This whole stream is nothing but peak cutscenes, especially for Mio. The flute exchange is still one of my favorites. Also 3:16:40 Myles makes an appearance and picks his favorite game(s). So wholesome!
2:33:24 I love this cutscene. It touches on some very existential questions and forces the player to question their surroundings. Manana's "World is bad guy" statement sounds silly because of the broken English of Noponspeak, but it is actually very true and real anti-establishment rhetoric. Then Noah goes into how the Power of Ouroboros is the power to enact change. It's so good!
It's not really even meant to be just an anti-establishment thing specifically. Even the basic act of eating is life taking from other life. The world is cruel, though this establishment certainly makes it more cruel than is absolutely necessary, and buries all the more peaceful possibilities out there.
This cutscene is really cool when you are able to identify that Takahashi, during it second half, is doing a neat reference to the philosopher Albert Camus, thoughs about suicide and meanings. The way Taïon talk about it is litteraly the introduction of his "Sysiphus myth" when he explained that suicid could be the only answer to free himself to this unjust world, but his answer to that, that world gonna keep moving with or without us, and the only way to fight it, "being in revolt" to it, is to search a meaning to our life in this pointless world, litteraly what Noah answer to Taïon thoughs. And when Noah explains it with the Moon, it's also a reference from the most famous scene in one of Camus play, "Caligula", when the emperor find a new meaning for his life after the death of his dearest one, telling to his servant that the Moon is the answer, and he has to get it, be his owner, or else everything is pointless, and if the world makes it impossiblle, he gonna fight against it.
I've watched the cutscenes so many times that I can see most bugs that happen here and there, like at 4:39:02 Noah says "What now?" with the Mobius helmet sound effect still active, which seems to be a low-pass filter on the voice lines :D
Mio is the best protagonist ever. Instead of just listening to the villain monologue forever, she just goes and punches the mudder in the face. That was one thing that really annoyed me about the end of Lora's arc. She just stood there, listening to the villain's verbal abuse, without actually having to. Her party outnumbered the enemy, they were armed to the teeth. Nothing at all stopped them from shutting him up. I was actually yelling at the screen. Mio doing what I wanted Lora (or at least Jin) to do was so satisfying.
2:59:15 Funny you should ask that: they're neither. Inside of the game's code, every playable character and hero is given a small identifier to determine their gender: 0 for male, 1 for female. Juniper is the only one that is designated with a 2, marking them as being quite literally non-binary. Given that every other character's pronouns match the respective number they were given, it is very clearly not an accident.
Your son is so cute. Must be amazing playing peak and then you get interupted by that adorable child and then going back to peak. Living the dream. Also amazing stream today. I absolutely loved the cutscenes today but especially the one about how we give the moon meaning. That has stayed with me till now.
Letting you know that this playthrough has gotten me to replay the game and it’s been great so far. Can’t wait to see your reactions to upcoming events!
Juniper is a girl. There were bad faith actors in the fanbase that cherry-picked datamined material and claimed she was nonbinary, but it turns out they intentionally left out that "gender" in the data tables is universally inconsistent, even for characters like Ethel. There was practically a gaslighting campaign taking place any time this game was streamed. There is nothing in the Japanese script to indicate that she is nonbinary.
This game is just peak. I am loving it with all of my heart and it makes me so happy to see you enjoying it as well. Thank you for your streams Dee and let me experience this wonderful game once more 💙 Merry Christmas everyone :3
This really was a beautiful chapter. Many scenes showing the complexity of the characters, most notably their flaws, and they do it in such nuanced ways. It’s honestly inspiring. Also your son’s gibberish was unbelievable adorable
Noah is this weird kind of mixture of extremely empathetic to others' suffering, but denser than a black hole about how they think, always just sticking to what he feels is best and stubbornly refusing to change course until he sees a problem. He's kind of been written that way ever since he made the squad miss their transport home to off-see the enemy soldiers in the prologue, and it shows here and there.
Merry Christmas Dee. Thanks for all the great moments and for playing Zelda and Xenoblade games (my favorites). I was looking forward to seeing you play xenoblade 3 and watch your reactions to the story. Im gonna Smash the like button like Noah said. Saludos desde Chile.
Im playing through it this holiday as well, and i knew I had to watch your playthrough after I beat a chapter. And my reaction when they had to fight Ethel also shook me. You'd think would probably one of the last bosses, but nope, the game is like, it's happening NOW!
