3.5/5 ★ – ExpNoob's review of Xenogears.

Xenogears truly goes above and beyond other Evangelion rip-offs by even ripping-off running out of budget for the ending. Ok in all seriousness, Xenogears is an incredibly impressive effort, especially for the PS1. My expectations were exceeded in multiple ways from the unique turn based combat to some of the in-engine cinematics. However I do have some very mixed feelings about the story. While I did really like it overall, it resulted in a really bad cutscenes to gameplay balance with what feels like up to 65% of the game being the former. That, mixed with disc 2's drop in quality really affected my overall enjoyment of it. To be completely honest I think this story would have worked much better as an anime series than a game, though I suppose it wouldn't stand out nearly as much in that field, especially at the time.