Thank you very much for the support on this series. I've enjoyed meeting so many amazing Xenoblade fans. What a wonderful game. Can't wait to start Xenoblade 2! Also, you guys keep recommending the Trails series and I'm this close to playing those, too. SO MANY GAMESSSSSSS Also, for those asking: I do plan on playing Future Connected, but I do not plan on making content about it. Sorry about that, but I enjoy keeping some experiences off camera. Thank you for understanding. Have a wonderful day / night!
It's cool, Sarah. I'm just glad that you'll play Future Connected overall. It's a wonderful story, but I do hope you played that sidequest in Colony 6 from the front gate. It'll make much more sense.
Its canon that Riki adopts Shulk because in the final cutscene riki has caught 14 fish one for each member of his family but Riki has also been confirmed to have 11 children meaning that 3 fish are left over one for Riki one for Riki's Wife and one for Shulk. also there is a heart to heart where shulk mentions his dead parents and Riki can decide to adopt him
For sake of clarity, the symbol on the Monado at the beginning said “Machine” to show it can cut Mechon, the Monado II said “People” to show it could cut through the people of Bionis, the final symbol that Zanza feared said “God” to show it was now a god-slaying sword. I’m so happy you enjoyed this game. I played it around 2015 and now it’s my favorite.
The scene where Kallian reveals the truth about why Melia is only half-Entia always breaks my heart. She was ridiculed and shunned her entire life and nearly assassinated for it, and it turns out being half homs makes her literally the only way to save her species and fight back against Zanza
Melia isn't half homs, she is mostly homs. The emperors before her have been going half homs for generations. It took generations before they got to be mostly homs and barely high entia enough to not transform. The ritual they did at High Entia Tomb at Eryth Sea had them get their DNA scanned. The queen knew it was dangerous since lot of royals go and die there but the machine there is to scan if you have enough homs DNA to NOT transform if Zanza comes back, if you would transform, you aren't fit to rule. The ancient high entia sealed the weakened Zanza after he fought Meynith in prison island and got to work diluting their DNA. Too bad high entia race snobbery prevented a large portion of the population from being saved.
@@dezheathen Even without playing Future Connected, you should've realised that Melia wasn't the only half homs, half high entia. Playing certain side quests and exploring the world after the mass transformation happened should've let you realise there were others in the same position as Melia, only that she was the focus, being that she was to rule them all and set an example to normalise it.
"Shulk, this new world is boundless. It's home to not only you, but many forms of life. I can see it. In this world, all life will walk towards the future hand in hand." -Alvis That's still one of my favorite video game quotes of all time. Not gonna lie.
Alvis has some of the most striking quotes in the game. “I am Monado. I was here at the beginning. And I will proclaim the end.” Always gives me chills
The best part of this remake is seeing all these people play this game for the first time and get emotional in all the places I did. Its as close as I can get to feeling like im playing through it my first time, and its beautiful. Thankyou Sarah from playing and sharing that experience with everyone.
the coolest part about dickson is that he never stopped caring about shulk, despite him being a bad guy at one point, he even says that he almost feels bad about deceiving them despite everything though, he firmly believes that only those with power has the right to decide what they want to do with the world, unlike zanza, who believes that the right belongs to gods alone i like to think that the fight with dickson was just him testing shulk's strength in the most tsundere way possible to see if he has the power deserving to shape a world, which makes sense, considering he stopped fighting after being dealt a mortal blow when you think about it, dickson really couldn't have truly lost from this encounter. his character was revealed to revolve around power, then died full of pride for shulk for gaining the power to defeat the next closest thing to a god, especially after giving it his all. if he won though, he would've walked away, still retaining the power of the next closest thing to a god it's honestly wild how much this game puts into its storytelling without it directly shoving it in your face
@@rocketdog734 of course. Dickson made that happen (and he knew what he was doing). Shulk coming back was not something he expected. So I disagree with "never stopped caring about Shulk" because at that moment, he was done with Shulk
@@Quantris i mean, the fact that he went ahead and did that doesn't mean that he *stopped* caring about shulk. when the gang arrives at sword valley, dickson warns him to not go soft, not out of fear of him succumbing to mechon, but out of fear that his humanistic nature will lead him off the path laid out by zanza and force dickson his hand
@@rocketdog734 I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree. For me it's impossible to watch that scene (shooting + Zanza extraction) and think that Dickson still cares about Shulk during it.
