i love xenoblade 1's world bc i think it suits its narrative so perfectly... it feels so large at the beginning of the game but by its end it feels so small, especially when the mechonis is gone. like you can just FEEL zanza's hand around it, choking the life out of it
sometimes im overwhelmed by how much i love xc1 outfit design like what the fuck even is this. probably nobody will ever really get it and yet it's incredibly slayful
when they implied cammuravi/ethel as romantic and had cammuravi say he and ethel were bound together by fate and then in the dlc had rex say he and shulk are bound together by fate like extremely similar wording what did they mean. why did they do that
no secret by now that fr reuses& reincorporates a ton of ideas, themes, scenes from xc1. however! not a lot of people have pointed out the sheer amount of stuff that A takes& reincorporates from Fiora, which i think is really interesting. here’s a thread where i go crazy about it
disgruntled fifty year old polyamorist: sorry boys, can’t go out.. got ketamine night with the ol’ ball and chain and chain and chain and ball and ball and ball and chain
literally started giggling and squealing in xc3 when i got to the tiny narrow cliffs like OOOH IT'S GONNA OPEN UP TO A BIG PLAIN OF GRASS I'M GONNA GET TO WALK AROUND A BIG PLAINNNNN i'm fully embracing the walking sim allegations
still thinking about this. like. lol. like of course the reference is probably just to 'sin' generally as in their existence being an affront to god/alpha but like. LOLLLL
@phantomheit
THIS IS ONE OF MY FAVORITE THINGS ABOUT THEMMMMM the way he even does it in makna too when she’s ready to give up on the telethia but he projects his own feelings abt fiora’s death onto the situation and is like melia you HAVE to go for revenge….. so fucking sauced i love it
the xc1 party is so awesome but like so many good things about them are locked behind h2hs which nobody ever does because the affinity system is kind of not good unless you're really familiar with the game
i love fr bc it's. shulk & A have like 3 actual cutscenes together so u can kinda gloss over it if u really dgaf but if u pay attention to the side dialogue for even 1 second they're like bashing you over the head with a hammer labelled SHULK AND A TRUST AND CARE ABOUT EACH OTHER
nikols younger and too busy machinisting it up to do his hw and shulk is like Oh.... A Vision.... I See It... your mother's going to be very angry... she's not let you have lab time if you don't do your homework!!! and nikol believes him every time
i think fr shulk is a really really good design bc it tells you so much abt him so easily. like at first he appears very stately and regal and elegant w the flowing long hair and the big coat, but when u look closer he kinda looks a mess. hair messy, fringe too grown out, eyebags
she’s worried abt how her friends will think of her now that her body is changed and he’s basically just like yeah idgaf i always have your back. what the fuck i love him so much
what if shulk rex and a cant change alphas memory space and theyre just stuck on a couch in a suburban household watching aionios unfold on a flatscreen tv for 1000 years. like full house but ye shall be as gods
@AsprinJuice
yeah absolutely! it's from his page in the artbook, if you run the text thru a translator it's saito saying something like "it has a bit of a shulk vibe from xenoblade, but he and shulk are different people!" the nikol one is from his pages, says directly his hair is like fiora's
@phantomheit
EVERY TIME PPL CALL THE XC1 PARTY THE WORST PARTY I IMPLODE. BC THEYRE SO AWESOME AND THEY HAVE SUCH GOOD RELATIONSHIPS THE GAME JUST SUCKS AT CONVEYING THEM </3
my concept of whatever the fuck shulk rex & a are doing in origin is like on a sliding scale from maximum agonies (acting as Processors & therefore Processing every single thing that happens in aionios) to maximum silliness (fucking around playing video games in the suburbs 4evs)
it's much less of a "living" world than alrest or even aionios but that's because zanza doesn't want a world that's alive. he wants a world that's his. it's his ideology that's driven everyone apart from each other, that's caused this war, that's made everything stagnate. SO GOOD
@aleh722
yeah and nikol+glimmer keep talking about how little time they have left and how they wanna make use of it like mio. i thought it was really weird that it said they were 9th bc those term markers look like 10th
but also there are a fuckton of cool hints about what the world used to be like (re: the giants and the spiders, the old high entia gods and ruins, basically every mystical lore detail dropped in the weapon and armor descriptions). like it's a huge world but it's also so trapped
i love it when people try to pretend like oversexualized fictional girls are Woke actually. “she chose to wear that” because she’s a real person who really exists and can make decisions. Sure whatever.
maybe my point is just that future redeemed should have been a 60hr game . idgaf if nobody would buy it because like only niche xenoheads could understand it i love the story and plot I just want soooo much more there’s so many opportunities left w the cast