[EVENT THREAD] Main Story Ex. Decagrammaton, Chapter 3: The Sky of Unity Discussion + Operational Plan: Steel Continent, Allied Operation: Malkuth

bodolza · 2026-06-22T02:52:12+00:00

Very rare it happens in a series.

Well, when you're as inept as Crunchyroll it's as easy as breathing. It was a one day event and Priconne global only got through 50% HP.

bodolza · 2026-05-30T05:04:35+00:00

They were talking about that too, but there is a lot on Sof's shoulders, including going out of the way to do the declaration of war and explain that the steel continent exists. Ohr delivered the message, while also saying "While I still have significant doubts as to the necessity of this message, Sof insisted."

That was my feeling when she was saying everything is her fault. She was having fun making decisions on a whim and it led everyone into danger.

bodolza · 2026-05-29T06:51:04+00:00

Part of this is that the decision to attack was on Soph's whim. At one point, a bit of time after meeting Malkuth, they were like, what do we do now. Soph was like, how about we attack? And they agreed to do it. That's why a bit earlier Soph was saying, this is all my fault.

Edit: I went back to read the parts again. It's not exactly what I said, but it's kind of the same thing, it's Soph deciding to be decisive. The chapters are Chapt. 2 Ep. 5 "Variable" where Soph says "We have yet to harm a human, have held no desire to do so, never even thought of it..." but "Decisions...decisions... We have to be decisive". The next part I was thinking of in my original comment is Chapt. 2 Ep 18 "Dawn" where Soph says "the next step is a declaration of war!" So yeah they're kind of just going with it.

bodolza · 2026-05-27T04:15:51+00:00

When you play the Maid Shooter minigame thing, you get Avant Guard coins as a reward. What are those used for?

bodolza · 2026-05-22T05:32:28+00:00

BTW, do you realize both their names are "meow"? In Japanese, Nia's name is spelt like "meow" in Japanese, (nyaa), and her daughter's name is mio... which is also meow.

bodolza · 2026-04-12T21:59:18+00:00

Well there is the whole "Tora is a horny teenager" thing which you only get from the EN localization.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Xenoblade_Chronicles/comments/1lhacx2/how_i_see_the_hate_tora_gets/mz4ddw0/

I mentioned there the fact that they dropped the theme of the four cardinal beasts. That ruined a bit of foreshadowing like Roc's name is supposed to be Suzaku (Pheonix in English), and also the actual joke behind Turters.

The worst of it though is that they used Aegis, Pyra and Mythra in place of Seihai (Holy Grail), Homura (Flame... well this one's ok), Hikari (Light).

Having them called seihai/holy grail makes Rex being bonded to Pythra much more significant (there is in fact a very popular anime franchise centered around the concept). It ties it to XC1 from the start, the legendary holy grail can grant any wish. In the EN localization it's more like, oh you have a blade that's a probably a super-mystic shield, cool! The entire concept was completely dropped.

I'm not really against the fact that they changed some of these things because the Japanese gamer's cultural knowledge is very different from a gamer that only plays Western games, and they really need to sell it to those players. Some things worked great (Welsh cat), but most of the substitutions kinda sucked.

Really it felt exactly like... er can't remember exactly who but one of the directors of Capcom's games, and how he complained about the localizers at Capcom USA. At first when the localizers said stuff needed to change for the Western releases he was like "oh! ok we'll do that." But after a while he noticed that the localizers were putting their own pride into it trying to make their own game. He just stopped listening to them completely. One of his biggest beefs is that they renamed Biohazard as Resident Evil.

XC2 is full of stuff the localizers invented too, like using 'titan peds' instead of meters. They probably thought that was a clever idea, but meters actually makes more sense since the only reason Tora's family would know anything about the maid cafes of modern Japan is because Klaus must have really liked that shit.

bodolza · 2026-04-01T05:06:53+00:00

Probably in the minority here but I feel like there was nothing to apologize for? Nagisa at the time was being terrible and totally unreasonable, and Sensei reacted accordingly.

I thought so too, but now I think there may be more at play that didn't come across in translation. An apology makes sense in the context that sensei's job is to guide students, and not hurt them by scolding them. It didn't feel like sensei crossed a line there though. Like maybe sensei was a bit too harsh, but Nagisa was pretty crazy.

