Aionios Is The Perfect Dystopia || Part 1: The Alpha And The Omega 

Xenoblade 1- You have to be willing to fight for the future and not just blindly accept how things are. Xenoblade 2- Only by accepting the past, no matter how dark it is, can you work toward making the present better. Xenoblade 3- Getting stuck in the present will only lead to both your own and the worlds destruction eventually.

Glimmer: What about my Homecoming?! Rex: Cope. I love that Shulk acts someone who can give guidance to people like Melia and Rex.

"Matthew practices second grade boy rules - beating them up until they become friends" this absolutely SENT me!

love your videos, but just had to point out what an insane title "god cleaver" is. you make shulk sound like a secret dark souls boss, I love it

Found this video from the Grace of the algorithm and in the 2 years Xenoblade 3 has been out I don’t know if I’ve heard the game spoken about with this level of nuance and detail. Can’t wait for the next part!

I’m not going to sugarcoat it, 3 rocked my world. Especially in its characterisation and how well it built off its predecessors.

> "Glitches in the System" Hmm...... *side glances at Noah and Mio* I also love how when Matthew says "maybe it'll even be you", you can make out the fainted genuine mournful expression on N's face. For a split second, he genuinely wanted to take up that fight, that offer, once more. After all, he just got a taste of it, as without him and Matthew joining forces, the Founders never could've defeated Alpha. They quite literally learned from the past and utilized the present to fight for a future they desired. It was the closest N ever got to being "Noah" again until he opted to merge with main story Noah again 1000 years later, the only other time a "Logos" opted to team up with a "Pneuma" against an out-of-control "Ontos" that we know of. It's made all the more better that he has his mask on when he does that, as the mask isn't so much to hide his identity as it is to strike fear into his opponents by removing any sense of emotional reading they might use on him. This game is literally top 3 of all time for me and I feel so damn awful that I wanna keep replaying it, its literally the antithesis of the game's present.

Great summary, some points, I have to add: -From the Base game, we know, that M was awoken by the lives lost by N attacking the city, so she didn‘t exist before and everything involving M, has to happen after. -The way Glimmer talks about her Homecoming: her „offerring“, makes it clear, that M introduced the modern form of homecoming after Future Redeemed. -For people wondering, what is going on with the radio, the gist of it is, that it contains references to all other Xeno Games, making people speculate, if Monolith is in the progress of connecting either Xenosaga or Xenoblade X to the other Xenoblade game, or, if those are all just easter eggs. (Those two are mainly, because then the spec of light in the post credits of Future Redeemed could be either KOS-MOS or Elma, Xenogears is not speculated about, because that would be a hopeless case, both from rights issues as well as much bigger contradictions between the lore of Gears and Blade.) -It‘s not actually clear, if Matthew setting out after Future Redeemed was the last time he visited the city, we do know, he would eventually leave and only his descendents return centuries later, but the circumstances don‘t really match the description on his statue, which again has been proven to not be completely reliable, so what I want to say, it is up to interpretation. -I want to note, that there is a possibility, that Glimmer and Nikol ended up with one another. This would explain, why Glimmer’s statue is the only one to not call her the founder of her house, if Rhodes only later split from Ortiz.

Glimmer overcame her brainwash just after one attempt on her life

The endless now, the long lasting time between the releases of each part of this series. The eternal cliffhanger for those who, just like me, didn't play the game and are forever stuck in this present util the series comes to an end, allowing us to move into the future which holds... ...proceeds to check the pool... ... into the future that holds Triangle Strategy.

Jeez i forgot how genuinely tragic Ghondor's story was, he deserved so much better 😔

I'm gonna send this video and its sequels to Mom since she's having trouble keeping track of the plot of Xenoblade 3

48:59: Where house Doyle's legacy of hypocrisy started.

Riku may be Riki’s son, though it’s also been posited he may be Kino’s, though it truly is hard to say

Crazy how Aionios isn't just the worse possible place to be, but it was specifically designed that way. Absolutely nothing about it is accidental and I think people overlook that when discussing Z as a villain

>Forced to pronounce Z correctly by the game Xenoblade doing God's work

xenoblade 3 or how everyone is related to rex

i really like these long, narrative videos. theyre nice and relaxing and fun to watch whether youre focusing on them or leaving them on in the background, but its kind of a shame that the only videos of yours that i really enjoy watching are the ones that end up just being descriptions of storylines from other pieces of media with only a small amount added on. still excited for part 2 tho, keep up the good work 👍

Just flat out saying “A was a god-slaying sword in a past life” was not how I would have put it, but it’s just such a hilariously apt choice of words that I may have to steal it when I try to explain the plot of this saga to my friend.

Common. Variety. Nopon. Indeed.

Z ultimately represents the weaknesses of mankind. With a world free of gods, humanity will be forced to fight its own battles.

Man I love future redeemed. Great video! Looking forward to the full 3 video

Great Video! I love xenoblade 3, and it's great to see an analysis. Small correction tho, both Noah and N's sword are called Sword of the End. Sword of Origin specifically refers to what the sword transforms into when Noah/Mio uses in ouroborus form. And the Sword N uses in his final battle. Sorry for being pedantic about Swords.

