[PS2] Xenosaga III: Also Sprach Zarathustra

I for one am a big fan of the Xenogears/Xenosaga series and my copy for the game has already been pre-ordered from the moment it became available for pre-order.

If Famitsu (who are known as being some the harshest video game critics of all time) scored an overall score of 33/40 for this game, I would think that is pretty good in terms of famitsu standards.

In response to some of the things that have been said about the series in itself and about the first two games in general I would like to share my opinion about it.

I understand and respect the fact that both Xenogears and Xenosaga are two completely different games that follow different storylines, I do disagree with what someone had to say on this forum that Xenosaga has no relevance to Xenogears whatsoever. The slight similarities that both games have are irrelevant to a point but if it wasn't for the success and the following of Xenogears we wouldn't of probably had the Xenosaga series to enjoy in the first place.

I personally think that Xenosaga has one of the most detailed plots and controversial religious oriented themes any rpg series has ever seen. I appreciate a detailed story and character development more than anything else.

I think its kind of unfortunate that the series is ending after this game, because it kind of adds an extra worry to myself that I hope they can tie up all the loose ends and all the extra questions within this one game. I personally think that they will or at least try their best.

To me, I enjoyed the first Xenosaga game much better than the second one. There are many reasons for this. I didn't really appreciate the second one because they changed many of the voice actors from the original. I thought the voice acting from the first game was perfect especially chaos's voice who was done by Derek Stephen Prince. I wasn't nescessarily a fan of the armor break battle system either. Even though Kajiura Yuki did a good job of composing the music for the second game, for me it just doesn't match up to Yasanori Mitsuda did for the first game. It just seems like to me the ending song for any Xeno game should of had the vocals done by Joanne Hogg of Iona because she did beautiful vocals for the ending songs of both Xenogears and Xenosaga Episode 1.

I've heard all the complaints of a lot of my friends who aren't particularly fond of the series because its more of a movie than a game in itself. I just loved everything from the first game; the battle system, the music especially the battle theme, the character voices and even the mini-games especially the xeno-card game.

I've read all the stories concerning people who were with this project and had abandoned it because of conflicts of interest and its kind of unfortunate this series could of had the potential of doing great things for a fairly long time.

Overall, I can't wait for it to come later on this summer, and I hope I enjoy it to the exent of other games in general, and even if this is the last xenosaga game I hope it goes out with a bang.

Jam it back in, in the dark.