Xenosaga series composer Yuki Kajiura is mostly known for her work in the anime industry, and she recently traveled to the United States with her music group, Kalafina, to perform some of their anime theme songs in from of the crowd at Anime Boston 2009. OSV was able to catch Kajiura and Kalafina for a brief interview regarding some of the group's work as well as Kajiura's involvement with the Xenosaga series.
The Xeno "Saga" spans six games and has established a legacy of being the Greatest RPG Series of All Time, surpassing even Final Fantasy
"and has established a legacy of being the Greatest RPG Series of All Time, surpassing even Final Fantasy"
I love it how some people sensationalizes everything by talking in absolutes, lol, this is according to who? Who decided that? Who made it official? Don't get me wrong, It is a great series, but so is the Legend of Heroes, FF, Persona, SMT, Dragon Quest, Suikoden, Star Ocean and many, many more.
Agreed suikoden 2 is the sht. Xenogears is one of my favorite rpgs for sure. Prefer ff7 to both of them. Slightly.
Chrono trigger..
Squaresoft is the matter of RPGs.. Xeno is okay, I hate games where I create my character, they are soulless. I prefer much more games where the story is centered around the main character who has his own personality..
Has the author never played any other RPG before? That's the only way I could see someone saying this is the best RPG series of all time.
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Can they not release it on Xbox and PlayStation?
On Topic: what boundaries did it push or new mechanics? I have not played it. I have played xenogears which was awesome
The xenosaga series on ps2 is my favorite series of all time. Gears was great. The nintendo xeno games are really good.
But despite that, I still wouldnt call them the greatest among all that exist. At least not to the point where it's not debatable.
Not only is the best RPG series of all time, but one of the best franchises in the existence of entertainment overall. Period.
From a gameplay perspective, you’d make a valid point. However the “entertainment” medium as a whole would beg to differ. Nonetheless, their deep and fun mechanics throughout as well as exploration is excellent. Where both adults and kids can get through and enjoy the experience
that's an opinion and everyone has a right to have one
RPG is a Vague term so many games come under this and we all have our favorites
I actually agree with you on this one. The term “best” or “greatest” is very subjective.
of all time? There is some stiff competition. Not to mention you say rpg so now that opens up western rpg games which is a whole different beast when it comes to the argument because vast groups of people don't even like jrpg's and prefer wrpg's
Not only that, the best final fantasy games outshine xenosaga in my eyes while the worst ones aren't as good as the worst xenosaga games so basically it all depends how you look at it. There is also the games for tales of being more consistant and dragon quest too.
I guess what i'm trying to say is maybe if you toned down your claim a little and said it was one of the best then maybe we wouldn't be arguing, but then again, you wouldn't have much of an article to bang out would you?
Tales? They are nice and yes consistent but I wouldn't put in anywhere near final fantasy or dragon quest.
Bandai Namco has trademarked “Also Sprach Zarathustra” in the United States. “Also Sprach Zarathustra” is the subtitle of Xenosaga Episode III, which released for PlayStation 2 in 2006. There have not been any recent developments in the Xenosaga series. However, this trademark might indicate Bandai Namco is considering remastering the trilogy.
If they remaster the trilogy.
I will be the happiest man in the world, for at least a few milliseconds (there's 7+ billion people to compete against for the ultimate happiness).
Ranking the Xeno games - Tetsuya Takahashi is a master storyteller and video game director. His games are masterpieces. What is the best Xeno game though?
The Xeno games, Xenosaga in particular, are very underrated. I hope we see Xenosaga return again one day, but regardless the Xenoblade games have been great and looking at all seven games it's so hard to rank given the fact that each of them is so good in their own respective way. each one has something special and unique to bring to the table.
every game has its flaws, even the best. Xenosaga is still an incredible experience with the best story in any video game, period.
Hoping for a Xenosaga trilogy, though not sure if it'll be Switch exclusive.
Also, Xenogears will always be number 1 for me!
I feel the original 3 xenosaga have their own flaws sure but I would say the positives outweigh those negatives greatly.
I don't think I've even played a RPG that is had a Trilogy with connected story as good as xenosaga before.
@blit-it would likely be on PlayStation 4 /PC / Switch.
Namco owns the rights to the xenosaga intellectual property.
@DJ- except development teams very rarely actually create remasters or transition jobs they actually specifically go to teams that focus on this.
Look at bluepoint games it would have basically be like trying to say naughty dog would need to put Uncharted 4 or The Last of Us 2 on hold but completely ignoring that bluepoint games is the team that transferred all three of the Uncharted games...
