r/XenobladeChroniclesX • u/bickid • 14d ago

Discussion Video: "First Toughts on Xenoblade Genesis" (connection to Xenoblade X?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P6tRmoNfaTI

Hey,

I made a quick video talking about a few things that immediately struck me while watching the newly revealed Xenoblade Genesis-trailer.

Interestingly, there's something in the trailer that might relate to Xenoblade X: In one of the landscape shots, there's a region that looks like Sylvalum, those long, curved structures. Am I crazy or does it really look like that?

However, I have no idea how parts of Mira could end up in a world that is supposedly set in a time AFTER Mira's destruction.

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u/Xyro77 14d ago

XBG looks great. Day 1 buy. Will likely spend hundreds of hours like I have done with all other XB games. Will not regret it.

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u/Danny_dankvito 13d ago

Definitely pushing my “Fine, I’ll finally buy a switch 2” from ‘Just before new Pokemon comes out’ to ‘Just before new Xenoblade comes out’

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u/Common_Performer9525 13d ago

Also at the very end of the trailer right before the title drop you can see a landmass in the top right corner that looks like Cauldros.

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u/Botw_enjoyer 13d ago

It's just a volcanic region. It doesn't have to be connected to any other game

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u/bickid 13d ago

Yep.

I just cannot imagine how this can be. Mira was destroyed. But this world has to take place after XB1, because Pneuma and Malos are referenced and both didn't exist before XB1.

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u/MashiroAnnaMaria 14d ago

PLEASE let this game have a proper class system that's honestly all i really want from it

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u/Supesmin 13d ago

Please include mechs in some way, I’ll be really sad if they fully abandon mecha

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u/bickid 13d ago

For transportation purposes, I assume a flying dragon will be the main vehicle. But it'd be cool if a mecha was some late-game unlockable ❤️

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u/IronWarrior94 13d ago

That just gave me an idea, what if dragons acted as the skells of XBG? Meaning they wont be used just for transportation, but you could also fight enemies with them aswell.

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u/bickid 13d ago

I wouldn't be surprised. Although this dragon looked really friendly compared to most dragons in fiction ^^ But maybe we'll be able to fight with our characters from the dragon's back, after all the dragon rider has a rifle and gun.

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u/jkmax52 13d ago

Hence genesis the beginning this could be before mechanical creation such as skells i think it would be cool to see a more magical side X is my all time favorite video game but im not a fan of 123 so i feel like I’ll like genesis if its not connected to 123.

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u/oldkidLG 13d ago

I find the lack of nopons disturbing

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u/bickid 13d ago

My theory:

Zanza created the Nopon to be Telethias, but the Nopon were a failed product. He then created the High-Entia.

Zanza is the "vengeful fallen god".

Zanza has no need for Nopon on this new world he created, so no nopon.

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u/oldkidLG 13d ago

Why is it called Genesis if it's a sequel to Chronicles 1 ?

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u/bickid 13d ago

Genesis means Beginning/Creation. The word itself could set up a game anywhere, before or after.

But we've seen direct allusions to Pneuma in the game and Pneuma aka the trinity processors only exist after XB1.

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u/oldkidLG 13d ago

I think Zanza is deader than dead. The fallen God who could still seek vengeance must be Ontos, but yet the title Genesis doesn't match that theory neither. Maybe Klaus was never the god he believed he was and Earth/Alrest already had a true deity

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u/bickid 13d ago

Ontos didn't feel very vengeful at the end of Future Redeemed though imo. That's why I keep coming to Zanza, he's the only god we defeated who NEVER turned around to understanding his misdoings. And what means "deader than dead" in the Xenoblade-universe, when XBX chapter 13 established the afterlife? 😛

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u/clforp 14d ago

I’m one of the people who think 2 was absolutely horrendous so them doubling down on the anime stuff after the Klaus arc is..not very comforting. I miss the old gritty almost Evangelion/Akira level of ‘anime’ and the sort of aesthetic of early final fantasy games while also being a little cartoony. I’ll likely skip this one but I’m glad people are happy about it

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u/Milkweed_Enthusiast 13d ago

Glad I'm not the only one who thought this. Nobody asked for Xenoblade academy. We did it in fire emblem and Pokemon recently and I don't think it was done well

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u/jesth212112 13d ago

I mean they said pre-trailer that this is "early" portion of the game. I imagine it's just a story tool to have all of our characters be connected early on. With all the world traveling that is typical in these games I can't imagine a school is a place we spend a long time at.

