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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

Romero's speech includes a certain quirk, and one which Joulietta has as well: pentameter with iambs' how they talk. Do you think Shakespeare ever would've thought to finish off a sonnet line with "Ugh!"?

A screenshot of the "Romero and Joulietta" Xenoblade Chronicles 3 sidequest page, showcasing that the two titular characters speak in iambic pentameter.

Joulietta's last line is "You never understand! I hate you! Ugh!"

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Xenoblade Chronicles 2 is truly the game that keeps on giving.

Screenshot of the "Common Blade" page on Xeno Series Wiki, showing the section which describes how a common Blade's name is determined. The text says "The game will avoid duplicates with already-existing Blades; if this is not possible (which in practice will only happen if the player is trying to exhaust a group on purpose), then all new Common Blades for that name group will be called Aizen (the first name in the overall list) until a spot opens up."

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Sometimes you just have to be a bit candid.

Screenshot of the Kazfa Jina page from Xenosaga II on Xeno Series Wiki, including the text "These guys suck because every attack they do sends their target into the air..."

Screenshot of the Xeno Series Wiki help page on advanced editing. "Note that sometimes there's a difference between 'space', 'blank', and 'not specified', while other times there is no difference. Yes this is annoying."

Screenshot of the Spike Defence page on Xeno Series Wiki. Start of the Overview section: "Spikes are generally very annoying,..."

Screenshot of the XC2 animation data module used in the Xeno Series Wiki backend. Highlighted is a source code comment: "Torna chumps are an annoying mess".

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

XCX has an unused weather effect that has a 15% chance of dealing 2000 physical damage and inflicting Launch every 10 seconds. This is what it'd've looked like (with the rate every 1/3 of a second instead).

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Today on "obscure Xenoblade 2 mechanics": A common Blade's voicelines affect how much affinity they start with, gain and lose in combat.

A screenshot of the "Affinity (XC2)" page on Xeno Series Wiki, showing a table titled "Common Blades". The table has headers for "Voice ID", "Voiceline when equipped", "Starting affinity", "Affinity gain modifier", and "Affinity loss modifier".

Two entries of the table are shown, one of whose voicelines is "Okay, let's get the party started!" and the other of which is "Oookay. Let's get the party started!". The two have different affinity modifiers.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 21/01/2026

In Xenoblade X, different AI-controlled characters have different chances of QTE success when binding an enemy in a Skell. Doug — the ace Skell pilot who has constant combat dialogue about debuffing his foes — is tied for worst at this. Hope is second-best.

Screenshot of a table on the "Bind (XCX)" page on the Xeno Series Wiki, listing the rates at which AI-controlled party members in Xenoblade X successfully complete Soul Challenges to bind an enemy.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

Advantages of having a robust condition module based on the in-game data: nothing left out, easy to change things all in one place, less work managing thousands of relevant pages... Disadvantages: you have to display all the redundancy included in the game too.

The infobox for Xenoblade X's "Mystery Man" sidequest on Xeno Series Wiki. The list of conditions for the quest appearance reads:
"Story: Chapter 5 completed
Quest not completed: Mystery Man
Quest objective not completed: Mystery Man - Talk to Graham on Central Melville Street in the commercial district."

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

It looks at first glance to me like the double casts are necessary? But I'm certainly no expert in decompilation.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

As an aside, the List of bugs and glitches (XCX) page in the first screenshot is definitely one of my favourites as of late. It really shows how much duct tape is holding these games together. xenoserieswiki.org/wiki/List_of...

A post on the Xeno Series Wiki discord by Sir Teati Moonlight, saying:
"okay that should be better
I expect a DoXSW post about this saga :P"

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

We found that we were selling Gradivus, the Headless Emperor short by 5 HP (that's 0.000005%). Easy fix, right? ...Right?

Screenshot of the "List of bugs and glitches (XCX)" Xeno Series Wiki page, describing the very technical bug which leads to Gradivus having 5 more HP than he 'should'.

Discussion on the Xeno Series Wiki discord:
"> omitting casts from float to double
please provide the entire formula that includes all casts, so I can get the full picture of how much this matters if at all"

Response from Hamidu:
"oh boy, give me a second to wrap my head around it"

Followed by a screenshot of decompiled code from XCX, leading with a cast to a double, then to a float, then to a double, then to a float, then to a double.

Screenshot of Sir Teati Moonlight in the Xeno Series Wiki discord wrapping his head around exactly what's causing the discrepancy between the in-game enemy stat calculation (something which takes 9 lines of code with numbers listed at extremely high precision to properly interpret) and the on-wiki calculation.

Screenshot of the newly-added "Module:XCX enemy stat" Xeno Series Wiki helper module, featuring an 18-line function with a tangled composition of mathematical operations purely for replicating XCX's behaviour of turning doubles into floats.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 19/11/2025

Americans will use anything but the metric system.

A screenshot of the spawnpoints section of the Pebble Blatta page on Xeno Series Wiki. On one of the "Height" values is a rollover text box saying "0.1358 BLADE Towers above sea level".

