r/XenoGears

I sank over 70 hours into this game, and I have to say. This game, was beautiful, was amazing, made me feel hyped, and I am very curious to see what Tetsuya Takahashi has to give me next. I'll be jumping into XenoSaga next, and I wanna see how many parallels are there to XenoGears. Spoiler alert btw for obvious reasons.

First I wanna talk about what I really enjoyed about this game. This game had a really unique combat system. I enjoyed talking to all the NPCs and I enjoyed all the characters. This game's music/score was also phenomenal, and the ending theme was really really amazing! I also liked exploring the secrets this game has to provide for me, and I got emotionally attached to all the characters. I enjoyed discovering more about the story and the world as I progressed further.

But now comes the gripes I had. As you all know, due to budget cuts, disc 2 was very bare bones. It was still enjoyable and I really liked reading all of the story and the narrations of each character, don't get me wrong. But obviously it was very rushed. For one, I felt like many of the characters weren't as developed, and a ton of unfired Chekov's guns were left scattered in the game. Take for instance Rico, the green prison guy. We got introduced to his backstory about being a beast man or a demihuman, but we never really got to expand on his relations with his father, the King of Kislev iirc. We also had been introduced to Emeralda, a girl shrouded in mystery. Obviously we got to learn about her origins by the end of the game under the lighthouse, but I wanted a little bit more of her bonding with Fei and Elly, her "parents". I also wanted to explore the world a bit more, like instead of them doing a deep scan on the earth for the Anima Relics in Disc 2, they would actively have gameplay where the team actively searched far and wide by asking people from all over about legends or perhaps even using this as an opportunity for Rico to meet up with the King and have their own thing going on. Obviously I might be saying too much and my mind might be expanding and becoming too greedy. But these are just my 2 cents.

I also sometimes had a lot of problems with the platforming. IDK it just felt like the jump button was delayed and jumping onto tiny platforms was a huge pain.

This is still a very good game!!!! I would give it so far in my humble experience (haven't played too many video games) 8/10. It was a very emotional game, but obviously some holes existed in the story.

What do you think? Do you perhaps agree or disagree?

So I played this game 15 years ago and loved it. Listening to the soundtrack right now. But I've heard recently that all the religious symbolism in EVA didnt actually have any meaning, and since Xenogears is very much in the EVA trend, was wondering if it was the same for Xenogears?

I was CONVINCED all the weight stuff early game was there for a reason. I probably would've waited the whole game for it to pay off, if somebody hadn't spoiled me that it was cut content. Do we know what was supposed to happen with all that?

EDIT: never mind, people only want to talk about three words of this post

As a lifelong JRPG guy, I've dabbled in it all. Final Fantasy, Dragon Quest, Chrono Trigger, Tales, Trails, Lunar, SMT/Persona, Nier, Octopath Traveler, Bravely Default, Golden Sun, Atelier, etc. Every notable game or series. Eclectic stuff like Blue Reflection and Arc Rise Fantasia. Xenosaga and Xenoblade too.

I love Xenogears, and I'm sure that love will only grow with time. Fei is one of my favorite characters ever, now, and a top tier protagonist. How do I describe his character succinctly? I can't, but you understand what I love about him and his relationship with Elly.

Should note that the Evangelion manga (NOT the anime) is my favorite story of all time. No waffling about that because I'm sure the sub is sick of it, but I will bring up one similarity that has nothing to do with actual subject matter: that these are complex stories told simply. Past the sci-fi and philosophy, these are stories about people learning to love themselves and carve a place to belong with their loved ones. The scenes of Fei floating in the void, the 'coward,' the reconciliation with Id, all of it is so vivid. Despite the game's problems during development, what we got was already so well-presented.

Battles became repetitive and the dungeons became a slog. The classic JRPG problem where half the cast simply stops mattering after their introductory story arc rears its head, once again. Never want to do a second playthrough, truth be told. But what a fantastic game.

But I know the story of Fei and Elly will stick with me for the rest of my days. Just thinking about the return after the final boss bring a tear to my eye. Lots of stream of consciousness without too much depth, I know, as part of me is still processing the chunky plot, but the infatuation was boiling over. I don't want any rerelease; I want a full-length novel. A manga, if a good adaptation doesn't already exist. I've seen a light I didn't know I was searching for on an already sunny day. What an unforgettable experience. I'm a convert.

So it seems like my options are the original discs as-is or this "Perfect Works" mod which is based on a lore book(?) that sort of retranslates the game?

I'd be most interested in an undub with text translated pretty 1:1 since we all know how the 90's was with translation but I don't think that exists. I'm not too interested in "quality of life" or speeding the game up or any of that really.

I posted a translated from Japanese to Spanish interview to Takahashi about his first steps on Nihon Falcom, then he worked on FFIV and then developed Xenogears. I hope you enjoy it! There's more you can find in my Blogger account, thanks in advance!

I'm making a crossword puzzle for fans.

Trying to include:

• Trivia
• Story/Lore
• History
• Game mechanics
• Hidden secrets
• Community meta

Basically anything interesting.
Questions should be relatively medium/high in difficulty.
Not too easy ("what is the main character's name"), but not absurd ("who was the first person to speak entering the final dungeon").

I'd appreciate any feedback, suggestions, or any info you know to add in.

Here's a sample (everything except MapleStory is work-in-progress): https://hyssopi.github.io/Crossword-Puzzles/