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@ChristiJunior Great write up. How you feel about the ending is the same way I feel. Individual scenes are strong, overall it’s like: Wait, so what happens? I just got left on a massive cliff hanger. Perhaps we just need to wait for Takahashi to make whatever he has plans for in Xenoblade 4/whatever the next installment is. I don’t know if you’ve played Future Redeemed yet so I won’t say anything, but there is so much cock teasing that it’s almost annoying.

My bias is that I like contained stories. It’s admirable that Takahashi is creating, well, a whole chronicle, but along the way, there are too many gaps in between for me to feel that the chronicle has any cohesiveness. XC1 is the most “internally complete”, I feel, since after Shulk does his thing, everyone is back and can live a happy life ever after. XCX no, XC2 no (god I wanted more with Rex and the crew), and certainly not XC3. XC3 also threw me for a loop, because XC1 felt contained, XCX was clearly a spin off, and then XC2 gave me the impression that the series was going in a Tales of/Final Fantasy/DQ direction, where each game is its own separate story and universe. XC3 comes around and pulls it all together, which just introduced a gigantic can of worms.

Random thought: I’d be very happy with a JRPG with city/faring sim elements that takes place after XC2 where you play as the party and build a new civilization on top of all the merged titans.