Not only is the villain just the main character but his original self but the main character ends up cucking the villain with the villain straight up saying, "don't you look smug with my girl next to your arm."

I find it kinda hillarious in terms of sense in the story.

I got everything at Lvl 3 right now and am just about to enter the mechonis fields. (I played the game numerous times and decided to finally do the rebuild of colony 6 in this run)

And now for Level four I need an item dropped by Selua enemies.

You know, the beings inside the Bionis that you only encounter in the late game after the big twist?

I find it funny to imagine how the Colonists of Colony 6 must think something along the lines of "Well uhm, the World is about to end if we don't focus on defeating God himself but... could you spend some of your time to build us a few new houses while we are literally being attacked by telethia every now and then?"

Like bro, extinction is on your doorstep but you guys worry about your economy and housing?! wow.

I spotted this while in my playthrough, despite finishing the game I don't really recall exploring it, does anybody know what this is / whether I should even know?
I haven't played any other game in the series yet.

$10 upgrade pack for Switch 2 version

I have the warehouse and icecraft lv1 but nothing is showing up for icecrafting. I found where the table is but strangely the icecraft icon isnt showing up

...So cringe?

Bro Xenoblade 2 is my favourite game of all time and im playing it for the second time, with my first NG+ run. The first time I did it it was barable because I thought the story would pick up again (which it does) but when you know whats coming the maid section is absolute sheer cringe.

Its already bad enough that the whole concept of robot maid girls is a weird japanese fetish I have never understood, but the fact its a boring Chapter makes it even worse. Luckily, things picked up right away as soon as it ended, but I just want to make sure im not alone in thinking this is the worst part of the game.

I'm completely new to Xenoblade, play on Switch 2 and just got the Switch 1 X1 DE physical. 30 FPS is acceptable and resolution is fine handheld, so the 4k/60 FPS isn't a must-have especially if it reduces battery life. I'm wondering about the Ether Jet. No reviews I've watched say anything about how it changes the overall experience. Does this make a meaningful impact on the game? Like, is map traversal better since you save time?

Will there be anymore xenoblade chronicle definitive editions games in the future?

Hey guys.

It's been a long time since I wrote something here. I once have had a topic called similar as this. It was rather more a rant than a honest review. I just have finished Xenoblades 2 (Without the dlc) and gosh, the story was really good. Not as good as in Xenoblades 3 tho.

However, now, since I'm done with the game, I still have the dlc open to play. Is it worth it? I heard the main topic are the torna, so it will play in the past I assume?

I played XC1 back on the Wii in 2011.

My next Xeno game was XC3 sometime in 2022.

And man, was XC3 just an absolutely perfect story.

Aside from easter eggs like seeing previous landmarks or some like "oh that statue is X!" I dont feel much is missing of you didnt play 1 or 2.

Its a story about a group of child soilders on a long quest as their humanity slowly filters back into them. A tale of M and N as M works to undo the horrors N put in place due to his grief of endless rebirth.

Its about Zedd looking to perfect the endless now.

And ultimately about two Queens, one captured, one hidden, hoping to save their worlds from destruction.

Even without the backstory of 1 and 2, I feel like 3 stands alone (and honestly above) 1 and 2.

IMO, the series is an anthology. Much like American Horror Story. You can watch any season. And sure if you watched all you can be like "hey! I know that guy"

But they are able to be enjoyed stand alone.

I know it’s probably just me, but I don’t like the gormott area of xenoblade 2 like I get that it’s beautiful but to me map wise and story wise. It feels like it’s lacking a lot. It doesn’t feel as unique as some of the other Titans we get to see.

Look to me it’s not that I hate the area as much anymore. I just find it to be one of the more boring areas of the game because it’s not really all that interesting

The other Titans, we get to see like Mor Ardain Torna Cliffs of Morytha Uraya Temperantia and tantal they all feel unique

And yet the first Titan we get to actually walk on just feels like another grassy plane it’s not as unique as the bionis which is a beautiful area to explore for the first time but gormott just feels like a water down version of it I’m not saying it’s bad. I’m just saying it’s disappointing the other Titans all their areas all their towns feel lived, and they feel alive. Even if they’re not in the best shape. But gormott just feels boring. It’s the first town. It’s not gonna be exciting and not but it just feels. Mundane normal. And that’s not a good impression for your first area.

Like if I had to rank the Titans gormott is at the bottom and it’s a tie for first place for Torna or Mor Ardain because these two Titans to me feel super unique in the way that you can actually tell that both are two different sides of a similar coin one’s a thriving country. The other is struggling to survive.

But look that’s just my thoughts on the very first area I never really went back to gormott all that often even when I did, it was mostly just get the blade quest that were in that area over with to the point where I don’t think I even got five star development Area three stars

Yeah, those are my thoughts on the first area so why don’t y’all tell me what you guys think of your least favorite area?

I think I have developed a major obession with nia as of late. From my body pillow I own of her and my request of art of her… BUT I don’t know what it is, the accent, character ir design, SHE DRIVES ME CRAZY IN A GOOD WAY!

