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Xenoblade (Video Game)

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Xenoblade (Video Game)	comment	This page contains unmarked spoilers for both Xenoblade Chronicles and Future Connected. You Have Been Warned.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })Xenoblade Chronicles (simply Xenoblade in Japan) is an action Japanese role playing game for the Wii console, developed by Monolith Soft and published and produced by Nintendo. While Takahashi orignally did not intend the game to be related to his previous creations, beginning its life as a totally unrelated story called Monado: Beginning of the World, it became the Spiritual Successor to the Xenosaga series of Eastern RPGs for the PlayStation 2, which itself was a spiritual successor to SquareSoft's Xenogears, after Satoru Iwata suggested the Xeno title be added late into production to honor Tetsuya Takahashi's history and struggles in the industry. After the game's success, more traditional Xeno elements would be retroactively added into the sequels, seemingly ressurecting the Perfect Works storyline from Xenogears and Xenosaga in a form even its creator couldn't have predicted.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })Two continent-sized gods called the Bionis and the Mechonis fought until only their lifeless corpses remained. Life arose on the surface of these titans, organic life on the Bionis and the Mechon on Mechonis. For as long as the human-like Homs can remember, the Mechon have been intent on wiping out all life upon Bionis. With the power of the legendary Monado, sword of the Bionis itself, the invaders are decisively defeated... until one year later when they return with new, stronger forms. One of the Homs researchers, Shulk discovers he is the Monado's destined wielder when he takes up the sword and starts to see visions of the future. When the Mechon retreat, Shulk swears to get revenge for what they've done and leaves to pursue them.Needless to say, things get much more complicated than that.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_3'); })It was released in Japan on June 10th, 2010, after Nintendo had delayed the game to allow Monolith to finally deliver a game close to their original vision after their long history of problems. This game saw Takahashi adopt a style of directing and writing that matched what most modern game developers view as the optimal strategy when in a game is in preproduction of creating mechanics then writing a story around them instead of the other way around as had been the case in Xenogears and Xenosaga, aka visions in this case, that is seen in his future projects resulting in vastly different narrative experiences from his older works. After much fighting from the fans, it was released in Europe on August 19th, 2011, and translated to English, French, German, Spanish and Italian. After much fan demand, the game reached American grounds in April of 2012. Unfortunately, due to the game's highly limited run, the original release became incredibly hard to find, making it hard for fans late to the game to own the whole "set" of Wii Role Playing Games, made up of this, The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower.On August 29th, 2014, a port for the New Nintendo 3DS system was announced, after Shulk's reveal trailer for the fourth Super Smash Bros. game. It was released April 10th, 2015. A Shulk amiibo was released in the Wave 3 of Super Smash Bros. amiibo and unlocks bonus costumes in specific gamesnote more specifically Super Mario Maker, Yoshi's Woolly World, and Chibi-Robo!! Zip Lash. Using it in Kirby: Planet Robobot gives the ESP ability to Kirby. It can also be used to train a "Figure Player" in Super Smash Bros. for Nintendo 3DS and Wii U and gives coins for the collectibles shop in Xenoblade Chronicles 3DS. The original Wii version also came out on the Wii U Virtual Console in Europe on August 5, 2015, and later in North America on April 28, 2016. Also, Fiora appeared as a Nintendo Guest Fighter in the crossover video game Project X Zone 2 alongside her Spiritual Predecessor KOS-MOS from Xenosaga; several Mechon, including the dreaded Metal Face, also appear as enemy units.A spin-off, Xenoblade Chronicles X, was released for the Wii U in 2015, and in 2017 a more direct sequel, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, released for the Nintendo Switch. A remake using the sequel's graphics engine called Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition was announced for Nintendo Switch, which was released on May 29, 2020. Definitive Edition features a brand new epilogue story called Future Connected, set one year after the main game and starring Shulk and Melia.Please move any character tropes to the proper character page.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_10e5b4f4	comment	Visible Silence: Sometimes. And it's funny, since the voice clip for the "silence" is actually a sigh or a hum.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_11204355	type	Coup de GrÃ¢ce Cutscene
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_11204355	comment	Coup de Grâce Cutscene: Alvis finishes a Telethia off in the cutscene where Purge is learnt. Shulk finishes Zanza during the start of the final cutscene after the Final Battle.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_11311505	type	Secret A.I. Moves
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_11311505	comment	Secret A.I. Moves: Only enemies have arts which inflict the Pierce status debuff, which effectively turns your defenses to zero.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_116a941b	type	Applied Phlebotinum
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_116a941b	comment	Applied Phlebotinum: The Fallen Arm is surrounded by the ocean, and has no constructed borders that serve as zone boundaries. To prevent the player from wandering too far out, they will start to take damage as if swimming in poison water. An NPC mentions that the currents have high concentrations of Ether flowing through them.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_11ad560b	type	Control Freak
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_11ad560b	comment	Control Freak: Zanza wants to keep total control over his creations, knowing full well that if they leave the Bionis, he will die.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1235f055	type	Dirty Coward
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1235f055	comment	Mumkhar. The guy is a complete Gonk with a Guttural Growl who runs away from battle to save his own skin within the first two minutes of play time. Dunban may be Genre Blind, but the player needs only to look at his Japanese voice actor to get a clue that he's a bad egg. The only surprise is in how bad he turns out to be.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_12c65d9b	type	Abnormal Ammo
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_12c65d9b	comment	Abnormal Ammo: Ether rifles can, alongside normal rounds, fire ether rounds that have unusual effects. Sharla makes use of healing rounds, support rounds, electric rounds, and so on.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_12de0775	type	Goggles Do Nothing
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_12de0775	comment	Goggles Do Nothing: Sharla wears a pair hanging of her neck in her default costume. However, she never puts them on nor does anything with them, for that matter. This is the same for some headgears of other characters.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_12f70f7b	type	Regional Bonus
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_12f70f7b	comment	Regional Bonus: The cap on the play time was increased to the triple digits in the European and American releases.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1350733b	type	Fantastic Light Source
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1350733b	comment	Fantastic Light Source: The Nopon's pollen orbs, which they manufacture and use as light sources and food.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_137f2d7	type	Card-Carrying Villain
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_137f2d7	comment	Card-Carrying Villain: The Bonus Boss of a long sidequest chain. The Nopon Bana can almost he seen twirling his non-existent mustache before confronting him in battle in the "Find the Kingpin" sidequest.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_13e1c444	type	Plot-Triggering Death
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_13e1c444	comment	Plot-Triggering Death: The protagonists start their journey to destroy the Mechon to avenge Fiora's death. As time pases, stuff becomes more complicated than that.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_143939c1	type	Trailers Always Spoil
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_143939c1	comment	Trailers Always Spoil: The trailer used for western releases' latter part spoils a good deal of plot developments, including a few Wham Episodes. Thankfully, they're out of context.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1440584e	type	Heroic RRoD
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1440584e	comment	Heroic RRoD: Dunban after using the Monado. It costed him a good deal of his health, almost killing him the second time around, and it left his right arm out of commission (not that he needs it though...).
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1467a30c	type	Unexpected Gameplay Change
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1467a30c	comment	Unexpected Gameplay Change: The appearance of the sliding segments in Valak Mountain causes many a player to stop and question what they were doing.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_15da4941	type	Badass Adorable
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_15da4941	comment	Badass Adorable: Don't let Riki's adorable Nopon looks and child-like attitude fool you, he's just as capable of a fighter as his "sidekicks". He can stack up some impressive status-effect damage as a Gradual Grinder, and he has the second-most HP out of all the party, only beaten by Reyn by just a few hundred at level 99.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_15fa54bf	type	Final Dungeon Preview
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_15fa54bf	comment	Final Dungeon Preview: The endgame features two successive dungeons which both have been visited earlier in the story on separate occasions. The Bionis' Interior. The party passes briefly through it to make their way from Satorl Marsh to Makna Forest, with the location having seemingly little significance. However, the fact that it has a page in the Collectopaedia despite the apparent lack of available collectables as well as the presence of inaccessible Heart-to-Hearts and Ether Crystals on the map indicate that this is not the last time you will visit the place. Indeed, while making your second journey to Prison Island much later, you are finally able to explore the rest of the dungeon, which now contains collectables and enemies as a result of the Bionis' body returning to life. Prison Island, which on the first visit is where Shulk upgrades the Monado and fights Metal Face for the second time. Despite being the backdrop for several pivotal events, the dungeon itself has few enemies, is devoid of collectables and only a few of its many floors are accessible; this changes once you return to confront the final villains of the game once and for all.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1653843c	type	Dummied Out
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1653843c	comment	Dummied Out: Bionis' Shoulder. Appeared in several screenshots and a grand total of one cutscene. However, it later became the main setting for the Future Connected epilogue, available only in the Definitive Edition. The "Gadolt's Cannon" weapon for Sharla and the "Gadolt's Turret" material are both programmed into the game, but never used. Presumably, they would be obtainable as soon as you've defeated Gadolt within his Faced Mechon form.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_167360cf	type	Evolutionary Stasis
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_167360cf	comment	Evolutionary Stasis: An Exploited Trope in Xenoblade. The Big Bad Zanza hid the DNA of the Telethia, draconic monsters that serve as macroscopic digestive bacteria for his true body, the Bionis, inside of the High Entia, a sentient, technologically-advanced species created specifically for the role. By hiding them inside beings who rely on technology rather than adapting to their environment, the Telethia genes would be protected from the ravages of natural selection in order to prevent them from changing too much to be usable before Zanza was ready to consume all life en masse. Fortunately this didn't work 100%, as the High Entia royal family somehow learned the truth and set up a Breeding Cult using intermarriages with Homs to try and breed out the Telethia genes.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_16972b3c	type	Peninsula of Power Leveling
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_16972b3c	comment	Peninsula of Power Leveling: Thanks to Challenge Monsters, it's particularly encouraging to come back at any point in the game and train against what were once Demonic Spiders. Just don't expect them to be easy even if you're on the same level. Within Bionis' Leg, Satorl Marsh, Makna Forest and Eryth Sea, there are monsters within a few areas that are way above the average level of the monsters you'd normally encounter when you first play through them. Defeating them wields a large amount of experience points if you managed to beat them. Easier said than done if you're way underleveled, however, but a trick involving the use of Melia's arts allows you to "power level" on the Gongols of Bionis' Leg simply by relying on the fact that it's possible to kill them by flinging them off the cliff and into the water. Using certain tactics and with the aid of Night Vision gemsnote Normally high leveled enemies have agility so high it's otherwise impossible to hit them, but night vision in addition to agility gems helps offset that and lets the characters hit them, it's very much possible to defeat enemies well above the level the game expects you to be at when you first reach an area. This also, in turn, allows for the player to gain access to items and equipment well above anything they can buy from stores for quite a good while.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_16e4b425	type	20 Bear Asses
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_16e4b425	comment	20 Bear Asses: A big amount of the game's quests fall into collecting a certain number of certain objects. However, as stated above, doing a lot of them unlocks more story-rich questlines, which help with town affinity.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_173909	type	Brainwashed and Crazy
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_173909	comment	Brainwashed and Crazy: Gadolt is one of the first Face Mechon to have their memories wiped in order to obey orders. He speaks Egil's words without resistance because of this.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_17501df2	type	Cool Old Guy
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_17501df2	comment	Cool Old Guy: Dickson and Otharon. The former is a member of Colony 9's military force, and the latter the leader of Colony 6's military force. Both of them show several moments of badassery.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_17ce80aa	type	All There in the Manual
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_17ce80aa	comment	All There in the Manual: For most, Fiora's restoration from cyborg to Homs seems to come out of left field, but it is detailed in the Japan-only short story, Monado: The Secret Files. Luckily, someone translated it to English, which is posted here.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_17e530e1	type	Punctuation Shaker
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_17e530e1	comment	Pūnct'uatìon Sh'akër: A few number of High Entia have names with apostrophes in them, such as Ma'crish and Vol'aren.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1871c897	type	Kirk Summation
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1871c897	comment	Kirk Summation: Meyneth delivers one to Zanza:
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_187228e0	type	Bridal Carry
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_187228e0	comment	Bridal Carry: Seen very briefly after Shulk wakes up on the Fallen Arm. Approaching the wreck of Face Nemesis, he extracts Fiora from the Mechon's chest cavity and carries her to shore, leading into one of the most heartwarming scenes in the game.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_18bf4326	type	Anti-Magic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_18bf4326	comment	Even after the Monado gets upgraded by Zanza to deal with Face Mechon, Egil manages to shrug off being stabbed with it because of the Apocrypha Generator. He then pulls the Monado out of himself with his bare hands and tosses Shulk aside like a ragdoll.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19028da	type	Eternal Engine
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19028da	comment	Eternal Engine: The heart of Colony 6's ether mine is one huge machine in constant movement. The entirety of Mechonis is constantly moving machinery. Central Factory in particular is the most noticeable.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19343432	type	The Overworld
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19343432	comment	The Overworld: This game's overworld is utterly massive. It has 20 maps, each of them sprawling landscapes teeming with wildlife, landmarks, sidequests, and hidden areas. It's a telling sign when the game enables a "quick travel" function from the start and even awards EXP simply for exploring the world map.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19769f50	type	Defeat Means Friendship
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19769f50	comment	Defeat Means Friendship: Completing "A Big Brother's Fight" would not only resolve in side characters Jiroque and Zuzaku to make up, it would also cause them to become "close brothers". However, if you complete the quest's mutual opposite, "A Little Brother's Fight", you'd have to do another side quest in order for them to come "close brothers", but once you do, you'd also cause Marcia to forgive Zuzaku when she had previously hated him. (Their feuding still stops, however).
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1997076f	type	Melting-Pot Nomenclature
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1997076f	comment	Melting-Pot Nomenclature: Homs settlements have characters with names from various European languages.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1997076f	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1997076f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_199fde5c	type	Now, Where Was I Going Again?
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_199fde5c	comment	Now, Where Was I Going Again?: The game tells where the player is supposed to go next with a note that can be read whenever the player wants.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_199fde5c	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_199fde5c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19a781f	type	Relationship Values
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19a781f	comment	Relationship Values: There is a separate Relationship Chart just for party members, who can gain or lose values depending on what gifts you give them or how you help them in combat. The closer party members are, the more skills they can share with each other, the more turns they have when crafting gems and higher the chance for extra Combination Attack turns, up to 15 compared to the default 3.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19a781f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19c852ae	type	Gravity Barrier
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19c852ae	comment	Gravity Barrier: Well, those huge environments have to end somewhere, especially considering they are on the top of a titan.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_19c852ae	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1a3a91dd	type	Say My Name
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1a3a91dd	comment	Say My Name: A lot of characters do this, but Shulk is the most notorious example, to the point where the fandom makes it seem like he does it every other line. Shulk may do it the most often, but Egil gets the best one hands down.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1b2b1d2c	type	Violation of Common Sense
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1b2b1d2c	comment	Violation of Common Sense: Want all the achievements? Better jump off 200 meters into water (for "Making Waves"), or off a cliff into the blue, blue sky (for "Terminal Velocity").
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Shulk, who died 14 years ago next to the Monado. Zanza used his body as a vessel. When Zanza leaves Shulk's body, he dies again. He comes back later to kick his ass.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1b590025	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1bf47ada	type	The Medic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1bf47ada	comment	On the other hand, the same status effects are only mild annoyances when used by enemies: damage-over-time effects are easily out-healed, and active party members can snap each other out of Sleep, Topple or Daze (though an attack that renders this on the entire party can be problematic). Moreover Sharla's status-curing ability actually has the additional effect of making the target immune to further debuffing for a short while, (and she can hit your whole party with it later) making them all the more useless.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1bf47ada	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1c1d243c	type	Brother–Sister Team
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1c1d243c	comment	Brother–Sister Team: Dunban and Fiora. It takes a while before they finally manage to join forces in the battlefield though. Egil and Vanea on Mechonis' side. Though in this case, Vanea is much more reluctant, eventually doing what she can to stop him.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1c2b6ac8	type	Soft Water
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1c2b6ac8	comment	Soft Water: Not only is the gradual falling damage from falling too high which can and will kill you negated by landing in deep water, you also get an ingame achievement for doing so for the first time. It's also outright invoked by an NPC rather than just being a gameplay mechanic, and even factors into the story (with various Homs that survive falling from Sword Valley and are rescued from the sea by Machina). Basically it's part of the physics of the Xenoblade world that deep water is always soft enough to land in.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1c445e86	type	Poor Communication Kills
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1c445e86	comment	Poor Communication Kills: Defied during a cutscene in the Ether Mine. Once it's clear that Shulk can see the future using the Monado, Reyn convinces him to let the rest of the party know whenever he sees a vision, so that if Shulk can't change that future in time, someone else can. Case in point, when Shulk fails to stop Otharon's fall into the ether river while fighting Xord, Reyn steps in to finish the job with a Diving Save.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1ce83c47	type	Marshmallow Hell
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1ce83c47	comment	Marshmallow Hell: Sharla is fairly buxom and tends to give Juju a lot of hugs that put his head squarely between her breasts. This isn't helped by the fact that she gets a lot of Stripperific Absolute Cleavage tops that expose only her breasts, making it all the more conspicuous.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1ce83c47	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1d2b0c27	type	Hamster-Wheel Power
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1d2b0c27	comment	Hamster-Wheel Power: The Pollen Works station in Frontier Village. The entire thing, including the lift that stretches across the entire tree and down several stories, appears to be powered by a single Nopon running on a wheel. When the party first arrives at the village, it's unclear if it's the same Nopon running day and night (they look similar, but have different dialog), but after Bana is outed as the kingpin in the Red Orb questline, Bana is sentenced to run the wheel day and night. Also, one NPC points out that this was Riki's job before he became Heropon.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1d8bd418	type	Achievement Mockery
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1d8bd418	comment	Achievement Mockery: The game awards the player an achievement for: Having a Heart-to-Heart go as badly as possible. Suffering a Total Party Kill for the first time. Suffering a Total Party Kill fifty times. Dying of fall damage. Missing 100 attacks. Winning a battle without actually doing anything.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1d8bd418	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: Dickson shoots Shulk in the back after the latter refuses to kill Egil.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1dfbbf31	type	Heterosexual Life-Partners
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1dfbbf31	comment	Heterosexual Life-Partners: Naturally, some of the dynamics within the party end up falling within to this role. While Shulk and Reyn are already as close as brothers, the Heart to Heart events show three notable friendships form: Shulk and Sharla, being that she's the only female party member who has no romantic undertones with him, they have similar scientific interests, and she eventually becomes a supporter of his relationship with Fiora. It comes full circle that she herself is all but explicitly falling in love with Reyn, Shulk's best friend. Melia and Fiora due to their similarly friendly and supportive personalities that resonate with each other despite all of the hell they both go through, especially given that Fiora is more outwardly sunny but inwardly pensive, with Melia being just the opposite. The two even agree to confide in one another whenever they need support. It's a large reason why Melia gracefully bows out of trying to win Shulk's heart because she knows that Fiora is a lovely person and will treat Shulk well. Dunban and Riki, in a case of an Odd Friendship. While at first glance they have nothing in common, with Dunban being The Stoic and Riki being a goofy Nopon, it turns out that Dunban being the Team Dad to the group (and especially Shulk, Reyn, and his younger sister) and Riki being a father of seven allows them to bond over what fatherhood is like.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1f92e4c6	type	Regenerating Health
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1f92e4c6	comment	Regenerating Health: Health quickly restores when not in battle or spotted by an enemy.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1fdaf8ff	type	Ominous Latin Chanting
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1fdaf8ff	comment	Ominous Latin Chanting: The Final Battle themes: "Zanza" and "The God-Slaying Sword".
