Future Connected Thoughts 

When Teelan mentioned turning the telethia back into high entia I got flashbacks to me mercilessly slaughtering every single telethia in Alcamoth to grind for levels and felt really bad.

I loved Future Connected, but Tyrea joining as a party member would have been excellent. Quiet Moments with the party members other than Melia, a fun Fiora clone with variations of her arts...and we could make her put some pants on!

9:18, Shulk: We wish for a world with no gods. Kino: Hold my pollen orbs.

Might just be me, but I love the new aesthetic of Alcamoth in FC. The overgrown ruins with misty air is just beautiful imo, but its also so sad in context.

Kino and Nene carried Future Connected for me. Their dialogue with each other, as well as Shulk and Melia, was so adorable that it healed a lot of the damage done to my soul this year.

Why the hell does everyone hate Bionis' Interior? It's such a different and cool looking area, and feels so alien. It's not my favourite area, it's mostly just a run up to pay for my insolence, but I certainly don't hate it. I can't hate any area that beautifully alien.

I don't think the FogKing was a throwaway villain. Well, maybe this particular Fog creature was. But I think this is establishing what the future conflict will be. Note Melia's "premonition" that this won't be the end of things. I get the feeling this is connected to the future games, we just don't know it yet.

My favorite part about Future Connected is that Shulk finally gets to wear his hood. He's always had one but never wore it and its always bugged me way more than it shouldve.

The music was some of the best in the game

I finished this today and I absolutely bawled my eyes out at the end. Not because it was sad, but because I was so happy to see Melia get a proper conclusion to her character arc. Melia has been my favorite character since I beat the game on the Wii because of how much I connected to her character, and seeing her grow and mature now that I'm also older feels like I've grown with her. They also made Tyrea an actually good character that Melia can bounce off of so they help each other develop. Seeing Melia succeed after everything she's lost and being able to genuinely smile at the end just hit me like a ton of bricks.

Shulk: I...we wish...for a world with more Nopons. Future Connected:

Please tell me someone else completely freaked out in the last Quiet Moment when the cut song from the original, "Hope" played for the first time.

Raise your hand if you actually like the Bionis interior. I mean it's not the best area in the game but I found it really interesting since it was so different.

As someone who has not played any other Xeno titles and thus cares nothing for lore or connections to other games, I thought Future Connected was wonderful for what it is; the ending that Melia deserved. She was a wonderful, rich character who got so many plotlines and arcs that didn't really get finished in the main game. She lost everyone, her people were nearly wiped out, and she had to develop and get over a crush on the boy she liked without him ever even knowing or acknowledging her feelings. She deserved so much better, and that's what Future Connected gives to her. A happy ending. One that does not come easily, and is not always certain, but feels all the more earned as a result. The freeze frame on her contented smile at the end was the closest I came to real tears in my entire XCDE playthrough.

"The events that take place and the words spoken by the characters in Future Connected are linked to the future of Xenoblade Chronicles itself" - Takahashi Yeah, i think the fog beasts are probably gonna play a major part in whatever ends up being the next Xenoblade title. The quiet moment between Shulk and Melia just before the final fight HEAVILY implies that whatever's happening, isn't over.

If Takahashi is to believe (referring to that interview where he specifically mentioned how the thinks characters aay if FC are important for the future of the series), then the quiet moment with melia and shulk in alcamoth sorta implies that the next game is gonna be dark.

the title never implied connections with other games, takahashi said it gives insight in the future of the series and it does that by shoving a freaking gnosis enemy in xenoblade plus melia's visions of impending doom the connection is between the past of zanza and the future of the world, which is why the haienta and telethia are in focus, they are the closest cells to zanza left

"he could have found more racist people," Me: "HE FOUND ALEX FROM XENOBLADE X SOMEHOW. THIS IS THE CONNECTION TO THE FUTURE. THE RACIST CONNECTION,"

Even if they wanted to voice the heart to hearts they would have to bring back all the voice actors and they would sound different from the rest of the game

I was satisfied; I noticed it on my own playthrough, but the Fogking seemed really similar to Gnosis from what little I knew about them, so I figured it may have had something to do with that. Still not the best thing ever, but I was at least satisfied with that; as well as the character’s own retrospective on the events of the main game itself, as well as it’s clarification of it’s own core ideas and concepts in relation to the main Xeno philosophy of “Perspectivism”. I think it could’ve been more, but I was satisfied with what I got.

Would you consider having a small, non distracting sound when you put text on screen? I'm just being selfish, but I like to listen to these types of video while doing something else, but I wouldn't mind looking at the video when I know there is something on screen.

