[PS2] Xenosaga III: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Is anyone planning on ripping the in-game music? (Obviously not the cutscene music that was recently released)

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Well, I thought Namco/Bandai said they MIGHT continue the series, should Xeno3 sell well and get fan praise or something. They just said "We'll see". I'd personally like to see it continue on the PS3, the game's beauty would be portrayed 10 times better.

I loved the VAs for this game, I'm glad they brought Shion and KOS-MOS's Xeno1 VAs back. The guy who played chaos in Xeno2 is back, I hated his voice in Xeno2 but this time he is quite good, along with MOMO (who is also voiced my her Xeno2 actress -who I wasn't all that impressed with in Xeno2, but the actors seem to have improved their skills since then). The story is top notch,

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and the scene right before you fight the Red Testament's second form is just heart-wrenching!

Yuki Kaijura's music is also amazing, not quite Yasunori Mitsuda amazing, but it comes pretty close. Very dramatic and epic in some places. I've also come to love the in-game tracks since I've played the game (I'm at the last boss btw, w00t!), and I'm bummed that no one has ripped a higher quality version (like that of Xeno2's gamerip, which was freakin' amazing) of them.

In all of the non text/voice cutscenes, the visuals are great...but it would have been nicer if they used those as the in-game graphics and a better engine for cutscenes, like they did in Xeno1 and 2.

Overall, amazing game. Doesn't seem like it has too much replay value unless you loved it so much you just want to play it again, but DEFINATELY worth the buy.

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Just wondering, KOS-MOS is Mary Magdalene, chaos seems to be Jesus (could be wrong there but "Yeshua" is, I think, Aramaic for "Christ" or something), and Wilhelm seems to be...Satan? If anyone knows, let me know.

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I could use some tips on smashing Zarathustra, my front line is Jin, chaos, and KOS-MOS and Jin is level 57, chaos is level 56, and KOS-MOS is level 55. It gets challenging when he activates Chaos and becomes immune to physical attacks, and none of my guys are major magic users (Jr. has all the Beam and Fire spells but I haven't used him since the end of disc 1, he just can't hold up to damage as well as my front liners.

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I see, makes sense

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Oh ya, forgot that flashback with Jesus preaching to the crowd (with chaos and Mary)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Just beat it last night. The ending scenes were so moving and powerful

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Why did Jin have to die??!! I didn't like the censorship, I mean come on! He got stabbed twice and his clothes never got torn and not one drop of blood! That took away from the drama, IMO.

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To me, it seemed like the game ended on a strange note. I mean, how will we ever find out how Shion and friends get to Earth/Lost Jerusalem? Will KOS-MOS and chaos come back? Will Jin become the Green Testament (or some other kind/color of Testament or some other enigmatic being)? Would the fourth game star only Shion, Allen, and Jr.? Lots of things left open-ended. It seems Bandai-Namco did that on purpose in case they got enough positive feedback to continue the series, which I really hope they do, only this time for the PS3 and with less censorship -_-

Anyone have anything to add onto this?

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I see :/ I never played Xenogears, though I've heard nothing but good things about it, and also listened to the OST (which was quite nice).

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But I'm bummed about Shion's story ending (since it would be her story that lead to Lost Jerusalem and could have probably lasted one more game/episode). Oh well, it was great while it lasted. Kudos, Bandai-Namco

I was speaking idiomatically.

I was looking on Wikipedia about Xenogears, stumbled across this:

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Abel - As a young boy living in the Cosmic War era, Abel came into contact with Zohar when he accidentally stumbled upon a facility housing a Deus/Zohar connection experiment. The Wave Existence gave Abel its power so one day he could destroy Zohar, which would free the Existence to ascend back to the higher dimension. Abel had been searching for his mother when he made contact, and his desire to be with her imparted the Existence with a mother's will when he made contact. It constructed a woman using the biological computer Kadomony, a component of the Deus system, to be with Abel, but Deus transformed the woman into the original Miang. Abel was the only human survivor of the Eldridge crash. Together with Elhaym, or Elly as he had come to call her he lived during the first years of life on the Xenogears planet. When Cain, Miang and the Gazel Ministry began laying down the foundations of what would be all their various control mechanisms in the developing human culture, Abel and Elly, now grown adults stepped forward and challenged them. Abel, having known the real truth of the matter and being the only true human on the planet was able to see through Cain's lies and called him on them in front of the whole world. Cain responded by murdering both him and Elly, however they would return eventually. Both Abel and Elly were continuously reincarnated through the Zohar until 9999 years later when Fei Fong Wong and Elhaym Van Houten were born. Fei is the last incarnation of Abel and the -Contact- who breaks Deus' hold on humanity and frees the Wave Existence.

Now I'm starting to see the connection between stories, but can anyone clarify?

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Huh...that's pretty interesting. So Xenosaga's story might have a chance to continue after all! I'm keepin' my fingers crossed.

FELIPE NO

Wasn't that only a Japanese text based cell phone game?

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ya, i just put it as "Battle" lol

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