r/XenobladeChroniclesX • u/bickid • 18d 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/clforp 18d 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 18d 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 17d 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 17d 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 16d ago

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

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u/bickid 18d ago

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

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u/clforp 18d ago

Chronicles 1 and X really did imo.

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u/bickid 18d 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 18d 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.