins). It is so much more painful if you include the achievments into it too. Some of those are utter suffering like doing the mid-battle b button prompt 2000 times. Glad I accomplished it but I will never do that again lol
I'm so close to get 100% in Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition. I have lvl 99 characters in the main story and extra story and I upgraded all Arts in the main story and extra story. I need 1 achievement (Complete 180), 3 appearances and 10 Art Coins to finish the game completely. After that, I'll take break, play other video games and then I'll start Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I hope it doesn't take too long to finish it.
The biggest turnoff for me about this game is the NPCs roaming around, not being available at all times of the day... I get that it helps the world feel more realistic, but they really should have made quest NPC, available at all times! I often found myself doing a main questline, drop everything when i reached a new area, go back to every area i had already been too, go through a 24 hour period in 3 hour increments in all of them to see if a questgiving NPC spawned, and then do that for every area in the game to make sure i didn't miss a quest, simply because i didn't visit the right place at the right time of day...
I'll never end up 100%ing any of these games cuz after a while it always ends up losing me. I will straight up spend an entire weekend just doing sidequests and maxing out affinity levels, but eventually I get to that 100 hour mark and after that long I'm just ready to beat the game, and when I see credits roll in a JRPG, I usually lose all interest in going back right away. It's not that I find any of it boring, it's moreso that, knowing I have an ultimate goal ahead of me gives me the drive to invest in all the minor systems while I'm really excited about being a part of this cool new world. Once that goal is achieved, going back to just doing sidequests feels so mundane in the face of what I just witnessed, and it feels anticlimactic in that sense. It loses all meaning since I'm not gonna do anything with all these new skills or weapons I'm earning, even if there's still a superboss I haven't downed yet (which is why I always do so before beating a game). In that sense I'm impressed you were able to do this and also jealous, because yeah, there are just too many other games I want to play so I'll never have the patience to put that much effort into only one game lol.
There is a collectopaedia in Xenoblade 3 but it's a bit different. From what we've seen each NPC from the affinity chart seems to have a collectopaedia card and asks for a specific item (maybe several I'm not sure, but I think it's just one). And if you give them this item I think you get the card ? It's basically tying both the trade system and the collectopaedia from 1 in a single feature which in my opinion sounds even more exciting.
Breath of The Wild Terry Town side quest was a very similar restoration questline. With the knowledge that monolith provided help with that game it makes you wonder.
When I found out I could trade for Black Liver Beans in DE it felt like I was set free from a world of torture. I think I spent around 5 hours in the original to get all the necessary beans. Curse you Juju and your unreasonable demands.
Valak Mountain is probably my least favorite area. It's exhausting to fill out and find everything. My favorite area would probably be Fallen Arm because it's one of the areas that actually show you the scale of the world. It takes a solid minute to get to the Distant Fingertip and the fact that the village fits inside the center of the palm
400 odd quests isnt too too bad. skyrim had something around 400 quests. granted that is a lot. i dont think that amount of quests should throw anyone off from completing a game they really like. that is still a lot but shouldnt intimidate anyone lol. most RPGs these days have easily over 200 quests. i think ff12 has something like 300 quests. and that game is about a decade old. not that unheard of. Out of all the games i have played. the worst questing experience i have had was, Star ocean: Till the end of time. great game love it and its quests. just a pain getting missable things.
I tried to 100% this game. In fact I’m still doing it now. It sucks because I literally missed 1 single timed quest in Alcamoth where you have to complete it before another one so technically it’ll only be a 99.9% run lol
I opened up XCDE anyway and learnt Im missing 7 Unique Monsters for the max affinity coins. How the hell am I gonna find the remaining 7 (atleast I know they are not on Mechonis)
I heavily encourage anybody who comes across this comment to try 100% in the game XC1 and XCX I'm not quite there myself but I'm working on it every day it's so rewarding.