I actually loved this epilogue so much. After 79 hours on my play through of the main game, and a 19 hour run of the epilogue (7 of those hours were spent trying to find the first of the two animal for the [BLANK] collectopaedia slot), even after a good 98 hours total, it was all fun!

Even though Shulk's role in FC felt kinda tacked on, I'm kinda glad he maintained some of his identity in this story. After Fiora is reintroduced into the main story, it felt like he lost a lot of his unique charm as a character and only existed to be with Fiora. The same problem exists with her too since I didn't really see much of her snarky personality post Galahad Fortress outside of battle quotes.

Two little fun facts: in italian Future Connected is called "A future together", which is still a bit misleading but far better than the og name. Wings of Tomorrow instead is the name of the absolute best song in God Eater and now I can't watch the rest of the video without thinking about it

Lunix: "I want to see Melia like... tons of years in the future, as an Empress" Xenoblade 3: "Let me introduce myself"

why its most important to unerstand Melia after the main game and also the High Entia cause she will out live them like its nothing so if in the theoretical XBC3 or even a XBCX2 she is to appear we will know the hows and why she is where she is Edit: while Shulk cannot see the future any more, he still seems to have most of his Monado abilities without even a Monado, remember, those abilities are altering the fabric of reality by bending the Ether to his will, something tells me Shulk still has the power given to him by the conduit, but they respect his descision of not becoming a God so they dont give him extra support but still has a lot of the abilities he had with the Monado as prof that power still dwell in him, it also stands to reason Alvis still lives, since Mythra and Pyra are still alive, but I guess he is now with the Conduit observing the universe

I understand people's disappointment, but I never expected more than what we got, or connections to the other games. Although I agree they should've been careful with their word choice

Hindsight is a blessing

So from what I'm gathering, it seems that Future Connected should've been more clearly marketed as a Sidestory Conclusion to Melia's story rather than an Epilogue to the game as a whole? It seems the big intrigue in FC's story is more in terms of it being a character piece w/ not much focus on plot/mysteries/etc. Maybe that would've helped temper ppls expectations going in?

I did not get he Tainted connection until you said it, and now I absolutely must replay X so I can see it more in-depth. Fascinating. I'll admit the lack of explanations about...anything the story provided, like what the hell this Fog King truly was or what the rift was supposed to be, was a little frustrating, but it's like you said. It was never trying to be like base game levels of intensity, and the art book specifically states "Future Connected" is meant to connect to the future of the franchise more-so than the games we have already. I enjoyed the nice little epilogue as what it always was: true closure for Melia and Tyrea's character arcs.

Legit I don’t get why they wouldn’t let Tyrea be playable.

I thought the Bionis's Shoulder made really clever use of verticality to make the area feel bigger and more complex. It was already very wide, but the fact that there were winding vertical pathways and areas built on top of each other really made it feel massive and rich to explore.

Surprised you didn’t mention that the new Replica Monado looks like Pyra’s Aegis sword mixed with Monado 1

Only thing I wanted from this was for Melia to get a little closure and an actual purpose beyond hanging around C9 because yeah the base game never really tied up the High Entia situation. FC did that so I'm good, also glad that Melia and Tyrea have started to forge that sisterly connection that I feel they both needed

The fog king is what I assume to be between 74 and 78 since I went in at level 76 (which I thought was overleveled) and it had a brown icon.

Old Melia: Would you like to hear a story of the Monado, and the beginning of this world?

Future connected is connecting not only the future of the High Entia but the past and the future of the world. Shulk even says this in a quiet moment that he doesn’t want to forget Zanza or all that happened he wants to move to the future. And Gael’gar’s beliefs is going to perpetuate the problems with the old world.

Gael'gar could've been a Dunhan clone. Tyrea could've been a Fiora clone. Wunwun a Riki clone? There's a couple of places for more characters, but honestly I don't think it needed it that bad. I really enjoyed it and especially I enjoyed the quiet moments. People really kind of ran with their imaginations before playing this one

There are slight differences in some of the arts with Kino and Nene. In particular, I noticed that Nene's clone of Lariat was 3 hits, instead of one. Which is really good.

It's called FUTURE connected because it connects to the FUTURE, to Xenoblade 3, people seem to forget that Xenoblade 2 is not set in the future, it occurs parallel to Xenoblade 1.

fun fact: the tomb where you fight prosecutor davrum and get the golden shrooms uses the exact same structure as the DE time attack hall

Beyond the sky acoustic is beautiful tho and the quiet moments were beautiful, onwards and upwards to the future:)

Zanza was in reality level 81 and I think the fog king is level 75.

