"Ultra Lightning Fury Slash... MAAAAA--" *falls through the ground level, the voice fades away as he falls into the clouds due to simply missing the attack* Yep, that's a Zeke moment.
The Jeff assist trophy spawn in poppy’s battle could also be a reference to Poppy QTs missile launchers, since Jeff spawns during the poppy qt phase of the fight
I'm thinking Zeke's spirit battle takes place on Kongo Falls to represent his fight in Leftheria (is that how you spell it?), which takes place on a wooden harbor on one of the many "island" titans of the archipelago. I think he even falls into the cloud sea there because he tried leaning on one of the wood fences behind him and it broke under him, making him lose his balance, so it makes the Kongo Fall reference a little funnier when you remember that's a stage where it's easy to get KO'ed (or even SD) if you're just being careless (and it has a wooden floor lol).
Midgar i think is more to represent the abandoned factory on Mor Ardain, as Midgar is one of the only industrial themed stages in the game and the abandoned factory has a bit more significance regarding its relevance to Tora and poppi's story and artificial blades in general and that you get poppi qt there in the story. Regarding Zeke's stage being Kongo falls, it could be either an attempt to reference Uraya being a lush environment with a lot of water around and/or it could be a reference to that you are always fighting zeke on cliffsides in his fights
I remember being super happy when Shulk made it into Smash initially. When Ultimate released I kept hoping that Rex/Pyra would make it in. I had thought they would play kinda like Pokemon Trainer and Pyra/Mythra/Catalyst would be the background character that you could choose when to switch giving Rex as the figher a different moveset. What we got as Pyra and Mythra is still great and still appreciated as a fan of the series.
10:48 another thing regarding Wolf and MetalFace, he also was previously on the good guy's team before defecting and workign for hte main antagonist in star fox 64
For Mecha Fiora spirit battle, I think the post apocalyptic setting and stone buildings of Reset Bomb Forest are more reminiscent of Prison Island than the Fallen Arm. It's also here that you meet Mecha Fiora for the first time so it would make more sense
Just like others probably said. I saw shulk in smash 4, "huh never heard of this." Did some research, got very far into it. Now hooked still. So this video is cool.
I think the black-coloured alt for Shulk that represents Dunban would've been a better fighter to represent Malos in his spirit battle because they both have a Monado
I'm sure every spirit also has a reason for being attack, defense, grab, and neutral, as well as being the number star rank they are. Reyn being grab is interesting though, when he is a literal tank. I would have thought they didn't change Lucina in Rex's spirit battle because they didn't want to make gameplay changes, but they removed the lava floor so at that point its weird why they didn't. I find it funny that neither of Pyra's spirits use the censored design. I guess they're more worried about being able to view her in 3d
You missed 2 things with Zeke. For one he is only 1 star and two he spams Cloud’s cross slash which is a reference to ULFS Max. Jin is ice element when he joins you in chapter 8 but he is neutral type in most of his boss fight. Metal Face appears in Malos’s fight who looks like a gargoyle and also why was richter used instead of ganondorf?
I imagine Ricter was chosen simply cause he just looks closer to how Malos does physically. muscular build, lighter skin, short dark hair, and has an alt with darker clothes
@@Magic_Ice yeah it just comes down to which would you take. You rather more accurately represent his element, or more accurately represent what he looks like?
@@Magic_Ice yeah he has a physique similar to malos, but so does Ricter while having a face, hair style, color, and also closer to what Malos has. Hence why its a matter of which you'd prioritize
Jeff appearing in Poppi's fight is probably also a reference to the Jet Biter that Tora uses in the cutscene before the party meets him, somewhat similar to the bottle rockets Jeff uses.
Smash 4 was what introduced me to Shulk, and convinced me to pick up Xenoblade 1. That was an excellent decision on my part, as Xenoblade 1 is now one of my favorite RPGs, and has one of my favorite video game soundtracks period.
the final smash from Cloud really does have the Ultra Lightning Fury Slash Max energy to it, with the kanji and the ending strike going from top all the way to the bottom/stage.
