RiseToFall
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Pill loves me, Lunar loves Pill, I love Lunar. Now that we have our 'love triangle' all we need is a couple more generic members and we can all go on a journey to save the world. Hooray.

^ thanks for explanation of Ep. 2, very informative.

Yeah, I do. By the time I'm done with both DDS games, I think I'm going to be clinically insane .

Episode II happened with some staff changes...and it got a new director and composer, and the original scenario writer left. They decided Xenosaga fans wanted more action and less plot and it ended up kind of a big silly mess. The original writer listed all the changes they made from her script on her official website, and it became clear about 40% of the plot was left on the cutting room floor. Xenosaga fans love plot and that pissed us all off.

Yuki Kajiura wrote a beautiful soundtrack for the game, and they didn't even use 90% of her songs. Instead they used Shinji Hoseo's songs, which were a bunch of horrible techno that everybody hated. They used his songs for all in-game things and a few cutscenes, and then just a few of Kajiura's songs for most of the cutscenes. She wrote some absolutely amazing pieces I listen to on the soundtrack all the time that they didn't even touch.

While I personally like Episode II's battle system because it was faster, they got rid of the all separate Techs from Episode I. And instead of everybody having their individual spells, everybody now learns from one huge pool of skills. But they still aren't the same, and the battle system is very original, so whatever. They also entirely got rid of shops, equipment, and money, although there are skills you learn and then equip up to three at a time.

Anyway, with Episode III the new director finally got it right. Think of it kinda like how they smurfed up Devil May Cry 2, learned from their mistakes, and then were able to make DMC3, which is the greatest of all 3 in my opinion.

And thank God Kajiura did the entire soundtrack for the last Episode, and they actually used her big opera-like and emotional songs for bosses and events n' stuff instead of just ignoring them like they did for Episode II.

Ep II is not as bad as critics make it out to be, it was just too much change right on the heels of Episode I, and it feels too different for some. I already knew all the changes they had made for the better or worse before I picked it up, and since I wasn't so blind-sided by it I don't think I minded as much as others did. Episode II is still a good game, but it's the weakest of the three big time.

END RANT.

I love you Vitaliy.

And Devil Summoner does have an action type battle system, but DDS is giving me enough of a nervous breakdown as it is with its random encounters and it's not a road I'm taking again any day soon.

Don't you need to play the second one?


Also without any spoilers, what exactly happened to Xenosaga Ep 2? The reviews for that game were pretty low unlike the first and the third.

Gears is a good game, but an unfinished one and ... Well, you're going to hate me for this, because it's just whining, but the slow moving text and slow moving deathblows kills it for me. I can't even begin to think of playing that whole game all over again and watching 80 hours of horrible translation and Citan taking his sweet ass time to hit them with this sword.

Of course, Episode I has long ass techs, too, but thankfully the second and third have faster animations for things. I'm just a Xenosaga fanboy myself. I played Gears first I think but ended up liking it less in comparison.

And Devil Summoner does have an action type battle system, but DDS is giving me enough of a nervous breakdown as it is with its random encounters and it's not a road I'm taking again any day soon.

Devil Summoner looked intriguing, but when I read Gamespot's review and they said it had some of the most insanely high random encounter rates of all the SMT games I was put off ;-;.

Doesn't DS have more of an action type battle system? (Kind of like the Tales series.) I still want to give it a whirl later on. Plus it looks like Rasputin is in it, and they have those cool Russian dolls in the pic above. Kind of like this.

I've had that before I'll get something new and have odd urges to play something I've owned forever. Usually it happens with Xenosaga with me, though . Xenosaga is greater than all other things in the cosmos.

Xenogears > Xenosaga - I haven't even played any of the Saga games, but I know what I wrote is true. Gears pwns 95% of all other RPG's, it's a known fact I tell you.

Yeah, I heard Nocturne is insanely hard too. In fact, I got told by Shane that DDS is easy in comparison and now I want to vomit on the game.

Devil Summoner looked intriguing, but when I read Gamespot's review and they said it had some of the most insanely high random encounter rates of all the SMT games I was put off ;-;.

I've had that before I'll get something new and have odd urges to play something I've owned forever. Usually it happens with Xenosaga with me, though . Xenosaga is greater than all other things in the cosmos.

I've heard Nocturne is hard as though. I saw it used for $44.99 a couple of days ago at Gamestop.

I want to try out Devil Summoner and see if that's any good.

Edit: Alright I'm in this weird situation. I have all these new RPG's and I haven't finished Grandia 3 yet, but for some reason, I have this weird urge to go and replay Xenogears again. It's hunting me, and I just want it to go away until I finish my new games but, it just doesn't want to.

i was thinking about getting lucifers call (nocturne to you americans) but i abit put off by the price but considering that you get to hire demons and its a nice solidly hard RPG then i might buy it.....

Longest usernotage ever.

BTW, i hope Squall wins.