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Hey, good video! Very elaborate, and complete. Really deserve more subs!

Thank you for including Isabelle in this video. Before you talked about her in your video, I had never seen an autistic character who was diagnosed at a young age. Moreover, I had never seen an autistic character who masks because of their early diagnosis and wonders if it was truly them or late-diagnosed/undiagnosed autistic people who are the lucky ones because they may not feel as pressured to mask. Isabelle’s autism story is exactly like mine, and what stands out to me is that her internal conflict about masking is exactly like mine, too. I’ve always felt so alone in experiencing that conflict, putting in so much effort into keeping on a mask, giving a perfect performance even when no one’s around (because what if someone walks into the room and sees me stimming?)-when in reality, I hate hiding my true self and denying myself my needs more than anything. Thank you, once again, for the much-needed realization that there are other people out there who are just like me. With each case of representation, we take a step closer to creating a society in which autistic people can feel free to unmask and be their true selves.

Honestly the *only* part of this sidequest I actively didn’t like- and a part I’m surprised you never mentioned- is that once Miyabi’s life is saved, Mio is just kinda like “ah. yeah. cool.” If this martyr figure, this emotional centerpiece of a character, was afforded a touching, emotional reunion, I feel like this plot point would have at least felt like it had an impact on the characters participating in it. But Mio BARELY reacts to Miyabi once she’s safe, and Sena has even less of a reaction despite having been in the exact same scenario as Mio (albeit conked out during the heavy part), which made it feel like a massive anticlimax when Miyabi sort of just leaves the story immediately having offered no impactful dialogue exchanges in the time she was now afforded. I think, otherwise, this plot point is alright. I never felt that it tramples Mio’s character at all, because the M death cutscene cluster was sort of Mio’s emotional breakthrough- Mio no longer has room in her mind to mull her impending doom or what that means for Miyabi at all. Post-swap Mio has risen above most of her flaws, so there isn’t much that Miyabi accomplishes by staying dead, either. I guess that’s the big problem in having a character who exists to die for a backstory’s sake…

From my prior knowlege of the game before I played, I used to be the most dissapointed with sena's side story. While the scenes with Shania are really moving and made me cry, I really feel like that should've been Gondhor's ascension quest and Sena should've had something... to actually do with Sena. Then I played this part and saw that nothing more happened with Mwamba. Like, we didn't take him back to colony 9, he didn't get a homecoming. like they should've explored being brought back to life, only to die again so soon. but as far as I am in the game, they really hadnt. good vid!

It also takes place in Captocorn Peak, one of if not the most disappointing zones in all of Xenoblade -more like captocorn mid amirite-

I used to think this was the worst part of the game’s story until I had watched/read another video last year explaining better how/why the resonance of Noah’s sword with the offseer tunes were able to restore the minds of all those from Colony Omega. It was made by a really underrated Xenotuber named Miiks, check out their stuff

i raise you a perspective of examining mio's story more around life than death. mio and noah serve as both sides of this, where mio is trying to make the most of her life and hold on to it while noah tends to look more towards the dead and understand them. they make up both sides of the same coin, and that's why i think mio's side story works, for the most part. i could take or leave mwamba and hackt and maybe cammuravi's inclusion could have been handled differently idk but thematically i think it makes a lot of sense mio's side story would focus on life and having miyabi's life be mio's reward for her struggles and convictions ties together well. noah's side story does the opposite with crys in a way that i think really works with his themes as well. i don't thin miyabi's life takes away from the important gestures between mio and noah with the flutes, in fact they have a small scene talking about the flutes and i think that makes mio's older scenes of believing miyabi to be dead a lot less useless. also fwiw, we don't even know if miyabi actually ever died so her having her memories doesn't have to be that strange. in fact, i took her keeping her memories as proof that she survived the explosion and was just picked up and used by Y from there on. i'm having trouble finding good images of her term marker, but i believe it supports this idea as well

TRUE. I feel like the pace of the game dulls just how frivolous this plot point is - as it was around this time the player is probably running through a lot of the side content. It hides itself amongst the more mundane side content.

