Its a pity things worked out this way. I'll be buying ep II in a couple of weeks. As I understand it the new project supervisor(or something like that) is mostly to blame. He wanted an easier to understand game with more explosions and a simpler storyline and pretty much raped Sorayas original script cutting out alot of important parts. I think this new guy only did the maps for xenogears and xenosaga I. How he ended up in control of episode II, I havent a clue. Anyway episode II improved greatly on cutscene graphics and character design. I also thought the soundtrack was awesome. Yuki Kajiura that is. Not Shinji Hosoe. He sucks. Though I dont think he'll be back for episode III. He said something like "well I gave it a shot but this isnt really my thing". Im pretty sure Kajiura will come back for episode III. One of the trailers had this tune playing that sounded very like her style. (Im not talking about the trailer that played "here he comes#2" from xenosaga II.


I thought the new voice actors were good also except for Kos-Mos's new voice which pretty much set it in everyones minds that the game had bad voice actors. Even though she had like five whole lines. "Shion is calling me" and "Continue in our current direction and we're screwed" and some other stuff.
Too bad.