A Boy and His Blob: Trouble in Blobalonia (5).But it takes like 50 hours to get through the first disc, and it can really drag. If you like jRPGs, particularly 90s era RPGs, Xenogears is a great game. So, ultimately I'd say Xenogears: play at your own risk. In an already long game, this is just too much. There are so many times when I'd like to explore a little- hell, even hear some more of the music play out, but I know I'm going to hit a random encounter every five seconds. Or Chrono Trigger with the encounters being featured on the screen, sometimes avoidable, sometimes predictable, but not hyper-persistent and random. But it's true, and I don't think it's just me being old. I think that Zeboyd games were onto something when they made monster encounters manual. It feels weird to say so, like some kind of betrayal of my young self, who loved long games. Boy it would be nice if I shorten some of the gameplay though. I would still consider playing it through again. This game is in dire need of an editor.Īnd yet. On the other hand, when two things are dragging at once, it really takes its toll. On the one hand, I like that the game takes its time with the story. Or that the story simply takes too long to reveal things that it has been hinting at for a long time. You start to notice the encounter rate is maybe a bit too high. After a point, it's hard to say what is dragging the most, the story or the gameplay. Then it proceeds to drag on for a very long time. All in all, a great jRPG from 1998.īut, there's no getting around it: Xenogears starts to drag after while. The music is good, the environments have character, the battle system is fun. Xenogears is epic, sweeping, daring and strange. You know - the kind whose story just keeps getting bigger and bigger, new twists, bigger bad guys, greater powers. Playing Xenogears is like watching 300 episodes of some Shonen Anime. This game is long- 50 hours on one disc! (of two) I think this may be due to the sheer number of hours I put into it twelve years ago. You know, I played this game yesterday for barely an hour, and I've had its image in the back of my mind all day today.
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This is a very good plot summary, full of love and criticism. I think I'll just read a plot summary instead. Xenogears - it's been twelve years since I played through the first disc, but I still remember it like yesterday. 'Only in Japan' was no longer a phrase to frustrate the RPGphile. In fact, I think the rate of US release for Square really increased around that time. Back in the great CD Burn-off of '01, I acquired quite a few excellent RPGs from Square. You know, in my endless pursuit of nostalgia, I've come to the conclusion that the Playstation 1 actually had a lot of really great games. Seems like a sufficiently villainous goal
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