I always try to do all the quests at a new colony, so it’s been helpful for me to watch things at a faster pace to make connections in the larger narrative. And as with the last episode, I see how grim this chapter is. Sorry if this is triggering for some, but the theme of suicide runs right through this section of the game. Taion’s speech, then Colony Tau’s resignation to their fate, then Mio’s self-awareness that her last days are not hers to really use as she wishes (i.e sacrificing herself), and then Ethel and Cammuravi’s double death. I assume it was intentional to cluster these scenes together, but I too got so distracted by all the things to do that I missed it before.
Never understood that weird gesture Isurd makes during conversation, but his class does great healing work and his disc launchers are pretty neat. Using his Arts in Master/Fusion Arts and Chain Attacks has the tendency of sending his discs flying in conjunction with Class Arts!
Yeah I will say this legitimately makes the combat like 10x more enjoyable. Its like elemental combat finisher/level 4 special from xenoblade 2 levels of important for dodging big attacks and especially since level 3 interlink specials can do the burst/smash combos extremely easily. It's kinda stupid that they wait for you to unlock it though, same with art of war or whatever its called that lets you cancel arts into arts. Oh well
Yea, i IMMEDIATELY turned that on. It sucks when my healers are low on health, and decide to spam going into ouroboros, only to be taken out due to the animation...
"You turned everything into a game! Cast them away like dolls! These are our lives here! They're not some toys you can just play with!" - I still feel that there's a meta commentary directed at the players that NO Xeno-youtuber has yet properly analyzed. Some real 4th wall break happening. Just putting this out there, because I'm too lazy to make a video myself ^^
@@stormwind937 it's how I see it as well, yes. I mean, people in this game have to work (kill) in order to live while being exploited by the ones who control the means of production (moebius) i think the commentary would be more effective if moebius had something to gain with the exploitation other than "doing it for fun", but i digress
@@holdonroldan Tf bro, Moebius control the inhabitants of Aionios through coercive means, that is an analogy to the state, not the market, where relationships are contractual. Production is absolutely centralized and the lives of the soldiers are directed from the castles. If you analyze the villains' dialogues, especially the ending, which I will not mention to avoid spoilers just in case, you see that the villains see the world from holism and are collectivists. Moebius also complain about inequality of opportunity. The Ouroboros on the other hand stand for freedom of choice. If there is a metaphor, it is a clear criticism of the state and socialism. If you see a criticism of capitalism, you have a clear ideological bias, because there is no way to justify it.
I kinda have the theory that the Juniper's hero quest was the first one written for the game, since it involves a vital mechanic it could be the case, the quest itself is extremely simple, and all the talking feels so much like rambling that I fell asleep while playing.
Is a mod able to remind dee to double check his arts? He tends to check every other customizable tbing for classes, except arts (on stream), which could help enhance his experience
I think this is a good point to slow down the gameplay. I feel like rushing main story is going a bit fast. I dont think anyone wpuld be bothered if Dee just did a few sidequests for a while
Hold on lol how did he get the characters to face the other way in the menu screen 😂 I completed 180hrs in my save file and had no idea that was a thing
I think this was the longest live stream I joined at 7 hours..wait...I did joined the ToTk finale but did not remember how long that was (too long ago 😂). The stream ends on a peak cutscenes. 😢
2:59:00 neither can anybody else. The localization uses gender neutral pronouns for them, as does the Japanese, and I think the same applies to all official materials. They're either a boy severely lacking in masculinity, or a girl likewise in femininity. I'd say nonbinary, but Agnian society, and Aionios in general, doesn't really seem to have a concept of that.
1:16:41 Nice to see the dragon population go up considering only 3 existed within both worlds that we know of, making them endangered (and all on the Bionis). Well, crud, didn't realize he didn't get past sword valley and gallahad fortress. Gonna just ask Dee to not read any further. And they canonically kill 2 (the one at colony 6 after near finish reconstruction (optional in gameplay) and the one at an endgame area). As for the 3rd, we don't talk about it.
