Man you didn't even get the best line? "That's how you see me? A loner? I was thinking more plucky heroine girl, that's more what I shoot for." God that scene gets to me every time the way Lanz clues in on her loneliness.

I've played and loved the Xenosaga series. I've gone back to watch multiple recaps and lore over the years, but this video was the first time that SO many things just finally clicked together and made sense. Thank you for making this!

Honorable mention: "Noah, requesting permission to punch" "Only one"

"You there in the back, you feeling lonely because you haven't been punched yet?"

I hope we get another xenoblade chronicles game that isn't a sequel whatsoever outside of a few references. While i liked 3 i also missed the unique worldbuilding of 1 and 2.

If we're counting N as Noah then an honourable mention has to be N's speech against Alpha in Na'el's body. He speaks one of the hardest quotes in the entire series. It's something like: "If raw emotion affords him strength, then it must be disrupted by emotion stronger still. You failed to reach such a zenith. Alpha. I, N shall thwart you once more. My blade shall cut, your very will!" Which is followed by: "I am divorced of all that, all doubts, misgivings Gone!" To me it sounds amazing.

Honestly I found the story a bit inconclusive and too short for the duration of the game. In some parts it's really rushed, especially in the second half, while it really takes its due time at the beginning. It also went back to Xenogears levels of useless mistery. If the nature of Aionios and Z had been explored more in the main story, it would have helped having a better experience with the conflict at hand. I also liked the writing of the side quests...but they were really too many. The hero characters were too many. Most of them felt like filler and slowed down the pacing to an excruciating stop. The class system is a good idea, but not that well implemented. Individually, the cast main classes were the best and the more thought out to work in sinergy to one another. The variety of techniques and abilities was actually the best in the series, but I like more how Future Redeemed implemented them, than the base game, by removing the "job system". I don't like that this time the map is more traditional, but it's designed for the abuse of fast travel. It's a matter of taste, but I hate the non-diegetic fast travels in games. Exploring the world without it means literally running in circles for hours. I found it to be still a good game, but the worst Xenoblade. And it's a pity: the story themes were the deepest in the series.

I think it was a good decision for simply giving us 3 Xenoblade games

Alvis never was on Zanza’s “side” per-say. He needs input from a user to make meaningful decisions. He can adopt personality and a sense of conscience through experience and who is using him, hence him taking on Zanza’s lingering regrets and conscience, and growing by being with Shulk and Co. He needs input. He was meant to get said input from Logos and Pneuma who would debate and come to a decision on what actions to push through to Alvis to send as directions to the Conduit. Lacking Logos and Pneuma, Zanza and Meyneth more or less filled the roles in XC1’s ether subspace world thing. It’s also why Alvis was so cold as Alpha. He was acting without any outside input, based on Origin’s data and purpose. His memories from 1 were there, but deemed unimportant without any input suggesting that it should be factored into his decision making. Thus the A portion of his memories (old Alvis) laid dormant.

A pro tip I have when trying to get the Light element and Master Mods: Just focus on the chests and killing as many enemies as you can. Don’t even bother with the crystals or doing it hitless. All you want is the big chest at the end. Killing the enemies ensures you get to the top without hassle. The perfect runs are only good if you can beat the game, which is pretty hard on level 5. If you’re worried about not making enough ether crystals, the chests will contain plenty, either with ether crystals itself or by crystallising the parts you find there.

after 32 hours of playing future redeemed, i finally 100% the maps, characterals, enemypaedia and collectopaedia before beating Alpha, i also have two save file 1. no na'el, 2. with na'el. Rex just shreds superbosses like a wet paper. now its difficult to go back to the base game since you have to use fusion arts to even get the same amount of damage that rex and mathew can do with just a single arts.

This game means a lot to me. And honestly, i wish the game didnt end. Im a long time fan of xenoblade, infact, is was one of the first games i played. Xenoblade 3's ending really screwed me up. And here i was thinking it would cure my depression

I guess you can say Klaus is "Beyond Good and Evil"

The child of sin will only see the progenitor of sin as good but do not be deceived child of virtue in your benevolence. Meta-observers need to see that they are not what they empathies with or pay the price of the fool with the rest they value. One is tragedy but one billion is cosmic horror.

My fist is the divine breath- Grahf

Finally having a better time with the game. Battles definitely feels faster and my party can tear late game bosses now. 😅

I can’t wait to see what monolith brings up next

i absolutely would've pushed that button because i'm silly and love pushing big red buttons with boundless consequences

Klaus is my favorite character in the series, so it makes me happy to see him being talked about more. Great video! One of my favorite small tidbits from this series that I feel doesn't get enough attention, but would like to bring up, is a moment where both Klaus and Z say something that actually parallels each other; it's almost the same phrase, but wildly different contexts. from Xenoblade 2 - Cutscene 167: -Klaus: "My only purpose was to find out how mankind has changed, and where it is headed." -Morag: "And were you disappointed?" -Klaus: "No. As you stand before me right now, that is who you are. That is enough." from Xenoblade 3 - Cutscene 049: -Z: "You shall find that there is no such thing as luxury in this world. Everything buds but from a single thought. That you yourself are here is proof definite thereof. You need not understand. You can simply remain as you are. That is enough." It's fascinatingly beautiful storytelling. I adore this series so much.

10:19 My favorite Consuls/Moebius are D/Blackblaze Dirk and J/Joran, cause the former reminds me of Metal Face/Mumkhar, while the latter was once a nobody who became a somebody to rise above his uselessness. Not to mention they'd be perfect Rival Units for Project X Zone 3 and I wanna see both of them team up with Metal Face/Mumkhar, as well as Ouma Europe and other villains.