I know it was just me having too high of expectations, but I couldn't help but be disappointed when FC ends and nothing important really happened. The whole game felt like the filler episode of an anime. It introduced new characters that done make any impact on the story and the villain is completely generic and throw away. I hated how they removed so many features of the main game. But what I did enjoy was getting to see the Shoulder. The mystery and intrigue of the shoulder itself is what carried FC for me. It was really cool to finally get to see it in game after hearing about it and seeing videos of it as a cut and unused area. But I do understand that this is just an extra epilogue, not a full expansion. Like it said, my disappointment was mostly my own fault for getting my hopes up too high.

Something about you stopping for a screenshot of Kino standing on the air between planks on that bridge really got me. Love the videos, Luxin! You and Enel are keeping me going while we wait for Xenoblade 3, and I can't wait to have another game for you to find all the little details I know I'm going to miss!

Or the term REX meaning King references to the whole "Philosopher King" idea that Xeno has been referencing from Gnostic Text since forever.

I wish you could alternate Shulks Ex monado to have "modes" that are synonymous with all the replica monados from the main game. I feel like that would make up for Kino and Nene being so limited.

I love how you zoomed in on kino and recorded him dancing and being cute. He’s adorable 😍

Xenoblade X had those quests for just killing enemies or finding enemies for money; I agree that X had the best sidequests, but I don't think it's a fair comparison. The original games' sidequests were definitely more interesting than 2's for me, but I still liked 2's And sidenote - I absolutely love the Mechonis areas, especially Mechonis Field and Agniritha

Honestly, I was kinda disappointed with FC. Combat just had things removed. I liked the Ponspecters. Although it was hard to see the B rings with the animations. I also couldn't find any monster that was higher than level 80. So leveling up was a bit hard. The story was good tho. Animations were an upgrade. Only the ones from the main cutscenes tho. The game was also short. I spent a LOT of time exploring, sighrseeing, and gathering Ponspecters and finishing erry quest and killing every UM. And yet, it barely lasted me 20 hours. Unlike the main game which lasted me 138 hours. Torna lasted me 40 hours or more I loved the battle theme and Nene's voice a lot. The shoulder was fun to explore. Shulk's and Melia's outfits were better than any other outfit in the main game lol Try equipping his black hoodie outfit with the Monado 3. My favorite color and the best combination

Takes you longer to talk about the game than it takes to actually beat it

I think the "Future Connected" part is coming from the fact that Shulk and his friends will support Melia in her goals and that she's not alone. It doesn't matter that they are from different species. Homs, NAPON..., and Highentia working for a connected Future.

i expect the rift to mean something in a future game given that the fog king was a guldo from 2

Could you possibly do an in depth video on what you would want a XC3 to be like?

Wait you said unfinished battle loops? It doesn't. It default back to the fog beast battle during the saurus fight once finished.

I was also hopeful that Tyrea would become a Fiora clone party member at some point, but I didn't expect it to actually happen so I wasn't too disappointed about it not happening. She grew a lot on me throughout Future Connected too. On another note, Kino and Nené might be the best main cast Nopon in the series (I love them all, yes, even Tatsu), but Bana has to be the most important Nopon of them all. He's basically the Zanza of Nopon, everything goes back to him and his plans. And that's not even taking into account the fact that he pretty much grew 3 times his volume and (if you count the ponytail) twice his size in order to become the Chairman of Argentum Trade Guild in a parallel universe which had its events transpiring at the same time as those in his actual universe. He deserves a theme as good as A Tragic Decision, anything less would be doing him a disservice.

One random inconsistency that bothered me is that Melia was always shown as summoning 4 elemental orbs in the cool fight cutscenes

Unfinished battle plays again. Yay.

One thing I noticed that could be a reference to XC2 is that the Nopon you meet in the beginning say Meh Meh like Tora. I don’t really recall any other Nopon saying that in XC1

Personally, I think it's great to have a few kill some enemies and get a reward quest. You get the cash and experience from both the enemies and the quest. Great way to level up fast so you don't need to grind. Personally, I think post-apocalyptic alcamoth looked pretty cool, especially when you played the main game first. You sort of see Alcamoth at it's strongest, mid-crisis and then post-apocalyptic which I haven't really seen in a game before so clearly.

