Xenoblade Chronicles Definitive Edition Vs. Wii - Comparing EVERY Remastered Area & Song
248A comprehensive, side-by-side comparison showcasing the visuals from 100+ areas and every single remastered music track in Xenoblade Chronicles: Definitive Edition versus how they appeared in the original Wii game (upscaled in Dolphin, to show the highest fidelity it can achieve vs. DE running on Switch).
Enable closed captions for commentary (still WIP, sorry for the delays)!
After 4 separate playthroughs across both versions, this project took me over 3 months to prepare, record, edit, and write, with nearly 200GB worth of footage, 278 unique video files, 97 music tracks, and over 3,000 cuts. It was an amazing experience to piece together, and I've ended up learning so much about both versions of the game after seeing both the visuals and music side-by-side like this; I hope you do too! ;w; This is all in preparation for the return of my let's play, which'll feature aspects of both Definitive Edition and the Wii version!
🎵 - Marks when the background song changes. Song names w/ timestamps in comments!
❗ - area that drastically looks different between versions. You might be surprised!
===TIMESTAMPS===
0:00 - Main Title Screen
COLONY 9
2:00 - Wide Angle 🎵
3:00 - Outlook Park 🎵
4:00 - ❗Marketplace 🎵
5:00 - ❗Dunban's House 🎵
COLONY 9 INVASION
6:00 - Anti-Air Fire 🎵
7:00 - ❗Mechon
8:00 - ❗Entrance (Daytime)
TEPHRA CAVE
9:00 - Spring of Grief 🎵
10:00 - ❗Vilia Lake
11:00 - Kneecap Hill
BIONIS' LEG
12:00 - Gaur Plain 🎵
13:00 - ❗Raguel Bridge
14:00 - ❗Believer's Paradise
15:00 - Looking At Valak Mountain 🎵
16:00 - ❗Spiral Valley Pond
17:00 - Refugee Camp 🎵
COLONY 6
18:00 - ❗R E D A C T E D 🎵
19:00 - Marketplace 🎵
20:00 - ❗Outer Walls
21:00 - Splintered Path 🎵
ETHER MINE
22:00 - ❗Glowmoss Cave 🎵
23:00 - ❗Central Shaft
24:00 - Xord's Arena 🎵
SATORL MARSH
25:00 - Nopon Merchant Camp 🎵
26:00 - ❗Shining Pond
27:00 - Barren Moor 🎵
28:00 - ❗Dark Swamp (Foggy)
29:00 - ❗Statue Summit
BIONIS' INTERIOR
30:00 - ❗3rd Lung Exit 🎵
31:00 - ❗3rd Lung Pool 🎵
MAKNA FOREST
32:00 - Great Makna Falls 🎵
33:00 - ❗Sap Cave
34:00 - Eks Watering Hole (Heat Wave)
35:00 - ❗Sparkling Pool 🎵
36:00 - ❗Decayed Forest
37:00 - ❗Twisted Tree Gate
FRONTIER VILLAGE
38:00 - Nopon Altar 🎵
39:00 - ❗Pollen Works
40:00 - ❗Ground Floor
41:00 - Underground Store 🎵
42:00 - THE BOING ZONE
43:00 - ❗Prophecy Hut
ERYTH SEA
44:00 - Latael Shore 🎵
45:00 - Flora
46:00 - ❗Looking at the Sea
47:00 - ❗Bionis' Occipital 🎵
48:00 - ❗Reef 7 Transporter
49:00 - ❗Central Seal Island
ALCAMOTH
50:00 - ❗Entrance 🎵
51:00 - ❗Whitewing Palace
52:00 - ❗Melfica Road 🎵
53:00 - ❗Great Hall
HIGH ENTIA TOMB
54:00 - ❗Hall of Spirits 🎵
55:00 - ❗Tower of Trials
56:00 - ❗Valley of Emperors
PRISON ISLAND
57:00 - Entrance 🎵
58:00 - Prison Terrace (Rain & Shooting Stars)
VALAK MOUNTAIN
59:00 - Befalgar Pedestal 🎵
1:00:00 - ❗Lava Cave
1:01:00 - Zokhed Pass 🎵
1:02:00 - ❗Nopon Camp (Blizzard)
1:03:00 - Ignia Hill
SWORD VALLEY
1:04:00 - ❗4th/5th Gate 🎵
1:05:00 - Ether Storage Area
1:06:00 - ❗Port Maintenance Bay 🎵
1:07:00 - ❗Mechonis' Arm
GALAHAD FORTRESS
1:08:00 - Ether Influx Conduit 🎵
1:09:00 - ❗Main Maintenance Bay
1:10:00 - ❗Main Control Room
1:11:00 - ❗Ether Blast Furnace
FALLEN ARM
1:12:00 - ❗Silver Wreckage 🎵
1:13:00 - ❗Wreckage Beach
1:14:00 - ❗Machina Village 🎵
1:15:00 - ❗Junks
1:16:00 - ❗Digit 2 (Rain) 🎵
1:17:00 - ❗Distant Fingertip
MECHONIS FIELD
1:18:00 - ❗Cooling Outlet 🎵
1:19:00 - ❗3F Main Power Switch
1:20:00 - ❗Lower Bulkhead Bridge
1:21:00 - ❗Spent Fuel Tank
1:22:00 - ❗1st Zebrai Bulkhead
CENTRAL FACTORY
1:23:00 - ❗Central Lift 🎵
1:24:00 - ❗Pistons
1:25:00 - ❗More Pistons :)
1:26:00 - ❗Face Maintenance Bay
AGNIRATHA
1:27:00 - ❗Meyneth Cloister 🎵
1:28:00 - ❗Dead Telethia
1:29:00 - ❗Data Centre
1:30:00 - ❗Wide Shot
1:31:00 - ❗Central Shrine (Activated) 🎵
1:32:00 - ❗Faced Mechon
MECHONIS CORE
1:33:00 - Looking at Central Factory 🎵
1:34:00 - ❗Bridge to Apocrypha
1:35:00 - ❗Apocrypha Generator
1:36:00 - ❗Bionis Awakened
BIONIS' INTERIOR (AWAKENED)
1:37:00 - ❗1st Lung Exit 🎵
1:38:00 - Venous Plexus
1:39:00 - ❗Heart Chamber
PRISON ISLAND (REVISITED)
1:40:00 - ❗Dining Hall 🎵
1:41:00 - 1st Treasure Chamber
1:42:00 - ❗Bell Tower 🎵
1:43:00 - Gondorl Cathedral
1:44:00 - ❗Summit
MONTAGE
1:45:00 - Every cutscene that plays Engage the Enemy (Entire-game Spoilers!!) 🎵
THE END OF CREATION
1:48:36 - ❗Saturn 🎵
1:49:16 - ❗ZANZA (End-game Spoilers!!)
1:52:00 - ❗THE GOD SLAYING SWORD (End-game Spoilers!!) 🎵
1:55:55 - Recap of every area, rapid fire 🎵
1:59:00 - NG+ Title Screen (DE Exclusive)
CREDITS:
Shion, for pitching formatting ideas and testing these drafts
https://www.twitch.tv/laprahs - for the ether mine footage
https://www.twitter.com/cluelessbian - for helping me set up the Definitive Edition subtitle font
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