Yeah man, 100%ing games that don't have a listed completion % counter is definitely a subjective thing. Like I want to 100% Xenoblade 3 on my first run, and for me that means all quests of course, all ascension quests, exploring all the areas including every island of Erythia Sea [gonna be fun going back there before the final area to do some Wind Waker shit] and trying to see every conversation topic. I'd also like to max out all classes with all characters before the ending but if not, I don't mind doing that with either the post game stuff I've heard about or just not bothering. As far as I've seen so far, there's nothing at all that's missable, or at least easily missable, in Xenoblade 3. Like, Ethel early on leaves to visit Keves Castle and you can't get her back in your party for sidequests or to unlock her class for the rest of your party members for a FAT FUCKIN WHILE, but you still can later on.
2:26 I'm pretty sure speedrunners don't do heart to hearts. well I should say speedrunner because there's only 1 madlad who does a run every year, and I think he's been able to get under 24 hours.
I loved XBC1 way more then XBC2. I have high hopes for XBC3. I loved that XBC1 DE had a glam system addition that the wii version lacked. So my crew looked good the whole time.
respect to you i personally am not a 100% person. i play a game till i finsh the story, and then i look what i want now. in xenoblade X it was getting some cool mech builds and have fun with them, getting all affinty missions done and some of the "longer" sidequest for example, i did that, iirc my mira completion is at roughly 70% ish XC2 i did a bit less, only doing the blade quests i was interested in and doing very few unique monsters in general(the driver under the clifs of moritha iirc was the last i did) XC1.... i basically finished the game and stopped there, i never did Colony 6 or anything like that. mostly because while i LOVE XC1 as a story driver... its not a good game gameplay wise if you played XCX(and ot a far lesser extend XC2(yes ia m the weird one who REALLY dosnt liked the XC2 combat(stutter walk is an atrocity and i hate that it looks like its back in 3) and wanted the art pallete back for XC3 but oh well)) i was interested in the major story, and when that played out i personally just didnt saw a point in continuing to play XC1
To me, you haven't 100% this game until you've killed Rotbart with a level 50 party. Yes, it's possible, and there's 2 main strats: naked dunban and the (nearly) unkillable Reyn-Sharla-Melia party, where you control Melia and give Sharla nothing but healing and Reyn nothing but aggro and tanking auras. You gotta spec for it in advance, and takes a lot of specific prep, but yeah... you can do it. Strap in for a 30 minute fight though, and bring them sleep arts and DoTs. New game + helps a lot too. (Demon Slayer doesn't work cuz Rotbart has a topple spike, I think).
yes there a loot on these game but to be honest is like a poppy compared to the monster that is X i put more than 300 on that thing and it still had stuff to do. it leave me completely dry the main story and sub ones still have a loot of cliffhangers on them, the 2 main ones are what are the samarians and what is up with planet mira that still need resolving but no they decided to continue 2 very conclusive games like 1 and 2 that didn't need a sequel but they did instead of making X2
I've played Xenoblade on the Wii. And today my cash is only for one game. I really want to buy the Definitive Edition, but would you guys recommend XB2? need help. Thanks.
Spoiler question: . . . . I've always wondered if there is an easter egg in NG+ if you carry over all the items to rebuild Colony 6 to level 5 before Otharon joins the Bionis coalition. He tells you to keep going but then isn't there when you finish restoring the colony. Anyone know if there is a special scene or would I be wasting my time if I tried?
I like this game but it’s the text definition of busy work. On my second run on the switch I dropped it to easy and skipped 60% of the quests, compared to my standard run on the old wii and it’s was waay more fun. Too much pointless nonsense in the quests
Ngl I love pointless nonsense but prefer uh... pointful nonsense??? Quests with substance will always be worthwhile to me like the quest relating to Xord in xc1 or Don Dondon in xc2, I hope xc3 had more interesting ones with it's really intriguing Xenogears-like setting
What would be a Xeno Topic you'd like me to discuss in this type of video format?
(I am strategically asking for content ideas)
A character tier list would be funny as hell and be good content maybe?
Like dont include all of the characters, that's too many and sounds painful, just maybe the main party members/ story important ones?
I love collecting things so a xeno collection video could be cool like you could show off the special editions and the siren model kit you showed in one of your vids and of course the xenosaga videos
I think a video going over things that are in every Xeno game would be cool. For example every game has a character with either a person/personality inside of them. Fei/id, kosmos/mary, shulk/zanza, pyra/mythra, all of the games has a version like this. Would be cool to see more details like this that exist in them all.
