Don't judge a book by it's first ten chapters

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

What games can you think of that changed significantly, for better or worse, at some point midway through?

Xenogears.

This quote pretty much sums it up.

"The first disc is a game. The second disc is a text dump with some boss fights. The project had gone way over time and budget limitations. So, they rushed to get the game out. Unfortunately, that means that on the second disc, you read about events and fight bosses between long reads. There's no more exploring or finding things for yourself....for the most part, anyway.

It does go back into World Map game mode, before the final battle. Which will allow you to trigger a few optional sidequests that you may have missed on disc 1."

I truly believe this would have been my favorite video game of all time, if only the content was spread out between 3-4 discs, instead of having it all rushed in to 2 discs.