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Retrograde Amnesia: RealNet Edition
Xenogears 54: Old Testament [First and Last, Part IV]
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I have been playing Xenogears for eight months. In the penultimate episode of season one, we're conducting inadequate preparation, incompleting a map, beating up angels, falling through laser tunnels, flipping tedious dungeon switches, observing basement bass, fighting fighting orbs, sealing divine abilities, time travelling to 1999, intershifting dimensionality, breaking our Gears, destroying fate, and killing god. Yes, we have killed god.
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Xenogears 55: Fei, Dick Out [Epilogue]
00:00|The wretched will makes us experience sadness and loss. For the final episode of season one, we're meeting our real imaginary savior in space, speaking to ghostface killa, rationalizing villainous activity, getting high off god fumes, spilling soup, accepting fate, rejecting fate, seeking connections, determining the power of love through battle, forgiving genocide, favoring humanity over divinity, running through the dimensional shift, collapsing space time, falling to earth, and screaming in Japanese. Now, there is no more god.
Xenogears 53: The War on Christmas [First and Last, Part III]
00:00|Have you ever taken a side quest to another episode of a game that will never exist? Today we're not appearing on the world map, recreating 90's cityscapes, fighting walking dragons, marveling at asphalt, manipulating Zeboim culture, using war as a solution to infertility, reading insane lore magazines, winning NBA grand slams, buying Joe-brand parts, purchasing drugs, living through another year, getting outrageously upset at dinner, concluding it won't work, making it work, producing a nanomachine child, and growing into a nanomachine adult. I am a creature waiting to become extinct.
Xenogears 52: Re-Obsessed with Viscera [First and Last, Part II]
00:00|We'll catch you in the static between sounds, right before we kill god. Today we're investing in Golden Vests, declining Franz' hot sounds, rejecting Margie's advances, locating Chu-Chu, getting bad info from a wiki, comparing hot sauce, beating up Sluggers for no reason, battle rapping dune men, extracting a sword from bones, playing human plinko, fist fighting Wyrms, banging big, changing our jukebox's face plate, and feeding a dog. #HammerDidNothingWrong
Xenogears 51: Men of the Sea Never Say Die [First and Last, Part I]
00:00|We can actually play this game now. While we’re surviving the apocalypse, we’re also merging flags, buying scam birds, burning books, digging up a jukebox, alienating our dolphin stepson, going down with the ship, fantasizing about The Captain, becoming a landlubber, accepting forgiveness, not adding Ramsus to our party, confirming reality with Zephyr, forging exactly one legendary weapon, and stealing precious Chu-Chu wares. Ding ding, good job.
Xenogears 50: Bear with Me Here, Oedipus [Xenogears Wakes]
00:00|The system is awakening. Today we're getting lore from a Jesus cross, contacting the fourth dimension, tapping into the god universe, adventing into this world, instilling a mother's will, nursing an Oedipus complex, dealing with a paradox, playing the Undertaker's Theme, fighting dad as well as my transmigrated ancestor, giving birth to humanity, destroying our remaining advanced military equipment on insane tactical gambles, and awakening Deus as a direct result. Perception is reality and also I'm god.
Xenogears 49: My Teenage Bedroom [Fallen Star, Part II]
00:00|Face up to the reality that you don't want to see. This time we're abandoning our child's weaknesses, visiting the room of the coward, losing our home, suffering abuse by the will of our transmigrated mother, forcing psychic contact, imagining the hell dimension, mentally and physically fighting our father, being different people, watching ourselves watch ourselves, sharing our feelings with ourselves, receiving centuries of memories, and considering "live" as suspect advice. Even if I go to hell I will live until the end of this world.
Xenogears 48: Fist Imagery [Dreams, Part II + Fallen Star, Part I]
00:00|This videogame is now a visual novel with boss battles. Today we're opening our fists to hold people, becoming a symbol, twisting Sophia's words, fading away, seeking power to treat depression, crying in carbonite, walking through snow fields in big robots, sealing away the very meaning of Existence, practicing Contact consciousness, shedding skin, showing down with the Demon of Elru, unifying personalities with Wiseman, and taking a fist full of memories. If only you had power, you could have saved her.