Is This the Biggest Xeno Year Without a Xeno Game? - Xeno News 

Before anyone comments about it, yes I saw that Bandai Namco published Strive in some regions, that does in fact explain the Guilty Gear crossover event in Tales of the Rays.

Just wait til Xenoblade Warriors is announced at the February Direct

For those curious, you have to beat Ceratinia 7 times in total (120, 125, 130, 135, 140, 145, 150), meaning yes. the amiibo requirements were 100% planned out

MonolithSoft also assists with development on a lot of other Nintendo titles, like Splatoon and BotW/TotK. But we don’t really know what they’d be assisting with right now, I doubt a new Zelda, Splatoon or Animal Crossing is coming this year. It’s just a portion of staff that assists on projects but there isn’t any obvious game they’d be working on right now. If they are full steam ahead on their own projects then I could believe MonolithSoft has something to show off this year that gets a 2025 release date. MS was also recruiting for a fantasy project even before XC3 was revealed. It’s entirely possible that whatever that project became could be released soon. I love Xeno but I’d also be so down to see something entirely new from them that was wholly their own, and didn’t have to bring up decades old game lore that the majority of current Xeno fans haven’t experienced.

I literally don’t care if they just upscale the Xenosaga Trilogy into HD and put it on Switch. I just want to play the series so bad, especially after Future Redeemed. If Monolith Soft is at all involved though, it’ll definitely be higher quality than that and have one updated and unified art style across the entire trilogy.

It's reasonable to assume the next xenoblade game won't come out until 2025, but I wonder what the chances are of them revealing it this year? Like how Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition was revealed in the September 2019 Direct, before coming out in May 2020.

If the Xenoblade 3 artbook is anything like Alrest Record was for 2 that'll be fantastic and given its size it should hopefully be giving us way more. I loved being able to take a little look at the design process for all the characters in 2 and look forward to doing the same with 3. Also why does so much of the Tales of Series have to be exclusively Japanese? WHY??????

That Riku vid is the most anticipated video ever. We know that Riku is "tada no nopon da"... but you know, we want more.

Getting some more clarification on unanswered questions in both Xenoblade 3 and Future Redeemed would be fantastic!

My personal opinion is that they are working for a near-launch title for the switch 2 like how they did with xc2, probably an x remake or xenoblade warriors.

Good to see you Lux. I am about to start the whole trilogy in chronological order and 100 percent each as i go. Probably take all year. Love the content man. Keep it up.

Major cope, but I hope that XB3 actually gets this art book translated to English 😭

Time for a boatload of speculation based on nothing. I think you're wrong. XCX remake is real, and will be announced for Switch 2. It might not come out this year, more likely to be next year. But it will be unveiled at bare minimum. I've always been team 2025 for the release of XCX myself, because XC1DE was the 10th anniversary. So I think from now on we're going to be in a cycle where after 10 years have passed, a blade game will get a remaster. XCX was also noteworthy for being the game that served as Monolith Soft's HD toolset's origin. I think it'd just be very fitting if a remake of that title then served as the basis and origin for a 4K development pipeline. But most importantly. I don't think that 2024 is going to go without a xenoblade game. I think that Xenoblade 3 was written in the fashion is way for a reason. It's because it was meant to be a multi game story arc. So...basically, I think there's a canon Xenoblade Warriors tie in. Mythra's child has not been revealed for a reason. They're the MC of that title, and it'll be set in Aionios's earliest days, and will depict many of the things we only heard in passing in 3 and FR. Things like Melia's capture, the death of Riki in aionios, the creation of the sword of origin, and so on. And given the time period of such a title, you could get away with having playable characters from all three blade games casts. Why do I think this is happening? Because Noah and Mio's amiibo came out so late after the game itself, which is extremely unlike basically every other series specific amiibo. Usually, barring smash because that's a special case, when a game has amiibo, most or all of the amiibo are day and date with the game itself. It's because they'll have functionality in this game, maybe something like allowing a city version of Noah and Mio to wear their XC3 outfits. And there might be a handful other figures made too, hence xenoblade being made an amiibo series now. How's this all feasible? Well, for warriors, outside of Tetsuya Takahashi and his peers directing the story, it'd be a mostly hands off affair for monolith in terms of game design and cutscene production and that sort of thing. Omega Force would do the vast lions share of the work. While the main Monolith Soft teams work on XCXDE and XC4. But to add onto that. I'm gonna go ahead and guess that XCXDE began work as a secondary project following the completion of XC1DE. When 3 wrapped, more hands would have been available to work on that. We probably don't see XC4 or whatever the next main project is till 2026 at the soonest, but more likely 2028, given that 2027 would be occupied by a 2DE if the 10 years pattern holds.

This might be off topic but will you be making more Trails content in the future? Like did the theory video you did earlier do well enough to warrant more videos?