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1fe9e22	type	Childhood Friends
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_1fe9e22	comment	Childhood Friends: Shulk, Reyn, and Fiora have spent a great part of their childhood together, and are very close because of this.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_20178bd8	type	Anti-Climax Boss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_20178bd8	comment	There are several monsters in the game that are more powerful than the game's final boss to the point that the he seems Anticlimatic by comparison (especially if you level yourself up just to face these powerful monsters). Said final boss happens to be the creator of the game world.invoked
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_20178bd8	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_207af763	type	Ominous Floating Castle
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_207af763	comment	Prison Island, which on the first visit is where Shulk upgrades the Monado and fights Metal Face for the second time. Despite being the backdrop for several pivotal events, the dungeon itself has few enemies, is devoid of collectables and only a few of its many floors are accessible; this changes once you return to confront the final villains of the game once and for all.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_207af763	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_20e20e99	type	Not the Intended Use
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_20e20e99	comment	Not the Intended Use: While Expert Mode in Definitive Edition is intended to make the game harder, it can also be used to make Level Grinding easier by lowering one character's level and then defeating a high level enemy with a different character, with the highest bonus being granted if the enemy is at least 7 levels higher. However, if the enemy's level is at least 22 higher, then the experience gained is actually reduced, so it's best to keep the targeted characters between 7 to 21 levels lower than the enemy to maximize the benefit. The bonus is also based on the average level of your active party, so if the other party members are too strong, the bonus won't trigger. This makes Expert Mode useful for circumventing the Anti-Grinding that applies to AP and SP, which would otherwise be tedious to accumulate if one is preparing to fight the game's Bonus Bosses.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_20e20e99	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_213e1088	type	Losing the Team Spirit
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_213e1088	comment	Losing the Team Spirit: A minor version can happen in gameplay when the party is getting wiped out. The team starts to lose their morale, and the battle music changes to a quite somber tune until the team manages to get back on their feet.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2168bdf7	type	Difficulty by Acceleration
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2168bdf7	comment	Difficulty by Acceleration: A more subtle example than most. Higher-level enemies have their arts cool down faster than their lower-level counterparts, so they pull them out more often and therefore need to be countered more frequently. Fortunately, the same is true of the player, so their own cooldowns don't screw up the dynamic.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_21daf17e	type	Party of Representatives
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_21daf17e	comment	Party of Representatives: The final party consists of a group of Homs, a Nopon, a High Entia, and a Homs-turned-Mechon, which indirectly represents the Machina.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: Mechon in general appear to be eating people during the initial attack on Colony 9, and Xord plays this up later on. It's later discovered this isn't actually the case. The Mechon are actually harvesting Homs to create new Face Mechon.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_22071825	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_22cf536c	type	Chekhov's Gun
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_22cf536c	comment	Chekhov's Gun: From the beginning of the game, two soldiers get scolded for crashing a mobile artillery unit in the Residential District. That Mini-Mecha later plays a huge role in the first battle against Metal Face.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_234fa9ba	type	Mayâ€“December Romance
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_234fa9ba	comment	May–December Romance: In one side quest in Colony 9 you can be The Match Maker for one 66-year-old man and one 22-year-old female soldier.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_23cb7c45	type	So Long, and Thanks for All the Gear
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_23cb7c45	comment	So Long, and Thanks for All the Gear: When Fiora gets killed, she keeps whatever she had equipped for New Game+ while any gems equipped are automatically removed from her equipment. Since her early equipment is quickly outclassed and her weapons can't be equipped by anybody else, it's not a big issue. Melia is a partial example, in that she does permanently join the party at some point (and thus you can eventually recover anything you gave her), but there are a few stretches during Makna Forest and Alcamoth where her equipment is not available from the party screen, which can make it annoying when following a quest or two without her.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_23d6eccb	type	Non-Mammal Mammaries
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_23d6eccb	comment	Non-Mammal Mammaries: Female Machina have breasts, which can be justified by the fact that their creator used to be human.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_24008c2c	type	Sword over Head
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_24008c2c	comment	Sword over Head: Shulk does this to Egil after his boss battle, hesitating to kill him even as Zanza is screaming in his head and telling him to do it. In the end, Shulk refuses to take Egil's life and sits down to have a chat with him. Dickson takes this chance to shoot Shulk In the Back.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2504772e	type	Walking Spoiler
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2504772e	comment	Walking Spoiler: Half the cast, to different degrees. But two characters deserve special mention. The first one is Zanza. Initially revealed as some sort of Big Good, he turns out to be an absolute Evil God and the true Big Bad. It's no wonder most of who he is is a spoiler. The second one is Fiora, who takes the cake, the shop, and the whole freaking baking industry! It's almost impossible to talk about the game's plot beyond the first two hours without mentioning the (FIRST!) Wham Episode involving them.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2557e3a9	type	Palette Swap
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2557e3a9	comment	Palette Swap: Some sets of armour are just palette swaps of each other or even identical.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_25fd37c3	type	Cleavage Window
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_25fd37c3	comment	Cleavage Window: A lot of the women's armor closes at the neck, making them this.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	type	Mythology Gag
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	comment	Mythology Gag: The Fog King has qualities similar to the Gnosis from Xenosaga, being unable to be damaged at first and seemingly coming from another dimension entirely. It's ultimately defeated in a way that resembles the Hilbert Effect, with Shulk overclocking the Monodo REX to induce an Ether field that makes the Fog King tangible and thus able to be damaged by conventional weaponry.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_26ac510e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_26d1f65f	type	Verbal Tic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_26d1f65f	comment	The Nopon in this game don't say "Meh!" all that much unlike in later Xenoblade games; they don't even say it in audible cutscenes, only in text-based dialogue in sidequests. For that matter, this is the one game where the resident Nopon party member (or travelling companion) joins relatively late.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_26eb6287	type	Funny Background Event
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_26eb6287	comment	Funny Background Event: At the beginning of the game, before Reyn rejoins the party, go to the military district. Go to the fence where Jan stands and look through at the soldiers doing pushups for angering Square-tache. Note the gentleman on the left - easy to miss, but it would seem this is where Reyn ended up after coming back late from his break.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_26eb6287	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_274aca0c	type	One-Time Dungeon
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_274aca0c	comment	One-Time Dungeon: A partial example in the Ether Mines. A big chunk of the dungeon gets blocked for good once it's completed. The entire freaking Mechonis is locked out after a Wham Episode.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_274aca0c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_27a42ebc	type	Spiritual Successor
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_27a42ebc	comment	Spiritual Successor: To Xenosaga, and to a greater extent, Xenogears. Xenogears and Xenoblade both take place in Schizo Tech worlds where space was once explored, and of course one (out of two) gods are evil. The two also share more expies and other story elements.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2848e7d2	type	Oblivious to Love
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2848e7d2	comment	Winnie had one in the past, but lost her full blooded High Entia husband when he turned into a Telethia during the Bionis' resurrection. The experience made her a emotional wreck. She's also currently being pursued by a smitten Machina and a half-High Entia, though she's Oblivious to Love.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2905964a	type	Manual Leader, A.I. Party
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2905964a	comment	Manual Leader, A.I. Party: Only the party's leader is directly controlled most of the time. The only exception to this are during chain attack or after warning a party member of a future event, which allow the player to use one of their moves.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_294ed981	type	Bilingual Bonus
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_294ed981	comment	Bilingual Bonus: The characters that appear on the Monado's glass pane remain unchanged from the Japanese version - "machine", symbolizing that the blade will take apart Mechon, "person", given by Zanza at Prison Island, and finally "god", at the start of the ending sequence. Naturally, the characters don't know Japanese and thus can't exactly read them either; except Zanza, who audibly freaks when he sees the final kanji appear on the blade pointed against him.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_294ed981	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_29a39f6	type	Easter Egg
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_29a39f6	comment	Easter Egg: You can get Mumkhar's Razor by overtrading (ie. trading with an NPC so that the item they get is noticeably more valuable than the one they give you, which makes them give you a preset extra item) with Kurralth when he's stranded at Valak Mountain as a part of his sidequest: since this is the only way to get one in the game, it's not used for any quest or Colony 6 rebuilding, it's an overtrade-exclusive item, talking to him normally before trading with him means you lose the opportunity to get it, and this is the area where you fight Mumkhar for the first time, it's probably meant to be an easter egg. There are an astounding amount of generic, unnamed NP Cs with their own storylines that advance as the main story progresses, which serve as small rewards for players who try to talk to 'everybody'. For example, there is a Nopon girl in Frontier Village who talks about wanting to open her own shop, and later starts practicing her "shopkeeper voice"; eventually she opens a shop in Colony 6. Players will only notice this if they talk to her multiple times in Frontier Village (there is no in-game reason to do so), talk to her again in Colony 6 (she sells nothing to the player, so there is, again, no in-game reason to do so) and recognize her distinctive speech patterns.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2a015a74	type	Beauty Equals Goodness
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2a015a74	comment	Beauty Equals Goodness: The good Faced-Mechon, Fiora, has good looks, has a general color scheme of white and gold, and has a design reminiscent of KOS-MOS. Mumkhar, the evil Faced-Mechon that pilots Metal Face has a generally-black color scheme, looks like a gonk, and is designed to look like a robotic assassin. Gadolt splits the difference. While his Face-Mechon follows Metal Face's design philosophy, bears a dark green color scheme and bears a single red eye on his actual face, he still maintains his good looks and seems to borrow a few elements from Face Nemesis as well.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	type	Lampshade Hanging
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2a090d00	comment	Lampshade Hanging: Part of the "Find the Kingpin!" sidequest involves a key item that the protagonists cannot read due to it being written in Nopon script. By the time you'd do the side-quest, Riki, the playable Nopon, would be in your party. If he's not one of the three active characters by the time you give said key item to the quest giver for him to read, he'd tell the party members that you should've given it to Riki so that he could read it to the rest of the group and tell them what it says.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2a4c561	type	Informed Equipment
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2a4c561	comment	Informed Equipment: Can be invoked in Definitive Edition thanks to the cosmetic override settings. Useful for hiding the Rainbow Pimp Gear in cutscenes... or making them permanent.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2a6ed9ec	type	Dragons Are Demonic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2a6ed9ec	comment	Dragons are Demonic: Xenoblade Chronicles has only three dragons, but they're the strongest group of monsters in the game, with the latter two dragons even dropping Demonic Everflames once defeated: Dragon King Alcar is the antepenultimate boss of the story, guarding the way to the roof of Prison Island, serving as almost a literal example of The Dragon due to it blocking the way to the Big Bad's realm. Demon King Dragonia attacks Colony 6's ether planters once it reaching 90% completion and must be defeated as a result. Avalanche Abassy is one of the superbosses, appears at night on Valak Mountain during a raging blizzard, and is the most powerful enemy in the game.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2a73577e	type	Fur Bikini
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2a73577e	comment	Fur Bikini: The jungle-themed armors look like this when worn by the women.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2afb1a9	type	Limit Break
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2afb1a9	comment	Limit Break: Most character's Talent Arts work this way. They are charged by striking auto attacks, and once charged they allow the use of an unique ability of the character, such as Shulk's Monado Arts and Riki's "Yoink!" Melia enters a state of Element Burst after several uses of elemental attacks. In this state, she gets access to two powerful arts (Burst End and Mind Blast), and her next elemental attacks do double damage. A few characters have abilities that only become available when their tension reaches high levels, such as Riki's Happy Happy.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Spike Damage gems and Spike aura on the playable characters. On one hand, it can be rather cathartic to use one of the more hated enemy mechanics against the enemies and have a free damage increase for the party. On the other hand, it requires having your character take damage from the enemy; and in the late game and especially against the Bonus Bosses, that's a sign you're doing something wrong.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2cbbeaf5	type	Going Cosmic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2cbbeaf5	comment	Going Cosmic: As the story advances, the scope of the conflict increases more and more until gods get involved. It's pretty much part of Monolith Soft's Author Appeal.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2cd22076	type	Fantastic Drug
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2cd22076	comment	Fantastic Drug: The red pollen orbs the Nopon manufacture. If they are processed correctly, they can have some good potential uses; if not, they are very addictive and dangerous for your health. There's a group of Nopon that have been selling these variety illegally to Alcamoth citizens, and a huge sidequest arc involves finding who and where they are and putting a stop to their business.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2cd22076	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2d4fa515	comment	Gael'gar after being defeated once more in his sidequest jumps off the floating island when he realizes his Ax-Crazy dream of a racist holy half-High Entia empire will never come to pass.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2e6a41e0	type	Gratuitous English
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2e6a41e0	comment	Gratuitous English: Used in the Japanese dub by every single party member other then Riki and Dunban (Their art names are in Japanese) when calling their attacks.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2e8ed504	type	Beautiful Dreamer
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2e8ed504	comment	Beautiful Dreamer: Twice. First, Shulk watches Fiora sleep when the Machina are about to fix her Mechon body. Later in the game, the roles are exchanged and Fiora is the one who watches over Shulk. Although this time, she's waiting for him to come Back from the Dead. In both cases, all characters have unique dialogue regarding them.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2f22ad90	type	NPC Scheduling
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2f22ad90	comment	NPC Scheduling: Every named NPC has a different schedule, and all non-named NPCs have at least a selected time of the day when they're active. And to top it off the game has tons of NPCs, and many of them either give a quest, or are involved in one somehow. Needless to say, this makes keeping track of where that one NPC is going to be when rather hard. Thankfully, one can turn the in-game clock to whatever time they want whenever they want, so if you're in a hurry to meet an NPC with an odd schedule, it's easy.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2f329e3c	type	Tomato in the Mirror
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2f329e3c	comment	Tomato in the Mirror: Shulk. Think about it. After he froze to death in Valak Mountain, he was more or less a vessel for Zanza.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2f36d97	type	Older Than They Look
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2f36d97	comment	Older Than They Look: Riki. Would you believe that child-like fluffy ball is really 40 years old, happily married with a beautiful wife (by Nopon standards), and has 11 children under his care? The High Entia as a race are this for pretty much any age past infancy. Compared to Nopon and Homs they age very slowly, and unlike many examples in other settings this applies to more than just how they look as adults. Basically they spend three or four decades looking (and to a degree acting) like children, are considered young adults when they are in their eighties, and only look at all elderly when they are three or four hundred years old. Melia for instance is in her 80s, but several other High Entia who don't look much older deride her as a "child" due to how she is still quite young by High Entia standards.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2f75473	type	Number of the Beast
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_2f75473	comment	Number of the Beast: An achievement is given by performing a single attack doing this 666 points of damage.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_307d41e7	type	¡Three Amigos!
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_307d41e7	comment	¡Three Amigos!: Shulk, Reyn and Fiora. Longtime childhood friends. It doesn't get to last though, thanks to Fiora's death.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_31a59d13	type	Name From Another Species
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_31a59d13	comment	Name From Another Species: The High Entia Ma'crish has a reluctant Nopon companion that she named Nopo'rikh, a big departure from the usual Nopon names.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_31da1e24	type	Shipper on Deck
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_31da1e24	comment	Shipper on Deck: Two of them, actually. Dunban supports Shulk and Fiora, while Sharla roots for Shulk and Melia. The funny thing is that Sharla roots for Melia AFTER the party finds out that Fiora is Back from the Dead; and she eases down on it after finding how much Fiora and Shulk care for each other.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_33864ee8	type	Collection Sidequest
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_33864ee8	comment	Collection Sidequest: Filling the collectopedia of each area nets some nice rewards. As well, there are quests that involve collecting a certain number of different elements.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_345cf4e1	type	No Hero Discount
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_345cf4e1	comment	No Hero Discount: Lampshaded in Sword Valley where the party sees a supply convoy. Dickson arrives and tells them that they are carrying equipment, and asks if you want any. Then you still have to pay for it, even though you are clearly the advanced strike force.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3517000d	type	Mad Scientist
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3517000d	comment	Mad Scientist: The High Entia Naroth. Not only is he called one on the affinity chart but he also expresses a desire to experiment on Riki if he is in the party before you accept one of his quests. Especially after he finds out that Riki has a wife and kids. Klaus was hell-bent on taking to action the experiment to turn humans into gods, even after Meyneth's desperate warnings.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_36135fb0	type	Official Couple
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_36135fb0	comment	Official Couple: Shulk and Fiora end up together in the end.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_363f94c9	type	Awful Truth
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_363f94c9	comment	Awful Truth: Shulk surely doesn't take well to the fact that Dickson, one of his mentor figures, was Evil All Along. Not to mention that he himself was Dead All Along. For 14 years, no less.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3722d66c	type	Hold Your Hippogriffs
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3722d66c	comment	Hold Your Hippogriffs: Some characters use "Bionis" as a substitute for "god" or "world". Reyn in particular makes good use of it. They stop after learning what the Bionis is.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_372bc105	type	Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_372bc105	comment	Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism: This game leans toward idealism more than Xenogears and Xenosaga but it still has its fair share of cynicism and dark themes. Just ask the entire High Entia race or all of Mechonis inhabitants. Hell, the entire freaking Universe is completely destroyed BEFORE the plot even starts.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_372f29ac	type	One-Handed ZweihÃ¤nder
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_372f29ac	comment	One-Handed Zweihänder: Shulk and Dunban wield the Monado with one hand pretty often. Dunban knocks it up a notch with his late choice of weapons, some of which include axes, polearms and zanmato, which he wields with his left hand.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_374c339d	type	I'll Kill You!
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_374c339d	comment	I'll Kill You!: Shulk's response to Metal Face's brutal murder of Fiora. There's some serious anger in his voice.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_38047858	type	Squishy Wizard
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_38047858	comment	Melia, too. When the party first meets her, she's a frail Squishy Wizard on the verge of death. Some time with travelling with the party later, she's picked up some new techniques, including the ability to drop-kick enemies ten times her size hard enough to knock them on their ass, which brings her more up to a Kung-Fu Wizard or Magic Knight.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_38805691	type	Catch and Return
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_38805691	comment	Catch and Return: When Egil throws a ball of energy towards Zanza while he is still inside Shulk's body, Zanza merely throws it back at Egil, severely damaging him.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3946634e	type	The Smart Guy
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3946634e	comment	The Smart Guy: Surprisingly, all main characters have traits of this to different degrees (Even Reyn and Riki have their moments). However, Dunban would be the closest one to play the role straight, followed by Shulk. And he only falls behind due to his lack of experience.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3b113b7	type	Character Development
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3b113b7	comment	Reyn promises he will protect Shulk during their journey. This becomes part of his Character Development later on, when he realises that Shulk has grown far more powerful than him.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3c5ae1a1	type	Schizo Tech
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3c5ae1a1	comment	Schizo Tech: The world is shown to have technology that is equivalent to or exceeding our own, such as buggies, airplanes, Humongous Mecha, and gigantic mine-strippers. But despite making sense there are no highways for people to drive on, and swords and melee weapons are still used prominently.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3c700857	type	Guys Smash, Girls Shoot
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3c700857	comment	Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: Played straight for all but one character. The guys use swords (or clubs in Riki's case), Sharla uses her rifle, and Melia is a Squishy Wizard. Fiora is the exception, using her knives at close range.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3c8be88f	type	Bird-Poop Gag
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3c8be88f	comment	Bird-Poop Gag: Frontier Village is a giant tree with Nopon-ridden Pterixes (large Pterodactyls) constantly flying around it. When the player speaks to the unnamed Nopon npc's who walk on the outdoor balconies, several of them will mention that falling Pterix poo is just a fact of life in the village. One of them even stops mid-sentence, apparently having caught a dropping directly in the face as they were speaking to the player. Another mentions that he hears that Colony 9 has the same problem, but with 'Bionis' poo; likely referring to the falling debris that the AA canons shoot out of the sky regularly.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3cb17a19	type	Super-Powered Evil Side
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3cb17a19	comment	Superpowered Evil Side: Being exposed to high concentrations of Ether causes the High Entia to transform into their true identity, the Telethia creatures. In this form, they are big, bulky and have access to some powerful attacks, but it comes at the cost of much intelligence and sentience, making them fully subservient to Zanza.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3d7b1b61	type	Twice Shy
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3d7b1b61	comment	Twice Shy: Everyone around Shulk and Fiora can tell they're in love with each other, but neither side seems to realize it or take any steps in pursuing a relationship. They do make progress eventually.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3eb9e19f	type	Child of Two Worlds
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3eb9e19f	comment	Child of Two Worlds: Discussed. When plans for an alliance between the three races of the Bionis surface, Melia proposes herself as a potential ambassador, since she has the privileged position of being both regent of the High Entia and of half-Homs heritage. She doesn't take the position, though, and instead continues to be part of the Party of Representatives.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3eb9e19f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3f737576	type	Climax Boss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3f737576	comment	Climax Boss: Several bosses in the course of the game mark a climax event or revelation; some of them even reveal further Big Bads. The ones that reveal the bad guys are Xord, Metal Face, and Egil.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3f737576	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3f92ad39	type	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_3f92ad39	comment	"I Know You're in There Somewhere" Fight: You fight against Fiora in her Nemesis Faced Mechon twice in Galahad Fortress, but you must not harm her. Turns out she and Meyneth are fully and consciously opposed to fighting the team, but her Mechon is being directly controlled by Egil. You go through a similar dance with Gadolt in his Jade Faced Mechon.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_409c3edf	type	Zip Mode
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_409c3edf	comment	Zip Mode: The fast travel mechanic, which turns what would be an otherwise tedious walk from one end of the world to the other into a breeze.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_409c3edf	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_409c3edf	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_40a533db	type	Guest-Star Party Member
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_40a533db	comment	Guest-Star Party Member: Dickson and Mumkhar at the beginning of the game. Afterwards, Dickson comes back for a reprise at the end of the Ether Mine chapter. Alvis, who only appears in the party for the first fight against a Telethia.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_40a533db	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Highly sweet, mind you. Zanza is defeated, leaving the two gods finally at peace but destroyed, along with the world of Bionis and Mechonis. However, the universe is rebuilt, all the races of both the Bionis and Mechonis are saved from another destruction, Fiora gets her body back, and Shulk is finally at peace. However, many people, especially Machina and High Entia, lost their lives in the process.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_40e2ac3f	type	Flunky Boss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_40e2ac3f	comment	Flunky Boss: Several of them, such as Face Mechon bringing smaller support units.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_40e2ac3f	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4108bb3e	type	Doomed Hometown
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4108bb3e	comment	Doomed Hometown: Colony 9 is brought to chaos after the attack by the Mechon. Although it manages to recover pretty fast. Colony 6 is completely destroyed before Shulk and Reyn arrive. Reconstructing it forms part of a huge sidequest. Agniratha, the Mechonis capital. A former bustling metropolis attacked by Telethia and the Bionis millennia before the game's events. Now a lifeless Mechon-infested ghost of what it used to be. Alcamoth, after Zanza transforms all pure blood High Entia into Telethia.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4108bb3e	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_411a35bd	type	Body Surf
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_411a35bd	comment	Body Surf: Zanza and Meyneth may have physical forms, but they still tend to take the bodies of others to show themselves.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_411a35bd	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_411a35bd	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_41f26c58	type	Happy Dance
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_41f26c58	comment	Happy Dance: Upon completing a quest while playing as Shulk, if you have Riki in your party, he may declare to do a "Nopon Dance" to celebrate their success, causing Shulk to wonder on how said dance goes. One of the animations Riki uses within dialogs is a small dance. He uses this animation whenever he's feeling energetic while talking.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_41f26c58	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_41f26c58	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_42008602	type	Story Arc
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_42008602	comment	Story Arc: The game can pretty much be split into five arcs: the Xord arc, the Prison Island arc, the Mumkhar arc, the Egil arc, and the Zanza arc.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_42008602	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9	type	No Fair Cheating
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9	comment	A particularly memorable instance of this takes place when the party enters the Mechonis for the first time: at this point in the game, Melia will have just gotten her Starlight Kick technique (which inflicts Topple) and the area has a lot of flying enemies and walkways over bottomless pits. This makes it possible to end otherwise difficult encounters simply by luring enemies over, getting a Starlight Kick off, and laughing as they plummet to their demise. You don't get any loot this way, though.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_42d9daf9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_434d893c	type	Funny Foreigner
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_434d893c	comment	Funny Foreigner: How the Nopon are portrayed, at least in the English version. Their strange customs, funny accents, and butchered English combine to create this impression. Crucially, many of the Nopon who have lived in Alcamoth their whole lives rather than in Frontier Village or elsewhere speak perfectly fluent English instead.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_434d893c	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43555d33	type	Heroes Prefer Swords
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43555d33	comment	Heroes Prefer Swords: Of course. Only one of the main characters uses a proper gun, and even then it's a rifle that is more effective at healing wounds than at inflicting them.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43555d33	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43a831db	type	Epic Tracking Shot
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43a831db	comment	Epic Tracking Shot: The Action Prologue ends with a tacking shot that goes from Sword Valley to Eryth Sea, then to Makna Forest, and finally a complete shot of Bionis and Mechonis. The whole scene gives a good idea of the huge scope of the game world.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43bda213	type	A Taste of Power
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43bda213	comment	A Taste of Power: For the tutorial, the players takes control of some characters whose levels are in their twenties before the main game gives the obligatory level one characters. Later in the early game Dunban rejoins with Shulk and Reyn wielding the Monado during the attack on Colony 9, and he is likely to be a much higher level than both of them. However, this is only for a few minutes before Shulk picks up the Monado and starts wielding it himself, though Dunban still sticks with the party a little while after that.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43bda213	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43d5d6d5	type	Sticks to the Back
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43d5d6d5	comment	Sticks to the Back: All party members carry their weapons through the power of video game magic, though Dunban and Melia's weapons stick to their waist instead. Admittedly, Fiora's robot body probably has something built-in to hold her daggers, and Riki has a backpack of some sort... but it's clearly way too small to hold his weapon without it falling off so he might as well still fit.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_43d5d6d5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_44a1dd10	type	King Incognito
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_44a1dd10	comment	King Incognito: Melia actively refuses to reveal herself as Empress, believing that the last thing the population needs right now is a shockwave in the political sphere. Maxis, leader of the Companions, is shocked to learn that among unusually powerful wanderers who regularly helped them is actually the rightful leader of his people.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_45007296	type	Metaphorgotten
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_45007296	comment	A common end-battle banter with Reyn involves him getting metaphors wrong to the bewilderment of the other party members.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_45007296	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_45007296	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_486466ee	type	Dual Boss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_486466ee	comment	Dual Boss: When the party comes to confront Melia's would-be assassin, she brings with her a Telethia.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_486466ee	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_486466ee	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_48b9731f	type	Paper-Thin Disguise
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_48b9731f	comment	Paper-Thin Disguise: Bana has continued his criminal activity by moving to Gran Dell and changing his name to Bama. Shulk and Melia recognize him right away.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_48b9731f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_49d59be9	type	Scenery Porn
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_49d59be9	comment	Scenery Porn: Taken to the next level. As in Xenoblade tradition, the Bionis Shoulder is gorgeous. However because it is the only real area in the epilogue, it's absolutely huge compared to the areas in the main game and many parts of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, being very similar to the size of areas in Xenoblade Chronicles X. Because of the increased draw distance and verticality of the area, vast stretches of the floating island can be gazed out at from many locations.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_49d59be9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4a7ee7bc	type	Yellow Snow
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4a7ee7bc	comment	Yellow Snow: Valak Mountain is an aversion. Sure the snow is clearly yellow at night, but it's reflecting the golden light from all the glowing crystals around the mountain.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4a852458	type	Big Good
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4a852458	comment	The first one is Zanza. Initially revealed as some sort of Big Good, he turns out to be an absolute Evil God and the true Big Bad. It's no wonder most of who he is is a spoiler.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4a852458	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4a9f514d	type	Sacred First Kiss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4a9f514d	comment	Sacred First Kiss: Paired with Intimate Healing. Fiora receives it from Shulk when he tries to give her water via mouth-to-mouth. She calls it out, but she doesn't seem to be mad about it.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4a9f514d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4aa98555	type	Evil All Along
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4aa98555	comment	Evil All Along: Dickson, who was one of Zanza's disciples.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4be8e2d4	type	Waterfall into the Abyss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4be8e2d4	comment	Waterfall into the Abyss: Several of the islands that float above the Eryth Sea have never-ending waterfalls. You can also find areas like this at the outer edges of the Bionis.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4be8e2d4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4c709317	type	Useless Useful Spell
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4c709317	comment	Useless Useful Spell: Totally inverted! Status effects are immensely useful when used by the player, in fact they're part of what makes Riki the effective Fighting Clown he really is. Not only do they work on just about everything, even bosses, but there are at least four separate damage-over-time effects (Bleed, Poison, Blaze and Chill), and they all stack with each other. Riki can take major advantage of this, stacking all four on enemies quickly and re-applying them when they wear off ad-infinitum, to the point where he's considered one of the best boss killers in the game. The other main status effects, Break/Topple/Daze, render enemies not immune (and only flying monsters generally are) completely immobile and vulnerable to damage, and at higher levels the party can spam these to make sure they never have a chance to get up. On the other hand, the same status effects are only mild annoyances when used by enemies: damage-over-time effects are easily out-healed, and active party members can snap each other out of Sleep, Topple or Daze (though an attack that renders this on the entire party can be problematic). Moreover Sharla's status-curing ability actually has the additional effect of making the target immune to further debuffing for a short while, (and she can hit your whole party with it later) making them all the more useless.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4c709317	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	type	Gods Need Prayer Badly
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	comment	Gods Need Prayer Badly: Variation. Zanza and Meyneth would wither and die if their creations, which are made from their life forces, leave their bodies and expand to the stars.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4c782fb9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4cb71cf9	type	Unwilling Roboticisation
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4cb71cf9	comment	Unwilling Roboticisation: The Homs are turned into Faced Mechon. Since the Monado is initially unable to harm Homs, this make them Nigh-Invulnerable until a significant power-up.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4cefd8a6	type	Long Song, Short Scene
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4cefd8a6	comment	Long Song, Short Scene: "Unfinished Business" is a boss theme used only once in the entire game, during an early-game boss fight that usually ends long before the track's end. The phrase "only once" is very literal here, since if the player lets the track fully play out, the music doesn't loop. Instead, the music abruptly switches to "You Will Know Our Names". Definitive Edition uses the song one more time in Future Connected. The themenote (or at least, the first one) for Bionis' Interior also fits somewhat. The area it plays in is rather small and has no enemies, so it's entirely possible for the player to rush through it on the way to Makna Forest without hearing the whole thing. There's a Dark Reprise of that theme which plays when the party revisits the area after finishing the Mechonis Core.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4cefd8a6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4d54bb0d	type	Spiteful A.I.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4d54bb0d	comment	Spiteful A.I.: The Nebula enemies have high physical defense, making them hard to kill, and when they get weak, they explode. The frustrating part is that when normal Nebulae explode, they die and don't leave any loot.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4d54bb0d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4e16382e	type	Standard Status Effects
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4e16382e	comment	Standard Status Effects: Unlike the usual form, your party will use them to make battles easier; in some battles, it's required that you know how to chain status effects.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4e16382e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536	type	Wham Line
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4e7c4536	comment	Wham Line: Dickson: "Can't say I feel so good about deceiving these kids." It's subtle, but it makes you go, "Wait....what?" There's also this one from Miqol. In a flashback where Egil appears to be speaking with Zanza. Also the one where Dickson shoots Shulk.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9	type	Early-Installment Weirdness
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9	comment	Early Installment Weirdness: The Nopon in this game don't say "Meh!" all that much unlike in later Xenoblade games; they don't even say it in audible cutscenes, only in text-based dialogue in sidequests. For that matter, this is the one game where the resident Nopon party member (or travelling companion) joins relatively late. Each major territory in the game has a variety of sidequests given by a nameless character that doesn't need to be handed in upon completion, and mostly involve killing certain types of monsters, gathering certain collectible/material items, and killing certain unique monsters. Such sidequests would be relegated to bulletin boards or affinity chart tasks in future games in a more streamlined fashion. The named NPCs in this game have the most elaborate NPC Scheduling in the franchise by far, going from place to place at different times of the day, which makes it problematic when doing certain quests. Xenoblade Chronicles X kept such characters stationary and tend to only appear in one half of the day, and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 practically removed the depths of NPCs and their importance entirely. The mundane human stand-ins are called "Homs" in the world of Bionis & Mechonis. Though Xenoblade Chronicles X would take place in a futuristic, but Earth-centric timeline, the humans playing their own role would make sense, Xenoblade Chronicles 2 would simply refer to all mortal humanoid races as humans as well despite taking place in another fantasy universe.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4f4372e9	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4fba8b43	type	Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4fba8b43	comment	Limited Special Collector's Ultimate Edition: Kinda. Nintendo of Europe released a special edition that included a red Classic Controller PRO, which was supposed to resemble the Monado. The box was pretty cool too.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4fba8b43	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4fd28a9d	type	Loads and Loads of Sidequests
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4fd28a9d	comment	Loads and Loads of Sidequests: The game features hundreds of sidequests, ranging from simple Mass Monster Slaughters, to major Sidequest Sidestories; the biggest sidequest by far, the reconstruction of Colony 6, even slowly grants more sidequests as it's completed. Besides money and loot, oftentimes these grant generous experience, so completing them as the story advances is a good way to avoid pointless Level Grinding later on.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_4fd28a9d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_504333fe	type	A God I Am Not
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_504333fe	comment	Mayneth insists on A God I Am Not and doesn't want to be worshipped. Likely due to her benevolent treatment of them, she's actively worshipped by the Machina, who often invoke her name in an Oh My Gods! fashion.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_504333fe	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_50727f8d	type	Death Is a Slap on the Wrist
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_50727f8d	comment	Death Is a Slap on the Wrist: Dying in gameplay just forces a return to the last landmark visited, and any loot dropped by killed monsters is not lost. This is especially true if you slipped off a high point and fell to your death.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_50b05d30	type	Disproportionate Retribution
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_50b05d30	comment	Disproportionate Retribution: The quests that involve slaying the Orluga of Makna forest all come from a Nopon boy who wants the protagonists to slay them for ticking him off in relatively trivial ways.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_50d71a78	type	Dual Wielding
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_50d71a78	comment	Dual Wielding: Fiora with Reverse Grip knives, no less. Which change to Dual Wielding weird-looking swords after her transformation. Straight grip this time. Zanza does this with both his and Meyneth's Monado once he gets his hands on the latter.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_51567188	type	Cast from Hit Points
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_51567188	comment	Cast from Hit Points: Shulk's Battle Soul, Dunban's Final Flicker (both fill some of their talent gauge at the cost of half of their HP), and Melia's Healing Gift (which sacrifices some HP to heal another party member).
