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honestlyvan · 1 month ago

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I know this puts me in the minority as a person who's at the moment deeply apathetic about sequels and franchises but I really hope whatever Monosoft is working on for Switch 2/"Ounce" is not gonna be another Xenoblade title.

The Xenoblade well has been run dry for me. I did not like Future Redeemed, I thought the ending to Xeno 3 suffered from franchise baggage, I think with Xeno 1 having a rerelease that more fully integrated it in with Xeno 2 and 3 in a way that undercut the standalone nature of that game makes it clear that while there was will to build on the ideas of that game, there was no real original Xenoblade Master Document, and they ended up relying on very worn Special Boy With Special Destiny tropes to bring it all together.

Enough, I say. Enough franchise building. I don't want to know how XenoX "integrates", I would rather it be truly standalone, even if it turns out the thing everyone was fleeing from was Klaus' experiment. Either pull the trigger and let "Xenoblade" assume the status as the official modern Xenoseries title and start making anthology games, or produce a new Xeno game with a different subheading.

#fannish #Am I excited for XenoX DE? Oh yes #FAR more than I was ever for XC1 DE #(I do not like XC1 DE and consider it flatly inferior to OG XC1)#Unlike XC1 I do think XCX was ahead of its time and in the wrong place in the market #I think that game is misunderstood by a lot of people #And I think inevitably the XenoBLADE name is gonna make people misunderstand it again #because before Xenoblade 2 there wasn't a real “Xenoblade franchise” with lore and worldbuilding expectations #And I wish they'd stuck to that format. And I STILL kind of hope they will #even though there is a greater chance that they will have to do some franchise management tie-together stuff #now when there IS a Main Numbered Xenoblade Series that is in strict linear continuity with itself #unlike before where the name Xenoblade was almost comparable to Final Fantasy #and I got much less flack for saying that I don't think the games have lore ties as much as thematic ties #In the present timeline I think the thematic throughline of the numbered Xenoblade series has collapsed in on itself #in a way that I could have never envisioned back when XenoX came out #And Xenoblade 3 is in active competition to be my favourite Xenoblade game #which should tell you how bittersweet saying this all is for me

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