Xenosaga: Buy Me Now

I am, as they say, jaded. I am also terminally busy, busy with writing, coding, working, blah blah blah. Anyways, I've owned Xenosaga for the past two weeks (putting it off until I finished .hack//infection) and have thus only played five or six hours of it.

I have recently added "Gnosis Attack Woglinde" to my list of "Great Moments in Gaming". The music, the pacing, the cut scenes and how they're pulled off (with specific attention to Virgil/Shion/Realians and Gnosis/Shion/KOS-MOS) just hit a very strong nerve for me - I was impressed with the discussion on "protocol" and Shion's obvious struggle with what Virgil was saying, as well as the imminent coolness of KOS-MOS kicking ass, but in a very dramatic way. I was seriously anxious to see what would happen next, heart racing, itching, and contemplated calling into work.

Wonderful, wonderful stuff.