The maps are beautiful but once you finish the game you'll notice that they are not so iconic. They are not so easy to remember. Imagine the satorul area in Xenoblade 1, or the gaur fields. Or the Makna forest. Those are extremely recocognizable. Now remember Mor Ardain or Gormott from Xenoblade 2. Xenoblade 3 combines elements from both games but most maps, while extremely beautiful, get mixed in our minds, they just don't feel SO unique. Exploration is vastly superior in Xenoblade 3 though. So I am inclined to believe that they knew what they were doing here. They wanted the characters to be the protagonists, not the maps. We have to admit, the real protagonists in Xenoblade 1 were Bionis and Mechonis and in Xenoblade 2, the titans. Here, it's all about the characters and I think that's great.
Have you noticed some Arts are similar to other characters Mio for Example Butterfly Blade and Wide slash are named exactly based of 2 other characters arts but with different effects. Ouroboros arts also have exactly same named but with different effects Rolling Smash Ray of Punishment and Hellhound are all named after certain characters arts or another type of art. That's all I'm saying. 😅
maybe you little confuse why ethel and camuravi fighting in the end of freedom because you know what , when they fighting before freedom they fighting because they get command by mobius with iris but know when freedom they fighting with on will with without command or anything that the real fight
@@auroratwili5565 It's all about agency. In literature, "agency" is when a character plays an active role into shaping their story. Ethel and Cammuravi are happy to fight in the end because it was their choice. They had agency over the story, over how they die. Another character in the game says, "There's no joy in a contrived death."
@@ShallBePurifiedhe’s saying your grammar is intelligible, it doesn’t make any sense reading it… you did better in your second comment though, I’ll give you that
The mio punch scene is still one of the best. Its very easy to forget that the reason Lanz has his power frame is purely because Agnian soldiers are biologically that fucking strong that without them kevesi troops cannot compete, and then this scene happens and it reminds you just how strong they are on their own. I wish we could see more of that from taion and well... Sena works out and is the girl with the gall so her strength makes sense, its something that the game tells you but it only really remembers to display it in like 2 cutscenes. That and having the entire party being like "Noah, we're not showing this guy mercy; stay out of the way" and Noah's just like "Oh, I'm not gonna get in your way, this MF's dying by all our hands" is just amazing. And next up is chapter 5... Oh boy.
since it doesn't seem like the chat answered your question about juniper's gender. since it's never relevant to the plot or directly stated in-game, I'll answer it here: juniper is neither male nor female, they're a non binary character. in english, juniper is exclusively referred to via gender neutral pronouns, and more gendered languages tend to use both genders or avoid referring to their gender as much as possible. also, in the game's code, male characters are gender 0 and female characters are gender 1. juniper is gender 2. their VA also confirmed it.
Dee specifically asked for no tips, backseating, help, fun facts and such. He wants to discover it on his own tempo, and if he has any question he will specifically ask
@vtech88_the_one so... what you're saying is he's not gonna figure it out. Because the game never says it. It's something you pretty much figure out yourself based on the art design...
Fun fact Juniper is non-binary, they are never referred to as male or female in any language, their gender is listed as 2 in the character data (0=male 1=female, every party member has a gender in the data even though it's not used for anything)
Juniper should be the standard for representation. Nothing grandiose, just a character that happens to identify as non-binary. Makes them feel more human, besides the cat ears.
This game was robbed of it's best soundtrack award back when it was nominated in the 2022 Game Awards
But we did get the hero that is Epic Flute Guy!
And Harry McEntire was robbed a nomination for his work as Noah
It really was. What a shame.
I love how after the flute exchange, Noah now plays the Agnian off seeing tune and Mio the Kevesi tune when performing the rite.
4:04:10 This entire cutscene is wonderful. One of the best in the game
Agreed.
Definitely up there, thats for sure.
I agree with you
This whole stream is nothing but peak cutscenes, especially for Mio. The flute exchange is still one of my favorites.
Also 3:16:40 Myles makes an appearance and picks his favorite game(s). So wholesome!
2:33:24 I love this cutscene. It touches on some very existential questions and forces the player to question their surroundings. Manana's "World is bad guy" statement sounds silly because of the broken English of Noponspeak, but it is actually very true and real anti-establishment rhetoric. Then Noah goes into how the Power of Ouroboros is the power to enact change. It's so good!
It's not really even meant to be just an anti-establishment thing specifically. Even the basic act of eating is life taking from other life. The world is cruel, though this establishment certainly makes it more cruel than is absolutely necessary, and buries all the more peaceful possibilities out there.
