Xenosaga for ps2, impressions?

[darkangel]

Any good?

[Naiera]

It most certainly is.

[dreamylittledream]

Yes, yes and yes.

In that order.

Anyone with a liking for RPGs really owes it to themself to play this game. Probably the best straight RPG on PS2 at the moment.

[marcus]

Hm we never did review this one. Its not bad, but again succumbs to the problem plagueing most RPGs these days of being ridiculously easy, and a case of tapping the attack button over and over again. But it has the brilliant Kos-Mos in it, so all is forgiven.

Darkangel, in future try a forum search for "Xenosaga" to save yourself time and others in repeating themselves.

[iapetus]

I'd argue against it being the best straight RPG on PS2, though it does have its plus points. Against it are a plot that follows the time-honoured anime principle that if it doesn't make sense it's deep, combat that sometimes drags horribly, and what felt to me like a very dated interface (not sure why, but that's the impression I got). It's still a respectable game, in my opinion, but there's better out there (especially if you're willing to leave the RPG straight-and-narrow and give titles like Dragon Quarter, Dark Cloud 2 and Disgaea a try).

[nemesis_god]

Mine just arrived on the mail today...waiting for a US Ps2 now
I'm playing Xenogears right no...it's gorgeous

[iapetus]

marcus: I didn't find Xenosaga button-mashingly easy - particularly the boss battles tended to pose more of a challenge than tends to be expected these days, and there are some areas where the standard enemies are more than enough of a challenge.

Or perhaps I just didn't level up enough...

[fatbatch]

Marcus - 'Hm, we never did review this one'.

There is actually a very good review by PeteJ - linked on page 4 of Article Feedback, introduced by marcus ...

[kiteless]

Xenosaga could have done with much more challenging optional boses, great joe was kinda a wuss. Even if people say FF-X or X-2 were easy at least they included plenty of very tough optional mobs, although arguable the mandatory bosses in x and x-2 are harder then those in xenosaga.

Despite that xenosaga it awesome, it has probably the best story in an rpg that I have played in a long time (story in rpg = very important), quality characters and superb cinematic sequences of which are almost on par with the metal gear games.

Call me an RPG nut, I own US xenosaga and reloaded, but I thought this was one of the best rpgs ever made. The combat could probably do with being made faster and definetely more difficult so roll on part 2