Xenogears Lore: The Storyline

[@lucbauer]

the greatest plot ever created in all types of media.

[@elPusherman]

Amen to that...not even any close seconds in my mind.

[@giancarlomasotti5623]

Agreed, at least until 13 Sentinels popped up in 2019.

[@jmtexx]

It's truly artful how everything is packed, allowing gamers to interpret and piece together parts individually. The only other entity achieving this is the Bible-quite ironic as I write this comment knowing that Xenogears talks about religions being controlling lol

[@jzblue345]

​@@giancarlomasotti5623Whats so good about 13 Sentinals?

[@davidwhitney947]

This is the single most legible synopsis of this game I’ve seen. I’ve watched many. Thanks a lot.

[@jonathandiosa5739]

Did you watch the 4 part discussion by Dark Pixel gaming now known as Resonant Arc?

[@Verbatimorgish]

This is a good one for sure. Certainly the quickest

[@highmarshalbalian680]

Lol

[@jmtexx]

Yes, I'm a connoisseur when it comes to Xenogear retrospectives. It feels like a cult is forming around this game as we speak.

[@distortedlp]

I remember loving this game. I now understand I had no idea what it was about.

[@drankclaw2095]

This is hands down without a single doubt one of the best Xenogears Perfect Works "summaries" I've ever watched or read, anywhere. Instant subscribe!

[@mobes8876]

Wow. No joke, this is probably the clearest synopsis I’ve ever watched regarding Gears. Very well done

[@DumasHiseki]

Xenogears was one of my absolute favorite games I played when young. I was 8 when I got it for christmas by mistake during a gift exchange... And it actually helped to shape my view on religion and philosophy. I hope to see ya'll exploring more of it, as there is Perfect Works you can pull from for extra content. Anyways, thanks for this video, I hope the views on it skyrocket!

[@freewilliam93]

You should look at my Influences playlist.

[@distortedlp]

Same! I got it as a random gift from a friends mom. It’s actually worth a pretty penny now.

[@jonathandiosa5739]

My son is 8 but not sure if he's ready for this. He's watched entire anime series but Xenogears has alot of advanced terms he definitely won't understand. I first played it when I was 12.

[@taylordiclemente5163]

There are no mistakes! Xenogears found you when you needed it!

[@ranma36]

Wow 8? I was 13 and it definitely changed my beliefs.

[@jiraiya0698]

The amount of noise that that game has is mind-blowing. Good Synopsis out from that chaos.

[@LOREWITHBLAZER]

This was the greatest Jrpg on the ps1

[@ahmadshafiq6647]

I remembered Xenogears plots being a headache, didn't realised it was this convulated. I'm more than happy back then figuring the combo and using the robots rather than paying attention to the narrative.

[@TrueMastersandMorons]

lol fair enough.

[@jasonh8212]

lol truth here many wont admit 😉

[@Trid3nt861]

I remember the first time I heard of this game was back in 98. In that year I remember playing it. My cousin gave me his copy back then and I still have an original copy. Played Xenogears on PS1 back then alot. Oh and long haired guys name isn't Karellen... its Kreilan (Cray-Lee-anne)

[@houragents5490]

You guys are masters at doing lore breakdowns.

[@Eclectic.Nostalgia]

Xenogears is SUPERRR underrated. Probably because not a lot of people appreciated the mecha genre.

[@smartmouthriveria]

thank you for this video, hadn't played this game in like 20 plus years and this is the best explanation of the story on youtube...thanks again

[@Arthirias]

Well done! Great seeing a hard cut of this massive story!

[@MilesMariae]

Amazing job guys, you've really summerised the game well. Credit to you both. With this in mind I could probably re play the game again and maybe it will make sense!

[@sonickchri]

Thank you so much for this short cut of such a convoluted narrative! Even though I always read and said that this game's story is awesome, there are a lot of things left not too well explained. They created such a huge world of characters, the whole biological computer being the means of creating and populating a world premise is very reminiscent of Chrono Cross (I know, they share many of the same key development team members). I think Perfect Works states that Fei became The Contact BEFORE Deus was being transported on the Eldridge but that could be wrong. Also, why the difference in some translations/spellings (e.g. "Karellen" or whatever for Krelian)? Was this a mass typo in localization?

[@The_Vible]

The giant monster that Krelian make Fei fight (Urobolus) is Myyah in the form of a Chimera and is also inspired by Lilith

[@chrislennon460]

Abel made contact on miktam4 during the start up tests, not after it was loaded onto the eldridge with the survivors of miktam4. Also the planet deus destroyed was before Miktam4, there were 2 events prior to the eldridge. The first planet vanished, then they recovered the zohar, then on the second planet they connected the zohar and deus and this is when deus went out of control and started attacking the planet. during the attack is when Deus was subdued and separated to be loaded on the ship.