This cutscene is really cool when you are able to identify that Takahashi, during it second half, is doing a neat reference to the philosopher Albert Camus, thoughs about suicide and meanings. The way Taïon talk about it is litteraly the introduction of his "Sysiphus myth" when he explained that suicid could be the only answer to free himself to this unjust world, but his answer to that, that world gonna keep moving with or without us, and the only way to fight it, "being in revolt" to it, is to search a meaning to our life in this pointless world, litteraly what Noah answer to Taïon thoughs.
And when Noah explains it with the Moon, it's also a reference from the most famous scene in one of Camus play, "Caligula", when the emperor find a new meaning for his life after the death of his dearest one, telling to his servant that the Moon is the answer, and he has to get it, be his owner, or else everything is pointless, and if the world makes it impossiblle, he gonna fight against it.
4:54:37: it took me several rewatches to realize this was a pure female beatdown. So badass and satisfying to rewatch ＼＼\٩(๑`^´๑)۶//／／
I've watched the cutscenes so many times that I can see most bugs that happen here and there, like at 4:39:02 Noah says "What now?" with the Mobius helmet sound effect still active, which seems to be a low-pass filter on the voice lines :D
I noticed that, too, but I saw nobody else bring that up.
That’s impressive
I fell in love with Mio the instant she punched Moebius OP.
Man I love the flute exchange scene
the song that plays during it always fills me with so much warmth
Mio is the best protagonist ever. Instead of just listening to the villain monologue forever, she just goes and punches the mudder in the face.
That was one thing that really annoyed me about the end of Lora's arc. She just stood there, listening to the villain's verbal abuse, without actually having to. Her party outnumbered the enemy, they were armed to the teeth. Nothing at all stopped them from shutting him up. I was actually yelling at the screen. Mio doing what I wanted Lora (or at least Jin) to do was so satisfying.
4:57:59: Ah yes the most peak game
Peak No Blade Clock Chronicles 3 XD
2:59:15 Funny you should ask that: they're neither. Inside of the game's code, every playable character and hero is given a small identifier to determine their gender: 0 for male, 1 for female. Juniper is the only one that is designated with a 2, marking them as being quite literally non-binary. Given that every other character's pronouns match the respective number they were given, it is very clearly not an accident.
Your son is so cute. Must be amazing playing peak and then you get interupted by that adorable child and then going back to peak. Living the dream. Also amazing stream today. I absolutely loved the cutscenes today but especially the one about how we give the moon meaning. That has stayed with me till now.
Letting you know that this playthrough has gotten me to replay the game and it’s been great so far. Can’t wait to see your reactions to upcoming events!
2:59:15 The answer is yes
The answer is girl
@@AlponseE1ricgirl with the gall?
Juniper is a girl. There were bad faith actors in the fanbase that cherry-picked datamined material and claimed she was nonbinary, but it turns out they intentionally left out that "gender" in the data tables is universally inconsistent, even for characters like Ethel. There was practically a gaslighting campaign taking place any time this game was streamed. There is nothing in the Japanese script to indicate that she is nonbinary.
@@AlponseE1ric The answer is they never say.
@AlponseE1ric the answer is quite literally non binary, as in there gender is coded as 2 inside the game whereas boys are 0 and girls are 1
Man! This was a lot in one episode! This game really is Peak-o'blade Chronicles 3 as you said!
Sena yelling "GASP" is literally one of my favorite moments in this game. It is so hilarious and totally caught me off guard.
This game is just peak.
I am loving it with all of my heart and it makes me so happy to see you enjoying it as well. Thank you for your streams Dee and let me experience this wonderful game once more 💙
Merry Christmas everyone :3
This really was a beautiful chapter. Many scenes showing the complexity of the characters, most notably their flaws, and they do it in such nuanced ways. It’s honestly inspiring.
Also your son’s gibberish was unbelievable adorable
Noah is this weird kind of mixture of extremely empathetic to others' suffering, but denser than a black hole about how they think, always just sticking to what he feels is best and stubbornly refusing to change course until he sees a problem. He's kind of been written that way ever since he made the squad miss their transport home to off-see the enemy soldiers in the prologue, and it shows here and there.
Ya empezó mi novela ❤
Tan cierto jaja
literal
Interesante saber que no soy el único
Jajaj y que lo digas
Pues si 😂
I watched the OP fight live and seeing him clinging to life was so hype.
Here’s a tip: every time you get a new class, look at the 5 Class Arts it has available. The best Arts aren’t always the default ones.
