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Xenoblade fans today:

Bravely Default Community

The upcoming remaster of the first game is making me all nostalgic and had me wondering if there was a community for the series here. I couldn't find one, so I made one!

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A community for the Bravely Default series!

With the Xenoblade X Definitive Edition coming out soon, I've been revisiting The "Sketchy" Cross Battle Arts Requests (but with less sketchy) drawings. I'm doing some practice ones since it's been juuust a few years since I last looked at Xenoblade X armour but I'm excited to do these! (Oh how I've missed and cried over the armour and weapons, my lovely details!) I think they'd be both a fun raffle/limited selection event(s?) and a cool commission option too! Still figuring out the pricing cause it's a little different from what I'm offering now, so it'll be a separate option to pick from.

Luckily I still have my Wii U so if there's stuff that's specific to that version I can go back and reference it. (Or you know, if I'm not far enough into the DE for accessing arts and gear.) Raffle wise, could maybe hold one like at one month and then every few months after? That depends on workload and for how long I'm into XCX but so far I've been really enjoying it, so I'd love to offer it from time to time if I can!

For fun, here’s the order I played through Xenoblade (do not do this):

-Started with X of all things because I thought it looked cool. It’s the odd one out, with a bigger focus on side content, a customizable avatar, giant robots you can control, and almost everyone has an American accent (they’re canonically from America it’s fine). Also Shulk and Fiora’s voice actors are voice options for the protagonist, neat.

-Played 1 and it’s sidestory next when it came out on Switch, very good time.

-Played 2 after that, I skipped it when it first came out because reasons and forced myself to play through it because 3 got announced. Nia, Zeke, and being blessed by the gacha gods and summoning KOS-MOS got me through 2. I still haven’t finished the DLC.

-3 and it’s DLC after that, both are very good. I’ve heard the DLC has a lot of references to some older games the devs made but I don’t have those.

I’d recommend starting with 1 and then 2, there’s some cool stuff near the end of 2 that hits harder if you’ve played 1. X can go anywhere after 1 since it’s the closest gameplay-wise and X has some references to 1.

A BREIF GUIDE TO STARTING XENOBLADE

okay, firstly, xenoblade refers to 4 video game. Xenoblade Chronicles 1, X, 2, and 3. They're really good and introspective and you should play them. but its not that simple.

1, 2, and 3 are all on Nintendo Switch. X is on WiiU, so its okay to skip that one if you dont have the console. X is also a little wierd. It's completely different and futuristic, so even though it was released between 1 and 2, play it after those. Maybe even after 3.

The issue is where to start.

You can start with 1 or 2. Most people start with 1, naturally. I started with 2.

The case for starting with 1 goes as follows:

It was the first released

It works perfectly as a standalone if you don't want to continue after it (even though you probably will want to)

more... normal. than 2

The case for starting with 2:

worse gameplay, so its up and up from here

slightly more lore relevance, pulls u in more

get it over with bc its kinda wierd and oversexualized and Rex's voice direction oh lawd

my personal play order recommendation is 2 (and maybe dlc prequel sidestory), 1 (and included sidestory), X if you have a WiiU, 3, 3's dlc. You can swap 2 and 1, but meh.

The dlc for Xenoblade Chronicles 3 is important because of the Future Redeemed Sidestory. It's so important both Protags from 1 and 2 come back, along with Computer God from 1.

and then when you're inevitably confused afterwwards, either come crawling back to me (probably in tears. you will cry) or go to Luxin on youtube. have fun, play xenoblade, live laugh lacerate.

So Twitter might be dying?

I should probably be active here then. Name’s Brim, I’ll talk about my dumb video game opinions and my OCs for stuff like Pokémon. If you’re here from the Twitter link and know me, let me know.

Hey if you like Pokemon, there's a massive thing here that lets you pick your favorites of each type from each generation, along with other categories like starters, legendaries, variants, Spinda patterns, all that good stuff. Here's my favorites.

Maybe I'll explain why things are here later if it's for a reason other than "I just think it's neat".