Xenoblade 2 - Artifice Aion Final Boss Fight and Ending 

And then Rex had a threesome. The End

Rex's VA might not be so good at screaming. But he is fantastic at sounding upset and about to cry.

Malos' voice actor literally gives me chills every time. The music is so powerful, I tear up rewatching these scenes, god I love this game

Malos's voice actor is epic.

I love the idea that Malos, a character that was initially introduced as little more than a grunt boss and the 2nd boss you fight is not only the final battle but the ultimate baddie of the game.

I must say I really like Malos' VA here. He's really chewing up the scenery with pure evil.

Hold on a second?! XC1 and XC2 take place at the same time!? Didn't Klaus mention that his other half was in another dimension?!

AION LITERALLY HAS AN ATTACK WHERE HE CREATES A SUN AND DROPS IT ON YOU

Actually this game has some really awesome cultural references outside Japan, specifically Greek. •Ophion= Greek for serpent •Siren= name of mythical Greek creature •Aion= "Vital force"/ Can also mean the supreme aspect of God •Pneuma= Creative force or spirit •Ontos= "Being" •Logos= "Logic" •Pyra= "fire" •Elysium= "paradise"

*Siren Buster* I could probably tank it. *Everyone dies*

It took the will of one man who split the universe in two, where in one, he is the enemy; parallel to the other where he helps Rex and everyone in his world, to save it. Oh Klaus, my how you have you suffered

I don't get how the members of Rex's party didn't realize that Malos thought he was beyond reconciling for his actions. He realized that he is the villain in this story, and that he must be stopped. He pits himself against Rex and the others because of his obligation to Amalthus as a blade, and to test Rex's will. Everything Amalthus wanted became what Malos was determined to realize, all the way to his death. Even if that means he knows he stands in the way of Alrest moving on to a new era. Malos realized that his role in this world was to battle, and maybe be defeated by Rex, the Driver of the Aegis. And so, he was determined to realize his role in this world.

This game series is without a doubt the final fantasy of this generation. I hope it continues to grow into greater better games every time. :)

When Malos screams “And how many people died because of it!? You’d forgive him, just like that?” I get chills man, when this game wants to it’s voices really hit hard

Honestly, the most heart wrenching thing here for me is Poppi basically breaking down explaining that she promised not to help Rex. This is a _child_ being asked to not only watch, but *make sure* her friend can sacrifice herself; that's beyond "below belt".

That's my role in this world!'' When Rex's VA doesn't hold back, he can sound amazing!

For those of you who don't remember Klaus is zanza

10:56 Shulk Time

Tora is the real MVP of this fight. Only 1 HP left and my party has survived it. After that Nia heals all members complete and Roc does the finishing blow. In memory of Vandham.

10:53 THIS FITS SO FREAKING WELL! HOLY CRAP! They actually made it so that Shulk’s words crossed the universes and I think that was a good way to set the stage for Xenoblade 3!

2:33 the delivery of that line always gives me chills, you can feel the absolute pain and despair in Malos’s voice

Looking back at the pre-fight cutscene when you understand just badly Malos is grieving at the end here... really hits hard. A broken man with no options trying not to show he's grieving.

Needless to say this is one switch game I won't be parting with anytime soon

WHEN THEY REFERENCED THE FIRST GAME THOUGH

"show me why you're here in this world" AAH I LOVE that line, finishing ng+ has gotten me to appreciate malos and his VA so much more!

Wow Poppi and her promise hit me hard. Excellent voice acting and animation on their part! But Aion and his siren buster can get lost!

This is the first XC2 ending video that I've seen where the player chooses Pyra, everyone else that I've seen has chosen Mythra...

If I could rate this game it would be a 10/10

Man, this fight was hilarious for me. It was at this point of the game that I learned how to make allies switch targets and the fact that the 4th thing on my arts list was actually a 4th art that I could equip and that I could change which buttons my arts were on. Probably the biggest "Oh...woops" moment in my history of playing videogames.

No Crying NO CRYING *NO CRYING*

"Your will. My will. Then we need to settle this!" "I'll show you the end of the world, WITH AION!" I just love those battle quotes

Don’t cry DON’T CRY *DON’T CRY* I CAN’T HOLD IT!!!

3:45 Malos’s voice acting here is AMAZING!!! 😍

WOW i am emotionally drained, But in a good way a very.....very good way, What a beautiful ending to a beautiful game :).

so basically all this happened because Malos became an edgy boi

Fun fact: Aion was ment to be powered by all three Aegis core crystals at the same time. That means he's only operating at 33,3 % power here. If he was powered by all three Aegis core crystals, he would have been truly terrible.

