14.XENOGEARS(PS1)
Xenogears is an awesome Role Playing Game Squaresoft(Square-Enix) released in February 1998 in Japan and October 1999 in the US.
Xenogears initially takes place on Ignas, the largest continent of the Xenogears world, and the site of a centuries-long war between the nations of Aveh and Kislev. and their endless power struggle. With the nations constantly dueling for power and resources, warfare has escalated to new levels thanks to Mecha called Gears. Although Kislev originally had the upper hand in the war, a mysterious army known as Gebler appeared and began to provide assistance to Aveh. With Gebler's help, the Aveh military not only recovered its losses, but began making its way into Kislev's territory. As the story unfolds, the setting broadens to encompass the entire world and the two floating countries, Shevat and Solaris. Solaris, ruled by Emperor Cain and the Gazel Ministry, commands the Gebler army and the Ethos and secretly uses both to dominate the land-dwellers. Shevat has been the only country to evade the control of Solaris.
Xenogears centers around the protagonist Fei Fong Wong, an adopted young male in the village, Lahan, brought by a mysterious "masked man" three years ago. The events surrounding Fei's arrival at the village cause him to have amnesia. During a battle between Gebler and Kislev forces taking place in Lahan, Fei pilots an empty gear named Weltall in an attempt to defend the village against both groups of gears. Witnessing the death of his friend during this battle causes a dormant personality within him to awaken, who then proceeds to destroy the entire village. Fei later awakens with no recollection of what happened. he then departs on a journey to discover his own past and unravel the mystery of the planet's past and humanity's role in relation to it.
Battle in Xenogears is a variant of the Active Time Battle system found in games such as Chrono Trigger and the Final Fantasy series characters use a combination of martial arts moves, Ether attacks, and special Deathblow combinations which are learned through the repetition of specific proportions of strong, moderate, and weak hits. All offensive actions use Action Points (AP), costing either 3 points(heavy attack), 2 points( medium attack), or 1 point(lite attack) Each character can initially use only 3 AP per turn, but at higher levels, they can eventually use up to 7 AP per turn. At a certain point in the game, characters can begin using Elemental Deathblows In addition to being used for attacks, AP may be saved and allocated to Attack Points for combo attacks during later turns. A total of 28 AP may be accumulated for combo attacks.
In GEAR combat, the limiting factor of AP is replaced by fuel, with each attack consuming an amount corresponding to its power.
The Cast of characters are awesome my favorite is Elly Van Houten.
The visuals are combination 2D and 3D with all the characters in highly detailed sprites and sets them against a 3D polygonal world like GRANDIA.
The musical score is composed by Mitsuda Yasunori of Chrono Tirgger fame the score is awesome and fits the game perfectly. one of my favorites is "Small Two of Pieces Screeching Shards, was the first ending theme with sung lyrics to ever appear in a game developed by SQUARESOFT(SQUARE-ENIX) the Xenogears OST reached No.55 on the Japan Oricon charts.
Xenogears is awesome from the opening cutscene to the final credits it feels like a combination of the Neon Geneses Evangelion Anime and Final Fantasy RPG. anybody who is a Evangelion fan or Mecha Anime fan in general should play Xenogears.
XENOGEARS ENDING Small of Two Pieces
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