Game: Xenosaga

[RyougaZell]

Xenogasa, like hack, is not for the common videogamer.
only hardcore gamers enjoy playing them, despite the bad game systems.
Story owns gameplay in both franchises.

[complich8]

Xenosaga's story presentation is hamfisted, melodramatic and poorly presented. The creators are trying to weave a too-large story around a fairly scant thread that could have made a single fairly long standalone game, and to enable them to do so they've created a convoluted universe full of too much trivia, and too many central characters to develop a real empathy with any of them. They've infused this universe with too much divergent cosmology, twisted to the convenience of the moment, and apparently without regard for an overall goal or a sense of real purpose. Not to mention the character animations and voice acting are generally cold and flat.

I can't wait for episode 3 <_<.

[Lefty]

I think these games have been a mix of good and bad, but mostly baaaaad. But I've lost my drive play video games for a while but i might bust out ep 2 to just beat it. I might buy ep 3 when its used and cheap. I want to see the original creators of zenogears come back together and finish the story with the budget it actually diserves and not get cut down to pure exposition and edited down due to budget and poor planing.

[Nai]

Have to agree with complich8. The games are just far too pretentious for their own good. If you want a good and mature story combined with excellent gameplay I suggest you look into the Shin Megami Tensei games instead. Xenosaga should have been a lengthy CG movie from the very start.

So yeah, screw the sub par gameplay and that horrific anime they made which managed to kill off absolutely everything that was good about the games without improving anything.