Game:

Xenogears (1998)

Duration: 4:08:19

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Last we left off, Fei made Elly upset and she ran off to get away from the group. Time to go find where she went and see about straightening things out. And then try to see what we can do about how screwed up the world is.

You'll learn a lot of things about character motivations this stream. Exactly what Ramses and Krelian's deals are, what Miang's deal is, where Grahf came from and what his deal is, etc.

This stream is almost entirely made of cutscenes and boss fights. The boss fights are also mostly gimmicks in at least one form, and the cutscenes are very much huge exposition dumps. Welcome to the weakest part of the game. The entire game shows signs of not getting to be as fleshed out as it should be, but disc two, and this whole segment in particular, shows it the most. This is what happens when a company diverts most of the resources they have off of a project to get something else done faster. So many places where you can see the potentially great dungeon designs that should have been there but were skipped in favor of just dropping the party at the boss fight because the manpower and/or time wasn't there to put it together. So much dialogue and plot that got thrown at the player in cutscenes where it could have been spread out and told more organically through gameplay. Just so much missed opportunity.

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