For 2 years I have been in an "endless now" of watching other people's reactions to the Agnus Castle sequence in order to vicariously relive the emotions I felt that day
Wow i can relate to that so much. i cannot even count how often i have reviewed this scene since i first watched it during my playthrough. the prison scene and the vanishing N scene still get me crying
@@TamdinSol I guess I will be Moebius P since he is too dead to use it. What should my helmet look like should I just have a bird head like him or should I take a different animal?
Monolithsoft really chose violence: nearly two hours of emotional trauma inflicted on the player. I absolutely love this game, and this series, but this... this really hurt.
"You're an offseer, so send her" is possibly the best line in the game. N is such a great antognist, I love his his dialogue and his delivery so much. He's infinitely more compelling than Noah, by necessity. Harry did amazing work there.
The scene with the baby is probably still my favorite from the base game. It's just the most wholesome scene I have ever seen, yet it has an underlying feeling of sadness with how this all had been taken from the soldiers of Aionios.
I learn that my mother had cancer two years ago , few days after xenoblade 3 came out. The end of that chapter 5 it's exactly what i've felt. Seeing life slipping away from you and you can't do nothing... She died last august after fighter that disease so hard (she was even in recovery at some point!). I never cried that much in front of a video game. I'm thankful of Takahashi , Monolith Soft and Nintendo. It's the first time, as i recalled for me, that i've seen something that truly show what it feel to be around someone that is going to die. I never read any book or saw any movie that did it in this great way. This game will forever be one of my favorite JRPG ever alongside Final Fantasy 6 because Xenoblade 3 made me feel that i'm not the only one going through this. It was sad but i was happy that someone made it, so i felt satisfied . I hope everyone is okay in his life as you are reading my message here. Thx you too Permanent Violet, you are someone really pure and kind.
I’m sorry for your loss, friend. My story is the same. My dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer just before this game came out, and the game was part of my grief process. He passed away last year. In Mio’s turmoil through this game, I could see the same struggles my dad had. I know that just like Mio, your mother and my father were grateful for the time they had with us. ❤️
I think Lanz and Sena's conversation is very healthy. A lot of people get hung up on the idea of being "weak" like that label means they are less and because they are that they can't be anything else. But the way Lanz spins the phrase puts it into perspective. Weakness is just room to grow. By owning the areas they wish they were better in, they make their "weakness" into a strength. Hence, "The Mighty Weaklings." It's one of my favourite interractions in the game. I understand Violet not fully absorbing it in that instant, but her saying they "aren't weak" right after felt like such a knee-jerk reaction. The juxtaposition just made me think about how our culture is so resistant to labels like weakness and how suffocating that can be. I love that this game allows that to be okay. You don’t have to be "strong" to be a hero. You can just accept where you are and want to improve and strive to be the best you can be for yourself.
See, I saw it like that, but then they run with that to 'hey, let's blow ourselves up because we're weak and this is all we can do' Which It's a lot to unpack, and I don't think that's the message they were supposed to get from their heart-to-heart there
@@undeadMonk Here's the thing. I believe that is the message of their heart to heart, but given the situation they were thrust into afterwards, they chose to use their acceptance of their weakness as a way to give them the drive to protect their loved ones at the expense of their own lives when they believed they had no chances left. The reason it didn't work is because that wasn't the point and they need to live to see through their growth like Lylatfox said.
No, being weak is bad. Stop trying this pseudo Freudian nonsense about how weakness is some mighty asset. It is something to either accept and work around, or remove, not to be celebrated.
Here we go! I remember making it to chapter 5. I had to go to bed immediately after the end of the eclipse. I was up all night trying to rationalize what I just been through and how it’ll be resolved.
@@TheOriginalSolicious He was bad at the start but he grew better as the game went on. And it's mostly due to the abysymal voice direction in production and not lip syncing it from japanese to english that made it all so much worse.
@@TheOriginalSolicious Yeah, the voice direction of 2 was almost non existent. It's a miracle the voice acting isn't worse. As the game progresses, Rex's VA starts understanding his role better and it shows in the improved voice acting you can hear later on.
Thank you for sharing this, and for helping me relive the emotional rollercoaster that is chapter 5. For me it was 11pm, and I was just going to "quickly take care of the boss".Little did I know what was in store for me. Like you, I was emotionally ripped apart after going through the end of chapter 5 and the start of chapter 6, having ugly cried for about one hour straight. When I saved and turned my switch off, I just sat there for another 40 minutes or so, trying to build myself up again. It was exhausting. Probably the most memorable moment in any video game I've ever played in all my 30 years of gaming.
