I believe Xenoblade deserves a spot as a flagship franchise. As long as the writers have freedom to write what they want.

Calling it now, XC3 main villain is the nopon archsage

Anyone else feel a sense of heightened emotions after finishing either Xenoblade 2 or Definitive Edition when the MonolithSoft credit animation plays over the dreamy landscape? It's this collective feeling of finishing the story of the game, discovering the emotional outcome of the narrative which makes me wonder what lies beyond the celestial horizon while yearning fond memories of the past. I don't know how to explain this feeling, it's near impossible to fathom the nostalgic sensation in which MonolithSoft delivers through that one animation. The fact the animation is silent as well, is what heightens those thoughts and emotions further. Does anyone else understand what I mean. Fuuaarrk...

"Welcome home, Kos-Mos." My eyes actually misted up over that. Not full on tears, not yet, but definitely misted up. Right on cue with that line. 😢

I feel like there could be a xenoblade chronicles warriors

Luxin is uploading too quickly. Somebody stop this madman.

I just want a Xenoblade game that takes place between the discovery of the Conduit and the experiment. Let us meet Klaus while he's still young, see what the Saviorite rebellion was like and directly pilot the Artifices, please Monolith

Ok hear me out, an older Teelan is the next protagonist. I could either see him teaming up with a mix of aged up Xenoblade 1 characters and new characters, or teaming up with the kids of xenoblade 1 characters, or even the cast of other games. I think he makes perfect sense to be the next protagonist because we’re already invested in his story, he knows the original cast so he’d be a good way to keep them involved, and I see a lot of potential for a story revolving around him. Imagine if Teelan was attempting to transform a telethia and and stumbled into a rift/portal thing and ended meeting characters from 2 or X. Side note imagine if he found a way for telethia to turn back and you got a party member who could transform into a telethia at will so basically you control a telethia party member.

So here's my current head canon. Earth/Alrest is Saga's Lost Jerusalem, which is why KOS-MOS Re: ended up there, repurposed into a Blade along with T-elos Re:. The Conduit was not THE Zohar, but a Zohar emulator, which prevents contradictions with the true Zohar's location in Saga. If the connections to Saga do turn out to be this strong, the Fog King may well be a real Gnosis, and we could even see KOS-MOS and T-elos playable in the next entry.

I would honestly rather Xenoblade 1 be allowed to have a definitive ending. I love it to bits, and I'm sure there's a way they could make it work. But I'd be sad to see this game be artificially extended a dozen times just to sell new games.

Maybe Xenoblade 1 and Xenoblade 2's worlds became one as a result of both of them being recreated at the end of the games. It would also tie in with what Shulk said about meeting people from new lands.

*Sees Melia dodging all of those shots by Infernal Guldo*: Shulk, you didn't need Monado speed or visions to beat Mechon

so bright that everyone is killing eachother over it

I heard people saying that Nene was a not so good tank bc she is a nopon... but once i saw her protecting Melia from the Fog king’s laser i was like”think again boi”

I just want xeno x lol I never had a wii u so I missed out

Extremely hot take: The next Xeno game is Chronicles 3 is X2 is Saga 4 All at once I know its fucking crazy but just imagine.

A game focused on events before the klaus experiment would be nice for me

The Fog king looks like the creatures in XC2 in the area below the cloud sea. To me at least

The protagonist is gonna be new character almost certainly. It makes sense, cause if they choose Shulk or Rex (in the case they are in the same world now), they're gonna alianate some people and that's not good for marketing. Also, it gives them more freedom to write and design battle styles and all that.

Just finished up Age of Calamity, and it left me so hungry for parallel timeline anime bullshit that I now have to binge Xenoblade lore speculation until my brain explodes

I always felt like the Parisax enemies in Xenoblade 2 and especially the ones in Torna inside the Tornan Titan look WAY too much like the Gnosis.

