I agree it was a lovely dish but I wanted the dessert

 was that a vague reference to my desert instead of dessert typo ?

While I had some issues with X, some of them quite significant, the sheer scope and technical accomplishment on display is astounding given the hardware they had to work with and the fact they didn't have a AAA budget or a team of 1000+ people like a lot of big games nowadays.

Even though it could be considered a technical marvel still, it's not worth them re-releasing it until they have a more powerful system that can run it at a higher resolution with better lighting and colour range. Right now on a modern display it's noticeably bland compared to the awe I felt six years ago. Just re-releasing it on Switch at this point, I'm not sure they could do it justice. It needs a proper modern remaster.

If we teased our hair like the ending we would look like this

A bit more from the Japanese site from what I can make out from basic translation, people in the game live in settlements that are on of two things in the game the first are called Iron Giants (translated) which colonies are built into the other are like Titans essentially the translation says Protist which means a creature that is neither an animal, plant or fungi.

A key detail I've noticed from the artwork of the six main characters is that two of the three from the side who utilize Ether have blade cores or what appear to be cores indicating their people might be blades or maybe like certain characters in XBC2 especially one in particular who has a twist behind them, it's likely the third character has one as well that his attire covers it would explain their ether abilities like the third character's origami like attacks.

On another note Noah's weapon looks to be the Aegis Blade and Monado combined which if it is it will have some insane abilities considering what those weapons did as separate entities.

Looking on nintendo's youtube xc3 has the 3rd most amount of views of all the individual trailers they released, being beaten by mario strikers and kirby.
Glad it's getting a lot of attention, hope it's monolith soft's most successful title.

Buying Monolith Soft has turned out to be one of the best moves Nintendo has made this century.

They've gained not only their own epic RPG series unlike anything EPD makes, but also support in so many of their other games from BOTW to Splatoon to Animal Crossing.

Xenoblade brings such an awesome dose of variety to their first party catalogue, as it's so different from the likes of Mario or Zelda.

I could really see Xenoblade rivaling FF into the future, especially with FF increasingly only on PlayStation with newer games for at least a year.

If FF stayed multiplatform on all devices then there wouldn't be a need for Xenoblade as much and it would stay niche, but Sony bribing Square Enix to stay timed exclusive to them in an effort to starve Xbox of the premier JRPG series is causing the indirect impact of a new premier JRPG series rising on Nintendo devices. At this rate, in 10-15 years people will be talking about Xenoblade as much as FF.

If Microsoft was smart they'd be making their own flagship JRPG to really stick it to SE for accepting Sony's timed exclusivity bribes.

After reading more about this game's story elements and themes, I am pretty impressed. The Xenoblade series seems to be Takahashi's third attempt at telling the story he wanted to tell in Xenogears and Xenosaga, but properly funded and with each game having its own standalone theme.