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I can't say anything...

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 66
Date: February 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

... because I haven't played the game yet. But I have a point of criticism for Square, who I am in an extreme love-hate relationship with. As far as the criticism of a scene being altered to remove a suggested sexual relationship, if I am not mistaken, that is what the Rating System for Games (and especially the M rating) was for originally. The fact that they have done this, just to "sell more games" (cause thats obviously what it is about!) makes me INCREDIBLY INCREDIBLY MAD.

Horrible Purchase

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 3 / 30
Date: May 18, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I hate this game. Waste of money. I can't believe NAMCO would put out such a horrible game. Probably the worst RPG ever!!! What is up with the ...robots in the battle out of no where? And the bunny? Stupid. The plot line was horrible, and the game took way to long. I felt like killing myself. The characters reminded me of drugged-up hippies. Done. Remember kids, play poke the bunny

Quite possibly the worst game i have ever played.

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 23
Date: October 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

i pray you take my word for it but if you dont you can be my guest to spend 20-some odd dollars for a dvd with a terrible story becuase it sure as hell aint a game

Yawn

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 22
Date: March 19, 2003
Author: Amazon User

it's just a bad ripoff of the final fantasy series. i don't know if it's just me, but i just can't get into this game. maybe it's the storyline that iv'e seen in just about every futuristic japanese anime series or maybe it's the fact that you have to play a valley-girl who can't seem to realize that every man in the game is hitting on her and that just makes me feel stupid because i want to slap her so hard in the face and i can't do anything about it.

Pretentious and Painful

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 6 / 34
Date: June 09, 2003
Author: Amazon User

A pretentious space opera gallop through Jungian philosophy and Nietzschean platitudes. The battle system is complicated but yields surprisingly depth if the player sticks with it long enough - unfortunately, the game's heavy-handed narrative techniques and obnoxious abuse of symbolism will cause massive eye-rolling in all but the most under-educated fanboy.

Seriously....wtf?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 12
Date: June 12, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Ok....a cutscene here and there, ok........a cutscene every freakin time you move, that goes on for 45 minutes is NOT fun. My save game is clocked at 19 hours, and I'm sure I only played about 3 or 4 of those hours. And when I was playing all I was doing was running around!!!!!!!! How in god's name did you all give this game a 5?? You want a good game that's similart to this, Get shadow hearts (preferably 2) it's a THOUSAND times better. After playing that, you'll wonder how the hell you EVER gave this 5 stars, therefore convincing me to buy this AWFUL game.

I had more fun playing the Xenocard game than I did with the rest of it. And even that I got bored with.

All it did was freeze

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 74
Date: April 14, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I heard that this game was good so I rented it at Blockbuster. When I put the disk in it froze when I hit "New Game" on the menu. I tried to do this may times and shut off my PS2 twice, but it still froze. I went back to get another copy, this one was only a little bit better because it would freeze as soon as the first cut scene started. It kept doing this as soon as the music started, so I returned t and got my money back.

VIDEOGAME?????

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 4 / 14
Date: March 11, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have played Xenogears for exactly 2 hours and 30 minutes now, and I have fought a wopping 5 random battles that arent worth my time and have had about 10 minutes actually playing the game. The other 2 hours and some odd minutes are freaking cut scenes that arent even good enough to get my attention. The game is not bad though, but DEFINITELY NOT A FINAL FANTASTY OR HIGH LEVEL RPG. Its just a plain run of the mill rpg, so dont expect anything.

|2.5| It has an interesting story, but that's basically it

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 9 / 15
Date: April 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Xenosaga is not a true RPG, nor is pretty much any console game out there. Saga to me, however, doesn't really even qualify as a game, considering you do roughly half as much watching as you do playing, which is extrememly ridiculous. Believe me, I have patience, but when it comes to watching dozens of 30-45 minute cutscenes, you can count me out.

If Xenosaga is to get credit, it is for it's plotline. While it is interesting and thought provoking, it also doesn't bother to explain ANYTHING. Yes, this is Episode 1 of a 6 part series, but who cares; this is a game, it has a 50 dollar price tag, and I damn sure don't want to pay that much for a game that pretty much rips you off.

On one hand, the cutscenes are well made, almost on the lines of MGS2. On the other hand, the first half of the game features mostly extrememly tedious and boring cutscenes. It is only in the next half of the game where things get interesting, but a lot of people will stop forcing themselves to play by then. Yes I said 'forcing', because the gameplay is utterly BORINGG.

If theres one word that I would use to describe Saga's gameplay, its LINEARITY. Stick with me here: you watch a 45 minute cutscene, you run down a hall, take a few turns, fight some random battles, watch another cutscene, run down a hall, fight some battles, watch another cutscene, play through a long, tedious dungeon, watch another cutscene. You get the picture now? You see, the problem here is, the gameplay and story feel completely seperate. Its almost as if your watching an anime movie, except there are a few playable parts. The big problem is that the few playable parts are extrememly boring. Sure, the battle system isn't that bad by any means, but by the 20th battle, you'll be wondering why the hell your even playing.

And that's what I asked myself while playing the game: why the hell am I forcing myself to go on? Just so I can watch another 45 minute cutscene? From what I remember, games are suppost to be 'played', and are suppost to be 'fun'. Xenosaga is not an RPG. You want a 'real' rpg? Play Morrowind or Neverwinter Nights on multiplayer. Don't get me wrong here, Saga isn't a failure, it's just that the gameplay feels like a poor excuse to keep watching more cut scenes. I sure as hell am never going to play this game again. I am a huge Xenogears fanatic, and I really hope that Episode 2 doesn't turn out like this one. Xenosaga Ep1 is easily the biggest dissapointment for me in a long, long time, considering I have waited for this game for years. Thumbs down.

hmmmmm im not quite sure

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 5 / 14
Date: June 13, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Anybody who plays this and has never played xenogears it's a lot better. unfourtionitly i played xenogears first and it's just not up to fei and elly's standards. First of all it's extremely short, also it's characters are sub-par, and 1 huge problem is it's missing something very important...a love story. Sure there is the creepy relationship between Jr and Momo, but that's just not good enough. If you already played Xenogears please dont compare them that totally will ruin it. fei is would be spinning his grave (if he was dead..hehe).

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