Thread 714023018 - /v/ [Archived: 627 hours ago]

Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:44:50 PM No.714023018
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I picked up Xenoblade Chronicles 1 last night and noticed 2 is also on sale. How often do the Xenoblade Chronicles' games actually go on sale?
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:46:10 PM No.714023116
They were all free last time I emulated them.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:46:53 PM No.714023186
Digital copies probably will not go below 40 dollars.
If you wait for a good deal you can probably get used copies of the switch games physically for 30 each. Torna (the DLC for 2) can also be purchased as a standalone physical cart.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:48:03 PM No.714023289
is there a patch that fixes the script so it's not westroon censorslop
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:48:31 PM No.714023332
>>714023116
>thinks he's cool admitting he's a thief
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:48:38 PM No.714023342
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>>714023018 (OP)
>alright I just started the NG+ run. Let's burn through a few core crystals and see what we get
>Use a couple on Nia
>Pic related

I'M NOT A WAIFUFAG I'M NOT A WAIFUFAG I'M NOT A WAIFUFAG
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:49:56 PM No.714023453
>>714023289
Yeah it's called learn Japanese.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:50:30 PM No.714023505
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go full weeb and get the special editions OP
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:50:56 PM No.714023540
>>714023332
This is how all piratevegans are. They can't just simply enjoy their games for free. They HAVE to let you know they're a nigger who steals. It's never about the games for them. It's about how they stole them. Do piratefags even PLAY games? We get it, you're poor.
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Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:51:46 PM No.714023610
>>714023186
>standalone physical
Holy crap, I didn't realize that.
Anonymous
6/29/2025, 11:56:59 PM No.714024062
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>>714023289
>>714023453
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:11:39 AM No.714025313
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So as expected XC2 is a better experience on the second pass. And not just because I can get to the good parts of the battle system or because Rex's movement is significantly faster. When Rex meets Pyra, even though Pyra is very pleasant in tone, there's no smile. She's not happy, in fact she's just shy of miserable. Considering the reason why she exists, I understand.

Malos also loses his shit when he realizes that Rex has made himself her Driver. And if that isn't evidence enough of his salty he still is after 500 years, he directly references their fight but Malos remarks that the Aegis looks different. He really should be thankful. Malos isn't running at 100% because of his broken Core Crystal but Mythra isn't either because of her own PTSD and defaulting to Pyra to act in her place.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:11:42 AM No.714025320
>>714023540
this only upsets you because you feel like a sucker for paying
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:13:28 AM No.714025470
>>714023342
Isn't T-los like one of the easiest rare blades to get?
I know this because in one doujin, they make fun of her calling her an easy woman. Compared to Kos-mos that you will likely have to work for.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:18:16 AM No.714025842
>>714025470
It looks like she's a very physical oriented Blade so maybe she's not the best fit for Nia. Maybe Rex or Zekenator
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:42:04 AM No.714027905
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Whoever drew this is an asshole
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:43:46 AM No.714028038
>>714023018 (OP)
like all nintendo games, rarely and when they do it's nothing substantial
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:01:46 AM No.714029463
They are basically first-party Nintendo games, so it's only happening a few times a year. Only 30% off too, as usual for Nintendo games.
You will have better luck looking for physical sales.
>>714025470
Yes, you need to be on NG+ to get her, but she is always among the first Rare Blades people pull. She's pretty damned strong too.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:02:26 AM No.714029517
I always forget how Indol has everybody by the balls. Did everyone know Amalthus could just take control of your continent if he wants? It's the only reason I can think of for why a historically militaristic Empire would kowtow to Indol, to the point where the rank and file carry out their orders. I'm not complaining by the way, this is all cool to see with hindsight
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:03:04 AM No.714029565
>>714029463
>need to be on NG+
nope, just have a clear icon after beating the final boss, don't need to start NG+
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:03:28 AM No.714029598
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>>714029517
Dang it
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:04:03 AM No.714029646
>>714023018 (OP)
shan't play this shit until it gets a s2 update and they remove gachaslop mechanics
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:06:13 AM No.714029836
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:06:48 AM No.714029882
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>>714029836
Thanks for this anon
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:08:04 AM No.714029969
>>714029517
no he hid haze's core
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:09:05 AM No.714030046
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>>714029882
Yw anon
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:09:07 AM No.714030049
>>714029836
>tfw you'll never go on an adventure to save the world with a party this soulful
Sad
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:09:53 AM No.714030110
>>714029517
All meme about localisation aside, the Blade name changes in English does take away from one of those 'huh, that's kind of clever' moments you get from a second playthru.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:10:33 AM No.714030153
For me itโ€™s Homura
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:15:39 AM No.714030516
>>714030110
Yeah? Do tell
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:20:04 AM No.714030851
>>714030516
as I recall, in the japanese script only blades used japanese names (e.g. homura), while humans used western names.

