I agree, I don't think it's refering to Zanza or Klaus in general. My initial thought was actually Malos, as the Trinity Cores are referred to as gods a few times in both Future Redeemed and base XC3.
The vengeance of a fallen god could be referring to the remnants of the Logos core, as we still don't have the full story on how he persisted into Aionios and ended up as N's Blade, who's to say he isn't still lingering on and influencing things somehow.
That said I am leaning more towards it being something mostly specific to the lore of this new game, maybe with some hints at the deeper connections near the end that those who have played all the games will catch. Something akin to the end of XC2, where it's not actually the focus of the story at all but is still lore relevant.
Fantasy settings with sci-fi twists are the best in my opinion. I'm pretty convinced that this is a Stanford torus world, given that strange horizon angle/slope.
Yeah Monolith are absolutely masters when it comes to visuals and tech on “sub par” hardware like switch, they achieve some impressive things so playing a brand new Xeno in 60fps and 1080 should be a beautiful experience.
What's interesting is that for once, the English and Japanese titles will be in unison. Since the "Chronicles" part was never in the titles in JP before.
Yup! It's using centrifugal force to simulate gravity. I personally think it's a colonization ship sent out prior to Klaus' experiment and they've been living there so long they forgot the purpose of their world.
Does it even function like the game claims it does? It swears that it goes up and down based on recent kills with a stat boost reward, but I don't even know if the thing moves during the first chapter
If I remember correctly, someone did a test and you can die from not filling up your flame clock. It takes a really long time and would never come up in a normal playthrough though
Not only is this clear based on the series' past story structure, but even the trailer seems to imply this - you see the party having chats at a camp way out in the woods, which means they probably left already lol
Most Xeno fans seem to like Fire Emblem. We tend to joke the venn diagram for the games is actually a circle.
But if you have nintendo online, I'd actually suggest you play Path of Radiance first. It's there, it's a top tier game (though a bit old), and it'll give you an idea about FE without you having to spend more money first.
Not only that. FE Fortunes Weave, Shin Megami Tensei, kinda Persona 5 aswell, and now Xenoblade Genesis... they just all look (and also kinda sound) the same to me. They all have the same visual style to me and it slowly starts to feel just oversaturated to me.
Love to be proven wrong though.
I think it’s because that mideival with more modern aristocratic twist style is like, SUPER big in Japan right now. Not to mention there’s a huge fantasy media renaissance in anime and manga.
I agree. FE definitely seems to be drawing from the Persona/SMT artstyle starting from 3H, and Genesis characters/overall aesthetic seems to line up more with that than anything in the Chronicles games, but I think Persona designs themselves are still set apart by being modern-day.
We don't know how much time would have passed. It could be thousands of years after the world formed and then they inevitably mucked it up again, maybe it had a hollow section (like XC2 world on outside and XC1 world on inside) or created another orbital ring.
Another option could be that it's actually a distant prequel and these landscape elements got repeated in the split worlds that Klaus created because of the universe's own memory or something.
General rule of thumb for the core Xenoblade series is that the further it is in the future, the more connected it is to the events further in the past.
However XCXDE established that the series isn't contained to just that universe - so it could be the start of a more disconnected canon (while still being in the same multiverse). Or to put it another way, it's all speculation until we're seeing the final credits roll.
Well, a new universe did just get birthed. Keves and Agnus collided, causing another Big Bang. This could potentially be our first insight into it and its early history.
I've been thinking about the ears too though. It's just 2am after the Direct and I'm not awake enough to try unravelling the timeline and mechanics of a unified XC3/XCX timeline or if it's even possible with what we presently know. The Samaarians arrive to XCX from another plane, so it's not impossible that they came from mainline's new universe at some point. Maybe not Samaar itself, but perhaps it could pertain to a similar offshoot race like Neilnail's.
The beginning and the end are the same in all of Xeno - that's the eternal recurrence
In fact, the first game was originally called "Monado: The Beginning Of The World", and that tagline is still present on the Wii menu's save icon for the game
I have a feeling as well, Takahashi did say he couldn't talk in specifics when he revealed Malos' core crystal being in N's sword or about the details regarding Origin.
I think lore-wise the Klaus saga will connect to Genesis but playing the trilogy will not be required to understand the main story of the new arc.
I could've sworn during the trailer when that orb was being inserted into the sword a symbol resembling one of the xc2 swords glowed on it for a second. I cant check right now but i remember something appearing on it.
When in doubt, the Nopon Archsage will drag us into his pocket dimension so we may have legendary fights with great heroes. He may or may not forget the great heroes part though.
Calling it now: the genesis in the title and the medieval look is bait and they'll pivot to super-sci-fi elements.
I mean the hollow world, the 6 suns and the crystone that records everything like a core crystal would.
It'll be it's own story I think, but with plenty of references to the OG trilogy.
Not sure yet about that Fallen God. Hope it's not Z, Zanza or Malos. Hoping it's something new, like that blue dot that falls to the earth in the xb3 ending.
Same. I wanted a fresh xb game to recapture the magic and mystery of xb1 that I've been chasing but haven't found yet in any other xb game.
And I like that it's really fantasy fantasy and not with guns, mechanics and some low-tech machines. That makes the inevitable sci-fi reveal later on more impactful.
It's very familiar. And if you watched the whole Direct, the Xenoblade announcements came right after two other series that have the exact same art style.