@@Sayyble Alternatively, I think it would be hilarious to do an actual tier list of EVERY Xeno character. I doubt anyone else has ever done that, so that could be a funny claim to fame.
@@Tohlemiach I know Enel made a video like that, but I don't know if he did literally *every* character or just the most important ones / party members
I’ve 100% XC1 5 times and it never gets boring. It can be very challenging but I’m glad you got the chance to 100% yourself! :)
It really never gets boring for me either. Agreed.
I could barely do it once.
How do you have that much time (I can rephrase that to “HOW DO YOU NOT EVEN KNOW THE *CONCEPT* OF HAVING A LIFE,” but I won’t because I don’t want to be rude).
@@Angry_Jetpack got a full time job and I still had time to do it lol🤣 I mostly have time on my days off from work
@@cloudbird761 well fuck me then, your doing better than I am 🤣🤣🤣.
I love the xenoblade series, but I can't, for the life of me, 100% this game, let alone finish it. I can't force myself to backtrack and talk to every npc just so I wouldn't miss anything. Or am I doing it wrong?
With DE, they actually added heart to heart in the event theater. So, you can just view all of the choices there instead of saving and reloading the game. You can pick out outfits, weather, and time of day too.
I do love that feature so much. They really added so many quality of life improvements in the Definitive Edition.
I haven’t watched yet, but anticipating your suffering and learning what coping mechanisms you used to combat the sheer volume of side-jargon in this game has me on the edge of my seat!
Xenoblade DE is an all time great and I agree with you that exploration is one of the best aspects of the game. I had so much fun discovering things around the world.
The game taking place on a titan's body makes the world so much more interesting to think about when you contextualize it in that way as you explore. Looking around and seeing past/future landmarks on lower or higher parts of the body gives Xenoblade such an epic & grand sense of scale. For example I adore how you can see Colony 9 from around the Colony 6 area by looking down. Another cool moment is jumping off the Mechon base at the end of Sword Valley because you load into the Fallen Arm area instead of dying.
I love Xenoblade so much it has upped the bar for JRPGs. MonolithSoft are a master class in crafting worlds and that's only one aspect of the game that makes it so good.
Just bought the game and I’m sooo excited to finally play it for the first time. Your videos have HEAVILY inspired me to finally give the series a try, so I just wanted to say thanks for what you do. Your channel is really awesome and I can’t wait to see whatever you make next!
Glad to hear it and I wish you a great time on your journey Cam!
im a big fan of these retrospective videos! youre good at communicating your thoughts and feelings in a way that i can understand what you mean as someone who has never played xenoblade. keep it up :)
you def should play it, imo its one of the if not the best jrpg with best storyline
I love re-falling in love with this game after a while away from it, from the music to the visuals and story beats. It'll always have a special place in my heart I don't think any other game could replace it
For anyone who wants to attempt this, I have to recommend one resource that is incredibly useful. There exists a Xenoblade 1 DE 100% checklist people have made and can find on a few Reddit posts. It’s a checklist, so you check things off as you do them. It covers absolutely everything, even stuff like locations and landmarks as well as weapon/armor appearances. It also has a bunch of useful information including where to find certain collectibles/art books, expiration points for every relevant quest, NPCs you can trade quest items from, locations and spawn requirements for every Unique Monsters and so on. The only thing it doesn’t cover is Time Attack Ranks and the full affinity chart, which you’ll have to use other resources for. Best of all is that there’s a spoiler and no spoiler version if you want to do it on your first playthrough. And there’s even one for Future Connected as well.
And just the best piece of advice I can give is to chip away at things over the playthrough instead of all at one point. Reset for advanced art book drops on every Unique monster’s gold chest as you kill them instead of dedicating six hours to get them all at the end of the game. Start chipping away at obnoxious achievements during the playthrough, like doing the trick to advance days fast for Happy New Year when questing. Don’t leave every expiring quest for right before the major cut-off point. And know when to cut out RNG like using the Time Attack shop not only for Colony 6 but also for some of the collectipedia, or using trades for quest items instead of relying on drops.
