The ending of Xenoblade 2. Well, reading this, I’m sure you guys know what I’m gonna say.
The ending of Xenoblade 2 is quite depressing. Obviously. I, as someone who didn’t play the game but only watched no commentary long plays of the game, liked (no, loved) the story a lot, and thus the subtly vague ending keeps me up at night. Or maybe I should rewatch the game without skipping to only cutscenes and actually read dialogue.
I originally thought, that in the end, everyone else died except for the protagonist’s party as someone in the party said. I thought there was no other person alive on the other Titans. Then Pythra somehow gets teleported and become two seperate individuals. I was originally confused since it didn’t seem like much of a sacrifice at all for Rex. But I assumed it was only put at post credit for those like me who really cared and assuming even Myra didn’t understand their true power. I don’t think they ever died, only trapped in there and never able to return back to Rex originally.
Then I read online and there was someone who said that it’s actually Rex and the party and Pneuma who died, and the rest was merely a figment of Rex’s imagination. I’m not sure if he’s like in a matrix now and those people are only in his imagination or are they actually there.
Either way, this seems to be a game with a vague ending. I’m a big Xenoblade fan now, so I’d like to hear other people’s say on this.
Posted Jul 18, 2021, 3:28 AM UTC
I've never heard the theory about them all being in Rex's imagination lol. I can promise you that's not canon. It's all real. That's a fun theory though.
A big part of Rex's arc was learning that he can't protect everyone. He was forced to let go of pyra/mythra, and he was rewarded for it.
How they survived could either be because the core crystal was intact and they just didn't realize they would survive it, or the Architect saved them as part of his final gift.
There is some ambiguity about the ending, specifically on whether or not they kept their memories. I subscribe to the belief that they kept their memories, but there is reason to believe that they didn't.
Pyra and Mythra seemed pretty happy when Poppi hugged them, so pretty sure they still had memories intact.
As for them surviving, pretty sure it was the Architect being a bro. They came back separately instead of sharing one body, so Architect probably pulled some strings.
I see. So assuming Pyra Mythra are real in that post credit scene is what I’m getting at. I still wonder how they survived… there any popular theories regarding that? I’m quite new to this community.
Also about the theory where they possibly lost all their memories in the end? That’s interesting too…
There are two main possibilities for how they survived.
A) it is said many times throughout the game that as long as a blades core is intact, the blade is unharmed. Since Rex still had their core undamaged, they were able to come back.
B) as part of the Architect’s last gift, he brought them back. There's a line in the song that plays that hints at that.
They survived since there core was intact and probably kept their memories since the aegis is where blade memories are stored
There planned two endings: one where they forget and what where they remember. Then they decided to remove that idea and make it so you decide what really happened