(Wii) Xenoblade Chronicles - Exploring the Beta map (Bionis' Left Shoulder) 

GUESS WHAT'S GONNA BE IN THE DEFINITIVE EDITION!!!!!!!

Who knows? Maybe one day we'll see this area in a possible remake?

This feels surreal seeing this after Future Connected

Holy heck I’m amazed at how similar this map is compared to Future Connected. Kind of blows my mind for some reason lmao, basically every area they go to in the video I’m like “oh I know where this is!!” It’s just so cool how they worked this map into the game and kept it relatively the same. It’s strange because the map feels like it’s made for Future Connected but really, it’s been made years before they probably even thought about it. I love this stuff, also I’m completely new to the Xenoblade stuff, recently finished the first game for the first time and I’m in the middle of Future Connected atm

Well gentlemen, after years of mystery we are finally getting this area on the remake, along with a new high entia city apparently

After all these years Xenoblade HD has been announced and it includes this part I'm sure. Thank you for sharing and posting the original game in HD, I am so happy to see it fully remade on the switch. But I'll never forget how much you shared so many years ago. I am ready to experience it all over again. Thank you.

After playing Future Connected in Definitive Edition, this looks really surreal.

XENOBLADE HD BRINGING THIS AREA BACK BABEEEE

Who's here from the announcement of Xenoblade on Switch?

14:00 It is like Shulk is Amaterasu from Okami. Vegetation is sprouting up wherever he goes.

This is beautiful!! It would be great if a few years after "X" comes out, Monolith Soft comes out with a Xenoblade HD remake, with redrawn models, added monsters, added areas (included this), etc. It would be cool if we could interact with the possible giants/miniature people who inhabit these towns.

it's going to be great knowing that in 2020 we'll finally be able to explore this area end game in the definitive version of Xenoblade chronicles i'm hoping for new music, quests, unique strong monsters, oh and also unexplored areas & collectables.

6:32 This wasn't the reason I came here, but now I know how to reach that damn ponspector! xD

Monolith Soft are fricken Wizards. To achieve visuals like this for an open-world game on the freaking Wii is nothing short of insane.

Such a shame that they put THIS MUCH EFFORT into an area, and then it never made it into the game. Damn.

This place seems so finished. I mean yeah there are those caves and that random bridge mess but it is fully realized. Its truly a shame this was left out. That area near the town where you can see the grain field is truly incredible. It made me gaze in awe like every single area in this game. I have no clue why this was left out but I think it is either one of two things. Colony number whatever as so many are missing or the beta world for the noppon. I think the first one is more likely but the houses seem small enough to fit noppon so idk.

This is insanely accurate to the one in Future Connected, wow.

Wow, this looks incredible. Too bad they didn't keep this in the final game, it's definitely one of the most beautiful and creative map designs. If there's ever a remake, hopefully this area is included.

So this was what there could have been. The game was already huge so I don't regret it though. But if it wasn't rushed in the slightest, this could have been there. Now it just exists for the sake of rendering one cutscene. And all I can say is, it's beautiful and hope someday they make a remaster to keep this legend alive in some future console, and this land is actually there, not even a main point of the story necessarily, but as the "The land of the Fallen" or something like that, with it's own music and desolation to go along with it, and probably Mumkhar after he flew back as a secret boss

Just finished Future Connected, and it's really interesting to look back at this and see how certain areas and aspects of the Bionis Shoulder were redesigned for Definitive Edition. -Cinnabar Plateau is decidedly *not* cinnabar in the original. It's also missing the stream that divides the plateau. -The Forbidden Hushland is also missing. It's just a generic field and path. -The refugee camps of Gran Dell and Companion's Cape in FC are set up within the ruins of the Giant's original kingdom, with buildings that are oversized structures and windows - yet have all crumbled to the ground over millennia. Here, it looks like Gran Dell was going to be a thriving Homs Colony or some naturalistic High Entia city. The buildings are much more suited for humans and are in good shape. -The random ether crystal caves were replaced with ruined Giant temples. It also shows how either crystal deposits looked early in the original game's development. -There are more hanging islands with houses above the Forbidden Hushland, yet Teelan's Lab is missing. -Overall, structures and geometry were polished up and improved both in terms of finishing the map, as well as making it more interesting (The bridges, Gran Dell's tower.)

It woulf be even more mindblowing if they put this map in the actual game. Its really sad the desgin looks great!

This area looks super cool, like it could've been one of my favorite areas in the game, I really wish it had been put in.

Judging from the ether crystal design being WAY different and random chests scattered,this map was being made in early beta of the game as its textures are well designed for the most part.

