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VeggetaX
11/03/25 12:34:52 PM
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I'll gonna post some proper nouns from the game and see if you know what it is. No cheating, don't look things up. Explain what each of these are at the top of your head.

Kislev
Aveh
Nisan
Prim
Shevat
Geblar
Ethos
Eldridge
The Wave Existence
The Contact
Zohar
Crescens
Sophia
Hyuga
Gazel Ministry

Alright smarty-pants let's see if you know your Xenogears as much as you praise the game.

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Strider102
11/03/25 12:41:23 PM
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https://youtu.be/iWFlJTehYfg?si=m5AjlecW94HrePrt

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R_Jackal
11/03/25 12:46:27 PM
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I love the game but every time I try to replay it I basically drop it at disc 2s start. Holy fucking shit did that drag on way too much.
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621
11/03/25 12:47:33 PM
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it was really slow, can't imagine replaying it now. world, atmosphere and mecha designs were great, though.

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Pow_Pow_Punishment
11/03/25 12:48:18 PM
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I don't remember a lot of the details, just some highlights and how much I enjoyed playing it.

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OmniNakago
11/03/25 12:54:18 PM
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Prim
Crescens
Don't remember those terms, but everything else is familiar.

I remember playing the demo that came with Parasite Eve. I was so hyped to play the actual game.

Looking back: Babel sucked (I didn't care because video game jank was just normalized). Disk 2 sucked (I didn't care because I enjoyed the story).

Formative game for me. Loved it.

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VeggetaX
11/03/25 12:56:43 PM
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Prim is short for Primera. She is Billy's younger sister.

Crescens is a playable gear. It's the one with no arms and uses wings.

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akura_integra
11/03/25 1:15:39 PM
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I remember Hammer. Fuck him. Also Emeralda deserved her own omnigear.
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garan
11/03/25 3:26:28 PM
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I Loved the game 27 years ago when it came out, but because of some pacing issues and the unfinished disk 2 stuff, I would never call it great.

The soundtrack though is definitely GOAT tier. Mitsuda was knocking it out of the park back in the 90s.
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OniLink5000
11/03/25 3:37:26 PM
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I didn't even beat the game. I played some of the last disc and just ran out of steam.

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Xenogears15
11/03/25 3:39:32 PM
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VeggetaX posted...
I'll gonna post some proper nouns from the game and see if you know what it is. No cheating, don't look things up. Explain what each of these are at the top of your head.

Kislev
Aveh
Nisan
Prim
Shevat
Geblar
Ethos
Eldridge
The Wave Existence
The Contact
Zohar
Crescens
Sophia
Hyuga
Gazel Ministry

Alright smarty-pants let's see if you know your Xenogears as much as you praise the game.

Kislev/Aveh: the two terrestrial kingdoms fighting a war at the beginning of the game. I think Aveh was the desert one.

Nisan: holy city, I believe that...Marjorie? is from here. Bart's cousin.

Prim: I forget.

Shevat: the "good guys" in the sky, unlike Gebler.

Gebler: sky Nazis.

Ethos: the church that is used as a stand in for Catholicism on the terrestrial world. They hunt Wells. Controlled by Solaris.

Eldridge: I think that was one of the ships in the game?

The Wave Existence: "God", except kinda-sorta-not-really-actually. The existence that Krillan attempts to become one with, to transcend his humanity.

The Contact: first contact between the Zohar unit and mankind? Or was it when Lacan made contact with it on the ship? I forget which one.

Zohar: the prison of The Wave Existence, an artifact of immense power. Like the monolith from A Space Odyssey. Gebler uses it to store all the genetic memories of mankind when they make contact with the object. I think it can do things like FTL travel with ships. Other than storing the genetic ID of mankind, I forget what it does in the terrestrial world.

Crescens: that Esmeralda's Gear?

Sophia: one of Ely's reincarnations, Holy Mother Sophia of Nisan. The one that permanently scarred the worldviews of one of Lacan's reincarnations, the painter Lacan (for som reason named after the original? Never understood that one).

Hyuga: Citan's real name.

Gazel Ministry: the first descendents of The Oroborus, or whatever the actual progenitor of mankind was called. They secretly controlled society behind the scenes, akin to Selee in Evangelion, guiding the destiny of mankind.

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creativerealms
11/03/25 3:41:20 PM
#12:


Great first disk terrible second disk.

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Shotgunnova
11/03/25 3:42:53 PM
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Kislev - country
Aveh - country at war with Kislev
Nisan - city that has Ether Doublers
Prim - girl
Shevat - floating city
Geblar - Solaris' army
Ethos - religious organization
Eldridge - massive spaceship
The Wave Existence - Unexplainable force that lives in the Zohar or something
The Contact - Fei's past life
Zohar - that floating obelisk thing
Crescens - mech
Sophia - Elly's past life
Hyuga - Citan's real name
Gazel Ministry - Jesus built their hotrod

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solosnake
11/03/25 4:19:48 PM
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That opening anime movie is GOAT.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yC_JheLzk28

