I've heard Citan described as "The main character of a *previous* RPG; he's already been through his Hero's Journey and his Character Arc, he just came out of retirement to make sure the kids are gonna be okay.
Its sad honestly, it cant ever happen unless square swallows their pride and works with monolithsoft since takahashi technically owns the game but we all know what square is like😩
the greenhorn what im saying is they’d have to work together since disc 2 was unfinished in some ways and implement more lore from perfect works which takahashi and his wife wrote to make the game complete
@@neonblackbeast7243 agreed. I still don't understand why all parties involved can't benefit. The internal conflicts can finally be put to rest if Takahashi and wife are allowed the resources they need to truly bring their beautiful masterpiece to what it was always meant to be.
some jrpg protags get swords forged by gods, guns made by the barons of hell itself, or secret knowledge from the birth of the universe. Fei, has righty and lefty and that's all he needs.
Fei's soul is BFFs with the closest thing to infinite energy/god. Hell at the end of the game and the wave existence fucks off, gears stop moving - the fuel wasn't enough, they were also powereby the wave existence - fei's is the only one that still works.
I just beat this game this year, and I already want to replay it. Despite already being an amazing game just imagine how good it could have been had squaresoft just gave it a proper budget and a proper chance; rather than hoarding all of the money for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, a practice they continue to this day.
9:09 I laughed so hard when I saw this the first time, it's like they said you can pick one deathblow to be a joke one and it was this one. That just let the 3D guy go ham Also I never saw 16:07 thats sick!
I love every Character in this game... They are all interesting, fun and enjoyable. The Deathblows are just such a friggin bonus. My FFXIV Character is specifically glamoured to Citan for the specific reason that I main Monk and Samurai lol
Fun fact: This game was originally pitched as FF7, but got rejected due to being too sci-fi and dark. Some elements of this are in FF7, though, as the director of this game did some concept designs for it.
Is it? Xenoblade was basically Xenogears, pre Xenogears and saga stuff tossed in a blender and paper machied into a new story that could very well fit into saga stuff anyway. Like, even xcx was like 'okay, land on xenogears planet, human bodies made by machines, minds digitalized, small and fucking mech sized foes' pre xenogears stuff with xenosaga 'humans are hunted by weird alien like creatures', even though not real aliens, with the real gnosis ripoff - the ghost, the other alien group fighting near earth that hadn't made it to earth. Plus the whole 'humans were only able to fight thanks to the kos-mos/t-elos ripoff' idea.
This game hasn't even reach it's full potential yet. 1. The budget was cut because of FF8 2. The creator was so ambitious that this game was originally wanted to be made for 100+ hours of gameplay, so basically this game would have had maybe 4 discs in it's full potential, could be more 3. This game on it's full potential would be final fantasy 7 but it wasn't because of the dark story and sensitive to religious But even so this game can still reach this level of greatness is unbelievable!
why haven't they remade this masterpiece like they did FF7? Honestly, I wouldn't mind having the speed up option for this so I can farm alot faster, I've never beaten xenogears yet but I do remember making it half way through & then gave up at this underwater boss fight, it was to challenging for me :(
Ff7 is one of the most overrated games of all time. Xenogears is so much better. I could hardly get past the first 7 hours of ff7, but xenogears, I couldn’t put down.
@@omegawario7479 I mean if you look online it means alot for many people, but I agree with you Xenogears is much better. Probably my favorite story in gaming. As for FF7:R I despise Nomuras creative vision of the Game, but the gameplay is extremely fun.
@@Realag666 yeah I won’t downplay what the game means to many people on an emotional level since I myself have plenty of games that I love just because I played them when I was younger and have an inflated opinion of them, even knowing they aren’t that good. I haven’t played the remake, but I do admit the game sorta deserved it if for the hype alone, just not what seems like an episodic series that will continue for years. In my opinion xenogears doesn’t really need a remake/master since it holds up pretty well. I wouldn’t object to one though as long as it doesn’t delay the next Xenoblade or whatever monolith is making, provided they would even be the ones doing the job in the first place.