so the fact that torna members all have japanese style names foreshadow the reveal of what they are

also, the fact azurda, dromach and roc were named after the four divine beasts hints at the blade->titan connection

probably not something people pick up on the first time, but on a second playthrough, its one of those, 'oh, i get it' moments.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:29:37 AM No.714031601
>>714030851
Okay that's super cool. It's like living in a place where all the regular humans are named Steve or whatever, so then you meet a new chick and her name is Amaterasu. Why is your name like that miss? I wish they would've translated that better because I love that type of thing
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:40:59 AM No.714032434
>>714031601
I mean, in general I'm okay with the localisation. Some of the stuff is weird like the dog scene, but overall I didn't hate it.

I do however take a lot of issue with how they translated Mythra's final line in TGC, since it completely changed the meaning of the scene, but that's probably my biggest objection.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:44:19 AM No.714032674
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I cannot get over how fucking beautiful Brighid is. Not even in a IM GONNA COOM way. She's just that classic beauty where she feels pleasant to look at
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:45:45 AM No.714032780
>>714032674
brighid = courtesan
pyra/mythra = common prostitute
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:49:06 AM No.714033009
>>714023332
it's ok to pirate nintendo games. nintendo thinks they're too good for your money; they'd rather have you pirate than port their games to a different system.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:50:51 AM No.714033135
>>714023018 (OP)
Once or twice a year just like any other first party Nintendo game
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:51:24 AM No.714033165
Europoor here, when are we getting the sale?
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:53:04 AM No.714033319
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Oh! That's how Morag recognized the trap at Tantal! The Ardainian army uses similar technology and she saw what was coming. What a blink and you'll miss it thing
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:01:31 AM No.714033954
>>714029882
No prob, anon. Threads like this are the rare times /v/ actually feels like a comfy JRPG club instead of a salt mine. Makes me wanna boot up NG+ and just vibe across Alrest again with full context.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:04:32 AM No.714034208
>>714033954
NTA but I'm contemplating the same. I should probably just buy a Switch 2 though, not for any game performance reasons but my launch Switch is on its absolute last leg, it overheats and shuts down after like 30 minutes of any XB game. Sucks
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:05:37 AM No.714034287
switch 2 patches doko...
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:06:40 AM No.714034360
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>>714023018 (OP)
You couldn't pay me to play this garbage.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:13:35 AM No.714034886
>>714034360
Can we pay you to fuck off out of the thread or are you willing to do that for free?
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:16:26 AM No.714035070
X is better
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:22:48 AM No.714035472
>Xenoblade thread on /v/ with actual discussion about the game and not samefagged 2 vs 3 posting
Is it Opposite Day?
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:25:49 AM No.714035656
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>>714029836
bigger
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:33:37 AM No.714036190
If I begin a NG+ in XB2, should I do a bunch of the Tiger! Tiger! minigame to power up the Poppi forms beforehand? I hardly bothered with Tora+Poppi after getting enough party members to bench them. I'm thinking of focusing on using someone other than Rex for the majority of the game this time and I know Tora will be part of that team.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:39:54 AM No.714036627
>>714036190
Poppi is the best blade in the game by far when powered up.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:40:42 AM No.714036678
>>714036190
NG+ lets you buy ether crystals and master mod parts using bonus xp. You can buy the skill mods that can't be crafted with ether crystals through the land of challenges if you have the dlc. There's no need to worry about grinding out tiger tiger.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:53:37 AM No.714037461
>>714036627
I had read about that but I'm not very good at Tiger Tiger.
>>714036678
Sweet, I do have the DLC and tons of Bonus EXP already. I read that the manuals found in the overworld don't carry over though, that's my main dilemma
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:15:15 AM No.714038896
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Stuff like this is why I love this 2nd run. I totally forgot about this exchange
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:16:17 AM No.714038958
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>>714038896
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:17:20 AM No.714039016
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>>714038958
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:18:22 AM No.714039090
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>>714039016
Well? Go on Pyra. Explain it to the class.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:19:23 AM No.714039160
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>>714039090
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:20:14 AM No.714039207
I think I need to replay this soon
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:21:25 AM No.714039272
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>>714039160
Yeah. I didn't realize that was a warning that Pyra is not a Fire Blade even if she can use Fire. She's repressing her actual nature but she can't explain that without also explaining why she has to do that. Good thing Rex and Azurda stuck up for her so she wouldn't have to detail the worst day of her life
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:21:51 AM No.714039298
Man the image quality is soft as fuck. There's such a beautiful artstyle buried under the blurriness. They gotta put out Switch 2 patches for these games
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:22:46 AM No.714039378
The combat in this game makes it fun to replay desu might just be me though.
Replies: >>714039441
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:23:30 AM No.714039441
>>714039378
It is nice if you actually know what you're doing. Otherwise, you wing it until the late game.
Replies: >>714039512
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:24:01 AM No.714039479
>>714023018 (OP)
grab it now while you can its way better than 1
make sure you get the deluxe edition or w/e has torna dlc too
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:24:26 AM No.714039512
>>714039441
this is true
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:40:23 AM No.714040527
>>714035656
>>714029836
Holy comfy.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:44:54 AM No.714040847
>>714035656
Perfect. Thanks anon
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:47:40 AM No.714041017
>>714023018 (OP)
2 sucks ass skip it and play 3. If you must play 2 just play Torna the Golden Country.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:55:44 AM No.714041570
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>>714041017
I don't think I would've felt the full effect of Torna if I didn't play the base game first
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 3:58:29 AM No.714041770
>>714041017
3 is shit.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:36:25 AM No.714044238
>>714041017
2 is good. Seethe
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:37:40 AM No.714044335
>>714041017
2 is literally the best one
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:45:06 AM No.714044763
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Um...?
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:46:08 AM No.714044829
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>>714044763
Tora...?

