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5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: June 07, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Xenogears has all the right tools to be a great RPG, and it is. It has a great story and a very thrilling fighting system. Do yourself a favor and get this game. Yes, it is a little pricey but it is worth it.

Epic RPG that will NEVER get "out-dated"

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: May 25, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game is easily one of THE BEST RPGs ever made. I played this game for the first time when I was around 10 years old. I am now 18, and I STILL love this game. The game has a great story-line, interesting character line-up, and pretty decent graphics for a PS1 game. Combat system is easy to follow, and the combat stays fresh by integrating not only hand-to-hand combat, but allowing your characters to use their Gears (Giant Mechs, made specifically for combat). 2 Discs long, so there's a lot of game to play. This game is, and will always be, one of my personal favorites overall.

Most Complex Video Game Story ever!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 10, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I played this game 10 years ago. I can still say that this is one of most memorable experiences of my teens. (lol yeah I was geek.)
I think the greatest feature of the game was story which was always interesting. I will warn you though that the story is really heavy and questions our very existence.

This will never be surpassed.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

For those of you who have played & have loved this game, we need to come to terms with a certain fact: Xenogears will never be surpassed. This is one of those games that is almost a mistake in the sense that an RPG (or video game in general) does not deserve a story this good. The subjects that this game hits on are far too deep for many people to tolerate (which is why you will find a fair share of negative reviews...some people don't want a good story, they just want fluffy graphics to mask mediocre plot lines). I won't go into details regarding the story, but let's just say that it is doubtful that any writer will be inspired to match Xenogears. And, to be honest, why should they? It seems that a majority of people are happy with mediocrity so why should a writer kill himself with a deep story when "a small rebel group looking to overthrow an evil empire/corporation" will work just fine?

This is the only RPG I have played that was 100% story. The graphics were decent (though the music was excellent), but the gameplay (classic RPG with some twists) and the story are what made this such a legend. I appreciate Monolith's attempt to capitalize on the Xenogears name with their failed Xenosaga experiment, but perhaps it was better to leave this legend alone. Xenosaga started off very promising and then, as expected, the designers destroyed all potential in the second part, ultimately killing the entire series.

There will not be anyone who will make proper prequels/sequels to Xenogears based on Perfect Works for the reasons I already stated. This is the same reason why we will never see another Chrono game again. These companies are not stupid...they made great RPGs when their fanbase was not what it is today. After FFVII was released & gained international success, Squaresoft saw where the money was. Think about how many times you have heard someone requesting a "remake of FFVII for PS2, PS3, etc". People would rather play FFVII (by all accounts a great game) remade for every new system than another game like Xenogears or Chrono Trigger (Chrono Cross was actually very fun, however).

US RPG fans will remember the painful days of the early 90s when Japan got all of the games and we got nothing. We cried about injustice and pleaded with this companies to give us what we deserve. Xenogears was a breath away from suffering the same fate, but thankfully we got this game. The problem now is different; we get all of the games translated from Japan, but the quality is just not there. I don't mean graphics and I know most people will not understand what I'm talking about. Xenogears was the final "RPG" released and is the pinnacle of what made the genre so great in the 90s.

Square-Enix is hopeless now, but hopefully some new companies will bring back the old fire.

xenogears

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: February 13, 2008
Author: Amazon User

One word can only describe this game, "Amazing". If your looking for an amazing storyline this is it. The story is a mixture of freindship,love,reigion, and saving the world. Characters are really attacted to the game.Other than the storyline itself there is a downfall to the game and thats the camera angles, It gets really annoying at times but you learn to cope with it. People who posted poor reviews about this game probably got lost in the story. When you get lost in the story thats when it gets boring and confusing. I would recommend to more mature rpg games because it can get complicated.

Best Game Ever

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

As an avid gamer with well over 5,000 hours under my belt playing RPGs, I can easily say this is the best game I ever played.

Offer void in Utah

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 4 / 4
Date: January 26, 2007
Author: Amazon User

I first purchased Xenogears when it first came out, and have been loving it ever since. The gameplay is excellent, the storyline is in-depth, and the soundtrack is beautiful. Yes, this game does involve some religious themes. Yes, this game does not have much gameplay on the second disk. Yes, this game is not everyones allmighty little final fantasy game. (The following opinions are mine, and mine alone).---I hear alot of people saying that this game is "anti-religious". I disagree, this game IS religious...in the world of the game. Just because a game mentions the word "god" does not mean that it is talking about the human worlds god. As far as the second disk goes with gameplay, I found it to be a nice little break considering I spent about 45+ hours on the first disk leveling up my characters and getting their deathblows completed. There is no rule in any game that all gameplay all the time is mandatory. Besides, it kind of completes a little forgotten part of the story when id keeps saying who's turn it is on the "stage". The soundtrack goes above and beyond in complimenting the game. Yasonuri Mitsuda has made another masterpeice, and Joanna Hogg sang very well for the ending song "Small Two of Peices" not to mention the extra song she has in the soundtrack "Star of Tears", an upbeat folk-ish version of the world map theme. As I said before, these are my opinions and mine alone. I am sure someone will find reason to pick apart what I have typed and turn it into something else...go right ahead. Until then, enjoy a wonderful game with a great story. Just remember to keep an open mind, and don't hold your bible like a redneck with directions to wal-mart when you first see a reference to religion. PS- Does anyone still get a little shiver when they see Kreliens head floating in the Wave Existence?

