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I agree that it really sucks his Ideas never saw fruition. I always hate when creators aren't able to get their ideas out. Hell, I would love to see it the way he had intended. The guy clearly has talent, and it's really sad we may never see it. I already knew before playing episode 2 (But not before 1) that the game wasn't going to end up the way he wanted.

Didn't stop me from loving 3, and still enjoying 2 regardless of it's flaws.

Edit: Mind you, I didn't know WHAT it was intended to be, just that it wasn't going to happen.
Here is a link to Perfect Works that was translated by some guy into English. It was a 360 some page book but it was only written in Japanese. There was a website that gave all the main points of perfect works in much better fashion than this link does but it has long since been taken down.

GameFAQs: Xenogears (PS) Perfect Works Translation Guide by int

The links aren't completely the same because again Square owned the rights to Xenogears so they could not make a direct copy of Xenogears. But in anycase you can easily see that Xenosaga was meant to be a re-telling of Perfect Works.
I can't really be assed to read it right now, I am tired and unmotivated, but I might get around to it.

I do want to point out though that Lufia is actually probably a better example then you gave it credit for.

If you played those games, or at least Lufia 2, you may know that probably the single most important figure in those games is a guy by the name of Arek the Absolute, or Arekdeus, whichever you prefer. The third game was intended to finally reveal who this guy was, until the studio went under and they were bought by Taito. The game was made, but at no point does it offer any information on Arekdeus, or for that matter any real addition to the story established by 1 and 2. To this day, no one but the people who created the original games have any smurfing clue who Arek was.