The pieces are all there for Xenogears, they just need to be put together. Takahashi’s studio, Monolith Soft, is owned by Nintendo, who’s been a vital partner for Square Enix on the HD-2D games. Remaking Xenogears would finally provide the opportunity to see the game play out properly, and breathe new life into the franchise. In 2017, a Kotaku interview with Takahashi confirmed that the development team simply didn’t have time to complete everything, and disc two turned into a montage so Takahashi could still tell the story he wanted. Xenogears is infamous for having a fantastic first disc, but when players moved onto the second disc it felt completely unfinished.

A remake of Xenogears also presents an interesting opportunity- a chance to flesh out and finish the game properly.

Xenogears is one of the most overlooked JRPGs in Square Enix’s catalog, coming from the mind of Tetsuya Takahashi, the creator of Xenosaga and Xenoblade Chronicles. It was released in 1997 and is the first numbered Final Fantasy game for the Sony PlayStation video game console and Microsoft Windows-based personal computers it is also the first to use 3D computer graphics featuring fully rendered characters on pre-rendered backgrounds. Xenogears was first released on PlayStation in 1998.

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