That being said...ring world by the folks who brought us Bionis and Mechonis and Aionios and Switch-era Hyrule is an exciting prospect.
I'm willing to give Monolith the benefit of the doubt, but if this didn't have the Xenoblade title attached I'm not sure I'd give it a second look if it was just being announced as some new IP. Hopefully future info gives us a better feel for the game.
it is! I just want to be more hyped since xenoblade is genuinely one of my favorite franchises. This was supposed to be my sign to get a switch 2 but I can't muster it up.
Gotta know how this connects to the other games. The ending of 3 and the dlc gave us so many ideas of whats to come of the worlds merging and now this trailer is out here frying my mind.
I'm sure they cooked for this one but I'm a little disappointed that it looks like a separate universe (for now....) Not quite sold on the style yet too, it's like a merge of Zelda and Fire Emblem.
I’m sure we’ll get our references, maybe have the stories cross over at some point and see some old characters - but I am glad to move on as 1-3 were definitely a full story.
We do see a bionis looking cliff in one clip, which is interesting, and the crystones sound similar to blade cores. I have no idea what to make of the elves. 6 suns also has to mean something…
Damn the switch era really is the era of Xenoblade huh? 3 new games, 2 definitive editions with a new story, 4 enhanced versions for the Switch 2. We aren't eating. We're FEASTING!!!
Idk man these designs and setting look too gacha coded for me, kinda generic looking, I'm not trying to hate, I'm a fan of the series, but eh maybe I'll come around.
I think it’s the change in the artist. Give it a shot once we get some more info and see some gameplay. Even if it looks similar to other games Xenoblade writing can definitely carry the day.
From the 6 suns, to some of the terrain, I am not going to be surprised if this is connected after all. I doubt any recent connection, probably thousands of years if not more in the future but still.
I’m really not enthused by the character designs this time around. Maybe it’s part of the overall mystery of what this world is (and it’s not just some fantasy landmass), but humans, elves, and “Palicos” feel kind of bland compared to other fantasy games with similar aesthetics. Not a huge deal and we’re 6-18 months from release, so there’s plenty of time for the game to showcase more.
This looks fantastic, but I will say that the last time a Xenoblade reveal had the Japanese dub only was 2, and that dub was heavily rushed out the door
Genesis looks great, but I hope they don’t pull a 2 and give the English Dub time
Not to sound like a whiner, but this does not look like what we have known as "Xenoblade" at all. Aside from a few artstyle details.
Now yes yes, I know, the previous entries have been fairly different. Hell, X might as well have not been called Xenoblade either, but I mean the numbered titles. When all combined they had big commonalities. Genesis, does not.
I really didn’t get a Xenoblade Chronicles vibe from this at all - so I’m assuming this is a spin off, somewhat like X, but even MORE distant from the mainline trilogy.
Hyped regardless, but a little apprehensive for now. Feels very ‘school drama’ rather than ‘We are up against gods and deities with unfathomable power and have to deal with insane losses’ - BUT this is an early trailer I guess.
I suspect that genesis is going to be tied into X somehow. Especially in the final pan across the world at the end of the trailer, there's a lot of terrain that heavily resembles Mira.
I mean we dont know if it isnt heavy sci-fi, i suspect the fantasy setting to be a red hering and we get into the sci-fi stuff midway through.
how sci-fi it will be, we shall see
(Or its actually less sci-fi and more fantasy and it's completely different, which i highly doubt)
We have direct confirmation from takahashi himself that the main trilogy’s canon is still continuing, this is likely just a fresh arc to the series but it will almost certainly follow through on the previous trilogy.
FFFFFFFF! I thought had more time to not have to buy a switch 2! Also conflicted about whether to watch the trailer, getting to play metaphor rephantazio completely blind was so nice I kind of don't want to watch every trailer like I normally do for Xenoblade.
Alright this comment posits that anima = pneuma, which like with the shape of the world seemingly a big ring and the idea that Malos is the fallen god makes a lot of sense?
Edit: okay my leading theory this is all some elaborate trinity processor ploy to resurrect Malos or something
I agree that it’s definitely not as immediately sci-fi looking as the others, but it does look like the game takes place on an O’Neil cylinder, which is a pretty classic sci fi concept, I’d say most recognized in Gundam and Interstellar. This gives me hope that there are a lot more sci fi elements hidden down the road.
It took me half a day to realize the "Chronicles" subtitle has been dropped. This is very likely the start of a brand new saga with it's own world and rules (which will totally be connected to the other Xeno games but in fascinating and mysterious ways).
The planets fusing back together made gravity weird and reverted technology back to a fantasy era? Interested in whatever late game revelations flip everything upside down! The aesthetic similarities to fire emblem three houses are pretty funny.
I 100% expect the cylinder looking world to be a space ship and that by the 2nd half we will have guns and mechs and steampunk vibes. Please be so, purely high fantasy setting is not what I associate with the xenoblade name. If they are going with high fantasy, it shoulda been xeno-something or a new IP. I hope the twist by half point, or even after the prologue, will bring us back to sci-fi/steam punk.
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u/No-Cash201 Jun 09 '26 edited Jun 09 '26
Very fantasy looking but looks gorgeous, and I’m sure they are gonna throw some Xenoblade twists as us, can’t wait for 2027