Xenoblade Chronicles 2

Why are the japs so completely incapable of writing a concise story?

>hey this is pyra, she's a legendary blade
>oh wait never mind the real blade's name is mythra and she made pyra for some arbitrary reason that makes no sense oh by the way apparently she can do that pls don't question it
>she can also share her life force with rex and any kind of damage that happens also happens to the other because the aegis core crystal has the blueprints for all life
>wait hold on never mind because zeke's normal ass blade can do the same thing too now
>also nia is a blade that can have other blades
>btw you can use nia as a blade even though it completely breaks the rules of resonance

Did 14 year olds write this fucking story?

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For all the flak X got, I respect what they tried to do as far as the writing, except for the ending. This was just downright awful on too many occasions. Poorly executed cliche anime dialogue and scenes. I can enjoy me some shounen anime and harem anime. This was not good at all.

Doesn't help that literally every thread that pops up about this game is a bunch of creepy weebs talking about how much they wanna fuck the characters

almost nothing in this post actually contradicts itself like you say it does. the only thing in your greentext that isn't explained in game is the bit about Nia being able to be used by Rex. Even that is probably explained by her being a flesh eater.

Yeah, I feel that. I like a couple of the girls I guess, but it's hilarious some people propping up shit characters like Pyra because they like fapping to her.

Good thing that Xenoblade 2 didn't have a harem at all and had an even less traditional shonen plot compared to the first Xenoblade.

What is the point of Pyra? What purpose does Pyra serve?

If blades can assume an entirely different identity, why does it never happen with anyone else even though there are many plot points where it would have benefited the enemy?

If the reason Rex can be kept alive by Pyra's core is because Aegis cores contain the blueprints for life, why does the same thing work for normal blades?

She's still a blade and she chooses to let Rex be her driver.

nuh uh xenoblade 1's revenge quest where the bad guys are actually good and you kill god instead wasn't anime at all

>wait hold on never mind because zeke's normal ass blade can do the same thing too now
Pandoria didn't do that. Almatheus, an Aegis Driver, did that surgically.
>also nia is a blade that can have other blades
Flesh Eater.

Except for the fact that if this were possible you wouldn't see allegiances to people blades are bound to if they had the ability to just "choose" who their drivers are.

Remember the cutscene where Pandoria thought she was going to become a bandit's blade and she expressed how she didn't want that, but "oh well, I guess I won't remember anyway"?

You're grasping at straws here.

She wasn't born a blade, she became one. Of course the rules work differently.

>Pandoria didn't do that. Almatheus, an Aegis Driver, did that surgically.

Irrelevant. The ability to share life force between driver and blade was clearly established to be because Aegis Blades contain the blueprints for all life in their cores. This very deliberately means it's specific to an Aegis, which Pandoria is not.

>Irrelevant.
Sure it is.

I'm pretty sure she was always a blade, but then her "father" made her a flesh eater from his dying daughter so that the blade could assume the role of her after she died. So in that regard, you're wrong.

But in the off chance you're right, then you're talking about something completely different from flesh eaters which is yet another plot mcguffin making stuff up just to make a piece of the story work for no other reason than for you to go "oh WAAUUUWW I never saw that coming!!!!!!!!"

She was born a blade, she ate her "sister" to become a flesh eater

This is so wrong. It's pretty much exactly like those older harem shows where the MC is some plain as shit looking kid with almost no character traits besides being nice. They try to make the distinction that Mythra and Pyra are different and in the end, they even separate. You also had another girl just admit she loves the shit MC because he's so nice and accepted her. You couldn't get much more creatively bankrupt.

I can understand if you're comparing it to shit nowadays where the MC could pass off as male models or something and are like super spies and geniuses and what not like in the all those popular light novels.

The bloody hell are you on about. Rex is a fucking brat who has his own selfishness to him. Like when he is fighting he doesn't look around to see if everyone is doing okay, they even established that. The only redeeming thing about him is that he follows this salvager's code that he grew up with. Nia fell for him because he is true to himself unlike her.

Not all japs are Hackahashi

>Literally talks about the power of friendship at the start of every fight

Would you shut up you dumbass

That was fucking retarded, yes. But that's a line in battle and he never mentions that tripe in the story. Closest thing is memeing out "I fight for my friends!"

Love triangles are not harems though, there's a huge distinction. Xenoblade 1 would be a harem if that were the case.

Multiple girls expressing their love for a main character doesn't make something a harem if nothing comes from it. Nia confesses to Rex once and nothing happened; there was no romantic tension before or after, there was no competing with Pyra like you would see in a harem. It's even debatable of Mythra feels the exact same for Rex that Pyra does.

debatable if*

Pyra is there to control the aegis body without awakening Mythra, who was not supposed to awake. This is pretty fucking obvious.

Not all the blades are the aegis.

The aegis containing the blueprints for life is only relevant after she becomes Pneuma, where she gains the power to actually fix life. A blade can share her life force with a driver through their core crystal in the same way that Pyra did. However I don't think that they can all REVIVE a driver as the only times it was shown apart from them was when the driver was very ill and not dead.

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Pyra was made because Mythra hated that her power was used to destroy 3 entire titans in a war. She wanted to limit her power so such destruction couldn't be wrought again. She actually just wanted to die, but Adamm probably wouldn't have let her kill herself

She brought Rex back to life, as opposed to Pandoria, who simply gave a dying man some of her life force with the help of an aegis driver and psychotic, mad scientist of blades

How does it break the rules of reaonance? Her driver is dead now, and she is only alive because she is a flesh eater. She is not resonating with anyone, so why would she not be able to form a new resonance?

Sorry this shit isn't spelled out for you, but you might want to take a moment to think before you start whining like a stupid bitch

Why do we need a thread about shitting on this game every single day of our life?