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_51567188	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_51567188	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_51a12a6f	type	Hong Kong Dub
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_51a12a6f	comment	Hong Kong Dub: Even though the dub for this game is considered one of the better dubs out there, the dubbers didn't exactly put too much thought on the lip syncing at points... for the most part it's passable, but it starts becoming noticeable when characters start Milking the Giant Cow.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_51ecf708	type	Self-Disposing Villain
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_51ecf708	comment	Self-Disposing Villain: The plot begins as a revenge quest to kill the mechon Metal Face, who has killed countless Homs. But when the heroes discover that Metal Face is actually a Homs named Mumkhar piloting the robotic suit, Shulk decides to let him go, despite having a chance to kill him, saying that taking the life of a fellow Homs is wrong. Mumkhar takes this opportunity to fire a blast at them, but the blast misses and hits a spire that falls down, impaling him and pinning him to a falling platform, killing him.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_51ecf708	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5345de5	type	Strange-Syntax Speaker
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5345de5	comment	Strange-Syntax Speaker: The Nopon accent gives off the illusion that the Nopon folk are not really fluent in the language of the Homs (when they actually are), with them tending to refer themselves as their given name when talking to others, them tending to add "pom" to the end of certain nouns, them calling the Homs "Hom homs", etc. An unnamed Nopon NPC Lampshades this by making up a theory on the spot as to why they speak like that when you go talk to her.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5345de5	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5345de5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_53a7089a	type	Pint-Sized Powerhouse
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_53a7089a	comment	Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Riki sure can take up lots of beating despite his size.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_53a7089a	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_53a7089a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_53f5119f	type	The Dragon
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_53f5119f	comment	Dragon King Alcar is the antepenultimate boss of the story, guarding the way to the roof of Prison Island, serving as almost a literal example of The Dragon due to it blocking the way to the Big Bad's realm.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5405b144	type	Scratch Damage
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5405b144	comment	It's established early in the game that the Monado can't cut people. Naturally, this doesn't come into play when fighting random monsters, but later you end up fighting some High Entia assassins, and if Shulk is in battle, the Monado will only do Scratch Damage to them. This is taken further within the New Game+ where the other type of Monados, including the Monado III, are indeed able to hurt them due to them not being limited in this regard as with the original Monado at this point within the story. This also applies to the Faced Mechon, once you know they are really just Homs in a forced symbiosis with a Mechon.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5432a8a1	type	Non-Combat EXP
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5432a8a1	comment	Non-Combat EXP: The game awards the player EXP for simply exploring the world map, by discovering landmarks and hidden areas. It also awards EXP for successfully completing sidequests and completing key points (called "Chapters") in the game's story. Being that it's easily over 80 hours in length (up to 100, or more, including sidequests) it's not hard to see why that is.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_552c0a69	type	Pop-Cultural Osmosis
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_552c0a69	comment	Another British-specific one is one of Riki's Arts being named "Lurgy", which is a playground taunt ultimately derived via Popcultural Osmosis from The Goon Show.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	type	Cryptic Conversation
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	comment	Cryptic Conversation: Of course, this being part of Monolith's Author Appeal. Alvis would be the worst offender, remaining very ambiguous through the course of the game.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_558f5da6	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_558f5da6
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_559b4bb3	type	Call to Agriculture
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_559b4bb3	comment	Call to Agriculture: Most of High-Entia and Machina living in Gran Dell have become farmers and ranchers, adapting well to the more rural lifestyle. For the most part they enjoy it, but the main goal is returning to Alcamoth for all of them, as they would still prefer to choose where they live rather than be forced to stay there.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c	type	Bragging Rights Reward
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_55e5b37c	comment	Bragging Rights Reward: The Monado Dogma requires you to defeat either Avalance Abassy or Demon King Dragonia for one of its components. It's not much better than the other Monado Replicas you can obtain and it's strictly inferior to the Monado III, which you gain by simply finishing the main game and starting over on New Game+.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_56585e87	type	Combat Clairvoyance
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_56585e87	comment	Combat Clairvoyance: What the Monado does in gameplay, often showing lethal attacks aimed at the team several seconds before they actually occur.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5764e0ba	type	Meta Mecha
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5764e0ba	comment	Meta Mecha: Egil eventually uses his Mechon armor to take control of and pilot the Mechonis.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_57b80b45	type	Fantastic Racism
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_57b80b45	comment	Fantastic Racism: Downplayed somewhat: the main conflict on the Shoulder, aside from the Fog King, is flaring racial tension. After the Alcamoth refugees failed to retake their capital with heavy losses, a comment by the Machina leader was taken the wrong way and caused the resentment over the Mechon war to explode, until a good chunk of Gran Dell's High Entia population seceded and founded the Companions on the other side of the island. It's downplayed in that aside from Gael'gar the raging supremacist, most of them are good people at heart (as Melia points out, the fact that they peacefully exiled themselves instead of trying to throw the Machina out speaks volumes) and they eventually reconcile when forced to join forces by the Fog Beast attacks.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5874eb12	type	Organic Technology
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5874eb12	comment	Organic Technology: A Nopon trademark. Whenever it's possible, they build out of wood instead of metal or stone, prefer taming large animals over building vehicles, use bioluminescent pollen where most other species favor ether lamps. Even their "clocks" are large mushrooms that emit spores at regular intervals. It can go to damn impressive lengths: Future Connected introduces a Nopon ether gun. Homs ether rifles are complex pieces of machinery. This one is built out of sticks and a weird fruit that absorbs ether. And as far as we know, it's just as good as the real deal.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5874eb12	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_58962105	type	White-and-Grey Morality
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_58962105	comment	White-and-Grey Morality: Shulk reverses his stance on the mechon pretty much immediately after he finds out Fiora was rebuilt as one of them (and once Metal Face was gone for good), and tries to persuade Egil that the peoples of Bionis and Mechonis can live in peace together. He'd be right, too, if it weren't for...
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_58962105	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_58a7abae	type	God Was My Co-Pilot
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_58a7abae	comment	God Was My Copilot: Alvis turns out to be the manifestation of the Monado, in other words reality.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_58a7abae	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_58a7abae	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5973fab5	type	Does Not Like Spam
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5973fab5	comment	In many heart-to-heart events, Sharla reveals that she loves fruit. Dunban, on the other hand, hates fruit.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5973fab5	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5973fab5	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_59f47557	type	Vicious Cycle
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_59f47557	comment	Vicious Cycle: Every time the Bionis races grow advanced enough to travel into space and leave him to die, Zanza enacts the apocalypse to reset everything. The entire game follows everyone's attempts to stop him from doing this again.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_59f47557	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_59f47557	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5a08d0ae	type	Back Stab
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5a08d0ae	comment	Back Stab: Several characters have at least one move that deals more damage struck from behind the enemy (for example, Shulk's Back Slash). It is possible to sneak behind enemies and start the fight with these attacks, giving a great advantage, or even a One-Hit Kill.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5a08d0ae	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5a3b8032	type	The Un-Reveal
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5a3b8032	comment	The Unreveal: The true natures of the Fog King and the rift are not explained. The only possible hints to their origins is that Zanza's theme plays for the first phase of the final boss, and that it somewhat resembles the Infernal Guldo.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5a3b8032	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5a57bdaa	type	Lucky Seven
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5a57bdaa	comment	Lucky Seven: An achievement involves performing a single attack for 777 damage. In GameFAQs and other websites, you will occasionally see "7th" or "Seven" as a character (such as 7th's armor). This is because the seventh character is Fiora, and her identity is a secret as it is a major spoiler for the game.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5bdcc85a	type	Disney Villain Death
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5bdcc85a	comment	Disney Villain Death: A strange case, as the victim Metal Face falls to his death all the way from Sword Valley, but not before being Impaled with Extreme Prejudice by his own actions. Also taking a spin on the trope, the protagonists can eventually come across the end result of the fall. Messy.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5bdcc85a	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5c048cd9	type	Lip Lock
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5c048cd9	comment	Lip Lock: Goes towards "not even caring about the lip sync", but it's ''especially' noticeable with Riki.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5c048cd9	featureApplicability	1.0
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5c048cd9	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5c47585e	type	HPToOne
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5c47585e	comment	HP to 1: While the lead character can die from falling damage, it will only ever reduce the other party members to a minimum of 1HP, even if they fell further than the leader.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5c47585e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5c5ac0e2	type	Really 700 Years Old
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5c5ac0e2	comment	Really 700 Years Old: The High Entia race as a whole. They have a lifespan quite longer than Homs. For example, there's a father who is playing hide and seek with his two children. The father looks like a middle-aged man but is really 208 years old while his two kids who look like they are somewhere around ten are actually 36 and 56. Taken even further with the Machina, who are all at least 1000 years old, and ultimately taken Up to Eleven with the Nopon Sage and Machina Neonik, whose ages are listed as 9999 and 9892. Some of the characters are implied to be even older than that, although you don't get them on your Affinity Chart.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f	type	Save Scumming
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5cfeb43f	comment	Save Scumming: Unless you want to fight multiple hard-to-(re)spawn enemies to get some of the rarer top-tier Art Manuals and equipment, you're probably going to make use of the facts that the game doesn't determine treasure chest contents until you actually open them and that you can save and load the game anywhere outside of combat.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5da37ab5	type	Triumphant Reprise
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5da37ab5	comment	Triumphant Reprise: Rebuild Colony 6 enough, and its theme will eventually turn into this.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5da37ab5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5db82ffa	type	Beak Attack
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5db82ffa	comment	Beak Attack: The Ansels are big flying birds with long and sharp-looking beaks. Their attack animation show them diving at the character, and their "Skewer" ability is rather self-explanatory.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5db82ffa	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5ddcb41f	type	World Shapes
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5ddcb41f	comment	World Shapes: The entire universe is composed by an endless ocean and two titans where its inhabitants live. It is returned to its natural form of spiral-shaped galaxies full of stars and round planets in the ending, although the head and a bit of one shoulder of one of the two titans is still sticking out of Earth's ocean.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5e2ae7ee	type	Inexplicable Treasure Chests
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5e2ae7ee	comment	Inexplicable Treasure Chests: Does anyone have a theory of why a bunny-sized monster leaves behind a glowing golden chest twice its size when it's killed?
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5eb92325	type	Declaration of Protection
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5eb92325	comment	Declaration of Protection: Shulk and Fiora. Each one always presents the idea of protecting the other. Which is funny later in the game, when both of them are perfectly capable of taking care of themselves. Reyn promises he will protect Shulk during their journey. This becomes part of his Character Development later on, when he realises that Shulk has grown far more powerful than him.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5eb92325	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fc3ab7f	type	Implied Love Interest
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fc3ab7f	comment	Implied Love Interest: Shulk and Fiora start off like this. Then it gets complicated with Melia.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fc3ab7f	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fc516bf	type	Mechanical Lifeforms
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fc516bf	comment	Mechonis and Meyneth, on virtue of being Mechanical Lifeforms.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fc516bf	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fcedca	type	Big Eater
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fcedca	comment	Big Eater: Nopon as a species have very little self-control when it comes to indulging in food and drink. One sidequest reveals all the residents of Frontier Village take their meals and snacks at exact, predetermined times, otherwise they'd all gorge themselves to economic and societal collapse.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fcedca	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fff364d	type	Combat Medic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fff364d	comment	Combat Medic: Sharla has a wide arsenal of healing and support arts, while still having some offensive potential with her gun arts (one of which, if set properly, is a One-Hit Kill).
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_5fff364d	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	type	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	comment	The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard: The monsters the fans call the "Superbosses" are all over level 100, compared to the level cap for this game which is level 99. They make up for this by having lower agility than what their level would suggest (just so that you can hit them).
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6041e4f4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_617f0563	type	Heelâ€“Face Turn
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_617f0563	comment	Heel–Face Turn: With Zanza gone, the Telethia have become quite docile, to the point where no Telethia are fought at all in Future Connected. They even aid the party several times in the story.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_617f0563	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6293c185	type	Sequel Hook
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6293c185	comment	Sequel Hook: The truth behind the Fog King is never revealed, though Melia believes it is a bad omen of things to come.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6320eced	type	Gameplay and Story Segregation
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6320eced	comment	Gameplay and Story Segregation: It is implied in the story that Riki is lazy and weak, and can barely scratch enemies, with the implication that he is only the Heropon as a punishment for being in heavy debt. In actual gameplay, Riki is just as capable as his partners, and he can even solo bosses. Melia in a Frontier village cutscene doesn’t believe Shulk when he tells her he can see the future, before this however she can be warned/warn other party members about visions during battle. A side effect of having your characters' current equipment shown in cutscenes is that some dialogue regarding particular weapons (such as Dunban's anti-mechon sword) becomes nonsensical when that weapon isn't the one they're currently equipped with. This reaches its peak in the New Game+: Dunban treats whatever sword he was equipped with in the last playthrough as the Monado, while Shulk talks about wanting to learn about the Monado when he has the Monado III. And then you reach the cutscene where Dunban drops the Monado and Shulk picks it up, and suddenly Dunban is carrying the Monado III so that Shulk can pick it up later and have it again to fight with it. In the Mechonis Field, a cutscene shows that Gadolt's rifle is getting old and is starting to malfunction more often. Shulk offers Sharla to build her a new rifle, only for her to reject the offer and keep using it out of sentimental value... except that Gadolt's rifle has been long outdated as a piece of equipment by that point and while it's unsellable, you'll very likely have swapped it out for a better weapon a long time ago. In fact, as soon as the cutscene is over the gun is immediately replaced with whatever she had equipped, with no one taking notice. This is especially notable because most examples of this happening involve New Game+ shenanigans; this incident will happen through perfectly normal game progression. Agniratha is heavily implied to be destroyed after you've finished all the story-related events within the city. However, it's still possible to visit it intact simply by taking the entrance through the Central Factory (if you haven't completed the Mechonis Core event, that is). The Monado is supposed to be incapable of people, but it can still damage species such as the hodes or kromars, seemingly sentient beings with their own, albeit simple, cultures. It's possible to obtain a second "Gadolt's Rifle" if you managed to bring the first one with you for the New Game+. This, in spite of the fact that it's supposed to be unique due to the fact that it was once the rifle Gadolt used during the fight against the Mechon. In the sidequests where you are delivering a Mercy Kill to the High Entia-turned-Telethia in Alcamoth, during the fighting, the party members are still cheering each other on, engaging in Trash Talk, and celebrating at the end of the battles, despite the fact that these are meant to be grim Shoot the Dog quests.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_635d561f	type	Black Magician Girl
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_635d561f	comment	Black Magician Girl: Melia, a Squishy Wizard with some serious offensive ether arts on her arsenal.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6375f746	type	Drill Sergeant Nasty
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6375f746	comment	Drill Sergeant Nasty: Colonel Vangarre of Colony 9 militia (also known as "Square-tache"). His behavior is suspiciously similar to Vanderkam in Xenosaga, who was himself an even more direct Expy of Vanderkaum in Xenogears.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_637ef67	type	New Game Plus
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_637ef67	comment	When Fiora gets killed, she keeps whatever she had equipped for New Game+ while any gems equipped are automatically removed from her equipment. Since her early equipment is quickly outclassed and her weapons can't be equipped by anybody else, it's not a big issue.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6439de78	type	Heroic Sacrifice
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6439de78	comment	Heroic Sacrifice: Lots of people give their lives to save others. Fiora (at least apparently), Gadolt, Lady Meyneth, Egil, Kallian...
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_64c8eea8	type	Wolverine Claws
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_64c8eea8	comment	Wolverine Claws: Mumkhar wields a pair of them in the battle of Sword Valley. As does Metal Face, who has a gigantic pair of claws for arms. There's a reason for this - he's actually a Mechon-ized Mumkhar.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_65bc92fc	type	Four-Temperament Ensemble
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_65bc92fc	comment	Four-Temperament Ensemble The seven party members; Reyn (choleric), Sharla (choleric/melancholic), Shulk (melancholic), Melia (melancholic/phlegmatic), Dunban (phlegmatic), Fiora (phlegmatic/sanguine), and Riki (choleric/sanguine). The Big Bad and the disciples; Zanza (sanguine), Lorithia (choleric), Dickson (melancholic), and Alvis (phlegmatic). The main Faced Mechons; Mysterious Face/Xord (sanguine), Metal Face/Mumkhar (choleric), Gold Face/Yaldabaoth/Egil (melancholic), Jade Face/Gadolt (phlegmatic), and Face Nemesis/Meyneth, while controlling Fiora's body (eclectic).
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6602cad	type	Permanently Missable Content
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6602cad	comment	Permanently Missable Content: Two entire areas' worth of quests get locked after certain story events. The game does have the courtesy to tell you that you shouldn't dilly-dally in completing these particular quests. All of the quests and unique monsters found in Sword Valley, Galahad Fortress, and the Mechonis areas following the Fallen Arm will likewise be gone for good if not obtained in time. Due to a glitch, the achievement "The Brave Protectors" can become unavailable after a certain point of time. The exact cause of lockout is unknown, but the most likely reason is moving Nic to Colony 6 before you've talked to all the remaining Defense Force soldiers. The Monado III will be permanently unobtainable if it is not equipped after beating New Game+ and is not deliberately carried over to the new file. The player is specifically warned about this.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_663f35c0	type	Only One Name
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_663f35c0	comment	Only One Name: Only a few characters have a surname, the Antiquas being the most prominent example.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_67d722d8	type	A Storm Is Coming
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_67d722d8	comment	A Storm Is Coming: Zanza says this nearly word for word after the events of Prison Island.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_681077c5	type	Wide-Open Sandbox
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_681077c5	comment	Wide Open Sandbox: One of the game's main selling points is the positively vast overworld, and the game pretty much gives you free reign to stray from the main quest to do plenty of other sidequests. Thankfully, the game allows for teleportation to important locations around the overworld, meaning it's possible to stray off the path to complete a sidequest or two and teleport back to the main path.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_69fb91e8	type	Chewing the Scenery
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_69fb91e8	comment	Chewing the Scenery: Everyone gets their share of impressive movement at some point. The Nopon take the cake though; a lot of them jumping or dancing as they talk to the party.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6a696742	type	The Power of Love
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6a696742	comment	The Power of Love: Gadolt remembers his past as Homs thanks in part to talking to Sharla. Kallian is able to mentally speak with his sister after they defeat Lorithia. Something that was believed to be impossible as a Telethias transformation erases almost everything of the individual. Other High Entia turned Telethia also keep something of their self that keeps them from harming or protecting certain individuals they knew/loved from other Telethia.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6aada778	type	Only the Chosen May Wield
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6aada778	comment	Only the Chosen May Wield: Played with. Anyone can activate the Monado, and any strong enough person can control it, albeit with a high price for their health. Only the Monado's heir can wield it properly without any repercussions. Too bad that's not exactly a good thing, since that means Zanza is inside of you.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a	type	And Your Reward Is Clothes
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6ac6a56a	comment	And Your Reward Is Clothes: A majority of the armors available are only there for this purpose. The collectopedia also unlocks a cute swimsuit for Melia that has pathetic stats. One of your rewards for beating the campaign is being able to freely switch the appearance of Shulk's Monado.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6b2b3b59	comment	A small one in Tephra Cave. When Shulk and Reyn come across the bodies of dead Homs, Shulk is the first one to suggest returning them to the Bionis. It seems innocent enough, but once you find out The Reveal involving Shulk and the nature of the beings on Bionis, plus the fact that Shulk was shown to not be a religious person beforehand, this scene becomes yet more incredibly subtle foreshadowing to the major Plot Twist late game.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6b6a3f73	type	Un-Robotic Reveal
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6b6a3f73	comment	Unrobotic Reveal: Hinted at by Xord during his last battle with the party, and played straight when Face Nemesis blocks Shulk's killing blow meant for Metal Face. The Face Mechon are, in fact, mechs piloted by Homs — specifically, Homs given mechanical bodies by Egil.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6bd689ca	type	Meaningful Echo
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6bd689ca	comment	The lines Alvis said when he is revealed to be Zanza's disciple is deliberately worded so that it could either be interpreted as him taunting the party or him motivating them. The fact that he repeats it later on as a Meaningful Echo means that it's meant to be interpreted as the latter - the only reason why he deliberately worded it like that is so that the other disciple that was with him at the time, Disciple Dickson, as well as Zanza himself, for that matter, would not suspect Alvis' loyalty.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6bda9a30	comment	Kyoshin and Kishin, on the other hand, were more rightly localized as Bionis and Mechonis respectively. Mechonis kept the pun in Kishin, which contains the kanji for "machine", while Bionis is a full departure from Kyoshin, which means "huge god"; "Bionis" contains "Bio", the Greek word for "life", playing up the organic-mechanical dichotomy between it and Mechonis.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6be52ff2	type	Prehensile Tail
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6be52ff2	comment	Prehensile Tail: Bunniv tails are used to hold the clubs and other assorted items they attack with.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: Gael'gar after being defeated once more in his sidequest jumps off the floating island when he realizes his Ax-Crazy dream of a racist holy half-High Entia empire will never come to pass. Tyrea nearly reached this point in the backstory, but met Teelan during her attempt and kept on living.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6dc206c9	type	Marathon Level
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6dc206c9	comment	Marathon Level: The Mechonis Areas in particular are huge.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6e70b12b	type	Nominal Importance
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6e70b12b	comment	Nominal Importance: While there are a bunch of generic non-named ones, another huge group of the non-plot important NPCs are named. Those form part of the global affinity chart, and tend to play huge roles in sidequests and sidequest arcs. This also holds true for monsters and enemies. If a Mook has a non-generic name accompanied by a fancy name tag, that means they're a unique monster, and they'll probably give you one hell of a fight. They even have their own theme, fittingly titled "Those Who Bear Their Name"/"You Will Know Our Names".
