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Well, after shy of 130 hours, think I'm ready to put the game down for good. Did all Ascension Hero Quests (minus Masha and Ino, which I may still do), got all the alt costumes from the Challenges, beat all the super hard UM, including the Lv. 120 one. I think I found every location, minus the Ardun Ranch or whatever in Mu, which I'm not I care to do (I had NO idea you could get to Melia's bedroom behind the throne, just found it by looking around). Melia's battle theme is also way better than Nia's. There may have been a handful of normal quests left that I'll just let be.

Started FR, got an hour in (when Glimmer runs away). Sure will be an interesting story, I'm sure. Also, man, wish this AG point system was in the base game, seems like a good way to incentivize exploration and collection. Not that I need any extra push, but it's a cool idea. I'll miss Noah and Mio and the gang, but it was a damn good game.

Pororin posted...

Always thought xenoblade doing fine with its standalone game. It's kinda sad to see they wanted to become more like kingdom hearts where everything is connected bs pororin. Xc3 worlds just a mishmash of xc2 and 1 for good measure.

As adjl said, even from X2, it's almost impossible to tell there's any relation at all, until the very end. Which makes sense, as they are two different worlds, with none the wiser that such a case ever exist except for Klaus. In X3, the Easter Eggs of how the worlds are connected are abundant, but still easy to miss (as I said in my case), with the connections again only becoming apparent and meaningful in the end. Ends up becoming a really good story between all 3 games that bridges them, that allows each to be different and experiment with different worlds and battle systems (Foresight in X1, Blades/Drivers in X2, etc.). The real question is, where to go from here?

X4 could be about the worlds of Bionis and Alrest (and Aionios?) remerging into a New Earth or whatnot, and the strife that brings. There would be a 3rd parallel world based on the story thus far, so it's hard to imagine what else it could be about, unless they go in a completely different story arc direction (which may be the case, and could expand upon the Xenoblade X world). I'd love to see more story that connects these worlds, but understand it could be inauthentic at this point.

5 years passed from X2's release and that of X3. So, may be a bit before we hear of any future Xenoblade plans.