@@IceWrenSolstice Yeah, that’s what I meant! I mean she probably knew when uploading the video, that she was right while playing. Edited the original comment to clarify
I find it so impressive how she managed to figure that out. I haven't seen anyone else mention Lucky 7 and its possible connection to THE seven as they were playing the game. @IceWrenSolstice
I had a very similar reaction to the end of chapter 5. Pure unadulterated pain misery and anguish. Ugly crying for hours. I still cry rewatching it even after i know what happened.
I remember deciding to infiltrate the prison sometime around 10 or 11pm, and I was already kinda emotionally drained and wanted to play XC3 to "kick back and destress." Needless to say when I told my friend (who had played through this segment already) that I was playing, she just told me to have fun. Yea. I finished this chapter at 2am and kept going because I genuinely couldn't stop. It was around 3 or 4am when I finished. I was all cried out by the end, there was SO much. I genuinely couldn't believe what I was playing, the emotional exhaustion was real.
Chapter 5 is so good, it has the most wholesome start in the city to emotionally destroying everybody by the end. I love watch peoples' reactions to it. Then you come on to Chapter 6 and you are not even mad anymore. I remember I was at my partner's house when I finished Chapter 5 and did the start of Chapter 6 just before bed. And I was mentally exhausted.
The scene where the party sees a baby for the first time always makes me so emotional. Especially after you get further into the game and play the dlc. Everyone just gets so much joy out of the idea of new life. You can really see how the party would make good parents or siblings.
Chapter 5 and 6 are where everyone definitely starts to get angry about the chain attack music ruining immersion. The impressive part of that mind control fight is that it's almost entirely a single shot without jump cuts, just a lot of rotating camera.
I know right! Mobius M has a unique "Climax" part of her battle theme that NONE ever hears because of the Chain Attacks ;_; And they NEVER added a disable chain attack music option in the menus!
@@CordyBrush In these fights I did my best to avoid using chain attacks just to hear the music. It worked because I did so many quests. I actually did every available quest ( except the superbosses and weapon upgrades ) before going to the Endgame area, so I was pretty overpowered... Never leveled up at camp on my playthrough ever.
I finished this game about 1 1/2 years ago and, to this day, I still ponder the deep meanings that this game brings forth. I still watch the cutscenes and they still give me the intense emotions of my first playthrough. XC3 is a truly amazing game. Storytelling at its finest. To bad it ended up going up against Elden Ring. Would have been nice to see it win Game of the Year. P.S.: Don't give up on this game. Yes, it will get to you, but stick with it. You'll be glad that you did.
This is the moment we were all waiting for, and your reaction was amazing! If you thought the cutscene of Metal Face vs Fiora in Xenoblade 1 was a punch to the gut, this chapter tears your heart out and stomps on it!
Ah. Yes. Here it is. The moment we have all been waiting for. For me it felt like the game dragging me down a jagged cliff, but I didn't dare resist, because I believed, surely, there must be something good at the bottom. And that belief made it no less painful.
"My Noah" and "Your Mio" are such great hidden detail in the script that you can't understand until the second playthrough. Now I watch this part again, there are so many hints there to slightly ease our pain during the cutscene, yet it still works wonderfully. Great game, great writing, great directing.
been waiting for this episode 😈 I'm not a very expressive person. I don't react to things easily and am very...stone faced/stoic. when I finished Chp5 my first run it was somehow raining in my room. crazy.
I love how Moebius can also be used as an allegory for the player not wanting the game to end and to continually seek out the same feeling as their first playthrough. Moebius are such deep villians in meaning
I really like your reactions because you take notes and try to piece together all the information the game throws at you while it is happening. It's very fun listening to you theory craft and either hitting it on the mark or being way off haha.
I've recently started replaying the game for the first time since my first playthrough. You kind of forget how great the chapters leading up to 5 are because 5 is mostly what people talk about online. I don't think this game will be leaving my head for at least the next 50 years.
The thing that’s makes it so much better is that you fight N immediately after M and he doesn’t use the music. You are so caught up in the moment you don’t even notice
The events of Chapter 6 put _so much_ of what Mio says in Chapter 5 in a _completely_ new light, it's wild seeing these scenes again knowing the full context.
Yeah, i noticed it watching it right now, i only played this game once and never returned to that event again, everything mio said got a new meaning after you know what really happened.
It's been about a month since I finished Chapter 5, and I tried to power through by starting Chapter 6, but it was so painful. I haven't picked the game back up. Granted, other games caught my attention, but when contemplating pickup up my Switch again to continue XC3, I remember how devastated I was at the end of Chapter 5 that I feel drained of energy and I can't play anything at all.
My housemate and I played this game, and I reached this part of it before her. Mio was her favourite character of the Ouroboros, so I knew the whole scene was going to be rough on her. When she reached Agnus Castle, I advised her simply to brace herself. She thought I meant there was going to be a difficult boss fight. I wasn't witness to her reaction in the end, but she told me she ugly cried and I believe her.