9:45 I think you're understating 1's side quests by a lot. There were all of the monster quests and material quests, but there were also a whole slew of side quests that involved speaking to named characters and being able to help their relationships. And interestingly enough in this game, Teelan appears as a fully voiced character, who appeared as a side quest character in 1. I think Teelan's side quest was actually really cool, finding some research and giving it to him in order to further the future of the High Entia, which is shown in full force in Future Connected. Plus, those monster quests were very simple and were easy to complete along the main pathway of the game, automatically completing once the specific set of enemies were dead.

Tyrea has a character art section in the art book and that made me me think wow is Tyrea playable? Then I saw the quiet moment and thought: oh she's definitely playable

the reason XBC 1 side quests are actually better than many of the other games is because, unlike those, in generic quests you didnt need to go back to the npc and could take them all in 1 go and compleate them at your leasure, and in case 1 quest had multiple objectives it gave you all from the get go, and DE has made them even more streamlined by actually telling you which god damn orb can give you what you need, while the other quests are more involved, not as much as 2, but enough while in 2 generic quest are the worst, you have to get them, do the objective, go back to talk to quest giver and pray to god ints not a multy objectibe quest, in case it is, rinse and repeat as many times as needed, and then, you can unlock a few other generic quests, granted, there are less generic quest in total but Quantity does not equal Quality XBC1 generic quests were painless in that regard, there were a lot, but they were painless, and while not all to par, the character involved quests have some great gems in them, in XBC2 the generic quests were few, but were the absolute worst there are, and the constant back tracking more than tripled the time invested in them, and while the content of the character quests are better in general writting wise... somewhat, they also have the same problems the generic quests have, and not to mention, some had you waiting actual hours, not just a few minutes, cause you needed the mercenaries

28:30, or thereabouts: The book that came with the original Xenoblade japanese special edition back in 2010 was recently translated (by fans) into English. It's stated that colonies 6 and 9 are the only ones still remaining by the start of the game; the rest have been destroyed by mechon.

That moment when the game handles racism better than the United States

28:11 I love this

Shulk: We wish for a world with no gods. 21:16, Luxin: I just wish she had pants

I loved how in the background footage at 9:10 you notice the collision of the bridge doesn't match the model

I have been waiting for this video with much anticipation. Not many people have covered FC. Luxin is definitely where it's at 🔥

Dude, the final boss is literally a guldo and not any guldo, infernal guldo, which is the guldo the real world mayneth turns into. Thats pretty conected, its not as in your face as the characters literrally crossing over but it does have some meaning beyond chronicles one. I dont know what to do with that knowledge because Im one to think that alvis just transported everyone into the real world at the end and in the real world guldos are still a problem and they can manage and suck ether so it isnt surprising that they can do what they do without the conduit.

I find the Main Story more interesting GamePlay wise than Future Connected. Reason i playing Future Connected 1st , because i seen the main story and (spoiler below). Apprently beating Future Connected unlocks Costumes and able to upgrades Arts abit farther for Main Game.

Tyrea is the Morag to Melia's Nial.

I consider the title to imply that this is where the starting point for the story of a full sequel is tbh. The art book almost straight up admits it. If that's the case then it makes sense not to reveal what the fog king was

Future connected is automatically one of my favorite xenoblades just simply because of shulks drip

This Extra Story felt like a season of a TV show. Something like A:TLA

Tyrea is the Impa/Sheikah to Melia's Zelda

The Samarians are probably the Xenoblade equivalent of Protheans from Mass Effect.

I’ll be honest, I really like that Nene and Kino were pseudo parodies of Reyn and Sharla. I thought it was really funny. Hearing a tiny girl shout messed up versions of Reyn’s arts is hilarious.

The thumbnail is lit af

Is connected cause all the people is working together, and cause Shulk doesn't have more vision Monolith want to show how people can follow their own path. Also the Alcamoth people ask for kill some telethya, cause, they were out of control and more later under the control of zanza. Is better enjoy a game for what it is, not for what the fans want. Monolith discard the shoulder as an area year ago, so I think XC: FC could be written back then (anything feels out the place).

I'd honestly draw more of a comparison between Niall and Morag than Hubert and Edelgard (for Tyrea and Melia in postgame). Sure it's not perfect but it's good that that isn't the case.

Also for a video idea or maybe someone knows the answer: What happens to Alvis after XC1?

Luxin makes 2 videos back to back Me: 😮

Kino honestly stole the show for me! I would love to see a nopon spinoff game :)

You should do a video about the potential locations of the other 9 colonies

One thing. Jazzy. Battle. Theme. Nuff said.

