To be fair, as someone who loves XC2, it does take a while to find its stride. Once most of the battle features are unlocked, it's a blast, though, and the story gets wild.

I loved hearing your introduction to the Xeno-series. One of the great things about Xenoblade 2 is that it really is just as valid of a starting point as the orginal.

Back in 2018 I played Xenoblade 2 and NieR Automata in relatively close succession, and I seriously think that experiencing those two games at the formative age of 16 was what transitioned me into an adult. I feel like I just looked at things differently after that And it definitely was the catalyst to get me to start looking at games as an art form rather than just kid toys lol

XC2 was my foot in the door with JRPGs too, and has led to finding my favourite games and series. The game itself is one of my all time favourites, I also played it while staying in during the pandemic of 2020 and have been chasing the high of this game's story ever since it's so so good. The music of XC2 is also my favourite in the series, the area themes are so beautiful and well composed, Torigoth night and day are my favorites, while Kigndom of Uraya is enchanting.

I love Xenoblade 2 is freakin underrated masterpiece

7:09 THANK YOU! Rex is one of my favorite characters in any piece of media that exists, and it sometimes feels like everyone else thinks he’s annoying.

this channel is gonna blow up any day now

Picked XC2 up on a whim over Mario Odyssey and Doom Eternal. Played the entire opening chapter that first night and was immediately hooked. It ended up becoming my favorite game of all time.

It definitely changed my life and made me realize just how important it is to have hope for the future.

Xenoblade is truly a special series. I also started with 2 and it was a one of kind experience for me at the time. I was just starting to really get into video games after playing BOTW and wanting to get almost every game shown in the E3 2017 Direct, and Xenoblade 2 was the first game to truly move me with its story, characters, messages, etc. Since then I’ve been playing many games from multiple franchises that I’ve really enjoyed

Relevant video, for sure. I'm STILL playing the game and have currently over 200 hours in my save. I'm currently trying to 100 percent the game, and the further I play, the more I realize that the story content was only worth a small bit of the entire experience.

Game didn’t click with me immediately either. I picked it up after beating BOTW thinking they were similar and dropped it during chapter 3. Got bored enough at one point to give it a second chance and now I consider it my favorite game of all time and have 100% the game twice!

I did not find the story to be boring once the entire time I played it. I absolutely loved the story from start to finish. It’s the best video game ever.

The first time I played xenoblade 2 I didn’t like it but when I played it for the second time it was much more fun because I learned the combat and it was infinitely more fun and I cried at the ending because I actually payed attention to the story

Hey! Amazing video! Xenoblade 2 was the game that changed my life too so its really cool to hear people with the same Experience !!!!

I LOVE hearing this. I'm 35 and xeno is also my favorite series in all of gaming. I started with 2 as well and went back to 1 and 3 when it released and they are all absolute bangers. Love hearing someone else fall in love with them as much as I have.

In 2019ish I was randomly recommended a playthrough of this game on KZfaq, it look interesting so i started watching it. Only watched the first few episodes before i decided i wanted to experience this game for myself. This was also right aroujd Christmas so with the money I had gotten I bought a switch and xenoblade chronicles 2. I am so glad i was recommended it. This has become my absolute favorite game ever.

I totally agree. This video game was a fucking masterpiece and may be my favorite game of all time

this happened to me with YS: Lacrimosa of Dana, bought it played it like 1 hour and gave it another chance like a year later and ohh boy, it was one of the best games and stories ive played.

Same! Probably because Takahashi heavily injects his games with philosophy from real-world famous philosophers. He and his team actually live by these same philosophies, as seen in their interviews. Recently, they said they will never settle and want to build a company and games that lasts for 500 years, which is insane, but if you play their games, you will know that they have always been heavily focused on building the future.

(Spoilers) I love the relationships between the characters they have such interesting dynamics and Rex's relationship with the Aegis girls is incredible Pneuma's sacrafice hit hard tho I did wanted her to become her own personality and her own person but I get why they didn't either way her sacrafice hit hard and their relationship is really cute Also ZEKENATOR (Side note sad how people who haven't played Xenoblade Chronicles 2 misinterpret The Aegis girls and Rex's relationship because of the smash trailer for Pyra and Mythra)

You show Xenoblade 2 and the other Xenoblades, Persona 5, and Nier Automata. My top 3 single player games ever. Yes, we understand each other very well. Xenoblade 2 hit me the hardest from its series for similar reasons to you. Totally love this video! Keep rocking on!

