It's kinda funny how the cinematic features this extremely advanced looking starship on a scale that dwarfs the USS Enterprise D in size. Holographic screens at all the stations. And when the captain wants to contact the engine room, he whips out his corded phone from the 80's.
for emotional resonance we need tools we can relate with at the time of release. for dem sad phone calls feels. Wouldn't be the same yelling into his apple watch
@@jk3jk35 plus, with the construction of the Eldridge, it's doable; the bridge and engine section are close. now, if they had the bridge situated closer to the bow of the ship, that's a different story.
the AI on board took over all communications, you hear the female say deploying fake net implying there trying to stop it, so a phone line is probably all they got
I love how at first the events of this intro seemed to have nothing to do with the story, but after finishing the game you can see that they are the reason for everything.
The game would make even more sense if they actually got to make the entire Xeno-series that was "planned" but we only ever got Xenogears and than Xenosaga 1, 2 and 3.
@@XionsEmpire xenosaga isn’t a prequel to xenogears. even if it was, it’d only take up episode 1. also xenoblade exists and 2 especially has a lot of elements from gears.
To give a sense of scale, the "Fort Jasper" that's later found in the game as part of the Fatima family's legacy is just one the many laser turrets shown in 4:16.
@@darrenthetuber743 No. Squaresoft cut funding to Xenogears because Final Fantasy VIII was having development troubles. We're lucky we got Xenogears at all.
It’s SO chilling. The way the choir-like vocals come in, as if to convey that it’s a literal machine god. It’s incredibly masterful storytelling, with both visuals and sound.
I love this opening, the feeling of something sinister taking over the ship, so dangerous that the only choice is self destruct lol. That Captain reminds me of Robotech (if anyone remembers that show) :)
I would love it if Square licensed Xenogears to Nintendo/Monolithsoft for a proper remake including everything that was ever intended to go into the original game, along with updates and upgrades from Takahashi's learnings from Xenosaga and Xenoblade. Also, bring in the full direction team including Soraya Saga, Yasunori Mitsuda, Yasuyuki Honne, and Kunihiko Tanaka. I believe all work for Nintendo currently except Saga and Mitsuda; but Saga has worked exclusively with Nintendo on a contractual basis since leaving Namco in 2004, and Mitsuda works primarily with Nintendo, so it should be very easy to bring them onboard. The whole team are now veterans and do very high quality work. Unlike the FF7 team (which is missing several key people from its development team), who people are worrying about, there's every reason to believe the Monolithsoft team would not only do the source material justice, but improve on its presentation.
Yeah i would love it, cause I never played Xenogears but the newer Takahashi and Honne games (Baten Kaitos 1 + Origins, Xenoblade) and they are all great. At least we get a new Xenoblade on Nintendo Switch this dezember. The next game after that is said to be more medieval and western.
I remember watching this over and over on the demo disc that came with, I think, FF7. This fmv will forever be embedded in my mind as a result.. There was SO much unexplained and only when you've made it through more than half of the game do you realize the importance of this entire scene.. They DEFINITELY don't make games like this anymore.
It was parasite eve they had a playable demo of xenogears and brave fencer musashi also was a video demo of FF8 which wasn't out yet plus if you have this demo disc you can use it with the game to play all the FM videos from xenogears if you have the game you can swap out the disc and instead of watching the opening you can watch all the FM videos.
I have it. PE comes with the 1998 Collector's CD volume 1, which has Xenogears (playable), Bushido Blade 2 (movie), Brave Fencer Musashi (movie) and FF8 (movie).
It was back when Square was taking some ballsy risks, especially narratively. They became vital and contemporary, unfortunately it didn't last long, they became increasingly self reflexive after the narrative failure of FFVIII
@@darrenthetuber743 what happened with ffviii. seeing the hardwork I knew I didn't want to play it. FF7 was a blast though. Xenogears one year later was so deep and immersing. I never knew I could have a blast like FF7 again and Xenogears was even the step further. I played FF9 2 years later didn't finish it but quite loved it.