Thank uuu! Ive been using two guides to knock off npc affinity nodes and side quests.
Is it recommended to just play through DE casually the 1st time then go for 100% on NG+?
I did a like ~95% run when I first played it and it was definitely an experience. I did all quests for except I think ~13, since they expired before I realized they had gone/decided to be completionist. I did get every achievement though, so whichever aspects are needed for that I did. I wasn't able to beat all of the superbosses however, I could only take down Final Marcus and Despotic Arsene.
I had a lot of the same struggles. Keeping track of the affinity chart for quest unlocks as well as the branching paths was definitely tough and I definitely referenced the wiki or a guide many times. The hardest part was definitely some of the record achievements. Use a chain attack 1000 times, achieve burst affinity 2000 times, and defeat an enemy 10 levels higher than the party leader were probably the worst for me.
You poor soul I can't even stand doing colony 6. I absolutely agree with finding next locations its so nice to see a beautiful or secret place. Also colony 6 is cool to rebuild its just long as hell to grind for which I only did colony 6 and terry town when I came to rebuilding or building towns
Terry Town and Colony 6 feel like the only restoration projects in games that feels rewarding lol
I completed this game to 100% completion as well and I really enjoyed it for the most part. I think it's quite tragic how so many good side quests are buried underneath countless fetch quests or how heart to hearts were locked behind high affinity between party members. There's some really great stuff but not everyone is going to see them because of how much you need to go through to find it.
You're spot on about the exploration. I was amazed at how many secrets the world has! I really enjoyed the lore behind the giants, especially since you don't learn much about them through the main game. I thought it was so cool how you could find King Agni's tomb in the main game and then his birthplace in FC!
I think the thing I hated the most was the missable content and 3 specific achievements (Happy New Year, Roots Around The World, and Complete 180). Sometimes I wonder what the devs were thinking with some of these achievements 😂
Don't forget "____ The Betrayer". A sidequest that needs to be seen to be believed. It's a missable side quest and the finale to a chain of quests that spanned the whole game. It ends with a Unique Monster boss fight and uses "A Tragic Decision", a track otherwise reserved for sad or hopeless boss fights.
Yup it was a dang grind. Shoutout to Enel for all the guides on how to do it efficiently.
I did literally everything except for getting the costumes and weapon skins for all the characters; I didn’t do it in NG+ cuz I was kinda like eh, but it was fun nonetheless.
Getting all costumes is not really that hard, maybe except the new ones they added (I'm looking at you beach costume for Shulk) as most of them you can buy, the weapons are another story, there are some missable weapons, ones that you only get from enemies that can be missable, and one specific for Melia where you have to talk to Kallian at a specific time, but they are like, 3 or 4 if memory serves.
Edit: I gess there can be more missable weapons if you don't buy them at specific places? I'm not sure as I have the habit to buy equipment every chance I get...
Ik it’d just be a lot of grinding that I just didn’t feel like cus I got kinda burnt out
@@DragonshotProductions for sure! Xenoblade has soooo many thing it can be overwhelming, I'm just a sucker for completing these kind of things because I like to dress up the characters depending on which area I am xD (I love the makina and the mekon costumes ❤) and, of course, the weapon has to match the outfit hahahahah
Breath of the Wild has a town you can build up from scratch and invite people to, which also has a growing soundtrack and visual improvements, it’s really cool
I 100%ed it a few months ago. 225 hours playtime. I really maxed and completed everything, every side quest, S rank on every challenge, maxed out affinity chart, 5 stars in every village, every achievement, maxed out Colony 6, defeated all the superbosses and so on. Hell, I even got Level 99 with all techniques maxed out in Future Connected. That took some time. Now I can definitely say, Xenoblade Chronicles is my alltime favorite game. And I got no hobbies.
