Is XenoGear connected to XenoBlade
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Not connected. Xeno is a term that connects a theme of Mechs within the games, but storywise there is no connection.
However, if you haven't played Xenogears...WTF is wrong with you? Go play it! Go play it NOW!
However, if you haven't played Xenogears...WTF is wrong with you? Go play it! Go play it NOW!
there's no story connection whatsoever, although I'm sure some fans will theorize based on some spec of dust and connect it to Kos-Mos somehow and connect that with Xenogears.
Xeno games usually deal with giant robots and that's the only connection they have
Xeno games usually deal with giant robots and that's the only connection they have
From what I read awhile ago, xenogear was supposed to be xenosage episode 5 in a supposed 6 series super franchise, so xenosage 1 has a bunch of link to xenogears, but the plan got scrap and there unrelated. Xenoblade is even less related and its pretty much just using the xeno name. Gear and blade are very different game.
Gear story is fun, but the gameplay is really not all that great. Worth playing for character, story and music, not much else. Watching a good lets play might be a good idea (if it exist).
Gear story is fun, but the gameplay is really not all that great. Worth playing for character, story and music, not much else. Watching a good lets play might be a good idea (if it exist).
Xenogears remains me favorite JRPG of all time and one of the best JRPGs ever released on the Playstation 1, which had a lot of JRPGs. I think they did a greatest hits release, so you should be able to find a copy without spending too much money.
Music wise it has. Visual...sorta, it use 2D sprite on 3D background which make it age fairly well compare to other game of that era, there's also a few very nice anime cutscene. The mech are in 3D, but they have pretty nice visual design so they hold up surprisingly well. Story wise, it draws a lot on reference to psychology and various religion and philosophy, so in that sense it's pretty ageless, but at the same time it can come off a bit pretentious, you could say in some way it's a bit the evangelion of video game. The writing is... okay, I can't tell you if the translation is at fault but there's a few point where it can feel pretty stiff and like the writer doesn't have quite the vocabulary to talk about the grand subject it's trying to touch on, at the same time it gives a bit more humanity to the character, so its not so bad. The story also has long segment that don't really matters, for example you spend a good 5 hour in prison at some point and it never really matters in story, you could have cut that part out.ThereIsNoSanta said:
Gameplay is the big problem, there's no skill or talent system to speak of and even looting is almost inexistent (most character don't even use weapon). All you have is various technique that character can use instead of normal attack, you just get them by mashing random combination of button when attacking, there's no reason to use older technique, you just always use the latest one you've acquire, so there's very little strategy involve in battle. Same for mech battle, they work slightly differently but you just the same attack over and over. The various character aren't much different either, and there ludicrously unbalance. The exploration aspect is also pretty weak since looting doesn't really matters so its no big deal if you miss half the dungeon.
The big elephant in the room is that the last third of the game had to be severely cut down, instead of dungeon you have various character narrating what happens rather than let you play those part, it sucks cause that's also the part where things get really interesting. At the same time, you still get the story without the not all that interesting gameplay so that part aged relatively well.
Here's the, very good, trailer which should give you an idea of what you're getting into
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QTx8iG52Ruo
