Uploaded February 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Jake plays video games with a specific attention paid towards storytelling techniques. He's never played Xenoblade Chronicles. He doesn't know anything about the franchise. But he's got ideas and they're mostly good, RIGHT?! Today we talk about the necessary tool of contrivance and how Xenoblade artfully deploys "forced" moments so that they cause a minimal amount of friction with the audience.

0:00 Intro
1:20 Start Playing
9:55 Jake's Future Sight
10:18 Let's Save Juju!
42:38 Confronting XORD
1:07:03 Game Goes Crazy
1:22:01 Riku REVEALED
1:26:23 The Next Mission
1:38:49 Contrivance Yap
1:50:22 Sorry, I must REWATCH
2:00:33 Chat Q/A
2:13:25 Wrap Up

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