For those confused: Earth: *exists* Klaus: ima make a new pocket dimension and be a god. Mayneth: Hey don’t do that. *Touches Klaus and console* Klaus: Nah it’s fine *pushes button* Trinity Core of the experiment facility: I’m about to end this man’s whole career. Ontos, go troll Klaus for like a thousand years. We’ll clean up the mess here. Also call yourself Monado, but also Alvis Alvis/Monado/Ontos: aight Klaus: I’m Zanza, but also Bionis Mayneth: I’m a big ol’ robot. Zanza: Nah you suck, this whole new dimension world thing was my idea, you just got in because wouldn’t stop grabbing my lab coat. Ontos/Monado/Alvis: Man needs an ego check. Ima make it nice and big so that he gets capped by his own creation someday. Wonder how Pneuma and Logos are doing.
Music to the ending? All the music in this game is God Tier, in all seriousness I've heard Numerous people say XBC1 has The Best Soundtrack Of Any Game... I agree to this day.
@@-libertyprimev1-902 I whole heartedly agree, the entire soundtrack for this game is just amazing and is the best soundtrack I’ve heard out of any game too
The scene where Dickson dies is one of my favorite from Xenoblade 1. Despite what he says, Dickson loved Shulk. He doesn't want to force Shulk to kill him outright, that'd be too painful for both of them. Damn. I always cry on that scene. This and XBC2 are the only pieces of media that have made me cry. Damn good series.
Agreed. There were a few scenes in XBC2 that got me. Which speaks volumes about it's masterful storyteloling. The hardest thing for a game developer to achieve is to get the player emotionally invested in the characters. Many devs never once achieve it, let alone twice now in the case of Monolith Soft.
@@OnlyGokenEXACTLLYYY i live for replaying them the second time and understanding the secrets and how hard the gut punches are gonna be, such good games
@@Zephhi Xenoblade 1 may be stronger for a lot of the game, but the ending of 2 (all of chapter 10) I think is much stronger than the ending of 1. The ending of 1 is kinda just... straightforward. Once you find out about Dickson and the nature of the Telethia, that's pretty much it for plot twists. Shulk unlocks his true power, beats the bad guy, and saves the world. But 2, chapter 10 is bombshell after bombshell, right down to the very last minute of the end credits.
@@Zephhi To be fair, a good chunk of the negative reception is the piss poor direction most of the VAs got. It was even worse because, for many of the VAs, it was their first time acting in such a major role.
The game it's the definition of a perfect history, emotional, cruel, fun, it has everything in that 100 hours of gameplay, i love how you enjoy it as i enjoy it in the moment of my first gameplay, its my favorite game of all time, so i see all the four parts of reaction
Always endearing to see someone else enjoy and go through the same emotions we all did on our first run. An unforgettable experience of a video game. Definitely check out Xenoblade 2 as well.
@@liamm113 mate there are tons of people who share your thought. Personally I do like fiora better since Melia isn’t really my type. But melia’s definitely far more developed than fiora and has a lot more character depth
Holy crap ... I didn't thought much about that, but you are right. Maybe because at first, Dumban was the punching bag, like he was betrayed, then losing his sister and being unable to weild the Monado as well as almost losing an arm, but Melia, damn she got it rough. She lived in shame, she was almost assassinated by her own people, she felt in love only for that guy GF came back from the dead. Her father was killed, her brother sacrificed himself, the enemies kept teasing her, she had to slay several of her own people and then, her brother died ... Again!!! And at the end, they didn't even gave her a crush or something. I mean I'm team Fiora but my God, poor Mely.