I am so glad that Shinia's point of veiw was understandable for you, a lot of folks just can't put themselves in her shoes and see how well written and believable her veiw point is within the context of world. A lot of folks just condemn her for her betrayal rather than trying to see her perspective and question if there isn't a certain argueable benefit entering the cycle and living ignorant of past failures.
It's an identifiable, albeit selfish perspective. The only reason people get to "try again" is because of what is essentially slavery combined with a forced idea of what defines "success."
@@jacobmonks3722 oh for sure her perspective is ultimately flawed, she thinks she has it all figured out but is removed entirely from the conspect of what her life and feelings might be once in the cycle. So of course as the audience with that context tend to just deny her point of view because we know better. It just makes me happy when i see someone else who is able to just, in the moment see her point of veiw and go "damn, that's honestly a tragic but unstandable take, given the circumstances" because Shinia is very much a you love or hate her character and it most often boils down to if the player let's her point of view pull you out of the perspective you've held the last 4 and 3/4th chapters. Great character, great writing and world building, wish more folks dug into her beyond the surface because she is so important.
@@icecreamorc I love her more as an example of how Sena could have been if she didn't have the support group of Mio, Taion, and the Kevesi. Shania might have been a previous or future incarnation of Sena.
After the side story, I completely understood Shania. I teared up for her. Of course, at the time of her betrayal, I didn't see it that way, because I was too distressed at everything happening.
Idk y'all, I might have to wait until the CH.6 reaction is out before I watch this...Idk if i can sit on that cliff hanger for a whole month. Edit: I watched it anyway. I did it out of respect for Violet and her hard work editing these, but god damn it hurt. It hurts every time I see it.
Been really enjoying binge watching your playthrough! ❤ I love this game so much. I'm happy that you enjoy it as much as I did. It did made me cry a lot as well. Lol.
I played this chapter and my brother was watching along. After finishing we spent hours the next day talking about because wow. What a roller coaster ride it was! Thank goodness I bought Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Now it’s my brother’s favorite Nintendo Switch game. 😅
She finished it over a year ago, she’s just really making us wait for the edited videos lol. She said it was really hard to go back to look at all of it to edit
I never noticed how Taion tries to keep the character when they are locked and Eunie does not even react to that, she is like "I dont have the energy for this", and then you can see Taion checking on Eunie while she is sleeping on the floor and when Mio is speaking with Noah, man this game, remember that I finished this chapter almost at midnight on a job week day while my Switch lite was dying, I was shaking, nervous and wanting answers
This is like what? The fifth time I've rewatched the end of chapter 5? and it still made me cry! wth the power of emotional damage it able to inflict on me is too big
Hace 2 años senti esto mismo, tú reacción fue tal que me hizo volver a tocar las fibras sensibles en ese momento cuanod lo jugue, vaya, una historia magistral la de este juego y la música, defiitivamente le robaron el premio a mejor banda sonora.
The line "I'd like to spend that time with MY Noah" is genius. It hits you twice. First, when it sounds like a direct confession of love from Mio to the Noah locked in the cell... Second, after you know that's not what she's saying there.
It's kind of funny how each time I look at these Chapter 5 videos, the pain of seeing the whole prison sequence becomes almost worse than it was on my own playthrough. I did shed a tear that first time, but nowadays, the crying just doesn't stop ... 😢
After chapter 5, I was so emotioanlly drained that it took me a week before I continued playing. It's very rare for a game to have that kind of effect on me.
I sobbed like a baby (I’m not a crier) after chapter 5. I had lost my boyfriend a year before and this was just too much. He has introduced me to the series. Fantastic game despite it making me cry!!
Ah, the bad ending. A classic To be honest, I was playing this chapter at 3am and needed 30-40 minutes of crying once I was done with it. Wanna know what’s gotten me to cry that long before? Jiraiya and my dog’s death. That’s it. It destroyed me
Do you choose to live forever in the endless now? The chapter so sad that even Manana lost her smile. This chapter is a masterwork, even with its flaws. You spend the whole game learning to love these characters, getting to know and understand them. You watch as the love between Noah and Mio grows. And then you get here. And N's little sideshow puts you right where it wants you... you've still got hope because there's no way they'll just let it happen... right? Suddenly you're right where her Noah was, an emotional wreck, weak to the manipulations of a person in power who will put everything perfect as long as you do as you're told. The player feels the loss of hope, the powerlessness, the... loss. Yes, the endless now feels very appealing right now doesn't it? Or will you continue on, in spite of everything? "I don't want to play any more"
I remember I wanted to finally sleep after Chapter 5 because I figured there would be 10 chapters. And then that happened and I didn’t sleep for a whole damn week.