So cool watching so much appreciation for so many details of this amazing piece of a game. Currently on my 100% run as well, but really taking my time with it. :)
i allready gave up on it. i am satisfied enough bwhaha
@@blondosafehound6061 That's fine too lol. I just love simply being ij this world so much I made it my goal ^^
I just finished my first 100% run a few days ago. It was really fun at first but I thought I would go insane for the last few achievements
Yeah, I was actually sad that some of these were out of Xenoblade 2, for example, I loved the afinity chart between npcs, it makes the world so much alive, and the subquest have more meaning behind them. I hope we get it again in Xenoblade 3.
Thanks for making this vid, I can't catch streams as regularly, so yt vids are very appreciated! This was a really enjoyable video :D
I'm currently starting this now and I'm only in chapter 11 clocking at 50 hours already and trying to complete all quests in every area. I agree with you the exploration is the key enjoyment in this game. Especially for me, a new gamer in "consoles", I appreciate the huge amount of content.
Is nice to see how much your perception of the game and the saga has evolved over time for you, I remember watching your first playthrough of xc1 and to see your latest videos is like night and day. Thanks a lot for sharing all of this!
PS: AND XC3 IS AROUND THE CORNER!
I actually managed to 100% both Xenoblade 1 and 2 without a guide. normally my first playthrough's of jrpgs are very meticulous, with me making my best effort to ensure i do literally everything within a game. then again i am quite the completionist when it comes to games, i almost never play a game without completing it 100%
I think Noponstones is the best upgrade on the definitive edition. The time trails are not only fun but an efficient way to gain a currency that gets you access to every art at max level. They even let you buy items for colony 6 which turned me on to “100%”ing the game. This game will have a really strong grip on my neck as this 3rd title releases. Because I do see xenoblade chronicles as the pinnacle of exploration/adventure rpgs
I completed the game back in Jan 3 2021. What it did to ME, was make me feel complete and accomplished. After countless hours of grinding, 13 hours a day, for weeks. Just grinding DLC for Arts, and base game for Art Points. Just constant grind.
Tho it wasn't my first completed game, it did get me into completionist playstyles. I ended up completing BoTW right after. Then DOOM, then HADES, Terraria, Persona 4 Golden, 3 Sonic games, Metal Gear Rising, and a bunch of other indies
I can't wait to complete Xenoblade 3. I gotta finish completing XC2. I finally got Torna
I remember on my first playtvrough, basically my first big jrpg ever, I ignored basically all optional stuff and had no village over 1 star and was underwhelmed by the game even though I still liked it didnt see the big big hype, god I was stupid replayed it again and loved it, I did like 40 quests overall
In Xenoblade Definitive Edition, you can rewatch heart-to-hearts in the Events Theater.
And get most of if not all of the colony 6 items by doing the time trials and trading in the noponstone
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I'm pretty sure it is all of the colony 6 items.
I know I kept getting upset when the guide said I could buy all the colony 6 items from Time Trials, but that option never showed up until I was almost completely done with colony 6, and basically didn't even need it.
@@fiercedeity1764 they unlock once you reach the floor that has the point of no return as it is the last portal to the land of challenge
I could never 100% any xenoblade game. I thought about thinking X, but quickly realized I don’t have the dedication. Mad respect to you brother
I enjoyed exploring in Xenoblade 1 and I think Xenoblade 3 will have a great world to explore as well with the addition of borrowing a more open structure similar to X
100% quests in the origional is a nightmare. I would periodically run around the towns. A different times a day looking at the minimap because the marker would only show up if they were close to you.
Now to complete the sequel!
That's right!
100% complete
Xenoblade Chronicles
X
GL!
Let's hope Dunban's tuft is at least plot relevant in Xenoblade 3 👀
Edit: btw Collectopedia returns in Xenoblade 3 so Blue Turnip 2 is coming 🎉
one thing i hate about Xenoblade YT content-or really just any JRPG content-is that creators will say “not gonna spoil too much” and then they still spoil stuff ICANT
but you actually do such a fantastic job of avoiding so much that this video can really just act as a review for newcomers. and as a review, you don’t even touch on the stuff that everyone always does, like “basically it is an RPG with auto attacks and also the story is CRAZY and the world is this big in comparison to Skyrim.” everything you bring up here is rarely talked about in reviews and whatnot, yet so important to what makes Xeno games so special.
