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It's a shame that Steve can't mine Core Crystals out of Azurda (that's not a sentence I thought I would ever say) and use one to summon KOS-MOS, and here I thought Sakurai had an attention to detail. Incineroar is a wrestler, which is something that makes it unique at least. Isabelle is just half Villager and half leftover ideas that Villager didn't use, so her moveset doesn't feel like it belongs to her. She would be more interesting if they leaned more into her attacking opponents accidentally by being clumsy or careless.

Mythra has the fifth fastest dash speed (behind Sonic, Captain Falcon, Little Mac, and Sheik) and the eleventh fastest air speed. Conversely, Pyra has the sixth slowest dash speed (ahead of Mii Gunner, Ganondorf, Jigglypuff, Robin, and Incineroar), while her air speed is tied with Joker's for 37th place. Both of them are middleweights, though Mythra is slightly lighter. The jury's still out on if Pyra is heavier than Tora though. If it makes you feel better, Pyra and Mythra being in Smash is basically a Xenoblade 2 expansion.

Poppi's menu has a section for using ether crystals to create parts for her. You can also sell parts you don't need to get more crystals. The item needed for making Tank Mod III (Artificial Blade Report) can be found at a location visited at the end of Chapter 4. On the bright side, you might have done enough grinding to make Poppi ridiculously powerful.

Actually you can do that, though you might not be able to make a Tank Mod III yet at the point in the game you're at.

Persona 5 Strikers for Sophia and Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection for Arthur.

Extensive scientific research shows that this is the last image the human brain creates at the point of death. Could this be God herself? (I was expecting this to just be a polished version of the concept art, but this is brand new! What a pleasant surprise.) The update also sneakily added two non-Xenoblade spirits: Sophia from Persona 5 Strikers and Arthur from Ghosts 'n Goblins. They're available early if you get their games but will be released for everyone else later (like Partner Pikachu and Eevee way back during launch, and the Tockles for Dragon Quest XI).

Update is out now. Important news: MYTHRA SAYS THE THING

All of the previous DLC characters except Terry released 8:00 or 9:00 PM Eastern time (based on daylight savings), so they should be released in about 20 minutes.

Well I'm not surprised about it, per se, but it is unfortunate. Since it came up in the presentation, I'm glad Pyra and Mythra have a unique victory theme since it wouldn't make sense for them to use You Will Know Our Names like Shulk does. But that reminded me of something else: Robin, Lucina, and Chrom have a unique victory theme that's remixed from Id (Purpose), which bugs me for a few reasons: It's specifically Robin's theme, so why do Lucina and Chrom get it? Relatedly, Awakening mostly uses the usual Fire Emblem theme, so the Awakening characters don't really need their own. Corrin and Byleth's games have their own main themes (Lost in Thoughts and Edge of Dawn), so they have a good reason for having their own victory themes. Ganondorf still uses the same victory theme as the other Zelda characters, which is a much bigger issue than his moveset being based on Captain Falcon's. He should get his own evil theme. Sakurai bias strikes yet again. Thank you for letting me ramble about an irrelevant topic.

I got my vaccine at a horse racetrack today, which must have something to do with Smash since we're getting a new character today. I predict the next character will be either Johnny Joestar or a Fire Emblem cavalier. We got sixteen XC2 songs, which is a very good amount since only Terry and Min Min got more. I don't have much to complain about aside from the lack of Drifting Soul... The Spirit lineup is... fine, though it's interesting that we got two (technically three) new Legend spirits, which is a first for DLC. I think Pyra and Mythra's alts are aesthetically pleasing even if they're not all references, though some think one of Mythra's alts is a reference to Xenogears. The lack of a KOS-MOS alt is surprising, in fact it's weird that KOS-MOS didn't get anything at all despite being Monolith's sort-of mascot. I haven't played Yakuza, but Majima is playable in Project X Zone 2 and he seems pretty cool there.

Coffee with Milk artwork?! Bandai-Namco employee: Alright Mr. Sakurai, I've collected a list of potential Xenoblade Mii costumes-- Sakurai: Four Capcom outfits it is!

Based on the voice actors... Jin would be Iron Man Wulfric would be Thor The King of Torna would be Doctor Strange Gorg would be Rocket Raccoon Perceval would be Star-Lord Dagas would be Ant-Man and Hawkeye Pandoria would be Spider-Gwen ...and probably more than that. Even the great David Menkin is in it, though I don't know who he voices.

Yeah that's what I think, and Pyra/Mythra were made playable instead because most of Rex's uniqueness comes from them. They seem to play basically as I hoped Rex would, so I think it was a good decision. I think it was fine for Lego Batman 2 and the Lego Marvels because they weren't adaptations of anything, but it's rather pointless if they're just going to lift dialogue straight from the movies. Speaking of which, Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 happens to share most of its voice cast with Xenoblade 2 (both use American actors in the UK, and both games had their voice recording done around the same time), so it's funny to hear Wasp sound exactly like Pyra (among other examples). I've been tempted to get it just for that.

Thanks. But it's a shame I won't be able to play as Pyra and Mythra all day. Anyway, last minute presentation predictions/wishlist go!

It’s not about chat, it’s about the principle! I asked to start work later than usual so I could watch it live, but it turns out I’m getting a vaccine tomorrow so I have the day off anyway. And now I have more time for them if they do release tomorrow, so things turned out rather conveniently in the end.

We're officially less than 24 hours away from Pyra and Mythra's presentation, hooray!

The announcement tweet said that PyMy's release date would be revealed in the presentation, which I thought would be strange to mention separately if they're releasing the same day. But if we're getting the alert now then there's a decent chance they're releasing on the 4th. I think Terry's presentation was in the morning and he released right after, or am I wrong? Also, this week's tournament is for Pokémon's 25th anniversary.

Oh man, I can't believe you were spoiled that Sigurd is the final boss.

Looking through a list of Xenoblade 2's unused content, I was reminded that Jin's sword is internally called Masamune (Malos's weapon is named Thanatos, if you were wondering). Which reminded me of something else: since DLC characters don't appear in each other's Spirit Boards, Jin won't be represented by Sephiroth in his spirit battle. What a sad day...

I didn't think the central religious text of Islam was in FE, much less that it could die.

Well the original Transformers cartoon mainly existed to sell toys, so it's not too surprising. I'm sure there are some good Transformers shows out there (and probably some good episodes of G1), though I haven't seen much of them.

I'll play Genealogy when it gets a remake announced at E3 this year and when Julia is announced for Smash at the same time.

"Final Fantasy VII Remake is coming to the PS5!" "Wow, Episode II already!?" "Heck no, that won't be for another five years. Have a port with exclusive stuff instead." "Oh... okay."

Maybe, but her hair seems much blacker than Poppi's. Poppi also has orange ether lines rather than red, but QTπ has some red in her outfit so it could be a reference to that.

Here's the first look at one of Mythra's non-default colors, which is black and red. It could have been passed off as being based on Malos if it was black and purple instead.