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709	type	Cosmetic Award
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6e7e9709	comment	Cosmetic Award: In the New 3DS version, managing to level up all your characters to level 99 results in the game giving you 99 free tokens to spend on in-game models and music for the jukebox collection.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6e9e1e32	type	GottaCatchEmAll
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6e9e1e32	comment	Gotta Catch 'Em All: One recurring sidequest is to find one unit of every collectible item from every region. Some items are much rarer than others.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	type	Guide Dang It!
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6ec989d8	comment	Guide Dang It!: Many sidequests have later consequences that aren't immediately obvious. Giving one seemingly inconsequential item to an NPC early on could lead to a whole branch of later quests being lost. Also, the game clearly points out to you which quests are timed, but never tells you how long you have until they expire. A timed quest could mean anything from that NPC moving to a different location later to an entire area being destroyed. Some quests are completely unavailable to you until you talk to an NPC. An NPC you might have little to no reason to talk with. It's minor, but knowing which NPC trades what requires either massive trial and error or a guide. Even worse, some items aren't offered up for trade until you reach a certain affinity with the area, and certain NPCs who move locations offer completely different items afterwards. Not to mention many of the High Entia you can trade with become inaccessible after a certain event. Good luck completing the "Other" section of the Collectopaedia without a guide, whose items can only be obtained by trading with specific people. This is improved upon in Definitive Edition with the Affinity Chart showing what each NPC can trade, but moving NP Cs and the Other Page is still difficult without a guide. Good luck unlocking each party member's two extra skill trees without a guide, or even knowing that they have more than the default 3 skill trees in the first place. Unlocking each tree often requires the completion of several prerequisite quests, some of which may require that you first gain high affinity in the quest area. If you want to gain affinity with areas, you have to do plenty of quests and talk to named NPCs after certain story event. If you don't do the latter, it's possible to lock yourself out of high affinity ratings later in the game. To make matters worse, sometimes it's necessary to talk to them as many as four times before you actually gain a reputation boost. The fact that enemies are buffed or debuffed stat-wise depending on which danger level they are in (represented by the color of its enemy tag) and what level your characters are in comparison to the enemy you decided to fight. The game mentions via a tutorial message the danger level colors and what they represent, but it doesn't tell you the monsters gets buffed or debuffed depending on said colors. The exact benefits (or hindrance) of each party member's tension (essentially the morale of each and every single party member participating in battle) are only detailed within game guides. Maxing out your Party Members' Arts is a big one. Learning the intermediate levels is straightforward enough, just buy the books from shops; however, the Books that teach the Advanced Levels can only be obtained via drops from level 70+ monsters. The game never tells you this, let alone what monsters drop which Books. Two of Shulk's Monado Arts, Monado Armor and Monado Eater, are not leaned by progressing through the story, and can only be leaned by raising a village affinity and completing several sidequests. The game never even hints at the idea that not all Monado Arts are given to you as the story progresses. A missable special scene can occur just after the events of the Mechonis Core when the party first returns to Colony 6 and Shulk is unconscious in Linada's lab aboard the Junks. When Linada is not around (this can only take place at midnight), Melia can repeatedly speak to the unconscious Shulk for some dialogue regarding her feelings towards him, and also receive a big heart's worth of affinity (probably 300 affinity points like the big heart granting at the end of the Heart-to-Hearts). It appears that Melia was going to do something to the unconscious Shulk, perhaps a kiss, but she would later be ashamed had she not stopped herself.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6f398193	type	Behemoth Battle
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6f398193	comment	Behemoth Battle: The opening cutscene features a titanic clash between the the god-like entities Mechonis and Bionis. They are so big that after said battle, their still-standing corpses form the entire world in which the normal-sized characters live on.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6f63a334	type	Perplexing Plurals
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_6f63a334	comment	Perplexing Plurals: Almost every major race in the game uses the same word for its name's singular or plural form: the singular for Homs is still Homs, while the plurals for the other races are still Nopon, Mechon, High Entia, and Machina. Only Giants are the exception, for whom the singular is "Giant."
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_71456526	type	VictoriousChildhoodFriend
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_71456526	comment	Victorious Childhood Friend: In the end, Fiora and Shulk get together.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_71538259	type	Token Human
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_71538259	comment	Token Human: Token Homs rather. Shulk is the only Homs member this time.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_715704e5	type	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_715704e5	comment	Jigsaw Puzzle Plot: A staple of Monolith Soft games. Playing a second time reveals a great amount of foreshadowing and little details hidden that start to make sense in hindsight.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_71a223fc	type	Up to Eleven
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_71a223fc	comment	Taken even further with the Machina, who are all at least 1000 years old, and ultimately taken Up to Eleven with the Nopon Sage and Machina Neonik, whose ages are listed as 9999 and 9892. Some of the characters are implied to be even older than that, although you don't get them on your Affinity Chart.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_71bd555a	type	Plotline Death
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_71bd555a	comment	Plotline Death: When Metal Face kills Fiora, the rest of the characters are completely paralyzed, so no one can go to "revive" her. And when Shulk regains his mobility, Fiora's body has been taken by the Mechon. And of course, there's the whole thing about Fiora coming Back from the Dead.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9	type	Calling Your Attacks
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_71bd62b9	comment	Calling Your Attacks: Paired with Large Ham, all over the place during battles.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_721325ee	type	No Cutscene Inventory Inertia
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_721325ee	comment	No Cutscene Inventory Inertia: When Shulk has a vision about future events, and later flashes back to that vision as the moment approaches. In the vision-flashbacks, he wears whatever he had on when he first had that vision, rather that what he is more likely about to actually be wearing (i.e.: his current gear) when it comes to pass.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9	type	Grey-and-Gray Morality
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7335ffa9	comment	Grey-and-Gray Morality: Shulk is a Nice Guy and well-meaning, but openly preaches genocide against all mechon, even those that weren't involved with Fiora's death. On the flip side, their leader is a brutal, ruthless dictator, but turns out to have been doing everything he's done in a (misguided) attempt to defeat the real villain.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_733e007a	type	Unwitting Pawn
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_733e007a	comment	Unwitting Pawn: Egil and Shulk play right into Zanza's hands for the majority of the game.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_733e007a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_735b4101	type	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_735b4101	comment	Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Battle arts have all different colors that represent different kinds of abilities. This makes it easier for the player to set up strategies to use against enemies. Red arts are all physical, and often have a bonus effect if done a certain way (i.e. from behind). Purple arts are all ether based, and affect the enemy in some way. (i.e. sleep, burn, chill, etc.). Blue arts are healing or supportive. Orange arts are auras, which grant multiple forms of buffs to different characters for a limited time. Pink arts inflict break on an enemy. Green arts inflict topple in some way, mainly when an enemy suffers from break. Yellow arts inflict daze, usually when an enemy is under topple. Finally, Talent Arts are gray, and work as a wild card during Chain Attacks. Each different Monado Art illuminates the blade with a different color, but these colors don't correlate with the colors of "equivalent" Battle Arts save for Armour (Orange).
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_735b4101	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_737394ab	type	Iconic Item
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_737394ab	comment	Iconic Item: The Monado, which is featured prominently in promotional material. Because, let's be honest, there's nothing quite as iconic as blending the Laser Blade and BFS tropes.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_737394ab	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_73f7b5a5	type	Total Party Kill
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_73f7b5a5	comment	Suffering a Total Party Kill fifty times.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7464705c	type	Arc Words
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7464705c	comment	Arc Words: "Seize our destiny." It starts as a sort of Catchphrase for Dunban, but later becomes synonymous with the party's struggle to change the future.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7464705c	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7583ecbf	type	Morality Kitchen Sink
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7583ecbf	comment	Morality Kitchen Sink: The game goes all over the place with this. In chronological order: Black-and-Gray Morality: Metal Face opens up the game with a horrific attack on Colony 9, sparing little to no one. Shulk may vow ruthless revenge against Mechonis, but Metal Face is an absolute monster and is the driving force behind the gang's actions. Only when he learns of who the Mechon's true leader does this change. Grey-and-Gray Morality: Shulk is a Nice Guy and well-meaning, but openly preaches genocide against all mechon, even those that weren't involved with Fiora's death. On the flip side, their leader is a brutal, ruthless dictator, but turns out to have been doing everything he's done in a (misguided) attempt to defeat the real villain. White-and-Grey Morality: Shulk reverses his stance on the mechon pretty much immediately after he finds out Fiora was rebuilt as one of them (and once Metal Face was gone for good), and tries to persuade Egil that the peoples of Bionis and Mechonis can live in peace together. He'd be right, too, if it weren't for... Black-and-White Morality: Zanza's appearance changes it to this. He's a heartless, selfish bastard that cares about nothing but himself and attempts to kill everything on Bionis, and apart from Alvis, his Disciples' reasons for having anything to do with him are entirely selfish. Doesn't get much more black and white than that.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_75f09f53	type	Morale Mechanic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_75f09f53	comment	Morale Mechanic: Tension serves as this. You gain Tension by scoring critical hits and performing Burst Affinity. You lose Tension by missing hits and losing party members. Higher Tensions help you score more critical hits and increase critical hit damage, while lower Tensions make you miss attacks even more. Fortunately, party members can encourage each other to bring their Tension back to normal.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_77414bc2	type	Action Prologue
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_77414bc2	comment	Action Prologue: The game starts off with Dunban's stand against the Mechon approximately one year before the events of the game.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_77414bc2	featureConfidence	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_77473d35	type	God Is Evil
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_77473d35	comment	God Is Evil: Zanza, the god of Bionis, is most certainly a complete and utter bastard...
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_77480c5e	type	God Is Good
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_77480c5e	comment	God Is Good: ...The Mechonis god Meyneth, on the other hand, is an incredibly motherly and compassionate deity who even pulls a Heroic Sacrifice to save the party.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_77480c5e	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_77f6cc58	type	100% Completion
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_77f6cc58	comment	Fast travel and time changing. Easily saves dozens of hours of pointless wandering, and even with them, 100% Completion still takes well in excess of 100 hours. Now if only they'd allow to change the weather too... and even that just takes a few time changes or fast travels.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_786e5cac	type	Circling Birdies
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_786e5cac	comment	Yellow arts inflict daze, usually when an enemy is under topple.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7969557b	type	Subtitles Are Superfluous
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7969557b	comment	Subtitles Are Superfluous: Battle dialogues don't have subtitles, so people who don't speak either Japanese (most people) or English (a lot of people outside the US and the UK) will be left out during those.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7abd339f	type	Black-and-White Morality
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7abd339f	comment	Black-and-White Morality: Zanza's appearance changes it to this. He's a heartless, selfish bastard that cares about nothing but himself and attempts to kill everything on Bionis, and apart from Alvis, his Disciples' reasons for having anything to do with him are entirely selfish. Doesn't get much more black and white than that.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273	type	Point of No Return
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273	comment	Point of No Return: Minor ones where certain areas become inaccessible, usually after boss battles, which you aren't warned of. The game does warn you before the ultimate one though.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7ae4d273	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b21ef92	type	Later-Installment Weirdness
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b21ef92	comment	Later Installment Weirdness: With ''Future Connected" being released long after the main game's debut, and after two separate entries in the franchise, there are a few things that make this apparent: Nopon are back to saying "Meh!" on a regular basis, a first in the world of the twin titans. With this being a condensed story, there's no NPC affinity chart to keep logs. It may be more difficult to find certain sidequests as a few still require chatting to certain people. Manual control over party members during Chain Attacks have been replaced with the ability to use the Ponspectors and their varying talents, namely to either deal lots of damage, force Daze on the enemy, or heal up your party. Arts that might be useful during a traditional Chain Attack might not be so handy here. It does, however, encourage you to complete as many Ponspector missions as possible, as this increases this initiative's effectiveness.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b21ef92	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b4cbce1	type	Headbutt of Love
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b4cbce1	comment	Headbutt of Love: Shulk and Fiora share one when they reunite.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b4cbce1	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5	type	Armor-Piercing Question
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5	comment	Armor-Piercing Question: Shulk stops Dunban from killing Mumkar, not wanting Homs to kill other Homs. Dunban only relents after Shulk asks him what if he has to do the same to Fiora, giving him serious pause.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b6e47a5	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd	type	Boss in Mook Clothing
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7b7965dd	comment	Boss in Mook Clothing: Unique Monsters are super powered versions of otherwise regular monsters wandering around the world. They are usually, but not always, bigger than their counterparts, and are distinguishable by their fancy name tag and by their unique names. Fights against them can be even tougher than bosses. Fortress-class Mechon are massive house-sized behemoths of a robot. Even in their non-unique forms, they can be even more powerful than Unique Monsters of the same level. And let's not even start with their unique varieties. Many areas hold otherwise regular monsters that are several levels above the one of the usual monsters. Thankfully, most of them are usually found in some out-of-the-way areas, or don't attack unless provoked. The Face clones, which are mass-produced versions of Xord. The unique monster variation in Central Factory is quite powerful, as it has topple spike damage unlike the regular Mass Produced Faces and it hits hard with its arts. Dragons are also this; they're gigantic, most have spike damage, and some have Instant Death Attacks. Demon King Dragonia is fairly hard for a normal enemy, having more HP than a Unique Monster at the same level (Around 656,000), really powerful arts that can hit the entire party, and an Instant Death attack. It also gives the second best EXP out of any enemy, only beaten out by the Avalanche Abaasy, which is the strongest enemy in the entire game. The Deinos Sauros within Makna Forest. They're the highest level monsters you can encounter pre-Mechonis Core event at level 98, meaning unless you're something like level 93, you'd have a tough time hitting it. Even so, it has only two different attacks: A powerful physical art that topples anyone who gets in its way and a level 10 talent art that guarantees instant death unless you either have debuff resistancenote even then, the attack's quite deadly or used Monado Shield. Also, the mere fact that the level cap's 99 means that the Deinos Sauros can never be below white when it comes to danger levels. Thus, it's impossible to fight it with its stats reduced to compensate for you being overleveled. They, therefore, give the most EXP, AP, and SP out of all the monsters in the game pre-Mechonis Core event. And let's not even get started on the Unique version, which is level 99, has a spike that topples you and it has over 2,000 attack power.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7c0bfb83	type	Obviously Evil
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7c0bfb83	comment	Obviously Evil: Mumkhar. The guy is a complete Gonk with a Guttural Growl who runs away from battle to save his own skin within the first two minutes of play time. Dunban may be Genre Blind, but the player needs only to look at his Japanese voice actor to get a clue that he's a bad egg. The only surprise is in how bad he turns out to be. Even if you couldn't tell that Lorithia was bad news from her red and black, stripper/dominatrix outfit, she has maybe 30 seconds of screen time before she starts telling the player about her plans to have Melia killed. Like Mumkhar, she's later revealed to be even worse than she seems. Dickson is not as blatantly obvious as Lorithia, but he is still stupid enough to comment out loud that he "feels bad about deceiving his allies". What makes it worse is that Otharon does ask him what he means with that, but neither of them make a big deal about it despite the ominousness of his words.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7c36c716	type	Angst Coma
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7c36c716	comment	Angst Coma: Sharla sinks into unconsciousness after her younger brother Juju is kidnapped by Xord. She remains out cold for four hours, and is even haunted by a nightmare right before waking up.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7cfc2a69	type	Tree Trunk Tour
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7cfc2a69	comment	Tree Trunk Tour: All of Frontier Village, except maybe the Apex Lake, which is outdoors.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7e02bded	type	Fetch Quest
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7e02bded	comment	Fetch Quest: Many quests involve taking or finding items and delivering them to someone. Lots of them don't require one to go find the quest giver later, making them easier.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7e5a2811	type	Virtual Paper Doll
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7e5a2811	comment	Virtual Paper Doll: Any changes to armor and weapons are visible even in cutscenes, and the game even remembers what you were wearing at the time during flashbacks. Taken further in Definitive Edition, which allows you to apply a cosmetic override on any equipment slot using a running catalogue of every piece of gear ever obtained.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7e5a2811	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7e8a9164	type	Hybrid Power
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7e8a9164	comment	Hybrid Power: Half-Homs High Entia, despite their usually smaller head wings and lack of Pointy Ears, are just as long-lived and capable of manipulating ether as their pure-blooded cousins. What really sets them apart is that they are cured of the genetic "curse" that can eventually turn pure High Entia into mindless Telethia.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7ea2a915	type	Animation Bump
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7ea2a915	comment	Animation Bump: During the majority of the dialogue cut scenes, the game uses pre-recorded animations and the lip movement is reduced to open-close-mouth. The characters' faces are rather motionless, the camera angles are pretty simple, and the shots are a little static. However, in the more dramatic and spectacular ones, the characters become more expressive, both in face animations and body language, the lip movement is animated accordingly to the spoken lines (at least with the Japanese dub), and the shots become way more dynamic.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7ef70048	type	Big Bad Friend
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7ef70048	comment	Big Bad Friend: The true antagonist of the Black Market sidequest chain is Bana, one of Gadada's closest friends and the giver of one of the chain's prerequisite quests.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7efd2e30	type	Expository Hairstyle Change
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7efd2e30	comment	Expository Hairstyle Change: Fiora gets her hair cut along with her Unwilling Roboticisation. She decides to keep it like that after she recovers her body.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7f6c8e4f	type	Reverse Grip
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_7f6c8e4f	comment	Fiora with Reverse Grip knives, no less. Which change to Dual Wielding weird-looking swords after her transformation. Straight grip this time.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8134db87	type	Mechanical Evolution
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8134db87	comment	Mechanical Evolution: Implied to be the case of the Mechonis life forms.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8186d60d	type	Not Growing Up Sucks
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8186d60d	comment	Not Growing Up Sucks: A Machina sidequest has the party helping with fixing a child whose growing algorithms have been malfunctioning for a thousand years. It's left him mentally and physically as a kid when he's in the equivalent of a Machina's twenties.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_81bdc398	type	He's Back!
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_81bdc398	comment	He's Back: Shulk himself pulls a serious one, making a Big Damn Heroes comeback to save the day from Dickson's attack near the end of the game.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_81c8dd41	type	Deus Est Machina
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_81c8dd41	comment	Deus Est Machina: Mechonis and Meyneth, on virtue of being Mechanical Lifeforms. Taken to even greater levels with Alvis, Monado itself, who used to be a computer AI in the previous universe before it was destroyed.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e	type	Large Ham
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_823c6e3e	comment	Large Ham: The battle dialogues are FILLED with this. Xord enjoys overacting. His heavy British accent helps a lot with this. Justified in that it's implied he went insane from being turned into a face unit.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_82518cf7	type	Motor Mouth
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_82518cf7	comment	Motor Mouth: If you have story-based dialog scroll by automatically instead of by a press of a button, the characters don't pause when they narrate a text box, resulting in them speaking very quickly.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_82518cf7	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_82da9d46	type	Mundane Fantastic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_82da9d46	comment	Mundane Fantastic: An unnamed Nopon NPC within Frontier Village notes that a sea viewable within the sky is weird for the "Homs" (ie, the player characters, Riki and Melia notwithstanding), but normal for the Nopon that live within the village.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_830b0ac9	type	Final Battle
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_830b0ac9	comment	Shulk finishes Zanza during the start of the final cutscene after the Final Battle.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_83441d66	type	AIs
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_83441d66	comment	The AI does not handle positional abilities well. This leads to the A.I.s of Riki, Fiora, and Shulk (who all have abilities that are stronger if they're to the side or behind enemies) misusing their attacks when they're facing enemies or never making the effort to try flanking them. Usually they rely a lot on Reyn or Dunban to pull them off properly. It's one reason to ditch such arts for Riki and Fiora in favor of other arts their AI might be more effective with (Shulk is more or less stuck with the same palette of arts for the entire game).