I dunno man Birdlady got her kingdom back but she will be forever alone.

I just want an X port with a reworked system to buy the parts for the 90. DE was fun to play but it makes me want to play X2 and X. Future connected was neat but left a much bigger void then it could've filled.

the more i think about it, i realize that the core crystal for the aegis' are the shape of the zohar as well rather than the conduit so that may also be a reason why the shapes get conflated a lot.

Actually Luxin, it could still possibly be the same universe as Saga/X if we consider X is actually far down the line timewise. Spoilers: As Luxaar and Lao mention, the samaarians created all the alien lifeforms, and thats why they have a failsafe to never be able to go against the descendants of Samaar, Humans. So the humans who colonised all the planets and universe may have made the alien races to serve as specialized workforces/Slaves, but perhaps people in these colonies died out naturally, and so the alien lifeforms thrived in these areas, and Humans only continued to live in New Jerusalem/New Earth. Starting the cycle again like usual. So time passes and eventually the humans are found again by the galactic federation who don't want the descendants of Samaar to enslave them again. and in this effort, much like the Wonderful 101 Geathjerk federation, they conquered the races that would originally have been earth colonies and such and went towards the Humans again in a self fulfiffing prophecy of sorts, sealing their own fates. We'd have to see what an XX2 does with the Ghost and the overall Galactic federation but it could be possible, The Xeno games have no problem with putting huge time frames between significant events and the focus of the stories. We need to learn more about Samaarians and Planet Mira. I also contemplated with a friend that in X2 X (cross) may end up being a manifestation of planet Mira itself and end up having to deal with this somehow. (Maybe we fight the planet lol) down the line due to conflicting goals between the planet itself and the consciousness X has developed as the player character through interactions with the humans and other races. Just a stream of thought and such. i don't expect this all to happen but who knows. Then Deus shows up and dies like a punk. Please Square just give Xenogears to monolith/nintendo. Make a remake for switch idk. Please.

That 10th Anniversery picture made a pretty sick wallpaper. I'm glad I got to experience this game with remade models and just more amazing lighting effects after playing the original many times before (Wii and 3ds versions) Here's some food for thought, imagine the original cast was just hanging out at new Colony 9 and then they see the titans from 2 smashing against the giant land mass at the end of the game. Uraya just crashes straight into the anti air batteries from the colony and Vangarre is just standing there thinking "What the hell are you?!"

Wait, so The Fogking uses the Infernal GUldo model? I thought it looked familiar...

I personally think that Monolith has both Xenoblade X2 and Xenoblade 3 in the works, at least in terms of story. X2 is obvious; X's story was set up to be told across multiple games. I have a feeling we might even see a new trilogy of games with the X series. X was about the Ganglion, X2 will be about the Ghosts, and X3 will be about the Samaar Federation (possibly to mirror the three parts of Xenosaga). They COULD combine the Ghosts and Samaar Federation into one game, but I feel like they would want to expand on each of them separately, ending with the Samaar Federation because they're the most important faction of the plot. 3 will most likely be Shulk's world and Rex's world joining together. The portal in FC, the fact that the Fog King is an Infernal Guldo, and Shulk speculating that all the events were because the new world was still young (and how Zanza's and Klaus' deaths seriously affected how the laws of their respective worlds are governed) seemingly hint at even more connections between 1 and 2 down the road. I doubt they would put all of those references in without them meaning anything. I seriously doubt that they're gonna try to connect X to 1 and 2 anytime soon. They will probably want to finish off X's main storyline first before doing that. It's super exciting to think about; I just want my X2, dammit!!!

Personally, this is what I want to see most in the next entry of the Xeno series: 1. What happened to Alvis and the True Monado? 2. Is the Earth that was reborn at the end of Xenoblade 1, at the end of Xenoblade 2, the one that was destroyed in X... are they all one in the same and have sort of fused/returned? Was Elma’s Earth not destroyed, but instead warped into other realities, but now it has returned? I’m curious.