GUYS! THE SECRET MESSAGE THAT PYRA SAID WAS "THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME"! ( the lipsyncing actually matches)

In 2020 when the xenoblade 1 remaster comes out, people who have never played it before will finally be able to fully appreciate Shulk's line

God I love Malos's voice acting

When you beat the game and realize you can't skip the credits

You know, considering how much info we've gotten about the Aegis War 500 years before this game, Monolith could easily make a prequel to this game starring Addam's crew. Also, has any fanfic for this game been posted yet?

Everyone here is losing it because of the xenobalde 1 reference and im sitting here fucking crying because this scene and the whole fucking game is so BEAUTIFUL!!!!

COME AT MY KID! COME, MY PARTNER! GIVE ME ALL YOU 'VE GOT, YOU BETTER SHOW ME ALL OF IT, THE EXTENT OF YOUR WILL. SHOW ME WHY YOU 'RE HERE IN THIS WORLD!!! best quote EVER

Ive never been a huge fan of Rex’s VA, but mannn he really improved near the end of the game, particularly from like 25:14 to 30:00 in that scene he was really amazing. Top tier VA in this game is that scene

Poppi is best girl. Prove me wrong. You can't.

Malos' head is twisted, and Jin and the others are dead. I pity them all.

I am I the only one who felt bad for Malos when he died? What if Rex became Malos' driver and not Amalthus?

10:54 for those people who have not played the original xenoblade chronicles this comment will have *spoilers* So if you think about it, by Shulk killing Zanza, (I forgot his name at this point), will also die... Now I can make a joke about Shulk getting a *Double kill*

NGL, I almost cried when I saw Pyra and Mythra come back

There's a similarity between the father-son relationship and the driver-blade relationship. Your parents give you life, a pshysical body, and than they accompany your mind until maturity. In that process, they leave to you a lot of things, some of which they don't even know. They leave to you your sense of self, security, they are a part of what you'll feal for the world. In almost every case, something which doesn't work in your parents gets passed to you. Malos's father was Amalthus, drivers imprint their subconscious in their blades in a way which reminds me of that father-son relationship. Amalthus could not accept a world so full of atrocities to the point he would have preferred to end it all with the struggles and suffering. That desire is what Malos inherited and instinctively tried to achieve until his very end. It's what defined him as a person. We fight those same inherited conflicts for big parts of our lives, and some of us never get out of them. Malos never got out. But, in the end, he's the only character who understood Amalthus fully. "He wasn't so bad" No, no he wasn't. He was a child who lost his family in war.

I already played to the ending about a week and a half ago and now just watching the cutscene on youtube, I'm about to cry again. Gosh darnnit.. This game still gets you even when you know what is gonna happen and you aren't playing it yourself at the moment.

Today,we use our power to fell a god,and then,seize our destiny...OMG

I HEARD SHULK

It's not a real JRPG is you aren't using the power of friendship to kill god.

28:08 make a girl cry that's not going to fly make a girl smile you passed the trial -Rex

"Is this really what you want?" and then Shulk asks the same thing at Alvis in the new DLC trailer for 3

I always laugh when Malos does his bored "huh?" response to Rex's question.

I just beat this thing like 5 minutes ago it was so amazing lol it feels so good

Even the level of this boss is symbolic. He's level 70. Who was level 70 in XC1? Yup, Egil. Malos is the Egil of this game, using mechanical blades to try and destroy all of nature to try and fell the cruel god Klaus. Only to be misguided, and nearly destroy the world in the process. Damn, this game knows how to use subtle symbolism.

I used to hate those members in Torna organization, except Jin. But the Chapter 8-9 make me change my view on them entirely. I never expect to feel sad for the death of all of them, especially Jin, Malos and Mikhail.

It was pathetically easier then anything I've faced up to the artifice aion honestly but I did kinda have nia as my blade instead of a party member also mythra is a monster in her ascended form her blade combo damage is ridiculous and she instantly gets a blade combo and her chain attack damage don't get me started I was at level 70 across all party members too there's that

I love how pnemua's VA is the perfect mix between both Pyra's and Mythra's voice

@3:45 Malos gives me chills every time. Well done.

