Tetsuya Takahashi's (and Soraya Saga's!) long-running and decidedly ambitious - if only tangenially connected - may have been handled by various distributors, but they have enough of common links to at least warrant the term of spiritual sequels. Yes, there is a visible shift in gameplay-to-story proportion between Xenosaga and Xenoblade, but even in the relatively light on plot installments, you can still feel that unmistakable Takahashi flair.

As a reminder, the games include:

Xenogears
The entire Xenosaga series (this includes spin-offs like Pied Piper)
Xenoblade Chronicles
Xenoblade Chronicles X
Xenoblade Chronicles 2


So let's get down to business!

Favorite game:
Favorite story:
Favorite cast:
Favorite battle system:
Favorite mechs (Gears, AGWS, ES, Dolls, Blades?):
Favorite guy:
Favorite gal:
Favorite mascot:
Favorite Gear/ES/etc:
Favorite secret evil organization:
Favorite villain:
Favorite world:
Favorite malevolent collective entity (Wels, Gnosis, Telethia, etc.):
Favorite Miang: