4.5/5 ★ – Lancey's review of Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra.

Virtually everything good about Xenogears can be said of this game (and entire series), as well, with differences here and there e.g. Xenosaga's psychoanalysis is heavily skewed towards Carl Gustav Jung alone whilst Xenogears balances it with a significant amount of Freud's. I also appreciated the minor detail that Xenogears' foreign terms are majority Hebrew and Aramaic (Merkavah, Aveh, Kislev, Yahweh, the Zohar, etc.) plus a wide array of Latin (e.g. Id, Anima, Animus, and Deus), Xenosaga's majority Latin (Universalis, Scientia, Res Novae, Anima, Animus, Citrine, Albedo, Rubedo, Nigredo, Collective Unconscious, etc.) plus a wide array of Greek (e.g Omega, chaos, Pleroma, Abraxas, Labyrinthos, and KOS-MOS) as well as Hebrew (Merkabah, Yeshua, etc.) and even Persian (namely Zarathustra and Ormus), and Xenoblade again has a lot of Latin but is majority Greek (Elpis, Pneuma, Logos, Ontos, Aionios, etc.). Overall, I don't have anything to criticise about Xenosaga Episode III even if the series as a whole has plenty in Xenosaga Episode I and to a lesser extent Episode II. As for characters, Shion is like Fei by far one of the best written I've ever seen in a video game, Albedo is an exceptional antagonist in every aspect, Wilhelm fits his role in every way, Voyager/Erik is a great minor antagonist, etc. Jr., Jin, Ziggy, chaos, KOS-MOS, and Kevin Winnicot are specifically noteworthy, as well.