[@chrislennon460]

Krelian's love for Sophia was not romantic in nature, it was admiration as a holy woman who saved him and showed him how to achieve inner peace. He did not understand why Lacan rejected her feelings.

[@AlphaspitzZ]

Can we get a reboot on ps5 please wtf...the most incredible RPG ever

[@AlphaspitzZ]

@Eric Gerwatowski I feel that actually. I mean can we get a port at least so we can play it on a newer console lol

[@kamenrideraquarius]

Ask squaresoft

[@Memzy530]

They don't make games with stories like this anymore. Great breakdown of the story as well.

[@giancarlomasotti5623]

You should try out 13 Sentinels, greatest mindfuck I’ve ever experienced and my #1 VG plot after Xenogears.

[@MatthewRhodes]

This is probably the most accurate KZbin channel name. Reminds me of my friends and I hahahah! Subscribed!

[@stevefox2831]

I’d like to see a video for Wild Arms like this. I loved that game.

[@II-PodviznickaSlova]

Whoa! Another gem. I'd sure love that as well.

[@elvira-irinareisinger6370]

Wild Arms has the one title melody from ages ago that I could still whistle today.

[@II-PodviznickaSlova]

It's interesting how after all this time ppl are still searching for sth named "Xenogears". I was brought here while searching for a clue of eventual anime tv show remake. Anyway guys @True Masters & Morons , thanks a bunch for this! You did a great job. ^_^

[@chovue2363]

All I remember from xenogears was the Bible and hadoukens. Glad you made this video. XD

[@WildWestSushi]

i struggled to get into this game as a kid. still have a copy, maybe i should try it again

[@CTN404]

I remember reading way back in the day, that this game was pitched to be Final Fantasy 7. But Squaresoft said it was too dark a story. But Square still made the game anyway just not as a Final Fantasy title

[@RoidedGay]

It was also supposed to be a sequel to Chrono Tigger before it became its own independent game.

[@suhtangwong]

Let me put xenogears in the most simplistic form... It's complex.

[@taylordiclemente5163]

A great literal synopsis that nevertheless completely ignores the game's metaphysical themes, such as the Gnostic God vs Demiurge, and the joining of two one-winged angels to gather the Gnostic shards of light and repair the world.

[@brock2443]

The xenogears story is a combination of Gnosticism and Kabbalah. Zohar is one of the books of kabbalah. Sephirot and yggdrasil as used in the xeno games are both terms for the tree of life. Many of the character names are from these teachings also.

[@fortkavanagh]

Can you do an episode on Xenoblade Chronicles games, I don't know what there stories are about because they never came out for the PS2&3?

[@jzblue345]

9.99 for a digital copy on the PSN, for that price it's definitely worth it.

[@suhtangwong]

It is by far we'll worth more than that.

[@ninjammer726]

alright thanks guys your videos warm my heart when you respond to my comments and please do a video on the gears in xenogears!!!!!!

[@samconley23]

Xenosaga next please

[@deadson2]

I really hope they remaster this game keep the gameplay the same just up the graphics

[@suhtangwong]

I only know the ps1 xenogears and ps2 xenosaga covers, but xenogears is the best one imo.

[@SonofTiamat]

This game is a giant metaphor for gnosticism

[@yungxama1606]

🙏 a true gem. So much material to think about.

[@anti-nephilimgovernmentage5471]

@@yungxama1606 it's new age propaganda.

[@yungxama1606]

@@anti-nephilimgovernmentage5471 how is that?

[@anti-nephilimgovernmentage5471]

@@yungxama1606 Gnosticism is the foundation for the new age religion and pretending you can aspire to be god. Fei and elly transcending humanity at the end is a gnostic's wet dream. This whole new age religion is nothing but Gnosticism and Satanism wrapped up together. The symbolism is clear, the cube of the zohar representing Saturn (Saturn has a cube on its north pole, Saturn is the reaper, he is death, he is the god of time aka the prison of matter, aka Chronos) aka Satan being the bringer of evolution to humanity, which is what gnosticism teaches. This game is essentially Satan worship.

[@yungxama1606]

@@anti-nephilimgovernmentage5471 satan worship. Meeh , I doubt that much people experience it like that. More like humanity reaching the potential of God. A trope that has been used so many times in JRPG and anime. What I found so interesting about Xenogears is tge psycology of Carl Yung in there, which is all about growing closer to your true future self and defeating your shadow self which is represented in ID in Fei. I think its super shallow to just dismiss the game as satanic workship haha as it has far more levels to it then the end part of it which is defeating god or Deus.

