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ernieforss posted...

it's been like 10 years since I played it last. Damn, it still good. I wish games now a days were this polished. That's what I've really been missing. The game sometime does have awful camera angles. You know the ones where you can't see where you are going. I didn't remember that. The random battles aren't that bad. They seem really far and apart. I wish games now a day where this big also. the sense of scale is awesome.

I never beat the game. I got to the last battle and lost because I didn't upgrade my gears and I couldn't afford the upgrades.

I never understood the opening. A Starship grows limbs and destroys itself and a girl comes out of the wreckage? What does that have to do with mechs and two country trying to find buried mechs.

Cliffs Notes version? The starship (the Eldridge) was transporting part of a combined biological/A.I. superweapon named Deus that had malfunctioned. It took over the ship and was trying to get back to the Eldridge crew's (and its creators) homeworld, presumably to exact revenge. The captain instead blew up the ship and it crashed on the world where Xenogears takes place.

The girl is the first Miang (technically, the first Elhaym, but Deus corrupted her, turning her into the first Miang and it's a really long story that's not important to this explanation) and she's looking out on this new world where she (and her 'master' Deus) have now been stranded.

She uses the salvageable systems and DNA from the Eldridge wreckage to create 'humanity' (humans on the Xenogears world). The mechs are just the newest weapon in a war, and the countries are trying to find buried ones to reclaim older, more effective weaponry or equipment.
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