hey, remember when Europe saved Xenoblade 1?
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Yeah me too. It will be impossible to get the special edition unless they have plenty of stock.I wish they sold art books separately. that's all I want here
hey, remember when Europe saved Xenoblade 1?
lel
Yeah me too. It will be impossible to get the special edition unless they have plenty of stock.
Then what's even the point of ordering it? it probably won't arrive in time.
Doesn’t seem to be any new areas in that trailer. Don’t think that’s the “exploration” trailer
this is like b-roll shot for western marketing so, it is what it isI like the trailer, but it pains me greatly they are not showing the size and scale of the world properly without the human characters for reference. Our brains need a reference point. The town shot was great because we can see people walking.
The scale is actually enormous in that trailer but it doesn’t look like it. Those birds flying look tiny but they are actually huge. Seeing characters running on those path with a close shot then zoom out would have made it 10x better.
That’s not happening until the Direcf.Doesn’t seem to be any new areas in that trailer. Don’t think that’s the “exploration” trailer
wow @ the new trailer. beautiful.
Risking the entire censorship can of worms here, but as someone who's very familiar with Christianity and the Bible I appreciate how most Christian references were removed from Xenoblade 2.Ah thanks, I overread that. Sounds interesting but I still don't see the reason for renaming characters. Also, wasn't a lot of Christianity stuff renamed in the xenoblade series? I'm also not a fan of this.
I don't believe Nintendo's ever used a per-order restriction on anything in their store.: when it says 2 per account does that mean that we can buy 2 in the same order or 2 different orders?
I cannot buy from that store and a friend of mine is gonna buy his, but the point is that I don't want to mess his order in any way. Like for example if they cancel the order with the 2 items contrary to they cancelling just one.
I'm glad they're still limiting it right now. I don't want to see too much but am enjoying the drip feed.I want to see new stuff
Yeah, if you want an example of what happens when they don't change the names (or do basically anything to try to distance it from real Christianity), just look at Xenosaga, which came across as extremely unsubtle and awkward at times in English. The federation capital is literally called Fifth Jerusalem, and they're not even the ostensibly church-aligned faction.Risking the entire censorship can of worms here, but as someone who's very familiar with Christianity and the Bible I appreciate how most Christian references were removed from Xenoblade 2.
Christianity as a whole never got half as popular in Japan as it did in the west. The chance that the typical Japanese player has a wide breath of biblical knowledge is low. Therefore, for Takahashi, the Bible is just a neat thing to reference and parallel. But for the western audience, the stronger Christian background is going to bring these things under much heavier scrutiny.
This is especially true due to Takahashi's apparent fascination with Gnosticism, which directly conflicts with every Christian denomination and is considered heresy. That's not to say it makes it offensive to include; it's just very jarring to see references that seem to be to things I'm familiar with, only for the actual parallels being drawn to fly in the face of what I'd expect. For someone like me, it's immersion breaking. I can't quite believe that's what Takahashi intends for with his references lol, and I'm happy what could be mistaken for more traditional Christian influence is masked as something else instead (in XC2's case, more obscure Greek mythology).
It's not that references to Christianity itself is jarring - it's that due to its status as a mainstream religion, the Gnostic references that appear Christian become jarring when they pivot in Gnosticism's wild directions. It's hard to explain, but my problem with it is that the references appear Christian but essentially aren't. As @Pokemaniac pointed out, this was far more true of Xenosaga, but it's still there to varying degrees in Xenoblade 2. It would be one thing if Takahashi was intending for it to be like that, but I can't imagine Gnosticism is anything but a weird, intriguing, niche concept to most of Japan.Eh, I never had any problem with it. Christianity's not really any different or jarring than references to any other mythology. Plenty of people are just as familiar with greco-roman mythology, should they have not used the word aegis?
Probably don’t trust them without leaking something.Weirdly enough thr trailer still isn't on NoA's YouTube.
Nintendo fucking up marketing
The Greco-Roman stuff is certainly a bit more exotic for an English speaking audience, which I suspect is what the localization was going for to better match how the Christian stuff is perceived in Japan.Eh, I never had any problem with it. Christianity's not really any different or jarring than references to any other mythology. Plenty of people are just as familiar with greco-roman mythology, should they have not used the word aegis?
NoA still manages to put subtitles in revealing that Wild Ride is in fact JujuProbably don’t trust them without leaking something.
NOA: “but the trailer has no dialogue”
Nintendo: “nope”