If you were able to Disable Reinforcements, it makes life easy when your fighting this boss at that lvl

I genuinely feel like butterflies in my stomach when I’m fighting this boss and even just watching the cutscenes. Never played a game that makes me feel this way. Beautiful.

This ending reminds me of FFVI's ending when Terra supposedly dies but survived. I wouldn't be surprised if the folks of Monolith Soft did this ending as a tribute to FFVI; it's a happy ending. :)

After despair and hope kicking in gives me CHILLS

Post Aion: don’t cry Escaping FLOS: don’t cry One Last You begins playing: cry

*After some hype cutscenes getting you pumped up* _chaaaaargeee..._ _MEH MEH MEHHH MEH!!!_

You know an ending is good when it makes you cry or feel emotional

me and the homies finishing our 6+ year long recess lore (it's the robot invasion arc)

I’m just gonna say it, but I’m sure EVERYONE was losing their shit when they heard “Today we use our power to fell a god and the seize our destiny” quote again

10:51, you don't even need to theorize that Shulk's and Rex's are are connected, it straight up says something from the final boss of Xenoblade 1!

Hey Database, just wanted to say I love how you decided to upload the bosses for this game, but I was curious to ask if in the future do you think you'd be able to do the first Xenoblades bosses?

41:58 I teared up when Poppi ran to hug Pyra and Mythra.

Such a good game great job btw

im lvl 82, that boss oneshotted my party with 24k dmg, when he had 1 cm HP left, that is some serious mechanics las .

"But that man...He'd lost everything. He no longer wanted anything. He didn't even want to live any more. And despite that... His life was the one thing he hadn't lost. Because he couldn't! Words can be a curse. That curse was what kept him tied down here. A wretched tale, isn't it? This whole world is a wretched place! I'm a wretched being too! A hideous monster, far beyond saving! ...So let's end this now." - RIP Jin and Malos Also, if anyone knows the track that plays during that, I'll pay you in my tears.

Its satisfying to end this by Full Burst with Tora commanding that Maid Robot shooting Poppies Missile.

Pyra dies and comes back to life. Pokémon Mystery Dungeon all over again.

I love how Rex started out not really knowing why he was doing what he was. But by the end, he just said fuck it, I want to help people. I don't need a reason

10:58... guys, I think that is shulk fighting the other half of klaus. edit: okay so I checked the final boss video from the original xenoblade and that is indeed shulk.

this game is so good Rex's qoute " if it helps put a smile on peoples faces, helps them live their lives together, then thats my role in this world" when I heard it I just knew, I KNEW there was a reason I connected to Rex, and this is it, I too try to do the same thing, doing what I can for others, thank you Monoslith for making such a master peice, I can't wait to play the orginal on Switch

Two Reborn Worlds, Two Fallen Gods, One Redeemed Man

I really finished this game almost 4 years ago now. Christ. Other than the character design, i liked this more than xenoblade 1. Id like a sequel to 2.

And so shulk killed my waifu , GOD DAMN IT SHULK YOU WERE MY HERO

god I love malos. He was born hating the world because of Amalthus without a choice, and ends chosing to hate the world because of Amalthus. He did it all for Jin

If it wasn't for you, for Amalthus both Jin and Lora's lives may have taken quite different paths. Well if it wasn't for the people who killed Amalthus' mother in front of his eyes, and if someone was trying to help him rather than ignoring and killing him than he won't become the guy who wants to kill everyone and won't release Malos.

I don't care what anyone says, Rex was awesome in that mid boss fight cutscene.

This ending kinda reminds me to the ending of Xenosaga episode I, I even started playing the song Pain from the same game on the minute 24:40 and it fits perfectly.

I wish Malos never died and Rex punched him in the face then had a drink with him in the end

Shulk: Today we use our power to fell a God, and then, sieze our destiny! Me: *dies of realization*

god the choreography of the fight is so good. They really show rex's growth as a fighter. He was always good, but by the end he's marching Jin blow for blow and fighting a giant mech

Putting these here for myself: 0:00 7:27 16:17

The Xeno series really seems to have a big liking for Final Bosses that are half dark half light in color.

Not gonna lie...that for me, that was a real tear jerker

13:43 Malos effectively conveys the opinions of the player.

I get that the 5 main titans all headed towards some place and joined together, but what the heck happened to Argentum and Leftheria?! Were they just left there alone?

Yep the Ending make me have depression again even I know the ending before I played this in 2020 and Replay in 2023.

I think Mitsuda probably composed the final boss theme... sounds like his style