@@nitrodyne676 I guess ur right my g. Just never see anyone that agrees abt her, only abt fiora (tho I'm sure I cud find those ppl if I actually looked lmao)
@@Felixr2 I disagree. The point of the epilogue is to give hope to the High Entia. And it also gave Melia a purpose. It gave her character development justice and a proper ending to her story.
@@ShallBePurified At the end, yes, it does have some resolutions and leads into Melia being in a better position than at the start of Future Connected. But there's still a lot left unresolved, and it even hints at another, yet unknown threat to the high entia. Plus, the start has her brutally find out that her own people have been suffering for well over a year now without her being aware of it, and later on one of her people tries to take the throne by means of regicide. Did it resolve some things in the end? Sure. But she also got to deal with a good amount of extra suffering.
@@Felixr2 It's all about perspective. If you choose to see any form of adversity as suffering, then sure. But in my opinion, that's not really making her suffer more. She has challenges she has to rise up to as the new leader. She's learned how to take on these challenges and rise to her position as the hope of her people. In the end, she succeeded in her goal and united the different races together. She did go through hardship, yes, but that isn't the same as suffering more. She grew and became stronger, and she became happier because of it.
Dickson was basically Shulk's father. Gave him his name, raised him, taught him about machines and weapon development, so it makes sense shulk would be torn up over killing him regardless of if he was an evil traitor.
I'm always happy when someone play Xenoblade Chronicles for the first time, it's my favorite game of all time and I hope you play Xenoblade Chronicles 2 it's also great and I love your videos
This is like my third time watching you playthrough this game, and I don't know if anyone ever pointed it out to you. So, Fiora getting her body back was a bigger ordeal than you may think, it wasn't given to her using Shulk's god powers. There's a written story by the devs that you can look up that talks more about it, but to briefly explain it: Sometime before the gang goes off to prison island for the final time, they're relaxing in colony nine. Shulk sneaks off in the middle of the night to his lab. Melia wakes up and finds him and she sees he's been scouring books given to him by the machina and other ancient texts scouring for some way to restore Fiora's body. He's been driving himself restless, doing this nearly every night since he got Fiora back. After the two exchange some words, Shulk mentions an ancient location that Melia recognizes with her family's seal on it. The next morning they all ship off to the location and find the machine that'll restore organic life, think of a super healing tank. But the catch is that Fiora would have to be in there for nearly a year for her to regenerate her whole body. The whole group is ready to say their goodbyes to her, but she refuses, saying she won't go in until after she's fought with Shulk and makes sure he gets out safe. She's warned of her failing body, and she's willing to take that risk. It's a very beautiful story that has some character moments I purposefully left out if you want to read it yourself for that little bit more.
1:11:07 - Can we talk about how masterfully crafted the Alvis Scene is? The beautiful music reaching it's apex here + the way Alvis glides on Screen + the power of his words, especially when you know who he really is now. It all just comes perfectly together here as an epic closure to one of the greatest stories ever told. So positive and full of hope
As other people have pointed out, XC2 is another good game, but I would also recommend any of the other games in the Xeno franchise, being Xenogears on the PS1 and Xenosaga on the PS2
So happy to finally see this. This game is something truly special. When you think about it, there are so many parallels you can find between it and Kingdom Hearts too. Hope you enjoyed playing through this masterpiece. And hey, the sequel is pretty darn good too!
I mean, I can't lie and say I didn't go into this with the thought of "huh, I wonder how many times this last part will make Sarah cry?". Glad you enjoyed it, this is by far my favorite game.
I'm second hand crying, I haven't seen this ending for about 8 years but it broke me a second time. Thanks for this :) Xenoblade has a real special place in my heart.
So happy to have found this series of LPs. XC became one of my favorite games upon playing it as it demonstrated to this often jaded gamer that I could still experience the feelings and wonder that came often in my earlier days of playing games. Xenoblade Chronicles is now one of my favorite games and a very worthy addition to the Xeno- metaseries.
I always enjoy seeing people enjoy playing through Xenoblade for the first time, it makes me smile seeing their reactions to the main story. But I will ask if/when you ever plan on playing through Future Connected and possibly Xenoblade 2.
