Xenosaga is so far up its own ass that it has formed a perfect circle. This is a 40 hour long game in which almost nothing happens. At the game's end the plot has barely moved from the starting line despite having seven hours of cutscenes. Combat is tedious, character progression is unremarkable, and there's really nothing to see here except the story, which you can maybe start to appreciate after playing two more games, studying the intricacies of Jungian psychology, and becoming a doctor of Judeo-christian theology. What? You haven't read the Kabbalah? What are you some kind of idiot?

Hours and Hours and Hours of fun. It's amazing to see what the community can do with the tools provided, and the game allows you to create pretty robust levels built around the best platforming physics of all time. I love this series, and that nintendo has passed off the reigns to the fans to create the levels they want, and find myself going back to this game constantly. I do wish some of the search features/online ui was better, but Nintendo is bad at making online user friendly. it would be so easy to fix!