Xenogears

Into the deepest realm of philosophical spiritualism

By CptRetroBlue · January 7, 2019

I am 2 hours of game time into Xenogears and it already filled my brain with all this symbolism that delves into the mysterious psyche of the human mind. Most of the game time has been spent in long cutscenes and animated portions, which Xenogears seems to be mostly made of a lot more than grinding through the world in achieving better stats for your characters and their Mecha named Gears. Its safe to say this game is more like an adventure than a game overall, one which traps you into its sharp claws of engaging storytelling and moral ambiguity.

Comments 4

jerec Jan 7, 2019

And then it makes you waste time doing platform game type jumps in an engine that is clearly not made for that.

CptRetroBlue Blogger Jan 7, 2019

It is a weird concept I admit.

overdrive Staff Jan 7, 2019

And then you go to the second disc and it all goes so far off the rails, nothing could bring it back.

But during that first disc, it wasn't all good, but there were a few moments that had me edge of my seat, wanting to play more even though I had to be up for work in 6 hours and didn't really want to turn that into 5, but still knew I was going to.

I have very conflicted views on this game.

EmP Staff Jan 8, 2019

Disk 2 was the greatest working example yet in any media of a project suddenly running out of both time and money.