I’m currently in my second play through aswell and just finished Prison Island. I’ll leave it on pause in there and wait after Xenoblade 3 for 100%.
I came close to 100% on DE and 3D, I just didn’t beat all the super bosses. That said, I printed out the lists of all super bosses and quests from the Xenoblade wiki and kept track with a highlighter when I completed a quest/unique monster fight. Without that, I probably would have missed something for sure.
After never doing sidequests really in the original I 100%ed DE, and then did it again in ng+
hoo, boi, is there a collectapedia in 3 - it's tied to the affinity chart, you collect items for the people on it... it combines the insanity of both
also nice of them to put you in the game (Flyann >>> Fly on >>> Taion... Coincidence? I think not! Thanks for the
So, Flyann's definitely got a therapist now... alright.
I did all the quest lines in my first play through no problem (I hate to miss things so I didn’t leave an area with any timed quests). But those heart to hearts. That got me. Trying to get all the different affinity of all the characters up is so time consuming.
I had to basically 100% XC1 two times since the first time I did it(on the wii with extra pain) I missed some of the missable unique monsters because I didn't even think about it. When I did actually do it in DE though from a fresh save, it took ~120 hours to do everything(except for 999 coins). It is so much more painful if you include the achievments into it too. Some of those are utter suffering like doing the mid-battle b button prompt 2000 times. Glad I accomplished it but I will never do that again lol
I'm so close to get 100% in Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition. I have lvl 99 characters in the main story and extra story and I upgraded all Arts in the main story and extra story. I need 1 achievement (Complete 180), 3 appearances and 10 Art Coins to finish the game completely. After that, I'll take break, play other video games and then I'll start Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I hope it doesn't take too long to finish it.
The biggest turnoff for me about this game is the NPCs roaming around, not being available at all times of the day...
I get that it helps the world feel more realistic, but they really should have made quest NPC, available at all times! I often found myself doing a main questline, drop everything when i reached a new area, go back to every area i had already been too, go through a 24 hour period in 3 hour increments in all of them to see if a questgiving NPC spawned, and then do that for every area in the game to make sure i didn't miss a quest, simply because i didn't visit the right place at the right time of day...
I never had trouble with aggro in XC1 (wii) because I did all the quests as they became available to me and ended up 10 levels ahead every enemy
I'll never end up 100%ing any of these games cuz after a while it always ends up losing me. I will straight up spend an entire weekend just doing sidequests and maxing out affinity levels, but eventually I get to that 100 hour mark and after that long I'm just ready to beat the game, and when I see credits roll in a JRPG, I usually lose all interest in going back right away. It's not that I find any of it boring, it's moreso that, knowing I have an ultimate goal ahead of me gives me the drive to invest in all the minor systems while I'm really excited about being a part of this cool new world. Once that goal is achieved, going back to just doing sidequests feels so mundane in the face of what I just witnessed, and it feels anticlimactic in that sense. It loses all meaning since I'm not gonna do anything with all these new skills or weapons I'm earning, even if there's still a superboss I haven't downed yet (which is why I always do so before beating a game).
In that sense I'm impressed you were able to do this and also jealous, because yeah, there are just too many other games I want to play so I'll never have the patience to put that much effort into only one game lol.
Local man can't stop playing xeno games
That's me too tbh
I was considering doing a 100%, I’m good just casually blazing through if I ever complete my NG+ now LMAO
There is a collectopaedia in Xenoblade 3 but it's a bit different. From what we've seen each NPC from the affinity chart seems to have a collectopaedia card and asks for a specific item (maybe several I'm not sure, but I think it's just one). And if you give them this item I think you get the card ?
It's basically tying both the trade system and the collectopaedia from 1 in a single feature which in my opinion sounds even more exciting.
Breath of The Wild Terry Town side quest was a very similar restoration questline. With the knowledge that monolith provided help with that game it makes you wonder.