So I wanna know wtf is going on with the fog king, they didn't explain it at all. On the other hand, the two new battle themes are STELLAR.

When I first played Future Connected, I thought that we were going to get a Machina party member and I was kinda disappointed that we didn't.

I honestly prefer FC and Torna to base game 1 and 2. I just prefer a shorter game that can communicate what it wants in under 35 hours. Also for the introduction to Bionis Shoulder I kept on thinking of the into to Primordia

There technically is multiverse stuff. The end fight music is called something like "the end of the conduit", which implies the conduit is or trying to appear. The fog king itself is the same as Galea from 2, and acts almost exactly as the Gnosis from saga. They might be trying a Perfect works story again. In one side quest a telethia does the same thing as the Endbringer from X. That being said I too was a bit disappointed.

Great video and I agree with most but I wouldn't compare Gael'gar to Albedo lol

You are not alone. When I finished the game it was so late that I just wanted to take a peak at Future Connected. But little did I know that the first five minutes would make me cry. It is just so funny yet heart-warming because we're used to nopons saying stuff like "Here! New Brotherpon." And that is probably why it hits so hard. Either that or I should've going to sleep because I was really tired. I also think that it would've been better if they changed Melias Kit a little bit because of her new "monado inspired" staff. Shulk is imo a so much better character then Melia to use in this game with your limited options also the lack of chain attacks makes her a bit less useful for me since when I'm not playing with her I usually use her as an extender in the middle of the party since she can always use a colourless art. In this party Melia, as a protagonist, is simply not good enough to stick out that much. But probably I'm just less experienced with playing as her. Still a bit more options aside her summon mechanic would've been cool. Shulk and Nene work so well together with Melia who would draw the Aggro it just goes in the way of my playstyle. Gameplaywise I had a lot fun with Future Connected. I think the battle system should've been a bit more redesigned for the new elements (like they did with Torna) but you get used to it and the ponspektors are a great idea to encourage you to explore (even though the problem with the three different colors is something we shouldn't overlook). The only thing I really find sad is that even playing 100% only took barely 15 hours. But not because I think it is to less I just want to play more of it because Future Connected was so much fun xD However a comparison between Future Connected and Torna is not the best comparison because one of them is a DLC that had to keep up with expectations of a 25 Dollar Season Pass (and damn it really did). In the end it is a big big love letter to all hardcore fans of Xenoblade Chronicles. Those who completed the game to 100%/did all kinds of cutscenes, heart to hearts, etc. From the beginning to the end where colony 9 rebuilds Alcamoth I enjoyed every single moment. Just seeing the other characters for a brief moment was enough for me to be happy since it is a story focused on Melia so I'm okay with that. And the end of her story doesn't interfere with the end of the main story. It doesn't extend the universe/story as much as a sequel should've but I'm okay with this. This little addition put a smile on my face whenever I booted it up. I'm really excited to see what the future will bring. Also I'm in the mood of some gambling. I bet that the next Xenoblade Game will come out during 2022. Just a feeling.

A xeno crossover would be something like “Xenolegends” or something. Lol

IMPERIAL guard, Luxin. What is it with people talking of the High Entia as if it were a kingdom when it's unequivocally an empire?

I'm honestly a bit sad there wasn't any real superbosses, though. Even Torna had the Golden Beasts, and while they were annoying to get close enough in level, they were still a fun challenge. The fact the highest level monster is level 80 in FC when you don't even have an altered level cap is kind of disappointing.

Dunno if you mention it (haven't watched the whole video) but if you go into the giants ruins (the big one with the highly concentrated ether crystals) you see statues of ancient high entia. And above there are both giant sized and high entia sized ruins. My conclusion: the giants taught and helped evolve the ancient high entia seeing as eryth sea islands and alcamoth are hover stone based. also the sun is the same as on bionis so it's probably not the same world as rex's sadly.

The problem with saying Gael Gar could comeback is that he doesn't have the flying ability that Tyrea has. If you look at his wings they're as small as melia's and she can't fly either. Tyrea is only an exception due to a mention how some half breeds are lucky as their half breed traits barely show.

do Kino and Nene need to be exact clones of Sharla and Ryan. i understand the need for a dedicated tank and healer but copying every single art. they could have at least swapped some of the old arts for new ones.

Could you do a video on Klaus and Zanza and the Architect.

My first thought on the Tyrea's shadow to Melia's light thing was that she was the Oberstein to Melia's Reinhard, which was largely probably all because it's in the context of a sci-fi Empire, but also idk whether that's better or worse than your comparisons.