I'm glad you could experience this masterpiece its my favorite game series of all time. The sequels may not be as consistent overall but they still hold the same spirit of the original and some neat story connections and the game play and mechanics get much more depth I encourage you to check those out too if you ever get a chance.
@@yasinn9492 XcX is actually my favorite of the three due to the soundtrack, environments, world building, combat system, end game content and side quests but the structure of the main story quest was questionable even though it had some very interesting moments. The side quests actually hold the bulk of the world building and character development but most people didn't do most of them so one of the greatest aspects of the game gets overlooked. All are great and have different strengths and weaknesses. For me XC has the best story XcX has the best combat system. XC2 has the best characters.
Always love seeing someone experience the same emotions I felt at the end of my first playthrough of XC1. I played this back in the day on the wii, and it’s been one of if not my favorite games ever since. So glad you loved this ending as much as I did ❤️
oh you're in for one hell of a roadtrip if you play xenoblade 2. can't wait to see your reactions :) Also yeah, the trails of cold steel games are..... are.... SO WHOLESOME AND EPIC and they made me cry a lot. the feels.... all the feels.
I cannot believe that I watched your 4 videos completely like if I were playing again for the first time back when I had mi Nintendo Wii. It felt great.
"We'll meet them. And wathever happens, we'll face our future togheter." I swear, 13 years later, after Future Redeemed, this very phrase have a TOTAL new meaning. Takahashi is a genius.
I'm so happy you enjoyed this game as much as you did. I already loved the original version, despite its visual limitations, but got blown away once again by this version. I would strongly recommend playing Xenoblade 2 and its side story, Torna (I assume you'll be playing the side story of this one).
I'm so glad you enjoyed it! It's amazing. If you think xenoblade is perfect, I really urge you to try the trails of cold steel series. I played so many RPGs including xenoblades 1 and 2, but those games have the best stories I ever played. I do think before that, you should play xenoblade chronicles 2 which you will love as well.
Absolutely loved this playthrough! So happy that you enjoyed the journey through this wonderful game, and that you appreciate what freakin awesome character Dunban is (let's be honest, all the characters are amazing though). Truly one of my favorite video game stories. I look forward to seeing your Xenoblade 2 playthrough!!
So happy you enjoyed this game Sarah. This is far and above my favorite JRPG of all time. I wish i could wipe my memory and play this for the first time again.
Xenoblade Chronicles is absolutely perfect and i loved watching your Twitch reaction as well as watching many others who are experiencing this masterpiece for the first time ever!
Riki kinda looks like he's wearing Nicki Minaj's pink outfit from the Anaconda music video in this part, and when I realized that it sent me into a laughing fit. Great video by the way, Sarah!
Just finished watching this and it's so nice to see that I'm not the only person who gets so emotional over this game! I played through the original on Wii for 160 hours and it became my favourite game of all time, having them re-release it on Switch gave me an excuse to love it all over again and give so many other people a chance to for the first time. Thanks for letting me enjoy for a third time! ❤️
Hi! I'm glad you enjoyed the game, because I did too. I want to point out, you did miss a quest that revealed a lot about the story, called Melancholy Tyrea. After the Telethia attack Colony 6, you run into Tyrea, the high Entia who tried to kill Melia in the tomb. You bring her to junks to get her back to health, then hear about a Telethia by the river in Makna Forest. As you defeat the Telethia, Tyrea tells the party it was Yumea, the first consort, and her mother. She is the daughter of Yumea and an unknown man, which means that she shares a half-brother, Kallian, with Melia. This is later expanded upon in Future Connected, as you might have seen.