My Favorite RPG ever and it's going to stay that way

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 3 / 6
Date: December 09, 2006
Author: Amazon User

This is a very fun RPG. The characters are great, the graphics for there time were so so but I'm not one to run a game down on graphics cause a game is mostly based on playablity and funfactor. The only way graphics can decrease a score on my part is if it takes away playability or the fun and in this case it doesn't take away anything at all. Well enough with my yammering im going to rate the game on a scale of 1 to 20 with these factors involved; Story, gameplay, funfactor, length, and then finally graphics.

Story-20/20

Gameplay-20/20

Funfactor-19/20

Length-18/20

Graphics-18/20

Final Score-95/100

A mix of very good and very bad

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 3 / 7
Date: October 17, 2006
Author: Amazon User

Xenogears is an odd game that manages to both excel and fail horribly at the same time.

GRAPHICS / VISUALS
For the time it came out in, the graphics are decent. When exploring sometimes becomes difficult to navigate when underground though, becuase the low-res washed out "rock/earth" textures all blur together making it difficult to tell if something is a wall, or has something you can jump onto, etc. Also, while the game allows you to move the camera, it's just a token gesture since you can't change the elevation or distance. Oftentimes you'll be completely unable to see the character as he goes between two tall buildings or things like that.

The game features some anime cutscenes which are, unfortunuately, mostly worthless. They're well drawn, but are often nothing more than something like 2 characters staring at eachother for 5 seconds; with the exception of the ending almost no plot ever happens during them.

The combat visuals, however, are great for its time. The characters do more than just move up and swing a sword. You can chain different moves together (and learn deathblows, which are powerful combinations) that are usually visually appealing. For instance, a character will run up, punch, jump in the air and do a sping kick, sweep the enenmy as they land and then finish off with a headbutt.

GAMEPLAY
While the combat graphics are nice for its era, it also makes the battles take too long (and boy are they frequent, often 1 random encounter/ 2 seconds of movement). It's like final fantasy summons all over again, making each combat last minutes upon minutes...even when you fight the enemies from level 1 when you're level 60 it still takes forever.

There is a bit of load time anytime you change rooms/go into your character menu etc. Very annoying.

My 2 biggest complaints are:

The dialogue is waaaaaaay too slow. There is a lot of excessive dialogue, a lot of repetition, and it comes on the screen so slow you'd think a 4-year old child was typing it. Sometimes you will have to go through an hour and a half worth of this only to get to a difficult part in the game, die, and have to go through all of that dialogue again without the chance to save in between.

Secondly, as many reviews here have pointed out, the 2nd disc is drastically different. I thought people were exaggerating; they were not. It happens suddenly. Exactly at the point you put the second sic in, most exploration is taken away from you. A character literally sits in a chair and tells you what happened. It becomes 1 hour of dialogue, then fight. 2 hours of dialogue, then fight, etc. You get to explore again though right before the very last dungeon.

CHARACTERS / STORY / PLOT
This is where the game is good...for the most part.

In typical squaresoft fashion (or is it just all Japanese RPGs?) the main character is fairly UNlikable. He's whiny, immature, a jerk even though he means well, and at times a bastion of self-sacrifice and purity in the name of good willing to risk everything for some small good and pulling it off through rediculous Deus Ex Machina.

Fortunately, in typical squaresoft fashion, the supporting cast is well done. There's a suprising depth to most of the characters, above and beyond most games I've seen. Most are mature, and the game itself brushes with some mature topics of innosence, when is war right/justified, the cost of it and what its worth to end one.

The story is a bit overlarge. It's good, but needed an editor to trim it down a bit as it just gets too big for its britches by the end of the game.

Overall I enjoyed the game. I'm glad to have played it, but some of the gameplay problems means I have no desire to ever play it again.

A perfect storyline meets perfect battling system and music

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 9
Date: October 11, 2006
Author: Amazon User

What can I say? When I play Xenogears, I feel a sense of completeness, yet I also feel sorrow. Everytime I play Xenogears, I just can't help but feel like I want to cry with the storyline (it IS that good).

The reason why Xenogears isn't well known is because of its strong religious story -- but, this only helps spark up interests if you do so play it. Such a pity.

For those who are unaware, Xenogears is part of the Xenosaga story. :)

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