[@Sinn0100]

This was not confusing to me at all. I picked up Xenogears on a whim..I think it was 1998. I have played thm all an the first games smokes all the rest. I'm a Sega Saturn and Playstation collector that has a fiancee that is a gamer as well. I recently introduced this game to her and she is playing it as I type this. I myself haven't played it in a very long time. Currently, I'm playing through Trials of Mana on my PSPRO. Perhaps when she finishes the game I will play it again.

[@jzblue345]

I picked up xenogears and parasite eve on my birthday in 98 it was the best birthday day ever.

[@Sinn0100]

@@jzblue345 The year 1998 was one of the greatest we have ever witnessed in gamings long and storied history. I remember this time period well as I was finally working and could buy all the games I wanted. I hit 18 years old just as the Dreamcast entered the fray in 1999 and I went absolutely nuts. Here is a list of some of the greatest games ever released in 1998 and brother I had most of them. ;) Big PlayStation releases for '98- Castlevania Symphony of The Night (might have been 1997), Xenogears, MGS, Resident Evil 2, Final Fantasy Tactics, Tekken 3, Gran Turismo, Einhander, Tenchu, Brave Fencer Musashi, Parasite Eve, and Thunder Force V. Here are the N64's big games for '98- Body Harvest, Bomberman 64, Cruise N' USA, Cruise N' World, F-Zero X, Forsaken, Nightmare Creatures, Quake, South Park, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Turok 2: Seeds of Evil, Vigilante 8, and Wipeout 64. I would list the Sega Saturn games for 1998 but as you likely already know that Sega closed the books on their 32-bit machine here. I loved the Sega Saturn so much and even though I had the other two I was very saddened by its untimely death.

[@vollkerball1]

07:00 and don´t forget that even with that all humanity they needed Krellians nanomachines (SON!) 09:00 And from i understand (correct me if i am wrong) even Maya as her own agenda depending on wich female she possess (see maya and ramsus relationship but even this can also be seen as part of the bigger plan)

[@gnuwaves743]

oh i get it.

[@BeansEnjoyer911]

This game is much more than the sum of its parts.

[@riftseeker54]

thank you!

[@elvira-irinareisinger6370]

Thnx! I buyed the game but never had the time (damn FF and Suikoden and...^^). It's important to note that key elements of such stories wouldn't be possible without H.P. Lovecraft or what's his name

[@jonbigcawk]

Maya and Carolyn are my fav Zenogear characters

[@DouchebagT]

Just casually listening for the end of Xenoblade Chronicles 3

[@Verbatimorgish]

Y'all haven't done chrono cross??? That game is calling you

[@toomanylies7716]

Nice job.

[@noir66146]

cool stuff.

[@bustergaa]

Very good! Does anyone know the background music in KZbin

[@TrueMastersandMorons]

Depending upon where in the video you're most likely looking at either: Hackerland by Twin Musicom or See_you_Soon by Otis McDonald.

[@sommi888]

🧡💛💚💙 amazing summary

[@Pikachu-qr4yb]

10:07 So Handmaids Tale plays in the same universe?

[@Joao-de9gl]

Imagine playing this game as a kid not knowing english xD

[@Grombrindal]

The "biological assembler" is her uterus and I don't blame Honeywood for using a euphemism.

[@otaconpunished]

I like to think Shulk is an Uzuki.

[@inkmage4084]

Xenogears was the best, its supposed to be episode V

[@lightsinx]

God i want a full remake. Fixing disc 2

[@taylordiclemente5163]

Disc 2 was left unfinished, just like Sophia's portrait.

[@TokenCast]

There are ties lore and technically based

[@TigerDan04]

I loved this game! I remember some of the names being different though? Like, Krelian instead of Caroline and Miang instead of Maya? Sounds like I need to play it again. Thanks for the recap!

[@TrueMastersandMorons]

If we remember correctly the names were legitimately changed from one translation to the next so it depends on which version of the game you played. It's been long enough that we don't remember which version of the characters names we used.

[@sethmooseknuckle]

Yep the version of this game i've played had them named Krelian and Miang. I've played the North American version. Still have my copy and they of course have the same names. Don't know where Caroline and Maya came from. Could be the Europe release?

[@pellergin]

Childhood's End (2001 Space Odysey author) has a character Karellen with a similar role, likely to avoid getting sued.

[@Pikachu-qr4yb]

Haven't started the video yet but just seeing the headline and the 17min tagline made me laugh so I had to click

[@linkalot7415]

...and I thought xenoBLADE was complex. Holy shit

[@thedarkdragonking6212]

can you guys do a lore episode on zone of the enders plz

[@EmilyTempest81]

Do a lore on Final fantasy 7

[@TrueMastersandMorons]

Anything specific from FF7 you want to see?