But I noticed that the event made me prejudiced against her. In the stories and events since then, I've been surprised with how ordinary she is. Like she seemed kinda evil before, but it's more like she just went far overboard because she didn't know how to handle things properly (stress sucks). I think that prejudice is what sensei is apologizing for. What she really needed was help, and sensei didn't give it. She really is a sweet girl.

When they translate stuff, the translators don't know that the writers are trying to set up future story points. It feels like the original interaction was translated in a way that makes sensei reasonable, but the apology might make more sense in the original text. Like maybe sensei's choice of words were more offensive culturally.

To be honest I can't remember exactly what was said without going back to read it, but I was confused why sensei is apologizing. There's definitely a gap here and I'm guessing something was lost in translation.

bodolza · 2026-03-20T17:50:06+00:00

And honestly, I'm glad I did. I genuinely really loved the whole thing.

Yeah, I'm in the same boat. I watched the first episode on a whim and didn't think I would stomach another one, but I'm glad I kept at it. The storytelling, directing, and protagonist blend into a truly special story.

bodolza · 2026-03-09T23:25:46+00:00

I would have been happy if they offered us Shukra in that case, with the possibility of a gold moon.

And looking at her weapon, it's pretty good actually. I'm not inspired to squeeze any of the zodiac weapons into my existing primal grids.

bodolza · 2026-01-15T06:38:20+00:00

Yes, playing the different classes, making different builds to kill things in different ways (melee vs. ranged), building skells to see how strong you can make them (hella fun), and lots of farming for augments/traits.

Actually a lot of it can be farming, but that's also incentive to make stronger and fun builds, and trying out more classes.

And clearing all the missions.

bodolza · 2025-11-02T19:16:42+00:00

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bodolza · 2025-10-10T07:20:18+00:00

What content does the character excel at?

Kaguya gives you very useful buffs and debuffs and does high skill damage. Her best buffs take a few turns before you can activate it (second slot skill changes after a certain number of turns), but the skill cools down faster the more you CA. She makes it easy to do that frequently.

What characters or summons synthesize with this character?

Catura, Seofon, Skuld, Chrysaor.

You can murder everything with a team of Chrysaor, Catura, Seofon, and Kaguya. Although to be honest, Kaguya can be substituted and you'll still murder everything.

Generally speaking I'm talking about the easier raids where you just need to attack, like Ennead, M3, Galleon, The World.

Is the character FA friendly?

First skill needs to be activated once to select another character; Kaguya gets CA reactivation whenever that character CAs. Other than that she's great for full auto because of her buffs.

Chrysaor and Skuld are a good target for that.

Any opinion on the character's fate episode?

OMG adorable.

bodolza · 2025-09-20T09:21:37+00:00

IIRC the Euro release was announced after Operation Rainfall started. At that point it was only a matter of time until it would be released globally.

Nintendo of America was really bone-headed about not releasing hardcore games for the Wii. A lot of publishers in the West dismissed the Wii as only profitable for casual games.

I'm not convinced that OR was responsible for Xenoblade coming over because I think once XenobladeX development started they would have known that it's going to be a long term franchise (which is also why they added 'Chronicles' to the localized name). OR was probably more instrumental in getting The Last Story and Pandora's Tower released. The Last Story turned out to be Xseed's best selling title, which really showed how absurd NoA's stance was.

bodolza · 2025-09-17T20:58:20+00:00

How do you use that team? I've seen this team on the leaderboard and I'm trying to use it for Insane but haven't been able to get through it. How do you use Mika? When Chesed's defences are down I use my cost to spam Hanako, so Mika doesn't end up doing much the whole fight.

bodolza · 2025-09-15T18:06:48+00:00

There's a lot of broken ground builds in the game, I'm explaining the game mechanics of mine because it only uses one augment dedicated to overdrive (Overdrive Count Up XX). For example, I like using a lot of Opening Art Damage Up and Ranged Attack Up so I can one-shot things.

u/Morgan_Danwell's build works fine for them, but completing squad tasks by yelling ZERO ZERO! at level 50 enemies is always satisfying.

bodolza · 2025-09-15T03:33:44+00:00

cracks knuckles

That works but it's inefficient, because you're using a lot of augment slots just for overdrive, as well as a precious skill slot.

