Amazing
User Rating: 10 | Xenosaga Episode I Reloaded: Chikara e no Ishi PS2
This game is incredible. Better than FF, in my opinion, just barely. Here are the reasons why I gave all of the ratings tens: Gameplay: Because, unless you are a total noob, the game won't have you walking around for 6 hours trying to do one thing, unless you want get everyone to level 99, which takes A VERY LONG TIME! Considering you can beat the game with Erde Kaiser once you get it, then just have 3 people get level 40+ to beat the last boss, that's not neccesary. However, if you want to beat the game without Erde Kaiser, get to level 80+ with 3 people, cause the last boss has 15000 health, which is a lot! Graphics (this is for the time which it came out, not now): because back then, these were some of the best graphics I'd seen on PS2, and the X-Buster looks incredable. Also, the special effects, especially the explosions, are amazing. Sound: the music fits the mood. The voiceovers are great, even though chaos always seems a little too happy when he is about to get the crap kicked out of him by Albedo, who has an awesome secret towards the end. Value: gets a ten because this game has 4 minigames that rock. Poker: first, you play a hand of poker with yourself, trying to get a good hand. Then you play double-or-nothing up until 16x, which results in serious coins, which you can then trade in for items and then sell them. The Card game is cool. It's called Xenocard, and you make a deck to play the computer. The rules are very complex, and for me to explain them I would need 16 pages and a lot of coffee. The drill game is, well, you drill stuff. I played this once. The A.W.G.S. minigame is where you get into an A.W.G.S., which is a HUGE robot that kills everyone. This is the only thing that lets you play multiplayer, and it's kinda addicting. Don't expect perfection here though. Also, you can spend 100+ hours just leveling up people to level 99, going through all of the segment adresses, doing the Erde Kaiser mission (which is worth it, DO IT), and getting all of the A.W.G.S. This game can take along time. Also, the cutscenes can take a long time, but you can pause them to crap or something, or skip them all together, which would be stupid, because the story this game has rules. Especially, when the Proto Merkabah comes into play. (NO Spoilers) Tilt: Do I really need to say something else? 
