Xenogears Intro Explained
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This is my attempt at explaining the events that take place during the Intro FMV of Xenogears. Major spoilers are included in this video so please do not watch if you haven't played through the whole story yet.
I never realized the ft jasper weapon was one of the guns that shot the escape ships. The level of continuity and detail in this story is just amazing.
I like to think that somewhere there's an alternate universe where Xenogears was a massive success and all of its remaining episodes were released across the various PlayStation consoles, each with bigger and bigger design budgets than the last, including a proper remake of Xenogears itself
And FF7 was a side project instead. I’d would’ve preferred that outcome. FF7 is cool but over rated.
Just a note or two: alpha 1 and omega 1 are Kadomony and Deus respectively. Also, while Deus planning to attack Neo Jerusalem makes sense, I believe Perfect Works heavily implies Deus was planning on going to Old Jerusalem instead
Thanks for making this video! I had fond memories of playing Xenogears when I was in high school and thought it had a very complex and interesting plot. I'm almost 40 now and there are still parts of it that I don't understand until this day.
Still considered the best game after many years. It has soooo many layers to it.
Love the video, man!
Yes yes!Super interesting!Great job man.When a 2 minutes game intro needs an in depth explanation video like this one,you know the game is the greatest of all
Thank you. I loved Xenogears. I hope you make more of this.
at 50 seconds -The people who created Deus werent the ancestors of the humans on the planet Xenogears takes place on. The 'humans' on the xenogears world arent even real humans and have no ancestors pre-eldridge crash.
1:25 - Deus is bio-mechanical. Humans were around more than 5000 years prior to the eldridge crash, thats just when they left the earth. The humans also made the monolith structure the zohar resides in. The zohar is only the eye portion.
1:50 - The Deus weapon system IS the interplanetary weapon system. it wasn't linked TO a weapon system. yahweh was it's original name, but even in the japanese version it is named Deus.
2:05 - Deus didnt destroy miktam, he just rampaged out of control on the surface of the planet. There was a previous planet that vanished though.
2:45 - Abel made contact with the wave existence on planet miktam, not on board the eldridge. And nothing says he just wandered in, it says the reasons he was present were unknown. Nothing says his mother died. Only that he was desired to be with her.
2:58 - Persona was a protocol that already existed in the Deus weapon system, the wave existence used that protocol to create Elly.
3:10 - All of the wave existence's powers were transferred to Abel, not 'a lot of'.
3:15 - He is able to be reincarnated due to the wave existence's use of the Zohar's probability manipulation. The wave existence is fused with the Zohar. The Zohar can make any possible future happen with 100% certainty.
5:02 - Omega 1 is Deus' main body, Alpha 1 is the Persona protocol of the kadamony computer aka miang.
5:10 - that form wasnt a means of containment, Deus evolves and grows over time. That is just it's less evolved form.
5:53 - Deus isnt attempting to go to Neo Jerusalem, it is attempting to go to Lost Jerusalem, which is Earth.
7:33 - again, lost jerusalem. No one was on earth, it was lost after humanity left it to colonize the stars and became a forbidden place.
WE ARE MEN OF THE SEA!
Anytime the characters from the opening cutscene say "they", it is a mistranslation. They are actually referring to Deus. Thats what makes it so confusing. I.e. "Omega one they are attacking" and "So they're planning on attacking".
I I think Alpha and Omega are Kadomony and Deus. Hence they’re referred to as ‘they’.
Dude! I would love the whole game done. That's a lot of work though! If you do it, know that I'll tell everyone I know about it, just as I share this vid with them now.
I loved this game as a boy. Must’ve played it when I was 8 or 9. Never understood much of the plot but the music/mech/gameplay are what hooked me
I feel this needs a lot more views!
Love this series of videos and I watch them every year. It’s amazing to watch something done this well and not be assaulted by pleas for a Patreon subscription.
I’d happily pay for one though.
Thanks. I make them for fun and even though it’s work sometimes, I like putting them together. I’m just glad some people enjoy it; that’s enough for me. Thanks for the comment.
Fei was technically the only human survivor.
