Xenogears have one of the most complex and greatest stories i had ever seen in a videogame,movie,comic,etc,BUT it also have a very bad and frustrating gameplay.
One thing i don´t understand is why you have to watch Fei and Elly on a chair narrating almost 2 hours of the story instead of making you to play those paras that they are narrating.Makes me think that when Square was making the game they were tire of so many nonsense random battles and they decided to put those narrating segments instead of figthing scenes so the programmers and the battle planers could take a break.
The music is superb,it could be repetitive sometimes but it has beautiful songs like "The Begining and the end",and so many others,Yasunori Mitsuda prooves again his talent as a composer.
Sure the story has it´s flaws and holes but,which story doesn´t have it?,until date i hadn´t know of any RPG that had a "perfect" story,"perfect" gameplay or "perfect" characters.
In a nutshell,Xenogears is a must have game,but lemme give you a good advice,don´t try to end it in a few days,give some breaks when you play it so that way you wont feel annoyed by the battles or other details of the gameplay.
8.8/10
One thing i don´t understand is why you have to watch Fei and Elly on a chair narrating almost 2 hours of the story instead of making you to play those paras that they are narrating.Makes me think that when Square was making the game they were tire of so many nonsense random battles and they decided to put those narrating segments instead of figthing scenes so the programmers and the battle planers could take a break.
The music is superb,it could be repetitive sometimes but it has beautiful songs like "The Begining and the end",and so many others,Yasunori Mitsuda prooves again his talent as a composer.
Sure the story has it´s flaws and holes but,which story doesn´t have it?,until date i hadn´t know of any RPG that had a "perfect" story,"perfect" gameplay or "perfect" characters.
In a nutshell,Xenogears is a must have game,but lemme give you a good advice,don´t try to end it in a few days,give some breaks when you play it so that way you wont feel annoyed by the battles or other details of the gameplay.
8.8/10