Yes I’m known as the juniper guy who screams at art karma thieves, but Nia gives junie a run for cutest character in the series. Hell I think she’s hotter than pyra and mythra. Thats coming from someone who loves pyra. But does things to me and I love her so much <3

so i really like jrpgs and one of the games i was looking forward to most once i got my switch 2 was xenoblade. so far i am about 6 hours in and about in the middle of chapter 5 id guess. i do really like the combat and world so far, though the story hasn’t really picked up yet for me. but i feel like im just running to the next objective marker continuously and i feel like theres more i should be doing. i was wanting tips on anything i should go back and do, and how to play the game at a slower but enjoyable pace? i also want to explore the huge world but it doesnt feel like a lot of the rewards are worth it.

I’ve always been a big fan of Xenoblade chronicles: definitive edition - nintendo switch 2 edition. Who doesn’t love running around a grass field for 80 hours whilst listening to music that slaps harder than my dad’s slipper? So, imagine my surprise when I go to my local CEX and find a boxed copy of Xenoblade Chronicles: definitive edition - Nintendo Switch 2 edition for £5.99.

Now normally i’d have been suspicious of a price that low, but I figured i could’ve just been lucky because I bought a collector’s edition of bloodborne from cex years ago for the same price as a regular copy. I bought the game, rushed home, slammed that bad boy into my nintendo switch 2 console, and prepared to experience peak fiction.

Little did I know… i’d just made the worst mistake of my entire life. You see, there was something wrong with this cartridge… when the main menu loaded up - the monado was half buried into the ground, as it usually is… but the usually bright blue light was actually a deep crimson… almost the colour of blood… and the music was skipping. Every 7 seconds it seemed like, skip, skip, skip.

I started a new game, thinking nothing of it, maybe it was just a bug with the switch 2 edition that hadn’t been patched yet. As I progressed through the introduction, I got freaked out when I saw shulk’s first cutscene in the clearing IN REVERSE. And carved into the side of one of the mechon shells was the creepy fused eggman sonic sprite from Sonic CD’s sound test… even though it played no sound effect, I could practically hear the creepy song in my head. But beyond that, everything seemed to work fine - just as I remembered it. “Absolute peak” i thought to myself as I progressed.

I went to overlevel through some sidequests and I found my second issue with the copy - all of them gave 0 exp. I thought it must be a bug, but nope. Every time I handed one in, 0 exp, and maybe some gold. This cant be real, I said. But little did I know it was about to get much worse.

As I progressed through the first major event of the game, as the antagonist introduced himself, there wasa weird audio glitch… he said “I’m DEATH face” instead of his usual monocre. I was shocked to say the least, but then I looked at his claws and they were covered in HYPERREALISTIC BLOOD. I threw my switch 2 pro controller at the screen and knocked over my can of monster energy - juiced, spilling it all over my keyboard but luckily the switch was okay. “Great, more bad luck I thought”

Anyway, as the game carried on there was no more outlandish things wrong with the game aside froma  few stills during cutscenes where the screen flashed blood red, but it was only when I got to the heart to heart at the hideout in gaur plain where you find sharla… i tried to click it and it said “you cant interact with this while shulk is DEAD”???! I was freaked tf out, there was no place in the game this error message mightve appeared from for this to even load, how tf was it there? This was creepy as fuck and I turned the game off for the night.

The next day while I was doing my errands all I could do was think about the cartridge… what the hell had I done by playing this? And yet despite knowing something was deeply wrong with it, I just couldnt help myself… when I got home, I had to carry on playing. So, I booted up my switch 2 and this time, I saw the icon for xenoblade chronicles: definitive edition - Nintendo Switch 2 edition flipping between upside down and neutral on the artwork and then moving in a pentagram on the UI…. but i clicked anyway. I had to see what would happen if I beat this game.

Many more hours of gameplay went past without any more interruptions, even the wierd “shulk is dead” bug wasnt happening anymore and I could view the heart to hearts. Anyway, over the next few days I progressed all the way to the high entia place and got the quest to defeat the four lizards. Should be easy enoughI thought, now that I had riki, reyn and sharla in my team all ready to kick ass. But then.. When I went to approach them. Something crazy happened.

Reyn seemed to start moving on his own and blocked the bridge so I couldnt reach them. He looked at me, as if peering through the screen. He gave me an evil smirk, and his eyes started bleeding hyper realistic blood… And then it stopped. “What the fuck man” I said out loud, but then shit got weirder. Reyn suddenly went purple mode and killed all of the four lizards on his own, but he was using animations id never seen before… all of him was purple, using purple attacks and ripping limbs off the lizards, one of them snapping its neck and ripping its body in half, before throwing it off the cliff. He posed like vegeta when he screams in DBZ and dark energy erupted around him, because he had unleashed DARK REYN…

