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Xenogears - Action Fei!

Video 1: Ancient Music Box:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzuP--ps4xE Video 2: Fei Gets A Robot:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0LAX-j8H2aM Fei's headed for Citan Uzuki's house. For whatever reason, he doesn't live in the village itself, but rather atop a hill accessible only through a winding path. Said path is infested with hobgoblins and wolves, thus serving as our first dungeon! Hobgoblins are the strange, bouncy creatures featured in this screenshot, and are the more dangerous of the two foes, boasting a fairly powerful HP draining attack. Wolves, on the other hand, have not much going for them except for a multihit attack. Neither foe is particularly hard, and outside of the HP draining move, all of their attacks do single digit damage to Fei. Let's talk combat mechanics. Broadly speaking, characters fight by selecting one of three types of attacks. Each attack makes some tradeoffs between raw power and accuracy, with the attack types ranging from a low power...

Xenogears - Premonitions of Battle

 Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRF3nYernuM We immediately cut to a text crawl talking about two kingdoms that have warred for centuries. Long story short, some archeological organization, called "Ethos", enabled them to escalate their battles by digging and repairing giant ancient robots for use in combat. Yep. Lol. Kislev had the upper hand because it got better robots, but a mysterious mercenary group, Gebler, joined the Avehian side and reversed the balance of power. Then, Aveh got emboldened enough to start invading and taking Kislev territory. With that backdrop, we cut to our next location for the story, a peaceful, idyllic...border village. It suffers the fate all border villages eventually suffer, getting set on fire by the enemy forces. We cut to a young man in a dark robot, Fei, kung fuing the enemy robots...or attempting to, at any rate. A man dressed in green, Citan, yells at him to stop fighting. Fei doesn't listen, kicking down the enemy robot agai...

Xenogears - It Began In Space

 Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diwPfzLgMuI We open with a quote directly from the Book of Revelation. Xenogears is heavily inspired by Biblical tales and legends, and as such, isn't shy about its inspirations in the slightest. A huge spaceship flies through the endless darkness of space... But its journey is not as pleasant as it would seem. A bunch of overhead windows seal shut, as the ship's bridge room suddenly fills up with warning signs! The operator at its helm tries everything in her power, but to no avail - whatever is infecting the ship is just too powerful to be handled by conventional tools. To her horror, she discovers that it's planning to hijack the ship and use it to attack the main planet! The captain tries to contact the engine room to setup an emergency sealing. Unfortunately, said room has already been overtaken by worms! The infection gets quite bold, and starts spamming the bridge terminals with an infamous Biblical phrase from the Genesis! Th...