How marvelous! The game starts with an anime!
This whole sequence is very important to the overall mythos of Xenogears but at the moment it's just a bit of pretty to get you excited. Things explode (spaceships!), there are cryptic messages ("you shall be as gods" gives me chills everytime!) a bunch of math and science happens really fast and there's a naked lady at the end!
Remember that naked lady. She is very important later.
And then we hit the first reminder of why I HATE Xenogears. A text wall. I firmly believe they should have sold this game with a remote to fast forward through all the fucking text walls.
There is a good reason for those text walls. There is a LOT of stuff a person can learn about the world Takahashi created for Xenogears. There is a large book titled "Xenogears: Perfect Works" which outlines every-damn-thing about Xenogears. It has a timeline spanning MILLIONS of years. But there should be a big solid fire-door between what one CAN learn about a work of fiction and what one NEEDS to learn. So for now, maybe just skip through the text as fast as you can and take away these facts:
- There is a war
- Giant robots used in the war = "Gears"
- Shit just got REAL in this tiny town
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