Um, what a concept. Abel in Xenosaga looks just like Abel in Xenogears. Let me guess that you probably completely missed that Nephilim looks just like preincarnate Elly.

There was hope for Xenosaga when we still had four games coming that could make up for all the early crappiness. It was too early to tell with XS1. It had it's faults, but it wasn't bad. XS2, I approved of the new charactor designs, but the new voice actors threw everything off. My biggest issue with that game was that nothing happened. You can't have an entire installment in an epic six episode series where nothing happens.

I'm not going to kid myself and try to say that I won't by XS3... but my hopes aren't up. Better luck next time, Monolithsoft.