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Jujubee · Local time: Aug 19, 2006, 12:01 PM

XENOGEARS

I know everyone's said it, so what? It's also my most favorite game of all time, with my favorite kind of plot, 'religious conspiracy.' Let's see, trying to think of something not already mentioned. Magna Carta: Tears of Blood, but I could be wrong, I haven't finished the game yet. Shadow Hearts: Covenant has a subliminal cult theme in it. Theres also Xenosaga, though not as much abvout religion as Xenogears, its still pretty good.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Jujubee · 04:31 AM

Don't forget Krelian. I'm not good at explaining things so I'll let Wikipedia do it for me. He said one of my all time favorite quotes. Though they may not be the exact words, I haven't played the game in years.

Quote:

"Why did she have to be sacrificed? Is god dead...? Is he just not there...? Maybe god never existed to begin with! ... If god doesn't exist in our world, then... I will create god with my own hands!"

^ Best heretical line ever said.

If thats not corrupt religion, I don't know what is. His motives may have been philanthrophic, but in my opinion he was as lunatic as they come. When I think of 'corrupt religion' in a game, the first one that comes to mind is Xenogears, primarily because of Krelian.

Spoiler:

Going so far as to kill every human being on the planet so they wouldn't have to to 'suffer' anymore, thats pretty corrupt. Then theres Merkaba/Deus, the artificial god thats actually a weapon, which Krelian built using human flesh [the god created with his own hands]. The reason it was called a god was because it created the humans (through Maing, 'The Mother') as spare parts incase it was ever destroid. Which it was when the Eldridge self-destructed 10,000 years ago, it activated Maing, The Mother, to give birth to all the humans on that planet. In time after there were enough human beings, Deus used them to rebuild itself, with Krelians help. That's a pretty sick method up back-up utilities. Anyway this artificial god had a power source, the Zohar, an ancient artifact of unknown origin. In fact, the Zohar was also the power source of every gear in the world, except the Xenogears. Within that power source, was the 'real' god of the Xenogears universe, called The Wave Existance (WE). The WE was trapped in the Zohar against its will, it was basically a giant prison cell for him. The Zohar draws its power from an alternate dimension, which gives it a limitless supply of energy. The WE got sucked into the Zohar when Deus activated it on the Eldridge during the game's intro. When Deus was destroid, so was the Zohar (or deactivated), all gears stoped working except Xenogears and the WE was set free. When it was set free it went back home to its own dimension, the wave dimension, Xenogears' equivalent to heaven where anything is possible. Krelian, having finally found god, went with him to heaven (yes, despite all of his sins), in the ending he says 'I go to walk with god.' This was the agenda he had set out for the whole time, but he wanted all of humanity to do it too, and the only way for that to happen was if they all died. Anyway, Krelian got what he wanted at the cost of half the planet's population. Talk about ambition, this is why he's one of my most favorite villains, to call him a martyr would be an understatement.

Sorry if thats a bit long winded, derailed and not 100% accurate. I couldn't resist reminiscing on such a great game.

There's nowhere I can't reach.