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8344209e	type	BFG
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8344209e	comment	BFG: Ether rifles can be BIG. Sharla is no small girl, but she's dwarfed by some of her guns.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_834420aa	type	BFS
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_834420aa	comment	BFS: The Monado itself. It starts out almost as tall as Shulk is, and can grow to three times its normal size for special attacks. Dunban also has some BFSs of his own, which he wields one-handed.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_83fb6177	type	First-Episode Twist
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_83fb6177	comment	The second one is Fiora, who takes the cake, the shop, and the whole freaking baking industry! It's almost impossible to talk about the game's plot beyond the first two hours without mentioning the (FIRST!) Wham Episode involving them.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8411ab92	type	Red Oni, Blue Oni
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8411ab92	comment	Red Oni, Blue Oni: Fiora (Red) and Shulk (Blue). Fiora is a Plucky Girl that regardless of her kindness has a strong attitude. Shulk is a kind boy that tends to think before acting and plays things slower. It's Colour Coded in a cutscene just to drive the point home.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_843bc349	type	Invented Linguistic Distinction
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_843bc349	comment	Invented Linguistic Distinction: The English dub has two examples. Though all of the characters sport accents from across southern England, most of them are distributed based on character rather than nationality (despite living together for most of their lives, siblings Fiora and Dunban speak in Estuary and Received Pronunciation accents, respectively, for example). The first exception and example of this trope is the High Entia race, who all speak in Upper Received Pronunciation accents and are the sole users of it. As a very long lived and somewhat isolationist society of High Elfish people, the language difference checks out. The other example is the Nopon race, who aren't so different accent-wise, but speak in their own unique dialect full of broken English and strange terminologies.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8485d41a	type	Interspecies Romance
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8485d41a	comment	Interspecies Romance: Several NPCs are involved in one or were at one time: Winnie had one in the past, but lost her full blooded High Entia husband when he turned into a Telethia during the Bionis' resurrection. The experience made her a emotional wreck. She's also currently being pursued by a smitten Machina and a half-High Entia, though she's Oblivious to Love. Another Homs woman also mentions losing her High-Entia husband to the Telethia transformation. There's a Homs chef who once lived in Alcamoth with a one sided crush on Tyrea.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_84f4a870	type	Puzzle Boss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_84f4a870	comment	Puzzle Boss: The Lorithia/Kallian hybrid Telethia barely receives any damage until its flunkies are beat. And the latter are numbered, as killing one makes the next more vulnerable.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8504e5ff	type	World of Buxom
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8504e5ff	comment	World of Buxom: Every adult female is stacked, save Melia and Fiora.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_868409c	type	Broken Pedestal
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_868409c	comment	Broken Pedestal: Dickson becomes one to Shulk over the course of the game. Ever since Dickson found him at Valak Mountain, Shulk has looked up to him as his Parental Substitute. However, the pedestal is eventually shattered when Dickson shoots Shulk in the back and reveals himself as Zanza's disciple.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_86c192f4	type	Badass Creed
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_86c192f4	comment	Badass Creed: The Ponspectors have a short but strong one that all 12 will chant in unison during their Chain Attack:
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_87456897	type	Unholy Holy Sword
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_87456897	comment	Unholy Holy Sword: The Monado: The weapon of the Bionis, and also the xenophobic manifestation of an Evil God.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8758ea2e	type	Arboreal Abode
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8758ea2e	comment	Arboreal Abode: Frontier Village takes it to an extreme, being a 9-level borderline Layered Metropolis inside a gigantic hollow tree.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3	type	Black-and-Gray Morality
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8767b1f3	comment	Black-and-Gray Morality: Metal Face opens up the game with a horrific attack on Colony 9, sparing little to no one. Shulk may vow ruthless revenge against Mechonis, but Metal Face is an absolute monster and is the driving force behind the gang's actions. Only when he learns of who the Mechon's true leader does this change.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_878bd6cf	type	Sliding Scale of Linearity vs. Openness
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_878bd6cf	comment	Sliding Scale of Linearity vs. Openness: The game follows a mostly linear narrative, but the game practically gives free reign on what to do and where to go. The general largeness of the environments and the huge amount of sidequests certainly help.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	type	Old Save Bonus
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_87ce64a0	comment	Old Save Bonus: Starting Definitive Edition with a Xenoblade Chronicles 2 save on your Switch allows you to begin the game with an extra 100,000G, but you can also opt out if you so desire.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_87de091e	type	Improbable Power Discrepancy
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_87de091e	comment	Improbable Power Discrepancy: The strongest Brog in the game is called the Young Brog. Said Brog is about level 95 by the time you're able to encounter them, compared to the rest of the Brog which are between levels 5 to 87. The Mechon on Fallen Arm are stated by their names to be the prototypical forms of the actual units used by Egil's army. Said Mechon are stronger than the mechon you had encountered before them on Sword Valley, and some quest exclusive variants (as well as a superboss) are over level 70. There are several monsters in the game that are more powerful than the game's final boss to the point that the he seems Anticlimatic by comparison (especially if you level yourself up just to face these powerful monsters). Said final boss happens to be the creator of the game world.invoked
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8879db82	type	Badass Crew
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8879db82	comment	Badass Crew: The playable characters, of course. Even the Nopon party member kicks some serious ass.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_88cee6e2	type	Abhorrent Admirer
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_88cee6e2	comment	Abhorrent Admirer: Non romantically, Gael'gar for Melia. He's an insane zealot stalker who believes her to be the divine savior of the half breed High Entia from their tyrannical pureblooded ancestors. Understandably, Melia finds him disgusting.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8967e17f	type	Back from the Dead
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8967e17f	comment	Back from the Dead: Four characters that were killed by Mechon (Xord, Mumkhar, Gadolt, and Fiora) are revealed to have been resurrected as core units that serve as pilots for the Faced Mechon. Shulk had this twice. First he came back after Zanza started using his body as a vessel; and later, after Zanza leaves his body, making him die again, he comes back for good.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8c681acc	type	Third-Person Person
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8c681acc	comment	Third-Person Person: The Nopon, including Riki, zig-zag it. They sometimes speak like this, while other times they use "me" instead of "I".
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8cb1a369	type	Took a Level in Jerkass
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8cb1a369	comment	Took a Level in Jerkass: Mumkhar. He starts out as a Dirty Coward, but once transformed into a Face Mechon, he ends up attacking Colony 9 and opposing Shulk's party just For the Evulz.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab	type	Non-Standard Game Over
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8e0430ab	comment	Non Standard Game Over: If Egil is not stopped from using "Bionis Slash X", he kills the Bionis, ending the fight with it.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8e20979	type	Wham Episode
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8e20979	comment	Wham Episode: This is a Monolith Soft game. Which means we will need a freaking LIST: Fiora's death in the Mechon attack to Colony 9. The last one carries us to the moment she's seen resurrected as a Mechon. The reveal is made when Shulk slashes open her cockpit hatch, revealing her. The appearance of the Machina, revealing that Mechonis holds actual living beings, and that most of them want the war to end as much as the people of Bionis. The Core of Mechonis brings Shulk's death, the revelation of Zanza, the reveal of an Evil All Along character, and a whole freaking mess of twists. A little later, when all the pure-blooded High Entia are transformed into Telethia. They even keep something under the sleeve for the ending. We find out that the current universe was created after Zanza DESTROYED the previous universe, and that previous universe was OUR universe, as in the "real" world.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8ebd7403	type	Action Commands
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8ebd7403	comment	Action Commands: Burst affinity. Occasionally in battle the player gets the opportunity to press a button to increase the team's tension and affinity, without major consequences besides a minor tension loss should the player fail. The same mechanic is also used in Dunban's "Blossom Dance" attack, and also to extend chain attacks, and for triggering the visions in the final battle against Zanza.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8edd1883	type	Colossus Climb
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_8edd1883	comment	Colossus Climb: A weird sort, in that the entire game takes place on the bodies of two godlike behemoths the size of a pair of small moons.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_906365a2	type	Demonic Possession
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_906365a2	comment	Demonic Possession: The only reason Shulk was alive these last 14 years is because Zanza was using him as his vessel. Whoever holds a Monado can be taken over by the soul of a god that rests within, like the giant Arglas, who became Zanza's puppet when he grabbed the respective Monado. Although the Demonic part is pretty non-existant on Meyneth's side.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_90bc139e	type	Justified Title
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_90bc139e	comment	Justified Title: The Monado is a blade that is deadly against the mechanical invaders. Much later, it's revealed that it's pretty much xenophobic. If you go for the literal translation of Xenoblade as "strange blade," then the Monado still qualifies, being vastly more advanced than anything the peoples of Bionis ever produced on their own. Even the Machina can only make a pale imitation of it. The True Monado obtained at the end of the game qualifies even more as a "strange blade" than the original. Even Zanza is shocked when Shulk pulls it seemingly out of nowhere.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_90e31482	type	Laser-Guided Karma
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_90e31482	comment	Laser-Guided Karma: The High Entia turn into Telethia when Bionis awakens. Yumea, the First Consort, wants High Entia blood purity, meaning no half-Homs High Entia. She turns into a Telethia, while Melia doesn't, but if she had got her way, the High Entia would have been ''royally screwed''.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_912b24c4	type	Art Shift
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_912b24c4	comment	Art Shift: The art style for the Definitive Edition leans more toward the anime aesthetic seen more prominently in the sequel. Best seen with both Shulk and Fiora, whose designs here are much closer to their appearances as Blades in Xenoblade Chronicles 2.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_91e894b4	type	Apocalypse How
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_91e894b4	comment	Apocalypse How: A freaking Universal Class 4! Klaus tried to get an experiment that would turn human beings into gods and he ended up destroying the entire universe except himself, Meyneth, and the computer AI's consciousness. After that, they create the universe of the game. Klaus, now calling himself Zanza, is turned into Bionis, Meyneth into Mechonis, and the computer's AI into the Monado's spirit, which can take the Homs form of Alvis.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_91f5e99c	type	Clipped-Wing Angel
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_91f5e99c	comment	Clipped-Wing Angel: After Xord is defeated and thrown into the ether river on the Ether Plant, he jumps back into action while the party is on the mine's elevator. This time he's rusted from the direct exposure to the ether, and unlike the first time around, he can be damaged just fine by the Monado.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_933576c8	type	Mighty Glacier
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_933576c8	comment	Mighty Glacier: Reyn; a slow and strong tank that hits like a truck and can take hits like one. He also has a lot of Draw Aggro abilities that allow him to make good use of those stats to protect the rest of the party.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_93a38c9b	type	Magic Feather
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_93a38c9b	comment	Magic Feather: Shulk doesn't need the Bionis Monado in order to see visions. This becomes a plot point during the game's climax when he manages to manifest the Monado III (Aka "Shulk's Monado") from his heart during the fight with Zanza.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_940a5958	type	Artificial Stupidity
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_940a5958	comment	Artificial Stupidity: That said, the AI still has a lot of issues... The AI does not handle positional abilities well. This leads to the A.I.s of Riki, Fiora, and Shulk (who all have abilities that are stronger if they're to the side or behind enemies) misusing their attacks when they're facing enemies or never making the effort to try flanking them. Usually they rely a lot on Reyn or Dunban to pull them off properly. It's one reason to ditch such arts for Riki and Fiora in favor of other arts their AI might be more effective with (Shulk is more or less stuck with the same palette of arts for the entire game). Melia's AI is generally a bit too hard for a simple AI to handle. She almost always summons elementals for the status buffs - which is good, but what isn't good is when she walks right up to the enemy and summons them, despite being a Squishy Wizard. Moreover, while a player can notice (and use) the fact that you can summon one/two buffs, then continuously use the third buff as an attack, the AI will summon three in any random order before discharging them. One reason why Shulk is pretty much always the player character is because many battles for a huge portion of the game are borderline impossible without the Monado... and Shulk's AI is too stupid to properly enchantnote Mechon-type enemies No-Sell physical attacks and take half-damage from ether attacks, but Monado Enchant will allow your party to deal full damage. However, there are also Anti-Mechon weapons, which effectively have Enchant built in, but Shulk's AI refuses to check whether party members have these weapons before using Enchant. or shieldnote Shield will nullify a single Talent Art used by an enemy, as long as Monado Shield is the same rank or higher, but it only blocks Talent arts. However, Shulk may use Shield for attacks that aren't Talent Arts, use Armor (reduces damage from all sources instead of nullifying an attack) instead of Shield for talent arts, use Shield for an art that's a higher level, or use a Monado Art too early and be unprepared when a vision appears. Riki simultaneously falls into this and brilliance - Riki is good at keeping on Poison, Chill, and Bleed, which are reliable DoTs, but he also has access to Burn, which damages even faster (and sometimes even harder) than Poison or Bleed. The problem? His Burn attack target groups of enemies, but his AI doesn't seem to realize that it's just as effective against single targets, meaning he has to be ordered to use Burninate against bulkier opponents in a Chain Attack. Dunban seems to be adverse to using Blinding Blossom on Fiora in order to draw aggro away from her, even if she isn't using any sort of Tank equipment. He usually doesn't have much of a problem using it on other characters who happen to have uncomfortably high attention from monster attacks. In the field, the AI can sometimes walk off edges and fall to their doomnote or you can push them off... thankfully they respawn next to you within seconds.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_940b3c0	type	Irrelevant Sidequest
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_940b3c0	comment	Irrelevant Sidequest: You can spend more time solving the problems of every single person on Bionis than, you know... saving the world.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9475b606	type	Fighting Clown
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9475b606	comment	Totally inverted! Status effects are immensely useful when used by the player, in fact they're part of what makes Riki the effective Fighting Clown he really is. Not only do they work on just about everything, even bosses, but there are at least four separate damage-over-time effects (Bleed, Poison, Blaze and Chill), and they all stack with each other. Riki can take major advantage of this, stacking all four on enemies quickly and re-applying them when they wear off ad-infinitum, to the point where he's considered one of the best boss killers in the game. The other main status effects, Break/Topple/Daze, render enemies not immune (and only flying monsters generally are) completely immobile and vulnerable to damage, and at higher levels the party can spam these to make sure they never have a chance to get up.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9578e935	type	Bare Your Midriff
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9578e935	comment	Bare Your Midriff: Many characters have outfits that show navel, such as Fiora's and Sharla's default outfits.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	type	Villainous Breakdown
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_957e5fc2	comment	Villainous Breakdown: Zanza starts losing it after Shulk and co. kick his ass twice and he still cannot see their future, while they can. It's displayed nicely in the final battle, the first time they manage to have a vision in his presence.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_963086ce	type	Damn You, Muscle Memory!
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_963086ce	comment	Damn You, Muscle Memory!: Alcamoth's minimap has been rotated 90 degrees counterclockwise from the main game, so relying on the minimap will get you disoriented.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_967809be	type	Small Girl, Big Gun
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_967809be	comment	Small Girl, Big Gun: Sharla may not be a small girl, per se, but her guns are pretty damn huge.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_970c790a	type	Big Bad
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_970c790a	comment	Big Bad: The Fog King is the one for the main storyline. It kills most of those living in Alcamoth and forces them to move into the now very overpopulated town of Gran Dell. Bana takes this role for the Gran Dell sidequests, as it's revealed that almost every problem that the villagers have had since moving there were caused by him trying to develop addictive drugs to become emperor of the Bionis Shoulder via a criminal empire. He arrived shortly before Melia and friends did with the intention of taking advantage of the chaos caused by the Fog King.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9712e10	type	Sword of Plot Advancement
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9712e10	comment	Sword of Plot Advancement: The Monado. It's the legendary sword said to have been wielded by the Bionis in the battle against Mechonis, and it's a big part of the plot, its presence being involved in several events.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_97926168	type	Rewatch Bonus
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_97926168	comment	Rewatch Bonus: Many things Alvis says becomes this after his true nature as the Monado's spirit and his true allegiance to Shulk both come to light due to his liberal usage of Exact Words.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_97b5e1f9	type	Bug War
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_97b5e1f9	comment	Bug War: Several sidequests eventually reveal that one had happened between the Spiders and Giants. The Giants originally won the war and kept the powerful white spiders under control thanks to their Soothesayer. Eventually he died and the Spiders began to grow in power once again with no way to stop them. The Giants then resorted to Giant Sacrifice in order to keep them under control. Which worked until their numbers dwindled to the point that nothing they do could stop them. It's suggested that the Spiders might have caused their extinction. There's also a war between the Chilkin and the Antols on Valak Mountain which keeps both sides in check.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_97d0ab1d	type	Damager, Healer, Tank
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_97d0ab1d	comment	Damager, Healer, Tank: Can be done as long as Sharla is the healer and Reyn is the tank. Most other characters fall more or less under the Glass Cannon type, so they would be the damage.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_998360a	type	Take Up My Sword
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_998360a	comment	Take Up My Sword: Non-lethal example. Shulk gets the Monado when Dunban can't wield it any longer. Later, Shulk even tries to give it back to Dunban, but he refuses, saying that Shulk wields it better than he ever could.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_99fe88e1	type	Event Flag
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_99fe88e1	comment	Event Flag: Pointed in the maps with actual flag icons, they mark points where cutscenes and plot happens.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9a8b3185	type	DiskOneNuke
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9a8b3185	comment	Disk One Nuke: Using an exploit, it's possible to get into the post-Mechonis Core section of Tephra Cave on the first pass through, which doesn't have its enemies or map loaded but does have its lategame Ether deposits and two secret areas accessible, whose combined experience rewards will easily push the party to around level 50. Definitive Edition fixes the original exploit, but introduces a new one. Once you get Melia and have her sleep and Spear Break talent arts, it's possible to use her to push the Gogols, an exceedingly high-leveled late-game enemy on Bionis Leg, off of cliffs for a One-Hit Kill. While the team thought of that and put a max EXP and AP cap in relation to your level, regardless of what level the enemy is at, it's still possible to get some really good equipment, Art Books, and level V / VI strength up gems from them, which helps makes the game up to the Mechonis proper a breeze.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9b0b8109	comment	Floating Continent: The Bionis Shoulder remained in position flying above the clouds after the rest of the body was destroyed due to an absurd amount of Hoverstone concentrated in the ground. Shulk theorizes that due to the Giants' ruins there that the floating islands in Eryth Sea and Alcamoth were constructed by Giants mining it from the Shoulder and moving it to other parts of the Bionis.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9b8671cf	type	As Lethal as It Needs to Be
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9b8671cf	comment	As Lethal as It Needs to Be: The Monado is incapable of cutting sentient beings born from the Bionis, which severely cripples Shulk in a couple of battles. This restriction is no more once the Monado is unshackled.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	type	Took a Level in Badass
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9bcd82c0	comment	Took a Level in Badass: Dunban was a badass in his own right, but when he rejoins the party after the events in the Ether Mine he takes further levels in badass by wielding an Anti-Mechon Blade with only one arm, and also by taking a level in common sense. His time out allowed him to learn to take a wiser approach instead of jumping into battle blindly. Fiora knew how to fight with daggers beforehand the prologue, but once she gets her new Mechon body, she really kicks some major ass with it. Melia, too. When the party first meets her, she's a frail Squishy Wizard on the verge of death. Some time with travelling with the party later, she's picked up some new techniques, including the ability to drop-kick enemies ten times her size hard enough to knock them on their ass, which brings her more up to a Kung-Fu Wizard or Magic Knight.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	type	Chainmail Bikini
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9bfbf9f3	comment	Chainmail Bikini: All characters, male and female, have access to equipment that are basically them in their underwear (or swimsuits). They can have some surprisingly high stats.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9c45b5a2	type	What Measure Is a Non-Human?
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9c45b5a2	comment	What Measure Is a Non-Human?: Subverted. Shulk is horrified once he discovers that Faced Mechon have Homs inside them, and when he discovers later that there is actual life on Mechonis in the form of the Machina. This makes him forget about his Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Mechonis, as he would be taking sentient life. Later, the Telethia are played for all the horror they deserve. Played straight with some of the species of monster. They use tools, have goals and have a certain level of intelligence implied. Kill as many as you want, no one ever questions the morality. Not even the Monado itself cares, as it can't hurt sentient Bionis life, yet cuts through these creatures just fine.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9c8701b5	type	A Day in the Limelight
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9c8701b5	comment	A Day in the Limelight: The epilogue heavily focuses on Melia and the remnants of the High Entia and Machina. Shulk's role is relatively minor and the other protagonists get passing mentions. This is exemplified at the start of the game as Melia is chosen to be the group's leader by default rather than Shulk. In addition, almost half the epilogue is devoted to expanding on Riki's character through his children, despite him not being physically there.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e	type	Interface Spoiler
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9cb3e22e	comment	Interface Spoiler: The Bionis' Interior has a collectable page, yet no collectibles when going through it. Looking at the map of the area also reveals several ether crystal deposits extremely out of reach. The Achievements page also lists numerous achievements involving Fiora long before it's even remotely possible to get any of them. One unique monster (Dark Murakmor) found in Colony 9 can drop swords long before Dunban returns to the party. The weapon store in Frontier Village sells weapons and art books for Riki before he joins the party. Likewise, it's also possible to get weapons for him as a rare drop from the monsters in Makna Forest as well as find him mentioned in the description for the Rumble Box collectible (where it's revealed he's the one who named it). Riki's house is identified as such even before the party meets him. They apparently just happen to know that a certain ginormous house is the home to a Nopon they haven't even met yet. Looking at the party slots after Riki and Melia join reveals that there's still room for another character. Any quest that will automatically fail if not completed before reaching a story event is marked with a clock to indicate such. You know that something is going to happen to Alcamoth when every single quest that you get in the city is marked this way. One that most people won't notice involves the skill link system. Fiora's starting "Medium Equipment" skill is the unlink-able diamond shape, which implies that the skill is going to change in the future. The mere fact that there's space for a fifth reputation area on the affection chart in spite of there being only four within Bionis itself foreshadows the existence of the Hidden Machina Village within the area of Mechonis. The fact that there's a greyed-out option to use an Ether Furnace anywhere foreshadows an optional side quest from the Ether Furnace man of Colony 9 that would allow one to obtain a "portable Ether Furnace" to craft gems anywhere. Defeat the high-level monsters within various areas of Bionis early and you may get armour that are meant to be equipped by Fiora. In addition, said equipment refers to the Machina when you look at their descriptions. The entrance from Valak Mountain to Sword Valley is the only entrance that makes the player face the exit instead of away from it when they either warp to it or they respawn there. This doesn't seem much, until certain events within the game causes the entrance to cave in. In the Definitive Edition, in the beginning of the game, Fiora suspiciously has much fewer appearance options than Shulk and Reyn. In fact, you could buy every appearance option for her, which implies she doesn't last long beyond Colony 9. The Time Attack mode allows you to buy Master art books for every Art in the game and complete challenges with party members well before they are even introduced.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	type	Foreshadowing
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9d12bbc1	comment	Foreshadowing: Since Shulk can see the future, he occasionally gets glimpses of lots of distant future events. Lots of them only start to make sense once the event happens. Foreshadowing for the biggest plot twist in the game can be spotted as early as the prologue in Sword Valley, with Dunban and Dickson calling each other "stupid beast" and "old man" respectively. An easy to miss Foreshadowing of the Mechon attack on Colony 6 can be seen when an unnamed Nopon NPC states that she hadn't heard any gossip from Colony 6 lately. Throughout the game, Alvis keeps insisting to Shulk that he should find "his true Monado", foreshadowing the fact that he had a Monado tucked away within his heart the entire time which he eventually manifests into a physical form while fighting Zanza. Near the beginning of the game, after Fiora dies, Shulk remarks how he feels part of him is telling him to be rational, while another part of him is crying out for revenge. Even Reyn remarks on how that doesn't sound like something Shulk would say at all... A small one in Tephra Cave. When Shulk and Reyn come across the bodies of dead Homs, Shulk is the first one to suggest returning them to the Bionis. It seems innocent enough, but once you find out The Reveal involving Shulk and the nature of the beings on Bionis, plus the fact that Shulk was shown to not be a religious person beforehand, this scene becomes yet more incredibly subtle foreshadowing to the major Plot Twist late game. Right after killing Fiora, Metal Face shares a meaningful glance with Dunban, cluing the player in to Metal Face's identity as Mumkhar. Also of note is Metal Face's main weapon aside from that cannon on his back, his claws. Mumkhar also used claws as his main weapon. Subtle, yet easily noticed once you meet other unique faced Mechon and see that their weapon is based on what they used while they were still Homs. When Sharla asks Othoron if Gadolt's alright, he replies that while Gadolt has disappeared, he can feel that Gadolt's still alive simply due to Othoron seeing Gadolt like his own son. While he is indeed right about him still being alive, he didn't know that Gadolt's ultimate fate was to be turned into a Faced Mechon. After defeating Xord, he gives the first hints about his past as a Homs. The information is vague enough so the player doesn't know what this will lead into. Speaking to a certain NPC in Colony 9 after his defeat reveals that a Homs named Xord used to be the best blacksmith in the colony. Think back to the weapon he used... In the first encounter with Alvis, after showing Shulk how to use Monado Purge, he throws the Monado back at him and off-handedly states "The Monado doesn't wield itself. You wield it." While at first this seems just as a metaphor on how Shulk must learn to control the Monado's power, it's later revealed to be much more literal. An easy-to-miss foreshadowing exists within Frontier Village where one of the NPC Nopons you can talk to states that he mustn't eat too much or else he would have to become Heropon to pay his debts. Similar to how Riki, the playable Nopon you encounter soon afterwards, became Heropon in the first place (an unskippable cutscene reveals that the only reason why he became Heropon was because he's in serious debt). When Melia enters the High Entia Tomb, the "spirit" within speaks to her about Homs integration into the bloodline, and something about escaping a curse. Turns out that half-Homs High Entia are the only ones immune to regression into Telethia. Easy to miss, since it's part of a sidequest, but a pureblood High Entia, who used to embrace Homs, Nopon, and hybrids, is now suddenly on board with the whole "pureblood High Entia are supreme" spiel and the Fantastic Racism it involves. She claims this is the result of a voice she heard in a dream, which she believes was the voice of the Bionis itself. Now who, again, is the spirit of the Bionis, and refresh my memory here, what were they planning during the endgame? When Zanza offers to release the Monado's true power, he says that, if he were allowed to release its power, "Only a god could stand in your way". Turns out, a god is exactly who intends to stand in Shulk's way. Then about 2/3 of the way through the game, we get a dream sequence which sets up a big holy shit moment. The fact that Shulk isn't very interested in food is the first clue that he's really a reanimated corpse. Dickson's Wham Line early on ("Can't say I feel good deceiving these kids like this.") is a surprisingly subtle one. For one, it's your first clue that Dickson isn't as trustworthy as he seems. But further, the fact that he calls everyone in your party "kids", even Dunban, clues you in that he's older than he looks. Much older. The fact that Lorithia makes a passing reference to the High Entia having yet to reach their true potential during their assault on Mechonis foreshadows their entire nature as Telethia being given sapience. The fact that Zanza can only see up to the confrontation with Shulk and his friends after he obtains the Mechonis Monado foreshadows the fact that the Monado was only pretending to be on his side. The fact that Alvis looked at Lorithia and Dickson in shock after their respective Inner Monologues (concerning then not being as benevolent as they let on) as if he can read their minds is not only foreshadowing his loyalty to Zanza being fake, it also foreshadows him being the Monado's spirit as he's the only in-game character who's implied have the ability to read minds (besides the Telethia). The lines Alvis said when he is revealed to be Zanza's disciple is deliberately worded so that it could either be interpreted as him taunting the party or him motivating them. The fact that he repeats it later on as a Meaningful Echo means that it's meant to be interpreted as the latter - the only reason why he deliberately worded it like that is so that the other disciple that was with him at the time, Disciple Dickson, as well as Zanza himself, for that matter, would not suspect Alvis' loyalty. If you pay attention to the opening cutscene, you'll notice how the Mechonis is mostly moving defensively and doesn't strike any of the major areas on it where the beings of Bionis mostly live. Meanwhile, it's the Bionis that's mostly on the offense and is aiming most of its blows at the Mechonis head: AKA, where the Machina mainly live. A really subtle one but the fact that Mechon are immune to most everything but the Monado or weapons made from Mechon armor is a very subtle nod to the true nature of the Mechonis and Meyneth; being mostly defensive in trying to ensure the protection of her followers. After all, it was Egil who spearheaded the creation of offensive Mechon and programmed them to attack the Bionis.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9d49a7cd	type	Alliance Meter
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9d49a7cd	comment	Alliance Meter: A very simple one, but still counts. The more Side Quests are completed in each area, the higher the citizens' trust becomes. Higher trust allows trading for better items with the NPCs and unlocks more sidequests, some of which are necessary to unlock 2 extra skill trees for each character.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9dfb8296	type	This Is Gonna Suck
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9dfb8296	comment	The player-controlled party leader sometimes displays this if a sufficiently tough monster is targeted for attack. The rest of the party tend to disagree with their perspective.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9ed0412a	type	Camera Screw
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9ed0412a	comment	Camera Screw: When using the Wiimote + Nunchuk and in combat, the camera will always face you toward your target. This becomes a big issue when fighting Giant Mooks or trying to speed through narrow spaces. Using the Classic Controller allows you to control the camera manually, but you still have to deal with Camera Screw in small, confined spaces.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9f6fb586	type	Leitmotif
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9f6fb586	comment	Leitmotif: Some of them. A variation of the Main Theme is used as Shulk and Fiora's love theme once; and Riki has his own upbeat theme, which also has a slower and more emotional reprise for the moment he shows his Hidden Depths.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9f93adcd	type	In-Universe Game Clock
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9f93adcd	comment	In-Universe Game Clock: Cycles through 24 hours with appropriate lighting changes etc. Some areas look drastically different at night, and most have different background music for day and night. You can change the hour whenever you want.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9fc2cb1b	type	Video Game Stealing
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_9fc2cb1b	comment	Video Game Stealing: Riki's "Yoink!" lets him steal something from the enemy. With one quick move, not only can he steal any droppable item from the enemy, which can already let him get some bizarre things, but he can also steal stats from them, such as their strength or agility. And with the help of skills, he can upgrade the power to make it possible to even take experience points away from the enemy and share them with the party.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a00f2ac9	type	First Kiss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a00f2ac9	comment	First Kiss: Shulk gives it to mechon-Fiora while trying to give her water via mouth-to-mouth.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a1bb05fb	type	Lazy Backup
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a1bb05fb	comment	Lazy Backup: Switching party members is only possible outside the battles. Which is probably why you're given the option to do so whenever your party changes one way or another before or during a boss battle after the relevant cutscene passed.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a2484b0e	type	The Beautiful Elite
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a2484b0e	comment	The Beautiful Elite: Rather downplayed. Shulk, Fiora, Sharla, and Melia would be top model material in the real world (especially in a swimsuit). But Dunban, while still physically attractive, is within levels reachable by the average person; and Reyn would be unthinkable in most Japanese fantasy media. The NPCs' attractiveness varies a lot throughout the game, too.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a2cbad1	type	Half-Human Hybrid
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a2cbad1	comment	Half-Human Hybrid: Several of Alcamoth's inhabitants are half Homs, including Melia. This becomes crucial as only full High Entia are vulnerable to Zanza's Telethia regression. The Faced Mechon, which are Mechon that are piloted by Homs who were turned into Machina.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0	type	One-Hit Kill
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a414c3f0	comment	One-Hit Kill... Or Something: Sharla has the Headshot art, which has the chance of doing this on dazed enemies (a chance that highly increases if she pulls it off during a chain attack).