Oh yeah future connected definitely hinted a sequel that involves shulk to some degree,

Given one of the 5 Monolith Soft studios is very close to Bandai Namoc, the right holders of Xenosaga, I'm pretty certain that they are working on a remake of Xenosaga + the remaining 3 episodes that were originally planned. Maybe they'll rename the series to an installment in the Xenoblade series. Maybe Xenoblade 4?

I know I'm probably in the minority, but I don't really care about the games continuing a specific narrative. I even actively want old characters to be left behind (aside from cool fanservice stuff like KOS-MOS in 2). All I really want from Xeno is another Gears/Xenoblade 2. Just a standalone game with well defined themes that are concluded nicely by the end. Throw in whatever set pieces and sci-fi you want, but to me the appeal of Xeno isn't some massive overarching multiverse. Part of what keeps me from loving Saga as much as Gears or 2 is that the games aren't really standalone, so playing 1 and 2 just felt like preparation for 3, and considering where they ended up by the time they made 3 they didn't even get to finish it the way they wanted. I think Gears was a good model where the game worked perfectly on its own, but they had plans to expand on the ideas without treading the same ground. The Blade model works well and is the reason I think the series has found new success, so I'd stay stick with it. I'm optimistic though, considering 2 is the most recent new game they've put out and seems to be going in the direction I want, bringing in old Gears stuff without falling into the mistakes I think they made with Saga.

The Zohar originally comes from Xenogears, not Xenosaga.

If the background Zohar is the lifehold, what if Klaus's universe is an artificial one all the sleeping passengers of the white whale are in to keep their minds engaged and focused so they don't fall into mu/sheol or become distorted over time... and in this artificial universe, Klaus creates a pocket universe(Zanza's world) and transforms the artificial world into Alrest. The conduit exists within the artificial universe because U-Do/Mira made contact with the lifehold transforming the it into the Zohar which is why it is continuing to keep the passengers and mims alive. The conduit is basically a sub-zohar within the universe within the zohar. The best thing about all this if true is that Elma can revive Klaus, Shulk and friends and Rex, Nia and friends and team up with the real versions or maybe the artificial version will have a shockingly huge impact on the real universe.

My personal crackpot theory is: new protag who is Shulk's apprentice trying to open rifts with some kind of monado (assuming the rifts are ether based which they seem to be), and those rifts allow new protag (maybe returning people) to go to the diff xenoblade worlds. All 3 xenoblade worlds are having troubles with rifts and what is in them, some evil thing is trying to do destroy or rule all 3 universes. The main issue I see with this, from the standpoint of it actually being a game, is somehow merging the Xenoblade 1/X combat system with 2's (specifically Torna's since they could just give returning non 2 party members blades). There could be mechs that are a modified design of the faces (ie a mech that looks like a face but doesn't have the whole organ thing).

I’d just like an X port to the switch, as my Wii U gamepad got busted right around when I got the game, so I only played the first 30 minutes of the game, if even. However, I’d LOVE a 1, X, 2 crossover (something larger than the bits in XC2 Challenge mode DLC) be it XC3 or a spin-off title.

I would love to see Monolith take a Xenoblade approach for a Monolith Soft game. There's huge potential there, especially in regards to themes of humanity, sapience vs sentience and the importance of solidarity

So either Xenoblade Chronicles 3 or Xenoblade Chronicles X2, likely going to be released at the end of the Switch's lifecycle. We are likely to find out who the Fog King is in the next game, but one thing is guaranteed, there will be tons of Memes.

My mind is really thinking a X2, but I'm just going to wait until a reveal.

I think we’re most definitely done with XC for the console (outside of maybe an XCX port), but I hope the XC1 gets more development. Getting only 2ish story hours with Fiora’s kit was criminal

Something worth noting is that Azurda stated he was flying over A RIFT at the end of 2.

