Obliterating My Mental Health By Running All of Xeno | Xenogears, Xenosaga, Xenoblade KBash Supercut
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- Опубліковано 1 чер 2024
- now in "work day" format
The original videos were chaptered for major spoiler segments - in this supercut, I assume you've seen them or do not care. It's spoilers all the way down.
Xeno ate up a good chunk of my year. It started with Xenoblade - a patreon video. I ran the most accessible versions of each game and knew I was playing something special, but the picture became more clear after running through Xenogears, and then Xenosaga in the summer. Like anything else on my channel, it isn't for everyone - but I think it hits powerful, resounding notes about the nature of humankind, and manage to convey that weighty material successfully through the medium of video games. They're great, whether you enjoy them or not.
This is not the ultimate Xeno video, but it's a fun enough time. I'm bucking the impulse to divine the Perfect Take so I can enjoy some video games. So often, video makers feel compelled to drop "The Take," when really, if we're in the business of covering games - things intended to be enjoyed, for the most part - I think it's necessary that content dictate form. So have fun with the stuff. The devs certainly want you to.
So, from Xenogears to Xenoblade Chronicles 3: Future Redeemed, here's a very KBash Show look at every series of the Xeno franchise.
0:00 Aliencogs
1:17:13 Alienstory
3:01:37 Aliensword Records
#kbash #xenogears #xenoblade #xenosaga #retrospective #longformcontent - Ігри
He sneaks in future redeemed in this re release and
DOESNT
TALK
ABOUT
THE RADIO
IN A SERIES RETROSPECTIVE
For those that have already seen the previous individual videos Kbash did and want to see the new stuff covering Future Redeemed skip to 5:30:52
its crazy he didnt time stamp it
This is what I get for comment as soon as I click on a video. My defense is I've seen all these and assumed it was these vids put together. But you know what they say about assuming. Lol thanks for the time stamp. c:
Rewatched the whole thing. Did not regret.
From getting a PhD, getting married, my children being born... This is still the best moment of my life.
The games or the video essay?
5:44:09-5:45:43 As a theorists consumer in this franchise, it is VERY easy to get swept up in the connecting threads and ties to gears, X or Saga with Future Redeemed. This series is less concerned about the “how”, and more concerned about the “what” it stands for.
Take for instance the “radio” in FR. You can easily see the ties they’re trying to do to the other series. However, when looking at it through a narrative lens, its the prime example of “facade”.
Na’el going on and on about how “perfect” this world is, when really it’s ripe with the denial of rights, political strife, and people seemingly running away from this world via spaceships.
Right?? Once you hear the contrasts of what she’s saying versus the political turmoil being reported on the radio, it kinda comes across that Ontos is just showing her what happened to be a nice day while the world was crumbling
5 hours
5. Freaking. Hours.
I'm not even remotely into this series but I've been working on a 15 minute video and it's been kicking my butt. I can't even imagine putting together something of this size. It's not low effort either. My God. Here's a comment for the algorithm.
The Xeno series hits such a specific niche. I didn't know until 2021 that they were the kinds of games that were right up my alley. And I only learned about it through videos on UA-cam. These games really need more attention.
Watching the Xeno videos back-to-back in chronological release year order feels like a success story for Takahashi and MonolithSoft. Good for them.
Kbash is the closest thing to a father I've ever had.
Wut 😐
🧙♂
Well that’s just sad, bud
Batman couldn’t beat me into saying this
It’s your fault I left.
Can't wait for the 24h video when Kbash finally starts playing the Trails of series
That will me be ^^
Is there a video for the Tales Of series????
Shulk will ask his autistic son Nikol about his OC’s fr fr. 🥺
Just like Shulk was Zanza’s self-insert
There is a fairly sizeable HC for Sena being autistic, and Sena would be high-empathy and Nikol is low-empathy. And makes sense to both the social strengths and faults they both experience. Sena reads Mio’s anxieties better than Noah, but also gets manipulated more easily by somebody she thought she could relate to. And Nikol has troubles reading Glimmer’s subtler expressions, but Nikol shows while you were out snuffing he was studying the Variable Backpack.
Yepee?
I hope SE gives Xenogears the Star Ocean 2 treatment someday. Id really like to play through this again with some qol changes and combat revamps.
I had the EXACT same thoughts. Unfortunately, I don't think SE owns the rights to the Xeno series anymore, so it might be just a pipe dream... 😞
@KrimsonKracker they own the rights to Xenogears but that's it.
same, theyre literally the best to do. remakes along with capcom, ive loved all their remakes lol
Abrahamic religions to Japan are like Greek and Roman mythology to Americans. They like the imagery, the symbolism, the aesthetic, and a lot of times that stuff gets pulled into videogame lore for those reasons alone without anything bigger to say about it. The fact that there are billions of people still actively practicing those religions doesn't even cross their minds.
