Xenoblade 2: What do you want?

[NoirSon]

F0X said:

Jumpin said:

F0X said:

Jumpin said:

I would much prefer it to be Xenogears 2 or at least linked to the Xenoverse, not Xenoblade 2.

I, for one, would love to see it tie Xenoblade and Xenogears together.

Even better idea! To me, that would justify Xenoblade. I found it very hard to warm to the game because its title implied that it was part of the Xenoverse, but there didn't seem to be any links to it. So I was hugely disappointed and still have disdain for the game.

The question would be, how would Xenoblade be made to fit into the main Xenogears/Xenoblade universe?

My best idea would be to establish that Xenoblade takes place well after the other Xeno games. Otherwise, it's nigh impossible to reconcile the difference between Xenoblade's world and the Xenoverse.

In any case, Xenoblade wasn't originally concieved as a Xeno game. The name was changed over the course of development... probably to pay tribute to Monolith's past (or make more money, which works too). It does borrow many themes from the other games, though. In a Final Fantasy-esque way, it's already tied to the broader series.

I looked at Xenoblade as a spiritual successor to Xenogears/Xenosaga and some of the story themes that those games featured heavily. But really given the fact that the Xenoverse has been said the story being six parts who knows if Xenoblade wasn't meant to fit in their original plan at some point.

Either way, Xenoblade is by far their best game and redeems the series from being the cinema fest that plagued the previous games to carry the brand.