I HAVE NO CONTEXT FOR THIS - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 Playthrough Episode 78
21There is never a time that I am more acutely aware that I am playing Xenoblade Chronicles 3 as my first Xenoblade Chronicles game than when I am hanging out with Nia and Melia. It feels like everything they say is a coded message or reference to something meant to be for fans of the previous installments.
Every piece of dialogue is a callback, every landmark, a reference to something else. Even certain musical cues made me think that they were being used from the previous games. And the more I think about it, the more clever I think the designers were about this. They realized there would be some people like me who started with this game and wouldn’t know these characters, and so they ended the game with two post-game quests that make two characters from the previous characters. If these quests don’t spark an interest in the previous installments of the series, then that person wasn’t destined to Xeno the Blade.
We start this episode by meeting up with Nia in the Cloudkeep. She’s a little stir crazy and desperate to get out and about, so she concocts a thin excuse to invite herself along on out adventures despite the fact that she’s basically a major celebrity in this world and she would not have needed to come up with some random excuse. She could have just as easily asked to join us and we would have jumped at the chance. But I don’t think she realizes that, honestly, because she does come up with a flimsy excuse and seems quite pleased with herself about it.
Alternatively, We catch Melia trying to sneak out of Keves Castle in what is apparently supposed to be a disguise. She wants to check out the plight of her people without getting any grief from her aides, but she didn’t actually disguise any part of herself and was therefore immediately recognizable. But, once caught, Melia comes right out with it and says she wants to travel around to see her people face to face. Furthermore, she just flat out asks us if she can travel with us. The two scenes offer a fascinating insight to their characters that probably means something completely different for people who know them.
Both women have adventures for us that seem to reflect on who they are as people, at least in this game. Nia seems to be focused on experiences, both having them and remembering them, while Melia seems more focused on her duties. I can’t wait to see the reverse character development that will reveal what led to them becoming the women they are in this game.
Like I said earlier in this post, I do think that this was a marvelous way to end the game, because it both gave us more time with the gang I’ve grown to know and love, but also creates a healthy curiosity about the first two games. That was already there, but still, you catch my drift. Both of the women’s quests required us to look back on their previous lives, and that made me really interested to dive into them even deeper in the previous installments.
So if you like flashbacks to scenes you never saw, helping out with royal duties, and/or reaching out and touching the sky, then this episode of my Xenoblade Chronicles 3 playthrough episode is for you!
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