2nd April 2010, 4:29 PM
Xenogears is a great game, but I would put in the criticism that around the second disk, the story started feeling "hurried along", what with the way the story gets told becoming this chapter based thing, with little interludes with characters explaining what's been happening. It's still a good game, and eventually the world opens up for exploration again, but for that long section, you are basically put into one dungeon after another without a break. Oh if I had known how linear Xenosaga was going to be, I wouldn't have complained.
Xenoblade... Well "xeno" just means "outside" or "foreign", so it might work if these swords, like Xenogears itself, are from somewhere outside this world, interfering with the flow of events just like the discovery of "gears" did. However I agree it's probably also a name drop, considering they could have also gone with "Eldritchblade" and had the same meaning.
Xenoblade... Well "xeno" just means "outside" or "foreign", so it might work if these swords, like Xenogears itself, are from somewhere outside this world, interfering with the flow of events just like the discovery of "gears" did. However I agree it's probably also a name drop, considering they could have also gone with "Eldritchblade" and had the same meaning.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)