Just stumbled across your channel looking for xenoblade reviews. My 7 year old daughter and I actually completed the game about a week ago. This was the wii version mind you. I bought it 7 years ago with all the Project Rainfall games. Life just caught up with us and I forgot to play it. We ended up donating our Wii system but kept our games. Last year we bought ann by used Wii U and was digging through old games. My daughter asked me what xenoblade chronicles was about. We started it about two months ago and I gotta tell you, was a very good bonding experience with my child. She was enthralled with the characters and story. She is even very good with the battle system, but hands me the controller when visions happen 😀 I didn’t know that I was buying this game to play in the future with my daughter. Not just a video game but something my daughter and I will remember for a long time.
I just watched this after watching your xenoblade 3 series, this game series is my favorite of all time. If there was one thing I wish had been included in the game, its that there was originally going to be a plot point where they found an old high entia regeneration machine that could have been repurposed to make fiora a fully homs body again, but the process would have taken about 6 months and she wanted to wait until after the final fight with zanza to do it so she could fight alongside shulk. It was described in the monado archives, basically like a concept book for xenoblade 1. I highly recommend it, its a really cool book.
I just can’t believe even after 17 years and 10+ titles, Kingdom Hearts still refused to give us an ending like this. That’s why I love Monilith over greedy SE
MonolithSoft is the new SquareSoft. They stay true to their game developing philosophy while Square Enix just makes too many changes to their games and westernizes them. That's why MonolithSoft's game are very high quality.
I like kingdom hearts and square enix for the most part because at the end of the day they still make good games. That being said, monolith soft is just in a tier of its own, hands down my favourite developers
Watching these videos brought but me so much joy!!! I'm so glad you enjoyed the game and I hope you enjoy XC2 if/when you get round to it! Thanks for sharing your experience with us Sarah!!
Yes, part 4 is here! Always nive to have a younger gamer discover "old" games that are loved. Xenoblade 2 I really didn't like, but still, will be interesting to see how you react. And the Trails series, ho boy, if you like them, you're in for a treat, it's the longest videogame series set in the same universe and taking place during the same dozen years, a truly unique experience.
Why didn't you like xenoblade 2? I haven't played it myself but it seems that everyone is constantly promoting it... And I really hate the voice acting and character designs so I haven't gotten to it yet. I'd like to hear a different opinion though.
@@arowace498 My three main points are : - lots of tonal dissonance. You hop from super serious to joke to melancholy to another joke. I had trouble taking anything seriously, even though the overall atmosphere is pretty dark, because there were really goofy things. And yes, there are nopons in Xenoblade 1, but I feel they worked here because they were cute instead of over-the-top jokes. - lack of consistency. It kinda overlap with my first point, in the sense that changing from one tone to another is not bad in itself, adding a light joke in a serious moment can help relieve the tension and even strenghten the intensity of the situation, or further characterize someone's personnality, but I felt that in Xenoblade 2, it was too much, it went for super-duper seriousnesslike "there are lives at stakes" to "maid joke, lul!". Also, I really didn't like the Rare Blades designs, they were all over-the-place. See, the idea behind their design is cool, ask 20ish+ reknowned manga artists to each come with an original design. But in practice, it means Blades lack cohesion with the world. For exemple, there is a blade that is some kind of chimera with two snakes, and another that is a little girl with a polar bear...but you don't really see snakes or polar bears in the world, because they're not really part of Xenoblade's world identity. Yes, nothing explitely says they don't exist, but I felt it asked me too much in term of suspension of disbelief. Xenoblade's world, with its fauna, was presented as too different from our real world for me to accept plain polar bears within its setting, if that makes sense. - the gameplay takes too much time to get going. Mechanics are added well over 30 hours into the game. And I don't mean explained, I mean literally added. To the point that I stopped the game before being able to honestly assess the gameplay. There are whole parts of the system I don't know about, simply because I didn't make it there. Now, in itself, it's not really a negative, I mean, I understand complex combat systems take time to learn. But the problem here is that the gameplay can't be the reason why you stick to the game, meaning you have to like and enjoy the rest of the game to get to the good parts of the gameplay. You see what I mean? I was already on the fence with the previous two points. If I had access to the whole gameplay, I may have kept playing, and even come to enjoy the story, because different parts of a game are complementary, and if you start liking something, you're more likely to enjoy the rest, even overlooking some things you don't like. But the opposite is true : I really didn't like the presentation of the story and the world-building, and as such, I began to criticize the mechanics...and it was all downward from that. In conclusion, I really didn't like Xenoblade 2, but I can see people enjoying it. I think I gave it a fair shot with 30+ hours in it. I didn't invest 100% into it, but it was a fair shot. Oh well, my loss. Opinions are based on self-justification. If you love something, you will overlook flaws. If you hate something, you will nitpick. Just be conscious of that, and form your own opinion! =)
@@myhr2320 thanks! Now that you mention it I think I've heard other people complaining about the tone. And I think a random polar bear would break my immersion as well. Still I heard the gameplay is really good but... Adding things 30+ hours in? I can't really imagine. Especially if the tutorials are as bad as they are in xbc1 fjskcjskfjnfsmfk
I love seeing the same expression in your face as was mine when I beat the game back in 2013. I'm expecting for Xenoblade 3 to finally put an end to the explanation of that universe.
