Re: Xenosaga II

In article <UwPSuVLuXPiEFwrQ@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, {$spamtrap$}@fathippy.net says...
In message <3clh82t6op62be5vrhnae1q9ppcioh16bv@xxxxxxx>, Chris F
<chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006 01:59:37 +0100, FatHippy
<{$spamtrap$}@fathippy.net> wrote:

what i played of it was good, but as i hadn't played the first one
(don't have a chipped PS2 and swapmagic doesnt seem to like dual layer
dvd's from what i've heard) it all seemed a bit bewildering.
As a Xenosags virgin myself, I quite agree with you on the bewidering
comments. It is full of so many acronyms, plots and sub-plots,
pre-history flashbacks, timeline crossovers etc.etc. that it can do your
head in a bit.

Unfortunately this is where playing Episode I helped - that one had a
useful in game encyclopedia which explained all the acronyms and
provided lots of pointless extra information.


i did try watching the dvd movie which is apparently a summation of
the first game, but that just made my brain hurt even more.

Yes, even that seemed to expect that you knew the Xenosaga universe.

Even at its lengthy running time (its, what, four hours or something?)
the digest movie has way too much cut out to make enough sense. The
opening of XSI in particular is the most FMV heavy thing ever - in terms
of FMV alone, there must but two or three hours up to the sinking of the
Woglinde alone.
.