The franchise also managed to create a few side games: Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra (2006) PS2 - "Thus Spoke Zarathustra".Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse (2004) PS2 - "Beyond Good and Evil" ( No, not that one.).Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht (2002) PS2 - "The Will to Power".However, Square Enix wasn't interested in the idea, so they, along with some of their team mates, and after partnering with Bandai Namco Entertainment (or rather just Namco, before they merged), decided to create their own studio to tell a whole new story using their ideas for Xenogears as a starting point.Īll main entries have subtitles that reference books written by Friedrich Nietzsche, a philosopher from which the series as a whole takes many of its central themes from: To be precise, the original creators of Xenogears, the married couple Tetsuya Takahashi and Kaori Tanaka (known under her pen name, Soraya Saga), wanted to turn Xenogears into a big franchise, telling a story divided in multiple episodes, Star Wars style. Xenosaga is a series of Eastern RPGs created by Japanese developer Monolith Soft, a studio composed by ex-members of Square Enix who worked in many of the company's greatest hits of the 1990s, most notably Xenogears. The rest of the story involves the Gnosis, the search for their source and the events that passed fourteen years prior on the planet Miltia - which has close ties to Shion's past. The protagonist, Shion, is the head of the first R&D division of Vector Industries, and her team is developing an android superweapon called KOS-MOS.ĭisaster strikes when the Gnosis, intangible (but deadly) beings from another dimension attack the ship. In the distant future, mankind has colonized space, but planet Earth (referred to in-game as Lost Jerusalem) has disappeared from the map.
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