"Stroke slow, or you'll chafe." I need a motivational poster of this. 😂😂
i swear i googled shufti but it appears that i did not. a shufti is a look around. someone come have a shufti in me brain fer fooks sake
0:00 hey you added it, nice
3:30:36
>Used to bear a key, but doesn't anymore
>Can mysteriously wield the MCs Plot Device weapon that most people can't even hold
>saves the MC then just disappears
>That hair
I think we found this universe's Riku
XD
The actual Xenoblade character called Riku:"Bruh"
Nice, a quick little video to watch while I eat.
What are you eating, Big Smoke's order at Cluckin' Bell?
the most fucked up part of Xenogears lore is all that shit happened because a bunch of old dudes wanted to return to Lost Jerusalem (Earth for the uninitiated) but in reality they were on Lost Jerusalem the whole time. Pretty much after the events of Xenosaga people literally forgot where Earth was and accidentally returned there after the Unos Mundos system destroyed their ark XD
Before anyone says Xenogears and Xenosaga have different continuities.... they don't. Anyone that has played this series to completion 100% knows they don't XD Tetsuya Takahashi had no choice but to lie through his teethe and convince people they were seperate continuities to avoid getting sued by Square XD. At this point it is pretty clear Square is not interested in protecting their rights to Xenogears atleast not that much... that or they respect that it's Takahashi's baby and hence Takahashi has gotten abit more bold with the series moving forward.
The last 17 minutes are new and about the XC 3 DLC.
Although it never concluded, I love the X plot. It takes time and is interspersed with small, simple stories, but it never feels as forced as some of the other Xenoblade plots can feel -- I want the same thing the characters want, and I want to know they same things they want to know. There's very little of that DND "do the adventure just because it's an adventure."
Mix that with the exhilarating scale and movement (not an exaggeration) along with the confusing but fun combat and if it weren't for the Wii U dying out and preparing to transition to the Switch, I feel like I could have kept playing the game for maybe even 100+ more hours than I actually did, and I *didn't even fully understand the battle system*. Compare that with XC1 & 2 which I enjoyed a lot but left me feeling exhausted and ready to move on by the end.
I really hope we will get either a return to Mira in the form of a remake, a sequel, or a spiritual successor relatively soon.
Xenogears is the biggest what if in gaming. How i wish we got all the episodes and content it was promised
Even with that it's better than very other game in this video
"Wait did h- OH MY GOD HE DID!" :O XD
Kbash has done what most blade fans had not. Including myself. Heres hopeing for a remaster or remake of with gears or sagas. Bruh I remember watching your gears vid like "ALL OF THAT WAS DISC 1!? WTF!?" I do wonder if you'll go back and plays 3's dlc. To me its worth it, but I know your tired. (Hugs) thanks for these. We all love your takes bro. c:
He posted his thoughts at the end of the video
I spent a lot of time playing through all the Xenoblade Chronicles games shortly before 3 released. I had never got into Xenoblade 1, but something about how 3 looked really spoke to me. And I'm glad I did, I love this series, and Future Redeemed wrapping up really brought me to the series being my favorite set of games ever. This game series truly spoke to my heart and brought me to tears several times. Loved watching your series on this, great vid.
Jesus 5 hours!
I got my week's TV scheduled now.
I love Xenoblade X so much, it's my favorite in the series with Chronicles just behind. I also think it's Sawano's magnum opus.
I'm having a panic attack right now before an oral presentation. This is the only things that has managed to calm me down. Thank you, huge Xeno fan here, the first game was like a religious experience for me.
When my nieces and nephews ask me about the games that came before, KBash will be the reference material.
This is what I've been waiting for. I found your channel when your orignal Xenoblade vid popped up in my feed and I've binged your content ever since. It's good for a fresh perspective/intellectual conversation on series I know, and even the ones I don't know. You have such a way with your words that I've picked up several turns of phrase and vocabulary for my own daily life, along with your voice being so pleaseing to listen to. I often find myself coming back to watch them on a second screen while I'm plugging away at my own games. Especially your long form vids like this. Xeno has needed love like this and you delivered exceptionally. So thank you, KBash, and keep on keepin' on!
That scream transition into the xenogears video, amazing. Reminds me of that shower transition from Apocalypse Now.
This is amazing! What an absurd amount of work! Glad I came across you dude!
Watched this entire thing just for the Xenoblade X part, thanks Kbash, you earned a sub. I have a sealed japanese copy of the OST that I will never open and will likely encase it in some sorta box one day and use it as a conversation piece.