Thanks for sharing this experience. It's showing incredibly vulnerability to upload this, as this game is the most taxing game from an emotional stamina point I've ever experienced. Literally life perspective altering.
N's absolutely psychopathic behavior here is why I never quite get the criticism of this game having "weak villains". Dude doesn't just inflict emotional damage on the heroes, but the goddam player.
I want to see your chapter 6 reaction, i just cried when they were trying to punch the walls all togheter with that sad music, after that i got curious about how it was going to be solved.
now I cant wait for next chapter. like dang, that was some emotion at the end. I'd wish I had felt like that, but your videos kind of help channeling and getting a little bit more from these games. great stuff
what time was it when you beat chapter 5?
clay
Too late, but I kept on going! I think it might be better to stew in it for a while though
2 am
1 am but the pain lasts forever
2am, I cried all night. Didn't sleep. Didn't continue playing. Just tears.
For 2 years I have been in an "endless now" of watching other people's reactions to the Agnus Castle sequence in order to vicariously relive the emotions I felt that day
So have I, we should probably come up with designs for our Moebius helmets now huh? 😂
@@ZonaiHero-ul5nm
I'll be Moebius T then since Triton abandoned his single-letter-moniker willingly.
That but baby scene
Wow i can relate to that so much. i cannot even count how often i have reviewed this scene since i first watched it during my playthrough. the prison scene and the vanishing N scene still get me crying
@@TamdinSol I guess I will be Moebius P since he is too dead to use it. What should my helmet look like should I just have a bird head like him or should I take a different animal?
Monolithsoft really chose violence: nearly two hours of emotional trauma inflicted on the player. I absolutely love this game, and this series, but this... this really hurt.
"You're an offseer, so send her" is possibly the best line in the game. N is such a great antognist, I love his his dialogue and his delivery so much. He's infinitely more compelling than Noah, by necessity. Harry did amazing work there.
Yeah his performance as Noah was good and all, but his performance as N was just phenomenal.
That line and the Taion "I lied" go so hard.
".. isn't she *your* Mio?"
Exactly! I feel so many emotions everytime I hear that line xdd It's. So. Damn. Good.
Okay but "YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT! YOU NEVER TRIED!!" also goes hard
IT'S GOOD TO KEEP A RECORD
LOOKS LIKE RELATIONSHIPS HAS CHANGED
2:49:26 Monolithsoft: Save the game. Go on save it. Isn’t it good to keep a record? Isn’t it a good idea to SAVE the game?
@@ZonaiHero-ul5nmisn’t that *your* save file?
The Xenoblade equivalent of Xenosaga's "Save the game?" immediately after you-know-what-and-if-you-don't-I-won't-spoil-it.
Pausing so you don't have to continue on with the pain and avoiding what's to come: this is truly the moment we ourselves become Moebius.
To prolong our stay in the endless now...
This! The actual game is exceptional at reinforcing themes and ideas through gameplay and your experience in playing the game.
No truer words were ever spoken and never shall
Jesus fucking christ, you nailed it. Theres so much in this story that I think EVERYONE should feel.
The scene with the baby is probably still my favorite from the base game. It's just the most wholesome scene I have ever seen, yet it has an underlying feeling of sadness with how this all had been taken from the soldiers of Aionios.
This scene made me cried a lot haha
The scene that sold me on Taion
It is just as good as the ending of Chapter 5
Because it sets such a high point to come crashing down from lol
I learn that my mother had cancer two years ago , few days after xenoblade 3 came out.
The end of that chapter 5 it's exactly what i've felt.
Seeing life slipping away from you and you can't do nothing... She died last august after fighter that disease so hard (she was even in recovery at some point!).
I never cried that much in front of a video game. I'm thankful of Takahashi , Monolith Soft and Nintendo. It's the first time, as i recalled for me, that i've seen something that truly show what it feel to be around someone that is going to die. I never read any book or saw any movie that did it in this great way.
This game will forever be one of my favorite JRPG ever alongside Final Fantasy 6 because Xenoblade 3 made me feel that i'm not the only one going through this. It was sad but i was happy that someone made it, so i felt satisfied .
I hope everyone is okay in his life as you are reading my message here. Thx you too Permanent Violet, you are someone really pure and kind.
I’m sorry for your loss, friend. My story is the same. My dad was diagnosed with terminal cancer just before this game came out, and the game was part of my grief process. He passed away last year. In Mio’s turmoil through this game, I could see the same struggles my dad had. I know that just like Mio, your mother and my father were grateful for the time they had with us. ❤️
Watching the very first XC3 stream I thought, “oh no, Violet is going to melt when Chapter 5 hits.”