Also I feel like if most of /v/ had the capability to make their own Poppi, you guys would
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:47:38 AM No.714044918
>>714044829
2nd form is best
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:51:56 AM No.714045150
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:52:58 AM No.714045198
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>>714045150
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:54:21 AM No.714045270
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>>714045198

>>714044918
As you can see Poppi's 2nd form is currently in development here >>714045198
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:55:39 AM No.714045346
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>>714045270
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 4:59:04 AM No.714045513
I picked it up for $0 in tortuga don't know how they make any money
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 5:06:00 AM No.714045894
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>>714039298
why do your screenshots look like shit?
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 5:36:15 AM No.714047650
>>714039298
You have no idea. Been fooling with it on Ryujinx and mods are fucking essential to get the game looking the way it's supposed to. 3 is even worse
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 5:52:50 AM No.714048583
>>714025313
>you were born in a moment of intense grief and despair, meant to be everything your Driver needed so he could use you in all the ways your other self couldn't be
>he's a fucking coward, nopes the fuck out immediately, stuffs you in a box
>stuck in a Dreamworld for 500 years of a place you can somehow remember but have never actually experienced
>now this poor kid gets murdered simply for acknowledging your existence
If anything it's a miracle she begins to cheer/open up as fast as she does
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 5:57:26 AM No.714048854
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>>714048583
Now let's be fair to Addam, he'd just lost everything in a single night. Including his pregnant wife. Addam was already afraid of Mythra just with the power she passively uses. So to see her torch his entire homeland and to learn there's actually an entirely new tier of power she has in her back pocket that he didn't even know about, I can't blame Addam for looking at her and thinking