YES. I generally dislike all the side stories, but this one seriously ruined the main game

I think part of the nuance here is lost in translation. In Japanese, it's more clear that Aionios is a world that is governed by emotion in an EXTREMELY OVERTLY LITERAL sense. It was the emotion of fear of oblivion that created the moebius wish. It was the regret that Noah harbored lifetime over lifetime that kept him resurrecting over and over even beyond his homecoming. N's power is fueled by his self hatred, and by his blade of divine origin, notably represented in how he never displays a true moebius power. It is fear of her inevitable death that allows Ashera to keep her memories of her "homecoming". It was the nopons apathy that kept them out of the flow and out of Z's war. It was Melia and Nia's defiance of the moebius wish, and hope for a better future, that then formed the basis for ouroboros and the sword of origin. It was Na'el's nihilistic outlook and despair that made her a prime target for exploitation by Alpha. And I also personally speculate that it was the love they felt for their children, that dragged Shulk and Rex out of their corresponding origin data. Anyways. It is emotion that is conveyed by the offseer's melody, or rather, the emotion the player imbues into it. Which then influences people in the ways see in side story Mio. In Japanese, these concepts are all neatly tied together using a single word. It is emotion, which is the source of basically everything in Aionios. It was how everything works, literally, as Aionios only exists as per the wish. But that inferred nuance is lost in English, as the translation clumsily uses different words in different contexts. Which can then really fall apart in this specific quest, creating the power of friendship impressions, and many of the surrounding lore misconceptions and fandom controversy. And this is sadly far from the first time that translation has failed Xeno... I'm not generally angry at the people who work on these games for that, it's probably an ungodly nightmare of a job to get functioning at all. But even now, as XC3 is clearly the biggest production the studio ever put forth. There are still dumb mistakes every here and there that become stumbling points along the road.

I think that of the sidestories this is my least favourite, but I do think that there is some reason given by the developers for Miyabi's return, being that they wanted to show Noah and Mio's growth after chapter 5.

It’s not as bad as sidestory Mio but Sena’s side story bummed me out as well. That should’ve been Ghondor’s ascension quest, the random tirkin stuff should be cut, and sena should get a side story that is about her.

im miyabin’ out!!: the aubi

I finally can see the truth!

I recognise the orchestra from the first few clips as the undertale one

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I'd like to think that Aya Shameimaru from the Touhou Series fits into this category. Maybe that's just me.

Great video. Although i while playing 999 i felt like everyone was a bit autistic. You could just do a puzzle and suddenly Lotus starts talking about some article in a book she read once. I still think that the writing style was a bit too infodumpy in that game.

I've never actually known the difference between a hyperfixation and a special interest! Thanks for this video and the discussion of coding vs representation; I'm surprised I've played all four of the games you talked about. I hope this gets some more views; this was a great video.

I recently finished Umineko and when i was reading i thought Maria and Ange both seem autism coded i dont know if they actually were but espesually Maria with her hyper fixations and the pressure she faced from everyone to act normal. Great video btw!!

