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Listed on Nintendos japanese site
IGN eyes on trailer and screens
A lone warrior chopping through an army of robotic warriors with an outsized Cloud Strife-like energy sword. Colossal war machines advancing though a misty canyon, shooting anything that moves. The few remaining human defenders hiding behind simple wooden shields that are no match for high-energy weapons. Welcome to the world of Monado.��
The debut trailer for Monado: Beginning of the World premiered today at E3: 2009, and first impressions for the new Wii RPG are that the beginning is going to be pretty exciting. Things kick off with that canyon-set battle, revealing more and bigger enemies with an interesting steampunk design. Things likely don't end well for our lone warrior, as we soon segue to a young blonde hero discovering that energy sword - now inert - only to see it flash blindingly to life the moment he picks it up. Your standard JRPG Hero's Journey (tm) is definitely in full effect here, with just a dash of King Arthur.��
Gameplay appears to be open-world, where you'll traverse lush jungles, glowing forests, climb sheer walls, and encounter the crumbling remains of a conquered people. It looks nicely textured and details pop, animating at what looks like a smooth 30 fps.��
Players will pick up two partners in their travels, and while combat initially looks turn-based, we saw all three party members attacking simultaneously. Transitions into combat are completely seamless; characters approach enemies, draw weapons, and it's on. One scene showed your team (wielding much smaller edged weaponry) surrounding a lizard-man enemy, who didn't make much of a dent in their lifebars before it was downed. A much larger lizard-man (a good twenty feet tall) and giant mutant crab monster probably fared better.
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Well done Edgy, pat yourself on the back.
Yeah the ending does not lend itself to a sequel that well. They could do a prequel, but Xenoblade X is clearly not a prequel to Xenoblade. The only thing X has in common with Blade is the Noppon.
Is Xenoblade 2 even really a sequel? Or is it the same case as Final Fantasy where its only the name & general gameplay that's the same?
I have no clue, unless the planet that they are one is the planet that you see in the end of Xenoblade. But where are all the Homs, Machina and High Entia? I have only seen Noppon!
It's not called Xenoblade 2 is it? I think that they just figured that the Xenoblade moniker is of better value than the Xenosaga one by now.
It can't really be a sequel, seeing as it's about a colony from earth, whereas earth got destroyed in the original Xenoblade.
Not quite,
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The whole universe got destroyed in Xenoblade 1. In the end the universe is rebuild, so that means earth could have come back. In X the earth get destroyed too.
Please don't
I think this game needs more guys kicking swords.
You're probably right, since you seem to be much more knowledgeable about the game than I am, but I can't recall that happening. You see the universe when Shulk awakens in space. It might only be a recollection of Zanza or Alvis, but I don't remember (and good luck trying to find anything about it online) that being explicitly stated. In the end it doesn't matter though
Supreme.
Obviously spoilers.
You have been warned
Klaus en Mayneth were scientist on earth experimenting with creating a new universe. Mayneth wanted to check the calculations, Klaus wanted to play god. And they did create a new universe, but they destroyed the current one in the process. Alvis the quantom computer, uses Mayneth and Klaus who now calls himself Zanza to create a universe in their image. The monado is nothing more that interface between Zanza, Mayneth and Alvis. Alvis is just a computer, a powerful one at that, but he needs input.
After Shulk defeats Zanza, Alvis wants him to create a new universe. But Shulk does not want to, he wants a universe without gods. So the universe goes back into its infinite form. It is all in the ending.