"Leave it up to good ol' Klaus his gift keeps on giving!" ~Gigachad Rex

Klaus is a fascinating character and I agree, his actions are hard to judge. I mean is ending a dying world being torn apart and giving it a chance to start fresh bad? You do end the lives of billions, which most likely dies anyways, but you also give a start to many, however no way to know if it’s better. Idk if he had that thought in his head when he pressed the button or if he just was a curious mind wanting to see his experiment go through, but I also think I may press the button too. Hard to put yourself in that situation. We can at least thank him for amazing stories, when XC2 showed the connection I was so hyped for it, it was amazing and I loved it. One of my favorite moments in the saga

The Klaus scene made my jaw drop when I first saw it. This made me love Xenoblade 2 even more to make it one of my favorite games of all time!

To answer the question it will be no also is the say the age old question that you can’t become or understand what it is to be a God from a humans perspective. then again, do you believe there is a God but I’m going to replace him or there is none and I will be that God? is he really God or is he playing the serpent and not know it? The two versions of Klaus one being the serpent, the other being Adams’s atonement metaphorically.

R.I.P. To the Kernal and the soldiers. R.I.P. to Vandham, Lora and Haze, to Jin and Torna and Malos. and R.I.P. OG Mwamba. You all deserved more.😔✊🏾

Such a pivotal event in the series. Perfect to toy with for a main plot in a homebrew TTRPG set in Alrest 👀

This almost the exact same thing that happens in jojo.Blond man has no faith in humanity and tries to transend it while ruining the lives of many others

Klaus ultimately did good. And the events that carry on from the worlds he created will only lead to the opportunity for exponential good events occurring, as they live out their individual world's history.

Not gonna lie, I'd have slammed the heck out of that button😂

I'm smashing that conduit button as fast as I hit the LIKE button on this video ! lol Great stuff man, this was a fun video to watch.

Hmm. This video has been on my mind since yesterday. If i were in Klaus shoes, i dont think i would have pressed that terrible button. Through malos actions, we see firsthand what aion can do. Its primary means of destruction is taking control of other machines, such as sirens, and destroying the surface via orbital bombardment. Aion can also 'nuke' a large area via the promethius move. Truly a terrible machine, but i rather have that, than throwing everything into a foolish hail mary, an experiment with unconfirmed results. But heres the thing, klaus may have truly believed that the experiment was safe, and if it was safe, it would be a far better option than aion or letting the savorites grab ahold of the conduit. But oh, how mistaken klaus was. What aion could do was confirmed, klaus experiment was not.... Now i know through klaus actions, we have my favorite ever video game characters. We get shulk, fiora, etc. We get rex, pyra, nia, mythra, etc. I love them and all you guys.... But their birth came at the cost of an immeasurable cost of lives. So this means, from a narrative point of view, The video game characters i love the most.. Never should have existed.. And that really breaks my heart. I love shulk and co. I love rex and co. I love noah and co....and the only reason they exist is because klaus arguably made the wrong decision. He killed countless people, people just as valuable as shulk, rex, and noah, and everyone else... I love those guys, but they never should have existed. Ugh, just typing that makes me sick... Would i have pressed the button? What a terrible question! 😊

Have to wonder if the next saga will start in an alternate world where Clause failed to activate the machine.

klaus's world is the best possible outcome of that event cause assuming that the saviorite rebels are indeed the salvator faction led by Dimitri yuriev, he would have done worse things with the zohar. which could threaten the original universe itself as seen in xenosaga, however unlike xenosaga there was no rubedo or albedo back then so idk how he would have been stopped

Holy cow man this video is so well made and told. SOOOO GOOOOD BROTHER!!!

AAHHH AMAZING

I like how in the 2 games where we are shown the experiment, it looks different, and there are some differences in the detail of what happens, almost as if the narrators (Alvis and Klaus) are not completely aligned on the exact events and are telling slightly different versions of the story. From a technical standpoint, Monolith could have just used the experiment cutscene from 2 in DE, but they chose to remake the original one in their newer engine.

If you want Namco to remaster the Xenosaga trilogy make sure to not show this to one of their executives and just go with "it's like Xenoblade"

if I were in Klaus shoes to press that button...... To be honest I probably would have even if I had shulks power at the time to see the future of the consequences of my action. however, it wouldn't be in the honorable way of saving humanity and the world like Klaus did but more to the line of me being a coward and fearing that the Saviorite rebels will imprison, torture, or execute me. I believe that would be the difference to me and Klaus

His recreation of the world eventually led to the birth of our local salvager boy and the teddy bear Wulfric, so it was completely worth it

Great video as always!

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A beautiful analysis. I love Xenoblade for it's storytelling with so much depth. Takahashi has really conveyed his vision in these beautiful games.

I would have definitely pressed the button. He was under pressure from being in the middle of the a war. In my head I'd be like man I am NOT letting these motherfuckers get their hands on this God shit bro. Guess I gotta be God!

I would press the button if i could pipe Nia for all eternity.

I still say a certain radio Manufacturer was whispering in Klaus's ear, guiding him to the point of pressing the button with the promise of a better world. He wouldn't be the first.

SPOILERS Klaus is a character in Xenoblade Chronicles

dichotomy is pronounced dye-kot-omee, not dich-tomy. (di as in 2)

I think my favorite scene in the series is when Klaus is explaining the world to the party, especially the moment Rex goes "Thank you for giving us all life"

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