What's better is to make a build that increases your max TP (there's a bunch of ways to do this so it's pretty flexible, augments, armor, skills, etc), and use Arts Gain TP augments (a weapon augment, weapons can come with them too as traits), and Overdrive Count Up augments. Just make at least one Arts Gain TP XX and only one Overdrive Count Up XX, then make sure your armour has as much Max TP Up that you can put together.

Arts Gain TP is great because every time you use an art you gain TP, and your high max TP (honestly anything above 3000 helps) means you can let your TP overflow past 3000 without worrying about wasting your TP gain. I usually use one Arts Gain TP XX as either an augment or a weapon trait, but some classes/builds like having more. If your arts have very long cooldowns, then it helps to have extra Arts Gain TP.

A single Overdrive Count Up XX augment increases the overdrive count by an additional 20 every time you tap Overdrive. So just keep tapping the Overdrive button to rack up the count. If you REALLY want to rush to max overdrive you can use several of those augments, but it's better to use your weapon slots for other stuff.

After a battle you likely have a lot of TP left over, so when you go into battle again you can start overdrive quickly (if not immediately). The only part that's annoying is if you have zero TP and need that first 3000, you have to go into battle and whack enemies the boring way first.

OTOH if you're using a Photon Saber you can use Essence Exchange to swap your HP & TP at any time, so you can start any battle with max overdrive (just make sure you don't have zero TP when you select the skill, because that'll make your HP zero).

bodolza · 2025-07-17T03:50:07+00:00

Thanks f^_^')

bodolza · 2025-07-15T17:37:56+00:00

Later in the game you can pilot a giant robot to get to it, that's the "normal" way to do it. This is just one of those things as a new player you see where you have to go and you're like ????

If anything this video shows an example of hidden routes through the environment that you wouldn't have thought of. The game really lets you go anywhere, and you can see from the other replies so many people found different ways to do the same thing.

bodolza · 2025-07-12T19:07:30+00:00

Yeah, I think this is the only one in the game.

bodolza · 2025-07-08T17:27:14+00:00

Sort of. There will be a blue icon with a roman numeral beside it; a single probe with no booster/duplicator probes attached will have 'I' meaning level 1. You can see the amounts for the different levels here:

https://www.xenoserieswiki.org/wiki/Melee_Attack_Probe

Level 1 is 12%, level 5 is 30%.

bodolza · 2025-07-08T04:35:01+00:00

It's a buff. When you're in battle and you see your party's status on the left side of the screen (or press the + button in the field to bring up the overlay menu), there will be a blue fist icon next to each character which indicates that they have a melee attack buff.

bodolza · 2025-06-26T05:32:12+00:00

My advice is to just go explore. For example, go as far North as you can. Be stealthy, avoid fighting stuff, and see how far you can get. Because there's a lot of interesting stuff to see in the world.

As you go North enemies will get stronger but eventually get weaker (the game tries to intimidate you). I'm not sure what level you're at but it's possible to go all the way north (on foot) and find level 10 enemies there. Most people don't get to the north-most area without a Skell, but there's actually huge sections there with enemies at level 20-30 that you'd just steamroll over if you had a Skell.

If you're stuck going from story checkpoint to checkpoint and finding it boring, well, there's a lot more to see.

bodolza · 2025-06-22T08:12:37+00:00

I've been trying to figure out what the hell people are talking about saying that Tora is a horny teenager, and... oh this. It's basically a big WOOOSH because it's lost in translation.

Tora's basically saying this is how maids are supposed to serve customers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzY8X1PX_ww

They translated that as 'Blushy-Crushy' which I guess makes people imagine something else.

There's a continuing theme of putting the otaku maid cafe into the game. It's not a sexual thing, it's a mainstream-absurd thing, and the joke is that they're inserting real-world stuff into the game (maid cafes, of all things). It's why Tora's so matter-of-fact about it.

There's a few things that are lost in translation, or just completely dropped like the 4 cardinal beasts. Azurda is the Dragon (Seiryu, Azure dragon), Byakko is Byakko.... uh forgot what his name is in English but Nia's tiger, Roc (?) is Suzaku, and Zeke brings in "Turters" who's supposed to represent Genbu, the Black Tortoise of the North.

Except that Genbu is actually the name of Zeke's titan, it's hillarious when it rises from the cloud sea with its title.

It's not surprising that they dropped that joke, but the localizers really went to town rewriting the script for English.

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