None of us will ever be the same.
I think Lanz and Sena's conversation is very healthy. A lot of people get hung up on the idea of being "weak" like that label means they are less and because they are that they can't be anything else. But the way Lanz spins the phrase puts it into perspective. Weakness is just room to grow. By owning the areas they wish they were better in, they make their "weakness" into a strength. Hence, "The Mighty Weaklings." It's one of my favourite interractions in the game. I understand Violet not fully absorbing it in that instant, but her saying they "aren't weak" right after felt like such a knee-jerk reaction. The juxtaposition just made me think about how our culture is so resistant to labels like weakness and how suffocating that can be. I love that this game allows that to be okay. You don’t have to be "strong" to be a hero. You can just accept where you are and want to improve and strive to be the best you can be for yourself.
See, I saw it like that, but then they run with that to 'hey, let's blow ourselves up because we're weak and this is all we can do'
Which
It's a lot to unpack, and I don't think that's the message they were supposed to get from their heart-to-heart there
@undeadMonk which is why I think it's very important that they didn't succeed in sacrificing themselves
@@lylatfox4 indeed
@@undeadMonk Here's the thing. I believe that is the message of their heart to heart, but given the situation they were thrust into afterwards, they chose to use their acceptance of their weakness as a way to give them the drive to protect their loved ones at the expense of their own lives when they believed they had no chances left. The reason it didn't work is because that wasn't the point and they need to live to see through their growth like Lylatfox said.
No, being weak is bad. Stop trying this pseudo Freudian nonsense about how weakness is some mighty asset. It is something to either accept and work around, or remove, not to be celebrated.
Here we go!
I remember making it to chapter 5. I had to go to bed immediately after the end of the eclipse. I was up all night trying to rationalize what I just been through and how it’ll be resolved.
Heh, same x)
Voice actors for Xenoblade Chronicles are always so GOOD
Except Rex 😂
He just ruins every scene that involves him screaming, yelling or giving a battle cry
@@TheOriginalSolicious he does emotional scenes really well though
@@rhettmitchellyeah his fight screams were rough but I think he had a great voice otherwise
@@TheOriginalSolicious He was bad at the start but he grew better as the game went on. And it's mostly due to the abysymal voice direction in production and not lip syncing it from japanese to english that made it all so much worse.
@@TheOriginalSolicious Yeah, the voice direction of 2 was almost non existent. It's a miracle the voice acting isn't worse. As the game progresses, Rex's VA starts understanding his role better and it shows in the improved voice acting you can hear later on.
Knowing who the 7th founder is makes this part of the game so funny
I know right, the fact that nothing gets addressed about the 7th founder in the base game, too. There are so many odd scenes.
All hail the allmighty egg 🥚
He was a common variety founder.
That smug little prick was just grinning ear to ear inside the whole time and you know it, lmao.
"Perhaps it's Riku!" - bwahahahahaa!!!!!
"No longer having fun"
Yup, here's the moment we've all been waiting for. Best and most emotionally devastating moment in the series, if you ask me.
most devastating from videogame story! even aerith's death in final fantasy 7 was so long, sad and intense like that.
I will never recover from Xenoblade Chronicles 3 | Chapter 5 REACTIONS
Thank you for sharing this, and for helping me relive the emotional rollercoaster that is chapter 5.
For me it was 11pm, and I was just going to "quickly take care of the boss".Little did I know what was in store for me. Like you, I was emotionally ripped apart after going through the end of chapter 5 and the start of chapter 6, having ugly cried for about one hour straight. When I saved and turned my switch off, I just sat there for another 40 minutes or so, trying to build myself up again. It was exhausting. Probably the most memorable moment in any video game I've ever played in all my 30 years of gaming.
37:13 Re: Seven, you probably heard from the art book by now, but you were right!
This was filmed way before the book came out, so I'd say she's right on the money there!
@@IceWrenSolstice Yeah, that’s what I meant! I mean she probably knew when uploading the video, that she was right while playing. Edited the original comment to clarify
I find it so impressive how she managed to figure that out. I haven't seen anyone else mention Lucky 7 and its possible connection to THE seven as they were playing the game. @IceWrenSolstice
I cannot tell you how much I wanted this video, played this a couple months ago and still think about it!
it's gonna be a really long month for the next part :(
I had a very similar reaction to the end of chapter 5. Pure unadulterated pain misery and anguish. Ugly crying for hours. I still cry rewatching it even after i know what happened.
Finally chapter 5
I remember deciding to infiltrate the prison sometime around 10 or 11pm, and I was already kinda emotionally drained and wanted to play XC3 to "kick back and destress." Needless to say when I told my friend (who had played through this segment already) that I was playing, she just told me to have fun.
