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I'll never understand how you can place Xenosaga so high and Xenogears so low.
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The most major one of course is keeping all the cast relevant and not letting them just drop off into obscurity. (that was a bad habit of Gears) By and large it also has better dungeons but that's just because XG's dungeons were among the worst in history.
Wilhelm vs. Krelian also isn't a very fair comparison though Wilhelm is a much better character.
Rico's subplot with being the son of the Kaiser was also pretty neat. (if only it went somewhere...)
...Yeah, you kind of listed a pretty damn solid foundation as to just why I love Saga so much more then Gears for me in this post.

There is also the lack of an entire disk that does nothing but monologue to you. That's a bit plus in Xeno's favor. (Though to be fair, twice Saga did something similar where Shion in Episode 2 talked about the war between Federation and Immigrant fleet, and talking about how she came to join Scientia. However the description was far less boring, and didn't go on for anywhere near as long as Xenogears did.)

Also, the Characters are pretty much universally better. Fei and Citan being an exception to this. Fei is easilly a better lead then Shion, and Citan in terms of quality is on par with the Saga cast. Though I guess I could do a Character Vs. Character comparison, though It might be hard to be fair considering Xeno got 3 games to flesh out it's cast.