>no one on Earth should ever have access to this type of power
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:07:55 AM No.714049476
>>714048854
There's nothing to suggest his wife died. His cowardice also directly led to his play-army's massacre at the hands of Indol, including Lora. I had nothing against base XB2 Addam but holy shit Torna turns him into one of very few characters I genuinely hate in the series
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:10:24 AM No.714049619
>>714049476
I don't hate him. I look at him the same way I look at Mythra. He played the game wrong and rather than try again, he quit. The difference between the two being that Mythra (and Pyra) can live long enough to try again through Rex. Addam can't.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:24:25 AM No.714050410
>>714049619
Sorry anon, you'll never get me to back down on this. The causes of both Torna and the main game fall almost entirely at his feet. Literally everyone including his father wanted him to man the fuck up and take control of the crown but his pathological fear of having to make hard decisions, taking real responsibility and god forbid upsetting some people in the process led to basically almost everything that happens. In the base game, it was at least implied that his and Mythra's was a mutual decision based off their experiences in the Aegis War being too much to bear and I could accept his regret. Torna's retcons fuck all of that up
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:25:56 AM No.714050483
>>714023116
Sounds like technologically niggerlicious theft to me.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:31:21 AM No.714050725
>>714050410
I'll give you the fall of Alrest and even Amalthus's rise to power in Indol. Addam continuing to act as the Sword of the Aegis would've prevented or at least stalled both.

But the Fall of Torna? You missed me with that one. Malos was going to keep breaking shit until someone killed him. And Mythra's power level was going up way faster than anyone could do anything with, Addam included. The second Malos opened fire on the Capitol, it was already over. Addam couldn't even hold Pneuma's Silver Sword without being hurt by it, he was put in the same position as Dunban when the Monado began to burn his arm as it enslaved his body. Could you imagine if Mythra's chains were entirely loosed and Pneuma were allowed to attack unrestricted? She would've atomized everything in her path, nothing would survive. Every single one of Addam's fears were 100% validated the day he watched his country scream it's way to the bottom of the sea. What sane person would play chicken with a nuke twice?
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:42:48 AM No.714051276
>>714049476
>turns him into one of very few characters I genuinely hate in the series
Same, along with Shania and Amalthus.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 6:58:15 AM No.714052098
>>714050725
His bullshit kept him from properly articulating self control and restraint and his fear of "raising her wrong" basically led to him not "raising" her at all. She kinda figured out humanity by osmosis than anything he actually imparted to her. The battle shows you Malos got under her skin and led her around by the nose. It wasn't until she dropped into spooky Alpha territory and purged her emotions that she got her shit under control and finally took him down. A better Addam could have avoided that entirely.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:14:36 AM No.714052978
>>714052098
Spooky Alpha territory was going to happen no matter what. Mythra learning empathy is the reason why she was able to hold back and operate under the belief that her friends could make up the difference. But when Malos fired on the capital, that empathy turned off like a switch. Even as she's pleading in her head that she wants to save everyone and that she's not like Malos she did exactly what you're praising her for. Except even then "getting her shit together" is wrong, in that moment she became a weapon. An indiscriminate bomb that would kill everything in her way so long as Malos was one of them. The only difference between a Mythra with Addam and a Mythra without him is that a Mythra without wouldn't have cared about Torna's fall. She would've took the edgy utilitarian stance that she traded a few thousand lives in exchange for the rest of the world and those shithead survivors better stop crying before she tells Siren to hit the mute button. But even as Addam was frightened by her, she was still able to learn enough empathy in their travels to understand the horror of what she just did. From Addams perspectives, he just watched to god tier Blades duke it out in the skies. Even after incorporating the lessons he got from Lorna and Jin about cooperation between Blade and Driver, he could not control her. He couldn't even touch her weapon. If he wasn't afraid of her after that then everyone else should be afraid of him.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 7:39:33 AM No.714054321
At this point, I'm waiting on ANY Xenoblade news.
Give us a freaking spin-off to chew on or SOMETHING.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 8:12:02 AM No.714055982
>>714054321
I personally wouldn't expect anything until next year myself
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 8:21:16 AM No.714056457
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>>714041570
How I played XBC2
>Played up to Morytha
>Beat Torna
>Finished XBC2

Kino
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 8:29:36 AM No.714056876
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>>714023018 (OP)
>How often do the Xenoblade Chronicles' games actually go on sale?
I don't think it's very regularly, I had a friend recently say the biggest thing that's held him off playing 2 is he's only ever seen it at full price. Was funny timing, since it's on sale now.