Yea. I finished this chapter at 2am and kept going because I genuinely couldn't stop. It was around 3 or 4am when I finished. I was all cried out by the end, there was SO much. I genuinely couldn't believe what I was playing, the emotional exhaustion was real.
This was me as well. I was just going to "take care of the boss battle". I did not know what was in store for me.
Peak Xenoblade Trauma
Post Chronicle depression
Why is it when I watch Chapter 5, it's always you two... PXT and PCD 😢
Chapter 5 is so good, it has the most wholesome start in the city to emotionally destroying everybody by the end. I love watch peoples' reactions to it. Then you come on to Chapter 6 and you are not even mad anymore.
I remember I was at my partner's house when I finished Chapter 5 and did the start of Chapter 6 just before bed. And I was mentally exhausted.
The scene where the party sees a baby for the first time always makes me so emotional. Especially after you get further into the game and play the dlc. Everyone just gets so much joy out of the idea of new life. You can really see how the party would make good parents or siblings.
Chapter 5 and 6 are where everyone definitely starts to get angry about the chain attack music ruining immersion.
The impressive part of that mind control fight is that it's almost entirely a single shot without jump cuts, just a lot of rotating camera.
I know right! Mobius M has a unique "Climax" part of her battle theme that NONE ever hears because of the Chain Attacks ;_;
And they NEVER added a disable chain attack music option in the menus!
Never got tired of it because it absolutely BANGS. Menu music can get a bit too repetitive tho
@@CordyBrush In these fights I did my best to avoid using chain attacks just to hear the music. It worked because I did so many quests. I actually did every available quest ( except the superbosses and weapon upgrades ) before going to the Endgame area, so I was pretty overpowered... Never leveled up at camp on my playthrough ever.
I've been watching people play this game since i finished the story and your videos are some of my favorites!
2:52:13 go back to chapter 3? Remain there in those feelings and experiences? Well, I think I know someone who will grant your desire.
I thought the same thing. Violet wishing for the Endless Now.
I like how Riku act likes he never seen a baby before...such a misterious chad.
I finished this game about 1 1/2 years ago and, to this day, I still ponder the deep meanings that this game brings forth. I still watch the cutscenes and they still give me the intense emotions of my first playthrough. XC3 is a truly amazing game. Storytelling at its finest. To bad it ended up going up against Elden Ring. Would have been nice to see it win Game of the Year.
P.S.: Don't give up on this game. Yes, it will get to you, but stick with it. You'll be glad that you did.
36:57
funny thing, like a month ago it was confirmed that XC1's "Seven" is actually inside that sword.
This is the moment we were all waiting for, and your reaction was amazing! If you thought the cutscene of Metal Face vs Fiora in Xenoblade 1 was a punch to the gut, this chapter tears your heart out and stomps on it!
Multiple times over
Best Xenoblade reaction content on the internet right here, imo. Love your analysis and theories, Violet! Thank you so much!
It’s amazing that you got lucky 7 being Fiora, or at least according to the art book
Crafted by Melia, even!
Ah. Yes. Here it is. The moment we have all been waiting for. For me it felt like the game dragging me down a jagged cliff, but I didn't dare resist, because I believed, surely, there must be something good at the bottom. And that belief made it no less painful.
Yep! But when you hit the bottom… the only way left is up. So there’s that! lol
"My Noah" and "Your Mio" are such great hidden detail in the script that you can't understand until the second playthrough. Now I watch this part again, there are so many hints there to slightly ease our pain during the cutscene, yet it still works wonderfully. Great game, great writing, great directing.
I *GASPED* when N dropped the flute in front of Noah. One of the most evil things I've ever seen in a video game.
I made the mistake of finishing Chapter 5 during my lunch break (I work remotely). I could not focus on work the rest of the day.
been waiting for this episode 😈
I'm not a very expressive person. I don't react to things easily and am very...stone faced/stoic.
when I finished Chp5 my first run it was somehow raining in my room. crazy.
1:13:29 They're trying to interlink, it's so cute.
The baby scene and the homecoming scene will never not make me cry. Thank you for posting your reactions as always
It’s time for bedtime, I came to UA-cam looking for this, and it was my first recomendarion! Excellent service!
I love how Moebius can also be used as an allegory for the player not wanting the game to end and to continually seek out the same feeling as their first playthrough.
Moebius are such deep villians in meaning
When it asked "DO YOU WANT TO SAVE?" I reflexively said "NO!" outloud, lol
I really like your reactions because you take notes and try to piece together all the information the game throws at you while it is happening. It's very fun listening to you theory craft and either hitting it on the mark or being way off haha.