Simon's 6th color variation would've been better to represent Jin but they used Cloud to reference his final form without making him enhanceable so they could avoid spoilers. Although I couldn't tell you why they put in Pneuma who you find in chapter 7 and not Jin's true form who you find in chapter 6.
think jiggs for tatsu may be supposed to represent the whole potato container at the beginning of X, rather than of nopon, and Dunban's spirit characteristics being a suggestion to dunban tanking but also being an attacker. in the video, jeff spawns the same time as the character used to represent Poppi Qt, which makes us think that they reference the weapon type QT uses! really like how elmas spirit references ghost factory thats funny. decoy spam deserved to make the smash bros cut like it did
Pneuma having Critical Healing may also be Sakurai subtly nudging you to use her with Master Driver Rex for his Critical Stats; since Master Driver is what he uses after unlocking her.
32:01 false, if Jin is in your party during chapter 8 and you kill enemies as him the enemies will all turn into light blue stream energy thing because Jin’s sword is actually an ice element but not Jin himself (in the main game I mean)
9:02 Fun fact the heropon was the name of a japanies drug (with basacly Heroïne) use by busy (to much busy like with 4 hours of sleep every day) worker for having rest. That could explain the inspiration for the Ban side quest. I learn that Yesterday.
I think that Zeke's battle is on Kongo Falls because it looks like Leftheria, where you battle Zeke for the final time before he joins the party. A better stage might have been Summit, in reference to his icy homeland.
That Pneuma spirit fight is a bitch!! also I think Penuma's spirit should have a bonus for elemental atacks since she gets to control every element in the game
I completely forgot that the mad lad Nomura designed Jin and Malos. XB2 was my first game, so when I first learned this, I was a Xeno fanboy just yet. Actually, I think that might have helped me get interested in Xenoblade 2 in the first place. I still find it odd, unless Nomura and Takahashi are friends or something. I mean, I guess they could be, consider Xenogeats was square. Hell, I guess that means theres a chance that Nomura designed some of the gears charecters.
It's pretty ironic hearing your voice, the voice of someone so passionate about this games, saying things like "Shulk lives on the Bionis, and he fights the mechons who are the enemies attacking Bionis", pretending not to know anything about... well, just everything hidden behind "bad machines attacking good organic life"
Fun fact, the Fiora spirit spoiled me, I don't know why but that exact spirit showed on just 10m of gameplay in SSBU right after starting playing Xenoblade for first time
Perhaps the reason why Pyra!Lucina isn't replaced with Pyra herself for Rex's new battle if you do own Pyra's DLC is because I'm not sure there would be any way to keep CPU Pyra during the battle from switching to Mythra on occasion, and since this is early-game Rex in particular that this battle represents, he would only have Pyra and not Mythra.
A missed opportunity is having a random selection of characters from Xenoblade Chronicles 1 for Shulks Final smash kind of similar to Joker. I feel it is a missed opportunity.
So wait, you said you wouldn't be covering series with *more* spirits than Xenoblade, obviously this is a sign that you are making a Golden Sun spirits analysis video, which only has representatives of playable characters from the first game (Felix and Jenna were in the second game playable, but debuted in the first game)...and there's Matthew too for some reason. I'm not in denial, there's also going to be a Golden Sun 4 and the last third of the game will be an entire hours long boss fight against Alex, and Sakurai will announce he was just getting and add Sveta as the true final smash character, and my pet fish just went to a farm upstate, and Santa will bring him home next Christmas with a copy of Golden Sun 4 and 5 if I just believe hard enough...
"Smash likes to spoil the games" Is almost like if Smash knew that these are all really old games and that spoilers have a shelf life expectancy... or they just like to spoil it for the fun of it.
The only Xenoblade spirit that I don't have it's the skell's spirit. I foud it in the shop of the splatoon guy (english name forgot) but I haven't anouth money. Sins I don't see it? Rip.
32:41 the Meta Ridleys are artificial Blades purchased from Chairman Bana, disgraced head of the Argentum Trade Guild, manufactured in Mor Ardain, and used to capture Pyra in Genbu’s head. Right?
So did Morag and Brighid. Also, Mythra says that if Brighid did fight her with her full strength, she couldn't hold back. Since Mythra is much stronger than Pyra, that implies that Brighid is on a level potentially higher than Pyra. Also also, Pyra and Rex's holding back in the first fight was only about them not slicing her in half with Burning Sword.
You are asking this in a Xenoblade channel’s comment section so of course it is Shulk Then Pit Idk enough about Sora to place him but he is probably above Link.
With the Zeke spirit battle, I’ve actually had Cloud kill himself due to missing his Final Smash, which is very like Zeke.