Fog king makes fog enemies which are similar to tainted enemies from x and 1 and 2 are in at the very least parallel world's pair that with the fog kings apparent ability to generate some form of dimensional rift and potentially you have a scenario for all of the Xenoblade games to come together into the same universe

Hear me out on this: the rift leads to Mira in one form or another as it would explain the Telethia you see in X. This is further supported by the Telethia supporting what it probably perceived as a band of Homs, as its behaviour closely mirrors that of telethia seen in FC. If we really wanted to stretch it the same way we stretched Alvis's core crystal color using the color wheel, we could say the three universes are also Orange, Purple, and Green - Shulk's universe, Mira, and Alrest. This would be supported by the link being purple fog flowing out of the portal which glows orange, and when Alvis/Ontos is torn out of Shulk's dimension causes him to glow green implying he's following the Conduit which is in Alrest at the time. The anniversary artwork even further supports it by positioning the poster protagonists of each xenoblade game in the same triangular positions as the Trinity Processor. And the biggest selling point for the color theory? The ending cutscene in Xenoblade 2 shows Aion displaying Malos's core at the top and Pneuma's core at the right as active, which positionally is the same as the colors I mentioned for X and 1. Each core crystal of the Trinity Processor basically represents the three dimensions in the Xenoseries. So now what i'm left to ask is what if the fog has something to do with the Ghost faction?

I just want a Xeno X2 or X remake/port... My WiiU broke...

I think is time for Klaus to be the protagonist and you discovered at the end he

The biggest problem with creating a sequel to XCX, is that they'd have to remake XCX for Switch, or run XCX2 following someone else, and retell the entire story of XCX in some fashion... because most Switch players haven't played XCX before.

Bandai Namco and Nintendo have been working very well together for the last few years, so what you want may well be possible.

What if KOS-MOS landed on earth befor Klaus found the Conduit and this they leaned how to build the world tree and created the Trinity processor. I mean KOS-MOS dose know how the world tree was built during 2 so it could be possible

Man some of your thoughts are reaching. But i will say this: Remember what Future Connected is about. Not just what happens but thematically what it is about.

Im in love with this game...

Every new Luxin video makes me regret giving away my wii u because I want to play Xenoblade X again SO BAD

Aside from a Xenoblade 3 which I think should be a stand alone story, I think Xenoblade Definitive Edition should get an update that allows you to run around the post credits Colony 9.

I really hope the Fog King is related to the Ghost Faction

this is the rebirth of Xenosaga, the monado is connectedl

X left quite a few questions unanswered about its world, it needs a sequel.

Like you said about “looking at the next Xenoblade protagonist” what if WE are the next Xenoblade protagonist? A chose your own adventure Xenoblade game where we get to choose our dialogue? Not really know how that would be, but I would take it. This is a stretch

The next game will be x2 and the "connected" part will be that the samarians will be revealed as either high entia or homs.

All I want to see is melia or shulk or both or alvis of them make it onto the next xenoblade game

I just want a Nopon as the main character/protagonist in whatever comes next. It is about meh time. Meh I say!

have you considered the possibility that the Fog King and his rift could be the link to how Telethia end up in the Xenoblade X universe? We clearly see the Telethia attacking the portal in the end of Future Connected but maybe that's when a few of the Telethia slipped through? And could this mean that a wounded Fog King from the battle at Alcamoth could be somewhere on Mira as well?

Yahhh.... Is definitely KOS-MOS :)

Luxin where did ya get the clean version of beyond the sky acoustic? Very nice theory tho:)))

must have a X2 or a port with an epilogue to tie X plot holes, it's my only expectation. Buuuuuut I would also like to see that the worlds from 1 and 2 are the same in the end, maybe

I haven't finished the video yet, but I wouldn't mind another collateral universe being shown from klaus' experiment, as we know not everything was sent to the xb1verse, or perhaps multiple of these being hopped between

...So The Fog King's Model is in fact the Infernal Guldo... That's a rather specific model to choose- They had to have chosen that one for a reason beyond just reusing assets. There's any number of other models they could have used, but they chose a pretty iconic boss from 2 to reuse. Not only that, but considering the theme that plays when you fight The Fog King and the fact the Infernal Guldo drops Galea's ID Card... They're up to something.