Oh wow, even Gran Dell was rendered.

This is such a cool area! I love how they still made it unique from the rest of the maps, including the bionis' leg.

Well, looks like that spoiler tag came in handy.

If this was in the Game - it would actually be my favorite Map *-* so beatiful, so big, so much to explore :D

Beautiful map, thanks for sharing that :) This games maps are really really big... I can't wait to explore them for my selff :D

This is quite awesome. I remember seeing it and realized that despite being almost done with the game, I hadn't seen it anywhere. Thanks for showing it off in-game. It's quite the interesting environment.

I really hope Monlithsoft re-adds this area into the game with the New 3DS release. After all, what better way to get fans of the game's Wii version to buy this one than being like "Oh, by the way, there's a new area you can explore that wasn't in the old version!" I mean, I'll be buying it anyway, but really now. With the extra time they'd have working on the game, it'd be cool if they finished this area and reimplemented it.

The various areas in this game and how they connect to the overall world fascinate me. Hard to believe a huge area like this didn't make the final cut. Thanks for the video!

1:37 How the Giants crossed that bridge is beyond me. And, again, it looks beautiful.

Wow, when I saw this place in a cut-scene, I never realized that the place never existed in terms of explorable areas.

Now we can play the game of "What areas became what"

I would love to see this map in 'X'

This really got to my heart, reminding of all the awesome moments this game gave me. Certainly, one of the greatest game experiences I'll ever play, in my personal pantheon with Chrono Trigger, Ocarina of Time and the like. Thank you so much.

And now this area will appear on the Definite Edition for Switch

前作でマップはできてたんだ。すげえ

I bet when it is included in the definitive edition, the views will drastically sink for this video xD

"More strange houses, just giant-sized". That was probably a Giant's settlemente before their extintion

This video was very well done, Helsionium! The music, the explanation via annotations, thanks a lot!

Incredible, thanks for doing this!

Tomorrow We’ll finally be able to explore Bionis left shoulder

Every time I remind myself what I'm standing on even in the in-game areas, my jaw drops back down. Fucking creative. :D

If Monolith Soft ever decides to remake this game for the Switch, I hope they add the Bionis shoulder area because it's a shame they couldn't put this area into the final version of the original and this area looks so amazing. I think this area would have taken place between Frontier Village and Eryth Sea.

it would be cool if this was a secret area only able to get to in new game plus and it gave you 25000+ for all landmarks you found and you had to reach 5 stars with the upper bionis

THIS IS COMING TO SWITCH AND I AM ALSO COMING

I've explored this map! :D It's fun running around and enjoying the beauty.

Hopefully an area like this will end up in Xenoblade X!

That's a beautiful game. Thank you for your video, I'd love do this !

I am pretty sure these buildings were, in fact, old human civilizations as well as Giants living alongside them (Colony 1?). This was probably dropped due to being peripheral to the main meat of the game; Xenoblade was already taking a lot of time and money to make.

really interesting, thanks for sharing it. it seems hard to believe it was made entirely for a cutscene but those painted houses were definitely just slapped into a background..

This is amazing!!! Could have done without the constant camera acrobatics though. . .

Words cannot describes how ecstatic i am right now😭😭😭😭😭 i love this game so much to the point where its ridiculously unhealthy ive replayed it like 6 times and cant ever get bored of it😅 2020 couldn’t come sooner

10:58 Well a theory is that colony 6 was originally on the Bionis' Shoulder especially so in the beginning where Dunban and the others are told to "fall back to colony 6" (which in the full game makes no sense since they'd have to travel across more than half of the Bionis

THIS IS ALL IN FUTURE CONNECTED AAAAAAAAAAAAAA

Really thanks for this video.

That place is ginormous! Would've been nice if they made it available in ng+ or as post game content.

I seem to recall this area in one of the trailers for the game. I was wondering why I could never find an area like the one I found in the trailers and this is my answer.

Fuck me did they put a lot of detail into this, a shame they couldn't get it finalized and playable in the final game, would have been an awesome area to explore that could have been unlocked right before the final boss or something. Feel like exploring this area myself on Dolphin.

FUCK YES BABEY WE CAN FINALLY SEE THIS IN THE DEFINITIVE EDITION

This map is not huge, it's GIGANTIC. When seeing it on the cut-scenes ingame, I always hoped it would be an area further explored throughout the game. Unfortunately, it is not. Thanks so much for uploading this!

Looking at this now I'm wondering if this place was used as a reference when designing Gormott. It's definitely not a 1/1 copy but a few sections look strikingly similar, to the point that it looks more like the XB2 Titan than the Bionis Leg does.