"Ultra Lightning Fury Slash... MAAAAA--" *falls through the ground level, the voice fades away as he falls into the clouds due to simply missing the attack*
Yep, that's a Zeke moment.
Xeno: has no villains in smash
Black and Purple Shulk and Sephiroth: I DONT THINK YOU QUITE COMPREHEND YOUR POSITION
I use often the spirit with a Sephiroth lev 9 for having a Xenoblade fight with the Smash gameplay
I win sometime.
INDEED
Xenoblade in smash was the biggest incentive I had to check out this series originally…very happy I did. One of my favorite of all time now
Exactly how I got into the series a few years ago
Same here! It’s on my top 5 favorite games
Personally, I had simply only heard good things about Xenoblade so I decided to buy it on a whim.
I’m so glad I did.
Same for a lot's of poeple.
Encluding me.
Thanks you Smash 4.
Same. I thought that Pyra/Mythra were cool so I checked the game out. Now Xenoblade 2 is my favourite game of all time
The Jeff assist trophy spawn in poppy’s battle could also be a reference to Poppy QTs missile launchers, since Jeff spawns during the poppy qt phase of the fight
I'm thinking Zeke's spirit battle takes place on Kongo Falls to represent his fight in Leftheria (is that how you spell it?), which takes place on a wooden harbor on one of the many "island" titans of the archipelago.
I think he even falls into the cloud sea there because he tried leaning on one of the wood fences behind him and it broke under him, making him lose his balance, so it makes the Kongo Fall reference a little funnier when you remember that's a stage where it's easy to get KO'ed (or even SD) if you're just being careless (and it has a wooden floor lol).
It could also be the closest match they could think of for Uraya's environment, from the first Zeke fight.
Spirit of Fire
Midgar i think is more to represent the abandoned factory on Mor Ardain, as Midgar is one of the only industrial themed stages in the game and the abandoned factory has a bit more significance regarding its relevance to Tora and poppi's story and artificial blades in general and that you get poppi qt there in the story.
Regarding Zeke's stage being Kongo falls, it could be either an attempt to reference Uraya being a lush environment with a lot of water around and/or it could be a reference to that you are always fighting zeke on cliffsides in his fights
Xenoblade 2 spirits start at 16:20 for anyone in the same boat as me trying to watch this while avoiding as many XC1 spoilers as possible lol
Hate to put you out of a job but you reminded me to add chapters to make them even easier to avoid, thanks!
Fiona technically alive as we saw her in xc2 dlc.
I remember being super happy when Shulk made it into Smash initially. When Ultimate released I kept hoping that Rex/Pyra would make it in. I had thought they would play kinda like Pokemon Trainer and Pyra/Mythra/Catalyst would be the background character that you could choose when to switch giving Rex as the figher a different moveset. What we got as Pyra and Mythra is still great and still appreciated as a fan of the series.
I feel as though Pyra and Mythra could be switched by shield+b (like inkling's reloading), add Wulfric and Roc instead of Catalyst
@@MegaPokefan97 that would have worked too. I admittedly never see Wulfric as a story-centric blade and Roc is just. . .forgotten.
10:48 another thing regarding Wolf and MetalFace, he also was previously on the good guy's team before defecting and workign for hte main antagonist in star fox 64
For Mecha Fiora spirit battle, I think the post apocalyptic setting and stone buildings of Reset Bomb Forest are more reminiscent of Prison Island than the Fallen Arm. It's also here that you meet Mecha Fiora for the first time so it would make more sense
Lmao, the times you immediately cut after losing were hilarious
I think the flower effect in Riki’s fight also refers to Behave, his paralysis art where he shoots out flowers at enemies.
Just like others probably said.
I saw shulk in smash 4, "huh never heard of this." Did some research, got very far into it. Now hooked still. So this video is cool.
I think the black-coloured alt for Shulk that represents Dunban would've been a better fighter to represent Malos in his spirit battle because they both have a Monado
Very complete and very informative, lots of these small details escaped me while playing Smash, thank you
I always took the poison floor as being a referencing to a certain infuriating boss near the end of the game.
Youl PAY for you insolence!
I'm sure every spirit also has a reason for being attack, defense, grab, and neutral, as well as being the number star rank they are. Reyn being grab is interesting though, when he is a literal tank.
I would have thought they didn't change Lucina in Rex's spirit battle because they didn't want to make gameplay changes, but they removed the lava floor so at that point its weird why they didn't.
