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I so wanted this to succeed. However, the game goes to EVA school of naming everything after the Bible (DYA GET IT, IT"S DEEP AND EMOTIONAL...it really isn't). Margulis and Albedo are amazing villains though. It really makes you want to beat the shit out of them (especially what Albedo does). The main issue is something they couldn't control. The main character is obviously Shion, but her plotline...doesn't really go anywhere. Once Jr gets involved, it becomes his game, and the second half becomes his way too fucking much. Shion gets left to twist in the wind and remind you, "Wasn't I introduced first, what the fuck?" Maybe if Jr. didn't have the, "I look like a little kid" thing, I'd probably hate it less.

So many good things make up for a lot of shortcomings.

• Shion trying to be a bastion of peace while Virgil goes, "Fuck you, weapons are weapons, try to survive you stupid bitch!"
• Margulis and Cherenkov story (though the dungeon Cherenkov gets is very...VERY fucking boring. God, I wish dungeons in this game weren't so fucking long.
• Albedo...um...just look up "the Albedo scene." You'll know it when you see it. Jesus fucking christ.

Again, the first game had so much promise. It's a shame 2 and 3 suffered for many different reasons. I still prefer Xenosaga to stuff like Xenoblade (turn based is always going to be my combat preference). I really hold that trilogy in high regard, despite its fault. The first game is just...so fucking good. But those good points are bogged down either by business decisions, story problems, or trying way too fucking hard to be "insightful."

Seriously, it's a game about people in space fighting aliens and other space people. All the biblical subtext gets in the goddamn way.

*Also says EVA isn't as great as everyone says it is before running away*