Oh the hijinks 😂

Yea those guys are awesome lol

@@carfo I'm impressed you got it down to just 10 minutes

@@LeoTheLion17 I could have done a long winded lore dump but I wanted to keep it pretty succinct and as relevant to what is actually going on in the fmv without going _too_ far out of scope. Maybe one day I’ll do a “timeline” episode.

I posted a link to your original video on that episode.

If you own a physical copy, just emulate it. It should work these days, surely.

I was so fed up to keep falling again and again I didn't notice. 😂

I would recommend you research the Xenosaga series from the creation and business perspective to see why. For legal reasons they could not be tied together the two series due to Square owning the rights to the Xenogears universe. So they had to make the xenosaga games have the same universe and continuity without referencing directly the Xenogears information. It was a way of getting around the copyright and allowing the series to go forward with a different company.

Oh, Resonant Arc here on youtube does a Xenogears deep dive that is very deep and thorough, I recommend it. They did a great job and you will learn a lot that gamers would never have known otherwise. Sad that business has to kill off promising universes like Xenogears and Lodoss War.

I had to slow it down to .75 to understand it all lol

Thanks! I didn’t mention the “fakenet” was likely some kind of network containment trap but I think I got mostly everything else right.

Labyrinth, hall of mirrors

¡gracias! Estoy trabajando en un nuevo vídeo. Espero lanzarlo pronto

I remember hearing that this story was supposed to be FF7 but was rejected by SE, something about the games themes being too dark... but the story was good enough to get its own title: Xenogears.

yes and no. xenogears and xenosaga are technically two entirely separate IPs from a legal definition because Monolith did not own the IP rights to Xenogears. Xenosaga episodes 1-3 is a reimagining of the events prior to Xenogears but there are a lot of similarities and call backs, this includes the Xenoblade games as well, though it's a completely separate story that again shares a lot of the same themes as their previous works

It’s never explained why deus wanted to go there.

Wonder if fleshed out the idea in Xenosaga…

speculation: Deus wanted to go to Lost Jerusalem because Raziel's Tree indicated that this was the original of humans, and humans are organic material in which Deus could restore itself.

@@RetrogradeAmnesia any speculation is valid since the xenosaga version of lost jerusalem is seemingly different than xenogears' (example: in saga, no one knows where lost jerusalem is, but in xenogears, the controller on the eldridge knew the coordinates). Granted, xenogears takes place after saga so it's possible they eventually came to know the location, but all perfect works says about Earth is that it after humans left earth, they deemed it a forbidden planet to which no one should ever go but it's never specified why. i would have to assume that Earth is empty of human life, though I think the "humans" we see in xenogears only look that way because Deus extracted the data from Razael and made "human" in that recognizable form. If you remember, the gazel wanted to use the Gaeta key to turn the "humans" into their true form, the Wels, which are the real parts for Deus. It seems the whole "human" concept was just a form of control, a system that required breeding to which Wels could not do, or maybe because Fei was the only true human and had a connection to the Zohar post crash landing, kadomony had to adapt until they were ready to be turned in Wels, though Krelian side-stepped this process a lot with nanotechnology.

@@carfo it's interesting, because i think Deus was created in Lost Jerusalem

The actual answer is a mistranslation. See, the person who translated the intro had NO context for the rest of the game. It really should say something Deus is attacking but it was translated as “they”. Also, when you hear the operator say Omega1 and Alpha1, in your head put a period or exclamation point instead of a comma and that’s is the proper syntax translated correctly as well.

@@carfo thanks man! This little thing was wandering in my head for months after finishing the game! It's just sad to realise that we probably will not see again a game like this. Of course Xenogears was not perfect, but all the things surrounding the game and, mainly, the plot made me love this game, at the point that it became my favourite JRPG.

That's analogous to the trinity in Christianity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.