LEGO Star Wars Has a Xenoblade Easter Egg by Voice Actor From Both Games
LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga has a hidden reference to Xenoblade Chronicles, thanks to both games sharing a voice actor. LEGO Star Wars features famous Star Wars characters, but only a few actors from the movies have returned to voice them, with the rest being soundalikes.
Anyone who has played Xenoblade Chronicles in English will have certain phrases memorized. This is because the characters constantly shout the same phrases over and over again in battle. By the end of a single playthrough of Xenoblade Chronicles, the player will have "I'm really feeling it", "Back Slash", and "Now it's Reyn time" burnt into their brain because they will have heard those words repeated endlessly over the course of the story. Those phrases gained memetic status, to the point where Xenoblade character Shulk used them in his Smash Bros. trailer and they are part of his taunts in the series.
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Shulk's voice actor is Adam Howden, who has appeared in numerous games over the years, including Final Fantasy 14, Battlefield 1, and Horizon Zero Dawn. Howden provides additional voices in LEGO Star Wars, which gave the developers the chance to sneak a reference to Xenoblade Chronicles into the game. A clip uploaded to YouTube by Vame Geveloper shows one of Howden's character's repeating Shulk's "I'm really feeling it!" quote. According to Game Rant, this quote was included thanks to a developer named David Harris, who is a huge fan of the Xenoblade Chronicles series. He managed to include the line after finding out Howden was in the game. The Xenoblade Chronicles franchise has only appeared on Nintendo systems, with Xenoblade Chronicles 3 coming to Nintendo Switch in
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