Helsionium - Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) videos

Helsionium’s YouTube videos
on Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii)

Discovery / Exploration of the Beta Map
Title Screen / Attract Mode

Individual Cutscenes and Dialogues
— Part 1 (until Valak Mountain)
— Part 2 (from Sword Valley)

This is the project that basically started my YouTube channel – cutscenes and various other videos of the 2010 Wii game “Xenoblade Chronicles” developed by Monolith Soft and published by Nintendo. Because I had virtually no experience with video recording and editing, it has its issues though, most notebly the rather uneven frame pacing. While I was determined to show off all different pieces of equipment, I didn’t do any advance planning and chose the outfits more or less haphazardly.

Discovery / Exploration of the Beta Map (Bionis’ Left Shoulder)

This is the first Xenoblade video I made – although not the first one I released, as I published it along with my first batch of Xenoblade cutscene videos, when my channel had basically no content yet. In this video, I show off almost the entirety of the unused beta map (Bionis’ Left Shoulder) which was left in the game and would eventually be used in Future Connected.

It originally featured a script with various notes on the environments I made and which was supposed to be displayed using a long-defunct annotation system on YouTube. When YouTube disabled that system, that script was lost, unfortunately.

If I am not completely mistaken, this is the first video ever released of the exploration of the beta map.

Title Screen / Attract Mode

Individual Cutscenes and Dialogues

Note: The recording method I had to use for the proper cutscenes (the ones without a letter in their number) was unsuitable for the dialogue scenes (the ones with a letter). So I had to skip the latter at the time I recoded the former (i.e. early 2012). After emulation and recording technology evolved sufficiently, I was able to record the missing dialogue scenes more than a year later. In order to speed of the entire process of playing through the game again, I used a New Game+ file and all characters wore the same (end-game) equipment throughout the playthrough, which doesn’t match the cutscenes before and after the dialogue scenes. I especially regret that this includes the Monado III, which is very out of place in these scenes.

Part 1

The first part of the original Xenoblade Chronicles playlist covers the part from the beginning of the game until the end of Valak Mountain.

