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Friday, January 6, 2017

Xenosaga Episode II for PlayStation 2 (2005)


Original ad published in the April 2005 edition of EGM (no. 190)

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Beautiful artwork for an overly ambitious game


Long-time RPG fanatics hold the Xenosaga series in high esteem. The story was supposed to encompass an amazing six games, but ended up only crossing three. The second installment of the series is arguably the worst, but you can’t blame Namco for not making the game an attractive proposition to gamers that got to know about it inside the magazines of the era.

Xenosaga Episode II Jenseits von Gut und Böse (Beyond Good and Evil) was hammered for its repetitive gameplay, below average music and really unbalanced voice acting. It was a step back from those of us who played the first Xenosaga, which managed to capture sci-fi fanatics with its clunky graphics yet deep story, filled with interesting, complex, characters.