I've recently started replaying the game for the first time since my first playthrough. You kind of forget how great the chapters leading up to 5 are because 5 is mostly what people talk about online. I don't think this game will be leaving my head for at least the next 50 years.
1:53:02 this scene in retrospect and the boss music for m is one of the best and most creative uses of foreshadowing I have ever seen.
The thing that’s makes it so much better is that you fight N immediately after M and he doesn’t use the music. You are so caught up in the moment you don’t even notice
Fantastic, and the one we all waited for! Looking forward to the rest!
I looked at what chapter you're on and was like, "Yeppppp...."
We all need therapy now.
Whoever edited those moments, well done. Very well done.
The events of Chapter 6 put _so much_ of what Mio says in Chapter 5 in a _completely_ new light, it's wild seeing these scenes again knowing the full context.
Yeah, i noticed it watching it right now, i only played this game once and never returned to that event again, everything mio said got a new meaning after you know what really happened.
Oh my god, I just thought about you and your playthrough, wondering when the next part will appear. And here its is!! Thanks so much!
Paid the game for 60
Paid the DCL for another 30
Obviously, also paying 300 for 2 session of mental health therapy
It's been about a month since I finished Chapter 5, and I tried to power through by starting Chapter 6, but it was so painful. I haven't picked the game back up. Granted, other games caught my attention, but when contemplating pickup up my Switch again to continue XC3, I remember how devastated I was at the end of Chapter 5 that I feel drained of energy and I can't play anything at all.
I think you’re gonna want to pick it back up, trust me
Chapter 6 is coming with some things you definitely don't want to miss. You have to go on.
My housemate and I played this game, and I reached this part of it before her. Mio was her favourite character of the Ouroboros, so I knew the whole scene was going to be rough on her. When she reached Agnus Castle, I advised her simply to brace herself. She thought I meant there was going to be a difficult boss fight. I wasn't witness to her reaction in the end, but she told me she ugly cried and I believe her.
Thanks for the stream edits! Found this channel recently and love your personality!
I am so glad that Shinia's point of veiw was understandable for you, a lot of folks just can't put themselves in her shoes and see how well written and believable her veiw point is within the context of world. A lot of folks just condemn her for her betrayal rather than trying to see her perspective and question if there isn't a certain argueable benefit entering the cycle and living ignorant of past failures.
yeah also how she is the reflection of Sena is rarely brought up
It's an identifiable, albeit selfish perspective. The only reason people get to "try again" is because of what is essentially slavery combined with a forced idea of what defines "success."
@@jacobmonks3722 oh for sure her perspective is ultimately flawed, she thinks she has it all figured out but is removed entirely from the conspect of what her life and feelings might be once in the cycle. So of course as the audience with that context tend to just deny her point of view because we know better. It just makes me happy when i see someone else who is able to just, in the moment see her point of veiw and go "damn, that's honestly a tragic but unstandable take, given the circumstances" because Shinia is very much a you love or hate her character and it most often boils down to if the player let's her point of view pull you out of the perspective you've held the last 4 and 3/4th chapters. Great character, great writing and world building, wish more folks dug into her beyond the surface because she is so important.
@@icecreamorc I love her more as an example of how Sena could have been if she didn't have the support group of Mio, Taion, and the Kevesi. Shania might have been a previous or future incarnation of Sena.
After the side story, I completely understood Shania. I teared up for her. Of course, at the time of her betrayal, I didn't see it that way, because I was too distressed at everything happening.
Oh my Lord, this is why I subscribed
Idk y'all, I might have to wait until the CH.6 reaction is out before I watch this...Idk if i can sit on that cliff hanger for a whole month.
Edit: I watched it anyway. I did it out of respect for Violet and her hard work editing these, but god damn it hurt. It hurts every time I see it.
And here it is. This is going to be an interesting watch.
The feeling never goes away it was so powerful especially first time viewing the scene,
Been really enjoying binge watching your playthrough! ❤ I love this game so much. I'm happy that you enjoy it as much as I did. It did made me cry a lot as well. Lol.
Welcome to the how to break players chapter by Monolithsoft. Although the emotional support fluffball at the end is so cute.
I still haven't recovered from this game... and I loved every second of it
Very fun happy game, yes indeed. Love reliving your playthrough through these videos!
How many times has it been now?
...that this chapter can mess with my head. Ruining my evening.
I played this chapter and my brother was watching along. After finishing we spent hours the next day talking about because wow. What a roller coaster ride it was! Thank goodness I bought Xenoblade Chronicles 3. Now it’s my brother’s favorite Nintendo Switch game. 😅
Your reactions are priceless😅 And so many things you guessed right without knowing 😊
2:06:10 "He's too Anime!" has to be the funniest line I've heard in a while, thanks for that lol.
