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I had no clue what was going on in this quest cuz ive been skipping through them and i didnt expect that at all!

Ive been going through the trilogy in order for the first time this last month. I just finished torna. I wasnt expecting to cry because i assumed okay everyones gonna die cuz we know about jt with 2 and flashbacks. But dang the emotions were portrayed so well! And when mythra realized what she did i was balling! And then sealing herself and pyra appeared 😭

I feel like torna made me remember 2 a lot more fondly as i was remembering moments and cutscenes like “Ohhh! Of course they reacted like that!”
Like when rex awakens mythra and shes so angry about being awoken, and the whole game they are trying to supress their powers, it all was because of that ending moment in torna and you can see on her face how mortified she was. Brilliant.

One tiny little thing im not feeling like i completely understand or sympathize with. (Could be my autism)…
Why does Jin team up with Malos?! I still dont get how he just suddenly turns evil. They also didnt show Lora dying so that probably isnt helping my feelings like it was so sudden in the end credits cutscenes. Same with 2 felt like he was suddenly good at the end. Like major personality shifts both times really strange.

Anyways torna was great!
Also OH MY GOODNESS THE MECHS ARE EVEN MORE AWESOME! I’m a big armored core and gundam fan so i always get super hyped for those.

1 more things. I love that it was easier to get orbs. I did a 3 million combo chain attack on malos it was awesome. I had heard he has a 1 shot move so at like half his health a chain attacked him.
And the side quest locks stuff didnt bother me as i was warned ahead of time so just did side quests as i went (which is usual for me anyways) and when i had to focus on them i still enjoyed it. Even though i was skipping through side quests dialogue to get to story, i stopped with half of them because they were very interesting!

Ummm anyways im very excited to play 3 now. I’m surprised how much i feel like now after going through the journey i can feel i enjoyed 2+torna. And i think including torna it made it a 9,5/10 for me. I still dock .5 because of my issues with the first few chapters of 2 being kind of an embarrassment. But wow, you know writing is good with even rough patches like that you can learn to love the characters.

Currently i think 1 is still my favorite. Id say 1 is currently my favorite game of all time, and id put 2 in my top 5 including torna.

Im nervous about 3 because a friend of mine (his fav is 2) says he didnt like 3 and the direction they go apparently? But it seems like everyone online loves 3, especially the expansion? Please dont spoil. He thinks im not gonna like 3, but isnt spoiling me. I hope i like it.

Wow. What an amazing game. I played the definitive edition. First time ever playing anything Xenoblade. I was home recovering from hernia surgery So i decided to finally jump in. I’m so glad i did.
Played for 90 hours, and last night I beat the story! I have so many feelings. I would PERSONALLY give it a 10/10 even though i see flaws because it really fit my taste. Definitely in my top 10 games of all time. Maybe #1 but ill need to think about it and see if i go back and new game plus it. Speaking of… im feeling stuck and nervous… should i do new game plus, play on old file to do the big bosses around map, just go do the extra story, just jump straight to 2? Anyways….

I loved the beautiful open worlds. I loved all of the characters growth. I loved the twists, i was theorizing constantly. Im feeling very confused about some things after the ending but i LOVE the title screen change. It made me cry. I love the soundtrack!

Ok below ill go into spoilers and random thoughts

Spoilers Section:
Ok so fiora… i was expecting she didn’t actually die in the beginning because she was off screen and they threw her mech thing. And they kept flashbacking to it so i was like hmmm might be a classic switch it up thing. I Did not expect her to become a mechon herself though!!! Once the faced mechons started talking (i was so shocked) i did start wondering if there were people in those things vs just an intelligent mech. So anyways the reveal of her body being turned into mech was so sad.

Also, the high entia being telethia caught me completely by surprise!! And the fact they were trying to breed out that curse and knew it would happen was insane. I was so confused at the time about the marrying a homs and high entia though. Rewatching the cutscenes its like oh my gosh it was obvious!!

Oh the titans… btw. I LOVED the premise of the game being these civilizations on top of the titan corpses. I was expecting they would start moving and fighting as like the end of game final boss. I DID NOT expect them to be woken up so much earlier!!! All of that section of the game was so so intense! And i spent like two hours not progressing the story because i was going back to previous maps it let me go to and trying to see if things in the background changed and YOU COULD SEE THE MECHONIS MOVING!!! And then the boss fight with egil the mechonis was moving with him!!!! That whole section was like FAVORITE GAME OF ALL TIME but i am still holding that back being safe. I can’t dethrone mirror’s edge that easily as my favorite game. I need to think on it.

So Egil i hated egil, but when we learn more and more about the history and then ultimately when shulk spared him i was crying and like dang shulk you’re better than me.

Also Alvis… i LOVED alvis reveal to shulk when fighting the telethia and he grabbed the monado that was so hype.
But then everything after with his character has me suspicious like who is this guy?!
Then when he comes out and walks over to dixon i was like NOOOOO not him he was so cool!!

Also DIXON!!! I didnt expect any of that?! WOW!!! SO WELL DONE! Cant believe dunban had both his teammates betray him. And when dixon shot and killed shulk i was so shocked!!

The ending was cool but also felt a little weird and i dont know why. For some reason all the space stuff and satelite started making me think of sonic adventure 2 which was funny.

Ok now here’s things im confused about and some theories…
IM SO CONFUSED ABOUR ALVIS. He’s a computer? My wife was watching and asked if they were in a computer generation and i know they arent. I trust they are in another universe after they blew up the old one but how did a computer become a homs or seer or something.

Another thing im so confused about is zanza… how was he Apparantly possessing shulk this whole time and shulk was dead actually a corpse? But he was trapped on prison island…But also shulk isnt just a corpse cuz he has his own personality outside of zanza… but also if he was zanza then why was dixon in beginning just talking to him in private like he’s shulk.

Theory dont spoil me anything. I havent played other games.
Also are there other titans? There were other people on that space station. Or are there other universes that were created? I know nothing about the other games and i don’t want to know. Don’t worry in the middle of this playthrough i immediately ordered every other xenoblade game lol. I loved this game!

Alleyoop!