I will quote your historical work and contributions when i finally go to work on the report i am definitely not avoiding
Oh, okay, sure. I didn't actually need to do anything tonight. Fine.
I can’t believe they finally made a proper evangallion game
Far from it
@@ShellyYum Yeah now it’s a tenchi muyo game
Xenosaga and Xenogears are my personal favorites. I've played Xenoblade Chronicles 1 and enjoyed that too.
Wow, amazing timing, I just finished up the gears/saga videos
now I can watch them again :)
i dont see myself playing the majority of the jrpgs you talk about in your videos but i love watching your content and i even keep it as background noise sometimes while i'm working on stuff
Subbed. I really appreciate the time that went into this. Gears is my favorite game of all time ( it has flaws but despite all of them the game pushes storytelling like none other)
Almost 6 hours! Thanks for the thorough Xeno dive.
Still love you Xenoblade 3 Part!
I kind of get what you mean with you "been there done that" (at the XC3FR part) but honestly that shit always gets me and I still love it everytime.
Xenoblade and the series, you've done them proud! Well done Kbash
Stellar content, this channel is great!
Collecting spirits in Smash Bros spoiled the plot of Xenoblade 1 for me. Smash Bros is out here spoiling games and Sakurai is still a free man.
3:00:57 I think Xenoblade 3 and Future Redeemed really best showed this message of having hope for the future and fighting for it. Even if you aren't around to fix it there will always be the next generation to fight for a better world. And we see that come to fruition in Xenoblade 3 with the Ouroboros team and everyone else in Aionios finally free themselves from the Endless Now. It took more than 1000 years but it happened. Before Aionios completely died due to the annihilation events slowly destroying the world. And we see that the 2 worlds do merge back together. Fixing the wrongs Klaus caused with his experiment from millennia ago. We even get a star falling to the merged Earth. Which very clearly is meant to reference or even be KOS-MOS from Xenosaga. Which is very cool if they do manage to have a proper crossover between Blade and Saga. Cause the idea of the Earth Klaus destroyed being Lost Jerusalem from Xenosaga is pretty wild. And gives a good in-universe reason as to where it was and why no one ever found it.
tdlr. Xenoblade 3 and FR really paid off the message Saga 3's ending left
You mad man! You go to far with your creative dedication!
What a herculean effort. Great analysis!
9:40 Not *every* house, but there are quite a few that I can recall off the top of my head.
you are the best youtuber of all I'm watching right now!
Xenosaga looks like an absolute fever nightmare. I would love to play it someday.
I love Xenogears so much. I even made my first ever GeoCities webpage heavily based around it, to the point that I played Midi tracks of it's music (And FF6) and linked ad banners for it. What can I say? It, along with Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 7 completely turned around my opinion of JRPGs and turned me from a CRPG snob into a well-rounded role-player! (and YES the game was utterly mind-blowing upon release.)
I was just laid off from my job and now I want to watch K-Bash. I've said it before, I used to watch X-Play to experience the video games I couldn't afford, now I watch K-Bash to experience the video games I don't have time to play.
Just two little things about xenoblade 2, Nia actually being a blade is kinda foreshadowed by the direction of her ears xD (they are inverted to all gormoti) and the Titans don't merge into a landmass but collectively dock at a landmass the architect created as one of his last actions. (And you maybe could mention that at this stage knowing xb1 and 2 players can guess we know why he is going to vanish but honestly, i dunno if it isn't red coned XB3 or if you included it there, because i still didn't finish it and as such didn't want to spoil myself, if you did I'm sorry and please forget i mentioning it
Addition:
Funny little story about Xenoblade Xs announcement, back when it was announced it really hit the players sour because they explained that remaining time of the lifehold as an actual mechanic, like Zelda: Majora's mask or Lightning returns Final fantasy 13 which a lot of people didn't seem too pleased. 🤣 (Looking at the scale of XBX I'd say it was rather miscommunicated than removed after feedback but it's still funny)
praise:
I really enjoyed your video and especially for gears you showed stuff i never knew about it like zones and such, i always knew the story but further no one ever explained really.
Gonna act like I didn't just go on a serious KBinge these last few days and already watch these exact set of videos separately just a few hours ago
And I'll mf watch them all again, you can't stop me 😤
Please play the Trails series.
I'm going to have to come back to this once I finish Xenoblade 1. And 2. And 3.
I swear, I totally intended to finish them. So I guess I'll watch this is a few years, but gotta help with that algorithm!
This is amazing, let's goo
Great video. I was initially let down by the Chronicle game's move away from the hard space sci fi setting. But once I got into 2, I immediately played DE and 3 released less than a year later. Favorite game series ever. Even when I have no idea what's happening with the plot, I still appreciate the characters and I emotionally respond since, whatever the F is going on, XBC almost always earn those moments.
