Who wants these remastered physically to modern systems including the Switch? I certainly do.

I really hope KOS-MOS gets into Smash as a fighter....and that one of her victory animations includes her saying "Shion, I need to be cleaned"....

Yes you guys better remember before we had 2B or any of the yorha female resembling "its" we had KOS-MOS

The greatest trilogy ever made! Jr has always been my favourite character but yeah KosMos is an icon. Xenosaga became an obsession for me at a certain point when i wanted to understand and find every possible information about the series (i even read the whole script for pied piper, and it's amazing) so i alrealdy know everything said in the video. I want to precise that the 3 games we got covered only TWO of the original 6 games project. So we know only 1/3 of the story... i really hope they'll have the opportunity to finish the series because ep3's ending though great (imo one of the greatest vg endings ever) clearly needs to be continued

It tortures me to think how these games ended up. Xenosaga 1 was a masterpiece like no other.

One of my favorite series of ALL TIME! It sucked that Xenosaga 2 and 3 failed the way it did as I thought they were actually good except for the battle system in Xenosaga 2

I still have all 3 discs. Nice memories and sad ones at the same time.

I love this series so much and have replayed all three titles consequently numerous times. I forgive the artwork and gameplay of the second game due to the amazing story line arc.

Episode 3 had me in my feelings. That soundtrack was EPIC! Especially, the fight with Margulis in Levi!

We really need a HD remaster for Xenosaga, for SWITCH if possible

Xenogears needs a full remake or at least a remaster with a proper disc 2

How do you make a JRPG fan depressed? Tell them about a cool game or series followed by the words: “Only in Japan”...

This trilogy is a masterpiece!!!!I will be happy the day they release something about Xenosaga!!!

I miss this game. If they ever rereleased this game I would buy it in a heartbeat.

Why they haven't remastered this, is beyond me.

Man I'm happy there's people like u tht can relate too these gems hard too find hardcore rpg players

I knew pretty much all of these, but loved hearing them anyhow! It totally baffles me that Xenoblade got the commercial success but not Gears/Saga, which have a far more compelling story to me. In fact, they are my favorite series of all time, and if I ever came into some real money I would buy the rights and fund their continuation before doing anything else. Hoping there are others who feel like me and will eventually get it done.

The first game was before it's time with the ideas, themes, and storytelling. The second game improved graphics and battles but the story was so complicated. And the third game was a love letter to fans. A masterpiece of sci-fi rpg and storytelling. I love you xenosaga. You blew my mind as a kid and young adult and got me through tough times with loss and how to handle hardship. Thank you. ❤️

To be brutally honest...I bought the Trilogy back when the first episode came out in the 2000s because KOS-MOS looks like a sexy badass wielding dual minigun. I still own the Trilogy and I refuse to sell it to anyone, especially that Episode 3 cost over $100 on Amazon on a *"Very Good"* Condition which, if you are lucky, it includes the manual.

Xenosaga 3 is really awesome. The story they tell there make me cry at the end. It was beautiful and intense. The last female oriented Xeno game. Xenoblade came at the time as a bad hit for me at the time of anouncement. How they are making a Wii exclusive? And that wasn't even remotely near what xenogears and xenosaga represents. It was bad, and I hoped nothing from it. Worser, the game wasn't being localized to a language I could understand (yep, english isn't my native language) Then I decided to play it. And it was unexpected intriguing. It stimulated my curiosity and I couldn't stop playing. This was the first shonen game of Xeno series. And was special. The best game of the generation. And properly tied with other xeno games (danm you Takahashi!!!)

Awww, didn't cover the "no blood" controversy! When the 3rd game came out in the USA, Walmart was a major vendor for the game but they refused to sell games that were rated M. The game had that heart-ripping scene where young Schion was trying to catch the blood from her mother so they could put it back inside her but that was way too bloody and intense for a rated T game - so they censored out the blood to maintain the T rating. The result was a scene that made no sense at all.

