Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition | NEW Trailer Analysis

Yesterday, we were gifted with a new trailer for the upcoming Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition with a brief look at the new region for players to explore, new characters to meet, and quality of life changes. What's crazier is that most of these reveals might lie in the previously released Xenoblade X art book. Let's take a closer look at the trailer to see what's to come! Enjoy!

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[Polarcon]

Follow Ball is not a new feature, however it did not have a line trailing behind, so it is easier to follow its path now.

[KayJulers]

Howdy, everyone! Something I wanted to add is that the art book translation seems to show that the Ares originally could fit two pilots, which is very much like Ouroboros requiring two participants. Kind of neat to think about as another point for that theory connecting the two.

[Fioriole]

What look like Ouroboros cores are likely antimatter cores, as that's what powers the Ares and the Ghosts. I don't recall the Ghosts having such prominent cores in the original game, but it's likely they updated them to keep it consistent with the Ares. I wouldn't be surprised if they change it so antimatter cores become visible on the Vita after its phase 2 transformation as well.

Funnily enough, these antimatter cores are the reason Earth explodes - destroyed Ghosts fall to Earth and their cores react with Earth's matter causing the massive explosions that chain together to blow up the whole planet.
Shockingly reminiscent of Ouroboros and Moebius, who contain very similar cores and cause similar explosions called 'Annihilation Events' when they overheat...

I'm not a believer of X being connected to the numbered games, but the parallels are hard to deny.

[RealBrain]

At one point in the Japanese bits from the you can see the characters at level 62 show that the level cap has increased from 60

[lucidity]

Sweet analysis, now to see how Luxin manages to pull 3 hours of theorizing out of this trailer

[lued]

I think the "Ouroboros orbs" might just be how matter-antimatter collisions are portrayed in this series. Ouroboros forms were basically powered by matter-antimatter collisions, and matter-antimatter engines are a common trope in sci-fi, so it'd make some sense for a unique, super advanced skell to use one.
Edit: Alternatively, it could be a visual shorthand for "tandem" or "fusion" type... stuff. I seem to remember something about that skell requiring (or at least supporting) two pilots.

[Movel]

If I am allowed to make one shameless fanservice request to Monolith, what I wouldn't give for a Siren inspired Skell to be added to the game.

[paulroche]

It seems pretty safe to say that Ouroboros was inspired by the original Ares, and not the other way around. This likely wasn't talked about previously, simply because of how few people both played X and then bought the extra materials.

I think people are setting themselves up for disappointment if they ignore the Occam's Razor explanation offered above.

[Jobaa]

0:01 American realizing there's other timezones than USA: impossible

[CHRIS-X]

6:57 In the game itself it mentions that the Ares 90 and 70 was modeled after a specific unique skell
I’m gonna assume it’s that one

[totozhu]

The Ares that the Hero piloted is actually a prototype of the most powerful preset Skell you can buy called the Ares 90

[SuperEljafru]

if i had a nickel for every time i’ve popped off for a xenoblade game in my company’s break room, i’d have two nickels

[mistressminerva]

Thanks for the Video.

Hræsvelgr thats how the White Samurai Jet Mode Skell is called.
My current theory is that Sakuraba CEO's daughter is flying this thing.
Reason is that her BLADE Logo looks nothing like the NLA one, so it might be the one originating from another Exodus Ship.
The Japanese Exodus Ship should have had Sakuraba CEO and daughter onboard.
But i doubt they would add another Exodus Ship, they could still come up with a sub plot on why she is here.

Iirc Squad Missions and Time Attack Challenges had a few fights that were not in the Main Game and you could only get the achievements by praying until you get the randomly assigned unique Squad Missions. That said, i think the unique skill of those 2 NeilNail Skells was to manipulate time.
So they could add some time shenanigans to the plot if they wanted ... the Qlu stuff was all cut content, and many of the player base wished for more Qlu content, im happy Monolith Soft delivers on that. This could also tie in with the above mentioned Hræsvelgr as an explanation why the Sakuraba CEOs daughter is on Mira without having to add a entirely new cut content exodus ship.

I assume the Black Knight Concept was completely scrapped now, since the White Samurai Girl drives his Skell and the Lone Hero is on the Beach with Lao.
I dont remember what the Black Knight was supposed to do in the cut content, but it is safe to assume that the job was split as content for the other 2 characters. And yes its safe to assume the dude with Lao on the Beach is the Lone Hero, because of the dialogue, because he is the only other character with Gray Hair and because the Original Tandem Ares appears again.

Connections to XC3 ... i think that since the Original Tandem Ares had those cores in his joints in the concept art, they made them look more like Origin Cores from the XC3FR fusion because this has some ties to what happens when 2 worlds with different polarized matter comes together in unison.
Iirc the Samaarians at some point in time just appeared out of nowhere in the Main Universe, so maybe their Origin is similar to what happend in XC3 without it being the same and connected. The Original Tandem Ares can also only use its full potential when both pilots are present.
In other words, both are similar concepts to XC3, but still different and have a different point of Origin.
The only other explanation i could come up with is ... the Qlu used their time technology to throw the XC3 Origin back in time, for whatever reason.
But this would have another bunch of unsolved mysteries.

I have nothing to add for Black Tar enemies or the floating islands, except that the location is surrounded by a Barrier, so you can probably only reach this location after the Original Main Plot is concluded ... you can also see the Manon ship in that shot, so Post Story you probably have to take the Manon ship to get you there. This would also explain why you now can reach lvls above the previous lvl 60 cap, cuz you continue with the same save file, not a separated game.

My biggest remaining hopes now are,
- that they fix up some Skill and Arts combinations on the Party Members cuz many of them had weird combinations that didnt make sense.
- that they change up some drop rates and remove some really unnecessary skill and stat buffs on armour and augments
- that they add a bit more Content for best boy L.

[sharkt]

4:01 I really hope they add rothians as a recruitable race.
It was a crime we couldn’t get the prince and his assistant…

[ontos]

Interesting thing of note
1. The Qlurians are definitely more important than they seems as a the Lifehold core utilizes a “Trion barrier” something that Luxaar says is only found in the Qlu system and the theme that plays when you meet Celia has the exact same motif as the theme for when you enter the Lifehold core.

2. The connection between Ouroboros and the “cores” found on the Ares and on Ghost technology might not be so far fetched as in game the original Ares is said to have been a tandem skell so it requires two pilots like Ouroboros.

3. On the matter of the new masked character I believe she is likely the president’s daughter that is in some of the concept art

4. The structure at the end is very similar but not exactly the same a piece of concept art for a space station called “the rose garden”

[DarthShader]

fyi there is an Ares you get to pilot yourself including the weponry used for that specific skell its tied to the group battles that are online because the parts needed to make a Ares are dropped only from Telethia and those were only found in group online battles

[xxelectric_ionoxx]

Would be crazy if the Black Knight and Elma were a part of the GROWTH faction but didn't agree about the destruction of earth.

[Seraphime]

i need the “jobs” to actually do something bc i swear it had a whole 5 minutes of dialogue dedicated to it just to not mean much like add little side quests or something

[MonadoBoyFlameRock]

The Online Missions and COOP stuff is gonna be fun when u know how to use overdrive and break everything basically deleting the bosses hp effortlessly.

[chribast]

If they really add so much content from the artbook, im really curious about L‘Cirufe and his Conceptartwok of the Artbook. L‘Cirufe = Lucifer