I thought Mythra didn't really create Pyra, rather she's just the first personality that surfaced because Adam couldn't handle Pyra Blue who is the actual personality.

What am I supposed to be looking at here?

>But that's a line in battle and he never mentions that tripe in the story. Closest thing is memeing out "I fight for my friends!"

>cutscene of Nia saying "I love you" with a quick shot of all of his friends fighting phantasms and then he blocks one of them and turns around to say "I love you too! I love all you guys!"

Obviously, even though it doesn't make any sense since it doesn't exactly have a stellar metacritic score unlike the other games that have hourly hate threads like BotW or PUBG.

>damage control mode because your waifu game is being criticized for the C-tier story it has

>Literally talks about the power of friendship at the start of every fight

>cutscene of Nia saying "I love you" with a quick shot of all of his friends fighting phantasms and then he blocks one of them and turns around to say "I love you too! I love all you guys!"

I don't see the connection here.

>Multiple girls expressing their love for a main character doesn't make something a harem if nothing comes from it.
You should go tell all those anime databases on the internet to fix their tags then to fit your standard. You're jumping through flaming hoops. It's not even debatable for the vast majority of people. You literally have one girl whose role is to fawn over the dick of the MC from the first hour, her role after that is just to show up and tell people how much she likes the MC, another one that is supposed to have lived through a ton of shit and just turns into tsundere mess around the MC and no one else. There's an entire chapter of walking in some caves that build up to a love confession from another one.

Sorry, only a serious homer and apologist would not call this out for what it is.

Weren't you just saying the game doesn't have all of that tripe shit in it?

Haha, what? I'm not even the user you are talking to, but you are being so stupid, I have to interject. How is that a bad thing at all, or even related to your point? I love my friends, and I've said it before. Quit grasping at straws like some autist. He is just reacting in a naive way to someone declaring romantic love for him. It's not a shonen nonsequitor about how his friends make him powerful.

>defending anime cliches and calling other people autistic

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You and I clearly have a different definition for >literally

So you're just going to admit your own retardation in misunderstanding the plot like that? I mean, you're asking these questions with sinple answers, accusing the game of being bad, and when you get the answers, you're just going to turn to a quick shitpost? Well, if that's the pathetic route you want to take, best of luck to you. There are actual things to criticize in the story, but you're too stupid to even understand the simple shit. Next time just start the thread with a low effort shitpost, it'll make you look less pathetic when you don't have the intelligence for anything but shitposts later on

generic haremshit is rarely ever good or entertaining. if you dont like the gameplay of xenoblade, this one is likely really painful to sit through.

>criticize something
>other people point out the faults in your criticism, as you're too stupid to even make coherent comparisons of scenes and their intentions
>"hur dur, you're defending this shit?!"
It's almost funny, but it's more contemptible and sad

Nothing about what happens in this game is logical. It's all a slosh of random shit thrown together and if you take a minute to question any of it, you start to realize it's all held together by string because they unapologetically give characters new found powers that break the rules of the universe they've created just to create shallow "oh shit" moments throughout its shounen, anime, garbage story.

If a blade can just disguise itself as something else entirely, why didn't Torna use it to infiltrate and spy on Rex? Why did we use it to infiltrate and spy on Torna? If Jin is so powerful that he can move around at the speed of light and be immune to all "particles" then why did he wait until Chapter 7 to capture Pyra and not as soon as she came out of the ship with a completely novice driver that had no idea how to even use the energy properly?

>what is judicium

>want to finish XCX
>Wii U throws an hard drive error
o-oh.

Okay, so you're saying it works because flesh eaters can be created by having a blade consume a human? How is this the same at all?

Flesh eating isn't the only thing experimented with at judicium, they did all sorts of blade/human hybrid experiments. Amalthus uses that knowledge

Clearly that isn't the case, since your stupid questions had solid answers, and now you're trying to craft more, which, again, have simple answers

Why would either party need a spy? Torna new where Rex was at all times, as their ship had the technology to track the Aegis. Rex's party wouldn't want to infiltrate Torna. Why the fuck would they put themselves at risk like that, when they are trying to avoid them at all costs and rish to the world tree? Jin had no need to have the Aegis that early, as they still needed to make their other preparations, such as getting the artificial blades and trying to incite war to distract Amalthus, who was their real. Not to mention, they still had to deal with the Nidhoggr snake at the world tree, which Pyra was working on for them, and would have been harder to figure out on their own, as Tantal eould never have trusted Torna. And when Pyra finally was able to control the snake at then end of chap 6, everything was prepared and they captured her immediately and rushed over

I'm also not sure where you are getting this stealth blade appearance change shit. Only Nia does that with a flesh eater appearance change to look like her old driver, and the Pyra and Mythra thing

I don't think you watch many anime. Nothing about its ending was particularly cliché for anime.

It's pretty obvious. They emphasize on how blades always LOVE their drivers, no matter what. Simple reciprocality. If a blade loves a driver, it can be his blade.

Was this really too hard to grasp for you, even though Nia literally tells Rex that she loves him the moment she becomes his blade?

>nearly at the end of the game
>decide to try out the Nia/Pyra super attack
>game crashes the second I activate it

So this is the power of waifu

Also Pyra/Mythra only wants to go to the World Tree to die for a reason not properly explored (I guess they were emo about the collateral damage when they fought Malos 500 years ago), only she could have killed herself the entire time by transfering the rest of her life to Rex - but then the ending invalidates that with zero explanation

>she could have killed herself the entire time

You're forgetting Malos. She wanted to beg the Architect to kill both herself AND Malos.

Fucking speed readers. She was going to ASK to die, because you can't just kill yourself if you're an important part of God's plan.

Im just waiting for X 2

You might be waiting a good few years, then.

>for a reason not properly explored

*blocks your development*