Of the three, number 2 my favourite.

Glad this game is getting more love. It's my favorite of the trilogy and definitely my favorite series

XC 2 and XC3 are two of my all time favorite games. They impacted me SO MUCH emotionally. Probably the only two games I've ever played where I STILL get misty eyed when I hear some of the vocal tracks. There's a beautiful, sweet melancholy underlying the entire XC series that you just have to experience to appreciate. Thanks for the video. It's good to see XC2 getting the love it so richly deserves.

It’s really hard to enjoy a game like this when the internet is filled with people who think only their opinion is correct and whoever likes something they dislike is objectively wrong. I agree with literally every opinion you showed here, and thanks for making this video

If it wasn't for XC2, I literally don't know where I would be in life right now. I had always been aware of 2 because one of my favorite streamers used to play it back when it released but I was never into it too much, until I found it on sale during COVID. After learning how to make the combat work for me I was dialed in, that game was there for me at the darkest period of my life. 250+ hours logged and definitely served as a gateway for me into other JRPGs like Persona and Final Fantasy. Anyway well made video, honestly inspires me to finally put out my own little video about Xenoblade 2. Maybe one day lol

I haven't watched yet, but XBC2 is my favorite game of all time. It changed my life so much and I am endlessly grateful for it. Hope you have had a similar experience.

if you play xenoblade 2 and don't cry at the end you are dead inside. P.S. 2 is the best since it balance character development with world building is funny and serious when it need to, it a hero's journeys. 1 is a story of revenge so is serious all the time(still good is just so serious). 3 is a story of war so as you can imagine is a sensible topic so is also to serious still great is a story of hope and fight again despair for the future and freedom.

Xenoblade 2 is still the best selling game in the series. I purchased it on launch day back in December 2017 and I absolutely loved it! It’s definitely a masterpiece

when i played xenoblade 1 i didnt think 2 or 3 would come close to being as good but then one day i played 2 and i didnt regret it im playing 3 rn currently

This game changed my life too mayne, will never forget it.

4:53 Looks like you finally discovered why people like anime 6:10 is exactly how you feel when an anime ends and you're just left feeling empty like a you're saying good bye to some old friends

6:30 "There's something about this game that really really made me close to these characters, as if they were my actual friends." These are the exact words I've used to describe my experience with the characters, I'm glad to hear someone else thought the same.

Always gonna support a fellow Xenoblade Chronicles content creator!

You probably won’t see this comment but thank you. This video made me give the game a second chance and it quickly became one of my favorite games I’ve ever played.

Xenoblade 2 is one of my favorite game, even with its flaws like the map system (I prefer a lot more the one from Xenoblade 1&3 because it's much more easy to explore/you reveal the map), the field skill, the over amount of slow/clunky menu and the worst tutorial. It's easily a game that I would want as a "Definitive version" on the Switch 2. PS: I recommand you the Trails game series. It's kind of the MCU of the JRPG. It's a lot of time investment/commitment, but it's so good. A lot of Xenoblade fans are also Trails fans. ;)

You're spot on and touch all of the points I wish I could articulate about what makes XC2 so incredible. I think the entire Xenoblade Chronicles series is a masterpiece of storytelling but having played them all, XC2 stands apart as something profoundly special that at first glance you can easily miss. No other game has had the emotional impact on me that it did for so many reasons. Everyone I have ever talked to that has finished the game has had the same deep emotional response to it, and I don't think that's a coincidence.

I went through something similar with Xenoblade 1 and while 1 may have changed my life forever with it's amazing cast and story, Xenoblade 3 SOMEHOW topped that with Chapter 5. Rarely ever can I go back to an emotional scene and have it make me cry again even when I know what's gonna happen next, but the Xenoblade series does that to me EVERY TIME. I still cry after moments like Shulk's "I'LL KILL YOU!" or Sharla getting Gadolt's Rifle every time

Genuinely loving these episode analysis you've been doing! Thanks for the great work!