Not fei. Abel
I love this! I played the hell out of this back when it came out and again a couple years back and a lot of these details and connections escaped me. Would love to see your followups!
The two components of the opening which don’t really make sense with the canon explained plot, are the phrase ‘damn, so they’re planning on attacking’ - the use of ‘they’ is very confusing. It implies an invading external force, plural. It would have been way less confusing if the line was ‘IT’S planning on attacking’.
Yea another confusing like is when the operator says Alpha-1 / omega-1 as if she’s talking TO alpha-1, but she’s not; she’s just talking about what alpha-1 is doing
@@carfo you’re right I didn’t notice that, it does sound like she’s talking to other members of our team or captains
I think Alpha and Omega are Kadomony and Deus. Perhaps Deus woke up and decided to escape, using Kadomony to harness the Zohar Modifier for energy and hence the intro.
Great video. A lot I didn't know, I'd love to see more!
Nice! Keep going!
What I wonder is whatever happened to the other original humans that weren’t on that ship. Why wasn’t Deus transported on a ship that wasn’t nearly as large or inhabited? Did this all take place during Shion’s time in Xenosaga? If so, was it just a case of the Federation abandoning the wreckage, and not wanting to take any chances of the Deus weapon spreading its contamination on any search party vessels? We probably could’ve gotten this answer and Episode I, but alas, it was never meant to be… 🙁
Awesome
yooo im a year late but this was great!! keep going! :D
Thank you I always wanted to know the meaning of the intro
When the Captain says "so they're planning on attacking..." Who is he taking about? Does he not understand it's Deus and assumes they're being hacked and attacked by some other human or alien group?
it's a bad translation. the Japanese version can be roughly translated to something like "it's planning on invading like this?"
@@carfo I think he’s talking about both Kadomony and Deus. Deus used Kadomony to access Zohar and make its escape.
@@ronmaest yeah omega 1 is deus and alpha 1 is kadomony. code names likely as no one on the ship outside of a few knew that deus was being transported on it
@@carfo why don’t they remaster this game?
@@ronmaest square owns the IP so only they know. likely, it doesn't make business sense to do so. hopefully one day though they either sell the IP to monolith or actually do something with it, but it's doubtful.
Okay, but what's up with the alien embryo? Is it really just a read herring for later on in the game? To make us think it is Deus?
I don’t think the embryo was an attempt to trick the audience; more like for style and symbolism, and to show that xenogears is different than the other omnigears
@@carfo Um, what does the alien embryo have to do with Xenogears itself?
@@REALmikegordan mostly just symbolism and for style. Lore wise I don’t think it was ever really specified.
@@carfo If I remember, Deus needed an "organic" component. I don't know if it was alien at all, but only genetically engineered. We fight this thing (which is huge) later in the game, right? I don't remember how it was put in the game
The embryo is Deus.
I always wondered about something. Tge game is allegedly part 5 of 6. Where are the rest?
There isn’t a proper “rest.” Some of the story of the previous parts are briefly touched upon in “perfect works”, otherwise the spiritual predecessor of xenogears (xenosaga 1,2 and 3) share some similarities to what the backstory of xenogears was going to be like (with some changes of course since the creators of xenosaga do not own the xenogears IP)
@@carfo Ah, I was remembering correctly. I thought for a sec that I might have misses something. Real shame about the IP, would have loved to see the whole thing.
What's the deal with the giant electric cords coming to life?
hey ACDamps, it's not that the cords came to life, but after the captain manually disconnected the electrical cables (to prevent Deus from having control), Deus was able to shoot the signal through the gap anyway which allowed Deus to maintain control over the ship
@@carfo cool. I meant those giant conduits that explode from inside the ship
ACDamps ah yeah. Deus was basically controlling the whole ship so it looked alive because they essentially were. Also probably a stylistic choice. The team that created the intro didn’t know the script exactly so there’s a bit of separation between the developers’ intentions and the FMV we get in the intro (such as The captains daughter looking like Elly even though in perfect works she looks nothing like she does in the intro)
@@carfo great thanks
I love Xenogears ❤️
When the captain says "so they are planning on attacking"....who is "they"?
Bad translation. It just means that deus is taking control of the ship.