@@omegawario7479 I would welcome a remake alone to see Rico's and Billy's storyline finished and Omnigears for the entire party. Tons of Qol stuff, the random encounters in Dungeons, cutting/streamlining certain parts of the story to improve pacing, there is a million things that can be done that each on their own would level up the experience alot. But I think we never ever gonna get that. The Game is too niche and only older Jrpg Fans still know the game.
@@Realag666 billy and Rico were really underdeveloped, Rico especially, so yes it’d be really cool to get them some more closure. It probably won’t happen like you said, but I’ll have you know I’m still in high school and I just beat the game first time yesterday so there are still some new fans out there, just hard to find since most don’t appreciate games like this anymore.
Man I loved this game so much! It was also a huge inspiration for the little game I did in school, based on a comic my brother and I created as kids. No mechs to pilot, and you traveled to 2 planets a massive space city and a derelict starship.
@@Neogears1312 only if you were in a fight where you wanted to charge the 'do several deathblows at once' thing up - most fights don't warrant it really otherwise it served no purpose - it's not like you could do 2 deathblows if you did a weaker one instead of your strongest and the later ones had much higher damage multipliers though really for most of the game you should be doing basic attacks really - iirc constantly using nothing but deathblows means your learning deatblows is gimped because you need so many uses of the T1-4 and S1 and 2 attacks to 'learn' the deathblows - constantly using the first deathblow at 4 ap means you never use anything but t1
Learning deathblows is a very lengthy process, doesn't help the fact that Elly leaves half way through the game, along with any chances of seeing her deathblows. The same goes for Citan before he transition into his sword mode
Holy shit I love u for this video bro I need to find my copy and play it again I beat it of course but never full complete and tbh I forgot the story if u cud ever make a synopsis video I'd appreciate it too keep up the good work either way
I think it would look cooler if the enemy died street fighter style as soon as it has received enough damage instead of dieing after the characters turn ends
my saved got lost on my ps... got my timer stocked at 99:99 leveling up evry one.... at my time this is the coolest... got no ps1 now cant play the game again... system id... yup... long story lines.. but it have its purpose.. rico and maria....
Beam spam to stun the foe then kamehameha. LITERALLY the best strategy in dragon ball kakarot game, because of how dodgy some foes get. Sort of ironic it almost never works anywhere else
Aside for fei's last two and citan's sword arts, the rest are pretty doable before solaris, disc 1. Fei's last two need level 70 and 80, citan doesn't get the sword moveset till disc 2. So, kinda- sure.
Oh so I just watched your video on XB3 and the shoutouts to Citan made me want to watch a death blow compilation. THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS IN HD OMFG YOURE THE BEST
Can you point to what track exactly that you are talking about? Im not hearing it. This track is called stage of death in XenoGears, but I can't recall what track you are talking about in FFT.
@@MickeyYaj I really don't hear it, I think the 2 tracks are quite different through-out. same-ish pacing of the song, but definitely quite different. Especially as the songs play out.
@@MickeyYaj The music in Xenogears was done by Yasunori Mitsuda, who also did the music for Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross Hitoshi Sakimoto did the music for Final Fantasy Tactics, and also Final Fantasy XII and Vagrant Story, all of which take place in Ivalice
The fact that even the regular weak punch flashes the screen bother me so much. I can't get further in this game because fighting makes my eyes hurt...
What is truly a airing and disappointing at the same time is that the game was never completed. They couldn’t even finish giving everyone a full list of deathblows. needless to say complete the story of the game and dungeons and levels. Also, there are clear indications that the battle system was incomplete as well. All in all, the game was amazing and should not only get a complete remake, but also complete the story and game as intended.
I could never figure out how to unlock the other deathblows. The guide says you need to use it in battle to get points to learn the next death blow. But mine never grew. :(
Bro how I remember is grind hard. For example if it's level 1 tier deathblow it will be starting with triangle. Just use that character attacking with triangle over and over as much as you can. After battle look at the deathblow percentage menu sees if it growing, if it is keep doing the same thing. If not attack with different with triangle and square. Repeat. If it works good, if not next battle triangle x button. Those work for me.
