Just finished Chapter 12 of X, lots of thoughts and feelings (Spoilers for X/Saga/Gears!)

Hey guys. I literally finally got around to clearing chapter 12 of X and just….wow. The Xeno series has been with me since I was a child playing Xenogears as an elementary school student and and Xenosaga as a junior high school student. I love Xenoblade as well of course, but due to playing gears and saga obsessively as a child/teenager, those games have a special place in my heart.

I also of course love Blade, but have kind of accepted it as its own thing with similar themes to Gears and Saga but only loosely connected if at all. I do love the references and callbacks, but accepted them as that, references and call backs.

So finally this year with the definitive edition of X being released, I get to have my first experience with X. The game intrigued me, but it being stuck on the Wii U made me give up on ever playing it. Plus it has the reputation of being separate from the rest of the series and I figured I wasn’t missing out on that much by not playing it.

Well my friends I was wrong. This game is an experience. And not just gameplay wise (which is the crowning jewel of this game), but for a longtime fan of the series such as myself, story wise as well.

I expected nothing from the story, and as I got to the end of Chapter 12 in the lifehold I did feel disappointed. Ganglion leader, Lao…it was just…nice but not on the level of other xeno games. I was disappointed, but expected it and was grateful for the adventure and lore of Mira I got.

But then….that pod appeared.As soon as it appeared, my mouth dropped. Any fan of saga knows what that pod means. And then I saw who got out of that pod, and I gasped and I shit you not shrieked: KOS MOS?!!?!?!!??!???!?

And then things started moving…the great one? (Deus?) beings from another planet of dimension? What is going on here?

Of course this probably isn’t the same Kos Mos, and probably is just a throwback but the references are STRONG.

Anyway I just had to post this somewhere because I have no one in real life I can discuss this with. Takahashi you mad genius, in every xeno games you have taken my breath away and this was no exception. I have so many thoughts and questions, and I know the reception to 13 has also been lukewarm, but I’m still excited.

(Also I totally was thinking Elma was connected to chaos somehow so the curveball with Kos Mos…wow)