This game looks amazing!

It's kind of sad that a place so cool looking like this isn't playable in the final game... Maybe the small houses are Nopon houses?

I've always wanted to try and find the area on the back of the cover art just hoping the game would have a scene where everyone was together just like that. Oh well...T-T

I think it might've been used for some sort of time travel segment where Shulk and his friends go back to when the Bionis and Mechonis first developed life and the Homs and High Entia were primitive, it's the explanation I can come up with for the primitive buildings and structures.

I truly admire them for making it at accurate as possible in the remakes

Is it just me or this area looks like a mix of Primordia(XBCX) and Gormott(XBC2)? Surely it has influenced the devs a lot.

It's so creepy seeing that huge town so abandoned. It's like an alien race lives there and they all hid in their houses because you came. :P

This is so awesome.

Alright, great. Thanks!

ITS BACK

This actually gives me an idea for an story i am writting.It is way before the Shulk events and all,so i could add this part of Bionis!!!

Dear GOD, and i though bionis leg killed my heart seeing how much walking i had to do but this takes the cake for sure. would of loved to see this map put into the game, shame though it never made it if only wii u was out already. last thing is i wish i could access this map and enjoy the effort they put into making it

Stunning.

Can you guys imagine the mod possibilities for this game if it were ever released on PC?

Ya quiero ver esto recreado en Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition ♡

I guess it was either taken out due to them possibly having to make story elements out of this area or having it be too similar to Gaur Plains

Wow, this area would be great as a secret level that you can find in new game +!

Aujourd'hui on a eu cette bêta dans un jeu qui n'est pas un remake de flemmard, certains devraient prendre exemple... *tousse*

No doubt about it. Its actually one of the colonies.The structure at 12:09 looks like it is some kind of fortress or something, like in Colony 9

well no wonder they didn't put this map in with the others. it is because this map is like all of the other maps put together. I was reminded of the makna forest, valak montain, the bionis lag, colony 6, and tapha cave in this one. Im glad the creater's decided to spread this map out to the others. I mean this map is super vast but i can't see it in either :P

Would have been SO awesome to have this map with new monsters and a new Town in the game. I know, the game is already HUUUUGE as it is, but I just can't get enough of it. :3

I may bought it once, I'll buy it again just for this area and more new content ^o^

If I had to guess, this area was intended to be a civilization for giants, and was meant to be an end-game map like before entering Bionis interior for the second time. (Instead of being taken directly into the wound) It's a shame that this wasn't finished!

Interesting to say the least, when I saw these houses I thought of LotR's Rivendell at first, then a bit later with the big house and doors I thought of something Zanza said in the game during the first Prison Island event, he explains he is the last of his kind, the High Entia locked him in Prison Island, this could very well be the area where the Giants race lived in the past, including Zanza, makes sense especially after what Zanza says, and the many Giant's ruins quests in the actual game.

I hope they make a sequel to xenoblade and this place makes it in. It's such a shame it was cut because it looks absolutely beautiful.

I feel like it looked better here than it does in definitive edition. It looks a little jumbled in DE, and the red grass part ended up not looking so great imo

I LOVE THIS GAME

Xenoblade despite it maximizes the potential of graphics and processor look at that open-world that you could explore and DUDE the sky CLOUDS AND STARS!!! and here I am at the house at night looking at the black night empty sky while in the morning not sure if pollution or actually clouds.

really wish they made this accessible in the game this place looks amazing.

Hey guy's, have ever given this a thought? We may have explored many places on Bionis, but have we ever given a thought on what places we haven't explored yet? I mean, we haven't traveled on the other hand, leg, and most notably the left shoulder as well. What would these places look like? What would they have for us to look for?

thanks!

This game is so huge as it is, its hard to belive that there is such a big map still on the disk that we cant even run through normally, how the hell did monolith do all this? geez! this whole game is amazing, even the stuff we dont see

My major guess is that it looks very similar to Colony 9, Bionis Leg, and Colony 6. After Colony 6, every single area looks drastically different, so to revert back to a biome and appearance so similar to the start of the game would break that sense of discovery. It's just nice they left it in to be accessed, rather than pulling the prototype entirely. I just hope if they do eventually remake this, they put in the extra time to finish the shoulder and rework it into the main story, though I'd be content with it being locked in an alternate realm like with the colosseum in Xenoblade 2

That is so true! xD

It looks so much nicer in the original release

A single location in this game is bigger than some open-world games.

Suddenly...something stronger than the Abyssal Abassay is here....(I wish.)