@@randoburr5201 I do indeed! 😄 Some aren't aware of it, so that's why I shared it. I liked that you wrote that comparison, hence why I replied to yours. If you want, I could copy and paste it to the main comments for everyone to see and then delete it from here.
Citan was already one of the most overpowered party members I had ever played in an rpg and then he went and got a badass sword and I lost my mind.
He is the best character, from the beginning of the game I knew that he was the best partner
Hes freakin everything u want in an rpg character: tanky, has healing, does great dmg, fast.
I've heard Citan described as "The main character of a *previous* RPG; he's already been through his Hero's Journey and his Character Arc, he just came out of retirement to make sure the kids are gonna be okay.
@@kaosdrachen auron
@@kaosdrachen Dang, never saw it like that!
The fact that this game doesn't have a proper remake yet is disgusting.
Its sad honestly, it cant ever happen unless square swallows their pride and works with monolithsoft since takahashi technically owns the game but we all know what square is like😩
@@neonblackbeast7243 um I'm pretty sure square owns the rights to xenogears my dude.
the greenhorn ‘the rights’ but its basically takahashi’s game since he and his wife wrote and oversaw the project
the greenhorn what im saying is they’d have to work together since disc 2 was unfinished in some ways and implement more lore from perfect works which takahashi and his wife wrote to make the game complete
@@neonblackbeast7243 agreed. I still don't understand why all parties involved can't benefit. The internal conflicts can finally be put to rest if Takahashi and wife are allowed the resources they need to truly bring their beautiful masterpiece to what it was always meant to be.
@2:10 Fukei is my favorite. Love the sound effects.
The best game rpg of history i never forget it
It's the Dune of JRPGs
Best game EVER MADE!
Yea one of the best
Yup, totally agree
Possibly, quite sucked for me as a kid as I got stuck in that festival part, or was it tournament. No idea where to go as I didn't use any guides
Its kind of crazy seeing how so much derived from here. Jin's Stunned Swallow from on of Citan's deathblows
And not, y'know... Jin. Almost entirely.
Also Citan with his sword is one my all time favorite fighters in any video game, change my mind.
Billys "dear friend" was always my favorite
I say we make a petition and/or protest so they can make this masterpiece into an anime or atleast a finished remastered version
Elly's earth elemental deathblow....I forgot just how insane it is.
One of them 'What am I watching?' moments. 😅
@@ArcaneMaiden Most of her deathblows are like that
Only Fei can make "soy" sound badass
One of many reasons why I applied the Japanese patch.
Xenogears has such a unique combat system for a jRPG.
this and legend of legaia... those two were gamechanger
@@toparky2470 for real legend of legaia and xenogears best games I ever played on ps1
I recommend Valkyrie Profile for a battle system like this
Citan with sword is op. But the moment he gets it, it's almost the end of Disc 1. And 90% of the fights in Disc 2 are gear battles.
some jrpg protags get swords forged by gods, guns made by the barons of hell itself, or secret knowledge from the birth of the universe. Fei, has righty and lefty and that's all he needs.
Fei's soul is BFFs with the closest thing to infinite energy/god.
Hell at the end of the game and the wave existence fucks off, gears stop moving - the fuel wasn't enough, they were also powereby the wave existence - fei's is the only one that still works.
Xenogears charm really ages really fine through this years.. the only JRPG that you can only see Mechs doing martial arts!
I mean…Sakura Wars is a thing.
The elemental deathblows are some of the coolest things ever animated in a video game.
Man, I kinda want Fei in smash now, look at the possible move sets.
I just beat this game this year, and I already want to replay it. Despite already being an amazing game just imagine how good it could have been had squaresoft just gave it a proper budget and a proper chance; rather than hoarding all of the money for Final Fantasy and Kingdom Hearts, a practice they continue to this day.
God this game was cool. I know everyone loves the mechs, but my favorite element was always the sprite-based ground combat.