No.	Title	English playlist	Japanese playlist
001	Opening / Battle of Sword Valley	English version	Japanese version
002	Mumkhar’s Betrayal	English version	Japanese version
003	Shulk at the Mechon Scrapyard	English version	Japanese version
003a	Going Back to the Colony!	English version	Japanese version
004	Enter Colony 9	Watch video	Watch video
004a	See you later, Reyn!	English version	Japanese version
004b	Colonel Vangarre’s Rage	English version	Japanese version
005	Monado Research with Dickson	English version	Japanese version
005a	Memories of the Monado	English version	Japanese version
006	Fiora and Dunban At Home	English version	Japanese version
006a	Looking for Shulk	English version	Japanese version
007	Picnic at Outlook Park	English version	Japanese version
008	The Monado Takes Control of Reyn	English version	Japanese version
008a	Shulk’s First Vision	English version	Japanese version
009	Meeting Fiora at Tephra Cave Entrance	English version	Japanese version
010	Enter Tephra Cave	Watch video	Watch video
010a	Mag Mell Ruins	English version	Japanese version
010b	Mysterious Technology	English version	Japanese version
011	Ancient Machines	English version	Japanese version
011a	Impending Attack	English version	Japanese version
012	The Mechon Attack Colony 9	English version	Japanese version
013	Man-eating Mechon	English version	Japanese version
013a	They’re Eating People!	English version	Japanese version
013b	Dunban’s Missing!	English version	Japanese version
014	Colonel Vangarre’s Last Stand	English version	Japanese version
014a	Blocked Entrance	English version	Japanese version
015	Surrounded	English version	Japanese version
016	Dunban Takes the Monado Once Again	English version	Japanese version
016a	Detour to Fiora	English version	Japanese version
017	Fiora’s Escape	English version	Japanese version
018	Shulk Takes the Monado	English version	Japanese version
019	Metal Face Appears	English version	Japanese version
020	Fiora’s Death	English version	Japanese version
021	The Mechon Retreat	English version	Japanese version
021a	Aftermath of the Mechon Attack	English version	Japanese version
022	Setting Out For Revenge	English version	Japanese version
023	The Monado Expedition	English version	Japanese version
023a	To Colony 6!	English version	Japanese version
023b	The Door Opened	English version	Japanese version
023c	A Treacherous Path	English version	Japanese version
023d	Resting in Tephra Cave	English version	Japanese version
024	The Future is Yours	English version	Japanese version
024a	The Future is Mine?	English version	Japanese version
024b	Reyn in Danger	English version	Japanese version
024c	Catching up with Reyn	English version	Japanese version
025	Reyn Saved by the Monado	English version	Japanese version
025a	Changing the Future	English version	Japanese version
026	Our Enemy, Mechonis	English version	Japanese version
026a	On the Bionis’ Kneecap	English version	Japanese version
027	Enter Bionis’ Leg	Watch video	Watch video
027a	Arrival at Gaur Plains	English version	Japanese version
027b	An Abandoned Buggy	English version	Japanese version
027c	Saving Juju	English version	Japanese version
027d	Directions to Refugee Camp	English version	Japanese version
028	Juju Returns to the Camp	English version	Japanese version
028a	Sharla’s Depressing Tale	English version	Japanese version
029a	I Can Fight Too!	English version	Japanese version
029b	Juju the Brave	English version	Japanese version
029c	Vision of Juju’s Death	English version	Japanese version
030a	Two Possible Paths	English version	Japanese version
031	A New Power to Save Juju	English version	Japanese version
031a	After the Mechon M71!	English version	Japanese version
032	Bronze Face Appears	English version	Japanese version
033	Juju Kidnapped by Bronze Face	English version	Japanese version
034	Sharla’s Nightmare	English version	Japanese version
034a	Setting Out To Save Juju	English version	Japanese version
035	Enter Colony 6	Watch video	Watch video
035a	Outside of Colony 6	English version	Japanese version
035b	Mechon in the Ether Mine	English version	Japanese version
036	Coming to Otharon’s Aid	English version	Japanese version
036a	Much to Discuss	English version	Japanese version
037	This Is For You!	English version	Japanese version
037a	Shulk’s Doubts	English version	Japanese version
038	Enter Central Pit	Watch video	Watch video
038a	The Central Pit	English version	Japanese version
039	Xord, Your Host Tonight	English version	Japanese version
040	Changing the Future	English version	Japanese version
040a	Otharon’s Gratitude	English version	Japanese version
040b	Riding the Freight Elevator	English version	Japanese version
041	Xord’s Secret Knowledge	English version	Japanese version
042	Unfinished Battle	English version	Japanese version
043	Metal Face Retreats Again	English version	Japanese version
043a	Reunion of the Heroes	English version	Japanese version
044	Enter Satorl Marsh	Watch video	Watch video
044a	A Sight to Behold	English version	Japanese version
044b	Nopon Merchant Camp	English version	Japanese version
044c	A High Entia Relic	English version	Japanese version
045	Memories and Visions	English version	Japanese version
045a	Shulk and Dickson	English version	Japanese version
045b	Parting Ways	English version	Japanese version
045c	Defective Elevator	English version	Japanese version
045d	Atop the Sororal Statues	English version	Japanese version
045e	Through the Inside of the Bionis	English version	Japanese version
046	Creation of Face Nemesis	English version	Japanese version
047	Battle in the Forest	English version	Japanese version
047a	A Dense Forest	English version	Japanese version
