#Disc 2 is literally 15 save points worth of Cutscenes they didn't have time to finish then a boss fight with like 3 dungeons in there too

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I Have Finally Finished Xenogears (1998) And Can Finally Start And Enjoy Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (2022)

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#Actual Thoughts Time: #Xenogears is slow and old and if you don't like looking things up you'll probably get lost a bit #But man I did enjoy it #solid 9/10 for the era #But honestly it's so slow if you're impatient at all it'll probably feel like a 7.5/10 #but there's so many tiny details and hidden things #like the spider web you get in the first room lets you do a sidequest near the end of disc 1 #there's a thing called the mermaid tear in disc 1 that isn't used until you go to an optional location in disc 2 #with a specific character which unlocks a specific flashback cutscene and changes all of the visuals for their moves #then you can go find an old lady and get a ring #And I just love stuff like that #But also this is NOT the kind of game you do multiple playthroughs of so like #just look stuff up periodically #I used the Xenogears Shrine on rpgclassics for most of my info #that or Luxin's unfinished recap series for just the important parts #Also this ending cutscene song was nice :) #And honestly I did like the story and the characters #But man it is so super obviously unfinished and imperfectly translated #Disc 2 is literally 15 save points worth of Cutscenes they didn't have time to finish then a boss fight with like 3 dungeons in there too #they didn't even manage to finish ALL of the boss fights one of them is JUST a cutscene #and then you get to explore the overworld which is just like 2 optional dungeons and 'did you get the trader card? No? Go fight the final b #oss loser' #but I really did enjoy it at like a 9/10 level #but I cannot recommend it without an emulator to use turbo when grinding and stuff #but there's so much love and fun put into it too that I can say it might be worth it #I grinded out a character's deathblows just because I liked him and his final one was super cool #it switched to first person for a bit which nothing else in the game had done at that point and juggles the enemy in the air #I never even used it in a real fight but I enjoyed it anyways #there's plenty of moves I never got to use like Fei's level 80 deathblow since I was only level 75 #there's plenty of characters and there's enough to do with all of them that you can basically 'main' them without issue