Thank you for your service, Monolith Man
1:34 trying to get a break as Matthew
Holy heck these sound effects/voice lines are so nostalgic! I still remember how some of these sounded
9:09 I laughed so hard when I saw this the first time, it's like they said you can pick one deathblow to be a joke one and it was this one. That just let the 3D guy go ham
Also I never saw 16:07 thats sick!
Elly's Terra Charge is easily my favorite Deathblow she has, its impossibly adorable
citans "rare earth" is one of the dark knight/death knight/sword saint moves from FF Tactics! crazy re-use of squaresoft assets at the time!
I love every Character in this game... They are all interesting, fun and enjoyable. The Deathblows are just such a friggin bonus. My FFXIV Character is specifically glamoured to Citan for the specific reason that I main Monk and Samurai lol
Citan's sword techniques made me fall in love with iaijutsu. And Billy's gunplay was sick!!
6:29 is literally dimension ripper in XC3
its also literally jin's stunned swallow
Fun fact: This game was originally pitched as FF7, but got rejected due to being too sci-fi and dark. Some elements of this are in FF7, though, as the director of this game did some concept designs for it.
It's crazy how many of these were made into arts
Is it? Xenoblade was basically Xenogears, pre Xenogears and saga stuff tossed in a blender and paper machied into a new story that could very well fit into saga stuff anyway.
Like, even xcx was like 'okay, land on xenogears planet, human bodies made by machines, minds digitalized, small and fucking mech sized foes' pre xenogears stuff with xenosaga 'humans are hunted by weird alien like creatures', even though not real aliens, with the real gnosis ripoff - the ghost, the other alien group fighting near earth that hadn't made it to earth.
Plus the whole 'humans were only able to fight thanks to the kos-mos/t-elos ripoff' idea.
Citan's Jinrai attack is him literally warming up his backhand. Love it.
This makes me wish for a Xeno crossover fighting game.
Dang….so many moves I never knew this game had.
I remember thinking emerelda was such a cool character... and then I heard her voice
FYI if you could get your hands on the demo all deathblows are unlocked in the starting area.
This game hasn't even reach it's full potential yet.
1. The budget was cut because of FF8
2. The creator was so ambitious that this game was originally wanted to be made for 100+ hours of gameplay, so basically this game would have had maybe 4 discs in it's full potential, could be more
3. This game on it's full potential would be final fantasy 7 but it wasn't because of the dark story and sensitive to religious
But even so this game can still reach this level of greatness is unbelievable!
Chu chu and Maria don’t have death blows :)
why haven't they remade this masterpiece like they did FF7? Honestly, I wouldn't mind having the speed up option for this so I can farm alot faster, I've never beaten xenogears yet but I do remember making it half way through & then gave up at this underwater boss fight, it was to challenging for me :(
The very first RPG i tried & fell inlove with. & The story, the gameplay, & the soundtrack.
Imagine if Square would remake this under Takahashis Supervision instead of FF7 right now :/, all FF7 needed was a Touch up and some rebalancing
Ff7 is one of the most overrated games of all time. Xenogears is so much better. I could hardly get past the first 7 hours of ff7, but xenogears, I couldn’t put down.
@@omegawario7479 I mean if you look online it means alot for many people, but I agree with you Xenogears is much better. Probably my favorite story in gaming.
As for FF7:R I despise Nomuras creative vision of the Game, but the gameplay is extremely fun.
@@Realag666 yeah I won’t downplay what the game means to many people on an emotional level since I myself have plenty of games that I love just because I played them when I was younger and have an inflated opinion of them, even knowing they aren’t that good.
I haven’t played the remake, but I do admit the game sorta deserved it if for the hype alone, just not what seems like an episodic series that will continue for years.
In my opinion xenogears doesn’t really need a remake/master since it holds up pretty well. I wouldn’t object to one though as long as it doesn’t delay the next Xenoblade or whatever monolith is making, provided they would even be the ones doing the job in the first place.
@@omegawario7479 I would welcome a remake alone to see Rico's and Billy's storyline finished and Omnigears for the entire party.
