Video: Nintendo Goes for Drama in Its Latest Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Story Trailer

Cant wait

Don't get the complaints about the VAs. They sound great to me. Rex is a little subdued in his delivery but it's still not bad by any stretch

Everything changed when the player skipped the tutorial

I am very excited to spend my holidays exploring the world of Xenoblade for the first time. These trailers just further my hype.

I've spoiled myself enough by watching previous trailers. I want to leave some surprises for me to discover. I'm basically already sold now that my one reservation has been addressed.

Damn, what a trailer!
I really can't wait for the release day!

@Ralizah What was your reservation? I have a few and maybe yours is one you could answer for me.

At least we won't suffer the physical shortages of the original; one of the few good things downloading a game can offer.

I still want a cart, though.

@invictus4000 I was concerned about the quality of the game's undocked performance due to previews talking about the visuals being "blurry," but other previewers have said the game looks quite good off the dock. Western critics and gamers often tend to fetishize playing on large HD televisions, so it's more likely that that reviewers who go on about playing on their great, big, massive (you see where I'm going with this) HD sets are reacting hyperbolically to a resolution drop than a Nintendo developer dropping the ball on undocked play for a major release on the company's new portable system.

@Yorumi There seem to be a lot of references to past Xeno- games in this. I wouldn't read too much into it.

Haha, the main character's gasp there at the end, where they fake the animé style choice of showing the inside of the opposite cheek when in profile. Goofy.

Lots of sweet melodrama though, just the way it ought to be in this type of game.

@Yorumi Literally nothing you've said makes any sense to me whatsoever. I've never played a Xenoblade game before. Are they typically somewhat tied together, and will I be lost without playing previous titles, or is XC2 as good of a place as any to jump in?

@roadrunner343 All of the Xenoblade games are separate, self-contained experiences. Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is a perfect place to start.

Yorumi was just noticing a visual reference to a previous Xeno-game on the Playstation 2 (before Nintendo acquired Monolith Soft).

Wait !
Pyra and Mithra are two different girls ?
Then, Mithra is inside Pyra's body ??

I've watched a tiny bit of this trailer, just for the voice actors. Probably going to play with english voices since this is too dramatic for me.

@Yorumi @Ralizah Awesome, thank you both for the feedback. Pretty sure I'll be giving this a go. It certainly looks interesting, but just wanted to make sure I would be lost in the plot. Take care!

At the point where I am so hyped for this, just watching a second more of it hurts my heart, spoiler or no spoiler. Friday cannot come soon enough. Too bad I‘m always busy until late evening that day. Gonna download the japanese VA pack and am ready to go Saturday morning with the whole next week off.

Can’t wait for this to come out so Nintendo can talk about something other than this. Hoping for a Switch Direct soon. Seems like it’s been quite a while.

Lol you telling us there are spoilers are what made them spoilers.

@Yorumi all of the drop pods I'm Xenoblade Chronicles X were in the shape of a Zohar too. It's not meaningful in any way. Just a nice nod to the series origins

@justin233 It would be great if we got another full-scale presentation in January of 2018 that showed off the majority of the big games coming out the rest of the year.

I can't stand the cheesy "I'll do ANYTHING for you rex senpai!" type anime girls. But I might eat my words if I ever get and finish the game. Hopefully I end up liking it

2017's swan song. You wonderful year you. (Apart from EA and ActivisionBlizzard for being greedy gits. Shame they kinda tarnisherd it.)

From Soraya Saga:
"Spoiler? Don’t worry, this is just a tip of icebergs. "
https://twitter.com/sorayasaga/status/935149626004447232

What's with using the Japanese voice actors? This can't be a big draw for American audiences who are notoriously averse to foreign subtitled films. Is the English voice acting so bad that they have to remove it from the marketing materials?

I'm #reallyFeelingIt anyway.

I really wish they didnt nibelsnarf with the names so much.

ANIME!

I like the art style

@roadrunner343 The Zohar is hard to explain, but the concept was in Xenogears and the Xenosaga games. I think there was an easter egg for it in Xenoblade X. It is just a piece of imagery that ties all the Xeno-games together since Gears is owned by Square, Saga by Bandai Namco, and Blade by Nintendo. It is just there for long time fans.

@roadrunner343 This is what the Zohar was originally, according to the Xenogears Perfect Works explanation:

A certain discovery rocked the modern world-an "Object" with the shape of an eye (though clearly being of unnatural origins) had been found deep within a bed of sedimentary rock that was approximately 3.9 billion years old. Eventually, one research institution advanced an alarming new hypothesis about the "Object," stating that its appearance in Earth's geological timeline coincided with the earliest known life ever found; the hypothesis suggested this "Object" may have been the source of all terrestrial life: "artificial" panspermia (Pan-space embryo).

Shortly thereafter, many romantic theories and interpretations began to form about the "Object," however, this accomplished very little and soon, all of these foolish notions came to constitute a simply hopeless mess. The senseless "deduction" swept across both scientific and academic fields, leaving in its wake vague and ambiguous opinions which joined with equally impaired suppositions which ultimately served to destroy any grounds for a concrete argument. All the while, one vital question remained: "what is the 'Object?'"

And before we can even delve into that matter--do we even know if the "Object" is of artificial fabrication? In fact, the mere circumstances of its discovery remain an enigma; finding such an "Object" out of sheer fortuity seems nigh impossible. And this enigma is only deepened as hypotheses awaited evidence while constantly randomly replicating through random theorization and actually reproducing any of these hypotheses may result in one's untimely demise. Eventually, through Carbon-dating, the age of the "Object" was determined to be over 15.0 billion years, confirming that it had been present at the birth of the universe.

This announcement simply added to the existing volume of confusion and strayed into a whole new labyrinth of mystery; if the "Object" is assumed not to be created by some artificial means, then it enters unto the realm of God.

The "Object" was later discovered to possess a considerable amount of a substance which causes magnetic anomalies and, in addition, the "Object" emits a strong magnetic field of its own. Considering this, the "Object" was then referred to as 'MAM' (Magnetic Abnormal Matter) out of convenience. Analysis of the "Object" was carried out on an international scale, however, the project would meet with funding issues and would ultimately wind up abandoned.

Any remaining analysis of the "Object" would be left to private voluntary researchers who would eventually come up with a new name for the "Object."

The name--Zohar."

In other words, TLDR version- no one knows what it's for.

The Zohar represents the mystery of the origin of creation. The truth of it's full significance is pursued by mortals, but none have uncovered it since the dawn of the known universe. Or at least not to live and tell the tale.

15 billion years is far older than even our sun (about 4.5 billion years), and older still than the Earth as we know it. So it's also a mystery how it got here in the first place, since it predates our solar system by such a long time. Everything in the whole solar system started forming at about the same time, so this means that the Zohar was most likely somewhere else previously. (And who knows how it wound up in the Milky Way galaxy, out of the over 2 trillion galaxies that exist.)

The Zohar is ultimately not really important on it's own to the stories of the Xeno series, but rather, it's a metaphorical driving motivator manifested in physical form. The characters only attribute as much meaning as they want to it, so it's not necessarily important to understand. (Which no one really does anyways.)

Looking forward to it!!!

My salvation levels are very, very, high. This is the game I wanted the most from the Switch.

Can't deal anymore with anime drama, cliché scenario, animation voice reaction, story, kawaiiii.

Could be be great but had to be cheapened-out by the mainstream anime genre.