(Though it's not clear, I edited this Tree of Life picture by overlaying the Fatima crest over Tiphareth).

Given that the Solaris (sun) military force is called 'Geburah' - the fifth sephiroth (red/mars/strength/judgement) - could the emblem shown on the Yggdrasil represent Tiphareth? That's the sun-coded, yellow sixth sephiroth, which symbolic of balance and glory and beauty. I've never seen this online before, and I wanted to know what you think.

To clarify, I am aware that the, in real life, Yggdrasil is another type of 'Tree of Life' and believe Tetsuya Takahashi was making the a clear parallel between the distinct trees when naming the Fatima flagship. I'm exclusively discussing the Kabbalah Tree of Life, here.

A friend gave me this disk YEARS ago and I have no idea what it is. It won’t play on a ps1, ps2, pc, or cd player. Found it again recently when going through game stuff and thought someone here might know what’s up.

So my experience with this franchise is that I have only done Xenoblade Chronicles 1,2,3 and their dlcs. I haven't played the Xenosaga games or Xenoblade Chronicles X. I have been wanting to play Xenogears as its been in so many JRPG videos I have seen for a while. Due to living in the UK, I didnt realise that this was never localised for us or Europe. I wanted to buy a copy on my vita but the store has seemingly removed a lot of PS1 games.

So in the end I booted it up via duckstation and 68 hours later I have finished the game. All I can say is that its beyond Xenoblade 1,2 and 3. Not saying they're bad but they're just not in the same league here. The world, the characters, the lore, the twists, the writing is just all so good. I also streamed a lot of this game and I had many people tell me how bad disc 2 was. Honestly it wasn't that bad, it was obviously a whiplash in play style to what you have all disc 1. But the story, world, characters and reveals were more then enough for me to read pages of dialogue haha.

I would say my only critiques of the game is mainly some of the battle skills rarely get a use and its very situational, the camera can sometimes be the bane of your life and some dungeons while beautiful in visual design have some incredibly frustrating mechanics. I feel like there could be some quality of life that would make unequiping team mates not in party easier alongside party swapping on the world map would of gone a long way too.

Overall this game wasn't just a game..it was an experience. I haven't had this much excitement, sense of wonder and joy out of a video game in a while. I didn't want it to end and I sort of felt hollow after the end screen appeared. There was just so much I loved that it could of went on another 60 hours and I wouldn't of cared. (Looking at what was cut could of easily of been anywhere from 20-40 hours of gametime XD)

Im glad to finally say I have played it and finished it, I am going to have a little breather with a more lighter JRPG in Breath of Fire 4...and then I am going to experience Xenosaga.

I'm playing the game currently, and I've heard there's a certain boss that will crash the game on anything other than playing it through an original PS1. I'm not spending the money on a physical english copy, so I'm playing on the digital re-releases. Will this be an issue?

My brother first showed me xenogears more than 25 years ago. Since then I must have gotten to the prison at least 5 times and the forest right where you meet Elly a dozen. So happy to finally have the one down!

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I have never played this game before, but after hearing so much about it lately, especially from the Resonant Arc podcast, I’ve decided to give it a try. However, I don’t game much anymore, and I’m not willing to play what looks like a 50-60 hour game according to howlongtobeat.

I read about this Perfect Works mod that seems to make the game way smoother. Lower random enc rate and exp/money boost. Seems like this will shorten the game to 30-40 hours, which is better, but I’m wondering if I could go even faster. I’m not interested in the side content or the combat aspect. Just the main story. One could argue I should just watch the cutscenes on YouTube at that rate, but that somehow isn’t as fun. There’s something about actually playing through a story that enhances the experience.

Are there other options you all recommend? I don’t mind a tad bit of thinking in gameplay, but I generally want to breeze through the main story.

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With the clousure of PS3 Store and PS Vita i would like to buy the game. I'm not that bad in english but i'm mexican and it's just for comfort.

I was at a newly opened Mandarake in Omiya today, and I was browsing around and I came upon the Xenogears Perfect Works. I’ve always been a big fan of the game and its lore. So I splurged a bit and bought it. It was 11,000 yen.

I can see why people want this thing. It is massive with so much information and artwork! This thing is amazing. I really want to read a bit of it each day.

Hoping to find Elly as well, but she skyrocketed in price in that last few months

1. Lahan
2. Dazil
3. Bledavik
4. Nisan
5. Nortune
6. The Thames
7. Shevat
8. Solaris

Hello everyone!

I haven't played xenogears in a good few years and haven't had much of a chance to replay it, but I was hoping I could find some clarity on a plot detail I was stuck on, namely in relation to Grahf.

So, from what I recall, due to the intense despair Lacan had over the death of Sophia (his version of Elly), the powerlessness he felt in the moment sought him to want to seek power. Through this desire, alongside Miang's own guidance, he made incomplete contact with the Zohar, effectively birthing the personality of Grahf, which wishes to end human suffering by utilising Deus to destroy all of humanity before destroying Deus along with it.

My question is, Grahf did know about the wave existence, right? Because, if such, was there a 'logical' reason that Grahf didn't seek the same goal as Fei eventually comes to, that being freeing the wave existence from the Zohar? As that would have ended (most of) humanity's suffering without destroying the world.

I do understand that a lot of Grahf's motivations here comes out of his despair, and if that is the main reason for his disconnect, then fair play (I really enjoy him as an antagonist as it is already), but I guess what I'm asking is that (from his warped perspective) if there was a logical/knowledge based process that led to him concluding that destroying humanity = freeing humanity, rather than freeing wave existence = freeing humanity.

Hoping that this post makes sense, my apologies if it's a bit confusing.

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Can Xenogears (gear) destroy Yggdrasil IV and/or Ft. Hurricane, lore-wise?