Xenoblade 3 very swiftly became my favourite game of all time, so I am stoked to see you cover it thoroughly, even if the main game will have to wait a bit. Something I always found fascinating, and that I dont often see discussed when the franchise as a whole is looked at, is that Xenoblade Chronicles 3s events, due to being entirely caged up in Aionios, are unlikely to matter in the franchises scope as a whole? Xenoblade 1 and Xenoblade 2, both ended in different spots where they began. Both of their worlds are shattered and reborn, in a way. The Bionis breaks apart, when Shulk defeats Zanza and wishes for a world with no gods, creating a new, splintered world of Bionis, and Alrest is reborn and remade as Klaus' final gift to Rex, as he defeats Malos. With Xenoblade 3, at the end of it all, the world breaks too. Aionios, with the defeat of Z at the hands of Ouroboros, ends. But no new Aionios exists from there. Everything just picks back up in the same place that the games intro actually begins. With a child, Noah, at an anniversary celebration for Melia in New Bionis. As far as these worlds are concerned, Aionios may as well never have happened. The people of the city never existed. The fight against Z, longterm, never happened for the people for whom life now finally gets to continue. And I find that fascinating. I really hope Xenoblade 4 ends up tackling what consequences there may be from this theoretical blink in time, that nonethenless lasted thousands of years.

Xenoblade 3 is one of my three favorite pieces of media One, piece, Dresden Files and Xenoblade 3 are my favorite pieces of media

I had totally forgotten M instated the Homecoming tradition, and off-seeing. It puts a couple plot concerns I had about XC3 to rest.

Let's go. Someone who pronounces the last letter from the alphabet correctly! It's quite funny to me Americans tend to pronounce it as zie. The letter z comes from zeta. Why would you pronounce that as zie. The funny thing is that basically every language pounces it as zet. German, Dutch, British English and more. No idea to how American English developed in such a way to pronounce z so differently but it's surtenly interesting.

Damn, just finished watching the video one 2(great job there btw!), time for another treat right after! For 2 I had to get a drink and find a comfy seat, but I think this one might require some tissues

Even though I knew for a fact that XC3 wouldn't win GOTY, I'm still mad that it didn't win the soundtrack award

I hope that Shulk and Rex will connect with their true kids in Xenoblade 4.

as fond as i am of the xenoblade saga, i can't wait to see what Monolith Soft will make next. i really hope they get to remake xenosaga 1 2 3 into something more cohesive and polish but i don't think it's in the cards just quite yet...

I have a theory about Noah and his reason to exist in the main game of Xenoblade 3. In the main game, you don't discover why Noah and Mio can exist as Moebius and soldiers at the same time. I think that the clue is in the clash between pneuma and logos at the end of the DLC. With the connection between N and Mathew and the power of the core crystals, N split in 2 creating the Noah we know inside the lines of Keves aside of N, the moebius. And with Noah, there will be a Mio too. We can say that the will of Mathew reached N thanks to the powers that created Aionios in first place. I think it connects well with the theme of the game. Two worlds merging while the people are always in conflicts. Also, the game is akways making you think and never explains the key things to understand the lore in a deep way. I love this about this gamebut I know that a lot of people that didnt like this because of it.

I honestly still think 2 and Torna are the best, but I LOVED 3 as well. Future Redeemed addressed most of the gripes I had with base game 3.

My Riku cope is still that hes Kino's kid, simply because Future Connected has to mean something

this is an amazing video as i mentioned in another post. but here is my UO'S of UO's. [and you mentioned it here so i can just get it out of the way now]. Boy howdy do i hate the fact that the game made a Polyamorous relationship out what I felt was an amazing friendship between Pyra/Mythra/Nia/Rex. Yes yes (in my best Nia irritated voice). we all know about the scenes in the Crucible and everything after that. but for me honestly, that photo just felt like the biggest cop out - like we can't pick ONE of them so yeah! we'll just pick ALL of them. I'll be be more UO... it's mostly because I didn't really want rex to be end game with ANY of them. it would have been really lovely if that "I love you.... and everybody." meant he just LOVED them because they were his family/mentors. just give him (in FE: Awakening Terms) the Village Girl and everyone was just still a part of his life. but also because of your video. Today I Learned that Lucky Seven had the soul of Fiora/Meyneth. didn't know that. (and this is why i love the story recap + analysis vibe you do).

I’m pretty sure Keves and Agnus were not confirmed to have existed whatsoever pre-Aionios; whether Nia was the queen of all of post-xb2 Alrest is also unclear. This makes sense, considering Agnus and Keves both translate to *lamb*, in Latin and Hebrew specifically, which makes a lot of sense in terms of Moebius considering the soldiers their ‘flock’ in a perverse way, but seems a bit odd to be chosen by Melia and Nia. Also: pronouns are *not used at all whatsoever* for A in the English localization, and A uses the self-referential pronoun ‘boku’ in Japanese, which is the masculine-leaning one. Using female pronouns for A is technically fine considering that A has no canonical English pronouns, but it is more inaccurate than singular they or managing to not use pronouns at all for A… which is rather difficult honestly >.

18:36 wait. how does z just casually refference homecoming at this stage while convincing noah to become moebius? even if we said that m was already moebius because she's already dead (which no, it was noah's decision to become n that also revived mio as m) or let's say z has some ontos powers and can see visions (then why would he not just implement homecoming himself? and also why does he need his movie screen to watch everyone?) there's still no reason for z to refference it to n here, who definitely wasn't a soldier when it was invented, so it was never his motivation to reach it. is this just a plothole? i thought this was a xenoblade game! /j truth be told, i think the reason i didn't notice this until now is that i never really could make sense of the aionios chronology, it's all really messy due to noah and mio just always being there and you can never remember which incarnation of them did what. so thanks a lot for this video. keep up the great work.

Worth noting that A doesn’t use any pronouns whatsoever, so although A has an androgynous, leaning feminine appearance, the use of the “she” pronoun isn’t appropriate

is your description wrong? it says xeno 2 stuff and alrest lool

Just letting you know. I'm pretty sure A is meant to be genderless and thus uses They/Them pronouns