Just a thought. Wouldn't it be cool if the next Xenoblade game occurred in the world Shulk and Rex created but many years into the future where Shulk and Rex are old and so on?

nintendo can easly buy the xenogears/saga ip and make some remasters

i truly wish i could play xenoblade x , but sadly i cant , i love the xeno series

Hard to really say what's coming next. That's said, there is a new game that Monolift is working on, with only some neat-o looking artwork to show for.

And ay least, it was true, we are now in 2022 with XC3 launching on September

24:21 It could be Mira. Now, hear me out. We already know that Mira is strange, what with the whole ending and discovering that all of the computer servers containing the memories of everyone that was aboard the white whale and allowing them to continue to exist. Then there's the Professor B side quest chain and the fact that the Ma-Non were yanked out of 'hyperspace' (whatever that exists as in the Xenoverse) implies Mira has a shaky anchoring in space time. Add to that fact the Vita, the 'god' of whatever species that Luxar is part of, is there and the fact that the Ganglion were originally created by the ancestors of humanity who, quote: "At the dawn of the Cosmos the Samaarians arrived from another plane." it's possible that Mira is the original Samaarian homeworld and its dimensional instability allowed it to crossover into different universes, maybe even including the other Xeno universes. Not to mention that Telethia the Endbringer is a thing that exists.

I want a direct sequel to Xenoblade X that gives bonuses to players that bought the original. Like, if you have a legit Wii U account with a completed X save file, then you can upload your save file from your Wii U to Nintendo servers and get some bonuses, download it to X2 on the Switch and start with gifts similar to 2's DLC, maybe your Xenoblade X2 character will already know and have affinity with some of the characters who will have missions & rewards & learnable moves that tie back to X1's events. Whereas if you're starting X2 without X1 save data, you have to wait until post-game to unlock those extras, and meet the characters and build affinity with them to get those moves, missions, & rewards.

I wish it were feasible for Monolith to buy their IP from Bandai Namco and Square-Enix if only because they could play with all of their toys in the same setting. Barring that it would be really fun to just have a big crossover event whether it's canon or not. Hell, throw Cloud in it for funsies because of how weirdly intertwined Xenogears and FF7 are

The president of Monolith Soft said something interesting not too long ago about the Xenoblade games. He describes Xenoblade as "prototype of the achievement for their goal, that it only has one part of Takahashi’s universe, time and world in it, that could be called part of his life’s work". www.frontlinejp.net/2020/05/28/xenogears-2-didnt-happen-because-of-ff-spirits-within-monolith-soft-president-sugiura/

I usually never make comments but I do want to talk about all this potential. Spoiler abound. The eternal recurrence is stopped, so if there is a connection to saga, that’s the biggest threat. The universe no matter what is moving towards destruction. It’s not a stretch to think kosmos falls onto that earth like planet that is the original earth from xenoblade 1 and 2 before Klaus did what he did which explained why she is found as a blade in 2. This new fogged threat that is similar to gnosis connects it all. No matter what the universe is in trouble- it’s going to take all the main characters from all the universes to create a universe that is in balance with the upper and lower domains. The potential is nuts. Thanks for the video !

Have anyone notice the similarities between the rift and the eye of sauron! And how the fog king visually matches the description of the balrog as described in LotR!

Well, monolithsoft is thinking of "expanding the franchise" with spinoffs

10:00 When/How does this cutscene happen? I have KOS-MOS and have completed the game and never saw that cutscene

Do we have a timeline for all the series? I was wondering if all series were taking place on the same planet different times or different planets in the same galaxy?