>>714025313
>>714048583
It really is a special game. Pyra comes across as just a standard nice, kind girl throughout the game, as a contrast to Mythra who's abrasive and arrogant and we have a bit of an inkling why. It's not until the end where you finally understand them and understand just how deep that pain runs.

There's so many amazing touches in 2's story that show just how much depth there is if you dig in even a little bit. Like right off the top of my head-

>Mythra being so furious with Rex after the Vandham thing because his inability to solve things meant she had to essentially break the promise she'd made to seal herself away. Even as abrasive and as fearful as she is, she still couldn't let him be hurt/die
>That moment where Rex throws away his "promise of a lifetime" because he realises it's standing between him and Pyra/Mythra
>The way Rex's biggest fear for Nia was that he'd hurt her by focussing on Pyra and Mythra so much
>Along with that, the way Rex tried to talk to Nia about her confession and set things right, only for her to say they'd do so after everything was over
>Pyra and Mythra just wanting to know why they existed so they could ask if it was alright for them to die
>Instead, they're told that Blades exist to help humans. They're not and were never weapons.
>Mythra finally letting down her guard enough to tell the whole world "I'm Rex's Blade!"
>Nia coming out of the dream/gauntlet/test in her Blade form and immediately looking at Rex
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 8:36:19 AM No.714057180
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>>714050410
I don't like Torna because I feel a lot of the retcons make it a far weaker and far smaller story. In the base game you're told about the Aegis war as being this huge ongoing clash between their armies. You have places like Aeigshammer that show the devastation Malos and Mythra's clashes wrought.

Malos was so dangerous they had to fight him at full strength, and fighting at full strength meant the very land beneath their feet was destoyed. It's a terrible, horrible choice but Addam and Mythra did what needed to be done, saved as many as they could and sacrificed as little as possible.

And then Torna comes along and just says "Nah they only met once at the end." And all the sacrifices and the hard decisions seem to just... I don't even know.

But if we wanna talk about hating someone because of Torna, let's talk about Jin. Because holy FUCK. Not only does his backstory with Lora turn him into a creepy groomer (he literally raised her as his waifu...) but seeing her and everything they did together throughout Torna means everything he was doing in the base game was outright spitting on everything she stood for, everything she wanted and believed in.

His big moment in 2 is his final goodbye with Malos where they part as friends... but that's crazy, holy fuck. Lora would be spinning in her grave at light speed if she saw the insane shit that Jin was doing in her name, and doing alongside Malos.

>>714048854
I like Addam a whole lot and I really love him as a flawed hero who saved the world at great cost, and who does legitimately deserve to be the hero he's remembered as. I fucking LOVE the way 2 and Torna showed how dangerous Aegis's were by having Amalthus getting Malos from Logos, which meant when Addam got Pneuma, Mythra was born.

It makes perfect sense, why wouldn't you fear that kind of power? It's not his fault, nor hers, it's reasonable. And they still saved the world.

So, when I think of Addam, I mostly think of 2, not Torna.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 8:38:00 AM No.714057268
>>714029836
>>714035656
>Brighid turns into a 2hu
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 8:49:34 AM No.714057770
>>714057180
Mythra and Malos still fought fought over multiple battles, they just fought through their Artifices and didn't meet face-to-face until Torna. Milton mentions Mythra has been traveling with them for a year, so the Aegis War lasted that whole year, with battles like the Aeigshammer happening during it and capping off with the fight at Torna. The DLC just doesn't show those fights because it's beyond the scope of a smaller expansion and the importance is focusing on the characters rather than showing all the big historical events.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:08:00 AM No.714058656
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>>714057770
Right, which is a huge downgrade from 2 presented the Aegis War as this direct conflict between Mythra and Malos where Mythra and Addam had to even sacrifice the Titans the world needed to live to be able to stop him. We were told straight up that 3 Titans were lost during the Aegis War, because of their fights and we see Mythra and Addam making that decision.