Tons of Qol stuff, the random encounters in Dungeons, cutting/streamlining certain parts of the story to improve pacing, there is a million things that can be done that each on their own would level up the experience alot.
But I think we never ever gonna get that. The Game is too niche and only older Jrpg Fans still know the game.
@@Realag666 billy and Rico were really underdeveloped, Rico especially, so yes it’d be really cool to get them some more closure. It probably won’t happen like you said, but I’ll have you know I’m still in high school and I just beat the game first time yesterday so there are still some new fans out there, just hard to find since most don’t appreciate games like this anymore.
Man I loved this game so much! It was also a huge inspiration for the little game I did in school, based on a comic my brother and I created as kids.
No mechs to pilot, and you traveled to 2 planets a massive space city and a derelict starship.
Deathblows were cool animation wise. Too bad the gameplay devolved into "spam strongest deathblow" to win for most of the game.
JP another reason this game deserves a remake😞
@@neonblackbeast7243 for sure
Honestly if you used combos it was often practical to sprinkle the lower tier ones in there because they cost less.
@@Neogears1312 only if you were in a fight where you wanted to charge the 'do several deathblows at once' thing up - most fights don't warrant it really
otherwise it served no purpose - it's not like you could do 2 deathblows if you did a weaker one instead of your strongest and the later ones had much higher damage multipliers
though really for most of the game you should be doing basic attacks really - iirc constantly using nothing but deathblows means your learning deatblows is gimped because you need so many uses of the T1-4 and S1 and 2 attacks to 'learn' the deathblows - constantly using the first deathblow at 4 ap means you never use anything but t1
either spam strongest or store ap and spam strongest x10
I remember trying to beat this game only using Hagan
I just played through the whole game not knowing how to unlock deathblows, so I was stuck with the same basic deathblow in every character
I'm so gonna play this game ! After I finish my PS1 FF7, Chrono cross & Musashi !
Learning deathblows is a very lengthy process, doesn't help the fact that Elly leaves half way through the game, along with any chances of seeing her deathblows. The same goes for Citan before he transition into his sword mode
Pretty sure you can unequip his swords
I disagre. I enjoyed learning the deathblows. The process made you expirement with different combinations of attacks.
This game need a remaster with todays graphics i would buy it immediate
my very favorite game from ps1..hopefully remake will happen on this game xenogears..i miss this game...
What kind of ad did i just watch on this video? It was like Kernel Sanders, but anime. I’m so confused
its for the dating sim I'm guessing.
Ah yes, the KFC dating sim. I am also confused to its existence.
Holy shit I love u for this video bro I need to find my copy and play it again I beat it of course but never full complete and tbh I forgot the story if u cud ever make a synopsis video I'd appreciate it too keep up the good work either way
If any game deserves to be remade after FF7...it's this one.
I think it would look cooler if the enemy died street fighter style as soon as it has received enough damage instead of dieing after the characters turn ends
If you pause during a combo it does that.
best party: fei, emerelda, citan?
This combo system reminds me a lot of Lisa the painful
Citan using Zanretsu is just Jin's Stun Swallow.
Xeno series is just, dang, something else.
This game was a part one and two in one!
Y’know, I don’t think I would want a xeno fighting game unless death roll was a 720 super for rico
Thank you for making this.
I still listen to the ost during deep work... some of the music is great for flow state
I love that the 7 AP death blows turn most of the party to wizards...then there's whatever the hell Emerelda does 😂
my saved got lost on my ps... got my timer stocked at 99:99 leveling up evry one.... at my time this is the coolest... got no ps1 now cant play the game again... system id... yup... long story lines.. but it have its purpose.. rico and maria....
Fukei always reminded me of DBZ
Beam spam to stun the foe then kamehameha.
LITERALLY the best strategy in dragon ball kakarot game, because of how dodgy some foes get.
Sort of ironic it almost never works anywhere else
well he is clearly pretty far in the game to show all the deathblows.
Aside for fei's last two and citan's sword arts, the rest are pretty doable before solaris, disc 1.