Thank God this game is still being talked about today, its so good. You should try the jp voice acting, the english voice acting is unique because its british but its done by stage actors none of them voice acting experience not even the main characters. It's a whole another game in the jp audio

A few years ago I was searching some switch game to buy simply to throw along soemthing else I was buying internationally. Had zero knowledge of xeno. Saw some images, and thouhgt, hey this looks nice, there go 60 dollars on a game I never even heard of before. Fastforward > I fell in love. Precisely as said in the video the cast of characers feel real, they're so well done, and by the time you finished your journey, is as if you had been there with them all along. They have incredible and varied buildings, each bringing something different to the cast, and you care for them. The emotional moments are so strong and they hit you right in the feels, masterfully enhanced by one of (if not THE) best OSTs ever. This game made me cry again, and again. It broguht me places I didnt know existed, made me feel things I had never felt, and I loved it. . . . And then Torna...oof....damn...these guys sure know where to punch. Later I played te XB1 and, while the emotional impact wasn't as strong, man oh man the story is something else. Probably the most ambitious, incredible plot i've had the pleasure to experience. The mysteries, the twists, the reveals, the unexpected, the layers, the whole scale of it all, the masterfully crafted world...it's magnificent. And right when you think everything's said and done and it can't get better, the ending yet again throws you off and it's simply sublime. XB3 tbh didn't pack quite the punch to me personally. After the life-changing experiences 2 and 1 were, 3 simply didn't hit me that hard. It was and is nonetheless one of the best Jrpgs ever and love it too ofc. And in the end, even if I don't have some grandiose praise for it, it's fun as heck and an absolute joy to play. I can only say I'm grateful having had the chance to experience these masterpieces of art.

The world design in XC2 I adored, been a fan since XC1 on the Wii. I adored Zeke, he was just so funny. Playing Torna was gut wrenching but being able to play as Jin was great.

it's strange, every good thing you said about xeno 2, was something i would say about 3, and i played xenoblade 2 before xeno 3 was even announced!

As someone who was already a fan of the first Xenoblade when this came out, I'll admit that it took a while for even myself to get into it. I got the game when it came out and tried playing it multiple times, always restarting after taking super long breaks away from it. But around my fourth attempt, I believe, I decided to finally commit to playing it after one of my best friends, who wasn't super into JRPGs (and still mostly isn't, aside from this series), told me how much he loved the game when I let him borrow it and that he'd played through the game three times over the span of the couple months he had my copy. And when I finally started progressing through the plot and reached that ending, it blew me away. So much incredible philosophy, such wonderful characters, and of course, the brilliant music and combat. It all culminated into being such a fantastic experience. I love all four Xenoblade games so much.

I also hated Xenoblade 2 at first, despite loving 1 and 3. I can't exactly tell you why I hated it, I think it's mostly because of the early story being boring and the game not having enough gameplay at first. But I must admit games like BoTW/ToTK and Xenoblade series absolutely did change my life, and I didn't even want to play any of them to begin with.

The combat and music totally won me over when I first played this game. I was also a massive fan of the story too, though I will admit the English dub does have its struggles lol. Been a while since I’ve played, so I’m thinking I might play through the game again later today. Makes me super happy seeing others who enjoyed this game as much as I did and still do. Will always be in contention for my favourite game ever.

I never got the complaints with the character designs. Ecchi designs are nothing new but for some reason Xenoblade 2 got extra heat for it.

I remember playing this game like 3 years ago and loved it, I am actually replaying it again.

I feel the same! I started with Xenoblade 2 cause when it was announced on a nintendo direct I saw some people being really hyped about it, I didn't understood why, then when it came out I gave it a chance and saw some gameplay wans't fully convinced but eventualy bought the game and I hand no idea if I was going to like it, and then BOOM it became my fav game of all time, it changed my life, made me cry and I played xeno X after and BOOOM I was blown away by how the best open world I have ever played was made for the sparking wii U and no one talks about it! so I played the full saga, I love every game to death now, all of them are masterpieces that I tell all of my friends about it and beg them to try it out lol. I became a huge Xenoblade simp cause I know it can change peoples lives just like it did to me, also I dicovered new game series thanks to it, I played persona 5 and now I love the series too, also the world ends with you, Octopath traveler and many more amazing games that I would have never tried if it wasn't for Xenoblade it really made me discover a whole new world of videogames that now I consider to be pure art.

