[PS2] Xenosaga III: Also Sprach Zarathustra

Originally Posted by vertigo

http://www.famitsu.com/sp/xeno3/

Canaan is apparently playable now as well =o

That's awesome to hear. He was just there in XSII and didn't really do anything.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by aku

WAIT A SECOND... o.O


Does anybody else say they look WAY to much alike to not be eachother o.O
Dont get me wrong, i acaulyt havent played any of the games...i was guna wait till i owned them all. to bad they arnt going to make 5 and are going stop at 3....T_T oh well less money i have to pay

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Do some research and come back later once you've made the connection.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by RYU

off topic:
composer will be is Kajiura Yuki on Xenosaga III?

I believe so. They wouldn't be using her XSII songs for the XSIII trailers if they were trying to ditch her as a composer.

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

I think the revelation of the identity of the two other Testaments wasn't needed in a trailer. It didn't seem very well-planned out.

I'm loving the music, though. The second piece of music reminds me strongly of communication breakdown.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Reveirg

Second piece of music actually takes the melody of "Bitter" from the Xenosaga II Movie Scene Soundtrack.

It's the vocal part that reminds me of communication breakdown, really.

Originally Posted by Reveirg

I also hope they'll do a better job at using Kajiura's soundtrack as they did in XSII. I remember getting very angry when I realized they used Communication Breakdown only once. We couldn't hear much because the sound effects were louder, and they cut the choir part. Ridiculous. Other songs were simply left out: Jr., Jr. #4, Bitter, etc.

If I remember correctly, communication breakdown was used twice, once during MOMO's checkup-thing and the second time at the end of the game during Abel Ark's appearance.

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A camcorder recording of the English Xenosaga Episode III trailer from E3 is posted at the bottom of this site. The audio quality is pretty shoddy and therefore the voices don't sound as clear as I'd like them to be, but it's a definite that Brianne Siddall is back as Jr. and it even sounds like Lia Sargent is back as Shion.

Even better? The last line at the end sounds like it's spoken either by Bridget Hoffman/Ruby Marlowe/Ellen Wilkinson or a very good Hoffman/Marlowe/Wilkinson impersonator. I can't tell if the line originates from KOS-MOS or T-elos, but the line definitely belongs to one of the two. The dub sounds like it's going to turn out quite well.

EDIT: Uploaded the trailer here.

How ya doing, buddy?

This is a great find.

All of the Japanese Xenosaga Episode III trailers can be found subtitled and in HQ here: http://tsukinikawatte.gametrailers.c...og&id=4562&c=1

There's some that are still being worked on, but the real gem here is "trailer 14." Trailer 14 is actually a bunch of scenes from the English localization of the game. For those of you missing Lia Sargent, have fun with trailer 14.

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Sir VG

And what's this I see?

Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra Namco Bandai Games America 08/29/06 US

Holy shit man. I'm so going hyper over all this.

http://www.namco.com/forums/viewtopi...8cb01cb#136622

Yep. It's been confirmed by an insider at Namco. The date has a possibility of moving up or down two weeks, but there it is.

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http://xenosaga3.namco.com/

Namco did something funny to the E3 trailer. They replaced all of the voices. I'm not sure why they did such a thing (especially when the recording should be finished), but eh. It's amusing to hear Allen sound like a foreign old fart. (And Jr.'s gone through puberty!)

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

I grew a cold sweat reading your post. I don't have a clue what that means, and I'm too afraid to go look for myself. You might think the chances of all the voices being recast in the last minute to be impossible, even absurd, but this series hasn't had the greatest luck so far. Check my journal entry for further info.

No, really. There's very, very little possibility for the entire cast to be chucked out at this point in the game. I mean, IGN's got footage up with Lia Sargent Shion-ing it up. The Shion voice in the trailer is not Lia Sargent, I guarantee you.

As for the foreign-sounding Allen, seriously, you need to listen to the trailer yourself. There no way they would let Allen have a 60-year old Mexican voice.

EDIT: A breakthrough!

Quote:

Some light has been shed on the trailer on the site: Apparently, it was a test trailer done by second string VAs for timing purposes, and was never meant to see the light of day, but someone accidentally threw it up with the preview site. The real trailer, the E3 one, will go up with the full site.

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Originally Posted by SouthJag

I couldn't find any word of that actually having been confirmed for the US either. How's about an update on that, if anyone has one?

A friend of mine sent me a scan of a Nintendo Power issue which mentioned that I & II would get a fall 2006 release in the US, but that doesn't seem very likely at the moment.

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

Originally Posted by Vash

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

Actually, the soundtrack that was just released is a combination of the cutscene and in-game tracks. For instance, the battle of your soul is one of the songs that play during a boss fight. So is testament.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by B.K.

It's not all of the soundtrack though. There are a lot of songs left out. That's why it's a Best Sound Tracks.

I know, but I'm just saying that there's still a handful of non-cutscene songs on the album.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by Cobalt Katze

It's actually a pretty cool story Deals with much more than just Jan.

Spoiler:

Oh, Wilhelm. You are so funny.

And hey, Melisse/Melis started up Scientia, and she's in Pied Piper, so yeah.

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Originally Posted by EliJaH

Spoiler:

Some other one's include the Dark Testament's E.S. "Dan", which in Hebrew Daniel mean's "Him Whom God Strengthens" (or something like that). Which would work becouse of the Anima Relic, and it being part of the power of God.

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).

FELIPE NO

Originally Posted by Lionking-Cyan

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.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?