Xenogears
type:RPG
players:1 (battle mode later in the game lets you have two players, though)

Anubis' excellence rating: very kick ass

list of playable party members characters: Fei, Elly, Citan, Bart, Billy, Rico, Emerelda
the good: 20+ minutes of anime-style cutscenes. 2 modes of battle: "basic" RPG mode, and "gear" mode. in gear mode, you hop into the cocpit of a giant robot called a "gear" each character posseses a diffrent gear, with a diffrent set of "special options", and diffrent combo's are learned by the characters and the gears. gears also learn how to use giant-sized versions of the characters' abilities (i.e. Fei learns guided shot so his gear, weltall, learns guided shot, also) however some abilites cannot be used by the gears, like Fei's yin/yang enhancements. weltall 2 has the ability to go into id mode for 3 turns automatically gaining attack level infinity without having to gain the attack levels first.


the bad: begining boss battles are a might hard.


the cool secrets: i've found chrono trigger cameo's up the ass in this game so far. Lucca was Lahan, teaching about save points, and Belthasar was in the stalagtite cave under the desert. i think the music box in Citan's lab also played one of the ending themes to Chrono Trigger as well. my theory is, that the Chrono Trigger team has done it again!

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