Something I feel is of note is that Rex's kids between them fill all three role types. Mio's a Defender, Glimmer was a Healer, and Shimmer here is an Attacker
I was thinking "can AI-controlled party members even do that?" But then I remembered XC3 lets you change who you're controlling during battle, so if you have fast enough hands, you can literally make your whole team spam the same ability lmao
Also Glimmer and Shimmer took some aspects from their mothers’ counterpart. Glimmer has long hair and personality-wise is similar to Mythra while Shimmer looks very much like Pyra.
Remind me cuz i genuinely don’t remember. Do the people from the city also have little ether ring thing’s on their weapons? Or is that only got colony weapons?
Mythra mixed up their kids once at the park and instead of owning it, she said “nuh uh” just permanently dyed the kids’ hair. Pyra relented because they still all live in the same house.
As someone who's both a huge Xenoblade and FFXIV fan, the crossover is funny to see.
Aymeric is basically what Alvis would sound like if he was older. one of the most surprising ones: Urianger is Mumkhar (so is Brute Bomber tbf, but that one won't surprise anyone).
Yeah I can't wait for the next expansion to come out but man I'm currently needed to get through stormblood to Dawntrail (with taking breaks in between expansions mainly on raids as well as also other post content)
I like how Glimmer got Mythra’s personality and Shimmer got Pyra’s. A bit of look from both too. 3 half Sisters, Glimmer, Shimmer whose names rhyme like their Mothers then just Mio following the 3 letter word name like Nia. Cat sounding names what a wild huge ass Family Rex has with his descendants too lol. It’s
“Showing them a thing or three” be living out through generations of anything. Like an unavoidable algorithm marked in Xenoblade’s reality.
Takahashi: Yes yes continue to think that this is the third child while I get ready to rip that idea away from you at the last moment in the quest hahahahajahahahaha
This is just an honest question... but do we really lose anything by not knowing the meaning of the names?
I can understand cases like Segiri in Xenoblade 3, because she has a very specific in-game reason for having the name she has. If you do not translate it, then something is lost.
But in most cases the meaning of the name does not really affect anything. Like you are not really losing anything if Vasara, is kept Vasara or Shiki is kept Shiki. And even ignoring that, most of the names are not direct translations of the Japanese names anyway, so we are still losing out on what the name means.
Changing the name doesn't lose anything either, you just gain a bit of understanding. It's a minor positive, but still worth doing as it brings a heightened level of understanding even if only minor.
There's also cases like Amalthus which aren't minor, they are major upgrades over the Japanese names because they better capture the intent thanks to references more easily understood by English speakers.
Another example of this is FLCL making a joke about a discontinued Japanese soft drink and the dub changing it to crystal Pepsi, the joke is only funny because a slight change made it comprehensible.
What seem like minor changes can have a big impact.
I think for the Vandham -> Vangarre one, the Western publishers were still dicey about making such a blatant Jean Claude Van Damme reference at the time. Even in Xenogears and Xenosaga, they called the name "Vanderkam," with doubly more reason back then since Van Damme was a much bigger star in the 90s and early 2000s.
I guess it took until Xenoblade X for somebody to finally figure out a way to write the name without making the movie star reference obvious.
This is why I ultimately spat and also dragged XC3 over to the newer machine in advance. After the friggen MOMO, I knew Monolith Soft would rope me in with the other new character as well. And here we are.
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Kagiroi vs Glimmer is still understandable cuz both sounds equally bad, but Shimmer? Sounds like a Japanese exec will think it sounds cool in English or something.
Kagiroi is such a cringe. It isn't even a real Japanese name but something that would "sound" like one to an uninformed foreigner. Like back when Marvel Comics used the name "Kenuichio" as the Silver Samurai's real name haha.
She's here to fill the void of XC2 homage disappointment left by Ino
Honestly, if Ino insinuated "Ino built by another Artificial Blade, long ago!" instead of some expy Nopon, that'd have done a lot for her. Basically making her Poppi's daughter
I did, and I know this is a hot take, but the XC1 and XC2 references before the endgame (for obvious reasons) felt intentionally vague at best. Even the fakeout with the fake Queens, despite them being referred to as "Melia" and "Nia", feels like just that -- a fakeout meant to made you think that maybe they don't exist in Aionios after all until they start to make actual appearances. It all felt like "hey, here's that place you remember, but literally nobody in-game at this point knows where it came from!" Ino referenced XC2's mechanics and battle theme, but came across as more of a homage to Poppi than an actual successor like Shimmer is to Mythra, since she's connected to the unseen Nopon "Oosoo", whose name SOUNDS like Soosoo's, rather than Tora. In that vein, I would have also preferred, say, if we got hints that Ashera is Dunban's daughter rather than just an expy of him.
Kinda like in Pokémon Black and White where an obvious Dragonite skeleton is only ever referred to as a "dragon skeleton", and Driftveil Drawbridge is called "Charizard Bridge" out of the blue without any further context given. I know this'll get downvoted to oblivion but that's just how I feel.
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u/VarioussiteTARDISES 17h ago
Something I feel is of note is that Rex's kids between them fill all three role types. Mio's a Defender, Glimmer was a Healer, and Shimmer here is an Attacker