Xeno Debate: Gears Vs. Saga

[tony12]

As someone who played Xenogears way back when and read all of the perfect works stuff when it was still readily available online Xenogears gave you so much more of the complete story than Xenosaga did.

Xenogears has probably been the longest jrpg ever created and it had a ton of depth. It gave you a very detailed story about what they were currently doing as well as gave you backstories for everything that came before.

When Xenosaga was announced it was supposed to be a re-telling of all six episodes from perfect works. Quite frankly it failed miserably at accomplishing the goal it set out to do. Game one was about a third of the size Xenogears was and didn't do nearly as good of job of developing the world as Xenogears (mainly because it was so much shorter). Episode 2 came out and their had been a big turnover production wise and it really showed in the game. The series was all but done by Episode III and many fans had already given up hope for the future of the series. Though Episode III turned out to be a pretty good game it just showed how poor of job they did at trying to do a re-telling of perfect works.


You can say what you want about Xenogears but at least Xenogears did a much more thorough job of telling the story of perfect works than Xenosaga did (the only reason Xenosaga was created in the first place was to tell that story and it failed miserably at it). Instead of giving you six episodes from perfect works xenosaga gave you two at the most (as episode 1 of perfect works was about the galactic war that was going on and it ended when they went searching for a new planet to settle on).