8:00 it’s so small but i will never get over noah’s slight change in expression here. He learned his lesson from the night before, mans is listening and nothing else.
Something I noticed is how expressive monolithsoft made Noah and Mio, *especially* in these cutscenes. Her face is always so genuine and real to her emotions.
This was the scene where I started to pick up couple vibes from them and honestly it felt really natural to me. Also I just love this argument because of course Mio is gonna be terrified even if she agreed to this plan.
@@OrigoZ Well, not really. They are separated at the end of the game, and with the matter - antimatter setting they chose, it's unclear if there is any way the 2 worlds could reunite without mutual annihilation.
@@phoenix.8679 the worlds will annihilate each other, the point of orgin was to reconstruct both worlds as one as they were before they were split by klaus with everyone recorded in origin, so its a happy ending and Noah and Mio can meet each other again and even the last scene with Noah hearing Mio flute suggests that
@@skolaskellofkells6195 Sounds like wishful thinking to me. Origin was completed in Aionios, why did the worlds seperate at the end of the game? And young Noah does hear Mio's flute, but he also vanishes on the spot, so I find this scene quite hard to interpret.
the amount of attention monosoft put into animating everyone's body language is insane, just oozing with personality. you can practically feel what theyre thinking 👌
My favorite thing about this is the attention to detail. After this scene whenever you send off a husk Mio is playing Noah’s flute and vice versa. Instead of just having them swap flutes in the cutscene and then still use the original flutes (therefore kinda making the point of the swap moot) the developers commited to making models of the two with the swapped flutes, both for on the field when it’s just one or the other and for when they play together.
@@KingX I wondered how accurate they were with the animation of the flute playing. That’s pretty neat. I like how well the two songs mesh together too.
Just to clarify I mean the fingers move in sync, that was badly worded. They do hit some right fingering but too inconsistently to learn the music from the animation, they're not quite at Studio Ghibli attention to detail. Also when they trade flutes they are in sync with the melodies they switch to when sending husks on the battlefield.
Monolith go crazy with the attention to detail. If noah has lucky seven drawn and he’s fighting a human, he flips his sword to the blunt edge to prevent killing anyone. If you have both a human and monster aggroed, he flips the sword as you change targets.
I like that with the argument, both were thinking slightly irrational, and it didn't really have a clear end or some huge monologue to solve problems. It felt real
I was already super invested in the game from very early on, but this is when the emotional feels REALLY started to ramp up. The game never looked back from there on.
This is literally my favorite cutscene in any videogame ever. The dialogue, the raw emotion on their faces, the animation, the lighting, THE MUSIC. It’s all so fucking incredible.
There's probably a lot of symbolism I'm missing with them trading flutes. But there is still even more to unpack just under the surface of these scenes. The interactions among the party and how far they have come since that battle that made them Ouroboros. Sena's mention of how Mio actually speaks with Noah about her thoughts and feelings speaks volumes. Sena has known her for years, yet Mio hasn't exposed herself as much to one of her closest friends. That goes far in saying how significant that is, even if it seems like Noah doesn't realize it. Gotta agree with everyone about the expressions. Mio's ears especially are a major factor. There probably is so much to dissect with what makes Mio and Noah trading flutes so significant. Monolith makes it seem mundane at first, but I know it has some serious implications for the story as a whole.
The rising sun of the new day, both the literal new day and the new dynamic of Noah and Mio's relationship, paired with the dark shadows that cling to them, mean a whole lot more later in the game when a certain character says "Noah, my long shadow" I won't say more for fear of spoiling though.
The music is so perfect for this scene. It builds the tension to borderline painful levels, and then becomes calming and almost reassuring in a way. Actually, everything in this scene is perfectly written, it’s just the music sticks out to me.
Geez you’re right. So much foreshadowing in this scene. The sun in background matching the end credit scene. The “long shadows” of Noah and Mio on the ground at the end of this scene. Add cradling Noah’s flute to the mix. Such a good game lol
This is probably one of my favourite cutscenes in Xenoblade. This game can teeter on the edge of being realistic and candid in a way that can be awkward even at pivotal moments, but I think this was nearly flawless. It actually made me feel for Noah and Mio (who's expressions are perfect in this cutscene and throw anything anime out the window) in a natural way, both pitying and respecting them; it makes me wonder if an entirely different person wrote this scene. Very nice.
Everyone talking about Noah and Mio but one other thing I love here is Taion and Lanz. I feel like it's a little underscored in the game itself but the two most antagonistic to each other at the start were them which keeps up a bit with Taion roasting Lanz. But the Pentales section of the game does highlight how far they've actually come and Lanz both here and in the fog before is long past that by now while Taion's gotten used to it but still hasn't fully gotten there yet.
@@XX-br5bn Yes sorry, my greatest regret about the content is it being recommended via other videos/feeds to people NOT looking for it. That's just how RU-vid works though. If I could reasonably make it otherwise I would. I have no way to avoid that except by not showing it, by hiding it under settings so strict NO ONE would find it, or by making a vague unappealing title/thumbnail - which would be counterproductive because people would be more likely to click the video unawares. That's just not happening though, there are many people who want to see it. That's about all I'm going to say about it as I already made my defense in another video reply. I made it clear I'm not copying and pasting that rebuttal, I'm giving "you" an answer because your comment is worthy of it - kinda, the remark is off-topic and this is as far as I'm entertaining it.
@@Drumbum-rw4jr In some cases that's not a trick, it's video suicide and I'm going to prove it by addressing 2 of the 3 videos on a trial basis - though I already know exactly how that'll go. I was moved by your original comment being unlike the usual "spoiler police" fare. Don't ruin it by hi-jacking a reply about something else into a full blown spoiler debate! As you seem so into "tricks" though and the spoiler alarm had already sounded over a week before release, I'd be considering the preventive ones you can do on your end that take less time to look up than it takes to answer me.
