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Yeah, me too...although fitting a plot as complex as this into 3 hours would be really really really hard. I guess there could be a movie centering around some of the themes....but I dunno about the whole Xenogears episode V.

Perhaps a tv-show?

"I never sleep, cause sleep is the cousin of death!"
-Nas, NY State of Mind

Well although I really really really really love Xenogears (I do), and although I really wish that Sony made a Xenogears I - IV and a Xenogears VI (Instead of Namco's Xenosaga) (Xenosaga itself is great and I liked it, but um, once again, they took my hopes and crashed it when they announced that they were stopping with Xenosaga III)... A Hollywood Xenogears Movie would not be what all of us need to fill that "hole" inside us of wanting more from Sony and Namco's Xenosaga.

I mean don't get me wrong, I WISH they'd make a movie, but it's going to turn out like any other movie. Sure it might be a blockbuster hit, sure it might be better than The Matrix - but it wouldn't fill that hole. What I mean is, it won't be memorable - we'll go see it, shrug, and when it comes out on DVD, we'll buy the DVD just so that we can keep it untouched in our Xeno collection.

Even if the all the people involved in the production of Xenogears come together and work with the director to make the movie, it just won't work. I don't know about all of you - but what really made Xenogears so... spell-binding - was the way things were played out. The philosophy, creativity, and intelligence of the plot was definitely mind-blowing - you know, totally out of the box - it made you THINK (the alter ego, the reincarnation theory, the everything, the love stories, the royalty stories, etc)! But all that is about 60 percent of why the game is so mesmorizing! The other 40 percent comes with the bonds you make with the characters through their mini-stories and mini-story scenes (You know what I mean!) as you play for hours (I mean c'mon, remember when you uncovered Bart's Omega gear underneath his castle, and when that beautiful music came on (The Treasure That Cannot Be Stolen) for the first time?). The other 40 percent also comes from the inch-wise uncovering of these plots / surprises and deeper concepts about life and the game spread over hours of gameplay that wasn't linear (jumping scenes, etc). You just can't get that last 40 percent out from 2 hours in a movie theatre.

That's just it. You can't cram all those hours of gameplay into two hours. The viewer really won't get "attached" to Fei, Elly, and Bart... (unless the director was REALLY GOOD)... I mean maybe I'm wrong, because obviously there are movies out there that you watch for less than two hours, and you get attached to the characters and somehow know everything about those characters' lives in such a short time due to ingeniously-placed cutscenes, flashbacks, etc etc. But I just don't think you can do that with Xenogears... There's too much philosphy, storyline, etc to do that in. You really need more than two hours, and that doesn't mean you need four hours either :P. You may need 10... I don't know, but all I know is, it's going to be nearly impossible.... The best bet to make this possible - would be a TV series... But uh, we all know that's not going to work because they DID try it before in Japan, and although I've never seen it, I'm guessing it failed. But yeah, the best bet would be a TV series, they should try harder this time.

Well, this has to be the longest (and heartfelt) thing I've written for A VIDEOGAME. I mean c'mon it's a videogame right? But you know what :P i'm sure that all of you will probably agree with me when I say, Xenogears was more than just a videogame... It seriously made you think - and the way everything was set, and the plot and everything - just the game stick in your mind (not to mention the really beautiful songs they used).

Would you see this kind of review for Bloody Roar 2? :P Would you see this kind of review for Joe Dirt? So Xenogears is more than a videogame and more than a movie. It's probably even more than a fictional novel - can't get that 40 percent into a book either. The best way to portray Xenogears was how it was originally portrayed, as not an ordinary videogame, but a hands-on story. If only the original makers of Xenogears didn't quit... If only Sony didn't give up... But of course they did - they're in the business of making videogames for mindless kids and teens - not making memorable works of art.

A movie probably not, but like a miniseries like Dune or Taken would work.

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