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e	type	Infinity +1 Sword
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a5e02e9e	comment	Infinity +1 Sword: The Monado III. By far the highest damage in the game (this thing will have a higher auto attack with no gems than many late game weapons will with three), and with 75 percent critical hit rate, and three gem slots. Only available in the Final Battle and in New Game+, though.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a5e998f0	type	Hitbox Dissonance
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a5e998f0	comment	Hitbox Dissonance: While this is less of a problem for larger enemies and some Elite Mooks, enemies can have a very picky hitbox for when you are "behind" or "to the side" of them, so it will sometimes look like you properly used positional ability only for its bonus effect to not proc. Unlike its sequel or Xenoblade Chronicles X, it's harder to see visually if you're behind or to the side of an enemy. The definitive edition still unfortunately has this, but they highlight when positional arts will count, and will give you a larger grace period than the Wii or 3DS versions if you fire it off but the enemy turns around.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a60f7120	type	Physical God
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a60f7120	comment	Physical God: Zanza and Meyneth, who are the spirits of Bionis and Mechonis, and can take other beings as their vessels.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a6275bef	type	Cool Sword
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a6275bef	comment	Cool Sword: Shulk's Monado Replica EX (in universe shortened to Monado REX), which he later upgrades into the Monado Replica EX+, which is able to cut through the Fog King like butter and has four burners shooting out of its side.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a65288e2	type	Ascended Extra
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a65288e2	comment	Ascended Extra: Teelan, who was originally a minor NPC and a sidequest character in the base game, becomes a supporting character in the main story.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd	type	MacGuffin
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a6c69bd	comment	MacGuffin: The Red Pollen Orbs is this within the Nopon Black Market side quest chain. It's implied in-story to be used a G-Rated Drug within the "secret club".
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a7acd9aa	type	ChekhovsLecture
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a7acd9aa	comment	Chekhov's Lecture: In Agniratha, Vanea explains to the party that the Monado isn't just a sword. It's the light within everyone, the will to survive no matter what. This light manifests itself as the True Monado during the final battle against Zanza.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a7b324e	type	Handicapped Badass
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a7b324e	comment	Handicapped Badass: As a result of using the Monado, Dunban has lost the use of his right arm. It doesn't stop him from kicking ass with a katana or BFS.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a7b8ba72	type	Point Build System
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a7b8ba72	comment	Point Build System: Art Points are awarded during battle. These are used to improving the character's special attacks.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a7c2a9fe	type	Match Maker Quest
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a7c2a9fe	comment	Matchmaker Quest: There are several sidequests that involve people in the middle of a Love Triangle or a similar issue. One particular case has Shulk's visions show that both options don't end too well.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a7edd1e0	type	Point-and-Click Map
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a7edd1e0	comment	Point-and-Click Map: The map can be used like this for teleporting.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e	type	Giant Mook
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a8826e1e	comment	Giant Mook: There are numerous monsters that are scaled-up versions of smaller ones. Most are Uniques, but there are a few actual mooks like the house-sized baboons in Satorl Marsh. The mantis-like Fortress Mechons all qualify, the smallest, mass-production ones being about two stories tall with a massive boss-class in the factory level that's at least four.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a94eaaa4	type	Odd Friendship
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_a94eaaa4	comment	Dunban and Riki, in a case of an Odd Friendship. While at first glance they have nothing in common, with Dunban being The Stoic and Riki being a goofy Nopon, it turns out that Dunban being the Team Dad to the group (and especially Shulk, Reyn, and his younger sister) and Riki being a father of seven allows them to bond over what fatherhood is like.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_aacc7ea6	type	Tyke-Bomb
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_aacc7ea6	comment	Tyke-Bomb: The entire race of High Entia, which at Zanza's whim can regress into the mindless Telethia. Those with Homs blood are immune to the regression though.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_aaece264	type	Rousing Speech
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_aaece264	comment	Rousing Speech: A few battles that are divided in two halves have an empowering speech between confrontations. There are the first confrontation of the party against a Telethia, and right before the 2nd fight with Disciple Dickson.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ab68c5cc	type	Chronic Hero Syndrome
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ab68c5cc	comment	Chronic Hero Syndrome: Pretty mandatory in a world with such a huge amount of sidequests that can be done pretty much at any time.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_abad35b4	type	Soundtrack Dissonance
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_abad35b4	comment	Soundtrack Dissonance: Done for a deliberate Mundane Made Awesome effect. The fight against the Bonus Boss Bana the Nopon Kingpin, a Card-Carrying Villain, is done to the tune of the Sad Battle Music "Tragic Decision". The track "Towering Shadow" often plays when the party learns a disturbing truth kept from them for some time, and during dangerous situations. The first time it plays, however, at the start of Sword Valley, it's just an exposition dump the party gives to Dickson as he sells weapons and gives some advice.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_abd29ad8	type	No-Sell
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_abd29ad8	comment	No-Sell: The Mechon are highly resistant to normal attacks and need to be toppled before they can be damaged (and even then they are only temporarily disabled), except for the Monado, which damages them like normal enemies. Then you fight the first Faced Mechon who can no-sell the Monado and needs to be defeated the hard way. Even after the Monado gets upgraded by Zanza to deal with Face Mechon, Egil manages to shrug off being stabbed with it because of the Apocrypha Generator. He then pulls the Monado out of himself with his bare hands and tosses Shulk aside like a ragdoll.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_abdf1659	type	Bodyguarding a Badass
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_abdf1659	comment	Bodyguarding a Badass: When Melia is introduced, she has a contingent of Mook bodyguards to help her track down a monster she's hunting. They all die in the fight, but she manages to beat it off and injure it with one big ether attack. Likewise, much of Reyn's character development deals with him trying to keep his promise to protect Shulk, even as Shulk grows far more powerful than him. It gets even more building when Gadolt leaves Sharla in his capable hands before dying.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_abdf1659	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: Quite a few times. One huge one is the party's reaction when Zanza destroys Mechonis. A more subtle one during the Final Boss battle, but it's notable in that it's in response to the player. If you decide to take on an enemy 5 or more levels above the party, your party members will respond with a combination of this, This Is Gonna Suck and You're Insane!. A pretty well-justified response, given that these encounters are Unwinnable by Design outside of the Superbosses and Casual Mode.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be	type	Final Boss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ad4a45be	comment	A more subtle one during the Final Boss battle, but it's notable in that it's in response to the player.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ad5283e1	type	Robot Girl
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ad5283e1	comment	Robot Girl: Fiora becomes a partial one after being turned into part of a Face unit.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ad641426	type	Trademark Favorite Food
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ad641426	comment	Trademark Favorite Food: Shulk loves EVERYTHING that Fiora cooks, no matter how little effort she puts on it, so much so that Fiora suspects he has no sense of taste whatsoever and specifically goes to test it. Played with in that while he does hate vegetables (according to a Heart-to-Heart moment between Dunban and Sharla at Eryth Sea, along with the negative hearts from most vegetables when they're gifted to him in gameplay), he's willing to accept the ones cooked by Fiora anyway as to not upset her. In many heart-to-heart events, Sharla reveals that she loves fruit. Dunban, on the other hand, hates fruit. Reyn takes it a step further in that he loves Energy Aubergies, a very specific kind of vegetable. There's even an achievement for giving him one.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ad641426	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_adab0a2b	type	Took a Shortcut
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_adab0a2b	comment	Took a Shortcut: Dickson usually arrives to a place before the party, for some reason.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438	type	Deadpan Snarker
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ae3d6438	comment	Adding to the young woman's humiliation, the party members start going into their usual post-quest congratulations BEFORE Shulk has even helped her make a decision! Désirée actually has to cut them short with with an outraged "Do you mind?!" to get Shulk back on track. (If one assumes the quest text is from Shulk's perspective, then he can be seen as a Deadpan Snarker to Désirée during this whole conversation.)
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ae6adc36	type	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ae6adc36	comment	Religious and Mythological Theme Naming: The Unique Mechon later in the game tend to be named after Demons from the Ars Goetia or Knights from Arthurian Legend. Then there's Egil's faced Mechon, Yaldabaoth, and the Monado itself, which hail from Gnosticism.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_afd181c7	type	Xtreme Kool Letterz
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_afd181c7	comment	Xtreme Kool Letterz: Almost every Machina has a name with Z, X or Q in it.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_afebbd7	type	And Man Grew Proud
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_afebbd7	comment	And Man Grew Proud: The races living on Bionis and Mechonis thrived after the two titans killed each other in battle. Although it is later revealed that civilizations existed on the titans even before they waged battle.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b0218885	type	Mickey Mousing
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b0218885	comment	Mickey Mousing: Several scenes that have "Engage the Enemy" playing in the background have their most intense moment sync up with the moment the song builds up in intensity.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b032e4ed	type	Ms. Fanservice
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b032e4ed	comment	Ms. Fanservice: Every character can be put in their underwear. When it comes to the ladies, Sharla stands out with her... bounciness. Mechon Fiora also has a Stripperiffic outfit, being the speed armour, as the underwear armour is just her armour in her Face Unit, and she has quite big breasts.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b06ff73b	type	Variable Mix
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b06ff73b	comment	Variable Mix: The theme song to Colony 6 becomes much livelier the more you restore it, eventually culminating in a Triumphant Reprise of Colony 6's own theme.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b1117cc6	type	Elaborate Equals Effective
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b1117cc6	comment	Elaborate Equals Effective: The armors are bigger and bulkier the heavier they are. Though this doesn't necesarily translate into better armor.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b16543d2	type	Grimy Water
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b16543d2	comment	Grimy Water: Mostly comes in poison swamp variety, but there's also some at the bottom of both Bionis and Mechonis in the form of ether-saturated water. These come into play in the Fallen arm, to keep the player from wandering off into the ocean.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: When told that nobody is allowed to interfere with Melia's Trial in the Tomb, Dunban suggests that only High Entia know those rules... a group of visiting Homs (and a Nopon) can't be expected to be familiar with High Entia customs. Therefore, if they just "happened" to have gone into the Tomb and found Melia under attack, nobody could accuse them of deliberately interfering, and Melia's Trial would still be valid. Kallian agrees and pretends to not notice Alvis leading the party into the Tomb, allowing them to save Melia from Tyrea and the Telethia.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b1e81ef2	type	Dead-Hand Shot
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b1e81ef2	comment	Dead-Hand Shot: The only thing we see of Fiora's corpse is the arm, before the tank she was riding in is tossed away by Metal Face.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b1e8a3b3	type	Coming of Age Story
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b1e8a3b3	comment	Coming-of-Age Story: The half of the story that is not focused on Melia is devoted to telling this for Nene and Kino. It's also arguably this for Melia, or at least the conclusion of one that began in the main game as she grows into her role as Empress of Alcamoth.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b1efb7a7	type	Mayflyâ€“December Romance
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b1efb7a7	comment	Mayfly–December Romance: Any relationship between a High Entia and a Homs. You help such a pair in a particular questline.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b2280b66	type	Retcon
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b2280b66	comment	Retcon: As shown in the game trailers, the Definitive Edition changes the key around Alvis's neck into a Core Crystal, actively connecting the story with Xenoblade Chronicles 2 and confirming his true identity as Ontos. That game's story already established the connection with this game, but the Definitive Edition does the same in turn. What makes this qualify as a retcon is the Definitive Edition's straightforwardness of changing that key.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b38b6147	type	Science Fantasy
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b38b6147	comment	Science Fantasy: The lands of Bionis and Mechonis make a serious mix of fantasy and science fiction elements. The very intro starts with an ancient battle between titans that then transitions to a battle between Human Aliens and Mechanical Monsters. The Monado itself is an ancient legendary sword that also happens to be a Laser Blade. The High Entia are an old race that are both capable of ether manipulation and very technologically advanced. Et cetera.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b4fae672	type	Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b4fae672	comment	Heads I Win, Tails You Lose: There are around half a dozen of these throughout the game, especially during the first third. They're normally against a Faced Mechon. The party has to survive their attacks until they use that one art that may not actually kill the party but ends the battle and advances the plot.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b7042372	type	Cycle of Revenge
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b7042372	comment	Cycle of Revenge: Shulk swears revenge on Mechonis and the Mechon after they attack Colony 9 and kill Fiora. It turns out the Mechon attack was instigated by Egil as revenge for Zanza and the Bionis massacring the people of Mechonis thousands of years ago. Shulk manages to shake himself out of this mentality and stop the cycle before he kills Egil, but unfortunately Zanza isn't having any of that and Dickson ends up shooting Shulk in the back.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b77c5ecb	type	"End of the World" Special
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b77c5ecb	comment	"End of the World" Special: At the end of the game, Alvis gives Shulk full control over the Monado to create a new universe. He resolves most of the issues of the old one by avoiding what Zanza and Meyneth did by becoming a god: he allows everyone the freedom to expand to the stars.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b7920c43	type	Lost in Translation
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b7920c43	comment	Lost in Translation: The English version is generally excellent, but there are a few moments where things just can't carry over in quite the same way. The first example is the name of the non-biological giant. In Japanese, it is called the kishin, 機神, literally "machine god". That might seem straightforward enough... except that it's pronounced exactly like another common term for certain Shinto & Buddhist divinities, 鬼神, or "ogre god/wrathful god". The double meaning is meant to be picked up on at once and make the "kishin" seem like the aggressor and the "evil" god of the pair. And this is, of course, the very opposite of the truth and Meyneth is not even remotely like a traditional "kishin". This is all perforce lost in English as the synonyms simply don't exist and there's no way to make them work without being extremely awkward. Another example is when Alvis reveals his true nature to Shulk. In the Japanese, it's clearer that he's making a reference to being the monad in addition to being the sword, which brings the old Gnostic elements of Takahashi's works back into play.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b798d379	type	One Stat to Rule Them All
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b798d379	comment	One Stat to Rule Them All: Agility for physical attackers. Since each point of Agility equals one point of dodge rate and hit rate, just 50 Agility bonus from gems can make a world of difference. A character with high enough Agility will be able to dodge many attacks coming their way as well as accurately connect every attack. Even Ether characters like Melia need Agility in order to use physical moves that deal status effects. Later games would balance this by splitting it into two separate stats: Agility for evasion and Dexterity for accuracy.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b7b7b8d9	type	Mass Monster-Slaughter Sidequest
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b7b7b8d9	comment	Mass Monster Slaughter Sidequest: Usually, the first quests in any new area involve killing a certain number of certain monsters.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b7e0c5ff	type	Love Triangle
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b7e0c5ff	comment	Love Triangle: Melia starts to get pretty close to Shulk until Fiora comes back. If we take the Ship Tease seriously, Sharla, Reyn, and Gadolt would also count. There are also some love triangles scattered throughout the side quests for good measure.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b82ca416	type	Rage Against the Heavens
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b82ca416	comment	Rage Against the Heavens: The entirety of Egil's plan is done in order to put a stop to Zanza, even if it also means going against his own goddess Meyneth. Later on, Shulk and his party take Egil's fight against Zanza, and head to put a stop to him.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b848b200	type	Injured Vulnerability
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b848b200	comment	Injured Vulnerability: There is a chain of these. Several attacks inflict Break on its target, which does nothing except opening them for a Topple attack, which causes its target to become defenseless and open to attack for a while. In turn, Daze can be inflicted on a toppled enemy, further weakening them. Finally, Sharla's Headshot art has a small chance of One Hit Killing a dazed target (which highly increases if triggered during a chain attack).
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b956ebdd	type	Tron Lines
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b956ebdd	comment	Tron Lines: The Faced Mechon all have bright red lights running across their bodies, which is actually the blood of their core units circulating throughout the Mechon.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b9d334b2	type	Aerith and Bob
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_b9d334b2	comment	Aerith and Bob: Most of the names are pretty fantastical like Shulk and Dunban, but then you get random NPCs named things like Dorothy, and even Sharla is a real name.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ba0791de	type	First Girl Wins
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ba0791de	comment	First Girl Wins: Fiora ends up beating Melia in winning Shulk's affections. No surprise, since the whole first half of the game was him avenging her supposed death.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bac6df68	type	Fast-Forward Mechanic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bac6df68	comment	Fast-Forward Mechanic: An option in the menu allows the player to skip to any time in-game. This greatly helps to find the non-player characters that show up at specific times for the loads and loads of sidequests.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bafac7bc	type	Sad Battle Music
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bafac7bc	comment	Sad Battle Music: "Tragic Decision", only reserved for the most dramatic and climatic of battles with one exception. In Future Connected it also plays against Gael'gar.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bb029870	type	Cooldown
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bb029870	comment	Cool Down: One of the main combat mechanics. Most powerful attacks have long cooldown periods to prevent them from being used more than once per battle and ending combat instantly makes them useable in the next battle, with the Chain Attacks resetting their timers for its duration, allowing the use of all attacks. Sharla has another form of cooldown. Her abilities overheat her gun, increasing the effectiveness of her offensive attacks and reducing the effectiveness of her healing. Not venting the extra heat before her gun overheats completely forces her into an automatic heat venting animation that takes much longer than doing it manually. In either case, Sharla can't move or attack during the animation, which is really bad if she's got high aggro. The former can be reduced by leveling up said attacks, and the latter can be reduced with the right gems and skills.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bb18a227	type	It's All About Me
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bb18a227	comment	Zanza is an egotistical Control Freak who believes his creations only exist to serve him. Yet while the people of Bionis occasionally invoke the name of their titan in a religious sense, Zanza himself has been all but forgotten by the time the game takes place, and even the few who know he exists aren't aware he's a god. Bionis' culture as a whole is largely secular, and the only group that publicly worship the Bionis are viewed as dangerious fanatics.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bd288171	type	Romance Sidequest
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bd288171	comment	Romance Sidequest: Shulk and Fiora's relationship makes much more sense when their affinity conversations are unlocked.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bdacb848	type	Purely Aesthetic Glasses
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bdacb848	comment	Purely Aesthetic Glasses: The entire party can wear these, assuming you're able to find some. They generally have stat-boosting gems in them, and oddly, can provide as much, or even greater, defense as actual armor does.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bdc16524	type	Weird Sun
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bdc16524	comment	Weird Sun: The sun, and for that matter all the stars in the sky, are particularly large and bright ether particles. Instead of rotating around the world, the sun simply dims and re-lights at daytime.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_be7ff283	type	YouGottaHaveBlueHair
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_be7ff283	comment	You Gotta Have Blue Hair: All Homs characters have pretty realistic hair colors. The main exceptions being Colonel "Squaretache" with his pink hair, and Alvis with his Mystical White Hair that more closely resembles that of the High Entia.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_beac3bec	type	Last Chance Hit Point
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_beac3bec	comment	Last Chance Hit Point: The "Unbeatable" gems give their wearer a up to a 50% chance to turn any lethal attacks into this, with the catch that it can work even if the wearer is already at 1 HP, and the Monado visions will inform in case that happens. All Guest Star Party Members, as well as Fiora while wielding the Meyneth Monado, wear a special version that gives them 100% protection, effectively making them invincible.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bef696dd	type	Mind Screw
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bef696dd	comment	Mind Screw: Almost all of the later plot points become very mind-bending. Of course, this is series tradition.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bf8ae149	type	Layered Metropolis
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_bf8ae149	comment	Layered Metropolis: Alcamoth and the Frontier Village. The former is an advanced muti-level city that floats above the Eryth Sea, which is located atop the Bionis' head. However, the Frontier Village is a whopping 9 level monstrosity inside a hollow tree, connected by stairs and rope bridges. Both are so big that it's possible to fall fatally from them.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c03860d2	type	Womb Level
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c03860d2	comment	Womb Level: The Bionis' Interior's this, given that it's the insides of an organic titan. While it's briefly trekked through when Shulk and the gang were going from Satorl Marsh to Makna Forest, it's eventually fully trekked once Shulk and the gang decided to take on Zanza.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c04b1231	type	Jump Scare
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c04b1231	comment	Jump Scare: Many Unique Monsters who attack on sight can and will ambush the party while fighting smaller enemies or just walking around. In particular, a Giant Spider called the Clifftop Bayern takes a little while to climb over a cliff before attacking, which may lead to the player not knowing they're being attacked from behind until the mini-boss theme kicks in. Can you say Oh, Crap!?
