How does this channel have such a small audience??? Holy shit I just discovered you today, and your reviews are so fucking entertaining. No forced jokes - just a friend telling you about a game he played but acttually interesting. I hope you get big man. You remind me a lot of SMT game reviewers like Marsh or Nyarly. If you want any feedback tho, I'm a non native english speaker and I can notice that sometimes when you speak some more complex longer sentences you tend to stick words too close together and the sound mumbled but it's clear enough. Other than that I watched your JSR future review and loved it as much as this one. Keep up the good work!
1:12 Ah yeah, that meme. There is a reason why the Xeno Series Wiki is the one getting quoted despite how the fandom Wikis have a good amount of info that it does not have yet.(The Dickson Soss-situration especially is the stuff of legends, the people over at the fandom xenoblade wiki legitimately just didn't bother factchecking until someone pointed out 4 whole years later that the last name is nonsense.) 1:30 I'm still such a fool for not playing it before jumping the WiiU ship entirely, especially considering I am one of the few people who genuinely thinks it was a better console than the Switch. That is why I am definitly waiting for a port(I genuinely still don't believe them saying it would cost too much. By that idea, it already would have cost too much to produce in the first place and it most likely didn't, as it was Monolith's only big release in that timeframe and yet they stayed successful despite barely anybody buying a WiiU. Maybe they were talking about making their original "canon" vision, but I just want the existing game for now, not a diffrent game that may or may not be cooler.), though if it does not happen in a year or two, I'll just bite the bullet and try to get it working on Cemu instead. 1:42 While I can sorta understand Bandai Namco not jumping for it because of how much of a mess the series would be to rerelease(Half the content never even left japan) and how Episode 2 basically tanked the viability from their perspective...I genuinely don't understand it on Square's part. Xenogears may have lost a bit of popularity over the years due to some designmchoices people don't like, but it was considered one of the greatest RPGs of its time, plus that they already use the IP for crossovers so people remember it. Add to this that the Xeno-name is bigger than ever now. Rerelease it, make a remake, make a sequel(Or the prequels that they already have the plotoutline for), give it additional secondary material, idk. Even if fans would hate the output for being cashgrabby and inaccurate to the original vision, I just see a potential moneyprinter waiting to be used here. That they haven't jumped on it yet is insane, even if they don't need it due to their other relevant IPs. 6:30 So, this game is Xenogear 4...wait, no, this is the episode 5-game. Dangit. One number away from a perfect memejoke. 27:11 Oh no, not the spoilermonster! 41:07 So the lesson is "shoot the final boss, don't use the legendary plotpower?" I wish that would also work in Xenoblade, lol. 42:46 I mean, if the initial issue seemingly was that Gears made wars that much worse, isn't that already enough accomplishment on its own? I have absolutely no idea about Xenogears besides what the internet told me already(I know, shame on me. I'm still chewing through the blade games), but that is the conclusion I would personally reach after this video.
Ngl I watched the spoiler section and I feel like I am going to forget all of this because like you said this very much sounds like you broadly described like a six game long series LOL. Also~Did you just say the final boss was called Chrono Cross??? (The writer of this game wrote the Chrono games so that's funny.) Nice use of Silver Will, Trails in the Sky when? Also yeah the way you were describing this game and specifically Saga and stuff I think you'd like Trails for sure. Ngl I very much get the feeling some of the creatives for Trails' were inspired by Takahashi in some areas without going nearly as crazy as him lol.
I jokingly said that Fei's final gear was called Chrono Cross instead of... You know. This is objectively hilarious because Xenogears was also a Chrono Trigger sequel at one point.
How does this channel have such a small audience??? Holy shit I just discovered you today, and your reviews are so fucking entertaining. No forced jokes - just a friend telling you about a game he played but acttually interesting. I hope you get big man. You remind me a lot of SMT game reviewers like Marsh or Nyarly. If you want any feedback tho, I'm a non native english speaker and I can notice that sometimes when you speak some more complex longer sentences you tend to stick words too close together and the sound mumbled but it's clear enough. Other than that I watched your JSR future review and loved it as much as this one. Keep up the good work!
I feel like an HD2D remake of this game in collaboration with Monolith Soft would do this game a lot of good.
The one unique thing Chuchu does, is heal gears
Good video, Man. I love Xenogears, and i might play it again.
1:12 Ah yeah, that meme. There is a reason why the Xeno Series Wiki is the one getting quoted despite how the fandom Wikis have a good amount of info that it does not have yet.(The Dickson Soss-situration especially is the stuff of legends, the people over at the fandom xenoblade wiki legitimately just didn't bother factchecking until someone pointed out 4 whole years later that the last name is nonsense.)
1:30 I'm still such a fool for not playing it before jumping the WiiU ship entirely, especially considering I am one of the few people who genuinely thinks it was a better console than the Switch. That is why I am definitly waiting for a port(I genuinely still don't believe them saying it would cost too much. By that idea, it already would have cost too much to produce in the first place and it most likely didn't, as it was Monolith's only big release in that timeframe and yet they stayed successful despite barely anybody buying a WiiU. Maybe they were talking about making their original "canon" vision, but I just want the existing game for now, not a diffrent game that may or may not be cooler.), though if it does not happen in a year or two, I'll just bite the bullet and try to get it working on Cemu instead.
1:42 While I can sorta understand Bandai Namco not jumping for it because of how much of a mess the series would be to rerelease(Half the content never even left japan) and how Episode 2 basically tanked the viability from their perspective...I genuinely don't understand it on Square's part. Xenogears may have lost a bit of popularity over the years due to some designmchoices people don't like, but it was considered one of the greatest RPGs of its time, plus that they already use the IP for crossovers so people remember it. Add to this that the Xeno-name is bigger than ever now. Rerelease it, make a remake, make a sequel(Or the prequels that they already have the plotoutline for), give it additional secondary material, idk. Even if fans would hate the output for being cashgrabby and inaccurate to the original vision, I just see a potential moneyprinter waiting to be used here. That they haven't jumped on it yet is insane, even if they don't need it due to their other relevant IPs.
6:30 So, this game is Xenogear 4...wait, no, this is the episode 5-game. Dangit. One number away from a perfect memejoke.
27:11 Oh no, not the spoilermonster!
41:07 So the lesson is "shoot the final boss, don't use the legendary plotpower?" I wish that would also work in Xenoblade, lol.
42:46 I mean, if the initial issue seemingly was that Gears made wars that much worse, isn't that already enough accomplishment on its own? I have absolutely no idea about Xenogears besides what the internet told me already(I know, shame on me. I'm still chewing through the blade games), but that is the conclusion I would personally reach after this video.
Great video! Have always wanted to play this game. I should just do it.
Ngl I watched the spoiler section and I feel like I am going to forget all of this because like you said this very much sounds like you broadly described like a six game long series LOL.
Also~Did you just say the final boss was called Chrono Cross??? (The writer of this game wrote the Chrono games so that's funny.)
Nice use of Silver Will, Trails in the Sky when?
Also yeah the way you were describing this game and specifically Saga and stuff I think you'd like Trails for sure. Ngl I very much get the feeling some of the creatives for Trails' were inspired by Takahashi in some areas without going nearly as crazy as him lol.
I jokingly said that Fei's final gear was called Chrono Cross instead of... You know. This is objectively hilarious because Xenogears was also a Chrono Trigger sequel at one point.
I mean you aren't wrong. Gears was SUPPOSED to be that long. lol