g-value on 24 February 2009
| Millennium said: Xenogears is a decent game. It could have been one of the best of all time, but it suffers from a few deep flaws. The story is amazing, and the battle system is creative and was very innovative for its time (and perhaps even still). Unfortunately, the rumors of it being an incomplete game are true: they ran out of money shortly after finishing Disc 1, and so Disc 2 attempts to finish up the story with many hours of cutscenes but maybe 3-4 hours of gameplay total on that disc. Some theorize that the demand for cutscene-skip really got started because this game lacked it, and often featured long cutscenes before boss fights, leading to what some refer to as "Xenogears Penalty Mode": if you lost a boss fight you'd have to sit through the cutscene again before you could try again. Xenogears' relationship to Xenosaga is a strange one. Xenogears was originally made to be the fifth game in a series, but none of the others were ever made; Square-Enix cancelled the project after the first game. The people who worked on the project left Square-Enix to form their own company, but they couldn't truly continue the series since Square-Enix still owned the IP, so they started work on a Xenogears-like series that became Xenosaga. |
I think depends, Xenogears's 2nd disk may have been full of cutscenes but the storyline was so incredible it did not even matter.But the combat system was incredible as well so it depends.