Bluepoint games doesn't actually make Uncharted games like from the ground up their job is simply to transfer....
That actually means it would be extremely unlikely for Namco to need that team to do that because that doesn't really have anything to do with remastering in terms of transferring a game over to another system a lot of that technique is done by teams that specifically are experts in that field.
I don't even understand why they would not release it on PlayStation 4 considering the market. So they would remaster xenosaga on a system that never got the original xenosaga games? Keep in mind I don't think anything's wrong with that but the fact that you even think it would be exclusive is extremely weird because it would be more likely you would see it across all platforms that support Japanese games.
Trust me Namco is not going to be putting money for some ground up remake of a series that originally failed to sell in the first place... Did you not read that xenosaga was originally supposed to be like six games?
What Namco wants is to make money which means they're going to release it on multiple systems there is no benefit to the company to release it on less platforms especially considering the xenosaga games did not sell very well
I don't see any benefit to them limiting where it's going to appear... I simply see wishful thinking on your part that you think it's going to be exclusive despite the publisher owning the intellectual property.
Xenosaga games are definitely very underrated. Those are some of my favorite turn-based RPGs on PlayStation 2.
I think it's better for the team with the Xenoblade games of having each game be different in terms of narrative story etc, I would say xenosaga is downfall was them trying to make such a long complex story I remember reading it was supposed to be like six games or something.
I just a Xeno Warriors. Xenoblade and Xenosaga coming together, to wreck madness and destruction on everyone, and everything.
well in Project X Zone 2, which Monolith co-developed with some other companies, KOS-MOS and Fiora from Xenoblade are paired together during section, so that would actually be pretty cool. Xenosaga has some other really great characters like Rubedo/Jr and Albedo.
I would say Xeno X is the best. The exploration is awesome and the mech battles are awesome/epic. Xenogears should be higher.
X's story is decent but not as good as XBC and definitely nowhere near the league of Xenosaga. Still hoping we get that Xenosaga HD remaster on switch someday...
In the meantime I'll just flip on my PS2.
I don't think they'd work on the switch because in portable mode the cutscenes are too long. then again, the same could be said for XBC2 or the 3DS version of XBC, so who knows. probably won't be made anyway.
@nintendoswitchfan they are not nearly as bad as you think. replaying the games now I can tell you, yes some parts push it, but if they put XBC and XBC2 as portables on the 3DS and Switch, Xenosaga would have no problem at all.
Okay I thought it was just me because I really really really really liked Xenoblade Chronicles.
I didn't really understand Xenoblade X and I just didn't like it as much as Chronicles. Even though I really like the concept with the mechs.
I recently brought out my PlayStation 2 just to play through the third game lol 😂😂😂
That series just had such an epic ending.
@nin-re master of xenosaga I don't really believe would be that complex in regards to not being able to run on the switch or anything like that.
I think it would have completely no problem. Because of how xenosaga was perceived in regards to sales I don't even really believe Namco would be making some full-blown remake it's likely they would just touch up some of the scenes put the game in high-definition which would mean 100% it can still exist and work on the Nintendo switch, no problem.
@Dark Link - took the words right out of my mouth I mean is this person not realizing that Xenoblade Chronicles and Xenoblade X far surpass anything done with xenosaga? A remaster of xenosaga is not going to look like the equivalent of what you see from Xenoblade.
The story of XBC completely failed to engage me. I got maybe 15 hours in before giving up? I don't like Shulk (I don't dislike him, I'm just not interested at all,) I don't like how Shulk plays, I don't like how the game essentially forces you to play Shulk or enemy/boss mechanics will wreck you, I don't like... any of the characters I met really. I like story driven games, I like Xenosaga for that matter, but XBC just falls flat at every turn. It's more interesting as a plot summary on wikipedia than as an actual game.
XBCX is much, much, much better. I get to pick a playstyle I actually like without the game bitchslapping me the very first time something even sorta tough shows up, I actually like several of the characters, and the actual plot is basic and minimalistic, but reasonably well executed and quite happy to stay out of the way and let me enjoy the things I really like about the game.
Xeno X didn't have the original voices included, just the terrible English dub, so that alone already works against it.
And then there was the ridiculous censorship.
THe original voice track would be nice, but the dub is good. And I have pretty high standards for what constitutes a good dub. Now, the *localization* I have no idea wether that was well done or not because I haven't experienced the original, but I actually recognize the names and/or voices of several of the people in the X specifically because they hired good voice actors.
Even with the rushed second disk the story of Xenogears is leagues above any single other Xeno game