Instead, turns out it was just 1. Another was incidental and the third was from Amalthus.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:17:06 AM No.714059027
>>714023018 (OP)
Play 1, 2 and X ignore the DEI slop that was 3
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:17:52 AM No.714059053
I finished 2 when it came out, played through Torna, but can't remember much of it. Bought the rest on release, but got maybe halfway or 3/4 of the way through 1 DE when something got in the way and I boxed it for some time then didn't remember a single thing about it when I came back to it. Just started 1 again this week and I'm going through it slowly, mostly cause the battle system is doing me in. I can't work out how to chain shit properly, but I'm assuming it's much like 2 in that the battle system was shit until you managed to unlock stuff halfway through or whatever?
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:18:27 AM No.714059071
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>>714059027
3 was pretty good and FR is one of the best parts of the entire franchise. It's worth playing 3 just to play FR.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:21:02 AM No.714059202
>>714057770
Nope. Base game states Temperantia was turned into a wasteland specifically because of the war. Torna says it was always a ruin and the Temperantians were already extinct. Temperantia and Mikhail are retroactively turned into massive contradictions because of Torna
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:22:52 AM No.714059265
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>>714059053
>mostly cause the battle system is doing me in.
I'm not a fan of 1's battle system myself.

2 rewards you for playing well, the better you play the faster your arts cool down, the faster your arts cool down the more combos do, the more combos you do the more chains you do, the more chains you do the more breaks you can do, etcetc it all builds on itself. The entire system becomes a wonderful virtuous cycle, the better you play the more you're rewarded.

Meanwhile in 1, not only are you scrolling through a menu instead of using binds, your abilities are just on cooldowns. And the TP Gauge not resetting with each battle means you have to babysit it, which means you don't use it as much as you should. It's annoying.

>I can't work out how to chain shit properly, but I'm assuming it's much like 2 in that the battle system was shit until you managed to unlock stuff halfway through or whatever?
in 2, Chain Attacks were based off putting up the right combos/orbs and then breaking them. It got easier as you went through, but it was mostly fine off the bat.

In 1 it's all RNG whether attacks follow up. It'll get better, but early on it's not even worth using Chain Attack because it's just RNG whether anything even happens. Wait till the midpoint in the game or later.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:24:34 AM No.714059326
>>714059071
>3 was pretty good
No, it was shit.
Replies: >>714060094
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:28:31 AM No.714059483
>>714057180
I wouldn't say I give Jin a pass but I can understand his bullshit. We're told by Azurda that all Jins get too attached to their drivers, this one just managed to discover the FE process, and have a moment of despair bad enough to actually attempt it. At least once Rex is actually able to tell him to knock his bullshit off, he almost immediately begins making amends even if it's far too late to do so effectively. I'd love a more in-depth explanation of his thing with Malos as he got the guy to chill out massively in the span since Torna, even if he still massively tilts over Mythra besting him. At the very end he even acknowledges he has no place in the world and needs to be stopped and tells Rex he better bring his fucking A game to do so. The cheeky dickhead of Torna's time would never do that shit in a million years.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:30:04 AM No.714059551
I want to buy Xenoblade X, but Nintendo is not giving good options with the price.
Replies: >>714059647
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:32:32 AM No.714059647
>>714059551
its worth the full price bro, i sunk over 100 hours into it and still didnt get everything
i plan on doing another run after i beat 1-3
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:33:36 AM No.714059710
>>714059027
>Entire message of the game is to have children
>DEI slop
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:34:14 AM No.714059736
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>>714059483
I guess I just found it obnoxious how he spent all of Torna giving Mythra grief and talking down to her about the value of humanity and making her out to be this evil bitch, when Mythra was going out there and trying to save humanity as best she can.