First "Dark Dawn", then "Omen", and much later "Awakening". From prologue, to journey, to "final" battle. The connection between these [master]pieces shows us how Xenogears is more than just a videogame, but a collection of millions shades of light, reflecting the Beginning and the End, holding Tears of the Stars, Hearts of the People, contained in Small Two of Pieces. In the end, although the second disc had to deal with budget constraints, Xenogears remains a true Gem Which Cannot Be Stolen.
I didn't realize until I saw the script that they actually use the word "Deus" in the dialogue here. I really wish this game had subtitles. It would've made this scene a lot easier to comprehend.
they don't say deus in the script (if you're talking about the auto pilot system). in the dialogue, they say "Auto pilot system Faust has been accessed, and its phased space logic is being rewritten." however, the gamefaqs script that I think you're referencing uses "deus" instead of faust for some reason.
the self destruct sound effect comes from Terminator 2 when Arnold uses the grenade launcher, specifically the shot that kills T1000. I've watched that movie so many times I knew I've heard that sound before.
Does anyone know who voiced the girl(s) in the intro? I know there are three female characters speaking but either it's one woman voicing all three or their voices are so similar I can't tell the difference. Were their roles ever credited? I can't find it on IMDB or other sites.
I think an argument can be made that the a.i. that takes over the ship was copied from KOS-MOS...or it -was- her...; regardless, we'll never know, as we'll never see 'episode 4'....
The primary antagonist taking over the ship is Deus (the wave motion existence/U-DO), the trans dimensional being that was imprisoned as a source of energy for Zohar. The Zohar is half of the WMD Yabeh and its energy source (And the idiocy of them transporting a galactic level weapon of mass destruction to be decommissioned on a civilian colony ship!). At the same time the mother aspect, Kadomony the organic computer half of Yabeh was fulfilling the maternal wish of the boy who came into contact with Yabeh (and freed Deus). Zohar is a source of infinite energy (of potentially divine origin) that has existed since the beginning of time and was found buried on Earth in Kenya (also called Lost Jerusalem in Xenosaga because they hid themselves away from the rest of the galaxy to stop the Zohar being used), like the Monoliths of 2001 which it is visually inspired by its implied that it influenced and sparked the evolution of humanity and intelligence. Studying the Zohar allowed humanity to develop warp travel. There are 12 keys to it called Anima which when used cause Zohar to reset the universe back to its initial creation.
anytime I introduce people to this game: "Here's an awesome opening cutscene! It will take the entire length of the game to explain what the fuck happened here."
Xenogears space theme will be somewhat will be true I guess sometime n the future as a arc for humanity but for us n future to research n find out if it will be whenever !a space research is needed!
The lead developers have actually denied being influenced by Evangelion- and they’ve been very forthcoming about other influences (e.g. the book Childhood’s End, or Rico existing just because they playing a lot of Street Fighter II). So apparently there was just a lot of interest in these sorts of things in 1990s Japan!
They were transporting a bio-mechanical interplanetary invasion system(Deus) that they deemed too dangerous to be used, in order to be disposed of. The A.I. of said system became self-aware and took over the ship, in which the captain pressed the self-destruct button to destroy it. The ship along with the A.I. crashed on the nearby planet which heavily damaged the former. The purple-haired woman at the end is a creation of said weapon, to act as an agent of it in order to repair it using humans built from its remains to act as spare parts after refining them.
@@haruhisuzumiya6650 there are countless callbacks and references all over the series, Xenoblade X included. there are too many to count, I reccommend looking at a playthrough of xenogears or playing it yourself, it really adds to the experience of replaying the Xenoblade games.
@@Nainco07 ??? Miang was by far the coolest character in the entire game. It's been a long time since I've played it all the way through, but iirc, she was the puppet master that pulled all the strings behind the scenes, correct? Of course she is the best girl. Her character was awesome. Not only that, she was like.. the progenitor of the entire human race.
@@aBanabis Ok, i get it. But Miang it's not a single girl, she is every women in xenoears universe. In fact, she is some kind of entity. That's why is a bit confusingg sayin she is best girl
@@aBanabis every women in the xenogears universe have the miang factor in their genes, so, yeah, she Is every girl miang want. She said it was a matter of chance who Is the next though.