>>719138250
Whatever you may say about image composition and music enhancing the dialogue, it can all be dismissed by the primacy of the text when it comes to storytelling. You can have a beautifully shot movie, but if its dialogue reads clunky and its delivery falls flat, then the audience won't be immersed in its story.
Not that films necessarily need a story. You can have films with horrible scripts and wooden acting, or even a completely silent film, and they can get carried by its cinematography into the realm of art. The same way a book with shallow character and no real plot to speak of can be good if its author is a master prose stylist. The same way vidya can be good if its gameplay is a lot of fun.
Xenogears commits a double sin in that not only is its dialogue horrible, its gameplay is even worse. No matter how good its images and music may be, you can't recover from that.