I played it in the beginning of this year, literally the first thing I did this year was playing this game at 1/1/24 00:00, to start the year well right? I already loved Xenoblade 1, played it twice on Wii, it made me start to enjoy Jrpgs, the first time playing I just liked the game enough to go until the end even though it was complicated to me who didn't even understand english then I played in Spanish that is a language closer to my language, portuguese, and all the mechanics took a long time to understand, and in the end I had to grind a lot and the game was so long, I had never played a game for 80+ hours but I did it with Xenoblade. In the end it wasnt the best game of my life but was a really good experience, in the next year it released Xenoblade 3 and I played 1 again, this time I absolutely fell in love with the game and was understanding english better, I cried at the emotional scenes even though I already knew what would happen. Then I became fanatic with Xenoblade, was supper hyped for 3, beated Xenogears, and in the end of 2023 I finally got my Switch and was able to play another game in the franchise, that is Xenoblade Chronicles 2. In 2022 I was more wanting to play 3 before 2 because 3 "is better than 2", havent played Xc3 to have a opnion yet but I got a bad impression of 2 because of the video of the astronaut (sorry I forgot the name) but in the end... I absolutely fell in love with Xenoblade 2 and it is as good or even better than Xenoblade 1 in some aspects, until now this is a game that doesn't go out my head, and all the Lore it introduced, Xenoblade 1 is even better now, the franchise, I love how they connect with eachother, chapter 10 was the moment of my life, PEAK FICTION. And the gameplay in Torna is really good, until now it is still fun to play making sidequests, knowing better the world and making some hard battles 👌

I had the same experience with xenoblade. I can’t wait till they can get more powerful hardware to work with to be able to truly go all out

I remember going to a random game stop and randomly picking 2 up because I knew about it... Somehow? I don't remember fully. I remember picking it up and expecting either turn-based or action, but then immediately icked out by the auto attack. So I played it and quit just around meeting Tora. Pick it up a two years later, and pushed through more of it. Randomly, while I was fighting mobs in Togiroth, the combat clicked. And I mean clicked. I got the type charts I got how the break, topple, launch system worked. It felt so satisfying.

I think I might be the only person who was invested in XB2 from the very beginning lol. My brother had spent YEARS telling me to play Xenoblade 1, and I always replied “Sure, I’ll get to it sometime…” When Xenoblade 3 came out and I saw all the praise it was getting, I finally decided to try out the first game and I loved it so much that I went through all three numbered games back to back to back. I loved all of them, but Xenoblade 2 was easily my favorite of all of them. It was probably the one with the most jank, but also the most heart. It instantly became one of my top 5 favorite games of all time, and the Xenoblade series as a whole is one of my favorite series now too.

Underrated game fr

Great video that i can relate to a ton aswell, xenoblade 2 changed my outlook on life and so many other things and Rex made me so much more positive and helped me appreciate life REX IS THE GOAT RAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Yo, i watched this whole video without even realizing how small of a channel this was. Great quality video!

Dude I agree so hard This same thing pretty much happened to me and xc2 is also my favorite game of all time

Xenoblade 2 is my favourite game

Beautiful recommendation.

I can only agree, the Xenoblade Games are more than what one expects from a "videogame masterpiece". The way it combines various aspects of the lightness of life (including silly jokes) with subjects of existential depth is amazing. Every character is complex and unique in its very own way, and some characters reveal a sincereness and "purity" which "goes under the skin" - its difficult to express in words. While these games do require quite an effort to get into, its imho definitely worth the experience. (Realizing the quite complex mathematics of the battle mechanics, i decided for the following approach: "know what you are doing and why, but don't dissect it - most importantly: enjoy")

My first exp with Xenoblade was Xenosaga then the 3DS Xenoblade 1 which i never finish but what truly got me in to this series was also 2

It was my first Xenoblade chronicles games and i absolutely fell in love with all the charcters ( even tora!). The batrle syatem was a bit too confusing for me but i still oushed through. Great game

Xenoblade to Yakuza pipeline is real lmao I recommend you try Final Fantasy XV, underdog just like XC2 but holy shit it might have one of the best parties and endings in rpgs and I’m saying this as as a devout Xeno nerd

You know, I actually played XC2 right before Pyra and Mythra were announced for Smash despite being a long time fan of the original Amazing game, 10/10 I recommend it every day but none of my friends listen

Xenoblade chronicles 2 was and is my fave game is the series ❤ loved the story 😂 the combat system and deep mechanics a lot. Quite honestly I felt that Xenoblade 2 would have had a much deeper impact had I actually gotten to play torna the golden country first, getting the back story for the bad guys before the story of Xenoblade 2 would have in my opinion been better. Happy that I decided to give Xenoblade 2 a try as I never liked the first Xenoblade game much. The gotcha system is well interesting to deal with to say the least. I’m probably one of the few people who like Xenoblade X and Xenoblade 2 better the Xenoblade 3 or even the first Xenoblade chronicles game.