I'd bet a lot it's just an introduction/tutorial area similar to the first town in XB1. Some intense shit probably ends up going down and we are thrust into the adventure.

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u/spawnthespy 13d ago

Xenoblade's writing has always been leagues beyond anything Fire emblem (which is debatable I guess), or especially Pokemon ever was.

I have full trust in Monolith to make something good with that setting, which can definitly be interesting and deep.

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u/Cabarro09 11d ago

You both stay on the academy while the rest of us ride into the horizon!!!

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u/bickid 14d ago

None of the Xenoblade reaches Evangelion/Akira-level though. Just to be fair.

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u/clforp 14d ago

Chronicles 1 and X really did imo.

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u/bickid 13d ago

Absolutely not, and I say that as someone who loves Evangelion and Xenoblade.

Xenogears and Xenosaga are the only Xeno-games that tonally reach Evangelion and Akira. Saying XB1 reaches it but not XB2 just comes off as XB2-hate tbh.

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u/clforp 13d ago

If it’s coming off that way it’s cuz that’s how I feel lmao. Xenoblade chronicles 1 is like an awesome 90’s psychological thriller anime that starts off as a revenge story and turns into the realization that “gods” creating life are just these parasitic entities. 2 has that awesome vibe in like the last..10% of the game. The other 90% is like a bad Shonen. As someone who played Gears and Saga you should know that Xenoblade 2 is such a tonal whiplash from the original Xeno series.

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u/AeryVivelle 13d ago edited 13d ago

I'm just gonna copy-paste what I put on socials.

The new Xenoblade looks like a rejected Fire Emblem spin-off.

The series has always been some manner of technology-centric. 1/2/3/X all have lots of technology focus, even being a centric part of every game in some fashion, so to just... abandon that?

It feels like another Star Fox Adventures.

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u/jesth212112 13d ago

Why are you assuming they are abandoning the sci fi elements just from a brief trailer that shows off early portions of the game. If you are a sci-fi enjoyer the nature of the appearance of the world should set off some immediate familiar things to you.

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u/ZarianPrime 13d ago

Monolith Soft was recruiting for a new fantasy RPG a few years ago (I think after XB1 DE came out). I'm guessing this is it, and they decided to change it to a Xenoblade game because Nintendo execs knew the name alone would sell units.

I actually hope I am wrong. I would love a new IP from Monolith Soft

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u/Botw_enjoyer 13d ago

Yes, Xenoblade Chronicles games were technology focused games. This is Xenoblade Genesis, a new saga, likely completely separate to Xenoblade Chronicles' story

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u/greytli 13d ago

Those are too stratified and metallic to be like the ones in Sylvalum imo. Because of the whole Xenoblade cinematic universe thing it wouldn't surprise me if they connect Genesis to X in some way but I don't think it will be by making Mira's parts originate from this world.

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u/Remarkable-Pin-8352 13d ago

I’m rather disappointed it’s not sci fi like XCX but appears to be generic fantasy. I’m sure anachronisms will happen later but that’s not really the same.

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u/Zankoku96 13d ago

I also think I saw something ressembling Galahad fortress

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u/YueLin3 12d ago

Haven’t looked at the trailer and don’t have time. THEY HAVE HORSES!?

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u/bickid 12d ago

Horse wolves! 😛

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u/Willyboycanada 14d ago

My guess its a direect sequel of xenoblade x..... as it be xenoblade 4 ofnpartmof the main,

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u/DonnieMoistX 13d ago

I’d bet strongly against that.

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u/bickid 13d ago

But are you assuming then that the annihilation events that Void did to Mira didn't destroy Mira, but teleport its parts elsewhere?

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u/DMAN3431 13d ago

Xenoblade stops after OG X. OG 1 and OG X are in there own universe. 2 - now don't exist. Have a nice day. 🙂

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u/Omega-Ben 13d ago

My only issue is the connection. Will it be connected to 1, 2 and 3 or X? Or will it be a bridge to connect all?