Challenge mode has every material in the game and you can just buy them lmao
Wish someone would have told me that before I spent like 3-4 hours looking for a fucking rainbow slug
When I found out I could trade for Black Liver Beans in DE it felt like I was set free from a world of torture. I think I spent around 5 hours in the original to get all the necessary beans. Curse you Juju and your unreasonable demands.
Oof, I completely forgot the Collectopedia existed when I came back and beat XC1 for the first time… I wonder what I may have missed.
Yeah, I don't think I can 100% this game without having multiple burnouts. Lol
Valak Mountain is probably my least favorite area. It's exhausting to fill out and find everything. My favorite area would probably be Fallen Arm because it's one of the areas that actually show you the scale of the world. It takes a solid minute to get to the Distant Fingertip and the fact that the village fits inside the center of the palm
Awaiting next parts of Xenosaga... :)
I would say getting all the affinity coins is 112%
400 odd quests isnt too too bad. skyrim had something around 400 quests. granted that is a lot. i dont think that amount of quests should throw anyone off from completing a game they really like. that is still a lot but shouldnt intimidate anyone lol. most RPGs these days have easily over 200 quests. i think ff12 has something like 300 quests. and that game is about a decade old. not that unheard of.
Out of all the games i have played. the worst questing experience i have had was, Star ocean: Till the end of time. great game love it and its quests. just a pain getting missable things.
I tried to 100% this game. In fact I’m still doing it now. It sucks because I literally missed 1 single timed quest in Alcamoth where you have to complete it before another one so technically it’ll only be a 99.9% run lol
Wait, old people shoot you into the sky?!
I need to play this game.
I opened up XCDE anyway and learnt Im missing 7 Unique Monsters for the max affinity coins.
How the hell am I gonna find the remaining 7 (atleast I know they are not on Mechonis)
I heavily encourage anybody who comes across this comment to try 100% in the game XC1 and XCX I'm not quite there myself but I'm working on it every day it's so rewarding.
I got 999 affinity coins on all my characters and it certainly was... an experience I can't shake from my mind.
I’m 40 hours into my replay of Xenoblade, and just hit the Colony 6 grind. Contemplating just focusing on story lol.
Yeah man, 100%ing games that don't have a listed completion % counter is definitely a subjective thing. Like I want to 100% Xenoblade 3 on my first run, and for me that means all quests of course, all ascension quests, exploring all the areas including every island of Erythia Sea [gonna be fun going back there before the final area to do some Wind Waker shit] and trying to see every conversation topic. I'd also like to max out all classes with all characters before the ending but if not, I don't mind doing that with either the post game stuff I've heard about or just not bothering. As far as I've seen so far, there's nothing at all that's missable, or at least easily missable, in Xenoblade 3. Like, Ethel early on leaves to visit Keves Castle and you can't get her back in your party for sidequests or to unlock her class for the rest of your party members for a FAT FUCKIN WHILE, but you still can later on.
Watching this while I play Torna The Golden Country high af
I'm doing it right now actually!! Almost at Mechonis core, finishing up all those pesky timed quests
2:26 I'm pretty sure speedrunners don't do heart to hearts. well I should say speedrunner because there's only 1 madlad who does a run every year, and I think he's been able to get under 24 hours.
I love the side quests in this game. I always see people hating on them
istg i have the makna forest and nopon village theme memorized cause of grinding affinity for central bionis
I loved XBC1 way more then XBC2. I have high hopes for XBC3.
I loved that XBC1 DE had a glam system addition that the wii version lacked. So my crew looked good the whole time.
respect to you
i personally am not a 100% person. i play a game till i finsh the story, and then i look what i want now.
in xenoblade X it was getting some cool mech builds and have fun with them, getting all affinty missions done and some of the "longer" sidequest for example, i did that, iirc my mira completion is at roughly 70% ish
XC2 i did a bit less, only doing the blade quests i was interested in and doing very few unique monsters in general(the driver under the clifs of moritha iirc was the last i did)
XC1.... i basically finished the game and stopped there, i never did Colony 6 or anything like that.
mostly because while i LOVE XC1 as a story driver... its not a good game gameplay wise if you played XCX(and ot a far lesser extend XC2(yes ia m the weird one who REALLY dosnt liked the XC2 combat(stutter walk is an atrocity and i hate that it looks like its back in 3) and wanted the art pallete back for XC3 but oh well))
i was interested in the major story, and when that played out i personally just didnt saw a point in continuing to play XC1
I’m so used to hearing Erythia Sea now lol. Weird to here him say Eryth
THE LIVER BEANNNNNS!!!