I’ve been obsessed with a game called In Stars and Time lately and the player character Siffrin is extremely autistic coded to the point where I’m wondering if it might have been intentional… like several of the characters are just obviously and blatantly queer without the words for labels ever exactly being said so it wouldn’t surprise me if Siffrin is actually intentionally meant to be read as autistic and they just don’t have the word but in either case it’s how I interpret them. I know repetition would be increased by the nature of being in a time loop but how they act early in the game and information we get about them pre-canon from their own memories and from what their friends say make it very clear they still had autistic traits before the timeloops pre-canon examples include that their friends mention that Siffrin used to mumble the same phrases over and over when sharpening or carving and they find it endearing but Siffrin is embarrassed about it, but when they actually sharpen the key knife they mumble “please be sharp” over and over. This isn’t the only time they do echolalia(there’s a section of the game where they almost ONLY use repeated phrases because they’ve created a script for the time loop and while I know that’s because of the timeloop I also really relate to having scripts for conversations) the first two acts they can repeat back bird sounds if you have them interact with the birds. Siffrin apparently told Mirabelle that being on this journey was “the happiest they could remember being” and when she got upset(presumably because traveling to try to stop the country from being frozen being the best part of your life is a bit concerning) Siffrin gets confused and assumes they said something callous by accident. And the first time Bonnie makes them malanga fritters they get so excited they stim by flailing their arms around but the second time they suppress it… Siffrin wants affection but the other members of the group avoid touching them and at first Siffrin assumes it’s because they hate him but it turns out it’s because they assumed SIFFRIN hates BEING touched because they get startled and flinch when they get touched unexpectedly. The others assumptions also seem related to that Odile another member of the group(also pretty autistic coded) ACTUALLY doesn’t like being touched and it seems like the others assumed Siffrin was exactly the same way, but Siffrin likes being touched when he knows it’s coming he just doesn’t know how to process it when he’s not expecting it and he doesn’t know how to ask. The first time Mirabelle asks if they “want a comb” they hold their hand out expecting her to physically give them one and it’s only after another time around they realize she was trying to ask if he wanted his hair brushed… they have a special interest in astronomy and are obsessed with Poterian theatre to the point where they compare their whole life in the loops to a play… I relate to so much of their internal monologue and difficulty processing change is basically how he got here, but I love how them learning to communicate better isn’t them getting less autistic coded it’s him learning he don’t need to HIDE who he is and what he actually wants they and don’t need to try to make the perfect script for every social interaction their friends will care about them anyways… it makes me really happy to see a character who is this autistic coded with a storyline about how much they care about these people so deeply but don’t know how to express it or tell if they care back and whether they’d still care if they saw more of who he really is under all the trying to act “normal” and like what he thinks they want to see which is an experience I’m VERY familiar with… so yeah… uh there’s my ramble about how autistic-coded Siffrin is… I want to talk about how much I relate to their internal dialogue but this is already too long and I’d never stop

UA-cam algoritm: you are autistic, here have a master peice of a video about autism in video games. amazing video <3

i didn't check until the end of the video how many likes and subscribers and stuff you had, and i was really surprised considering the quality, so i'm leaving a comment to help the algorithm

Okay but I present this: Yusuke and Futaba…… autistic friendship…. Aw yeah. I am the tism I love yusuke bro is daft af he’s out here spending money on his interest instead of eating. Silly little guy

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To be frank, I have to say that you're completely wrong about coding. To describe a character as [demographic]-coded is to take an interpretation and ascribe it to the portrayal of the character rather than to the interpreter, which implies intent on the part of the author/artist. It follows, therefore, that one shouldn't ascribe coding to a character without confirmation from the creators in question, as doing so can lead one to make inaccurate assumptions and cast aspersions based on stereotypes (e.g. Extra Credits infamously comparing black people to orcs). Of course, none of that is to say that interpreting characters such as Futaba or Akane as autistic is invalid. My point, I suppose, is that half of your examples of autistic representation are, by your own admission, not actually representing autism, even if they are relatable to autistic people. That doesn't mean they're unworthy of discussion, of course. Being that I'm autistic myself, there are plenty of examples I could name personally that I relate very strongly to. I do think, however, that you could've benefitted from framing and presenting the topic more clearly.

I know you are talking but all I can focuse is on the cat on your profile picture

coincidentally I was just writing a post for autism month for 5 media recommendations for every type of media XD I had the most difficulty with games... we need more good rep!

The beaury of Autism is the interaction between two or more of them to the point it's almost magical.

You've Successfully Gotten Me Even More Interested In To The Moon, How Dare You /lh

Unineko is peak Vn next to dies irae ngl

I like Rose

Very Nice! It Was Easy To Follow For Someone Who Doesnt Know The Series Very Well Like Me

I’d also like to point out that when Beatrice is holding her hand to her chest iirc the lyrics then go “The promises unfulfilled sear deep within my chest as they keep splitting open in red, ever so red.” which is just ☹️

Really enjoyed the video as it brought home the parallels between a xenoblade 3 relationship and other ones in general.

loved it! <3

I Really Enjoyed This! Your Voice Is Great For A Video Essayist