>>718851385
>a story spanning six episodes,
Of which they made barely half of one of those and then proceeded to make three equally unfinished and poorly made offbrands sequel with the Xenosaga games, what's good about this exactly? This is just poor management and planning.
>two discs
One and a half more like, why is having multiple discs, one of which is barely there really, somehow better than just one?
>sixty hours
50 of which are wasted on dogshit cutscenes and dialogues on rails, again, why is this good?
>over 30 minutes of animated cutscenes
None of which are anything to write home about, I play RPGs for the roleplaying, not the shitty anime cutscenes
>a combat system with 9 characters and over 76 unique attack animations
Which is somehow more rudimentary than a NES game, not to mention there's just two good characters out of 9, Fei and Citan, and Citan is monstrously unbalanced to the point of making everyone else irrelevant
>a combo system
There's no combo system, this isn't Valkyrie Profile, it's just overly long canned animations for basic attacks
>multiple hidden stats
None of which matter because the game is so poorly designed you just mash triangle until your PP gauge is full so you can unload your strongest Deathblow, who the fuck cares about things like your character weight?
You'd also whine about hidden mechanics if any other game did it.
>a mecha system with entirely separate character progression mechanics
What separated character progression mechanics? Your Ether skills are fully tied to the characters' basic levels and so are your mech deathblows.
Other than that you just buy the strongest mech parts available and call it a day without any thought on actual choices or possible builds, it's a straight line of linear upgrades that makes FF1 look like a masterpiece.
>>718851440
None of my criticism is subjective which is why Xenogears and Xeno as a whole are jokes.