Fei's last two need level 70 and 80, citan doesn't get the sword moveset till disc 2.
So, kinda- sure.
idk something about senretsu makes it my favorite move in the game
Citan is op
love it. and xenosaga.
I still don't understand how to unlock the arts I only have three and sony level 73
Anyone notice when Citan uses a deathblow and is in the casting phase, his eyes are pitch black?
Fei, Citan and Billy ftw
Oh so I just watched your video on XB3 and the shoutouts to Citan made me want to watch a death blow compilation.
THANK YOU FOR UPLOADING THIS IN HD OMFG YOURE THE BEST
Fei fong wong is Basically Bruce lee
Fukei was the best one for me
Why does the background music, have the same music in Final Fantasy Tactic- The War of The Lions?
Can you point to what track exactly that you are talking about? Im not hearing it. This track is called stage of death in XenoGears, but I can't recall what track you are talking about in FFT.
@@Tommyvang187 It's called Trisection FFT, when you first start out in the game. It sounds almost exactly the same.
@@MickeyYaj I really don't hear it, I think the 2 tracks are quite different through-out. same-ish pacing of the song, but definitely quite different. Especially as the songs play out.
@@MickeyYaj The music in Xenogears was done by Yasunori Mitsuda, who also did the music for Chrono Trigger and Chrono Cross
Hitoshi Sakimoto did the music for Final Fantasy Tactics, and also Final Fantasy XII and Vagrant Story, all of which take place in Ivalice
15:55
Ps1 have some amazing 3d games, but i like 2d sprites better... This game and breath of fire 4 is the perfect example of it...
Beerus:
Citan:
Beerus: Ha-
Citan: Hakai!
Wtffff I cannot remember ever seeing that final one Fei did...
Yeah cause you get it at Level 80.
This game was way better than ff7
I liked citans hand to hand better than when he uses his sword.
No MARIA Deathblows ???
Are you forgetting MARIA ?
Wetallzinho não, Wetalzinho não
Can you do all character's Ether attacks?
How to get all deathblow
The fact that even the regular weak punch flashes the screen bother me so much. I can't get further in this game because fighting makes my eyes hurt...
Yamikey its secret move ❤
Best game ever!!!!
10/10
Who are those 2 characters?!?!?!?
SOY!
Best game ever
I just finished this game and had like 3 deathblows for each character, now I find out about this lmao
"SOY!" 😂
emeralda was my fav
What is truly a airing and disappointing at the same time is that the game was never completed. They couldn’t even finish giving everyone a full list of deathblows. needless to say complete the story of the game and dungeons and levels. Also, there are clear indications that the battle system was incomplete as well. All in all, the game was amazing and should not only get a complete remake, but also complete the story and game as intended.
I could never figure out how to unlock the other deathblows. The guide says you need to use it in battle to get points to learn the next death blow. But mine never grew. :(
Bro how I remember is grind hard. For example if it's level 1 tier deathblow it will be starting with triangle. Just use that character attacking with triangle over and over as much as you can. After battle look at the deathblow percentage menu sees if it growing, if it is keep doing the same thing. If not attack with different with triangle and square. Repeat. If it works good, if not next battle triangle x button. Those work for me.
@@ismaelhall3990 haha I haven't played the game in almost more than a decade, but i'll keep that in mind if I pick it up for PC.
I wish you could remove all the screen flashes. I don’t have epilepsy but it really bugs my eyes (well the yellow ones anyways).
Tantos db me faltaba desbloquear? Y yo q me consideré bueno jajaja
Final fantasy 7 but with gundams
🤢
@@DaftSheep you don't say?
@@randoburr5201 I do indeed! 😄 Some aren't aware of it, so that's why I shared it. I liked that you wrote that comparison, hence why I replied to yours. If you want, I could copy and paste it to the main comments for everyone to see and then delete it from here.
@@DaftSheep sure go crazy man
@@randoburr5201 All done. Hope you weren't offended by the original comment. Have an awesome day! 😄
Oversaid, but first.
A shame disc 2 sucked so much