For the Xenoblade 1 logo for the amiibos, I guess they simply chose the X from Xenoblade 1 because 1 is the most iconic game that gave enough success for the series to continue. It's most likely the same reason why they used the Monado logo in Smash to represent the Xenoblade series as a all. I find this choice more fitting cause the Monado doesn't appear in Xenoblade 2 for example and yet, Pyra/mythra have the Monado logo. The X letter is more what represents the series as a all even though the Monado is a very iconic sword. But of course they had to choose a specific X to stay recognizable and each game title has its specific artstyle so the X from 1 here.

I was happy to find only 1 set of the Noah/Mio amiibo pack at the local Gamestop. The ONLY had 1... >.< come on Nintendo. Also, I'd pay to get that outfit for Velvet in Tales of Berseria....

Thanks to you mentioning the X on the amiibo I noticed that DE has bigger text on the box art compared to the other two

Importantly, Kadowaka games (the publisher of this artbook) is the one sending the questions based off the survey so I wouldn’t expect definite answers on unexplained stuff. Things I expect are artwork of Mythra’s kid and maybe some description on her, Monolith might explain more about the Black Fog and Catastrophe of both worlds coming together, maybe an answer about why Z called Alpha his god and some small implied hints about the future. But I do think it’s extremely cool we are getting a questions section. I just hope people answered thoroughly about what they want explained. Also, agreed on the Xenosaga KOS-MOS collab and it’s extremely weird the JPN VA Mariko Suzuki came back as well as Monolith Soft retweeting stuff if there was no plan going forward for something Xenosaga cooking. We will just have to see though. I didn’t know you can remove the armour in game now and have everyone in their camp outfits! That’s so cool! I am planning to grind for N and M outfit soon too.

I didn’t get the age rating for smash spirits thing at first because in the uk all the Xenoblade games and smash are rated 12

• Xenosaga remakes • Xenoblade Warriors • Xenoblade Chronicles X remaster • Xenoblade Chronicles Waifu gatcha mobile game • Xenosaga re-releases • Xenoblade music rhythm game If they release any of these ideas I will be one happy Nopon!

Seeing Velvet doing Ultimum Teneritas has added minutes to my lifespan.

Hey Luxin and everyone else. I'm having post game fun in Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and one of the unique monsters, Jadeite Polly only spawns during an aurora borealis event. That got me thinking... if Alrest is on the equator then according to science, it shouldn't be possible for aurora borealis to be present as the phenomenon only occurs near the poles. Just something to chew on. I doubt this has any significance to lore and what not. Thanks for reading, have a good day.

I figured M's long hair and N's low voice were meant to show they were physically older.

Hopefully that art book gets an english release and doesn't jave anything cut from it since iirc the english xenoblade 2 art book had a few things cut

The creators said that the Xenoblade series is already complete however they still need to finish the X series

While they almost definitely won't release a new xeno thing this year, they might announce something together with the switch 2 at the end of the year. They might also push that to beginning of 2025 though so we'll see

I see a luxin video, I instantly watch it. Lfg!

The only game developer that can convince me to buy the rumored "switch 2" is monolith, so I hope the 10th anniversary brings amazing news for the series, xenoblade x remake would be nice, but I would preffer a xenosaga remake if kosmos is really important moving forward into the mainline series, either way, I will always hope for a switch version, as the system already houses the whole xenoblade triology, but if it comes out on a hypothetical switch 2 I might really have to buy it

That Konami baseball game is pretty huge in Japan, btw. There's even Rule 34 of it and I don't know how. I mean, look at those characters.

I can confirm that it works without opening them!! 😅😂❤ Thank you Luxin so much for this information. 🙏

21:39 I would love to see Monolith Soft tackle a licensed game, they would be great on tackling a Nintendo exclusive Star Wars or Transformers video game?

U forgot that Monolith soft is bigger with more staff than before

Outside of a XCX Remaster port, what I like to see is in 2025 a Trilogy port of XC1-3, a.k.a. the Klaus Saga, like the Metroid Prime Trilogy. I know, unlikely, but Xenoblade is still pretty niche, & I don't think Nintendo would lose a lot of money to sell them in one pack. It would be a great way to celebrate 15 years of Xenoblade.

great video but why is the id in the url only lowercase letters, it's driving me insane it looks so weird

good to have u back!

Will there be a vid on the role of music/ofseeing in aionios? Like how does the whole mote thing work?

I hope Luxin doesn't consider the rare blade system to be a baseless criticism because that was horrible. There were other things I didn't like, but it was the main reason I never played it a second time.