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c0c54000	type	JokeWeapon
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c0c54000	comment	Joke Weapon: The Monapon, obtained after defeating The Nopon Kingpin (a level 78 enemy, mind you), only has a damage range of 1-1. Its only good quality is having a 30% critical rate.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c26e2b1	type	New Powers as the Plot Demands
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c26e2b1	comment	New Powers as the Plot Demands: A Justified Trope. When Shulk gains a new Monado Art during the course of the plot, they often seem incredibly tailored to solve the current problem. Seconds before Reyn dies to the Arachno Queen, Shulk gains Monado Shield, blocking the physical attack. When he and Reyn save Sharla from a Mechon with speedy tentacles, Shulk gains Monado Speed to compensate. This can be seen as Zanza making sure Shulk makes it safely to Egil, by pulling out a small (and literal) Deus ex Machina.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c2c80ef	type	Neck Lift
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c2c80ef	comment	Neck Lift: In a cutscene, after Shulk stabs Egil in the shoulder with the Monado, Egil lifts him by the face and rips the sword out with his other hand.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c2cedc1c	type	Big "NO!"
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c2cedc1c	comment	Big "NO!": Shows up a few times, the earliest one being Shulk's reaction at Fiora's death.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec	type	Irony
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c335b9ec	comment	Irony: Concerning the world's two gods, Zanza and Mayneth, and how they are preceived by their creations: Mayneth insists on A God I Am Not and doesn't want to be worshipped. Likely due to her benevolent treatment of them, she's actively worshipped by the Machina, who often invoke her name in an Oh My Gods! fashion. Zanza is an egotistical Control Freak who believes his creations only exist to serve him. Yet while the people of Bionis occasionally invoke the name of their titan in a religious sense, Zanza himself has been all but forgotten by the time the game takes place, and even the few who know he exists aren't aware he's a god. Bionis' culture as a whole is largely secular, and the only group that publicly worship the Bionis are viewed as dangerious fanatics.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c33c51b2	type	Outside-the-Box Tactic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c33c51b2	comment	Outside-the-Box Tactic: Thanks to the battles taking place anywhere in the overworld instead of a battle area, it's possible to use the terrain to one's advantage. For example, but using a combination of using sleep-inducing moves and moves with knockback, it's possible to push extremely high level enemies you normally wouldn't be able to even hit off of cliffs for a one-hit kill. Similarly, it's possible to use the high ground to your advantage to dodge enemy attacks that would easily kill you, this being pretty much required if you want to take on the Fortress Units in Sword Valley. A particularly memorable instance of this takes place when the party enters the Mechonis for the first time: at this point in the game, Melia will have just gotten her Starlight Kick technique (which inflicts Topple) and the area has a lot of flying enemies and walkways over bottomless pits. This makes it possible to end otherwise difficult encounters simply by luring enemies over, getting a Starlight Kick off, and laughing as they plummet to their demise. You don't get any loot this way, though. Sharla has a cheesey technique all to herself: namely, since she wields an ether rifle, she has an auto-attack radius that's a fair bit larger than most monsters, so she can draw aggro and then just run in circles while chipping away at the creature's health. Of course, the effectiveness of this strategy is reduced by the fact that A) Sharla's attack usually sucks, so you'll be doing this for an hour on light encounters and longer on others, B) it only really works on one monster at a time, C) some monsters have ranged arts that make this a non-option, and D) monsters of a higher level than her will dodge most of the shots, putting you in a stalemate. It still makes a surprisingly effective stalling technique, which is useful in a system where the player's abilities are balanced around cooldowns.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d	type	Badass Bookworm
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c3478f1d	comment	Badass Bookworm: Shulk, who is a mid-ranking member of Colony 9's Defense Force's engineering division. He already knew how to handle weapons before taking the Monado full-time.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: Despite Shulk's anger over what Egil's mechon did to Fiora and many others, and Egil's equally potent anger over what Zanza (and by association, Shulk) did to the Machina, for a moment it really does look like the two might be able to set aside their differences after the battle in the Mechonis Core. And then Dickson shoots Shulk in the back.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c45237fb	type	Dialogue Tree
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c45237fb	comment	Dialogue Tree: They appear in some sidequests and are a key feature in the Affinity Dialogues. In sidequests, taking different options might do something as small as changing affinity between some NPCs, to completely changing future quests.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c4c9bb40	type	Inner Monologue
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c4c9bb40	comment	The fact that Alvis looked at Lorithia and Dickson in shock after their respective Inner Monologues (concerning then not being as benevolent as they let on) as if he can read their minds is not only foreshadowing his loyalty to Zanza being fake, it also foreshadows him being the Monado's spirit as he's the only in-game character who's implied have the ability to read minds (besides the Telethia).
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c5a7def5	type	God in Human Form
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c5a7def5	comment	God in Human Form: Zanza, (once he gets out of Shulk's body), and Alvis, who is an artificial intelligence given divine powers by his master.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c67af1b0	type	Big Bad Wannabe
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c67af1b0	comment	Big Bad Wannabe: Gael'gar is seemingly the Big Bad for the main storyline, with him being shown right from the start, being the end to Melia's entire character arc while being quickly shown to be extremely deluded and hypocritical with him aiming to rule the remaining High Entia when he realizes Melia does not plan to lead them the way he wants her to (namely as a divine progenitor figure who demonizes their ancestors and idolizes half bloods), but he fails at killing Teelan and killing Melia. In the end, he never even gets close to the final goal he seeks and commits suicide, as the real main antagonist The Fog King starts to terrorise the Bionis Shoulder. Further, Melia and the rest of the group never treat Gael'gar as a major threat so much as a pitiable and seriously deluded man whose vileness all the same cannot be excused by whatever traumas he suffered as a half breed High Entia.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c691d3f4	type	Offscreen Teleportation
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c691d3f4	comment	Offscreen Teleportation: Alvis does it twice after first meeting Shulk, and pulls it off a few more times later on. It helps in making an already cryptic character even more mysterious.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c72af5a8	type	Mini-Mecha
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c72af5a8	comment	Fiora pulls off one of these during the Mechon attack to Colony 9, involving driving a freaking Mini-Mecha and fighiting single-handed against Metal Face, saving Shulk and co at the cost of her life.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: The game gives you an achievement for filling all of a character's upgrade slots with gems. The name of said achievement? "Truly outrageous". You can tell it was dubbed in Britain: Shulk and Reyn's gem-crafting "To me!"/"To you!" banter is a blatant reference to the Chuckle Brothers. Another British-specific one is one of Riki's Arts being named "Lurgy", which is a playground taunt ultimately derived via Popcultural Osmosis from The Goon Show. If you do the Getting to Know Dorothy quest with Melia in your party, you'll hear the line "Excuse me, Princess!" Accepting a sidequest from a certain High Entia female will earn you some encouragement along the lines of, "Defeat that monster, for great justice!" and then her admitting that she always wanted to say that. When she is inside of the face unit, Fiora's head resembles the visor that KOS-MOS from Xenosaga sometimes wears. The scene where Metal Face fires an ether spear at Zanza is similar to the Lance of Longinus scene from Neon Genesis Evangelion.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c87660d5	type	Get a Hold of Yourself, Man!
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c87660d5	comment	Get A Hold Of Yourself Man: Sharla falls behind the group in Agniratha in a panic when she finds that Gadolt is gone. After trying to break free of his restraint, Reyn slaps her and reminds her that a Homs soldier like Gadolt wouldn't wait around to die.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c8bea31b	type	K-I-S-S-I-N-G in a Tree
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c8bea31b	comment	Kissing In A Tree: One of Reyn's unique quotes when in battle with Shulk and Fiora.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c92cf19a	type	Undead Child
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c92cf19a	comment	Undead Child: Shulk died and was reanimated at the age of four.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c93a6560	type	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_c93a6560	comment	Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Metal Face/Mumkhar's preferred method of execution is to stab through his intended victim with every claw on his hand. At Prison Island, Zanza is run through by a spear thrown by Metal Face/Mumkhar before he can empower the Monado. Not that it does much to keep him dead. Metal Face/Mumkhar is impaled by a piece of Galahad Fortress blown off by one of his attacks before falling from Sword Valley. Zanza is impaled clean in the head by a True Monado-wielding Shulk.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ca870429	type	PowerWalk
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ca870429	comment	Power Walk: Shulk and Fiora get one hell of a Power Walk during the battle against Disciple Dickson.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_cb83d23b	type	I Just Want to Be Special
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_cb83d23b	comment	I Just Want to Be Special: The reason Mumkhar hates Dunban so much is that he was chosen as the wielder of the Monado over him.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_cc4d190a	type	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_cc4d190a	comment	Did You Just Punch Out Cthulhu?: The party defeats Zanza, one of the creators of the New Universe.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_cc6f4612	type	Beyond the Impossible
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_cc6f4612	comment	Beyond the Impossible: Shulk's still able to have visions even when the Bionis Monado was taken away from him, electing this response from Disciple Dickson. It is later revealed it's because he had a third Monado tucked away in his heart which he eventually managed to manifest during the fight against Zanza, effectively making him a god as well.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_cdca7d73	type	Frictionless Ice
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_cdca7d73	comment	Frictionless Ice: While it's thankfully not used in any puzzles, any icy surface in Valak Mountain makes you move much faster than normal when you run on it: this can be abused by gathering speed on it and then jumping off it, causing you to be catapulted ridiculous distances. If you're really (un)lucky, you might even hit something mid-jump that the game considers to be ground, die mid-jump, and have the game fade away and return you to the last landmark before your body even has time to land. A few places even make intentional use of these ice physics to allow you to reach places you couldn't reach any other way.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ce6555f0	type	Lighter and Softer
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ce6555f0	comment	Lighter and Softer: While Xenoblade has its share of dark moments, it pales in comparison to Xenogears. This is just the way the story was told, and it doesn't make the plot any less enjoyable.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ce75a983	type	Screw Destiny
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ce75a983	comment	Screw Destiny: Not only one of the main themes of the story, but one of the main gameplay mechanics as well. In battle, Shulk will get visions of lethal enemy attacks ahead of time, giving him a few precious seconds to kill the enemy, stop the attack, or defend against it, shattering that future.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ceec4df5	type	Roaring Rampage of Revenge
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ceec4df5	comment	Subverted. Shulk is horrified once he discovers that Faced Mechon have Homs inside them, and when he discovers later that there is actual life on Mechonis in the form of the Machina. This makes him forget about his Roaring Rampage of Revenge against Mechonis, as he would be taking sentient life. Later, the Telethia are played for all the horror they deserve.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac	type	Take Your Time
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_cfd569ac	comment	Take Your Time: Especially jarring in moments like when the characters are getting inside the Mechonis while the Bionis alliance try to fend off the Mechon army in Sword Valley. Even in those moments, it's perfectly fine to go back to Colony 9 and keep doing sidequests. There are a couple of moments where the game locks out your ability to skip travel to keep you on task (most notably around the High Entia Tomb sequence), but this seems to have more to do with a heavy reliance on Event Flags than any desire to railroad the player.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d0c5fb3	type	Impossibly Cool Weapon
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d0c5fb3	comment	Impossibly Cool Weapon: The Monado. A Cool Laser Bladed BFS Of Combat Clairvoyance And Plot Advancement. How in Bionis do you top that?! By having a God in it, that's how!
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d148b019	type	Mundane Made Awesome
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d148b019	comment	Done for a deliberate Mundane Made Awesome effect. The fight against the Bonus Boss Bana the Nopon Kingpin, a Card-Carrying Villain, is done to the tune of the Sad Battle Music "Tragic Decision".
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	type	Developer's Foresight
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d24ed873	comment	Developers' Foresight: Overlevel a character outside of the New Game+ before a playable character joins your party, and that character would be around the same level as your other characters when they join. In Definitive Edition, this is zigzagged a bit with Expert Mode, as the new party member will join at a level based off what level your party members currently are rather than what level they could be if you used all of their stored experience, making it preferable to raise them to their maximum level just before a new member joins. Initiating a Chain Attack while an enemy's busy performing an attack that will incapacitate one of your player characters, and he or she will shrug it off just so that they could join in on the Chain Attack. Conversely, a character will also survive with 1HP should the conditions within the Chain Attack would normally incapacitate them (ie, when they're hit with enough spike damage to normally be knocked out). The Machina Swords are programmed to not be in their active state during cutscenes that are supposed to portray Dunban as wielding the Monado, just so that the "Monado's blade" (and circle) would look like it's coming from said sword. During the one cutscene where Fiora uses her drones to attack, it will use the right Talent Art depending upon what type of drones she actually has equipped. Said Talent Art may even briefly change in behavior depending on its nature. Even if you manage to beat an insanely high leveled enemy somehow early on, there's a max EXP and AP cap in place in relation to your level to prevent cheesing the game with power grinding. In fact, the cap actually becomes a cliff beyond a certain point: the cap (1.5x EXP) applies to enemies who are 7-21 levels above you, but against enemies who are 22+ levels above you, you actually receive 'less' EXP the 'lower' your level is! If you revisit Galahad Fortress after reaching the Fallen Arm, go to the level where you fought Fiora in Face Nemesis and Egil in Yaldabaoth and jump off the edge that the party fell off, you'll end up on the exact same beach where Shulk and Fiora reunite. The game adjusts cutscene animations accordingly should Shulk be using a Monado other than the one he should have at that point (which is guaranteed to happen on a New Game+). This is more obvious when on the Fallen Arm. If Shulk's using the Monado III (the only Monado whose inactive state doesn't involve its blade disappearing) up to this point, the Monado III is embedded downwards into the ground in a logical way during the cutscene that involves Shulk resting with Fiora. If you wait until after Seven joins the party before doing the "biscuits for a grandson" sidequest, the only sidequest that pre-mechon Fiora has a unique comment on, Mechon Fiora will still have that unique comment, even though it is highly unlikely for the player to save such a small sidequest until that late, unless they are deliberately testing whether or not it will happen. Even though the game encourages you to do the "Sunrise in the Park" Heart-to-Heart during your first visit to Outlook Park, you are not forced to do so. If you skip it and don't do it before the Mechon attack, the icon for it completely disappears, and if you had it in your Heart-to-Heart as unread, it will also disappear. However, after the events of Galahad Fortress the Heart-to-Heart will reappear in your log and you can take Shulk and Mechon-Fiora back to the park to view it. Interestingly, though, two lines of dialogue do change slightly without changing the meaning. Instead of saying "You had a big falling out..." Shulk instead says "You had that Fight and fell out with one another" and instead of thinking "Like I wanted to get married?" Fiora instead thinks "Like... I wanted to marry him?!" In New Game+, Fiora in her Homs form inherits her party affinity and skill tree progress from her Mechon self. In Definitive Edition's New Game+, the cutscenes where Dunban uses the Monado re-uses the Monado rather than using Dunban's currently equipped sword, though he reverts to his standard playstyle in battle. Flashbacks featuring party members, such as the one in the Ether Mines, display them with the gear that they were wearing at the time.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d2867431	type	Monster Closet
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d2867431	comment	Monster Closet: There are a few very straight cases of this trope in the High Entia Tomb. Justified, as not only is the place supposed to be full of traps, but the "monsters" that jump you are ancient machines built to guard the place. And there's a twist too, exactly one of them is more than just a closet: it's an actual secret passage that leads to a hidden area.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d39e327f	type	What the Hell, Hero?
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d39e327f	comment	What the Hell, Hero?: Denying a sidequest for whatever reason has both the quest giver reacting negatively, and possibly even other party members calling the leader out, complete with a reduction of the affinity between them. The rest of the party will have something to say when trying to face a red-named (6+ levels higher) monster in battle. Kallian is given a berating directed at all of the High Entia for them not lifting a finger to help the Homs in the war against the Mechon. He admits to their mistake, as they had mistakenly assumed it was not their fight.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d3ce4122	type	Dynamic Loading
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d3ce4122	comment	Dynamic Loading: Although it's impressive how much visual data the game is capable of loading at once. We only get to see a Loading Screen before a big Cut Scene or when going from one big area to another.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d4bb4e51	type	Walking Shirtless Scene
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d4bb4e51	comment	Walking Shirtless Scene: It's possible to make every male character walk around without a shirt constantly. In fact, one of Dunban's skills, Inner Peace, grants him a whopping 30% agility boost while he is not wearing any armor, and can be linked with any of the other party members.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d63a5b3f	type	Irrelevant Importance
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d63a5b3f	comment	Irrelevant Importance: You can't drop nor sell Gadolt's rifle, even though it doesn't take long before you get far more powerful weapons for Sharla. The same holds true for Melia's Imperial and Empress Staffs.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	type	Anti-Frustration Features
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d6f284a3	comment	Anti-Frustration Features: Most of the collectables are available via trades, which is great as some areas are unavailable after certain points, and a few collectables are hard to get due to randomness. Some enemy drops are also available via trades. Finding out who can trade for them when and where can be a chore, though. Fast travel and time changing. Easily saves dozens of hours of pointless wandering, and even with them, 100% Completion still takes well in excess of 100 hours. Now if only they'd allow to change the weather too... and even that just takes a few time changes or fast travels. Unlike most Eastern RPGs, there are no consumable healing items. Outside of battle, party members recover HP automatically, and during battle, all abilities (including healing) are tied to a cooldown instead of a mana system, so they can be used as long as you're willing to wait for them to recharge. This means the party will almost always be at full strength going into most fights, reducing the need to backtrack to a town to rest and restock on items. Although the game is loaded with MMO-like quests to fetch items and kill monsters, many of them don't require you to return to the quest-giver to receive the reward, as it is given immediately upon fulfilling the objectives in most cases. Shulk has no access to any weapons outside the Monado until the last few hours of the game. To compensate for this, the Monado's power scales to Shulk's level. The Hidden Machina Village has the fewest amount of NPCs associated with it as well as the fewest quests. Their quests give out the most reputation out of all the other areas of the game in order to compensate for this fact. If you visit every location and landmark on a given map, the rest of the map will automatically fill in. In the Definitive Edition if you're playing Expert Mode and level down a character, they'll keep any Arts that they learn even if they're below the level they learned it. The Future Connected epilogue can be played from the very beginning instead of having to complete the entire game first. Definitive Edition highlights when arts have a special kind of interaction - such as any of Shulk or Riki's positional abilities, any of Reyn or Dunban's topple abilities, or Sharla's Head Shot. This is very helpful, especially for Shulk or Riki because it's a tad difficult to see when you're to the side or behind an enemy thanks to Hitbox Dissonance. Compared to the Wii and 3DS versions, smaller enemies in the Definitive Edition can rotate very fast. If you fire off something such as Shulk's Back Slash or Riki's Sneaky before the animation fully finishes while enemies are rotating to face someone else, the game may still count these as if you hit them from behind even if it appears that they hit it from the side. The new map system in Definitive Edition allows you to add markers to the map for future reference, prioritizes certain quests, and indicates whether the random collectibles on the field are quest-related. The Noponstones obtained in Definitive Edition's Land of Challenge can be used to purchase a variety of items, such as cosmetic gear, equipment gems, and monster materials and collectible items. The last one in particular can help mitigate the grind for finding them in the field and relying solely on luck (slightly; the ones found in endgame areas cost quite the fortune in Noponstones). In the original game, if an enemy is defeated while it's over a bottomless pit, the treasure chest it drops will fall into the abyss and become inaccessible. In Definitive Edition, enemies defeated in situations like this will instead have their chests spawn right on top of the lead character on solid ground. The minimap added a tracking path, so you can always see how to get to the main quest objective. Quests for orb drops are highlighted with an ! in the definitive edition, thus reducing some of the randomness hunting for them. Any sidequest that is Permanently Missable will have a stopwatch icon next to it, letting you know which ones to prioritize.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d9f97805	type	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d9f97805	comment	Wins by Doing Absolutely Nothing: There's an in-game achievement called, "Some Help You Are!". To unlock it, you have to initiate a battle, then literally stand there while your AI-controlled party members do all the work.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d9ffec82	type	Curb-Stomp Battle
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_d9ffec82	comment	Curbstomp Battle: The final battle turns into this after Shulk gets his True Monado. It's pretty much this in gameplay terms as Zanza remains the same, but now Shulk has the best weapon in the game.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_da2f3716	type	Intimate Healing
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_da2f3716	comment	Intimate Healing: Shulk steals Fiora's first kiss while giving her water mouth-to-mouth. She even lampshades it. Not that either party was complaining.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_da4a8208	type	Progressive Instrumentation
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_da4a8208	comment	Progressive Instrumentation: Zanza's theme in the final boss fight starts with a voice, then adds an electric guitar, then a piano, then a violin. it works surprisingly well. The God-Slaying Sword plays in the same boss fight and starts with an organ, adds a choir, adds bells, strings, and then brasses.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dae5c997	type	Action Girl
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dae5c997	comment	Action Girl: Sharla with her big gun, Fiora with her knives, and Melia with her magic.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_db39ccfd	type	Battle Couple
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_db39ccfd	comment	Battle Couple: Shulk and Fiora; long-time childhood friends with romantic tones that are hell-bent on protecting each other in battle.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dba5a4f8	type	LethalJokeWeapon
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dba5a4f8	comment	Lethal Joke Weapon: The other weapon besides the Monapon obtained from the level 78 Nopon Kingpin looks like an oversized half-eaten fish. It's also one of Riki's best weapons.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dbd2c15e	type	Everyone Can See It
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dbd2c15e	comment	Everyone Can See It: Shulk and Fiora, of course. Especially Dunban is quite active in putting them together. Although to be fair, it's mostly because of a Twice Shy problem, and even with that, they seem to be a few inches away from a Relationship Upgrade. And they actually upgrade it, eventually. But things got to go to hell before it happened, including Fiora literally coming back from the dead in a robot body. Not that Shulk minds it, though.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dc1761bd	type	A God Am I
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dc1761bd	comment	A God Am I: Zanza was already a Physical God, but when he gets control of Meyneth's Monado, his arrogance reaches entirely new levels.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dc504936	type	Easy Exp
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dc504936	comment	Easy Exp: Finding new areas nets some generous experience; even more so if they are hidden areas.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dca70c44	type	Reasonable Authority Figure
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dca70c44	comment	Reasonable Authority Figure: All of the authority figures, more or less. Chief Dunga is nothing but helpful to the party, and fighting the Telethia was the party's idea anyway. Sorean imprisons them due to protocol, but almost immediately releases them when he realizes they are not enemies, and Kallian takes this Up to Eleven once his father dies. Miqol has shades of this as well, making his requests, but ultimately leaving the decision to the party, and allowing them a place to stay. Even Egil, the leader of Mechonis was a Well-Intentioned Extremist.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dcb9c541	type	Ship Tease
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dcb9c541	comment	If we take the Ship Tease seriously, Sharla, Reyn, and Gadolt would also count.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dcd423d2	type	Affectionate Nickname
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dcd423d2	comment	Affectionate Nickname: Riki is fond of these, with him dubbing Melia "Melly" and Dunban "Dundun." Neither mind at all, given their particular closeness to him.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_de3c879e	type	Unnaturally Blue Lighting
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_de3c879e	comment	Unnaturally Blue Lighting: Satorl Marsh at night, to the point of looking completely different from what it looks like during the day. It works.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_de999021	type	Rage Quit
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_de999021	comment	Rage Quit: After Disciple Dickson is beaten, he simply walks out of the fight. He doesn't want Shulk and co. to see him die and enjoy the victory.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dec8bfbf	type	Trash Talk
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_dec8bfbf	comment	Trash Talk: The party delivers some trash talk to their enemies occasionally. Such as when dodging an attack or after an easy victory.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	type	Artificial Brilliance
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_df11acbe	comment	Artificial Brilliance: Some enemies actually have counters to being knocked down that inflict damage back on you. The party member AI knows this - and they even cheat in your favour, too! There is no way for you to know an enemy will inflict spike damage unless you inflict topple on an enemy. But if they do have a spike damage, your party members will not use their Break-Topple combos despite that they shouldn't know, In-Universe. Similarly, they won't attack (not even with auto-attacks) if the enemy does spike damage and the party member's health is too low to survive suffering from Spike damage. Also, Reyn and Dunban are actually quite quick to use Topple on Mechon, as this is the only way to damage them reliably without Enchant. Sharla's AI is pretty smart with Head Shot — her AI is normally focused almost entirely on healing, which makes her a pretty effective healer, but the AI knows to usually reserve Head Shot for dazed enemies. Additionally, some of her abilities are more effective on flying enemies, yet also don't deal Scratch Damage to Mechon because they're ether-based. Reyn's AI is pretty good at tanking. And one reason people almost always use Riki is because Riki's AI does a very good job of keeping status debuffs on - his entire playstysle actually relies around this! Fiora also has a few arts that rely on taking advantage of enemies that're suffering from conditions like Topple. Naturally, her AI is actually pretty good at saving these arts. While Melia is considered to be the stupidest character in the game due to her playstyle being too complex for an AI to really handle, there's still Mind Blast. Her AI seems to know when she's fighting a Telethia and will try to enter Element Burst as fast as possible then instantly use Mind Blast. She's also somewhat smart with using Reflection, but most people think it's not worth putting on since it only works if she already has Aggro, which Melia simply should not have.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_df410b77	type	Decoy Protagonist
