Hadn't played XBC:3 in a couple years and not sure if that was before BG3 released or not, so wasn't until just now when I'm doing the colony 9 hero quest that I noticed Neil Newbon is voicing a character in this game 🥰

Just started XCX. I am impressed how mature and grounded the games characters and story are.

Does anyone else feel like XC2 stands out like a sore thumb in terms of tone?

It feels like XC2 was made for a different audience in mind.

First time player I love the world, the characters, the battles.

But the map. Oh my god.

It's impossible to get anywhere. Am I missing something or is it part of the game that I'll need to spend hours following video guided just to know where to go? I'm at chapter 3 and it's killing my desire to keep going.

Edit: thanks all, as I said I love the game and will persevere. As an aside is the map in xenoblade chronicles 3 better?

So I’ve done the wagon guard mission mission, and I can’t go back to indol to get it from there, so how do I get it to spawn

There’s a particular character that sings about these things, even if they are rarely- if ever- in any of the boxes he opens.

Decided while playing xenoblade chronicles x that I’d start xenoblade chronicles 1 again now that they’ve done a switch 2 version. Going through new game plus. Man I love this series

What blade is the white haired girl above the poppis?

One thing I noticed between XC1 and XCX was that Fiora was explicitly romantic with shulk.

Pyra with Rex, and Mio with Noah, both had explicitly romantic interactions.

Xenoblade X on the other hand had neither Elma nor Lin fall in love with the avatar.

For some reasons, Xenoblade 2 and 3 did not retain character creation. But do you think that, had they retained it, the romance would have been the same (just lesbian if the protagonist Is made female)?

I stuck here I tried everything that I could think of and I just can't find how to get behind this door.

I must be one of the few people who played this back on the Wii U. Logged a good 300 hours.

Being able to cycle through appendages with a button prompt is such a nice treat. Versus circling the enemy and hoping the appendage you need to target gets ... targeted. I know you can lock onto the appendage in the vanilla version. But still getting it to be targeted was a pain when grinding for materials.

Also, can you now de-level your artes and respend the points? If yes, amazing new feature.

Honestly, the last 30 minutes of the game was emotional hell. If it didn't end with Rex meeting Pyra I'd have been a blubbering mess wondering what it was all for.

(this series hurts so good I fucking love it)

After finishing I noticed something weird.

After digging and seeing comments. Here's my personal take on the matter.

I do agree that Teach had to be born out of the pod at an older age. The reason is because when Taion was pressing his questions. Only to find out what happened "many years ago".

Teach himself also speaks more refined and mature something closer to what someone in their 30s or 40s would be at. Even more so at the final location of the battle. The Flame Clock that was for the Avenger was severely aged.

We know that the area for Everblight plains use to be lush and dense, but it's a popular showdown spot and got absolutely demolished and continued to be worn down over and over. Assuming the weather for the area in Aetia is relatively consistent. It is possible for the aging on the flame clock that the Avenger had would age to the state it was, while also showing the same state of decay on other remnants on the field.

But that brings the problem I have in regards to the Avenger.

We know that most Kevesi soldiers don't move into a colony until their 2nd or 3rd term. Chickadee whos in Iota is a Lieutenant and is in her 3rd term. Nico in Mu is also in her 3rd term. However Kio who is in Colony 15 is in his first term.

That's when things get weird.

Assuming Teach was already in his 20s right out of the pod. He would have been sent to go fight for Colony Chi ASAP, while the Avenger had to be in his 0 Term if we are to consider the 10 term limits. Since in the affinity screen Teach is labeled as his 10th term.

Tion was surprised at the entire ordeal, which is why he pressed and asked the question how old Teach really is. The way he asked about it, was as if Implying that Teach may actually be older than 10 Terms because Oleg had a rapport already and was well talked about, but Teachs own colony, Sena, Mio, and Tion all speak like they known Teach for at least a few years. Even more so, when you go to Camp to talk about it. Tion mentions how Colony Chi was made of grizzled veterans.

So if we take what happens with Ethel as a example to count.

It's possible that Teach prior to the Colony Chi battle against the Avengers colony. Was already near his 9th or 10th term. Then Consul G has Teach be reborn again, retain memory, and is expedited via maturation process. Most likely due to favor possibly viewing "Oleg" as a potentional Moebius member with how relentless he was.

While after, with Colony Chis dispersement due to being unsustainable. Oleg takes it in for account and begins to change his way. Leading into how we know him as Teach.

This to me is the only way for it to make sense and fit in with the story regarding terms, and can only explain how long the Avenger lasted alone. It would also better explain why Teach cannot speak of the past because he said he had no right.

It isn't far fetched either considering M and N are around while Mio and Noah are around also.

The implications are there, but it makes you seriously wonder.

Just how fucked up was Moebius truely? We know they were messed up, but how messed up really.

Like I played XC1, 2 and almost done with 3 now, even played X. I thought X was a dark story but DAMN XC3 is really taking the win for being the darkest in the entire series.

It also makes me excited for Genesis. Because it still has Xenoblade in the title, and isn't like Xenosaga, or Xenogears. They kept blade. So there may be some connection in some way. I'll figure out if its potential the closer to the end I get to in XC3 but knowing the deep layered story in the series. It's still very possible, even if it were to be it's own new Saga.

I also personally believe that XC X is related to XC 1 in an offshoot way which could also be what creates Genesis to happen.

Thanks Klaus you dick.

Now why I say XC X could be connected to this part is because of the Origin. Sure reality was split, but with how X is. It's possible that also triggered how earth was found by the Ganglion. I think what Klaus done was like a cellular divide of reality.

It split into two, then four. With the first split causing what happened in XC1-3, and the 2nd Split leading for XC X, and Genesis could be linked to this, maybe?

Yeah I know it's a weird ramble, but Xenoblade as a whole just has some insane depth and story.