My attempt at answering my own question about the Timeline order by Chapter


So three days ago I asked if someone already made something similar. u/UninformedPleb made a nice breakdown of XC2 at least, which I used as a basis for the XC2 side, though I'm still not confident it is 100% accurate, but I tried to count the days XC1 took only considering cutscenes and story events... I came to the conclusion that XC1 takes place in less time than XC2, starting at around the point of chapter 3 in XC2. I feel like Chapters 11-16 taking place all in the span of Chapter 7 of XC2 is a bit of a stretch, but it does happen in the span of roughly 5 days, and the XC1 team takes fewer breaks and doesn't need to travel much between different Titans. Even if the Bionis and the Mechonis are bigger than the Titans, I still think they have significantly less travel time, but I'm definitely planning to check the days again while I play through the games. The only reason I think Chapter 17 takes up the time of 8-10 is because while I didn't consider most side quests, I know at least Teelans and Tyreas side quests had to be done for Future Connected.

Also, I am very sorry for the awful visualization attempt. I really don't know what I'm doing...