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 <_<.