The gear battles were new and interesting though, but It hink most people hated those, makes no sense to me. Other characters like marie or maria or whatever her name is felt like a joke character. The combo thing was virtually useless beyond saving actionpoints for when a boss is using the 'defend' command. There is virtually no reason to not spam your newest/best deathblow over and over unless you needed to heal or buff or something. It was one of the most redundant battle system of em all. I have no clue why people say it had a good battlesystem. I grant it could have been better if they didn't cliffnote everything, but it was still good storywise IMO. I also felt that xenogears 2nd disc was actually good, but I can see why people would say it's bad. I prefer my villains to come across as more than just that. SC was near juvinille in comparison IMO with the copy paste meet the new big macho badguy chapters, and how they all amount to what Estelle calls 'baby eaters'.
XENOGEARS EMULATOR NOT WORKING SERIES
I say series because I'm a freak who actually thinks FC has a better story than SC.
Xenogears is great but I prefer this series myself.
XENOGEARS EMULATOR NOT WORKING FULL
So the first half of the game is full of pointless filler, and the second half of the game has to skip over all the really interesting stuff that's going on. But the problem is that this makes a lot of the stuff that happened in disc 1 seem like pointless filler. And a bunch of stuff had to be cut to save time. Because the dev ran out of time, the entire second disc is like the cliff notes version of the game they would have built if they'd had the time. (It turns out said character was going to do more, but their story had to be cut when the dev ran out of time.)Īnd its pacing is all kinds of screwed up. One of them gets a cutscene where they say they'll continue to hang around "for awhile" and then they may as well drop off the face of the Earth, since they never do anything interesting again. Xenogears has useless characters that don't contribute to the story past their introduction. Trails has a much less ambitious story, but much better execution. Xenogears has a great story, in theory, but it comes with a drawback: terrible execution.