Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra Reactions

[Shoeberto]

I doubt I'll ever play this since it has tons of story and it's kind of confusing. I neverl iked the battle system of the first game and I heard the second one's more annoying. Plus I really don't like the fact that I'll be spending more time watching the game then actually playing it.

But I thought you liked Metal Gear Solid?

[Ultima Shadow]

KOS-MOS : Episode I voice (YEAH!)

YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!

[Erdrick Holmes]

I doubt I'll ever play this since it has tons of story and it's kind of confusing. I neverl iked the battle system of the first game and I heard the second one's more annoying. Plus I really don't like the fact that I'll be spending more time watching the game then actually playing it.

But I thought you liked Metal Gear Solid?

Damn, he's got me there.

Still I don't like Xenosaga. The battle system's too tedius and the plots too confusing.

[Ouch!]

The plot is much easier to follow if you keep up with the additions to the database. It's perhaps the most useful thing I've ever seen in a video game.

The battle system also kicks ass. It's so much better than it was in I and II. I know even regular fights in Episode II could take several minutes, but the longest regular fight I've had lasted maybe only three minutes, and bosses don't take 20-30 minutes to kill anymore. I've also finished fights off in under half a minute. My lowest is 19 seconds. I wouldn't call that tedious.

[MecaKane]

I got it today and just started playing. It already seems a lot better than the second one. I don't like how you have to press circle to make the text go especially with the ammount of stuff there's bound to be. I HATED that in Xenogears. I just like to relax an watch when the big long secenes come on.

I agree about the pressing O thing, mainly because it hacks up the continuity of the way the voice acting sounds if you don't press it right. There is too much dialogue and story scenes to put them all into nice fully animated scenes, but they should have just made it so you didn't have to press anything. We've got the start + triangle skip feature anyway. I guess this was to counter all the criticism about the lengthy scenes, so someone can just read through it without actually listening to all the dialogue spoken. I've gotten used to it, but I could definitely do without.

Hit select. Trust me.

OH THANK YOU JESUS.

Still I don't like Xenosaga. The battle system's too tedius

But I thought you liked Dragon Quest?

[LunarWeaver]

I just finished it today. Completely amazing! My favorite of the three altogether. The battle system is simpler but that actually works in this game's favor. The E.S. battles were also fun for once instead of ridiculous.

I'm happy with the way things wrapped up... However...


(SPOILER)Allen didn't die like I've predicted since Episode I, and chaos and Wilhelm never had a big throwdown like I thought they would. Oh well... The end remained sad and happy at the same time. And it even left room for a sequel if they ever feel like it =D

[Markus. D]

yeah... the E.S. battle reallllly suck.

I was so glad to hop out of the E.S thingy and go "wow, this game isnt as crap as it first stated".

MOMO kinda dominated the first Major boss she was in (she was really the only one doing damage, and she wasnt getting the major attacks because of the "dont harm her thing" and only getting minutely damaged by the AoE attacks"

and....... I LOVE THIS GAME ^-^!

some of the voice-overing really really sucks.... like, Tuskies voice didnt suit gunner/pally wannabe Rubedo. cept in the serious parts.

Rubedo is so awesome ^-^!


zomg... Albedo is the greatest villian ever!




<3

:3

[Erdrick Holmes]

But I thought you liked Dragon Quest?

I did, but the battles in Dragon Quest don't require you to sit through turns in combat just so you can do special attacks or cycle through more menus tan you actually need.

[Markus. D]

......... Rubedo!

[farplaner]

Oh, for a second there I thought Xenosaga had resurrected Richard Strauss.

[Kefka_Almighty]

(SPOILER)The Red Testament is Kevin. I so called that.

No offense, but I'm fairly certain that most of the fans had called that.

Either way, Episode III is easily best of the series, and it makes me sad and irritated that there probably aren't going to be any other games in the series after it. While there is the possibility, which they allude to slightly at the end, I really don't think they will unless the game sells well enough to appease Namco Bandai, which it probably won't. :P

[Forsaken Lover]

All the Testaments' identities were revealed in a pre-release trailer. And I thought the White Testament was Sergeant Swaine.

Anywho, EP1 is still my favorite. It looked better, lacked the editting, a PERFECT voice-cast while EPIII had failings such as some poor dialogue and voice-actors. I also liked Shion more in Episode 1 'cause she was sexy-cute and the anime-style was so much better with her having a slim waist and a big fanny. Albedo was actually "evil" in Episode 1 and you got a decent look at every character. EPIII is a small way behind it but EP1 is still my favorite.

EP1 gets points for a good soundtrack and voice-acting and story and battle system and Voyager.

[Khaotic]

Beat it 2 days ago, along with the "optional bosses", overall i'd give it a 9/10, though I wish the ultimate weapons had alittle more "oomph" to them and were slightly harder to obtain.

[Ouch!]

(SPOILER)The Red Testament is Kevin. I so called that.

No offense, but I'm fairly certain that most of the fans had called that.

Of course they did, it was pretty obvious. =P

I finished the game a couple days back, and now I'm on my second playthrough. The ending disappointed me a little, but I can't say that I didn't expect it to be so completely open-ended.

[edczxcvbnm]

http://edczxcvbnm.livejournal.com/2295.html

Those are my thoughts on Xenosaga Episode IV so far. It is painfully obvious that they cancelled the real Xenosaga III.