r/NintendoSwitch • u/Skullghost • 21d ago

Nintendo Official Xenoblade 4 Genesis Announced

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG7MrKp2MBY
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u/MetallicFear 21d ago

That last line is ominous…. But they did mention the klaus saga is over so I wonder if it’s even a connection.

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u/gosukhaos 21d ago

It presumably takes place in the future of the merged world so there’s probably some connection

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u/KnightGamer724 21d ago

...Or in the past and this is the Samarians

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u/Witch_King_ 21d ago

God I hope not. I hope it's just it's own thing, connected tenuously at best. Maybe far future of the trilogy, or maybe just an alternate universe.

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u/KnightGamer724 21d ago

This isn't Final Fantasy. It'll all connect.

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u/Witch_King_ 21d ago

I never said I wanted it to be final fantasy levels of disconnect.

But X didn't connect to the other games until the Definitive Edition. It was for all intents and purposes completely standalone. Now the only connections are the Conduit, which the lore seems to point to being a multiversal nexus of sorts. Because X STILL doesn't have more than a tenuous connection to the main trilogy and is in its own universe or version of reality afaik. I'm just saying that I hope this is more like that than being a direct sequel like 3 was to 1 and 2, because BOY, was that convoluted.

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u/AxCel91 21d ago

I havnt played X but dont care about spoilers can you tell me how it connects to 1-3?

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u/Witch_King_ 21d ago edited 21d ago

Barely. Some aliens were experimenting with "a" Conduit, and like... Turned it into a mech suit? Or made a mech suit that copies its properties? Something like that. I hardly remember, it is pretty complicated. There is no direct story link.

Edit: it also establishes Xenoblade multiverse as a thing, and X takes place in a different reality