Hey, sorry for taking so long - holidays! Happy New Year, btw, and I hope you had a relatively peaceful Christmas, at least Can’t remember the pirate dude but I remember Ozma being great and one of the biggest draws of the Law path along with Ravness. Meanwhile, I just finished Xenogears this morning. I ended up storming Deus without taking down any of the pillars and ended up beating it fairly easily while taking all its elements out would’ve been incredibly time-consuming. Also, looking at the majority of opinions on the internet, I must be some kind of Xenogears hipster because I enjoyed both Babel Tower and D Block, but felt that everything about Maria’s arc was underwhelming and pretty lame, with the track “Wings” being CRIMINALLY overrated. It starts off nice and cool but then just goes and loops around the main melody, which is definitely not Mitsuda at his finest, to say the least. Also, screw the Thames for being pointless padding in an already huge game. Continuing the hipster trend, I actually really appreciate discord 2 the way it is. Not only do the best parts of the story happen here, they progress quickly with very little padding and the buildup to the end is immense because of that. Not to mention it also helped reduce end-game fatigue, so instead of feeling like shouting “when will this end” at the game, it felt like I spent just the right amount of time with the game. I also don’t feel like a Lacan game is necessary or even has enough material to be interesting, tbh - it’s basically just an arc that’s part of Fei and Elly’s backstory and I feel that the game spends just enough time on it to make it all meaningful. But yeah, Xenogears is great and I still love it very much and I’m glad I played it again. And now that I’ve kidnapped my brother’s Wii U, finally, I can jump right into Xenoblade Chronicles X after work today!
Finally got to Chapter 4. Missed out on recruiting the pirate dude, but I got Ozma at least.
I feel people make a bigger deal out of it than it really is. Most likely, people who haven't touched a 3D Platformer from that era in quite awhile. I'm still on Chapter 3, but recruited Hobyrim the Swordmaster. I'm taking the fight to the Bakram right now.
Okay so Babel Tower wasn’t nearly as bad as I remembered
Overpowered indeed.
The Giant Wels went down in exactly two hits. Aerods.
Vierge is a nasty and underrated Gear.
I still enjoy the crazy violins Btw, I’m at the orphanage now and I have an ether doubler! Aerods are fun
As I said, it's not like I feel they are bad, but they simply don't stand out to me like his other tracks. I feel the only battle theme he's ever done that is honestly a weak track is his one for Chrono Cross.
I actually really enjoy most of his battle themes, except CT’s regular battle. Sure, he goes all out with the more important boss fights, but I really enjoy that subtle constant-tension loop in Xenogears’ battle themr