Great timing with this video! I just picked up a sweet silver PS2 slim with a couple games. One of them Xenosaga 1. Never played any of them and now I have a little background on the series. Thanks Erick! (I ended up ebaying a silver controller for matchy-matchy)

I hope they release Xenosaga remaster.

I hunted down each episode for collectors sake in hopes that the PS5 will be backwards compatible. Having played these when I was younger, I remember fondly how unique the story was. Good stuff!

My heart melt when I heard that song start at 6:39. So many fond memories.

The thing with the six episode plan isn’t entirely true. Or at least, it’s a little more complicated than that. The plan with Xenogears was to tell the story in six episodes. With Project X, they changed the universe into three arcs each consisting of two episodes. The first arc would have been the first episode of Xenogears with mankind in space, the second arc would have been a changed reboot of a world similar to Xenogears and the final arc would have been episode six of Xenogears, surrounding the end of the universe or the return to Lost Jerusalem. However in the end they noticed that there was too much story to tell in that first arc alone for two games. So they left arcs two and three aside and concentrated on arc one. That was now planned as five episodes, which are almost what we got. Episode I was produced as planned. Then came the restructuring and Episode II only captured half of the planned Eisode II. The rest of that was done in Pied Piper. When Nintendo bought Monolith Soft and they still had to conclude the series under Bandai Namco for the PS2, they put the first half of Episode III out as “A Missing Year”, but sadly again only on Japan. The rest of Episode III was put together with Episodes IV and V as the last and best part of the PS2 trilogy: Xenosaga Episode III: Also Sprach Zarathustra. In other words, the arc told in Xenosaga is actually complete. The six episode plan is outdated and would have been drastically different. But thank god we got the story of the five episode plan in its completion. Arc 2 already exists in Xenogears. And arc 3 might be Xenoblade 1/2 and whatever comes in the future.

Thanks Professor Landon! A lot of things i didnt know about that series!

Good vid. I never care to look for the meaning of the subtitles, but now I know thanks to you. :)

Ah games of my childhood. it feels nostalgic and new at the same time to hear facts about these games I used to play that I dont even know about. Your content really speaks to me sir

With the rumors about KOS-MOS being in Smash I've got my hopes up for a remaster or a full on remake of this series. Though I do think Xenogears deserves a remake more, as it's story was more realized and less of a mess, even if it was through a ton of exposition on the second disc. Xenoblade is really popular right now and it would be a shame if Bandai Namco and Square didn't jump on the remaster/remake bandwagon to get pretty big sales from the new fans of the series.

I miss this series.

The music here is so nostalgic love your vids man ❤

Eric!!! You read my mind. I just started playing the saga again & was wishing you would do a video on the games.

I had a lot of fun playing Xenosaga, Xenosaga 3 having one of my favorite battle systems of any turn based RPG

I loved the first game but I didn't know it even had more parts. This is one of the few times I would've been grateful for more advertising.

Wonderful video man! I personally adore the Xenosaga trilogy with the first and third episodes being among the greatest games I have *ever* played. This is a criminally underrated trilogy of RPGs that is an absolute feast for gamers who value music, story, and characters above everything else. The gameplay is quite solid too! In any case, thanks for another terrific video.

Thank you for making a video on this series! Xenosaga is a series that means so much to me. It’s a series that I think could’ve been something so much bigger had just a few things gone better. Now I’m just hopeful that one day we will see a remaster or a remake on modern systems. I know it’s a pipe dream but xenoblade is coming to switch so maybe there is hope. Regardless thank you again for making a video on these games here in 2019.

The very first trailer for Xenosaga 1 was 8 minutes-long and includes scenes that will later be put by the END of Episode 2, like the Jin vs Margulis fight. His vision for a 6 episodes series looks like it was much bigger than what we've got!

after Xenogears i did not know this serie existed until the 2 came out (the only one that got release in europe ) i instantly loved it and after a long while i finally got the 1 and 3, i love them all :) i would love to try one of those other games where kosmos is thought, good video :)

Thank you for doing a video on this series.

