>>714866125
I'm not even shitting on Xenogears since it's my favourite game of all time and has a story so unparalleled in vidya you'll only find superior (vidya) stories in visual novels.
But I feel like the people who fucking worship Xenogears as some mature, mindblowing game filled with completely original takes, plot points and one-of-a-kind characters are secondaries, much like the meme here >>714865757

For fuck sake, it shares more than half of it's key plot devices with fucking Chrono Trigger, which is to be expected since Xenogears is made mostly by the Chrono Trigger team, but still.