My favourite foreshadowing is when Riki saw a statue before the door to Prison Island and goes “Dinobeast!”

Reyn: “it’s just a statue, Don’t freak us out like that, Riki”
Sharla: “is this a person? I can’t make it out”
Melia: “hmmm.. this may very well be the appearance of my forefathers.”
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Riki: “Dinobeast! Dinobeast!”
Reyn: “you might be right...it reminds me of the Telethia as well”

Not quite foreshadowing, but here's another fun detail: The kanji displayed on the Monado during cutscenes names what it is currently capable of killing. In the beginning, it says "Machine," after it's upgraded at Prison Island, it says "Person," and when Shulk obtains his own Monado at the end, it says "God."

My favorite foreshadowing moment would be in the beginning (chapter 1) when Shulk and Dickson talk while looking at the monado in Shulk’s lab. Shulk says something along the lines of “its to dangerous for anyone to use it as it is” and Dickson answers with “Yes, for anyone but him. “
Shulk, as well as the player, takes this as Dickson talking about Dunban, but if you think about it, it would seem more likely that he is talking about Zanza.

That’s just my opinion after replaying though.

Playing this game blind was some of the best months of my life.

I think it's mentioned somewhere that Reyn was used to always help Shulk when they were kids because he was very weak and he would always get sick, which makes a lot of sense if you consider that at that time Shulk was probably still recovering from almost dying and coming back to life because of Zanza

I never even considered Shulk being so adamant about returning the dead soldier to the Bionis as foreshadowing, but now that you mention it, it does kinda seem out of character - returning corpses to the Bionis is a pseudo-religious ritual, and we learn later in the game that Shulk is not a religious person, so it's a bit weird that he would be the one to insist on something like that - especially since Reyn is himself a part of the Colony 9 Defense Force soldier, and should normally be be more knowledgeable about how to dispose of the remains of his fellow soldiers than Shulk the lab rat.


Very, very clever..

"Your blade...it did not cut deep enough", will always be my favourite line in the game. The moment I realized that, more than 60 hours into the game, I was still experiencing parts of the flash-forward montage from the beginning blew my mind.

There’s also the part in the beginning where Fiora mentions that Shulk has no taste and that it’s like he’s dead or something (can’t remember the line exactly) which is one more to add to the foreshadowing pile at the start of the game.

My favorite foreshadowing moment is during the Prison Island cutscene:

Dunban - "The Monado has changed!"
Meyneth - "Zanza... you have not changed at all. That is clear."

They seem like almost throwaway lines, not connected at all, but they foreshadow Zanza being the soul of the Monado, and not just the Giant.

These scenes hit so much harder now that the character models can emote more in DE.

Fiora wears a necklace with a red diamond. Face nemesis has this pattern with two diamonds merged together a bit. It's a bit of symbolism for the two souls one body thing

I knew Mumkhar was Metal Face. I knew Zanza was bad news. I knew Alvis was one of the most powerful entities. All of this before playing the game. Then as I played, I prematurely learned that Dickson was bad news, and the significance of "Mecha-Fiora" as Smash Bros. would call her.

And in spite of this, I was still blown away by so much in the game's story. Even the twists I knew stunned me in the way they were pulled off, or how there were new angles I didn't consider with my knowledge.
A mark of a great story is when it can be told to a knowing audience and still leave them in awe.

At one point Vanea says that the Monado isn’t just a physical blade, but also the spirit within everyone’s heart! Remember that?

« This might be crazy talk, but maybe you and the monado are some part of a  higher plan »


Dickson you old fool. Who could take this line seriously when you just start the game and dont know anything about it...

I wonder how much censored dialogue would be in the game if we could hear Melia's thoughts about Fiora.

I also love how the Nopon call the High Entia the BIRD People and the Telethia the DINObeast, despite them not really looking like dinosaurs at all. Guess what birds evolved from.

After the Prison Island arc, while everyone is gearing up to move on in pursuit of Metal Face, there's a very short scene where Alvis approaches the weapon that killed Zanza the Giant and speaks to him. He says he could have 'easily stood in for him (zanza)'. With the few hints that drive us to think Alvis was pulling some strings behind the scenes, we're probably directed to think Alvis could have sacrificed himself instead of Zanza.

However, with endgame knowledge, this sentence can take a different meaning. I think Alvis meant to say he could have released the shackles on the monado himself; it's a power he has given he IS the monado, and his established relationship with Shulk would have made it a smoother ordeal than getting Shulk to meet Zanza directly on Prison Island, and could have potentially spared Zanza of Metal Face's spear. One can then deduce that Zanza wanted not only to get the measure of Shulk and his resolve in person, but also to get rid of his current vessel to fully take over Shulk's body as already mentioned in this video.

Basically, this one line in this one scene foreshadows two major plot points; Zanza's wanting to take over Shulk, and Alvis's unparalleled connection to the Monado.

“One part of me is saying that. But there’s this other side of me, this voice deep inside. It’s saying kill them all make them pay! And it’s getting louder and louder.....”;

I just finished the game a few weeks ago and have started letting my little brother play it, I told him lorithia likes kalian and they kiss at the end of the game

One of my favourite pieces of foreshadowing is at the Battle if Sword Valley, right at the beginning of the game. Dunban wants to keep on fighting, while Dickson is telling him he can't take more of the Monado. When Dunban ignores that, Dickson says something like "Alright. I'm coming too. You'll need someone to drag your corpse home." During the first playthrough, it can seem like he is only joking or that he is actually concerned about Dunban, but on later playthroughs you realize that he stays not because he cares about Dunban, but because if Dunban were to die, someone would need to be there ro retrieve the Monado before the Mechon got it.