Then he gets one roadblock in his life, turns on everything Lora ever believed in, sides with the guy who killed Milton (it's fucking weird that Mikhail did too) and commits atrocities for basically no reason. It's pretty clear that 2 and Torna aren't connected that well, because there's a whole lot that Jin and Mythra should have to say to each other, particularly her calling him out, that never happens. But hey.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:36:06 AM No.714059805
>Another tired Enel circlejerk thread
I'm so sick of this game, why can't you talk about X or 3? Hell, I'd even take a 1 thread.
Replies: >>714059963 >>714060016 >>714060773
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:36:34 AM No.714059819
>>714059647
Thanks, man. I'm going to buy. I heard a lot of good things about it.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:37:16 AM No.714059863
>>714023116
Nobody cares. Everybody knows about it.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:39:15 AM No.714059943
>>714028038
Physical went down fast tho.
3 was like 40 bucks in a month
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:39:51 AM No.714059963
>>714059805
Why are you so mad about a fag that gives back to the community?
Replies: >>714060139
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:41:05 AM No.714060016
>>714059805
not OP but im playing 2 right now, if you started with X when switch 2 came out you would be around here too
im almost done with 2 though
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:41:15 AM No.714060024
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Which one?
Replies: >>714060590 >>714061197
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:42:05 AM No.714060074
>>714059736
I'd also say it "helped" that we see he's haunted by her ghost as an acknowledgement that he knows deep down he's full of shit.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:42:34 AM No.714060091
>>714056876
>Mythra finally letting down her guard enough to tell the whole world "I'm Rex's Blade!"
That wasn't the context of that scene at all, jesus chirst.
She was being mind control and told herself that to snap herself out of it. I've seen that out of context screenshot posted for years as some dumb "addam gets cucked lmao" meme and assumed it was gay ass scene like that with Mythra being tsudere and admitting her love for Rex, but I decided to go the extra mile and actually play the game before I critiszing it, and I found that so many of the awful cringe scenes were completely made up by the fanbase.

After actually playing the game it was an offhand moment where she doesn't even scream it to anyone in particular, just quietly says to fight the brainwashing. The Japanese fanbase probably finds it laughable people here even talk about such a nothing moment.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:42:37 AM No.714060094
>>714059326
Nah its good, but you have to imagine it ends in chapter 6
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:43:35 AM No.714060139
>>714059963
You'll never get your review copy, Enel. Go back to sucking Chugga's dick.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:43:48 AM No.714060149
>>714029836
>>714035656
I do like Saitom's art but holy shit CHOCO seems to "get" the cast better than anyone
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:47:04 AM No.714060270
>>714060091
Nah. Given she spent the 2/3s of the game desperately trying to sleep through her own demise, having the drive to say she wanted to actually participate and even embrace her role again was a big deal, while also serving as a way to fight Amalthus' bullshit
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:47:32 AM No.714060297
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>>714060091
>That wasn't the context of that scene at all, jesus chirst.
She's saying it to Amalthus. And it's not an "offhand comment", it's literally followed up directly by Azurda, and by Rex. The point is that he can't control her, because she's not his Blade, she's Rex's Blade.

And it's a wonderful scene, because that's not something Mythra from earlier in the game would have ever been able to say. She also says it later, directly to him.
Replies: >>714060364 >>714060430
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:48:14 AM No.714060323
>>714060270
No it wasn't. stop essayposting about a literally nothing scene.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:49:19 AM No.714060364
>>714060297
>that's not something Mythra from earlier in the game would have ever been able to say
You mean the Mythra from the bedroom scene, everything after that has her sucking Rex's dick like the rest of the universe.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:51:26 AM No.714060430
>>714060297
she was censored?
Replies: >>714060512
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:52:17 AM No.714060471
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>>714060364
She's abrasive towards him up to and past Leftheria. But more importantly, what are you even arguing anymore? You're switching from "It was an offhand comment", to "Okay, it wasn't an offhand comment, it led into the very next part of the scene, but... she was nice to him too much!"
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:53:15 AM No.714060512
>>714060430
It's an aux core that censors her.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:55:11 AM No.714060590
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>>714060024
In game, I had Rex call Pneuma, Hikari. Two reasons-

1) He was talking to Hikari at the time, it felt like it would have been incredibly rude to say he wanted to call their joined form Homura when it's Hikari he's dealing with.