What I would personally like to see is a game that connects one and two together more but foreshadows connections to x and other xeno tittles. I can't really see them doing the whole KOS-MOS thing unless they port all three xenosaga games to switch, it wouldn't really be fair to xenoblade only fans myself included who know nothing about xenosaga. Either way more xenoblade is more xenoblade so I'll take almost anything, I may just have to watch over 20 hours of cutscenes if it connects to other xeno tittles.

They don’t own the rights to Xenosaga, and at this point, I really don’t think they will. I appreciate that you love the games so much and want them included in the canon, I just don’t see it happening. Honestly, redesigning and renaming it to be the Conduit should’ve been the prime indicator Xenosaga is not returning in earnest. How CAN it unless they get the rights back?

wouldnt hold my breath

if i remember correctly, nintendo confirmed that melia will appear in xeno 3

What's the song while he talked about shibin saying good morning

Ammm why no one mentions alvis /ontos I mean he can be in the next xenoblade game bcz we don't anything about alvis we only saw that he is a blade or a computer he still have many hidden things we don't know

I just hope the story of whatever is next is up to the standard again, unlike Future Connected... I sadly really didn't like that 'story' since it was very flat and I personally felt like it had more plot holes than actual intriguing cliffhangers... I kinda see that must have happened because of time and budget reasons, but it had me very disappointed and I really hope it's gonna be worth it in the long run since this series means so much to me :/

I would wish for a new XBC game announcement, however they are working on that other IP and BotW 2, so I doubt we wont hear anything before 2021. To somehow bridge the gap of time, they could do a quick buck by simply porting Xenoblade X. The only thing they have to change is how the map/menu works.

If if they going to do a xenoblade chronicle x on the switch They need to do some thing about the avatar or aka rock that you made because we Still don’t know who rock or the avatar past He or she a blank page 🤔😇 they got amnesia that it🤔

Is there a good way to play the saga games these days? I have disk copies of all three games but either my ps2 suxs or my copies of the games are just trash, I haven't been able to play for like 10 years and want to enjoy erd kiaser and the mad professor again.

Given Xenoblade's niche status and potential for growth, Nintendo is more likely to reveal info on XCX2/XC3 than most of their other games. But still, there's a good chance that Nintendo will still hold off until 1-4 months before it releases before revealing it. Nintendo's current strategy (and it's a better one than before) is to stop longterm hyping in favour of focusing on the here and now and the near future - that way, there's a lot less competition on their own platform for their current software. It's working too, Switch software is selling at unprecedented levels.

I just hope that port Xenoblade X

What if Xenoblade 1 and 2 connected planet is actually Lost Jerusalem?

Umm...about the Fog King... It's model is the Infernal Guldo... Not the Gnosis...so...yeah I think that kinda breaks the Gnosis idea, and infers more complications/links to XBC2 or XBCX rather than Saga.

A few days ago i wrote a theory about the fact that XC1's planet might just be Mira, unfortunately, i am too lazy to translate it, so if any of you speak French, look for the posts made by "Chuck-N" www.jeuxvideo.com/forums/42-23493-63524471-1-0-1-0-si-j-ai-bien-compris-la-serie-xenoblade.htm#post_1047944295

Xenosaga 1 & 2 were combined and remade for the DS, I doubt Nintendo would have much issue with the religious reference. That being said, it was not released outside Japan.

Waiiiit, if they just pushed the fog king through the rift then it literally could be the Infernal Guldo from 2. I mean sure you'd need some time-space shenanigans but that's not too far fetched at this point.

Saga is NEVER returning lol

22:21 can I ask what song is playing here?

Who else doesn't like that the games are connected and story is affecting eachother? I wish they made the seires like final fantasy and had references and Easter eggs to eachother but not anything seriously plot affecting

Do u think that XBCDE will get dlc I honestly hope it does