It's a sewer maze level with a boss that one hit KOs every other turn and shits status aliments on you episode

>it's a sewer maze level with a boss that one hit KOs every other turn and shits status aliments on you episode

>It's Celtic ballad episode
BRRROOOOOOKKKEEEEEENNN MIIIIIIIRRRRRROOORRR!

It's an enormous in spite of being unfinished rpg episode

>tfw even an unfinished xenogears was a better game than any of the mainline FFs, but will never ever get remade/finished because the autistic creator is now only obsessed with retardedly huge open worlds

>It's a you should git gud episode

Xenogears is borderline unplayable and the writing is terrible too. I have no idea what anyone sees in it

>It's a climbing up a huge tower with bad platforming that disables the jump button moments before random encounters episode
Fuck.

>defending sewer levels
>ever

all video game writing is terrible outside of the short stories in lost odyssey

that being said, the actual world of the game was very interesting from a primary plotline perspective, even underneath all the crazy jap neo-theology freud babble.
giant robots powered by transient alien from another dimension is p cool

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Did they fuck?

A MILLION SHADES OF LIGHT

Like animals. Maria watched.

No they just snuggled under the covers all night, and the AC was broken so she took off her clothes.

>its a "Sup Forums stealing memes from the only board worse than Sup Forums" episode

What the fuck was with that boss anyway. I remember him doing that shit.

Was there a gimmick I was supposed to follow? I just had to dunk him before everyone died I guess.

You were suppose to wear cool shades and something else to prevent two of the three ailments, and have Citan heal your poison if I recall. Also carry a bunch of KO revive items.

Kislev Sewer isn't that bad, and the boss is easy as long as you've learned your Deathblows.

You want annoying? Have you been to Babel Tower?

>It's a "you fell of the ledge because the game doesn't let you jump right before a battle" episode.

It's a caricature of Jungian psychology, Judeo Christian theology, and Gnosticism by people who clearly don't understand any of these. The appealing part is the superficial mysteriousness, like the early episodes of X-files before things are revealed and they end up firing a blank.

It has some plot points that are interesting (like the story behind Miang) but the overall product is a mess, like yeah, the gameplay is total crap. It would have been better off as a manga or anime.

THE OLD ECHO FADES AWAY

Ironically, that's probably the most fleshed out arc in the game. The gameplay starts to decline afterwards.

He'd stop using it eventually

The final dungeon almost made me snap the disc, and I never finished the game. Years later I read up what the ending was about.

I thought the last dungeon was bad until I remembered that you have a map which makes the whole thing pretty easy.

I don't remember any map .-.

Yup, it's the one dungeon that has one, accessed by hitting select.

Now I feel kind of bad for you.

Elly was my first crush. Such a cutie.

The Shevat dungeon also has one and it's pretty lame.

That I did not know. Shevat was never a problem since it was always just "keep going down".

>tfw you will never marry Elly and adopt a 500 year old loli

>loli

Please tell me you had her grow up before the end, right?

I remember playing this as a 13 years old and watching evangelion at the same time, it blew my mind. Look where I landed now

I did, but only because i fucking love that cutscene from her sidequest. If not for that, i'd keep her a loli eternally

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I mean, none of the game's dungeons were particularly well-designed, so that's the rule with any of them.

>Its a platforming tower level you have makes you start over if you fuck up

One of it's many problems, though I love the game despite it's flaws.

Why what happens if you don't make her grow up?

She stays as a gross loli. Also her stat progression gets fucked.

Well most of them were half-finished and a bunch didn't even make it into the game

You can, for example, find bits and pieces of the Soylent System dungeon still in the game files

There's lots of weird little things because of that. Like the Alpha Weltall fight after Deus actually has a unique item he drops, except he's a story boss and is almost impossible to kill.

>gross

Yeah I know you have to spam Wild Smile and hope

If you have the Trader Card from Hammer it's a guaranteed drop.

It's Godslayer garb or Conquerors robe or something like that, can't remeber

And it's completely pointless since there are no more non-gear dungeons after that.

>Redrum

You find the bell he kept in his room and then later in the game when you get to Billys orphanage; you find a boy who said he and his dad had matching bells.

feelsbadman

>not getting Ether Doublers for Elly before the Babel Tower climb to make battles easy as fuck
>not holding Circle to keep your Gear steady before a jump
Filthy plebians, all of you

It's still a neat thing since in my headcanon it's the armor Grahf wears

>Elly
>not use Emeralda

>People claim game was unfinished.
>Lacan was almost finished painting the portrait of Sophia but stopped "because he needed more paint"

He just didn't want his time with her to end.

The game designer didn't want his game to end.

Poetry on the meta level, senpai.

I enjoyed my time with FFX more than Xenogears

>tfw unequiping Elly's equipment before she leaves the party forever

Holding Circle doesn't help when the game disables your jump 2 seconds before a battle with no warning.

But FFX was one of the worst FFs.

people like to shit on the babel tower, but when I got to that part and realized the dungeon was a sideways spaceship it blew my 14 year old mind.

stat progression doesn't matter though since all the boss fights at that point in the game are gear battles.