Deus and Kadomony
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I always thought the beautiful woman a the end of the intro was Deus in human form. Also, I thought that Deus (without playing any of the other prequel Xeno games) was a biological form of God. I interpreted the intro that they had somehow captured DEus and were using her as a weapon of sorts, and during it's transport it breaks free of the control and destroys the ship, killing everyone, all the while mocking them with the phrase "You shall be as Gods" ("knowing good from evil"), since it's evil to try to control God to use it for own nefarious ends.
Why was the Eldridge on a Journey? I hypothesized that humanity had to flee Earth due to some some incoming catastrophe, and it is an Ark of sorts that's looking for another planet to colonize.
Where were they doing with deus? Getting rid of it? Or populating a new planet and just 'tripped' over their own nuke "deus"
They were transporting it. The lore never says where they were headed, only that it was disassembled and put on the Eldridge. It still took over the ship despite being disassembled however
@@carfo If we connnect it to Xenosaga, there is a hint of what they were trying to do.
I will paste here an overview of the ending of Xenosaga Episode 3:
The majority of the universe's population gets turned into Gnosis upon Maria's awakening in order to prepare for Eternal Recurrence (universe gets reset). A "reset" is necessary since the universe has reached a critical point where it will collapse because of the increasing number of "dissipating wills" that are present in the imaginary domain/Unus Mundus. Maria / KOS-MOS has been resetting the universe for more than a couple of times now (probably even thousands of times).
Events should always happen the same way as they did in the last reset, but some things have the probability of turning out different. Ziggy might have become a Testament, T-elos might have defeated KOS-MOS, etc. Although people might have forgotten the events in the past resets, their subconscious do not.
In the current reset, Maria has grown tired of resetting the universe so she decided to destroy the activation key for Zarathustra. With no Eternal Recurrence to guide the Gnosis gathered at Mictham, Nephilim and chaos decided to shift all of them to Lost Jerusalem. By doing so, they delayed the universe's collapse by a few thousand years. With no UMN and faster-than-light travel (since both are structured around the collective unconsciousness/souls), Shion and company head out in order to find Lost Jerusalem, in hopes of finding the key to prevent the universe's collapse there. KOS-MOS' upper body is seen drifting towards Lost Jerusalem in the final scene.
I'm back!
So, Deus wanted to go back to lost Jeruselam probably due to this reason. Perhaps his programming was to erase or fuse with the gnosis and cause a new universe reset or the fusion with the zohar somehow caused that?
It was being transported away from them, perhaps?
This is speculation cause the series are not officially connected, though i believe they are. The connections are too obvious. But, an "episode" that could connect things clearly seems to not exist.
We can conclude that after contact with the Zohar, Deus became sentient and intent on uniting with the gnosis and causing the universe reset denied in Xenosaga Ep3. A connection to KOS-MOS is also likely. Their color schemes are similar.
So, my theory is some thousands of years have passed. Humanity built a huge colony ship to colonize new worlds and they took Deus and the Zohar as far away as possible from lost/old jeruselam.
It strikes back, but the captain sensing it's plan manages to destroy the ship and strand it.
No one survived, so everyone on the surviving universe could have perished as predicted in the ending of Xenosaga 3 and the system that created Miyu and Elly started a new humanity, free from the shackles of the old one. Though no doubt, Deus still wanted to keep to it's original plan.
The possibility exists of survivors from outside the planet where the game takes place on but we don't know.
That's my speculation on what they were doing.
@@NemXX2 Wasn't it about the wave existence's wish to go back to its dimension?
@@Joao-de9gl I mean, it's possible that the ship came from the "Xenosaga" universe/dimension to reset it. It's speculation afterall. We got no confirmation of anything.
Also, it's been a long time since i played Xenogears, so things aren't so fresh anymore.
Hopefully we get a remaster soon.
The other thing was the weird shot of the engine room - no bodies, weird empty hoses, and the phone falls apart? Just strange and poorly done
Lo que me resulta tonto y un tanto absurdo es lo siguiente: ¿A quién se le ocurre llevar un arma tan poderosa dentro de una nave espacial tripulada por civiles 😂?
it's pronounced yah-way, knee-oh
wtf