Keep going! You NEED the next chapter, trust me
She finished it over a year ago, she’s just really making us wait for the edited videos lol. She said it was really hard to go back to look at all of it to edit
I never noticed how Taion tries to keep the character when they are locked and Eunie does not even react to that, she is like "I dont have the energy for this", and then you can see Taion checking on Eunie while she is sleeping on the floor and when Mio is speaking with Noah, man this game, remember that I finished this chapter almost at midnight on a job week day while my Switch lite was dying, I was shaking, nervous and wanting answers
'I don't even know who the villains are any more'
Welcome to the Xenoblade status quo
This is like what? The fifth time I've rewatched the end of chapter 5? and it still made me cry! wth the power of emotional damage it able to inflict on me is too big
Hace 2 años senti esto mismo, tú reacción fue tal que me hizo volver a tocar las fibras sensibles en ese momento cuanod lo jugue, vaya, una historia magistral la de este juego y la música, defiitivamente le robaron el premio a mejor banda sonora.
The line "I'd like to spend that time with MY Noah" is genius. It hits you twice.
First, when it sounds like a direct confession of love from Mio to the Noah locked in the cell...
Second, after you know that's not what she's saying there.
It's kind of funny how each time I look at these Chapter 5 videos, the pain of seeing the whole prison sequence becomes almost worse than it was on my own playthrough. I did shed a tear that first time, but nowadays, the crying just doesn't stop ... 😢
Yessssssss been waiting for this!
After chapter 5, I was so emotioanlly drained that it took me a week before I continued playing. It's very rare for a game to have that kind of effect on me.
Waiting for your moving on,dont give up for this game❤
I sobbed like a baby (I’m not a crier) after chapter 5. I had lost my boyfriend a year before and this was just too much. He has introduced me to the series. Fantastic game despite it making me cry!!
It seems I have three chapter videos to catch up to, yipeeeeeee
40:20 how can you have visions?! You no longer possess the Monado!
2:00:10 and by “so many,” she means 2. O and P were slain by their own stupidity.
Ah, the bad ending. A classic
To be honest, I was playing this chapter at 3am and needed 30-40 minutes of crying once I was done with it.
Wanna know what’s gotten me to cry that long before? Jiraiya and my dog’s death. That’s it.
It destroyed me
Do you choose to live forever in the endless now? The chapter so sad that even Manana lost her smile.
This chapter is a masterwork, even with its flaws. You spend the whole game learning to love these characters, getting to know and understand them. You watch as the love between Noah and Mio grows. And then you get here. And N's little sideshow puts you right where it wants you... you've still got hope because there's no way they'll just let it happen... right? Suddenly you're right where her Noah was, an emotional wreck, weak to the manipulations of a person in power who will put everything perfect as long as you do as you're told. The player feels the loss of hope, the powerlessness, the... loss.
Yes, the endless now feels very appealing right now doesn't it? Or will you continue on, in spite of everything?
"I don't want to play any more"
The baby scene is so precious and amazing!
She was, in fact, not okay.
I remember I wanted to finally sleep after Chapter 5 because I figured there would be 10 chapters. And then that happened and I didn’t sleep for a whole damn week.
Thanks for sharing this experience. It's showing incredibly vulnerability to upload this, as this game is the most taxing game from an emotional stamina point I've ever experienced. Literally life perspective altering.
2:08:48 they forgot to add the Interlink reverb again. I thought it was only Chapter 2 with Lanz
N's absolutely psychopathic behavior here is why I never quite get the criticism of this game having "weak villains". Dude doesn't just inflict emotional damage on the heroes, but the goddam player.
You mean N ?
@islemsissou7707 oops lol, I'll edit
This game broke my heart so bad... I play it in Japanese, but Noah's english voice actor in the final scenes of this chapter nailed it so hard!
Hate myself for watching this. Even knowing what happens, it hurts all over again.
2:39:06 I will never forget the moment when Mio said: My Noah.❤❤😭😭
The writing in this game is so good
It's sad how many people who haven't played it just dismiss it as "another anime garbage" game
You can thank Xenoblade 2 for that
1:50:25 why did Gondor stop running?!?!
Okay, I know it was a VERY quick thing, but that impression at 2:42:00 was on point!
I stayed awake until 6:30 in the morning to get through this and what comes next.
I want to see your chapter 6 reaction, i just cried when they were trying to punch the walls all togheter with that sad music, after that i got curious about how it was going to be solved.
now I cant wait for next chapter. like dang, that was some emotion at the end. I'd wish I had felt like that, but your videos kind of help channeling and getting a little bit more from these games. great stuff
Xenoblade Chapter 5: Emotional tap, emotional tap, emotional tap, emotional tap, EMOTIONAL FLOODGATES