Official Xenoblade thread- Opinions, thoughts and questions inside! Can it hit 1mil in sales next year? Sequel coming for Wii U???

[Mr Khan]

Conegamer said:

Izo said:

Conegamer said:

Izo said:
Just finished the game. Not sure how I feel about the ending.

What's wrong with the ending? It may come 'out of nowhere', but having played through it again, it all makes sense. The hints were there, the game was setting it out for you. You just forget about it, see it as not important.

For example, you know right at the start, when Shulk first takes the Monado off Reyn in the weapon lab? Well, there's a vision there which shows Egil dying, Shulk getting shot, the Emperor dying and the party killing Dickson. In addition, Fiora claims that Shulk 'would love her more as a robot'. And on Prison Island, Alvis calls Zanza Klaus. And there's plenty of other little bits that you deem unimportant, but are actually VERY important. So it's clever IMO.

 I liked the idea of Zanza being a God of the universe that was there before time. Wanted Alvis to be a real living creature. It was like he was pulling for Shulk to win the entire time.

Did Zanza know Alivs was able to recreate/destroy the universe. If so he should have made him erase Shulk and friends

What I do not understand is what the Manado really is. Is a computer genereated essence that gives you God-like power? And did Shulk get one on his own or did Alvis give it to him. If so why?

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Zanza had no knowledge of what or who Alvis really was. He thought that, like Dickson and Lorithia, he was a disciple, and was merely following him for the promise of a better world. When the third monado was revealed, Zanza realized that Alvis was the creator, not him, and that he was being played. 

Zanza had no knowledge of his life as Klaus. Nor did Meyneth. Only Alvis did, because he created the world for them.

The Monado is hard to explain. I always felt as though, if you imagined the world as a computer prgram, then the Monado was like the mouse. The entire world had already been designed, hence you could see it set out with the Monado, but you could also change small, select things with it. Although, Shulk's Monado (the one you have for 90% of the game) WAS Zanza...and the 'true' Monado is the only one which was created, by Alvis, outside of the passage of fate. As such, Shulk could change the program, making him a 'god'. 

@Mr Khan- You are lucky. I'm still looking for one >.<

As i said, sneak behind the level 95 UM (or just kill him. I also discovered that time of day is irrelevent, even though the wiki insists they are only available at night), but they're right there on that tiny little platform's edge.

At last, all bonds are purple. Later this evening i'll put picture-in-picture on and do a mass dump of collectables while i watch TV, to try to begin movement towards the Pinks (only 4 Pink bonds so far: Reyn-Shulk, Sharla-Shulk, Reyn-Sharla, and Dunban-Riki for some reason). I've found fighting enemies that are just at the upper limit of what you can survive against is perfect for in-battle affinity boosting.