There is another other alternative: Them doing a port (patch) of any current Switch games for Switch 2, maybe just to get a hold of how the new technology works. From what I heard from the people sleuthing away, the new system will have some new ways of tech, like mesh shaders and AV1 video encoding/decoding, and also DLSS 2/3.5 (basically, no Frame Generation), and they might want to, either internally or publicly, fiddle with it so the actual new game can make that work out of the box. Still, I hope they try a new IP. Not because I don't like Xenoblade, but because doing new shit can help find new gameplay. I don't think many people would like an out of the box Action game for Xenoblade (not what we have, which is much more a Turn Based RPG than even FF7R), but if they successfully do something like that with a new game and they are successful, they might be able to "backport" it into Xenoblade. Something like how Bayonetta 3 wouldn't have existed if not for Astral Chain - the demon workings is an iteration on the Legions of AC.

how many questions about mythra's kid are they gonna get i wonder lmao

What part of the story would you like clarified?

DONT YOU TEASE ME ABOUT AN X REMASTER 😭😭😭

I hope someone asks about Mythra's kid.

Xenoblade X will come out.

6:46 Your voice sounds different.

Please.... KOSMOS V5.... XBX successor... i want it all... give me everything I desire..

any1 know how to get the new artbook in the UK? im trying to buy one

DW KING U GOT THIS!!

Not like it really matters. Things need time to cool off and besides all of those games tended to fly well under the radar after Square was no longer directly involved. I mean the only reason the most recent trilogy even came up from the depths is because of Smash Ultimate. If it were not for Smash you would need sonar to find the games for that is how unpopular they are.

Maybe theyd finally do xcx switch edition

Persona 25th birthday be like:

Didn't they say there are not going to be any more smash games

If we are lucky maybe xenoblade will be like dark souls and we will get clone games.

I want a continuation of Xenogears/Saga soooo badly, even if many folks insist it'll never happen. It continues haunting my dreams decades later like nothing else. Xenoblade hasn't hit me the same way, but in fairness I haven't had time to play them due to life and responsibilities (more specifically, I've only played 80% of the way through Chronicles, and none of the others.) But I'm happy they've been commercial successes and bought copies to support the cause and play some day, in hopes that their success will somehow, some way lead to the rest of the Gears/Saga story being told. I never want what happened with Saga's sales to hamstring them again...

Feathers are a b*tch to dry!

I love having to read a Japanese only art book that released two years after the game to explain the copious amounts of unanswered questions and plotholes. I love this series, but good lord is this frustrating

(a)Miibo[Mii]

There's some SERIOUS thinking people need to do with this show and I believe you touch on why it's good to think critically super well. And while the argument "people get brought to Jesus through this story." Maybe true you point out "yes but what Jesus" The only thing I would add is the question on the second commandment about making an image of God. Jesus is that image and when you make a Jesus that ain't that Jesus in media like this I do believe that violates that commandment. It's another element to this show that needs critical thinking. I'm glad you posted this because people get really defensive with it and rely on entoional arguments versus taking a thoughtful conversation to work through this.

That Artbook does look great; however I did have to skip it since I can't read any Japanese. (also recently gotten into BattleTech which is taking up a lot of money) Monolith Productions also created some great FPS such as Blood, No One Lives Forever, and the first two F.E.A.R games before making Shadow of Mordor. (also I just realized that Blood came out 27 years ago)

I'd be happy with some rereleases or a new series. Sick to death of the xenoblade saga. So much content for so little pay-off.

1:55 nah, a Xenoblade Warriors by Koei Techmo is infinitely more likely than an X port

Sooo excited about the art book! It's my first time buying one of these post-launch compendiums and I didn't wanna miss out after Nintendo fumbled the XC3 Collector's Edition preorders

It's funny how M's outfit is easier to get than N's without amiibo

I am unironically pretty hyped about the Xenoblade 3 art book. I'm curious to see if my and others' theories about stuff ends up actually true, and I'm hoping we get some kind of Aionios timeline as well.

Gotta believe that X will make a comeback for the 10th anniversary in April next year

Pushing through this Xeno drought is hard, but every bit of Luxin content helps ease the wait.

I wonder how many people in that survey asked about who/where Mythra's child is, and whether or not that will be answered

Honestly, I don't think we're getting anything this year either; slightly due to the regular year gap and also a new/updated (?) Nintendo console.

Shoutouts to Luxin being the one American Xenotuber who will say “Consul Zed” and a good effort in Welsh on “Llyn Nyddwr”. Trust me on the former, if Americans force me to comply with “Dragon Ball Zee”, this is our time to get back, and Luxin is respecting that.

I will say, I really hope Monolith doesn't actually decide to answer too many of Xc3's questions in the art book or in future games. Mainly because the is nothing worse than a series getting bogged down in trivia and minutia (cough, cough Star Wars, cough, cough), but also because it really does frustrate me when a story is designed to not have easy answers for every little thing, and the fans still demand them anyway. It's like demanding to know if the top fell down in inception, there are certain things that should stay ambiguous and shouldn't have clear or easy answers.

