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MartinFF7 posted...

I'll leave it to the professionals to answer but really, from my understanding: Xenosaga was originally envisioned as a 6 part saga and part 5 would essentially be a retelling of Xenogears. There are characters and elements that strongly set this up as well. But I might be wrong - and we'll never know for sure since Xenosaga was cut short - but there's a lot of Xeno lore out there and I may not be fully up to speed.

A bit of clarification based on what I remember (it's been a while since I was into this stuff): Xenogears was originally envisioned as the 5th part of a massive 6-part saga. The saga's backstory was laid out in a Japanese databook released by the creators.
Later, after the creators of Xenogears left Square, they revised the original Xenogears backstory and used that revised story as the basis for the Xenosaga games. While the Xenosaga story in general shares major elements of what was originally created for Xenogears, many of the details were changed.
Also, the three Xenosaga games cover what was meant to be simply Episode I of the overall saga.
There's probably a lot more to say about the subject, but I fell out of touch with the fandom years ago, as I said earlier. I don't know how much additional data was released/translated since then.
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