The "Beginner's" Guide to the Xeno Series

[Pumpkin]

So some of you may have heard of and/or played Xenogears, Xenosaga, or Xenoblade (and sequels) and you may be confused or intimidated by the story and content. Understandable, they're rather complex games to get in to. So Fynn and I have apparently compiled a list of some important plot details for you.

*Note, out-of-context spoilers

Feel free to contribute if you've played the games!

The masked dude is kinda my dad and also kind of a previous incarnation of myself

I have been in love with the same girl for 10000 years but I really only wished her into existence because I needed a mother figure

My girlfriend is dead but it turns out they actually just turned her into a robot and I'M the dead one and the sword was just using my body

Our God figure is actually an A.I. who wants to harvest us over 10000 years for space parts


Weird, violent alien things are actually dead people who reject the afterlife collectivism and are slowly leading the universe to destruction

There's also actually a real God who is really a pretty swell dude who just wants to go home but the bad God computer doesn't wanna let him

Also, there's this kinda evil woman who's the original mother of every human on the planet except for me and she's kinda also my soulmate but not quite and she can hijack the body of any female human on the planet at any time only because she's literally written into all of our genetic code

Who also used that skill to take over my mother and subject me to brutal torture experiments


I made an android that's kind of Mary Magdalene and my boyfriend made her kill him and was brought back as an antagonist who emotionally abused me before revealing his identity and claiming he DID IT ALL FOR ME

I also have a daughter made of millions of tiny robots who's not really my daughter because she was made by me in a previous life at a time where evil body-jacking mom was president and no one could have kids. I can also make her grow up for some reason


People are literally changing into salt by touching space ghosts

[Fynn]

A giant pink chipmunk comes to your rescue and gets crucified for it

[Squall Leonhart Loire]

Xeno would be my favorite series of all time if only Xenoblade Chronicles X and II never happened.

[Fynn]

X was good and 2 hasn't happened yet

[Fynn]

There's also a race of people with wings on their heads who'll turn into dinosaurs if they don't breed with humans hard enough

[sharkythesharkdogg]

(SPOILER)

[Squall Leonhart Loire]

X was good and 2 hasn't happened yet

X seems like a MMO to me. I don't want them to go that route. And II has an unappealing art style.

[Pumpkin]

Dude came in to contact with a higher existence, couldn't handle it, made 669 designer children and tried to kill God

[Vyk]

I'm just glad the first Chronicles happened and Xenogears. Some of the primest jrpg experiences I've ever had

[Fynn]

Guy makes clone of his dead daughter and leaves the code to hack into God or something inside her

[Pumpkin]

Dude who was crushing on said dead guy's daughter develops feelings for the artificially created clone while also being an adult stuck in a teenager's body

[Formalhaut]

I really want to play Xenoblade Chronicles but I'm not able to. Don't have a fancy latest model 3DS and Nintendo Wii copies are like, super-expensive.

[Fynn]

And his brother once cut his head off in front of him and went crazy because he couldn't do the same

[Pumpkin]

I really want to play Xenoblade Chronicles but I'm not able to. Don't have a fancy latest model 3DS and Nintendo Wii copies are like, super-expensive.

They are, yeah. We got ours for like $60 used.

Bet you want to play more now after reading these!

[Fynn]

hint hint play Xenogears first it'll be cheaper and the game is awesome don't listen to the haters