>giant robot mecha gundam type story
>also have all sorts of weird references to gnosticism and esoterica in your convoluted story that draws heavily on Jung and psychoanalysis
>spend through 115% of your budget
>project isn't close to done
>"well, I got 110 pages of text so we can just dump that on top of some still images."
Pic unrelated. I was wondering if the Neon Genesis Evangelion game was any good.
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>Pic unrelated.
8/10 execution. you almost had me.
Xenogears a shit.
>xenoshitter gets successfully trolled
Elly a smelly.
Gross.
I wish people would stop comparing this game to Eva, as you can see it has more in common with Gundam
The Gundam similarities are superficial at best.
Because unlike some people car to admit. Xenogears despite the many homages to various mecha anime, eva not including since it references Gundam(lots of G Gundam), Macross, Giant Robot, Gao Gai Gar.etc, it's actually very unique in its own right.
It's really more Ideon than Gundam.
>Gundam
Mecha will never be similar to other Mecha so long the genre is stuck on depicting the suffering of the pilot.
Gundam is the series that asked "if you truly understand your opponents suffering, could you keep on going?", which it then spent a season writing a essay on YES.
Ramsus and Miang are a lot like Treize and Une: awful power-grubbing Borgias.
Didn't the same guy do Chrono Cross too? That was also a very weird plot, went way over budget, and resorted to a giant text dump.
There is no way part of those budgets didn't go to copious amounts of drugs.
Thats even more schizo if you insert in the chart the other realities that happen in Zurvan
Thats a big problem a game can have,it relies in reference sand not not creating its own uniqueness
>Didn't the same guy do Chrono Cross too?
Masato Kato wrote for Xenogears but he wasn't the main director and lead creative behind it, Tetsuya Takahashi was. I think Masato Kato mainly wrote scenes for dialogue like between Elly and Fei meanwhile he was the sole creative and director for Chrono Cross. There's some overlap but they're very different works
Nope, that's Masato Kato's handiwork. Dude's a way bigger hack than Tetsuya Takahashi. At least Takahashi had the decency of starting a new IP and not stepping on the toes of a beloved predecessor.
Chrono Cross's plot is significantly more incoherent and mixes all these bleak existentialist quotes and stuff about identity and free will and a GOAT tier soundtrack with a goofy toddler's show cast of characters, each defined by their stupid fricking accents.
Why is it miang personality came dominate instead of them becoming one like they were in the eldridge crash? What happened to kadamony? Did she just cease totally when they separated the first time?
>Why is it miang personality came dominate instead of them becoming one like they were in the eldridge crash?
The original Elie existed and was created before the Eldridge crash due to Abel's contact with the Zohar. The original is shown in the wreckage of the Eldridge in a cutscene. The mother created 2 replicas of herself one being Miang. They were split due to them having conflicting goals, remember Miant had no reason to exist until after the crash due to Deus needing to be rebuilt. I'm not entirely sure if Deus had actually taken control of Kadomony but I believe that to be the case. The original mother is the one you see the remains of in Kadomony. Not exactly sure why Miang took over completely at the end of the game though, I don't think that's ever explained at least not in game.
>What happened to kadamony?
If your referring to it later it never went anywhere, you see it in the ending briefly that it's still there. I don't think it really did or was able to do much of anything after the crash.
>Did she just cease totally when they separated the first time?
Good question. Somehow she ended up in the pod in Kadomony and basically just stayed there during everything while Elie/Miang took over everything.
>Not exactly sure why Miang took over completely at the end of the game though, I don't think that's ever explained at least not in game
If I recall correctly someone ingame mentioned that Deus' completion is nigh when the Miang factor awakens in Elly. But I don't think there was a further explanation to this
>spend through 115% of your budget
Why are people still parroting this? Takashi said a few years ago that projects at SE had a pretty strict 2 year deadline. The deadline was coming up and they weren't going to make it. SE suggested they split it into 2 games which Takahashi didn't want to do (probably knowing there would be no 2nd game) and they decided to rush through the 2nd disk so they could wrap up the game in one release. Regardless of the amount of cut content and undeveloped story lines they still did manage to get out all of the main plot revelation. Though it's obvious they intended that to take much longer given so much was unanswered and unexplored by the end of disk 1.
>Muh deadlines tho
Didn't have that issue for the other Xeno games, which are just as bad as Gears, Takahashi is a terrible director and no excuses about deadlines will change that.
Alright I beat the game. Can a Xenogears Scholar explain to me who or what Grahf is? I thought he was just Lacan but actually he's Lacan's angry soul or some shit? I liked the idea that someone as weak as Lacan became a mech-crushing GAR like Grahf.
Grahf is to Lacan the way Id is to Fei
When you put it that way it actually makes sense, neat.
If you didn't speedread, you'd know that Lacan contacted Zohar while being in a fragile mental state, by Miang's suggestion, which made his contact powers surge, yet the connection was incomplete. As a consequence of his awakening, unstable powers he was able to possess people. Grahf is the manifestation of Lacan's will
This and he kept posessing people to live through the ages, the body we see is Fei's dad
>Literally local man too angry to die
Psychoanalysis and mecha go hand in hand. There's a character called Jung Freud in Gunbuster years before they made Evangelion.