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_df410b77	comment	Decoy Protagonist: The prologue gives the impresion that Dunban is the main character. He in fact is a playable character, but the main character seat belongs to Shulk.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e034faef	type	Limited Animation
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e034faef	comment	Limited Animation: There are two kinds of cutscenes: "Dialogue" scenes that use a set of generic animations, and fully animated "action" scenes. The former has a limited number of character animations.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e078a82	type	Gameplay Automation
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e078a82	comment	Gameplay Automation: Auto-attack is the only form of normal attacking. Everything else requires input from the player.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e16cd24e	type	Know When to Fold 'Em
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e16cd24e	comment	Know When to Fold 'Em: Dickson seems like he falls into this after his final defeat, realizing that he's been so badly beaten that there's no point in doing a dramatic last stand, and simply walks away to avoid giving the heroes the satisfaction of seeing him die. Though really, it's strongly suggested that his decision was more than a little influenced by a genuine regret of having to go against Shulk, and a desire to keep him from having to see his Parental Substitute kick the bucket.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e2c4b927	type	Dub Name Change
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e2c4b927	comment	Dub Name Change: Fiorung is called "Fiora" in the European localizations. At the same time, Carna is called "Sharla", which is more difficult to justify, unless it was because of copyright issues or because it sounded too close to "Carnal" for Nintendo's liking. Kyoshin and Kishin, on the other hand, were more rightly localized as Bionis and Mechonis respectively. Mechonis kept the pun in Kishin, which contains the kanji for "machine", while Bionis is a full departure from Kyoshin, which means "huge god"; "Bionis" contains "Bio", the Greek word for "life", playing up the organic-mechanical dichotomy between it and Mechonis. Metal Face was originally called "Black Face" (黒いフェイス), which has no meaning beyond sounding cool in Japanese, but for fairly obvious reasons wasn't going to fly in western countries, especially America. "Metal Face" does end up being a bit of a non-sequitur of a name, since all of the Faced Mechon have "metal faces" (when inside their frames, anyway) but it's really just a nickname that Shulk and crew give him since he was the first Faced Mechon they encountered.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e2f9c107	type	Advanced Ancient Acropolis
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e2f9c107	comment	Advanced Ancient Acropolis: Alcamoth, the home of the High Entia, is a floating city full of advanced technology.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e36191	type	The Epic
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e36191	comment	The Epic: Guaranteed to last 80 hours with the main storyline, 100+ with quests, including the Anti-Frustration Features. Interface hints dictate that the plot spans over 10,000 years of history, detailing the backgrounds of every race and the reasons why they were created. With that, there are three major plotlines, each having multiple sides detailing how every major character is screwing each other over while still having their own sets of idealism.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e3c97e7a	type	Story to Gameplay Ratio
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e3c97e7a	comment	Story-to-Gameplay Ratio: Director Takahashi Tetsuya has described the game has being on the exact opposite side of the scale as Xenogears and Xenosaga, calling the pursuit of excessive story-to-gameplay ratio "a dead end." Although in the end, the game still has its share of long cutscenes, the longest having a combined total of ten minutes where the average length is less than three minutes. The ratio is balanced by dramatically increasing the amount of exploration and Western-RPG-like sidequests.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e4884264	type	No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e4884264	comment	No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom: Defied in every possible way imaginable, after Eastern Role Playing Games started moving towards this. Even the most linear areas have several sidepaths that can be explored, which usually hold secret areas, unique enemies, or sometimes even rare treasures.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e49a7b31	type	Regenerating Mana
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e49a7b31	comment	Regenerating Mana: Special attack uses restore over time, with more powerful ones restoring more slowly.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e5066b68	type	11th-Hour Superpower
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e5066b68	comment	11th-Hour Superpower: The Monado III, which Shulk creates right before the final battle with Zanza. As a bonus, it becomes usable in the New Game+.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e50987a9	type	Reconstruction
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e50987a9	comment	Reconstruction: Of Eastern RPGs as a genre, trailing away from the No Sidepaths, No Exploration, No Freedom road a lot of its contemporaries had taken.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e50fa775	type	Damage Over Time
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e50fa775	comment	Riki simultaneously falls into this and brilliance - Riki is good at keeping on Poison, Chill, and Bleed, which are reliable DoTs, but he also has access to Burn, which damages even faster (and sometimes even harder) than Poison or Bleed. The problem? His Burn attack target groups of enemies, but his AI doesn't seem to realize that it's just as effective against single targets, meaning he has to be ordered to use Burninate against bulkier opponents in a Chain Attack.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e5421161	type	Expy
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e5421161	comment	For his Talent Art "Blossom Dance" Dunban recites a poem, as yet another shout-out to the characters he's an Expy of, Citan and Jin, who both did the same.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e5448c9	type	PimpedOutDress
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e5448c9	comment	Pimped-Out Dress: The elaborate royal robes worn by the high Entia, including Melia. Meyneth's dress is nothing short of this◊.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e5d37e0f	type	Divergent Character Evolution
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e5d37e0f	comment	Divergent Character Evolution: Inverted with Dunban and Reyn gameplay-wise. They both start out as varieties of aggro-drawing tank, but with plenty of noticeable and meaningful differences. But they later learn arts that are quite similar to each other's. For example: Dunban starts with Electric Gutbuster and Worldly Slash, which have added effects when used after Gale Slash. Later, Reyn learns Dive Sobat, which has an added effect when used after Bone Upper. Reyn learns Last Stand, which revives him if he dies while it's active. Much later, Dunban learns Jaws of Death, which does exactly the same thing.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e5d8460d	type	Unexplained Recovery
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e5d8460d	comment	Unexplained Recovery: Colonel Vangarre of the Colony 9 Defense Force, nicknamed "Square-tache", is apparently crushed to death by a Mechon flinging a vehicle during the attack on Colony 9 at the start of the game. It's easy to assume he had been killed, but talking to an NPC later in the story reveals that he somehow survived the crush (Maybe he yelled at the vehicle to squat its way off his spine); and later he shows up during the Alliance's assault on Sword Valley, perfectly healthy and back to being comic relief.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e62dfb96	type	No Endor Holocaust
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e62dfb96	comment	No Endor Holocaust: Zig-Zagged: When the Mechonis begins moving, you get treated to the lovely sight of dozens of people spilling off of its sword towards the ocean several miles below. Later on, however, it is shown that many of them were caught out of the air by the High Entia flying machines and the Nopon's Pterix, and survived after all. It's stated that casualties were "kept to a minimum", but the relative proportions of how many were or weren't saved was not made clear. When the Bionis begins moving, EVERYONE on it should have died from the earthquakes and floods from the falling Eryth Sea alone; once you return to it, however, everything is fine beyond the High Entia turning into dinosaurs and largely no one cares about their goddamn continent suddenly springing to life and swinging swords.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e6630c8b	type	GameplayAndStoryIntegration
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e6630c8b	comment	Gameplay and Story Integration: Visions of the future play a key role in both story and gameplay, and new Monado Arts are often introduced in cutscenes (e.g. Purge, Speed), not to be forgotten 5 minutes later. When Melia first joins Shulk and company, they don't realize she's a High Entia because her headwings are covered by her hat. To keep up the ploy, her headdress can't be removed or replaced until after the High Entia Tomb, long after her real heritage becomes known. The best way to fight a Mechon if you don't have the Monado is to topple them over and then attack them. This technique is first seen in the very first cutscene, where three Defense Force soldiers topple a Mechon and proceed to stab its weak underbelly. Shulk, Fiora, Reyn, and Dunban are from the same hometown and are close acquaintances, so they have very good synergy in combat with each other. All four are powerful physical attackers with access to topple and daze Arts, so they can either inflict heavy damage with Chain Attacks or immobilize enemies for a long period of time. It's established early in the game that the Monado can't cut people. Naturally, this doesn't come into play when fighting random monsters, but later you end up fighting some High Entia assassins, and if Shulk is in battle, the Monado will only do Scratch Damage to them. This is taken further within the New Game+ where the other type of Monados, including the Monado III, are indeed able to hurt them due to them not being limited in this regard as with the original Monado at this point within the story. This also applies to the Faced Mechon, once you know they are really just Homs in a forced symbiosis with a Mechon. During cutscenes where the party will be fighting Mechon, you can sometimes see Shulk use Monado Enchant. While the Enchant status generally doesn't carry over to the battle, it conveniently explains why your party can damage normally unstoppable Mechon. Some side quests and locations will be unavailable as the story progresses because their locations are either blocked and destroyed. if that happens, you will have to wait until the story is complete to go back and do them. The fact that Shulk continues to have visions of the future after losing the Monado and getting it replaced by a shoddy knockoff may briefly seem like Gameplay and Story Segregation, but later it becomes clear that there's some significance to it. It makes sense after Shulk manifests the True Monado, which was apparently inside him the entire time. If you see a location in a cutscene but haven't gone there yet, such as the test lab that Lorithia is shown in a couple times, 9 times out of 10 you can eventually go there. Similarly to the above, if you see a party member using a new power that isn't one of their arts, such as Melia unleashing a wave of energy at the Telethia, or Shulk putting a barrier around Reyn while fighting the Arachno Queen, it isn't Cutscene Power to the Max, they've just learned a new art! Sometimes in Hear-to-Hearts, a character will mention that they do like something or don't like something. The collectibles that you gather throughout the game can also be gifted between party members. Guess how you figure out what gifts increase affinity and which ones decrease affinity?
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e69173b6	type	Time-Limit Boss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e69173b6	comment	Time-Limit Boss: Once Egil's Mechon HP is reduced enough, he starts charging up for Bionis Slash X, which does infinite damage to its unfortunate recipient, and needs to be prevented by destroying all targets around him in 2 minutes.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e69e12b2	type	Combination Attack
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e69e12b2	comment	One of the main combat mechanics. Most powerful attacks have long cooldown periods to prevent them from being used more than once per battle and ending combat instantly makes them useable in the next battle, with the Chain Attacks resetting their timers for its duration, allowing the use of all attacks.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e6f18344	type	Humongous Mecha
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e6f18344	comment	Humongous Mecha: Comes with the territory, considering it's part of the Xeno series. Specifically, the entire game takes place on two titans (one of which is a giant mecha) that are at least the size of large continents. Can't get much more humongous than that. However, unlike the other two games in the series, Fiora is the only party member who actually gets to pilot a mechon, and then only in cutscenes before she rejoins the party. After that, she fights on-foot like everyone else for the rest of the game.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e78842b7	type	Blackface
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e78842b7	comment	Metal Face was originally called "Black Face" (黒いフェイス), which has no meaning beyond sounding cool in Japanese, but for fairly obvious reasons wasn't going to fly in western countries, especially America. "Metal Face" does end up being a bit of a non-sequitur of a name, since all of the Faced Mechon have "metal faces" (when inside their frames, anyway) but it's really just a nickname that Shulk and crew give him since he was the first Faced Mechon they encountered.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e8eb7d1e	type	BladeLock
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e8eb7d1e	comment	Blade Lock: Dunban and Shulk of all people get into one during a cutscene. Shulk does not want Dunban to kill a fellow Homs, even if it is one he hates from the bottom of his heart. The Bionis and Mechonis get into one after Zanza's reawakening, which ends with the latter's sword being broken.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e9365a0a	type	Monsters Everywhere
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_e9365a0a	comment	Monsters Everywhere: Every area in the game holds monsters or some kind of enemy at some point.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: The focus of a sidequest, where an elderly Machina is about to die: you can either go get her some Machina Energy from the wreckages near Colony 9 to allow her to live another 20 years or so, or go hunt for some rare revitalizing eggs which instead cause her to outlive everyone in Colony 6 and be left all alone. Strange that the lazy option has better end result even if it makes sense in context.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ea6f361f	type	You Are Number 6
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ea6f361f	comment	You Are Number 6: Egil refers to the Homs turned into Mechon by their serial number.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_eabd22f9	type	Achievement System
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_eabd22f9	comment	Achievement System: The game has a large variety of internal achievements that grant Non-Combat EXP when completed. They're split in 2 categories, Trials and Records, with the former largely relating to the various sidequests and latter being mostly combat based. Only the latter carry over to New Game+, possibly because the former are more tied to the overall story progress and the latter generally have further stretching goals.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_eb27e576	type	Cartography Sidequest
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_eb27e576	comment	Cartography Sidequest: Bonus EXP is obtained for discovering out-of-the-way locations and landmarks in the world.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_eb4086e3	type	Big Creepy-Crawlies
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_eb4086e3	comment	Big Creepy-Crawlies: The Arachno/Antol and Caterpile enemies are the major ones. Wisp, Apis, and Fliers being a tad big but not even close to the size of the the Archnids and Caterpiles. Wisp and Fliers also tend to not be violent unlike the spider based enemies. The giant Fortress-class Mechons are a robotic version, looking like a cross between a praying mantis and some kind of wacky Victorian exercise machine.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_eb81c601	type	Big Damn Heroes
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Fiora pulls off one of these during the Mechon attack to Colony 9, involving driving a freaking Mini-Mecha and fighiting single-handed against Metal Face, saving Shulk and co at the cost of her life. When the party is surrounded by Metal Face and several Mechon, Dunban and Dickson show up to lend them a hand. When they are overwhelmed, a Telethia sent by Alvis makes a swift appearance, attacking the Mechon and making them retreat. The party sans Melia infiltrates the High Entia Tomb just in time to save Melia from an assassin. Reyn and Sharla get one on the Fallen Arm, showing up just in time to help Shulk defend a still-recovering Fiora from a Mechon patrol. Shulk gets one at the last stand against the Telethia at Colony 6 after coming back from the dead. Fiora has a couple of these with Meyneth, the most of which involve saving the party from a mobile Mechonis temporarily.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_eb8e12d6	type	Rules Lawyer
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_eb8e12d6	comment	Rules Lawyer: Dunban finagles getting the party into the High Entia Tomb to save Melia from another Telethia by noting that, while the Trial of the Tomb is special to High Entia, there are no rules saying ''Homs'' can't interfere.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_edb7b3ad	type	Respawn Point
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_edb7b3ad	comment	Respawn Point: When falling in battle, the party is sent to the last landmark they visited.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ee0327e7	type	Bonus Boss
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ee0327e7	comment	Bonus Boss: While there are no enemies above the level cap, there are two enemies stronger than the Fog King that function as this, being Contemptous Greymane, a Level 78 Gogol Fog Beast that can summon reinforcements (and being a Fog Beast those enemies are stronger than normal), and Prosecutor Davrum, a Dragon enemy with a powerful spike, which can only be unlocked through getting all 12 Ponspectors.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ef6e5c9d	type	Dictionary Opening
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ef6e5c9d	comment	Dictionary Opening: The trailer for the 3DS remake.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f11c3835	type	Anti-Grinding
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f11c3835	comment	Anti-Grinding: Enemies with levels much lower than your party's give significantly reduced EXP, AP, and SP.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f23ffaf8	type	Sidequest Sidestory
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f23ffaf8	comment	Sidequest Sidestory: Many sidequests tie into one another, and their consequences are shown in the affinity chart. Furthermore, some overarching sidequests arcs progress alongside the main plot, and the connection between each of the individual quests involved becomes more obvious as they are completed.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f3626b09	type	Mercy Kill
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: A rather common objective of the endgame quests given to you by the High Entia refugees. Their pure blooded friends and family who devolved into Telethia act on fragments of their memories as instinct, mindlessly roaming the places they frequented prior to their transformations, and as such, you're asked to put them down.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f36c4f98	type	Easily Forgiven
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f36c4f98	comment	Easily Forgiven: Downplayed with Bana. While the citizens of Gran Dell said they'll work with him to improve the town and forget about his drug dealing and stealing, they also punish him by making him do community service running food to the militia. The High-Entia girl who was Bana's main victim alongside her also addicted boyfriend believe this is too light of a sentence.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f3fd818b	type	Dark Reprise
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f3fd818b	comment	The themenote (or at least, the first one) for Bionis' Interior also fits somewhat. The area it plays in is rather small and has no enemies, so it's entirely possible for the player to rush through it on the way to Makna Forest without hearing the whole thing. There's a Dark Reprise of that theme which plays when the party revisits the area after finishing the Mechonis Core.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f4379d92	type	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f4379d92	comment	Double Reverse Quadruple Agent: Alvis. Through the course of the story, it's impossible to tell which side he's on. At one point he's a mysterious helper, then he's acting shady with a group of shady characters, then he's back again on Shulk's side. It continues to grow from there, and it's not until the very ending that his motivations become clear.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f50995d	type	Hoist by His Own Petard
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f50995d	comment	Metal Face/Mumkhar is impaled by a piece of Galahad Fortress blown off by one of his attacks before falling from Sword Valley.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f55a1990	type	Disc-One Final Dungeon
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f55a1990	comment	The Core of Mechonis brings Shulk's death, the revelation of Zanza, the reveal of an Evil All Along character, and a whole freaking mess of twists.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f604f64b	type	Dude, She's Like in a Coma
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f604f64b	comment	Dude, She's Like, in a Coma!: Implied with Melia in an optional series of interactions with Shulk while he is comatose. She quickly calls herself out for it.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f604f64b	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f64a9cf7	type	Earn Your Happy Ending
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f64a9cf7	comment	Earn Your Happy Ending: The party goes through a lot in the story; a lot of revelations and tragic events happen across the board. But after all of it, it all manages to end on a high note.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f821e963	type	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f821e963	comment	The Very Definitely Final Dungeon: Prison Island, the second time around.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f83ec410	type	Likable Villain
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f83ec410	comment	Likable Villain: Egil. At first he's shown as completely ruthless, but it later is revealed that he shares a similar, and even more tragic, story as Shulk. Shulk comes to understand his pain, and tries to pull him out of the slippery slope he threw himself into.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	type	Video Game Cruelty Potential
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	comment	In the field, the AI can sometimes walk off edges and fall to their doomnote or you can push them off... thankfully they respawn next to you within seconds.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f87c42d4	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f8cddfb2	type	Laser Blade
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f8cddfb2	comment	Laser Blade: The Monado itself and its various incarnations (Except the Meyneth Monado briefly wielded by Fiora due to it being two giant mechanical-looking swords barely indistinguishable from her others). Up to Eleven with the Monado III (AKA Shulk's Monado) which has a completely ethereal appearance, making it look like the entire Monado's made up of energy. Dunban can also get some of these, courtesy of the Machina.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f97ab6a5	type	Suicidal Overconfidence
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f97ab6a5	comment	Suicidal Overconfidence: Unique Monsters attack no matter how powerful the party is. The player-controlled party leader sometimes displays this if a sufficiently tough monster is targeted for attack. The rest of the party tend to disagree with their perspective.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f9f2c33	type	Running Gag
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_f9f2c33	comment	Running Gag: Reyn is easy to tease, so naturally, several characters, main and side alike, tend to do so when talking to him. A common end-battle banter with Reyn involves him getting metaphors wrong to the bewilderment of the other party members.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_faece9aa	type	The Power of Friendship
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_faece9aa	comment	The Power of Friendship: In the gameplay itself. Not only can the party members' attacks be combined for added damage, but their skills can be linked with one another when the affinity between them grows.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fb12cf50	type	Sidetrack Bonus
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fb12cf50	comment	Sidetrack Bonus: The game rewards exploration via Non Combat Experience for discovering new locations. Also, many areas hold stuff like unique monsters and surprise quests.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fb297e7	type	Gainaxing
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fb297e7	comment	Gainaxing: Both Sharla and Vanea have some noticeable... bounce to them. It's very evident during cutscenes. This is toned down significantly in the Definitive Edition and is subtly applied to Mecha-Fiora too.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fb56b948	type	My Sister Is Off-Limits
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fb56b948	comment	My Sister Is Off-Limits!: Inverted. Dunban completely agrees with the idea of Shulk and Fiora being together, and even encourages it.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fbd5fda1	type	Friendly Rivalry
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fbd5fda1	comment	Friendly Rivalry: You can cause the rivalry between several side characters to eventually evolve into this should you complete their quest chain.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fc07d409	type	Hopeless Boss Fight
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fc07d409	comment	Hopeless Boss Fight: Quite a few of them, in the form of a fight against a foe that's either overleveled or very hard to damage. These battles end after a certain amount of time passes, enough damage is caused, or, in some cases, the party is completely wiped out. Between them, there are the first encounters with Metal Face and Xord, the first two encounters with Yaldabaoth, and the first one against Zanza.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fc33ff16	type	One-Winged Angel
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fc33ff16	comment	One-Winged Angel: Zanza takes a half-Bionis, half-Mechonis form in the last two battles against him.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fccd06b6	type	Beware the Nice Ones
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fccd06b6	comment	Beware the Nice Ones: You would think Shulk, being a modest engineering student and nice guy, would not harm a fly. Or Fiora, a sweet girl and loving younger sister that takes care of her Handicapped Badass older brother, wouldn't be able to hurt anyone, right? WRONG!
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fceabba8	type	Silent Whisper
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fceabba8	comment	Silent Whisper: Dunban gives one to Shulk early in the game. Though it's revealed what he said not long after.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fcf6bca9	type	Robosexual
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fcf6bca9	comment	Robosexual: Paired with If It's You, It's Okay. Shulk really doesn't seem to mind seeing Fiora turned into a Robot Girl.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fd1f1a63	type	Ridiculously Cute Critter
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fd1f1a63	comment	Ridiculously Cute Critter: The race of Nopon; fluffy, spherical, and overall adorable. Deconstructed to an extent, as the Nopon are more than aware of it and will sometimes exploit it to their advantage. A lot of quests given by Nopon are surprisingly dark. Nopon children are even cuter than their adult counterparts, having even tinier proportions, as well as noticeably rounder, beadier eyes.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299	type	Well-Intentioned Extremist
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fd4f8299	comment	Well-Intentioned Extremist: Egil. All the atrocities he does are in an attempt to put a stop to Zanza's cycle of destruction.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fd7a9d0	type	Removed Achilles' Heel
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fd7a9d0	comment	Removed Achilles' Heel: Face Mechon stand out for being immune to the Monado, which slices through normal Mechon with ease.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac	type	Theme Naming
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fd94c4ac	comment	Theme Naming: The Gogol types within Bionis Leg, not counting Unique Monsters, are all named after four of the Seven Deadly Sins, while both of the normal Gogol types encountered of Satorl Marsh are named after demons. The only exception is the Gogol of Tephra Cave which aren't named after anything related to evil.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fdad625e	type	Was Once a Man
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fdad625e	comment	Was Once a Man: The faced Mechon were all once Homs. Additionally, Zanza and Meyneth were once humans.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fe0330fb	type	Brick Joke
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fe0330fb	comment	Brick Joke: During the Nopon Black Market side quest chain, you have to give some writing to a certain NPC. At first, he thought it was an ancient Nopon dialect, until you give him some more writing from the writer of the previous writing. Then, he realizes that it's just bad writing.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fe262584	type	Cutscene Power to the Max
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fe262584	comment	Cutscene Power to the Max: Melia regularly summons four or five elementals with a wave of her staff, which is quite the far cry from her usual "only three and summoned one at a time" limits. It does make for cooler action, though.
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ff369faa	type	Symbiotic Possession
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ff369faa	comment	Symbiotic Possession: Between Fiora and Meyneth, getting to the point that both are essential for the other's survival.
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_ff369faa	featureApplicability	1.0
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Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fff371b4	type	Death Seeker
Xenoblade (Video Game) / int_fff371b4	comment	Death Seeker: Tyrea. She gets better. Several of the more traumatized NPCs also qualify, though most of them also get better.
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Crossover / Fan Fic	seeAlso	Xenoblade (Video Game)
Chaotic Monki (Lets Play)	seeAlso	Xenoblade (Video Game)
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	I'll Kill You! / int_920824b7
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Minidress of Power / int_920824b7
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Small, Annoying Creature / int_920824b7
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Standard Status Effects / int_920824b7
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	That One Component / int_920824b7
TsuyoshiKoyama	seeAlso	Xenoblade (Video Game)
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Unwinnable by Insanity / int_920824b7
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	What If God Was One of Us? / int_920824b7
Xenosaga (Video Game)	seeAlso	Xenoblade (Video Game)
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Astral Finale / int_920824b7
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Black Magician Girl / int_920824b7
Xenoblade (Video Game)	hasFeature	Trailer Delay / int_920824b7

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