I find it funny that neither of Pyra's spirits use the censored design. I guess they're more worried about being able to view her in 3d
You missed 2 things with Zeke. For one he is only 1 star and two he spams Cloud’s cross slash which is a reference to ULFS Max.
Jin is ice element when he joins you in chapter 8 but he is neutral type in most of his boss fight.
Metal Face appears in Malos’s fight who looks like a gargoyle and also why was richter used instead of ganondorf?
I imagine Ricter was chosen simply cause he just looks closer to how Malos does physically. muscular build, lighter skin, short dark hair, and has an alt with darker clothes
@@XBC3403 But like, Ganondorf uses dark powers and is apart of the trinity of triforce users.
@@Magic_Ice yeah it just comes down to which would you take. You rather more accurately represent his element, or more accurately represent what he looks like?
@@XBC3403 I mean Ganondorf looks like malos pretty decently as well. Both big and burly and love to throw children around.
@@Magic_Ice yeah he has a physique similar to malos, but so does Ricter while having a face, hair style, color, and also closer to what Malos has. Hence why its a matter of which you'd prioritize
Jeff appearing in Poppi's fight is probably also a reference to the Jet Biter that Tora uses in the cutscene before the party meets him, somewhat similar to the bottle rockets Jeff uses.
Can we agree that fiora making you metal is SUPER mean?
I see Lora at ant tine and I just go happy
Smash 4 was what introduced me to Shulk, and convinced me to pick up Xenoblade 1. That was an excellent decision on my part, as Xenoblade 1 is now one of my favorite RPGs, and has one of my favorite video game soundtracks period.
I find it funny that Metal Face is more powerful as a Spirit than Jin and Malos
Also Dunban who seemingly defeats him by himself as soon as he is able to damage him.
another tie with Zeke and Cloud are both have attacks which create Kanji symbols
the final smash from Cloud really does have the Ultra Lightning Fury Slash Max energy to it, with the kanji and the ending strike going from top all the way to the bottom/stage.
“I’ve been waiting, waiting for this day”
“LUUUUUXIIIIIN”
6:45 she actually has 2 guns in that battle, except, y’know. One is also a whip.
It's a crime we don't have any X music in Smash.
Copyright issues probably, since I believe the label that Hiroyuki Sawano belongs to partially owns the Xenoblade X OST
Having In the Forres X-Z music would be a blast
then Manon ship for shits and giggles
@@ArceusDX It’s still a crime
Simon's 6th color variation would've been better to represent Jin but they used Cloud to reference his final form without making him enhanceable so they could avoid spoilers. Although I couldn't tell you why they put in Pneuma who you find in chapter 7 and not Jin's true form who you find in chapter 6.
think jiggs for tatsu may be supposed to represent the whole potato container at the beginning of X, rather than of nopon, and Dunban's spirit characteristics being a suggestion to dunban tanking but also being an attacker. in the video, jeff spawns the same time as the character used to represent Poppi Qt, which makes us think that they reference the weapon type QT uses!
really like how elmas spirit references ghost factory thats funny. decoy spam deserved to make the smash bros cut like it did
Pneuma having Critical Healing may also be Sakurai subtly nudging you to use her with Master Driver Rex for his Critical Stats; since Master Driver is what he uses after unlocking her.
At least they didn't spoil Catalyst.
32:01 false, if Jin is in your party during chapter 8 and you kill enemies as him the enemies will all turn into light blue stream energy thing because Jin’s sword is actually an ice element but not Jin himself (in the main game I mean)
9:02
Fun fact the heropon was the name of a japanies drug (with basacly Heroïne) use by busy (to much busy like with 4 hours of sleep every day) worker for having rest. That could explain the inspiration for the Ban side quest.
I learn that Yesterday.
I think that Zeke's battle is on Kongo Falls because it looks like Leftheria, where you battle Zeke for the final time before he joins the party. A better stage might have been Summit, in reference to his icy homeland.
Huh, never noticed till now that Pyra's Spirits don't have the "censor leggings/stockings" despite her Fighter Model having them.
I think you're pronounciation is off for some of shulks friends. I heard somewhere that it's pronounced rain and duncan, lol.
17:00 Rex-Rex actually lives on his granddad’s back, not his grandfather’s. They’re not related.