[@EmilyTempest81]

@@TrueMastersandMorons one would be the story befor the game. There are mobile games and crises core that i never got to really see and understand how things got going. Plus a few of the characters like the ancients, genova, red 13, vencent, the shinra army soldier unit, the different summons you can get and sephiroth.

[@infamoswordz]

The original Xenogears is episode V ,so where is Xenogears episodes 1 through 4?

[@TrueMastersandMorons]

Tarren:"Do you really want to know? that's how we got episodes 1 2 and 3 of starwars? :P Lol" Isaac: "Hey... yeah okay..."

[@infamoswordz]

@@TrueMastersandMorons Awhh man.. lol when you say it that way 😥 But, we already suffered through Xenosaga = starwars ep1,2,3. So Xenogears 1- 4 = Rogue one, The Force Awakens, Last Jedi, Solo?? 😎

[@grahf9436]

Episode 1. Zohar , deus and Galactic war Episode 2. Deus crashes , Able and Elly . Episode 3. Kim and Elly, episode 4 Lacan and Elly episode 5 is the current events in the game episode 6 I don’t remember. Lol it’s all in perfect works. The game never tells you episode 4 is Lacan turning into grafh but perfect works does. Hope this overly simplistic explanation of the story helps

[@chrislennon460]

@@grahf9436 episode 6 was kept secret by the devs, its not even in perfect works.

[@Xeno_G23]

more pls!!!!

[@jjvega256]

It’s KRELIAN

[@k-d969]

Shortest Xenogears Video

[@darksuns7384]

Wasn't his name Krellian and not Kurellian?

[@TrueMastersandMorons]

Depends on the translation you played. There are two sets of accepted names for most of the characters. I believe the two you mention there are the two names for the different translations, but we'd have to look it up to be sure.

[@D3XthaTriF3ctA]

Xenogears is basically Dune if the butlerian jihad never happened

[@brandongary8234]

DLC bosses Darksiders 2

[@dylancraven3186]

Wtf just happened

[@randomperson5956]

Holy shit this is complex

[@aza1479]

The Mia lol

[@milandjurdjevic344]

Now I understand...!! So Hillary Clinton is actually Miang from Xenogears. This have sense!

[@samreddig8819]

If you're going to cover xenogears i reccomend you cover the lore of the xenoblade series since it's the same "multiverse"

[@grahf9436]

Sam Reddig Gaming no it’s not. Xenosaga you can make a very good case is Episode 1 of Xenogears, but due to square owning the rights to gears they changed the story around. Blade/Gears are not in the same multiverse

[@taylordiclemente5163]

Spiritual successors. You could argue that the zohars/conduits link all the games' universes, but that would be retconning.

[@samreddig8819]

@@taylordiclemente5163 i mean, the zohar is in xc2. Its called zohar in the files. The cant officially say it for copyright reasons though.

[@taylordiclemente5163]

@@samreddig8819 Takahashi keeps reworking the themes of xenogears. Zohar/conduit, persons from a higher dimension trapped in a lower one, fantasy settings giving way to scifi, towers of babel, ancient civilizations, some of which look like ours, ancient advanced technology, living supercomputers that take on biblical roles, characters with split personalities, scifi reinterpretations of biblical myths, scattered tribes of Israel, the Gnostic God and Demiurge, penitent scientists kept alive on nanomachines trying to rebuild or transcend the world...

[@briant4468]

And then alex Jones was created from the waves of existence! Lol

[@lestatdelrick6950]

Your lore is solid. But dear lord your spelling and pronunciations are abysmal, I.e. KRELIAN. NOT KARRALEN. But anyway. Good understanding of the perfect works history.

[@TrueMastersandMorons]

First, thank you. Second. For what it's worth, Xenogears is an old enough game that some characters had different localized names, so depending upon where you're reading or what copy you were playing, some names changed. For instance Krelian and Karralen. We decided to use the same sets of names (IE: all japanese or all english), since there were multiple sets. We don't remember which set Karralen was from, English or Japanese, but it's the same as the rest of them, so for example Myyah is from the same language set as Karralen and the language set for Krelian would have had a different name for Myyah. Hope that washes any lingering bad taste from your mouth :)

[@jerrellallen6271]

You are correct, Karralen was the Japanese name (as was Myyah) Krelian was the English name (and for the other character, Miang)

[@LisisMarqez]

Krelian, as it was localized, is a modified version of Karellen, that name is taken from a character from Arthur C. Clarke's Childhood's End, one of the main influences to Xenogear's story.

[@bojakai2102]

Who thinks up these stories sober

[@maroindefinitlyhuman6857]

Man I'm watching this at x1.5 speed and after a while I noticed I'm just 8 minutes in🤣 It's not that I'm not enjoying it though. The video is brilliant.