The Hidden Village

Xenoblade sideblog of the-blue-double! Made so that I can post about Xenoblade without putting spoilers on my main. Mostly a fan of 1 and 3 but you might see the rare Xenoblade 2 post too.

[yona293]

[spooky-activity]

She’s just doing her best out here

[snakeycake]

this is the culmination of hours of playing with the gen 3 soundfont

[jinmalos]

i think valdi should be allowed to do whatever he wants and if racking up 200-300+ chain attack damage points on a ferronis or levins is what he wants, then by god who am I to stop him

[thepapercraftsystem]

There needs to be more Mondo fanart in this world.

-miimii

[schlotzbert]

The Interlink Boyz

[melia-antifa-archive-deactivate]

[xordartonline]

aaaand done! i think.

[merort]

Taion Xenoblade 3 my beloved.

[haunted-xander]

The first half of Alexandrias ascension quest is SO funny to me

[ambrosial-sunshine]

[fallen-arm]

xb3 endgame spoilers below the cut!

I think a really interesting way to look at xb3's story is as a sort of echo of Klaus's experiment, and I'm surprised I haven't seen anyone else talk about it. Like Klaus, the queens created a machine to try to play god. They only wanted to save the world, not to create a new one or rule over it, but it doesn't change what they did. When it reacted to the emotional states of the worlds people and froze time rather than recreating the worlds as it was supposed to, that was still a result of humans trying to exert control over the world on the level of gods.

Actually, huh, now that I've typed this out Klaus himself is kind of a Moebius, isn't he? In xb1 he wants to rule over a world that's unsustainable without his influence and maintains a very familiar cycle of death and rebirth to that end. In xb2 he represents the more sorrowful side that created M and N, wishing to hold the world back forever in a futile attempt to fix his mistakes rather than moving forward. In a sense, the desire to create an endless now IS what keeps creating the awful dystopian worlds that keep resulting from these experiments. I guess although it was the queens who facilitated origin's creation, the world who's emotions origin reacted to in creating Moebius are kind of the Klaus of Xenoblade 3.

[puyopuyo]

*gives you a cool potato as a present*

[puyopuyo]

[fallen-arm]

I haven't posted here much because life has been really busy the past few days, but I should mention that I did beat the main story of Xenoblade 3 the other day! Did I like it more than 1? I don't know yet, to tell the truth. The gameplay is my favorite in the series easily, it's probably got my favorite party as a whole, and the themes of the story really resonated with me deeply. But I liked the setting of 1 a lot more, it's really hard to beat the whole concept of XB1's setting and it felt like it had more variety in biomes than 3 did. I also think XB1 executed its story a lot better than 3 did, 3 would have really benefited from slowing down a little bit near the end and explaining things more. We didn't need a lore dump on the level we got at the end of XB1 and 2, but they leave a lot of stuff very vague, and I would have liked concrete answers to at least a few questions.

All in all I think I'll have to sit on it for a while. It's definitely my favorite game on the Switch so far though, not counting XB1.

[rumi-nescence]

The Girl With The Gall (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

[faggotskommando]

“taion why does your mondo do that thing” “do what” “they watch me when i sleep taion” “they just have to get used to you you’ll be fine”

[fallen-arm]

I'm still really hyperfixating on Xenoblade, so I think once I finish with xb3 I'll go back and revisit the other games in the series. I still need to take on the superbosses and challenge mode in DE and new game + as a whole in 2.