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Many people are talking about having all the Xenoblade games on one console.
I'm looking at it this way. All three of my favourite open world games (Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and Witcher 3) are all on one console.
For Xeno games, I'm specifically interested in getting all of them in one place, that includes Xenogears, Xenosaga (at least Episode 1, but I'd like all three), and even the prior games that have weak spiritual ties into the Xeno-games: Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6 (already on Switch).
For those who don't know the history of the game development, Xenogears began as a sequel to both Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger - some elements of the game made it into Final Fantasy 7 since the script was given to a separate team after Takahashi worked on it.
Many elements of Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger made it in:
Gears are the second version of Magitek Armour, which Takahashi wanted to make more "Esper-like" in the game. Gears then became Skells and Mechons in the Xenoblade series - you could say the first true Mechon was Nikolai Balthasar in Xenogears - since he was merged into a Gear like the Mechons, and several others were later (that would be a spoiler though).
The Three Goddesses and Lavos are more or less combined into Deus - Deus powers the Gears much like the goddesses from FF6 powers the Espers, Deus also controls the world from its resting place much like Lavos from Chrono Trigger. Deus also has an extra terrestrial origin like Lavos (which is seen in the first minutes of the game).
The Fatima dynasty is directly based on the Figaro family - the brothers Rene and Roni Fatima are revisions of Edgar and Sabin - Roni and Rene are their middle games - and their ship is the successor of Figaro Castle.
Xenogears, for any who don't know, is also the main inspiration for the stories of all subsequent Xeno-games: Xenosaga, and all four of the Xenoblade games. Elements of Xenosaga made it into Xenoblade as well, the beanstalk is almost the same design as Fifth Jerusalem's beanstalk orbital station tower. The story of Xenogears is bigger and more fleshed out than any of those games though, but a lot of it is told in summary in the later portions of the game (because they didn't want to cut the end of the game, but they also didn't have the budget to make it).
And for Xenogears fans who aren't sure. Check out this book, you can get it for cheap on ebook (like 2-3 quid).
Many people are talking about having all the Xenoblade games on one console.
I'm looking at it this way. All three of my favourite open world games (Breath of the Wild, Xenoblade Chronicles X, and Witcher 3) are all on one console.
For Xeno games, I'm specifically interested in getting all of them in one place, that includes Xenogears, Xenosaga (at least Episode 1, but I'd like all three), and even the prior games that have weak spiritual ties into the Xeno-games: Chrono Trigger and Final Fantasy 6 (already on Switch).
For those who don't know the history of the game development, Xenogears began as a sequel to both Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger - some elements of the game made it into Final Fantasy 7 since the script was given to a separate team after Takahashi worked on it.
Many elements of Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger made it in:
Gears are the second version of Magitek Armour, which Takahashi wanted to make more "Esper-like" in the game. Gears then became Skells and Mechons in the Xenoblade series - you could say the first true Mechon was Nikolai Balthasar in Xenogears - since he was merged into a Gear like the Mechons, and several others were later (that would be a spoiler though).
The Three Goddesses and Lavos are more or less combined into Deus - Deus powers the Gears much like the goddesses from FF6 powers the Espers, Deus also controls the world from its resting place much like Lavos from Chrono Trigger. Deus also has an extra terrestrial origin like Lavos (which is seen in the first minutes of the game).
The Fatima dynasty is directly based on the Figaro family - the brothers Rene and Roni Fatima are revisions of Edgar and Sabin - Roni and Rene are their middle games - and their ship is the successor of Figaro Castle.
Xenogears, for any who don't know, is also the main inspiration for the stories of all subsequent Xeno-games: Xenosaga, and all four of the Xenoblade games. Elements of Xenosaga made it into Xenoblade as well, the beanstalk is almost the same design as Fifth Jerusalem's beanstalk orbital station tower. The story of Xenogears is bigger and more fleshed out than any of those games though, but a lot of it is told in summary in the later portions of the game (because they didn't want to cut the end of the game, but they also didn't have the budget to make it).
And for Xenogears fans who aren't sure. You'll notice a lot of science fiction influence, but by far the biggest is Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke - it combines elements from that book and another of his books 2001. you can get it for cheap (like 1-2 quid) or free if you live in countries where its public domain:
For 2001, I'd recommend the film over the book. But it's a bit arty; a bit interpretive. So, if you don't care about interpretive art and are more about plot, the book 2001 might be more your thing. But both are good, I'd recommend Film first, book second for 2001.
2001 is dark.
Childhood's End is darker. Some people prefer 2001, but IMO there's no comparison between the two, Childhood's End is Clarke's masterpiece.
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