My emotional Torna experience (Xenoblade Chronicles 2)

The torna dlc is some of the most effort I've seen put in an expansion of any video game ever; the developers didn't need to go this hard and yet they did. They essentially made another game (with a completely retooled combat and sidequest system) and sold it to the people for less than retail price. Doesn't get anymore awesome than that

10:19 “It’s so painful when you know their fates.” That’s the experience of playing Torna in a nutshell. You go in knowing that every one of these characters is either going to die or live hundreds of years in misery

Xenoblade 1 leaves you with happy tears. Xenoblade 2 leaves you with bittersweet tears. Torna leaves you with sheer sadness and pain.

This DLC just gets sadder the more you think about it too. Like, you know how picking on Mythra was often used as comic relief? She's a simpleton, brash, coarse, bad at cooking, so powerful she's a danger, and so on. Well... Pyra isn't any of those things... When everything got so bad that Mythra's mind snapped she made sure the resulting splinter personality would be everything she couldn't be.

"Ok, I'm gonna start Torna" - Famous last words before disaster

The anguish in Mythra’s voice when she realized she was to blame for Milton’s death was so well done by Skye Bennett! Always tugs at my heartstrings!

Torna title screen 0 hours in: "That piano goes hard." Torna title screen 20 hours in: lying on my bed crying

A lot of people just see everyone making fun of Mythra as haha funny but really it shows why she had such a hard time opening up in the main game. And why she was so shocked when someone like Rex showed up and treated her like her own person and not a weapon to be feared.

10:15 "It's so painful when you know their fate." The perfect timing of this for people who have played the game when she's just met Milton.

Torna is basically what every DLC story should be. It's substantial on its own and adds so much to the main story it stems from. Torna is what everyone wanted BotW's DLC to be, and what everyone wanted Age of Calamity to be, but neither came even close to the impact Torna had. Even rewatching the cutscenes from the main game hit so much harder when you know what happened in Torna.

You go into this DLC a happy bean, but come out a SAD DEPRESSED ROTTING CORPSE. Torna is one of the best DLCs ever to any game and I'm so glad you got to experience it! More like: Xenoblade Chronicles 2: Torna ~The Roast of Mythra~

Torna the game that stabs you in the feels and just when you think it’s done, it twists the knife

Convinced Monolithsoft hid the final Gort fight from the ESRB. What an emotional credits sequence.

I guess we know what Torna stands for now... Torna-part! In all seriousness, thank you so much for posting your playthrough of Xenoblade 2 & Torna, and I can't wait for you to play through Xenoblade 3 in July!

The ending is perfect! The cinematography was great. The song "Moment of Eternity" is a song for Jin from Lora "I don't wish for forever. Even just a moment of Eternity. If it's with her, it's enough" -Jin

28:36 I believe it's shot like this because it's based on one of the flashbacks from the base game. That flashback was either one of the first times we saw Jin being a good guy, or one that put emphasis on his kind nature, so a dramatic reveal with the camera like that made sense there... Ends up being a little goofy here tho :P

"In the course of a lifetime, a man will see uncountable meetings and partings. Yet, as your life’s candle sputters and dies, whose face is it that smiles to greet you? Happy is the man that can sleep in the comfort of the smile he sees then." No, I don’t wish for ‘forever.’ Even just for one moment, it’s enough if it’s with her. And yet, what is the man to do who has not been afforded that chance? The road stretches on without end. I cannot but walk down it. As long as I can keep walking, I can hold out hope that one day, the time may come when I see her smile again.” Jean-Paul Sartre is a dead French Philosopher some of his views on our being, how we as beings are born into the Void that is life, out of nowhere. All that is left is our conscious Being and even more important - how others see us. According to him, what we yearn for is to be seen by others as we see fit, and we avoid those who would see us as anything else in more extreme cases With love you give that special someone, who you see as more important, your Being. You want them to see you just as important as you do for them, thus creating a strong bond, but when that other people die or stop loving you back, they leave with your Being. And you're empty, gotta restart from the beginning. with this type of philosophy it paints Jin as and even more tragic character then he already was, essentially he died the moment he became a flesh eater.

Creating an experience like Xenoblade is not an easy thing to do. Risks must be taken to push the viewers and even the creators to new limits. Stories like these will rarely become mainstream successes often taking a back seat to the tried & safe works that can be easily replicated.. and despite all that we as a people crave works like Xeno to stimulate our locked away emotions.

The part where Mythra got heartbroken at the end really hurts me..

And so we come to the end....until XC3. Truly a wonderful experience watching these videos, thank you for all the effort you put in to gives us something amazing. A great series.