I have yet to watch the whole thing but I hope we get some kind of crossover, like Xenoblade Warriors

I think the reason the update makes you redownload DLC is that it probably broke Miimombii and they had to issue a revision 3. Little known fact, Future Redeemed had to get a revision 2 release because if you somehow had the update that added Miimombii without also having downloaded FR rev 2, Miimombii was displayed as "Dummy" and had no functionality. Something about the order the files are loaded in and overwritten by each other.

XENOBLADE WARRIORS

Honestly we’ve been eating soo well with 6 star quality meals with fantastic games that I’m satisfied without a Xenoblade game for a year or even two.

Damn. A shame I didn't learn about the survey sooner. We really don't have much Agnus representation on the kid mode (esp. regarding in their own original world). We do see kid Noah, Eunie, Lanz and Joran even, but we barely see Mio as a baby. That's it.

For the love of LORD please bring X back

Who do we contact to beg for an English translation of the Aionios Moments book??!? 🙏🙏🙏

could all this mentioning the number 7 be in regards to them having worked on 7 xeno story titles until now? Xenogears, Xenosaga 1-3, Xenoblade Chronicles 1-3 (Xenoblade Chronicles X being forgotten as always but only because it focuses on exploration instead of telling a story)

Damn i was just thinking yesterday when new vid was going to drop, this is awesome :D

They should have made noah and MIo fighters in the game... Spirits are dumb imo idc if they said no more fighters... just make an exception lol

x and/or xenosaga remaster for switch 2 please, a guy can dream

Did you see that Bandai Namco published Strive in some reasons, that does in fact explain the Guilty Gear crossover event in Tales of the Rays?

Hmn, not sure about your take on X, what's your guess on what the XCDE team are working on then? I get COVID would've hit scheduling significantly but it's been nearly 4 years...

i think a Xenoblade X remaster could be the next xeno thing if only too keep the pattern going a remaster between mainline games to hold fans over kinda like how DE was but yeah it wont be till at least 2025 if it is happening

With the rumors that the switch 2 will support 4K resolution, I can’t wait to see what Xenoblade will look like in the future

Lol I thought you were mispronouncing “Tales of Arise” but they really went with “The Rays”

That 12:47 joke got me laughing so hard

Xenoblade Warriors announcement this month.

im going fucking insane bandai please give us our game

It would be great to have a new Xenosaga game.

A Xeno game this year is still possible

Big if true

loved the video, luxin! :D it's a warm feeling watching a xeno news video this well-put-together after not really keeping up with the series once i calmed down after future redeemed, needed a reminder why i love this series so much, and have stuck around for over half a decade at this point

I feel like XCX port will be part of Switch 2's announcement and its first lineup of games.

Imagine Bandai Namco dropping the Nuke in the upcoming Direct probably in February regarding Xenosaga remaster..

What survey?

The only Xeno game that I can see potentially releasing this year is Xenosaga remastered if it's a thing. I think the teasing in Future Redeemed and Baten Kaitos, a way more niche series from Monolith Soft, getting a remaster kind of hint that a Xenosaga remaster/remake is probably happening at some point in the future. Granted if it's just a remaster and got greenlit around the same time as Baten Kaitos I can see it coming out this year. Though if this is the case it will be a pretty bare bones remaster with some quality of life changes and visual updates. This is fine, but I think Monolith Soft might want to take a crack at remaking Xenosaga to be more like what they originally wanted it to be, which I don't think would be too much more work than making a mainline Xenoblade game nowadays since they're a way more experienced and capable developer than they were back then. I'd honestly prefer the latter than the former as I think Xenosaga deserves a remake. Though if this is the case I can see that coming out way later either right before or after the next mainline Xenoblade game comes out, probably around 2027. If there is any announcement for Xenosaga remastered coming out this year it'll probably be announced in the next direct and released this fall much like Baten Kaitos was last year. If there's nothing than there's definitely no Xeno game coming out this year. I do think they'll try and push for Xenoblade X to be one of the first year games for the Switch 2, as I think they'll want it to be a big showcase game for the system, but it'll release in 2025 for it's 10th anniversary much like Xenoblade DE released for that games 10th anniversary. This is what I hope they're going to do, and it would kind of suck if they don't have something planned to come out between now and the next main Xeno game as that's probably a good 4 more year of wait for that game.

I realy belive a Xenosaga colection is very likely as were 90% likely in the last year of the switch with its sucessor lauching this holiday season. Nintendo like with the 3DS is likely to wind down the switch with ports and remakes something we've already seen a bit of with the two mario rpg remakes. If such a colection is real I expect it some time between April and September that and Metroid Prime 2 HD i would place money on this year