Pretty sure the disc spins extra fast before a battle. That won't help anymore but it was a good hint back in the day.

I remember being able to hit select or something and getting a triangle over my head that would change colors to indicate a random battle coming up. Maybe I'm just crazy.

I cant stand any of the ATB ones and I really enjoyed constantly swapping out party members to use all 7 in boss fights

Fair enough. I really can't imagine disliking atb. It's basically the same thing if you use wait mode and I like the slight pressure to think on the fly.

>stat progression doesn't matter though since all the boss fights at that point in the game are gear battles.

Speed.

the last battle with miang and ramsus before the final boss made me quit playing for awhile fuck that shit.

The Opiomorph fight seems tough until you realize she can't do damage unless you attack. So if you're low on health and fuel from the Ramsus fight you can just Charge and Fix Frame all you want until you're ready to fight again.

Why?

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>and it's still easy as fuck if you're not pants on head retarded

>I looked it up on youtube!

Entry level philosphy + christian symbol spam = 3deep5me
Evangelion did the same while managing to unintentionally shoehorn in Ender's Game as the plotline.

>Ender's Game as the plotline.
how?
I don't know if you're going off the movie but the original book didn't seem like eva at all

Hey it worked for Kojima, right?

Actually, Emeralda is unique in affecting her Gear stats. It's not shown, but as an adult she gets a 20% damage boost applied to all on-foot and gear damage, and this is done post-accesories. As an adult, Crescens matches Xenogears' damage point for point but is faster, and it will outpace its damage as you add more engine boosting accessories to both.

Also some character stats do carry over to gear, like evasion and accuracy, where she gets another major advantage due to her stat growths as an adult.

Adult Emeralda is probably the best character in the game, but it's not like it matters by the time you can get that kind of setup anyway.

It would be pretty easy to tie in all the Xeno games together if you work with what Alvis tells you at the end of Xenoblade Chronicles.

Imagine how sweet that would be. Imagine Elma getting to meet Elly, or Fiora, Lin, and KOS-MOS meeting

Redrum literally shut my ability to play Xenogears down.

It's done it just about every time.
There are too many boss fights in Xenogears that just shit on your momentum.

Build combos and unleash deathblows on foot.

This game seems to have gotten a bit more popular lately. I think it may have had a small surge due to Team four star doing a long ass lets play of it.

It's a pretty lengthy game. An average play with minimal side quests will be around 45 hours.

Yea this is the boss that's supposed to teach you how effective the AP combo meter is.

it's popular until you actually play it and find out it doesn't hold up. read Perfect Works for a better use of your time.

Damn, all my four playthroughs took around 70 hours, and i thought i was being quick

I know, I love this game and haven't played it in over 10 years mostly because I know the amount of time I need to set aside to beat it.

I'm just saying I see a lot more posts and talk about it around and my suspicion is I noticed a very popular group giving it attention.

I imagine if pewdiepie did a xenogears lets play we'd have a remake from Square in a couple years.

>45 hours

More like 60+, user.

70 for a first time is believable. My last playthrough was 50 with no sidequesting at all.

IIRC wasn't there an anime cutscene of them starting to undress after Fei escaped from a prison cell?

Only immediately before the battle transition. As in during the transition. The jump is disabled for a couple seconds before that.

>being this underage
Nigger, you are so casual it hurts.

i wish

as a child I found this scene crazy as it was the first sex scene I saw in a game.

Lolwut. There's like almost no Christian imagery or mythology in Gears. Did you even play the game?

>There's like almost no Christian imagery or mythology in Gears.

>"almost" means "zero"
Your reading comprehension is so good. You must be the star of your class, user.

the fucking necklace in the game. are you blind? Its fucking obvious what symbol they are intending to display.

I thought it was something as much as them going in to kiss and then Fei waking up from a bed that Elly is also sleeping in, after he breaks out of Shevat. Finished the game over five years ago so my memory is hazy.

"Almost" none wouldn't have Square chicken out of a EU release and almost not release it in NA.

Is that a common problem when playing on the PS1? I know when you play it on a PS2 you get a similar problem, only you get it because it doesn't disable the jump. The game registers the random encounter going off, but because of game lag due to it being unfinished, you can jump right after the trigger for a random encounter, and the encounter will still happen in midair. It completely stops your forward momentum, too, so if you're in the middle of a platforming section where you can get into a random encounter, like that one cliff right before the first Elly fight on Disc 1 or basically all of Babel Tower, you'll just fall straight down and hope it doesn't happen again after you climb all the way back up to where you were before.

It happens on PS1 and emulators, any type.

you walk in circles before a jump to get a fight. then after a fight, you do the jump. that's the only way to be sure it won't get interrupted

Which is obnoxious and time consuming.

so is fucking missing the jump 20 times.

while i agree that the platforming was stupid, it's not gonna add that much time to your playthrough

If that scene doesn't confirm it, then that speech Elly gives later to her squad pretty much does