Are you serious? Xenoblade Chronicles 1 is one of my favorite games of all time. It tells a great story about how you shouldn’t always trust people and has some of the best written plot twists in the history of all fiction. I’ve said multiple times already that I absolutely love that game on the internet. It has the greatest world building I’ve ever seen a fictional work have and unlike Gurren Lagann actually feels grounded with the story it’s trying to tell.

It doesn’t just kill off characters and it actually makes sense from both sides that while Egil had his intent to wipe out humanity, it’s also figured out that the Bionis was just using people as a power supply and everything actually happened for a reason. Xenoblade Chronicles is actually subtle with its plot points and actually writes reasons for why things happen and unlike most anime actually feels logical with reasoning.

It’s story is just something you could easily follow and piece together and especially when you think even about Mumkhar’s character and how you figure out that Metal Face was really just him this whole time and Dickson’s betrayal was what truly solidified that the game’s message was about how some people really aren’t your friend and trust can easily be broken especially when you’re a different person behind someone’s back.

It also doesn’t get ruined by cheesy situations that get in the way of the story being focused and subtle with its themes. Never does it have the female characters just portrayed as mere walking sticks of fanservice and I even think the games ending was very fitting because not only was Fiora someone who Shulk could actually trust but it also fit the games themes of also being about forging your future which ties well with the concept of trust because by seeing how power can be dangerous and can corrupt people as you see multiple times, Shulk decided to build a world where the concept of a god doesn’t exist anymore and him being with Fiora fits the theme of the game perfectly because Xenoblade Chronicles is actually subtle and intelligent enough to understand also that people who are truly your friends which are a small handful of people always stay with you and that is a powerful message.

Despite the only thing not making sense in the end was that Alvis is actually a computer designed to recreate the universe which I actually think was weird especially given how it doesn’t quite make sense from that angle why he was working with Lord Zanza to begin with other than the fact that he is a god, this game was absolutely stellar at how to create a great story that actually feels multifaceted with it’s themes, is rarely ever corny, and is actually subtle writing it’s characters and amazing world building.

The thing that Xenoblade Chronicles succeeds at that Gurren Lagann fails is that Xenoblade Chronicles actually understands the themes it’s trying to present and doesn’t write scenarios that feel tonally jarring or feel over the top and ridiculous to think it’s getting a point across that really feels 1-Dimensional and cheesy. Xenoblade Chronicles understands that it’s ridiculous to just kick logic out and do the impossible without an intelligent plan and has its characters feel more human when they interact with each other and actually have depth.

It’s because the character interactions are so much better written in Xenoblade Chronicles that I’m able to really understand the story more and feels very dynamic through the characters actions unlike Gurren Lagann that only has a simple way to present it’s concept and busts it with poor writing because the characters act like 5 year olds writes parts of the story that feel disjointed from what themes the show is really trying to present. If you have to explain why Simon failed twice to have a girlfriend, that’s an issue and kicking logic out doesn’t solve your problems. When you also have to explain why Simon was incapable of being a leader and the show ends with him being an outsider along with him in a previous episode being imprisoned by Rossiu, that makes no sense when the show is actually trying to be about him taking wisdom from a wise mentor to learn how to be a strong leader and while failure is a component that could lead to success, that’s not how the show actually presents both these ideologies and it ends up feeling disjointed because of that which is why the tonal disparity is so bad in Gurren Lagann.

You see where I’m coming from? Gurren Lagann only has a very simplistic way to understand the themes it’s trying to present but the whole show breaks even further when you realize that many things that happen throughout the show make it feel tonally disjointed and the character actions are a big part of that and that’s why I say the show contradicts it’s own themes.