Funny story from my experience with Xenoblade Chronicle (for Wii) was that, I could get a copy only because the store miscounted their inventory and found a copy in their warehouse, otherwise almost no game store around my region ever bothered to keep multiple copies for sale.

Oh I'm really enjoying these kinds of vids. Please make more! :D

Man, that music, my nostalgia brain cranking at full blast here.

One of my all-time favorite!!!

Dang, that last one... Xenoblade really is a miracle of a game considering this and the situation that started Operation Rainfall.

Loved these games...They had such a dark feel to them, they were really before their time. :)

I wish more people would talk about this amazing trilogy. Thank you for being one of the few.

I love the whole series. The music is awesome throughout, the game themes gripping, twisting, dark, intriguing; the gameplay solid and engrossing.

#2 The popularity of KOS-MOS. I can confirm, she is still my Firefox theme for more than a decade already

I am sure am glad I got these when they came out.

Congrats!!! Another excelent job. ☺🤘

I randomly got Episode III at GameStop as a teenager. It was the only one of the trilogy I could get my hands on back then and I thought the characters were firr.

Xenosaga Also known as the ps2's most impossible to obtain (legally) JRPG for Europeans

I remember being blown away by the graphics of the 1st game when it came out. The 1st xenosaga is definitely my favorite rpg from the ps2 era.

It's too bad this series didn't have commercial success. As a good story driven series, which I personally love about it, I found it excellent. I know the 2nd one is not as good as the others, but it's not bad at all. It doesn't deserve to get shat upon like it had.

Real shame actually. I loved this series, from Xenogears to Xenosaga Ep 3. In fact, I still have all 4 games. Would have enjoyed seeing it all tie together.

Oh man, the nostalgia hits hard

Thanks for the great video, many things I did not know! I played Xenosaga1 and really loved it, maybe it is just me, but i played that card game for hours, my gnosis killer deck was invencible lol, I really liked. hope someday I may play the other 2 xenosaga games. I have watched the anime as well, very nice.

miss this trilogy (still have my ps2 originals) but this need a remaster and multi console release even pc

Played the Xenosaga trilogy along with Xenoblade earlier this year. Great games. Hope to get Xenoblade 2 for Christmas.

Just seen this now!! Great video wanted for a while!!!

Fact #128. In Xenoblade Chronicles 2, during a side quest, you can see a character called Astelle who is based on Shion Uzuki!

Xenosaga III is the best Xeno anything in gaming. What a masterpiece.

A truly wonderful albeit wierd series. It took itself very seriously, which is rather endearing, and the attention to detail in each game is outstanding. Rubedo forever.

Awesome video Eric!

These are very well known facts! especially for fans. I'm surprised you didn't tackle the huge censorship episode 3 received and how Episode 1 had more gore in the North American release. Not to mention that the trilogy's incomplete storyline had to be fleshed out in a book that was released 1-2 years after Episode 3 called the Xenosaga ep 3 Perfect Guide. Also Xenosaga I & II in the DS was remake was not just the first 2 games + new content... it was different take on story flow and with huge changes on certain scenarios.... overall same plot, this was reimagining based on the original story given to the first 2 episodes. Also you failed to mention how the series originally was supposed to revolve around 2 arcs in which the 2nd arc was dependent on the commercial success of Episode 3 and how the 2nd arc would initially start thousands of years after the events of Episode III and how its supposed to start in lost jerusalem. Not to mention how episode 3 brought back actors from the first episode to help elevate the game's success in sales in favour of preferences to vocal talent. You could've done a little more research into this seeing how this series was much more bigger than the 3 episodes that were released. More bigger than the 3 Xenoblade games. This was Takahashi's dream game yet the constant staff changes tarnished the whole presentation especially on how the story is told. Hence why the Xenoblade games are no longer released in episodes (as observed by Nintendo) but in one off versions that share the same themes but different stories.