Dee! I'm so happy to see you enjoying the crap out of this game! It truly puts a smile on my face. Thank you so much! Lets goooo!
Your son was hilarious! Future gamer! 😂
Merry Christmas Dee. Thanks for all the great moments and for playing Zelda and Xenoblade games (my favorites). I was looking forward to seeing you play xenoblade 3 and watch your reactions to the story. Im gonna Smash the like button like Noah said. Saludos desde Chile.
Just wishing a further nice Xenoblade 3 journey and also a nice Christmas for you and your family (funny little cameo of your son there).
It's all fun and games adventuring across the world until 2 Gundams drop down on you.
The guest appearance of BabyBeeGeek was so cute 😂
First stream ive missed so far, had to go to work in the morning but glad to catch it here!
1:08:53 I’m starting to think that DeeBee really has something against Noah 👀😂
Just found the OST on CD Japan.
9 cd's.
Hopefully it will arrive in just a few days from Japan.
Cheers from Sweden
Im playing through it this holiday as well, and i knew I had to watch your playthrough after I beat a chapter. And my reaction when they had to fight Ethel also shook me. You'd think would probably one of the last bosses, but nope, the game is like, it's happening NOW!
Missed the stream yesterday, appreciate the swift upload~
The OP fight comeback was crazy 😅
Flute exchange scene is one of the best scenes in the entire game. And there's still so much more to come ..
I enjoyed this stream so much. I don't normally manage to watch your streams live so glad i caught this one :)
4:12:02 Mio is depressed not because she has 2 months left but she misses her friend Miyabi that’s why she was tearing up for 😢❤
I always try to do all the quests at a new colony, so it’s been helpful for me to watch things at a faster pace to make connections in the larger narrative. And as with the last episode, I see how grim this chapter is. Sorry if this is triggering for some, but the theme of suicide runs right through this section of the game. Taion’s speech, then Colony Tau’s resignation to their fate, then Mio’s self-awareness that her last days are not hers to really use as she wishes (i.e sacrificing herself), and then Ethel and Cammuravi’s double death. I assume it was intentional to cluster these scenes together, but I too got so distracted by all the things to do that I missed it before.
The final fights of this part might be my favorite part of this game. Even more than what may be coming up. Hope you’ve been enjoying it!
Never understood that weird gesture Isurd makes during conversation, but his class does great healing work and his disc launchers are pretty neat. Using his Arts in Master/Fusion Arts and Chain Attacks has the tendency of sending his discs flying in conjunction with Class Arts!
and it will get better and better hahah playing myself again xenoblade 3 too on hard
Maaaaaan i was waiting for another part! Yaaay
My boy indeed improved his understanding of overdrive in this 1
the flute scene is when i knew they were in love is has very much exchanging rings vibes
This is not Xenoblade 3, It's Xenopeak!!! 😎
Never noticed that Lanz responds with "Ditto" there at 1:49:08
Love watching ur play though
Happy Christmas 🎄 to u and ur Family ur Son is soooi cute
"I wonder if the letters of their names spell out anything"
DJ Wildryde in the corner:
XC3 is the real GOTY 2022.
4:14:23 definitely a wonderful scene, I still tear up a bit, even now
It’s a very beautiful scene
3:18:20 he has such a way with word 😭😂
"Lord have mercy!"
Best line ever. 🤣
12:40: I DID NOT KNOW THAT..... So gonna try
Yeah I will say this legitimately makes the combat like 10x more enjoyable. Its like elemental combat finisher/level 4 special from xenoblade 2 levels of important for dodging big attacks and especially since level 3 interlink specials can do the burst/smash combos extremely easily.
It's kinda stupid that they wait for you to unlock it though, same with art of war or whatever its called that lets you cancel arts into arts. Oh well
Yea, i IMMEDIATELY turned that on. It sucks when my healers are low on health, and decide to spam going into ouroboros, only to be taken out due to the animation...
4:40:26 This part my face is like “🤯😱” when the first time I reached this part
4:12:24 You had my thinking, if I was Noah I would’ve embraced her 🫂
"You turned everything into a game! Cast them away like dolls! These are our lives here! They're not some toys you can just play with!" - I still feel that there's a meta commentary directed at the players that NO Xeno-youtuber has yet properly analyzed. Some real 4th wall break happening. Just putting this out there, because I'm too lazy to make a video myself ^^
It's a metaphor for capitalism, to my eyes.
