Xenogears 52: Re-Obsessed with Viscera [First and Last, Part II]

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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]

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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.

Season 2: Chrono Cross Announcement Trailer

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Season 2 of Retrograde Amnesia will feature Chrono Cross.

Xenogears 50: Bear with Me Here, Oedipus [Xenogears Wakes]

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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]

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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]

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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.

Xenogears 47: Hitherto Presentiment [Dreams, Part I]

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You live. You Die. That's all. Before that we're worshipping weapons, falling behind in rapture ascendance, freezing someone in carbonite, dealing with Solaris, watching heroes fall to villainy, defining the Zohar, dissociating identities, going for it, meeting old beefcake Fatimas, offending divine providence, interpreting smiles, delivering triple Bro's, and waiting for Krelian's final creed. I just wanted the game with the big robot on the cover.

Xenogears 46: Expressing Anger Through Lore [Merkava Calls]

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I am fated so as not to be able to kill myself. On this ecstatic episode we're visiting the Ark Park, warning the Elements, imagining nanomachine battles, falling between sculptures, clinging our fists, insulting science experiments, reducing ourselves to one hit point, gazing upon eyeball baskets, detaching Anima relics, not killing immortal villains, shooting our friend, extracting genetic factors, and jumping in a magic pool full of glowstick fluid. Adeiu, boys.

Xenogears 45: Exegesises on Crucifixes [Promised Land + Waiting Death]

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Girl, that hurt. Today we're crucifying machines and Chu-Chu, negotiating with Krelian, finding our precious birds, doing sick combos, doing even sicker combos, doing the sickest combos, listening to Omen, wondering why we were left alive, deleting digital existence, looking fleshly, aligning pronouns with nanomachines, not going to Cracker Barrel, refusing to listen to reason, and blaming my problems on my girlfriend. Your feelings must be in the right place. That is strength.

Xenogears 44: Circumstances that Led to This Coitus [Above Mahanon + Paradise]

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Today we're being a man and confronting the problem, performing an anime kiss, having awkward sex in Maria's room, embracing feminism with Margie, experiencing reincarnation through remote viewing, paying off references from sixty hours ago, recognizing strange faces in scary places, inheriting instincts, halving hit points, soft-locking with Deus, finding the unthinkable when accessing the data, optionally losing to Alpha Weltall, denying wrath, losing hope, and reaching our moment of supreme bliss.