Because I'm sure we're all tired of religious jargon. I know I've been tired of it for years now. It's nice when characters, you know, talk to each other.

It's very hard to find any images of this manga, though. The best I could do is here.

http://www.akadotretail.com/product_...86&cPath=27_7#

There's a chance it could get licensed here like Disgaea and Kingdom Hearts, but who knows. I'd love to read it now if it's available. I'd especially like to see how that infamous scene with Albedo was handled.

On that note, I also wondered how that scene was handled in the DS version.

The same way it was in the English version and Xenosaga I: Reloaded, but with DS graphics.

But it's a bit different after that. In Xenosaga I&II, the Song of Nephilim and Proto Merkabah are one dungeon. You get MOMO back and then fight Virgil. Albedo runs off deeper into the dungeon. You find him and fight him. Then, you have to fight E.S. Simeon. You can't win it. It's impossible. It kills with one hit. When your party is dead, Canaan shows up in E.S. Asher and holds E.S. Simeon back while you go fight Sophie Peithos.

Whoa.. I just saw The Da Vinci Code and it hit me like a ton of bricks.




Urge to replay Xenosaga III has increased by 72%.

I'm new here, and I just finished Xenosaga Ep. III!







Anyways, aside from all that. I liked Ep. III a lot. Although some of the Script was kind of lame (maybe due to English Version?) and the reactions were kind of unrealistic, but that wasn't horrible (Wilhelm was excellent in this case). The Music was Brilliant (Great Job By Kajiura for it being one of her first RPG sound tracks, it was good aside from that too). The art and story-line were excellent as well.

I suppose it wouldn't be too spoilery to just say that the E.S.s are named after twelve of Jacob's children (Dinah was used instead of Benjamin).

I'm still interested in checking the manga out. I was hoping B.K. would have some info on it, but if he can't find it, no one will. :(

I thought the ending was kind of weak... it still left a feeling of incompleteness...

I get the feeling by "this is the last episode of Xenosaga!!" they meant with the next one we're just gonna drop the Saga part off the Xeno and come up with a different name... or maybe they can make an extended version that comes packaged with remakes of Episode 1 and 2 :) Xenosaga Complete Special Edition Plus!!! hahaha

What's the difference between the revive (forgot what it's called) that costs 600 and the seven moons which cost 300 (heals all the HP/EP), while the other one only heals a majority of the HP.

they might do that, but only release it in japan :(

I've been experimenting a bit with making a rip for the music that wasn't on the OST. Unless someone else is already making a decent quality one, I might do it.

I however need some opinions. Does this quality satisfy you people?

What about the ost? Are the song present in miltia from episode 2 ost? Actually i've got all the ost, but somehow i find the miltian song of ep2 a bit different from ep3 ones in miltia. Maybe it's because after each battle the song would restart, and avoid the later boring part of that music. Can you give me some info regarding this? I really loved that music.

Shinji Hosoe's music is not present at all in XSIII. XSIII's entire soundtrack was composed by Yuki Kajiura, the same composer responsible for the cutscene music in XSII.

Does anyone know how many hours of cutscenes Episode II is feauturing? Cant get any infos on that.

I believe Monolithsoft said that Episode II had roughly six hours of cutscenes. Fans complained about how many there were in Episode I, so Monolithsoft said for Episode II, they would have less of them.

I've just started playing it 8 hours and I love it!
The story made me chilled and the music is the greatest things in the game itself (May be the greatest in the series as well,...well except Xenogears)

The battle song is the same one in ost "Battle of your soul",isn't it?
It's work really great in game.;)

Would you guys mind telling me what does Also Sprach Zarathustra mean? :)

Especially this unfortunately.

Also Sprach Zarathustra = Thus Spoke Zarathustra.

Xenosaga III is my personal game of the year. Out of everything else I played this year, it was the least frustrating and most entertaining.

That would be great!
Thanks a lot. : )

NOOO! My PS2 froze right at the ending... and it took me 45 minutes to beat the last boss. FACK. ;_;

Does anyone know where I could get a rip of the ending? I tried Youtube, there's only one or two short clips.

Umm, a great FMV site I know of is http://bluelaguna.net/ , it's there, and it has decent download speeds. (I think it's complete, haven't watched it there...)

I actually read some of Thus Spoke Zarathustra for an english class, and found it pretty interesting. It was fun to see the correlation between the themes and concepts. The biggest 'plot' problem was the direct relation to Christianity, I'd rather it be a little more subtle, although, the original idea's were amazing, and the overall story still blows me away.

Anyways, Xenosaga ep. III, was probably the best game I played this year, that came out this year :-P

Thanks, but it's in Japanese .___.'' Subtitle files anywhere?

Personally, i found xenosaga 1 much better, and maybe one of my favourite rpg. When i begun it, i understood there was something incredibly much bigger behind what i saw. I could understand the plot would have folded in such a fantastic way. Yet, it didn't offend me. We could say that it took some Christian elements as inspiration, but nothing that would offend us Christians. Maybe something was bad, but not much. Then, when i played xenosaga 2, i was really offended...of course i had already spent 40 euros for the first 2 episodes, and so i bought the third one too. So, little by little, the game didn't give me anymore the episode one sensation. The story was no more so great, as it was just concentrating in ridiculize Christianity.

Yeah, I agree, but the Characterization (or the characters in general I guess), and some of the events in Ep. 1 bugged me. I think the reason for the sudden focus on "Christian" subjects was more of an attempt to possibly get more sales or something (as this kind of thing is popular it seems) and the fact that they had to make the series a trilogy (wasn't the 'Shion' story only supposed to be like the first 2 or so games in the series or something? I can't remember).

I wouldn't necessarily say Xenosaga was simply bashing Christianity. It is based Friedrich Nietzsche's books. He has lots of beliefs that go against christian beliefs, and he clearly does not like the Christian religion (he did write "The Anti-Christ"), but Xenosaga tended to take the more 'Original' concepts from his books (Biggest example: "The Super-man" or "Over-man", like Evolution). I would have to replay the series again to see the actual flow between the games.

Oh well, whatever...