For the Poppi battle, Midgar is probably referencing Mor Ardain since that's where you unlock Qt
That Pneuma spirit fight is a bitch!! also I think Penuma's spirit should have a bonus for elemental atacks since she gets to control every element in the game
I completely forgot that the mad lad Nomura designed Jin and Malos. XB2 was my first game, so when I first learned this, I was a Xeno fanboy just yet. Actually, I think that might have helped me get interested in Xenoblade 2 in the first place.
I still find it odd, unless Nomura and Takahashi are friends or something. I mean, I guess they could be, consider Xenogeats was square. Hell, I guess that means theres a chance that Nomura designed some of the gears charecters.
It's pretty ironic hearing your voice, the voice of someone so passionate about this games, saying things like "Shulk lives on the Bionis, and he fights the mechons who are the enemies attacking Bionis", pretending not to know anything about... well, just everything hidden behind "bad machines attacking good organic life"
I hope we get to see more of Pyra and Mythra in the future. But if xenoblade 3 gets announced I doubt it :(
well... about that
@@WeegeeDX What about that? Are pyra and mythra in xeno3?
Not gonna lie, I cried after reading the description of Fiora's spirit
6:32 or was that on Bionis’ Leg?
Thanks for the video.
Fun fact, the Fiora spirit spoiled me, I don't know why but that exact spirit showed on just 10m of gameplay in SSBU right after starting playing Xenoblade for first time
Nice vid man!
* but not endgame * ARE YOU SURE ABOUT THAT
“Explaned”?
Something seems off.
EDIT: He fixed it
Perhaps the reason why Pyra!Lucina isn't replaced with Pyra herself for Rex's new battle if you do own Pyra's DLC is because I'm not sure there would be any way to keep CPU Pyra during the battle from switching to Mythra on occasion, and since this is early-game Rex in particular that this battle represents, he would only have Pyra and not Mythra.
I think they also picked ZSS for Sharla because both of them have moles near their chin
A missed opportunity is having a random selection of characters from Xenoblade Chronicles 1 for Shulks Final smash kind of similar to Joker. I feel it is a missed opportunity.
So wait, you said you wouldn't be covering series with *more* spirits than Xenoblade, obviously this is a sign that you are making a Golden Sun spirits analysis video, which only has representatives of playable characters from the first game (Felix and Jenna were in the second game playable, but debuted in the first game)...and there's Matthew too for some reason. I'm not in denial, there's also going to be a Golden Sun 4 and the last third of the game will be an entire hours long boss fight against Alex, and Sakurai will announce he was just getting and add Sveta as the true final smash character, and my pet fish just went to a farm upstate, and Santa will bring him home next Christmas with a copy of Golden Sun 4 and 5 if I just believe hard enough...
"Smash likes to spoil the games" Is almost like if Smash knew that these are all really old games and that spoilers have a shelf life expectancy... or they just like to spoil it for the fun of it.
The only Xenoblade spirit that I don't have it's the skell's spirit.
I foud it in the shop of the splatoon guy (english name forgot) but I haven't anouth money.
Sins I don't see it?
Rip.
32:41 the Meta Ridleys are artificial Blades purchased from Chairman Bana, disgraced head of the Argentum Trade Guild, manufactured in Mor Ardain, and used to capture Pyra in Genbu’s head. Right?
Today is my birthday.
Happy birthday
Happy late birthday! 🎂
Will this video be updated??!!
12:00 Huh. I could’ve sworn Xenoblade 2 and X happen in the same universe.
Alma is my waifu. Respect her or pay the price.
Should have had a Hugo spirit
>bridghid
>stronger then pyra
both morag and bridghid admit that both times they fought rex and pyra, the latter held back to prevent casualities.
In gameplay Bridghid is a lot better then Pyra just saying
So did Morag and Brighid. Also, Mythra says that if Brighid did fight her with her full strength, she couldn't hold back. Since Mythra is much stronger than Pyra, that implies that Brighid is on a level potentially higher than Pyra. Also also, Pyra and Rex's holding back in the first fight was only about them not slicing her in half with Burning Sword.
Sora(Kingdom Heart), Link(Legend of Zelda), Shulk(Xenoblade Chronicles)or Pit(Kid icarus Uprising) who the best?
Shulk
Shulk
Pit
Link
Everyone else
Sora
You are asking this in a Xenoblade channel’s comment section so of course it is Shulk
Then Pit
Idk enough about Sora to place him but he is probably above Link.
Dunban? Don't you mean Duncan? Also, Melia best girl, fight me
Why they change Pneuma name to Mythra?
I love you (no-homo) uwu