@@stormwind937 It's a metaphor for socialism, IMO.
No we all are afraid of change
@@stormwind937 it's how I see it as well, yes. I mean, people in this game have to work (kill) in order to live while being exploited by the ones who control the means of production (moebius)
i think the commentary would be more effective if moebius had something to gain with the exploitation other than "doing it for fun", but i digress
@@holdonroldan Tf bro, Moebius control the inhabitants of Aionios through coercive means, that is an analogy to the state, not the market, where relationships are contractual. Production is absolutely centralized and the lives of the soldiers are directed from the castles. If you analyze the villains' dialogues, especially the ending, which I will not mention to avoid spoilers just in case, you see that the villains see the world from holism and are collectivists. Moebius also complain about inequality of opportunity. The Ouroboros on the other hand stand for freedom of choice. If there is a metaphor, it is a clear criticism of the state and socialism. If you see a criticism of capitalism, you have a clear ideological bias, because there is no way to justify it.
This game is peak
guys i think this may be his favorite xenoblade
I kinda have the theory that the Juniper's hero quest was the first one written for the game, since it involves a vital mechanic it could be the case, the quest itself is extremely simple, and all the talking feels so much like rambling that I fell asleep while playing.
2:38:25: Oh Dee knows about Collei from Genshin?
3:16:37: Ayy Miles
OH MY GOODNESS your son is the cutest!!!
Noah has become that guy who can never get a word in during a conversation since everyone keeps talking over him.
Peak moment after peak moment 🖐😔🤚
For the algorithm
Is a mod able to remind dee to double check his arts? He tends to check every other customizable tbing for classes, except arts (on stream), which could help enhance his experience
How about 7 full metal jaguars?
At 2:07:43 how does he have 2 memory lockets??? I thought you could only get 1 in game and then more by paying 99 gold Nopon coins???
I think this is a good point to slow down the gameplay. I feel like rushing main story is going a bit fast. I dont think anyone wpuld be bothered if Dee just did a few sidequests for a while
Hold on lol how did he get the characters to face the other way in the menu screen 😂 I completed 180hrs in my save file and had no idea that was a thing
I just checked and it’s in the options it will be the background lineup one
No backseeting intended. But has deebee levelt Up His ouroboros forms? Maybe i just mist it...
3:20:08
Those "Gasp" have a meaning, a show-don't-tell moment. Not related to the story thou
Can’t wait for next episode of this
Has DBG been levelling his Oroborous?
I think this was the longest live stream I joined at 7 hours..wait...I did joined the ToTk finale but did not remember how long that was (too long ago 😂). The stream ends on a peak cutscenes. 😢
It would be awesome to watch you play Nier Automata! and maybe Replicant too
It’s funny he keeps calling Ethel mommy when she is only like 19-20
God I hope he plays X now that it's coming to the switch.
Aldae Evrydae 🤣
More like KINOblade chronicles amiright chat?
peak
2:59:00 neither can anybody else. The localization uses gender neutral pronouns for them, as does the Japanese, and I think the same applies to all official materials.
They're either a boy severely lacking in masculinity, or a girl likewise in femininity. I'd say nonbinary, but Agnian society, and Aionios in general, doesn't really seem to have a concept of that.
1:16:41 Nice to see the dragon population go up considering only 3 existed within both worlds that we know of, making them endangered (and all on the Bionis). Well, crud, didn't realize he didn't get past sword valley and gallahad fortress. Gonna just ask Dee to not read any further.
And they canonically kill 2 (the one at colony 6 after near finish reconstruction (optional in gameplay) and the one at an endgame area). As for the 3rd, we don't talk about it.
The maps are beautiful but once you finish the game you'll notice that they are not so iconic. They are not so easy to remember. Imagine the satorul area in Xenoblade 1, or the gaur fields. Or the Makna forest. Those are extremely recocognizable. Now remember Mor Ardain or Gormott from Xenoblade 2.
Xenoblade 3 combines elements from both games but most maps, while extremely beautiful, get mixed in our minds, they just don't feel SO unique.
Exploration is vastly superior in Xenoblade 3 though. So I am inclined to believe that they knew what they were doing here. They wanted the characters to be the protagonists, not the maps. We have to admit, the real protagonists in Xenoblade 1 were Bionis and Mechonis and in Xenoblade 2, the titans. Here, it's all about the characters and I think that's great.
