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beated at 30:42, exploration 98% and Community just missing Nopon Medals and finish recipes

Story I'm kind of a mixed bag with positives and negatives, but by the end I think I'm leaning positive. Unfortunately it took way too long for me to realize WHEN we were and that kinda messed up my interpretations for a good while. But yeah yeah then I checked XB3's Founders Memorial and that cements it, maybe I regret coming avoiding all trailers because I would've prepared for that sooner. Although damn those statues really do just tell you the ending.

Characters though I enjoyed decently for what is a smaller DLC story. I really appreciate this time coming back to a more mature cast of characters, particularly being introduced to Matthew with A, then Glimmer & Nikol in context work really well as Keves & Agnus soldiers stuck in the cycle. With those two as well the nostalgia for their parents kinda does a *lot* of heavy lifting for their characterization, but being a DLC story you kind of need those shortcuts and it's all enjoyable. Oh god though is Shulk & Rex enjoyable. Shulk is shockingly consistent with his original character and the game in particular really hones in on XB1 nostalgia more than 2 and you just really feel once you hit Colony 9, but then it even continues hard on Ragmos & Black Mountain with Bionis Leg, Valak Mountain, and Prison Island all 100% blended into the world with Raguel Lake, Kana Peak, and well everything of Prison Island. Sooo much more moments too as well of Shulk & Nikol bonding, like you even get it all the time whenever you do a Field Craft and Nikol's really just a babby Shulk lol. Strange though that they seemingly turned Shulk's Monado into a Blade? It would've made sense just to leave that as an ordinary weapon like Nikol and leave Blades as a XB2/XB3 thing.

Rex I mean come on they made him so cool now which is absolutely hilarious after he used to be so disliked in the main game as a kid (not that I ever hated him). Glimmer though really feels like she gets a lot less focus, but I love how the hair colour is Pyra, style is Pneuma, but personality is totally Mythra - which works well as a teen, I think Glimmer's personality, along with her amazing voice acting, is just one of the most apt portrayals of a teenage character.

A's an interesting one to put a finger on, she's left very mysteriously for most of the game although if you pay attention you obviously understand who she is, at least since XB:DE gave Alvis that aegis crystal. Like with the babies it helps a lot for her character if you just consider the fact that she simply *is* Alvis with a lot of that character beneath, like when she and Shulk nod together. I'm not sure about how I feel about Alvis's split overall though, it's just feels out of nowhere since it's not how Alvis appears in XB1 and this DLC doesn't really explore him much.

also lmao tho the opening gave me some expectation that we might finally get some characterization of Z in this thing since he was in the prologue with Shulk & Rex but they REALLY didn't give a single ass finger to explain it, what an absolute mess of a character he is. I'm glad though that Consuls were ditched after you free Nikol & Glimmer because I was worried there with oh wait are they trying this again but no phew.

Anyways positive and negatives it's definitely a good DLC, just particularly so if you love XB1 and well of course I do. It's hard to compare it & Torna, if it weren't for that heavy nostalgia I would definitely take Torna's ending over Future Redeemed, but I really wanna replay it before I compare between them overall.

As for the ending I feel that HAS to hint on Shulk & Rexes gang coming back for more, I mean Rex specifically tells that to Glimmer and it does make sense, the worlds have finally come together in this ending. Which hey I'm glad about, there's definitely more to explore about these worlds coming together. I think the word from Takahashi was just that the Klaus experiment was ending, so that doesn't mean that's the end for all the characters. Of course, I don't expect a story based on them but rather the same thing we keep doing with a new cast of main characters and the previous cast getting development in the background of their story.

More obviously though, we don't know Rex's blonde baby. Redhead is Glimmer, silver hair Mio, blonde hair ??? Also wow it's just now hitting me that Glimmer & Mio are sisters, like yeah obviously but I didn't actually think about it. Speaking of babies, Linka was obvious but it took a while for me to realize Panacea must be Reyn & Sharla's kid and as far as I can tell so far you only really get that hint by the fact that Panacea mirror's Linka for Shulk. I think I finally accepted it when you finished their Community missions but they really just leave at oh they've known each other a while and not really a mention of her parents. I like how slanted the main cast baby's gender ratio is so far lol