048	Enter Makna Forest	Watch video	Watch video
049	The Unconscious Girl	English version	Japanese version
049a	Sharla’s Diagnosis	English version	Japanese version
050	Alvis Unlocks a New Power	English version	Japanese version
051	Mysterious Alvis	English version	Japanese version
051a	The Imaginary Friend	English version	Japanese version
052	Healing Melia	English version	Japanese version
052a	Melia’s Introduction	English version	Japanese version
052b	Nopon Village Entrance	English version	Japanese version
053	Enter Frontier Village	Watch video	Watch video
053a	Hom Hom Everywhere!	English version	Japanese version
053b	Melia’s Duty	English version	Japanese version
054	Meet Riki the Heropon	English version	Japanese version
054a	Equipment for the Heropon	English version	Japanese version
054b	How Riki Became the Heropon	English version	Japanese version
054c	Decayed Forest	English version	Japanese version
055	Leone Telethia Appears	English version	Japanese version
056	The Telethia Regenerates	English version	Japanese version
057	The Telethia’s Demise	English version	Japanese version
057a	Fight Over Already?	English version	Japanese version
057b	Wife and Children	English version	Japanese version
057c	Chief Dunga and the Bird Lady	English version	Japanese version
057d	Towards Eryth Sea	English version	Japanese version
057e	Column of Water	English version	Japanese version
058	Sinister Research	Watch video	Watch video
059	Enter Eryth Sea	Watch video	Watch video
059a	The Top of the Bionis	English version	Japanese version
059b	Lady Melia	English version	Japanese version
059c	Back in the Capital	English version	Japanese version
060	Enter Imperial Capital Alcamoth	Watch video	Watch video
060a	Beginning of a Conspiracy	English version	Japanese version
060b	The Princess Returns	English version	Japanese version
060c	Under Arrest	English version	Japanese version
060d	The Divine Seer	English version	Japanese version
060e	The Seer’s Report	English version	Japanese version
060f	Quest Completed	English version	Japanese version
060g	Before the Announcement	English version	Japanese version
061	Sorean Announces His Successor	English version	Japanese version
061a	Spiteful First Consort	English version	Japanese version
061b	Attack of the Inquisitors	English version	Japanese version
061c	Investigating the Attack	English version	Japanese version
061d	A Sinister Minister	English version	Japanese version
061e	Meddling in Customs	English version	Japanese version
061f	Two Seers	English version	Japanese version
061g	Inside the Tomb	English version	Japanese version
061h	Passing the Seal	English version	Japanese version
062	Reyn and the Button	English version	Japanese version
063	Enter High Entia Tomb	Watch video	Watch video
063a	Spirit of the Ancestor	English version	Japanese version
063b	Reyn’s Fault	English version	Japanese version
063c	Big Ball of… Something	English version	Japanese version
063d	No Time To Lose	English version	Japanese version
064	Confrontation in the Tomb	English version	Japanese version
065	Melly All Safe Thanks to Heropon	English version	Japanese version
065a	Investigating the Conspiracy	English version	Japanese version
065b	Summoned Before the Emperor	English version	Japanese version
065c	Audience with the Emperor	English version	Japanese version
066	Preparing For Assault	English version	Japanese version
067	The Divination Ritual	English version	Japanese version
068	Ceremony of Investiture	English version	Japanese version
068a	Ministerial Affairs	English version	Japanese version
069	Approach of the Mechon	English version	Japanese version
069a	Deciding to Visit Melia	English version	Japanese version
069b	The Imperial Villa	English version	Japanese version
070	Battle of Eryth Sea Part 1	English version	Japanese version
070a	Unwavering Emperor	English version	Japanese version
070b	Stopping the Emperor	English version	Japanese version
070c	Respect? Destiny?	English version	Japanese version
071	Battle of Eryth Sea Part 2	English version	Japanese version
071a	To Prison Island!	English version	Japanese version
071b	Big Fish Coming!	English version	Japanese version
071c	Ancient Protectors	English version	Japanese version
072	The Emperor and The Giant	English version	Japanese version
072a	Origin of Prison Island	English version	Japanese version
073	Enter Prison Island	Watch video	Watch video
074	Shulk Meets Zanza	English version	Japanese version
074a	The Imprisoned Giant	English version	Japanese version
075	Catch this, Zanza!	English version	Japanese version
075a	Releasing Zanza	English version	Japanese version
076	Shackles Released / Showdown at Prison Island	English version	Japanese version
077	Face Nemesis Is Fiora?	English version	Japanese version
077a	Emperor Sorean’s Death	English version	Japanese version
078	Zanza and Alvis	English version	Japanese version
078a	Regent Kallian	English version	Japanese version
078b	Grief and Hope	English version	Japanese version
078c	Dunban’s Relief	English version	Japanese version
078d	Kallian’s Apology	English version	Japanese version
078e	Two Melias	English version	Japanese version
078f	All Aboard	English version	Japanese version
079	Face Nemesis Repaired	English version	Japanese version
080	Enter Valak Mountain	Watch video	Watch video
080a	The Snowy Mountain	English version	Japanese version
080b	Frozen Ruins	English version	Japanese version
080c	Night at Ose Tower	English version	Japanese version
080d	Dawn of A New Day	English version	Japanese version
081	Mumkhar Reveals Himself	English version	Japanese version
082	Duel at Valak Mountain	English version	Japanese version
082a	Going to the Mechonis	English version	Japanese version