Speak for yourself. I remember many landmarks of Xenoblade 3, both because of and in spite of any 1 and 2 callbacks.
I feel like you might want to turn down sound effects and voices. The music in battle gets drowned out completely, which really is a shame.
"I need to change that hero" yeah I love Juniper, but they're like the worst hero lol
Have you noticed some Arts are similar to other characters Mio for Example Butterfly Blade and Wide slash are named exactly based of 2 other characters arts but with different effects.
Ouroboros arts also have exactly same named but with different effects Rolling Smash Ray of Punishment and Hellhound are all named after certain characters arts or another type of art.
That's all I'm saying. 😅
3:16:45 peak moment in the stream
You said this game is peak ?
Dbg you haven’t even seen anything yet xD
maybe you little confuse why ethel and camuravi fighting in the end of freedom because you know what , when they fighting before freedom they fighting because they get command by mobius with iris but know when freedom they fighting with on will with without command or anything that the real fight
My brain hurts trying to understand what you wrote
@@auroratwili5565 It's all about agency. In literature, "agency" is when a character plays an active role into shaping their story. Ethel and Cammuravi are happy to fight in the end because it was their choice. They had agency over the story, over how they die. Another character in the game says, "There's no joy in a contrived death."
@@auroratwili5565 I think the explanation is very easy to understand 😊😊
@@ShallBePurifiedhe’s saying your grammar is intelligible, it doesn’t make any sense reading it… you did better in your second comment though, I’ll give you that
@@lanhikari4930 Please reread the username of the original poster.
The mio punch scene is still one of the best. Its very easy to forget that the reason Lanz has his power frame is purely because Agnian soldiers are biologically that fucking strong that without them kevesi troops cannot compete, and then this scene happens and it reminds you just how strong they are on their own. I wish we could see more of that from taion and well... Sena works out and is the girl with the gall so her strength makes sense, its something that the game tells you but it only really remembers to display it in like 2 cutscenes.
That and having the entire party being like "Noah, we're not showing this guy mercy; stay out of the way" and Noah's just like "Oh, I'm not gonna get in your way, this MF's dying by all our hands" is just amazing.
And next up is chapter 5... Oh boy.
One cool detail about the environments in Xenoblade 3 is that they combine aspects of environments from Xenoblade 1 and 2
I’m about 1 video behind but I refuse to not watch the whole playthrough!
Fun fact! Juniper is nonbinary. Their gender in the game's code is 2, where male and female characters have an identifier of 1 or 0.
I still remember this being a big yay, until localisation insisted on picking gendered pronouns 😢
@ionickeith it what
@@ionickeithjuniper just has they/them in English wdym
First!
since it doesn't seem like the chat answered your question about juniper's gender. since it's never relevant to the plot or directly stated in-game, I'll answer it here: juniper is neither male nor female, they're a non binary character.
in english, juniper is exclusively referred to via gender neutral pronouns, and more gendered languages tend to use both genders or avoid referring to their gender as much as possible. also, in the game's code, male characters are gender 0 and female characters are gender 1. juniper is gender 2.
their VA also confirmed it.
Juniper is NYAN-binary
So does dee realize that lanz and his like are descended from the machina?
Dee specifically asked for no tips, backseating, help, fun facts and such. He wants to discover it on his own tempo, and if he has any question he will specifically ask
@vtech88_the_one so... what you're saying is he's not gonna figure it out. Because the game never says it. It's something you pretty much figure out yourself based on the art design...
@@michaellangley341by saying what you said, you take away any possibility of him figuring it out on his own. So yes, it's considered a spoiler.
Fun fact Juniper is non-binary, they are never referred to as male or female in any language, their gender is listed as 2 in the character data (0=male 1=female, every party member has a gender in the data even though it's not used for anything)
Juniper being a they/them is just so nice. Representation matters. 😊
Juniper should be the standard for representation. Nothing grandiose, just a character that happens to identify as non-binary. Makes them feel more human, besides the cat ears.
@@prof.laytonfan764agreed also we should get more gay or non-binary villains
But not enough to make death threats over it if it doesn't happen
When I first saw Juniper, I loved their design.
The green, short hair, orange top, cat ears.
There is literally no evidence of that, and the game data not specifying a gender doesn't mean anything in that regard. Other NPCs have that aswell