There was some sort of visual novel, I think it was called "The missing year"? That tells the events between Xenosaga 2 & 3.

you should make a top 10 of the best RPG with the best story

I own all three games in the mainline series and the first one really felt like it was laying the groundwork for an awful lot of stuff to be covered in the later titles. The thing is episode 2 was very delayed with all the production issues. I blame the delay at least in part for the drop in interest, people just forget about it after so long. I bought episode 1 as a classic title after it had already sold over 1 million units (it was cheap so I took a chance on it) and still had to wait several years before episode 2. Then you can feel where the series was shortened to 3 games and the writing staff changed as it starts to feel rushed and some plot threads from the first game just get dropped. The third game was better but moves at a blistering pace compared with the first game and a half to a kind of "rock falls, everyone dies" ending to ensure that it's over. Honestly the biggest surprise to me about all of this is that since I still have the cases and instructions to all these games I could sell episode 3 on ebay for $100 or the series for about $250. Not the rarest of games to be sure but still a lot more expensive than most of my PS2 library is worth in 2019.

I've owned all three and yet never played them ... but I am finally work thru my backlog of PS2 RPGs I've always meant to play but never did ... so after FES is done in a week or so I"m gonna be starting Episode 1 ... I'm excited since I've heard good things about it.

I remember playing XenoSaga 1 and watched a bit of the anime episodes but, never finished it after Xenogears on PSX1. I know I've beaten Xenogears 6-10 times. I love the music, story and game play. It's a shame I never got into 2-3 of XenoSaga. I didn't really watched 2nd one. Although I have watched the 3rd one on KZfaq a walkthrough of it just for the story. I've played the DS handheld version of Super Robot Taisen OG Saga Endless Frontier, that one was fun! Was nice to see KOS-MOS in there! I was really happy then. Real-life costing alot of my time to even play videogames these days. I feel so old. I still play videogames on/off like the Playstation 4 console, Dark Souls series, Dead or Alive Xtereme 3: Fortune, BloodStained: Ritual of the Night, Code Vein and many more etc. I do missed the old Era early 90's to 2000.

I loved all three Xenosaga games. Bought them all day one. I will admit that 2 is my least favorite with the character model changes and the changes to combat being a little jarring. However, 3 was my favorite out of the series and I regret selling it because I still have a PS3 and I could still play it. Glad Nintendo saved Monolith Soft. If it's one thing about Nintendo they are willing to throw money at developers that have great I.P.s but not the money and luck to survive. I remember reading that Nintendo saved Platinum and the Bayonetta series, too.

Man I miss these games so much. The 3rd one specially was superb!

If I had the money, I'd fund a full xeno series remake. Upgraded graphics, story , voice acting and extras including extra scenarios and cut content like xenogears 2nd half.

Nice vid man i have alot of memories with xenosaga episodde 1 and 2 didnt play 3 becoz my ps2 broke..but ilpove the series.

I believe Xenosaga II had problem with battle system, I can't finish the game because each puny soldier was strong as mid-boss, I finished I and III without II

I always said that Xenosaga I had the best cut scenes, xenosaga II had the best story, and Xenosaga III had the best gameplay. I still love the series and have a ps2 around just when I feel like I want to put one of them in.

One of the greatest stories ever told in a video game. I keep a PS2 around just to play the entire series every now and then. My last play-through of it all was a year ago. Haters on Ep. II have not plumbed the genius of the combat system.

Perhaps my favourite rpg story-wise. Never played it, never watched the gameplay, but watch cutscenes from all episodes, twice. That's about 50 hrs, lol

The grind in these games!!

