[PS2] Xenosaga III: Also Sprach Zarathustra

I like how they are adding stuff that actually seems fun. If this truly is the last Xeno game they are making at least it seems like they are going out with a blast. There is one thing thats bothering me though...


Can someone tell me why he's shooting a pile of dirt. Also chaos is obviously in the turn-icons thing so yes he's still playable.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You aren't too smart, are you?

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It's not coming to the US, which is stupid since it's supposed to be the "official" story that they are following.

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Originally Posted by Cobalt Katze

around 55 hours or so logged

How the hell could you have a 55 hour playtime? I got 100% on everything, pretty sure I got all ultimate weapons etc.. and I my end playtime was only 32 hours.

The tied up all the loose ends, but the amount of characters that get completely ignored or just very little screen time is absurd. That's not to say the story or character development was bad, it's just a lot of characters got pretty much nothing(such as MOMO, who had one, insignificant scene). The Testaments were done well aside from White, who got like 5 minutes which is just ridiculous, but then again, I'm a fanboy so it might just be me.

Most of the scenes were done well though, and I wish they had more real cutscenes, since they seemed to last about 2 minutes, excluding the finale.

The only thing that really kept me going on a marathon was the battle system. It's so standard it isn't even funny, but it's fun as hell. The E.S. battles are epic since you do like 12 billion damage, and it's easy to just kill everything in one hit with traps and such. None of the bosses gave me any real trouble, which I consider a downside. The final boss was a joke. Other than that it was great.

I'd probably have to jump on the bandwagon and say it's the best of the XS games, but still fell short because of several shortcomings on favorite characters.

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Originally Posted by Zeta26

*sighs* This' why I get mad. And yes, it really has good replay value. The whole game got good reviews.

The only replay value this game has is watching cutscenes with swimsuits on. This' why I get mad. There's absolutely no reason to play the game over, since you can watch the cutscenes with the viewer thing.

I was speaking idiomatically.

chaos:

I don't think chaos is Jesus, since he's obviously standing, watching Jesus in one of the few flashback scenes. I don't really know what he could be, though.

As for the final boss, just cast Best Ally or that other auto-revive spell and he should be easy.

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Originally Posted by vertigo

Simple question on the Xenogears tie-ins:

Spoiler:

If they didn't intend Xenosaga to be a prequel to xenogears, then why the bloody hell did they leave the story line at the end of Episode III so friggen open ended >_<.

Even if the intention wasn't there, you could write any thing you wanted to after Episode III to make it seem like the games were connected =/

If the game really was ment to be it's own story, why does it leave such a gapping hole at the end of it?

(ok so I repeated my question a few times...)

That's stupid. Why leave anything open-ended? What about the countless movies that are open-ended? What about FF7?

Open-ended endings =/= a reason to tie it together. It's open-ended because the ending would have been fucking lame and lost the whole meaning and feel to it if they just spelled out every single thing to you.

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Originally Posted by SOLDIER

I'd prefer if Takahashi started fresh with a new series or setting, and get things right from the start. But even so, I'll always wonder what could've been.

They already did that, it's called Xenosaga. Xenosaga was already a fresh start, and Episode I did do things right from the start. Takahashi's ideas are just too ambitious for his own good. I'd prefer if he just gives up, because his vision will just get raped and left for the hounds just like it always is.

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