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Amazing storyline; theological sci-fi mysticism

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: November 29, 2001
Author: Amazon User

I never was much into video games, having bought a Playstation only early last year. My roomate at the time let me borrow Xenogears and I must say that it was simply brilliant. The story line ventures into theological territory, challenging our belief in the essence of God and questioning organized religion. It took me about 80 hours to beat, and there were still unanwsered questions. The game's story is just so friggin' complex.
All other RPGs I tried to play just bored me, and I realized that there are no games out there that would remotely compare to Xenogears.

Best RPG ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 08, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Xenogears is a unique game with a gripping story. It will be slow to get into, but it's well worth the time you play the game just to watch the story unfurled before your eyes. The graphics might not be as good as they were in Final Fantasy 8, but older gamers like myself can sometimes overlook that. Great job, Square.

I love robots!

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 09, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Please note that I'm writing this review two years after I finished playing this game and then lost my copy...
GAMEPLAY 8:
The fighting engine is great. Doing combos and fighting with your robots is cool. This game is much different than others in many good ways. It is very text heavy and you may end up losing interest. You could end up talking to NPC's and getting from point A to point B of the city for about an hour and then have ten minutes fighting. I am not exaggerating.
STORY 5:
As I just said, most of your time is spent reading. In about mid-game many ideas are sent flying this way and that until you are completely confused. Near the end of the game the text is being shown to you in long movie credit like form for very long ammounts of time. If you understood the story then I congratulate you. Give yourself a pat on the back.
GRAPHICS 6:
The character models are 2D but move smoothly in a 3D world. The robots are also 3D. The graphics aren't all that great. Of course I'm saying this two years after I last played this game now that PS2, XBox, and the GC have came out so I'll just add an extra point to the score.
SOUND 5:
I'll just leave it right at the middle. I don't remember any of the songs though so it couldn't have been to great.
CONTROL 10:
It's an RPG so of course it has no problems. The combo system is easy to do.
REPLAY VALUE 4:
I only played through it once and that was plenty for me. Let me tell you that I barely played through it once. The reading took a toll on me.

Master, sir, did you just see my MAD SKILLZ!?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: September 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Call me crazy but that quote from Hammer, and the opening Anime sequence made Xenogears the must have game when I finally got a Playstation.
Well, that was 4 years ago back in my college days, and it wasn't till June I got a PS2. This was the first PSone game I got. Music is sweet, who doesn't like anime, and everyone dreams of having their own mech or gear. Plus, when you can throw in a side game that goofs on the cloned fighting games, it all good.
Read nothing about the story, go in with no preconceived notions about the game and just let guide you for over 90 hours. Worth every penny.

The best game ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: October 17, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is the best game ever!I love the cartoon graphics.I played a demo and wished it was the full game.I really need to get it bad...Gonna tell my mom to get it online when she gets home.Its #1!Squaresoft makes the best games of all!Like Kingdom Hearts,FFT,FF7,FF8,FF9,and FF10.I think this is one of the best Squaresoft RPGs.

Best Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 20, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game has an excellent story and awesome gameplay. BUY NOW!

The best game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Xenogears is one of the best games I have ever played. Xenogears is the only game that stands a chance with the Final Fantasy games on the market. It mit even be better then the Final Fantasy games.

This is my favorite Video Game!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 25, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This is a game a person either becomes totally obsessed with or hates it. It is very much a cult game in everyway. It starts out really slow, but if you are into Psychology and the workings of the mind, this is the game for you. This game is very heavy on plot. Plot and character development are more imortant than fighting and game play. The entire last 10 hours are entirely cutsceens and plot. Xenogears is at least 60 hour game no matter how quickly you play through it. I have played this game 6 times. Each time I play the games becomes more clear (plot wise) and the love story touches me deeper. The ending is incredible, I cried for hours at the beauty of it. The soundtrack is the greatest RPG soundtrack ever and the game also has a text book, Xenogears; Perfect Works, that explains the background and the other 5 parts to the whole vision. The Prequel Xenosaga will be out sometime in America next Fall. I recoment you play Xenogears before Xenosaga.

Ah, the memories

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 27, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When I first played Xenogears, I thought it was absolutely awesome. Its been awhile, and after thinking about it this game is pretty messed up. It has some good qualities, but isn't as incredible as I thought it was.

First to mind is the characters. They are really cool, and somewhat unique, like Billy the gun-toting priest, or Rico the arena battling green thing. What could be better? I did have some problems with the main character Fei though. I have never been able to forgive games for having characters which refuse to fight "because fighting is bad, and it kills people". Especially when their own and other's lives are on the line. I can't stand that. Anyway, Fei gets over it, and I got over it, but that is cliched, and quite frankly, lame.

Xenogears has an excellent turn-based combat system. It uses varying levels of attacks (you can do 4 or 5 light attacks, or 1 or 2 heavy ones), combines those with combo moves, and the ability to build up combo chains, to create a fun, challenging battle system. There are magic attacks, of course, but they are almost always worthless (useless magic is another feature which annoys me). The addition of Gear (giant robot) battles adds a lot more to the game. Gear combat is essentially the same as normal combat, but they are tougher, have different moves, and tend to fight cooler bosses. I don't think there were too many gear battles, but the second disk definitely could have used more unarmed combat (like I said, the characters are cool).

The soundtrack is good, better than a lot of video game music, but I don't really remember anything spectacular about it. The graphics are just okay, but Xenogears is old, and it is an RPG. All in all, I didn't mind them. They weren't good or bad enough to ever pay attention to. The Xenogears jewel case claims that there are 10 minutes of Anime cut scenes. There are about 30 seconds through most of the game, and 9 minutes at the end. Although, Anime cut scenes fail to thrill me, in nearly every situation.

Now, on to the story. The plot line of Xenogears is potentially excellent, involving a nice mix of commentary on religion and ethics, and it was gratifying to have a change from "Hero goes on a quest, saves the day, repeat". However, the story was flawed. It was difficult to comprehend, and almost ruined, if not by its complexity, then by its poor translation. The words the people say don't make any sense (especially towards the end). In addition, most of the philosophical/religion/science/whatever stuff turns out to be sort of pointless (in a sort of "lets have a cross somewhere, and maybe something about the purpose of life or something" sort of way). It is also full of the classic cut scenes that won't make sense until 25 hours later (or ever). They add some ambiance, but several of them never do come back up again. There were issues that left me scratching my head that were never resolved. The ending itself was difficult and awesome. It is worth it (at least, as worth it as any 60 hour game's ending will ever be).

All in all, Xenogears is probably one of the best Playstation RPG's out there. It might be somewhat overwhelming to younger players or those new to the RPG genre (although, it was only the third non-Genesis RPG I ever beat, and I was 14 at the time). Xenogears is a classic that should be played by every RPG fan. I highly recommend it.

Nothing comes close

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

This game is so very good. Oh no what am I saying this game is so very much the BEST GAME EVER. Now for the scoring.

Graghics=8
Music=10
Storyline=10
Dialoge=9
Characters=9 ( cute names hehe)

Thats about all
I really hope you fond this somewhat helpful.

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