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 08/11/2025

who invited my man blud bro thinks he's on the team

The "Music by composer" category page on the Xeno Series Wiki. Besides the expected crowd - Yasunori Mitsuda, Yuki Kajiura, Manami Kiyota, and so on - there is a category of "Songs composed by King Henry VIII".

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

Back in the days when you could simp for Takahashi via official channels.

A screenshot of the Customer Survey Postcard of Xenosaga Outer File wiki page. One of the questions is "What motivated you to purchase this CD?", and a corresponding answer is "Because I am a fan of Director Takahashi".

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 21/10/2025

The core chips in Xenoblade 2 ALMOST fit a neat pattern based upon their naming schemes and rank. Sadly, the Bronze Chip, Motor Chip, and Axion Chip didn't get the memo.

Screenshot of the Core Chip wiki page, featuring a table of the core chips, their rank, and their naming schemes, with an associated explanation. Most of the ranks have a unique naming "series", but three exceptions stick out.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

Bonus: I think this page currently has the most article icons out of any page we use article icons on. www.xenoserieswiki.org/wiki/God

The main header of the "God" wiki page, featuring no fewer than 13 article icons.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

I rather like the Chu-Chu interpretation myself.

A screencap of the "God" Xeno Series Wiki page, showing different creation myths within Xenogears. The fourth one is of the Chu-Chu Wondrous Mambo god, who was struck by a red fireball in his sleep and became a star in the sky.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 02/10/2025

We need headers to organise the script pages by cutscene, but Xenoblade X doesn't have official cutscene titles, so we just make them up.

The table of contents for the "Script of Xenoblade Chronicles X/Chapter 13 (Act 1) wiki page, featuring headers titled (among other things) "Seeing Ghosts Scatter"/"As They Pour Out", "The Whole Universe Is Going To Die", and "And the Vita with the Piledriver into Noctilum".

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 23/08/2025

I'm afraid the implication is that he probably doesn't there either.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 17/08/2025

Defeating the Bright Wisp 100 Times Crashes Xenoblade Chronicles

A screenshot of the Strong Lubricant Oil wiki page, which explains how collecting it 100 times results in a softlock.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 13/08/2025

You guys get one guess as to what page this is.

A screenshot of a table on a wiki page, titled "Hitframes", with columns for "Hit", "Frame", and "Distribution". The only entry has its Frame listed as 215 and its Distribution as 100%.

The same table as before, but with rollover text on the Frame 215 value shown, indicating that it is equivalent to 7.167 seconds.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 25/07/2025

Xenoblade X has a bunch of special "Glaive" weapons, most famously the Receding Rust. The first word in their names corresponds to the attribute of the weapon: "Signature" for Physical, "Bewitched" for Ether, "Mighty" for Gravity, and - strangely - "Ethereal" for Thermal.

A screenshot of the "special weapons" section of Xeno Series Wiki's "Glaive Series" page. The Sacred Seven series, with their varying names and attributes, are listed.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

And here's the colour-coding for what it looks like now. A couple months ago I'd've despaired about the difficulty of making proper XSPP area pages, but fortunately that prospect is a lot prettier these days.

The current state of Wanted Pages, colour-coded by game, as of July 2025. The top most-wanted are XSPP areas, with XC3 enemy genuses below. A variety of XS and XCX pages are sprinkled in as well.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Left: November 2024 (shortly after XCXDE was announced), right: March 2025 (a week before XCXDE was released).

Wanted Pages in November 2024. Still mostly XCX, although in large part different pages. The exceptions are now XC3 and XC1.

Wanted Pages 1 week before XCXDE released in March 2025. Now there are much fewer XCX pages; the top slots are filled with XC3 pages, and Pied Piper pages fill much of the rest.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

The Wanted Pages list can be thought of as the pages that should definitely be made sooner or later, but that nobody's gotten around to. Fortunately, it's very much shrunk over time, even with the new games added. Here's what it looked like in mid-2023.

The Wanted Pages list in mid-2023, with the source games highlighted. Almost all of them are from XCX; the few exceptions are Blade Arts from XC2.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

As of an hour ago, for (I believe) the first time in the wiki's history, the most-wanted page on the wiki - that is, the nonexistent page which is linked to the most times - is not about Xenoblade. And yet, the top two are still about "Klaus" and "Mikhail".

A screenshot of Xeno Series Wiki's most-wanted pages list. "Klaus's Mind" and "Mikhail's Trap" head the list with 102 redlinks each, followed by a series of various other pages about a variety of games.

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Depths of Xeno Series Wiki @depthsofxsw.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The voice credits of Xenoblade X are, put simply, baffling. Characters such as Ga Jiarg, Nagi, Ryyz, and (in the Wii U) Vandham do not have their voice actor listed in the credits; but others such as Ga Buidhe, Rock, and Dagahn do. As always, citogenesis doesn't help.

Screenshot of Ga Jiarg's wiki page. His English VA is listed as "Uncredited", with a footnote: "IMDB lists Jamieson Price as Ga Jiarg's voice actor. However, Price's own website does not list Xenoblade X among his contributions."

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