Part 2

The second part of the original Xenoblade Chronicles playlist covers the part from the arrival at Sword Valley until the end of the game.

No.	Title	English playlist	Japanese playlist
082b	Strange Glow	English version	Japanese version
083	Enter Sword Valley	Watch video	Watch video
083a	No Turning Back	English version	Japanese version
083b	The Supply Convoy	English version	Japanese version
083c	Dickson Departs	English version	Japanese version
084	Plans of the Mechon Leader	English version	Japanese version
084a	Found an Entry Point	English version	Japanese version
085	Mumkhar’s New Toy	English version	Japanese version
085a	Dangerous Weapon	English version	Japanese version
086	Metal Face’s Downfall	English version	Japanese version
086a	Countermeasures	English version	Japanese version
086b	Another Vision	English version	Japanese version
086c	The Rear Entrance	English version	Japanese version
087	Enter Galahad Fortress	Watch video	Watch video
087a	Inside the Mechon Stronghold	English version	Japanese version
087b	Stopping the Pistons	English version	Japanese version
087c	Opening the Doors	English version	Japanese version
087d	Lots of Face Mechon!	English version	Japanese version
087e	Time to Retreat	English version	Japanese version
088	Dead End in Galahad Fortress	English version	Japanese version
089	Destruction of Galahad Fortress	English version	Japanese version
089a	This is War	English version	Japanese version
090	A Dream on the Shore of Another World	English version	Japanese version
091	Alive, but Unconscious	English version	Japanese version
092	My First Kiss	English version	Japanese version
092a	Lovers’ Reunion, Part 1	English version	Japanese version
093	Fiora’s Memories	English version	Japanese version
093a	Lovers’ Reunion, Part 2	English version	Japanese version
094	Welcome back, Fiora!	English version	Japanese version
094a	Lovers’ Reunion, Part 3	English version	Japanese version
094b	Fiora Needs to Rest	English version	Japanese version
095	The Light of the Monado	English version	Japanese version
095a	Mechon Ambush	English version	Japanese version
095b	Reyn and Sharla Come Around	English version	Japanese version
095c	Saving Shulk	English version	Japanese version
096	Reyn Saves the Day	English version	Japanese version
096a	Together Again	English version	Japanese version
096b	Strange Creatures	English version	Japanese version
096c	Advice from Riki	English version	Japanese version
097	A Family Reunion	English version	Japanese version
097a	Introducing the Machina	English version	Japanese version
098	Enter Hidden Machina Village	Watch video	Watch video
098a	Mechanical Life	English version	Japanese version
098b	Miqol’s Request	English version	Japanese version
098c	Crafting Alliances	English version	Japanese version
098d	Miqol’s History Lesson	English version	Japanese version
098e	Fixing Fiora	English version	Japanese version
098f	Found the Spare Parts	English version	Japanese version
098g	Bob’s Your Uncle	English version	Japanese version
099	A Mechon Body	English version	Japanese version
099a	The Right Path	English version	Japanese version
100	Erasing Memories	English version	Japanese version
100a	The Path to the Mechonis	English version	Japanese version
101	Vicious Circle of Hatred	English version	Japanese version
102	Enter Mechonis Field	Watch video	Watch video
102a	At the Bottom	English version	Japanese version
102b	Lift without Power	English version	Japanese version
102c	Resting Very High Up	English version	Japanese version
103	Resting and Maintenance	English version	Japanese version
104	Sharpshooter Gadolt	English version	Japanese version
104a	Reyn’s Resolve	English version	Japanese version
105	Jade Face Follows the Heroes	English version	Japanese version
106	Jade Face Assault	English version	Japanese version
107	Gadolt Doesn’t Remember	English version	Japanese version
108	Meanwhile in the Capital	English version	Japanese version
109	The One, True Monado	English version	Japanese version
110	Meeting Vanea	English version	Japanese version
110a	Erased Memories	English version	Japanese version
111	The Allied Forces Advance	English version	Japanese version
111a	Guide to the Capital	English version	Japanese version
112	Enter Mechonis Central Factory	Watch video	Watch video
112a	Heading through the Factory	English version	Japanese version
113	Battle of the Bionis’ Allied Forces	English version	Japanese version