The amount of time used to play all of these....Kudos Kbash .
Loving that Freeze Pop ass thumbnail Kbash
I watched all of this today and i loved it
4:24:50 so do we tell him “one eyed monster” is a euphemism or nah
HOLY SHIT REPACKAGED XENO CONTENT I FUCJING LIVE FOR THIS!!!
I hope skell like mecs returnes in the next xenoblade game
I would love to see Kbash and I finished a video game collab because with how unhinged Kbash is and how calm i finished a video game is would make a beautifully cracked duo
OMG A NEW KBASH VIDEO?!?! ❤❤❤❤❤
5 hours?!?! You bless us good sir!
I hope they one day they release Xenosaga 1-3 again. Never got the chance to play through the last game
Damn... I should play Xenogears and Xenosaga before watching this, see you in 5 years
Bro definitely did show us a thing or three
It is amazing how many "rare" games I own that I just bought when they were new. I have all the Xenosaga's and loads of Atlas games.
Kbash the only person to release a worthwhile 5 hour UA-cam video
This might be one of only times a 5 hour video on youtube is not bloated nothing.
you'd probably like iron blooded orphans
Xeno.
*This shit is deep.*
very amazing video. im not gonna watch the xenosaga section cuz im planning to play it myself but everything is spot on.
Also thank you for understanding XCX and appreciate what it does incredibly well unlike the most of the fandom . i swear, XCX is years ahead from games ive played to this day, and it's 9 yo. and yeah, most of its great mechanics are lore related, reason why they didnt do it again in the next games( at least keep the sprint??)
AND YESSS I liked X plot. narratively it's not really good with terrible pacing, but managed to keep my interest til the end!
one thing that absolutely adore is how GIGANTIC the monsters are, and how tiny we are also the fact you can target specific monster parts and break them (horn, tail, head, appendices etc) to get specific loot really added more flavor to the gameplay.
it's my favorite game of all times and seeing it being talked in a positive light really makes me tears up lol damn you made me want to go for a third playthrougt lmaoo
(also man, i wish people didnt play X the same way they would play the mainline games. they expect rushing thru the story, ignoring exploration and side quest (that give fuck ton lore especially the yielv one + fleshes out the cast better.), then complain it's bad and too hard. i saw people like this)
Xb2 and xb3 are so good, never have I played anothee videogame like those 2
XB2 is garbage
@@brya9681 no
Yeah, I got time
I would love to see what a xenoblade game co-written by Dr. Jordan Peterson would look like.
Welp. Time to crack a cold one.
-Posted at time of first sighting of youtube feed.
I love how you basically summed up Alpha's goal as "austerity politics" because, as a Brit, *yeah* - I totally got that vibe, and kicking his arse was *immensely* satisfying. There's something really enjoyable, at least for me, about how 3 is so loudly and proudly about beating the crap out of the kinds of people who say, "Fuck you, got mine."
a little hesitant to watch because of spoilers but did you have any games in particular that were your favorite?
We truly did not deserve your videos on this series 😭🙏
Xeno games just hit different
Fwiw, albedo and rubedo are tied to ancient alchemy …just to add to the series’ overall mishmash of esoteric concepts
Favorite game of all time
Aw shit, this is 5hours long lol. Took me a fair bit to notice. I gotta watch this one in chunks.
Kbash be releasing entire albums at this point lol
I hunted down the entire collection after seeing the opening cinematic on CinemaTech on G4 so, so long ago.
........Xenogears was part ONE? OF FIVE?
Holy fuck.
It was technically part 5 of 6.
Very good vid! need more views
i think kbash is gonna take a break for a while cause gosh man almost 6 hour video and these are some long as f games
XC3's "peak gameplay" can mostly be ignored. I like the game, I think the class system is really interesting. But eventually I figured out that 98% of the combat is not only fine but more efficient if you just set your main character to auto and the rest of the game is just running around where you need to go with a break for when they force you into manual control for boss fights.
i love your videos so fucking much
3:03:34 HE IS HIM!!!!!!!🔥🚬😤
We are getting out of the Lower Domain with this one!!!
Triggered every time he calls a URTV a realian 😭
5:07:18 gotta come back to this but the past 2 times the vid restarted on me.
You are insane and I love you
Have you ever played the game Shenmue? I feel like that would be a cool game for ya to slap onto a monitor and try out.
I could take today to watch a movie I've been wanting to watch or watch KBash's near 6 hour video on the Xenosaga... Guess I'll order takeout and get situated fir 6 hours. XDDD