2) From what we knew at the time (obviously this isn't actually the truth), Hikari WAS their true form, Pneuma was Hikari's real form and Homura came from that. We don't learn that no, Hikari is the parts of Pneuma that Addam resonated with, and Homura is everything else, until a good bit later on.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:55:24 AM No.714060594
>>714060471
Is this the part where you pretend I said shit I never said to win the argument? I never agreed with you at all, and still view it as the offhand comment it is. The Japanese fanbase never talk about that line, so you're pretending taking the wording of the localized fanfic too literally.
Replies: >>714060668
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:56:25 AM No.714060630
>>714060590
>(obviously this isn't actually the truth)
It is when the game wants it to be.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:57:25 AM No.714060668
>>714060594
>pretending
probably*
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:57:59 AM No.714060703
>>714060590
I chose Homura because it was the personality that Rex first met.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:58:26 AM No.714060723
>>714060471
>She's abrasive towards him up to and past Leftheria
You mean like how she is with everyone?
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:59:02 AM No.714060749
>>714060094
The first chapters before 6 are shit too.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 9:59:37 AM No.714060773
>>714059805
3 sucks.
Replies: >>714060883
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:01:45 AM No.714060883
>>714060773
The QoL alone was such a massive leap over the previous games that I'd rather play 3 over them any day. 2 in particular is fucking horrendous with annoying shit that didn't need to be that way.
Replies: >>714061334
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:08:59 AM No.714061197
>>714060024
Neither. The only Blade character in this entire game with a personality is Nia because they were forced to actually give her a backstory to hide the twist. In an ideal world Pyra and Mythra would have died and Rex would got together with Nia. Instead they decided to do that cancerous harem shit.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:12:07 AM No.714061313
>>714060270
I don't think even the most suicidal person in the world would want to be forced into the pope's rape dungeon.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:12:42 AM No.714061334
>>714060883
>2 in particular is fucking horrendous with annoying shit that didn't need to be that way.
You sound like such a bitch.
Replies: >>714061392
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:14:19 AM No.714061392
>>714061334
Don't care, too busy enjoying the fact I'll never have to see pngs and repeated sound clips everytime I want to collect items or attempt field checks.
Replies: >>714061434
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:15:41 AM No.714061434
>>714061392
Too bad no one cares about 3 and it failed to expand the series fanbase like 2 did.
Replies: >>714061515
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:18:04 AM No.714061515
>>714061434
Who the fuck cares about the expanding the fanbase? It just invites retards like Chugga's fans that think Nia is a tranny and other people that worship the ground the localization walks on like even some people in this thread. People still think Mythra ever gave half a shit about Addam because her English VA said they were a couple.
Replies: >>714061551
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:18:59 AM No.714061551
>>714061515
It means 3 wasn't as impactful as 2, retard.
Replies: >>714061594
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:20:02 AM No.714061594
>>714061551
Yeah, with normalfags.
They got filtered by 3's anti-globohomo messages.
Replies: >>714061652
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:21:20 AM No.714061652
>>714061594
Or 3 is just boring shit.
Replies: >>714061684
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:22:14 AM No.714061684
>>714061652
Not as boring as rolling for pngs
Replies: >>714061750
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:24:01 AM No.714061750
>>714061684
Nope, it's way more boring. 3 only has 1 actual town, and it makes the world feel so soulless.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:25:12 AM No.714061796
https://www.reddit.com/r/Xenoblade_Chronicles/comments/tkf7iu/shoutout_to_the_trans_xenoblade_fans_all_6_of_us/

2sisters...
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:25:33 AM No.714061810
>>714061796
Go back redditard.
Replies: >>714061901
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:27:38 AM No.714061901
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>>714061810
You can't stop /ourgirl/ chud
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:32:35 AM No.714062080
>>714061796
>>714061901
lol these people are smoking crack
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:34:38 AM No.714062160
>>714062080
Enel invited them in by the way
Thank him for expanding the fanbase.
Replies: >>714067151
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:39:22 AM No.714062335
>>714062080
In Xenoblade 3, Lanz is short for Lanzgender. He's a trans ally
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 10:41:15 AM No.714062405
>>714062335
Thank god X openly mocked trannies so it's free of this shit
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 11:02:58 AM No.714063310
>>714062335
you're a fucking liar
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 11:39:23 AM No.714064921
>>714059265
I appreciated the auto battle system 2 had. I feel like it would be a lot more helpful in 1 than it was in 2.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:24:21 PM No.714067151
>>714061796
>>714061901
>>714062080
>>714062160
samefag
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 12:56:11 PM No.714068670
I have a feeling the switch 2 upgrades are coming tomorrow on the Nintendo news app.
Anonymous
6/30/2025, 1:07:17 PM No.714069280
>>714023018 (OP)
Please skip Xenoblade 2.

The character designs are sexy, but the writing is the worst in the series.
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Anonymous
6/30/2025, 2:08:30 PM No.714072449
>>714069280
don't listen to this faggot