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YoukaiSlayer posted...

The story is basically on the level of "it was all just a dream".

Except, you know, the part where Melia explicitly states that all of Aionios is no less real than anything else and Origin is confirmed to keep records of what happened in Aionios (hence Moebius can give people a slide show of their past lives and people like Ashera and Eunie retain some memories). There's every reason to believe that people will end up remembering their time in Aionios and that the worlds will figure out a way to unite in the future. How and when are uncertain, but Origin has granted them the time they need to figure out how to do so safely. It will happen, and it's the events of this game that will catalyze that.

All of which, incidentally, is covered in more detail and with references to specific in-game comments that support the conclusion in that video you're refusing to watch. It even explicitly shoots down the "it was just a dream" interpretation.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

Additionally, if I play the game and watch everything and pay attention and still didn't understand a mass marketed AAA game, the game f***ed up it's storytelling. I shouldn't need 45 minute breakdowns to understand the story and if you look at other peoples impressions of the story, a lot of people reached very different conclusions on what physically happened. The information was conveyed poorly.

Virtually all of the information is there, you just have to pay attention and occasionally read between the lines a bit. People reach different conclusions not because the story is told poorly, but because they don't know how to find the point without having their hands held. A 45-minute breakdown is nothing compared to what's been done to analyze any of the stories that are widely considered to be the best ever written. That doesn't mean they're poorly written. Quite the opposite: It means they're written with depth and subtlety that stands up to deeper analysis and exploration of their themes and context, which in turn means that not everyone is going to fully understand them on the first pass and may need to study it further. While I'm not about to suggest that Xenoblade 3 should be held up as a literary masterpiece, the fact that there's room to explore its story like this after the fact is very much a good thing, not a failure.

YoukaiSlayer posted...

an inconsistent message about acceptance while fighting the status quo.

But it's not inconsistent. At every level, the core message is that it's better to try to make an uncertain future better than to cling to a status quo of suffering out of fear that the future might be worse. Nothing about that is inconsistent with fighting the status quo.

Judgmenl posted...

Oh did Takahashi end up screwing over blade like he did with saga?

Some people don't like how 3 ended. To call that "screwing it over" would be a little melodramatic, but there is a pretty sizable butthurt minority out there complaining about it.