A friend lend me the game and I had it for almost 2 years!! I was so lazy and the game never clicked to me, but then I was “forced” to play it 🤣 and I’m really greatfull I was forced to do it, this game is amazing and Xeno 3! Omg… hahaha!

I have a similar experience with Xenobalde chronicles, It also got me into JRPGS, I recently bought Octopath Traveler and I'm becoming adicted to the game.

You should check out Xenogears. The first game in all of the Xeno series. It's definitely got the best story.

Where does the thumbnail come from? I always saw the Pyra version but didn't know there was one for Mythra. I would really like to know since Mythra is my favorite.

Got this game because of the waifus and the only other JRPG on the Switch at the time other than Zelda. After chapter one I was invested in the characyers by the end of chapter 4 I had to see where the story was going and by Chapter 7 it was hooked.

The best thing about Xenoblade are the memes 💀

Xenoblade 1 had a similar impact on me, it didn't just change my life, it is not an exaggeration to say it probably saved my life. Spoilers for anyone who hasn't played Xenoblade 1, btw I have struggled with hallucinations and severe anxiety all my life. In 2014, I suffered a mental breakdown, which continued on into 2015. I felt lost and hopeless in life, and just felt trapped. During this time, I was kind of just mindlessly playing games to try to keep it together at poimts. I then got Xenoblade Chronicles on New 3ds. And I really started to relate to Shulk, as his struggles with his visions reminded me of my pwn struggles with hallucinations. But it wasn't until Shulk's breakdown in the void that everything fell into place. The line "I was never alive" and thinking life is pointless echoed exactly how I was feeling. Then Alvis came in with the response "Only you can decide that (your life was pointless)" Which made me realize I could still do things in life, and I began to seek help for my mental problems. I wasn't immediate, and I still have issues, but I have learned how to deal with them. I'm in a much better place now, and always trying to do better.

You may want yo try the Xenosaga/Xenogears series, previous worls created by same people. Personally I never got a chance to play them but I heard that One of the Xenosaga has extremely similar story and themes to XC2. Popular guess is that XC2 was created with that game in mind as the creators do not sadly own the rights to the Xenosaga series anymore.

I've played both 2 and 3 and still haven't beat either of them. I feel like I just get super burnt out because I would play it heavy for a couppe of weeks and then be tired of it. I do love the games though, finally going to beat 3 in a couple of days!

If you haven’t try Astral chain Xenoblade was my favorite game on my switch before I lost it.

Xenoblade 2 is my favourite game❤

Xenoblade 2 is a perfect (almost) storytelling experience. You funnily wnough had the same experience i did. Picked up the game, played a few hours, put it down. Few months later picked it up again and from that moment on i was the pope of the church of klaus. (Nia best girl btw)

I have personally never tried XC.... yet. I first saw the character pop up on Smash and was kinda intrigued on which game the character was from and that's where I stumbled on XC BUT I still have not really tried it yet. I heard a lot of mixed remarks and comments about the series and so was kinda stuck on whether to give it a shot or not. However, after hearing how passionate you were about this game, might as well give it a shot..... very soon..... I still have a list of games I need to finish first heh

Favorite game of all time, goated and over hated for sure.

this game was my adicction in the starting switch days

I bought chronicles 1, and the snoorefest combat and unimportant sidequests bloat is about to make it drop it. Are 2 and 3 better to subject myself through one and rush it?

Glad you got something out of this game. I picked it up at launch because Xenoblade 1 is in my top 3 favorite games of all time and I really had to force my way through the end to see what people loved about it, and I never found it. I'm not trying to be a dick though, I really am jealous that people enjoyed this game because I'd love to have another game like Xenoblade, but I really can only name a handful of moments in my whole playthrough that I wasn't just sad or frustrated or cringing or disappointed in the game :( That said, Pyra is an amazing waifu and I love that she's in Smash, best thing to come out of the game was easily her design IMO :P

i love you

For me it was Xenoblade 3

According to Catholic teaching, the purpose of life is to learn to love God and allow yourself to be loved by God.

Mine too For the worse