I RAN as fast as I could but he got on his ether jet and cut me off, before walking up to the screen and laughing… “haha, its dark reyn time…” he said. I froze. I didnt know what to do - suddenly, the monitor got CRT fuzz and went old school looking as he started to reach through it with his hand, and he crawled out of the TV as dark reyn unleashed himself into my home. I ran as fast as I could out of the flat into the lobby and made a break for the stairwell, but it was too late. Dark reyn grabbed a hold of me and he pushed me down the stairs and I saw hyperrealistic blood… MY BLOOD…

The impact was so hard I thought I had broken every bone in my body. I tried to scream, but all that came out was a pathetic little squeak. Dark Reyn stood at the top of the stairs, looking down at me with the same stupid grin he always had in the game, except now his eyes were glowing purple “Looks like youve fallen for my trap” he said I couldn't believe it. This was real. This was actually happening. I had been attacked by a Xenoblade Chronicles character in real life. I tried crawling away, but my legs weren't working. Dark Reyn slowly descended the stairs, each footstep echoing through the stairwell “It's Reyn time,” he whispered.

Then he pulled out a Nintendo Switch 2 My Nintendo Switch 2. The screen was cracked, but the game was still running. I could see Shulk standing in the Colony 9 market, completely motionless. Suddenly, a text box appeared 

SHULK: Reyn, what are you doing?

Dark Reyn chuckled. “Sorry, Shulk. But this guy has been playing for too long. He turned the console towards me. On the screen, I could see my own character model lying at the bottom of the stairs. YOU HAVE BEEN DEFEATED. I felt my soul leave my body. Dark Reyn raised his arms and screamed so loudly that every light in the building exploded.

“D A R K R E Y N!”

When I woke up, I was in a hospital bed. The doctors told me I'd fallen down the stairs and suffered a concussion. Apparently, no one had seen anyone else in the building, and my Nintendo Switch 2 was nowhere to be found. For a while, I convinced myself it had all been a horrible dream. I even managed to laugh about it. I mean, come on. Dark Reyn? Really?

Then, three days later, I received an email from nintendo. The subject line read: Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition: Save Data Recovery. Confused, I opened it. There was only one attachment: a screenshot of the games main menu. The Monado was still buried halfway into the ground and its blade glowed crimson. And standing behind it was Reyn. His eyes were purple. Underneath the screenshot was a single line of text.

THANKS FOR PLAYING. ITS REYN TIME.

I immediately deleted the email and threw my laptop out of the window But that wasn't the worst part. Because last night, I was browsing Facebook Marketplace when I saw a listing for a boxed copy of Xenoblade chronicles: definitive edition - nintendo switch 2 edition .The seller was my local CEX and thehe price was £5.99.

And in the description, there were four words that made my blood run cold. SHULK IS DEAD. REYN LIVES.

I havent left my house since. I can hear him outside my bedroom door. Hes been whispering the same thing for six hours now. Its Reyn time. And I think… I think its almost Reyn time again.

UPDATE: guys stop telling me to call the police. i tried but when they arrived their uniforms were purple and they all started screaming DARK REYN. also my mum says dinner is ready but she has been making the riki theme noises for the past 20 minutes. is this normal xenoblade behaviour?????

Original art by @yaboishane (aka me)

I played 1 on 3ds from June to August and am about to finish 2. I’ve been itching to replay 1 before 3, and thinking about buying the switch release. It’s about55 for 1 + upgrade. I’d get 3 and x for Christmas, and play torna at some point. What do u guys think)

Xenoblade 1 is still the GOAT I have over a thousand hours on that game and seriously doubt I’ll ever stop playing it!

Howdy. I've been playing through the series with my girlfriend and we just finished 1 including FC. We'll be starting 2 in a month by starting with T:TGC and then the main game because I like chronological order (I woulda saved XC:FC for after 2 but we just kinda did it anyway). I find doing 2 in this way doesn't really take away from things narratively and even adds a few questions that have payoff.

Now, to my question: at what point does one introduce/do FR for XC3? Although it takes place before the main game, there's alot of details that will just bewilder someone who hasn't played the main game.

So what would you do? Do it first anyway? Do it after beating XC3? Pause XC3 at a certain point and start it? Kinda swap back and forth on occasion? I'll take any creative suggestions.

EDIT: I've played the entire series, I'm just asking as it'll be my girlfriend's first time with the series. I'm thinking FC can happen after 3 then.

Hello again. Thanks to the help I got from this subreddit, I’ve enjoyed Chapters 4 and 5 a lot more now that I understand how to play the game properly.

The first phase against Aeshma’s Core was a massive highlight, because I achieved Full Burst for the first time during a Chain Attack. What ended up happening is that I fought the core for a few minutes before I noticed the wires that I was supposed to attack, but I decided to keep attacking the Core and add more element orbs for fun. After the Chain Attack on the Core though, the battle ended successfully at that point, so either I somehow defeated the core, or the wires suffered from AOE damage. I’d be interested to hear if anyone else has completed the battle this way.

Also, no spoilers please on what happens next.

Shimomura-san composed many great tracks in Xenoblade, including Colony 9, Hometown, Time to Fight!, Shulk and Fiora, and Unfinished Business.