Xenogears 2 with the proper leadership team: Tetsuya Takahashi, Soraya Saga, Kunihiko Tanaka, Yasunori Mitsuda, and Yasuyuki Honne.
Masato Kato is optional, and only if they add someone like Takashi Tokita to work as a producer between him and Tetsuya Takahashi… because Kato did some things that seemed bad to Takahashi (like exposition dumps) and turned out to work out very well… but some of his stuff just turned out bad in Xenogears - like using inappropriate tracks for certain events, and overall just kind of wild unhinged writing in his spots that seemed strangely low quality compared to Saga and Takahashi’s work. However! With Takashi Tokita working above Kato, all the bad bad stuff gets filtered out, and all the “bad on paper” that turns out to be good gets distilled into brilliance.
I describe myself as a little dose of toxic masculinity.