They took me 2 hours to get a single 1.
certified flyann classic
To me, you haven't 100% this game until you've killed Rotbart with a level 50 party. Yes, it's possible, and there's 2 main strats: naked dunban and the (nearly) unkillable Reyn-Sharla-Melia party, where you control Melia and give Sharla nothing but healing and Reyn nothing but aggro and tanking auras. You gotta spec for it in advance, and takes a lot of specific prep, but yeah... you can do it. Strap in for a 30 minute fight though, and bring them sleep arts and DoTs. New game + helps a lot too. (Demon Slayer doesn't work cuz Rotbart has a topple spike, I think).
yes there a loot on these game but to be honest is like a poppy compared to the monster that is X i put more than 300 on that thing and it still had stuff to do. it leave me completely dry the main story and sub ones still have a loot of cliffhangers on them, the 2 main ones are what are the samarians and what is up with planet mira that still need resolving but no they decided to continue 2 very conclusive games like 1 and 2 that didn't need a sequel but they did instead of making X2
The amount of world building in xenoblade 3 100% is going to be crazy isn’t it…
Chuggaaconroy status achieved
Love it!
You can actually view heart to hearts in the event theater
"100% every Xeno game."
I feel very bad for you once you reach X.
where can i find a guide to 100% xenoblade chronicles definitive edition
I just can’t decide if I want to try the Xenoblade games I’m not sure if I will get the hang of the combat
I've hundred percented XC2. As much as I like XC1, I never felt the need to hundred percent it.
I've played Xenoblade on the Wii. And today my cash is only for one game. I really want to buy the Definitive Edition, but would you guys recommend XB2? need help. Thanks.
Had so much fun with XCDE but this Games biggest flaw is vision react interrupting ywkon
Played through this game 3 times already. I'd be completely satisfied if Xenoblade 3 is half as good as 1
Quick question : do you plan on doing the real 100% of XCX or the one that is done in the speedruns ? (get a 100% on Mira Exploration)
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I've always wondered if there is an easter egg in NG+ if you carry over all the items to rebuild Colony 6 to level 5 before Otharon joins the Bionis coalition. He tells you to keep going but then isn't there when you finish restoring the colony. Anyone know if there is a special scene or would I be wasting my time if I tried?
I like this game but it’s the text definition of busy work. On my second run on the switch I dropped it to easy and skipped 60% of the quests, compared to my standard run on the old wii and it’s was waay more fun. Too much pointless nonsense in the quests
Ngl I love pointless nonsense but prefer uh... pointful nonsense??? Quests with substance will always be worthwhile to me like the quest relating to Xord in xc1 or Don Dondon in xc2, I hope xc3 had more interesting ones with it's really intriguing Xenogears-like setting
I still miss your V-Tuber model. It'd be neat I think if you incorporated it into these more casual videos maybe?
I recently had it upgraded with more facial animation too! I'll definitely integrate it into some content at a certain point
I’m 70 hours in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 (chapter 7) and throughly enjoying it more than the first game despite some of its annoying idiosyncrasies.
well well well if it isn't flyann
I haven't watched it yet, but I just came to way what a horrible experience must that have been.
Giving The Completionist a run for his money.
do a follow up video for xenoblade chronicles X
I would rather strangle myself with nunchuck cable than try to do all the side quests again.
You mention not having a way to track your progress but this game has achievements that are kinda covering everything for the 100% though ?
Xenogears-Xenoblade parallels video when?
Damn, I miss the ones with kos-mos, totally forgot abotu that game. Xenosaga i think?
Nice
Zamn 😰
You’re so handsome and loved your videos
Not about the vid but in the future can you save your vods somewhere? Unfortunately your gears and saga playthroughs are largely lost at this point
id say 100% is getting all the achievements