114	Enter Mechonis Capital Agniratha	Watch video	Watch video
114a	Fossilised Telethia	English version	Japanese version
115	History of the Machina	English version	Japanese version
115a	Meyneth’s Memories	English version	Japanese version
116	Gadolt Appears at Agniratha	English version	Japanese version
116a	A Perfect Body	English version	Japanese version
117	Can Meyneth Help Gadolt?	English version	Japanese version
118	Gadolt Remembers	English version	Japanese version
119	An Unpleasant Feeling	English version	Japanese version
119a	Starvation Tactics	English version	Japanese version
120	Face to Face with Egil	English version	Japanese version
121	Your Blade Did Not Cut Deep Enough	English version	Japanese version
122	Escape from Agniratha	English version	Japanese version
123	The Awakening of the Mechonis	English version	Japanese version
123a	Foreshadowing of Betrayal	English version	Japanese version
124	Junks Takes Flight	English version	Japanese version
124a	Vanea’s Apology	English version	Japanese version
125/125a	Flying Through a Barrage	English version	Japanese version
126/126a	Flight Into the Mechonis	English version	Japanese version
127	Losing Control Over the Monado	English version	Japanese version
127a	Shulk’s Intuition	English version	Japanese version
128	The Monado’s Power	English version	Japanese version
129	A Mechonis Sword Strike	English version	Japanese version
129a	Even More Power	English version	Japanese version
130	The Core of the Mechonis	English version	Japanese version
131	Living in Harmony	English version	Japanese version
132	Return of Zanza, the God	English version	Japanese version
133	Duel of the Gods	English version	Japanese version
134	Alcamoth Transformation / Farewell, Egil	English version	Japanese version
134a	Farewell, Egil	English version	Japanese version
135	The End of the Mechonis	English version	Japanese version
136	Dickson of the Trinity	English version	Japanese version
137	Destiny of the High Entia	English version	Japanese version
138	The Meaning of Life	English version	Japanese version
139	Replica Monado	English version	Japanese version
139a	Escaping Destiny	English version	Japanese version
139b	Fiora and Melia	English version	Japanese version
140	The Telethia Attack Begins	English version	Japanese version
141	Glad to See Me?	English version	Japanese version
142	Forging Our Own Path	English version	Japanese version
142a	Protectors of Colony 6	English version	Japanese version
143	Shulk’s Return	English version	Japanese version
144	Alvis, the Traitor?	English version	Japanese version
145	Dickson Trembling With Fear	English version	Japanese version
145a	Calm Before the Storm	English version	Japanese version
145b	Before the Decisive Battle	English version	Japanese version
145c	Melancholy Tyrea, Part 1	English version	Japanese version
145d	Melancholy Tyrea, Part 2	English version	Japanese version
145e	Melancholy Tyrea, Part 3	English version	Japanese version
146	Into the Bionis	Watch video	Watch video
146a	Inside the Living Giant	English version	Japanese version
147	Enter Bionis’ Interior	Watch video	Watch video
147a	Lorithia’s Taunt	English version	Japanese version
148	Inside the Heart of the Bionis	English version	Japanese version
149	Hope of the High Entia	English version	Japanese version
149a	After Dickson!	English version	Japanese version
149b	Dark Prison Island	English version	Japanese version
149c	Fight at the Arena	English version	Japanese version
149d	The Way to the Top	English version	Japanese version
149e	Point of No Return (Not Ready)	English version	Japanese version
149f	Point of No Return (Ready!)	English version	Japanese version
150	Final Battle at Colony 6	English version	Japanese version
151	Once More at the Top of Prison Island	English version	Japanese version
152	Seven Against Dickson	English version	Japanese version
153	Disciple Dickson’s Defeat	English version	Japanese version
154	Zanza’s Final Vision	English version	Japanese version
154a	Space of Memories	English version	Japanese version
155	Confronting a God	English version	Japanese version
155a	Zanza’s Transformation	English version	Japanese version
156	The Third Monado	English version	Japanese version
157	Death of a God	English version	Japanese version
158	Ending Part 1: The End of the World	English version	Japanese version
159	Ending Part 2: Dawn of A New World	English version	Japanese version