KOS MOS is the only Android wiafu I feel in love with.

something not listed here was that you can actually see footage of the games before they got seperated into 3 parts instead of 6. theres a 7 minute xenosaga 1 trailer that has scenes from xenosaga 2 in it, in its original art style including the fire flies scene with Shion's brother

Xenosaga. I just started playing the episodes again because there's no good modern RPGs. In my opinion it's one of the best RPGs to ever be done, alongside Legend of Dragoon and Legend of Legaia. I'd include Final Fantasy VII but that's a given by now. Personally I loved how much story there was in the game and it's a good story to boot. Most of my friends, back when it launched, didn't like it too much because of that. I wasn't too fond of how much the combat mechanics changed from game to game but it was still fun to play and still is. KOS-MOS was a great character. I loved her evolution over the saga. One of my best gaming memories is seeing her use her X-Buster for the first time against the fleet of Gnosis ships.

If KOS-MOS was there I played or owned it... except hearts and Exceed. I gotta say you did good work with this but I think you missed Project X Zone (2). She also has Versions for the game she's in. V1 is Xenosaga 1 V2 is Xenosaga 2 V3 is Xenosaga 3 but is destroyed V4 is Xenosaga the one we see the most and after she's rebuilt. Re: is from Xenoblade Chronicles 2. If it was before X3 then you saw V1 but after it was almost exclusively V4. Re: is the newest version. She also use multiple weapons which sometimes get showed off in the crossovers also. X-Buster was her most powerful attack till she started using D-Teneritas and both are her signature attacks. Sorry for filling this up but you hit something else I really like. Thanks man.

Xenosaga 2 and 3 had to come out in Europe, I sure I saw the game covers in pal format

You left out the part where the UK/Euro release of Xeno2 came with the DVD explaining the events of Xeno1, the thing was what 3-5 hours of footage. So you're not entirely right about the bit where the Europeans were caught unaware. Plus JRPG's were not distributed in large quantities (3 to 10 units per store) throughout the stores in countries as this genre has a limited market. But due to the uncommoness of the game and its pop-culture status, it might very well be interesting to see if they make a HD varient in the future.

Real shame indeed. At least Monolithsoft still holds the rights to most of the characters so I hope they keep bringing them back in their future games like they've been doing with KOS-MOS.

Glad I bought these game years ago. I finished the 1st one. I still need to finish 2 and 3 but damn do jrpgs take a lot of time to complete

If I not mistaken, I saw an old interview where the devs mentioned that the 3 Xenosaga games cover just the 1st of the 6 episodes previously planned. But the project was too big and money too short to make everything, so they split the game. Something like the original Xenogears Project mentioned in the Perfect Works, then EP2 flopped and the rest is history...

wow how much i loved those game, i still have all my copy even ps1 xenogears but.... no more console for replaying them :(

I still have my copies even the xenosaga 3 edition with the lenticular T-elos/Kos-mos picture

This game NEEDS to be remastered

Thank you.

Sorry Erick one Mistake: yes Xenosaga II was released in Europe, BUT it's not true that players didn't understood it since the story for the first game was missing. The game included a second Disc with ONLY the cutscenes from the first game (maybe cut together a little bit but i can't tell exactly i'm currently playing the Games now in chronological order) as a bonus. Therefore the game costs much more than a regular PS2 game at that time. The reason why it didn't suceed was really just the gameplay to cutscene ratio. The reviews where not that bad ... but i was interested since anime plus space plus mecha. Of course you had to watch the 3 hours long DVD with the cutscenes first (and yeah the cutscenes where uncensored in the video... i can remember at least... have to double check though)

This game brings back memories

*Cries in american Xenosaga fan*

I played the 3 games, the first was a complete rpg gem! the second not so good, but the 3rd was a good game, the ending is just fantastic! We deserve more!

Does anyone know where the art for the thumbnail came from? I'd like to know who the artist is.

I super enjoyed all 3 games but I enjoy 1 the most

Why Xenosaga for me was always special, is for the fact that it is one of the rare (at least good ones) RPGs series that are set in space and and with that are more sci-fi based, not to mention philosophical. It is a great series, but too bad that we never saw the vision for it that was originally planned.