Xenogears is available on the Playstation One and via PSN on Playstation 3, Vita, and Portable.
Xenogears was ahead of its time in a lot of ways.
Its plan for long-form storytelling across multiple games is something we see everywhere in franchises now. The blending of action-based and RPG-style combat feels like a precursor to the “action-RPG” niche that handily outnumbers turn-based games in the genre nowadays.
But more than anything else, its very existence reads like something of a head-scratcher.
