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Does Xenosaga DS redeem the Xenosaga series?
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brandonh83
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Xenosaga sucks?
brandonh83
Banned
Chris Michael
Banned
Is it at least playable? They probably won't release it outside Japan anyway, but if they do I wanted to get it for the story if nothing else (I've never played XS).
Drinky Crow
Banned
Xenosaga is what you buy when you CRAVE a third-rate technofantastic anime series uncomfortably distended across 40+ hours of crap mechanics with bad polygon puppet theatre substituted for the typically mediocre direction of an actual anime.
Xenosaga is paradoxically the most pure and most disingenuous of fanservice: loli/moe garbage colored up with throwaway references to Parcelsian Gnosticism and a literal-minded high school art student's take on Nietsche. To anyone above an eighth-grade level of literacy, it's quasi-physical torment. There's no real gameplay to speak of to make the usual high-concept low-execution frame of anime palatable, so you're really just stuck moseying some boggle-eyed tart in spandex lingerie down neon hallways between protracted cutscenes featuring underdirected anime puppets shaking their porcelain udders or flowing boybitch locks while spewing arbitrary acronyms or glib references to shit that wasn't even that clever when it was written in Latin or German.
Just ****ing rent Evangelion already and get it out of your system.
Xenosaga is paradoxically the most pure and most disingenuous of fanservice: loli/moe garbage colored up with throwaway references to Parcelsian Gnosticism and a literal-minded high school art student's take on Nietsche. To anyone above an eighth-grade level of literacy, it's quasi-physical torment. There's no real gameplay to speak of to make the usual high-concept low-execution frame of anime palatable, so you're really just stuck moseying some boggle-eyed tart in spandex lingerie down neon hallways between protracted cutscenes featuring underdirected anime puppets shaking their porcelain udders or flowing boybitch locks while spewing arbitrary acronyms or glib references to shit that wasn't even that clever when it was written in Latin or German.
Just ****ing rent Evangelion already and get it out of your system.
brandonh83
Banned
MoxManiac said:
On DS, no doubt!
Drinky Crow
Banned
I only got about four hours into Magna Carta. I got to the Domo Carrier fight in Xenosaga. That should tell you everything about Magna Carta.
Ghengis Cohen
Banned
Drinky Crow said:
And to imagine they're both right!mug said:
It has the battle system from the first game, but the story was stripped down to fit on the DS, if you really don't want to play through Episode II it is the only alternative unless you read up on it. Luckily I didn't have to buy it since my friend who imports a lot of games is a Xeno nut and let me play his copy after he finished with it.
Mana Knight
Banned
Personally, I absolutely love the Xenosaga series. Despite being a huge fan of Xenogears on PS1, I was intially skeptical about buying Xenosaga Episode I. After the price dropped to $30 new, I decided to purchase it. I'll admit the game started off a little slow, but after a while, I kept playing it and didn't want to stop. I ended up beating it in 44 hours. I watched every single lengthy cutscene and enjoyed every single one. I really liked the characters a lot, especially KOS-MOS, Chaos, and Jr. After beating it, it became my favorite game this generation. I bought Episode II on release, with the Episode I DVD (I watched it completely a few times). I didn't like the battle system of Episode II as much as Episode I, although I think the double attacks are cool. I didn't like the new look of KOS-MOS, but I liked the new look of the rest of the characters. I still really enjoyed the storyline, although the game only took me 33 hours to beat (I did most all the G.S. Campaign sidequest, mostly for the double attacks). Episode II wasn't my favorite game of last year (crown goes to Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana), but it was still one of my favorites. I'm definitely excited for Episode III, although I'm a little sad the story has to come to an end with Episode III, instead of six Episodes like it was suppose to be.
As for Xenosaga Episode I & II DS, part of the reason I bought my DS was for I could play the game on release. Unfortunately, there hasn't been word of a North American release. I might just import the game, but I really want to be able to get a full understand of its great storyline. To some extent, I felt the game should have been on PSP, since it would have similar cutscenes (Part of what made both Xenosaga's so great). But, it still looks fine on DS and I'm just happy it came.
As for Xenosaga Episode I & II DS, part of the reason I bought my DS was for I could play the game on release. Unfortunately, there hasn't been word of a North American release. I might just import the game, but I really want to be able to get a full understand of its great storyline. To some extent, I felt the game should have been on PSP, since it would have similar cutscenes (Part of what made both Xenosaga's so great). But, it still looks fine on DS and I'm just happy it came.
Drinky Crow
Banned
the flushing sound you hear is my sense of perspective collapsing into dark matter
brandonh83
Banned
...uh well I don't hate Episode II like everyone else but it was a long way from being one of my favorite games of last year. I liked the first one quite a bit more.
davepoobond
you can't put a price on sparks
xenosaga is only for the hardest of the hardcore of the hardcore rpg gamers who like hardcore rpgs aimed at the hardcore audience of hardcore sci-fi
jj984jj said:
Actually, the story wasn't stripped down at all. In fact, they added a bunch of retcon shit to the game which doesn't even fit with current continuity! The only difference is you're getting sub-GBA graphics and texttexttexttexttexttexttext instead of cutscenes. I can assure you that the horrible terrible story is ALL there... and more.
Sabaku Ika
Member
Drinky Crow said:
This almost makes me want to play it. Almost...
Joe Molotov
Member
Drinky Crow said:
Wait, I thought somebody said Xenosaga was bad.
Chairman Yang
if he talks about books, you better damn well listen
Drinky Crow said:
That's exactly what someone who doesn't understand Xenosaga would say, am i rite?
Space Runaway
Member
So do we get neat sprite versions of Albedo cutting off his head and molesting Momo?
thetrin
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ivysaur12 said:
I'm starting to think that many people hate on Xenosaga because it's cool to. Many people legitimately hate it, but others seem to hate on it despite never really playing it at all. It's akin to loving PD saga, despite ever playing it.
I enjoyed Xenosaga Ep1 quite thoroughly, in spite of, and perhaps because of its ridiculously long cut scenes. The battle system was enjoyable, but I never got past the fact that the mechs were useless in the game.
Xenosaga II, on the other hand, was complete and total crap. I'm not even sure how MLSI was ever able to make the game suck that much. I'm a huge Xenogears fan, and I really hoped that XS3 would redeem it, but so far, it doesn't seem that way. ;_;