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OrangeCrush980
11/03/25 4:30:59 PM
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Kislev - I don't remember, a city?
Aveh - I don't remember
Nisan - IIRC it was the city where Lacan made that painting of Sophia
Prim - I think it was someone's little sister or some animal mascot
Shevat - That flying city? Or at least a city?
Geblar - I don't remember
Ethos - The evil church
Eldridge - The spaceship that Deus destroys in the opening movie
The Wave Existence - The entity from the upper domain that was trapped in the Zohar
The Contact - Abel and his reincarnations, which have the ability to use the Zohar
Zohar - An infinite power source which draws energy from the upper domain
Crescens - I don't remember
Sophia - Elly's previous incarnation who Lacan loved but she was killed
Hyuga - I don't remember, but I think that's Miang's real name or is connected to her or Elly or something
Gazel Ministry - I don't remember for sure, but I think it was that group of men who are the evil leaders of the other flying city that Elly's from, who Graph (SP?) killed but someone resurrected them as AIs

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TheDeadMoon
11/03/25 4:39:55 PM
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I actually beat it for the first time maybe a week or so ago, was really good once I pushed past a few of the slower moments in disk 1 (fuck nocturne prison). Didn't even mind disk 2, as I liked getting the story and the reveals.

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VeggetaX
11/03/25 5:05:17 PM
#17:


Xenogears15 posted...
Gebler: sky Nazis.
Solaris are the sky Nazis. Geblar is the name of their elite military force.


Xenogears15 posted...
Eldridge: I think that was one of the ships in the game?
It's the big massive space ship you see in the intro


Xenogears15 posted...
The Contact: first contact between the Zohar unit and mankind? Or was it when Lacan made contact with it on the ship? I forget which one.
The Contact is Fei and all of his previous incarnation. The first was a boy named Abel because he was the first to be contacted and used by The Wave Existence to do his bidding against Deus and his entrapment.



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VeggetaX
11/03/25 5:07:00 PM
#18:


Shotgunnova posted...
The Wave Existence - Unexplainable force that lives in the Zohar or something
It's some kinda interdimensional super being with god powers



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VeggetaX
11/03/25 5:15:43 PM
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OrangeCrush980 posted...
Kislev - I don't remember, a city?
Kislev is the military city. They're at war against Aveh. You can say they're the bad guy of the planet. In reality the war and Kislev is controlled by Solaris.

OrangeCrush980 posted...
Aveh - I don't remember
Aveh is the other nation Kislev is at war with. Like Kislev, they are also secretly being controlled by Solaris. The whole war is.

OrangeCrush980 posted...
Geblar - I don't remember
Geblar is the name of the elite military force for Solaris.

OrangeCrush980 posted...
The Contact - Abel and his reincarnations, which have the ability to use the Zohar
Actually the Contact's powers comes directly from The Wave Existence even though it's trapped inside the Zohar.

OrangeCrush980 posted...
Zohar - An infinite power source which draws energy from the upper domain
The Zohar is that giant monolith with an eye on it. It has The Wave Existence trapped in it and uses it's power as a power and energy source and yes it is infinite.

OrangeCrush980 posted...
Crescens - I don't remember
Emeralda's gear. It's the one with no arms.

OrangeCrush980 posted...
Hyuga - I don't remember, but I think that's Miang's real name or is connected to her or Elly or something
It's Citan's government Solaris name.

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vycebrand2
11/03/25 5:31:07 PM
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I never get past the desert town. The cave does me in. Its too long.

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Xenogears15
11/03/25 10:01:43 PM
#21:


VeggetaX posted...
Solaris are the sky Nazis. Geblar is the name of their elite military force.

Six of one, half a dozen of the other?



It's the big massive space ship you see in the intro

Ahhhhhhhhh! It wasn' just "a" ship, but "the" ship. Frak.



The Contact is Fei and all of his previous incarnation. The first was a boy named Abel because he was the first to be contacted and used by The Wave Existence to do his bidding against Deus and his entrapFrank.

I never got that part that The Wave Existence used Abel in his fight against the Deus System. But that would totally make sense, in that it also created Ely not just to provide Abel companionship, but an ally to fight Deus.


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VeggetaX
11/03/25 10:06:17 PM
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Alright who else wanna try? I might do a round two tomorrow

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yillin
11/03/25 10:21:28 PM
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Kislev - One of the two primary nations of the world.
Aveh - The other nation that is at war with Kislev.
Nisan - The holy capital of Aveh that has the cathedral
Prim - Citan's daughter
Shevat - The floating city in the sky. People in the past found the downed ship Eldridge and climbed to its "peak" to find what was basically the foundation of Shevat
Geblar - The elite social and military forces of the "bad guys"
Ethos - The smokescreen religion invented by Solaris to control the simpletons of the planet. The Lambs.
Eldridge - The ship that brought the first of humanity to the planet the game takes place on
The Wave Existence - The energy force that is more or less God.
The Contact - the first contact with the wave existence. In this case Abel
Zohar - The energy source that powers all gears and grants the existence of magic in the world
Crescens - esmeralda's gear
Sophia - one of the incarnations of Elly. I former Mother (female pope) to the church
Hyuga - Citan's name from yore
Gazel Ministry - The talking political heads who turned their consciousness into digital data and uploaded themselves to a computer database so that they can live forever.

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Super_Slash
11/03/25 10:28:23 PM
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It is not GOAT. Disc 2 almost single handedly ruins the entire game for me. It is unacceptably terrible. Most of the major twists happen there and it's all told to you from people sitting in chairs.

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VeggetaX
11/03/25 10:33:00 PM
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Man, everyone getting Prim wrong lol

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Justin2Krelian
11/03/25 11:39:32 PM
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Absolutely. Im not going to name them all, but I remember everything except Prim and Crescens

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