Welp, 6 am here, not a bit of sleep, but I had to see this. I'm happy that you liked this game, it was a real adventure. And yeah, even after playing this game 5 times, seeing the cutscene really a lot in all these years, I almost cried.
I always love watching people's reactions to this game! I'll never forget playing this for the first time. Truly my favorite game on my switch and even as more release, I could see it remaining in the top 5.
Saw in your comment that you’re considering playing the trails series, as someone who started playing trails of cold steel this summer I highly recommend it, especially since the fourth cold steel game will be out in a week.
I was emotional as well when I saw this ending. Such a perfect ending for a master piece game...i played well over 65 hours to complete xenoblade chronicles definitive edition + Future connected. I was so sad that this game has ended....Onwards to Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and hopefully Xenoblade Chronicles 3
I just discovered your channel and your let's play of this game, but I just wanted to say amazing job. You're reactions were so genuine and I really felt like I was experiencing the game all over again through it. As one of my favorite games of all time (and I've played a lot of games over the 31 years of my life) it was really nice to be able to find a let's play of someone who really seemed to connect with the game. If I may be so bold as to suggest: I think you should go straight from this game right into Xenoblade Chronicles 2. I won't specifically say why, but I think your enjoyment of the second game would be immensely stronger if you had this game completely fresh in your memory. Anyway, awesome job again! Hope to see you play the next game in the future. :)
The character growth is so good. Shulk finally learns responsibility and is a true leader at the end who even overshadows Dunban. Reyn definitely mellows out and becomes a more critical person and even better friend. Sharla moving past her loss and becoming the leader Gadolt knew she could be. Dunban refusing to give into jealousy and learning mercy is another avenue into justice. Melia (in FC) accepting the responsibility of her people and also learning how to accept others as family. Riki learned to be a true hero and give credit to others. “Shulk is real Heropon!”
I was gonna say that but I didn’t because it would be a giant spoiler on all the architect and Zanza connection thing EDIT:and anyways you pretty much need to see a lot of theory videos of xenoblade to understand the connection and the time both games happen
idk personally i feel like 2 was a huge downgrade to the first like its not a bad game but i feel like it didnt do well to captivate and recapture what the first game had
Really enjoyed watching your reactions to this gem of a game. One of my favs, great to see so many people getting to experience it on Switch now for first time. Watching vids of peoples reactions brings me back to when I first played it and how I reacted. If you haven't yet I would recommend playing the Future Connected epilogue on the Definitive Edition. It rounds out Melia's story. And then I would also recommend trying Xenoblade Chronicles 2. Don't let the 2 fool you,it is not a sequel storywise. Just a similar game by same team, all new world, characters and story with it's own fair share of emotional moments.
Woah Christmas came early! No for real I wasn't expecting this before December. Thanks as always for spending the time on crafting these YT edits on top of doing the original streams!
Just recently discovered your channel. Surprised it took me this long, I’m a huge KH fan and JRPG fan in general. Really enjoyed these series of videos, Xenoblade is one of the greats. Looking forward to more videos from you!
