ゼノギアス // Week 29 // Chapter 52 & 53

ゼノギアス // Week 29 // Chapter 52 & 53

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Ending Point
Area with the yellow and blue memory cubes, next to the shopbot.

Screenshot

Gameplay

Gameplay notes
  • Fei now has System Id mode in his gear as a power up.
Unique Missables
  • None
"FMVs”

Yes, near the end of the week:

スファル人 『ううっ……ああ……。』
エリィ 『っ……』
エリィ 『ごめんね…… 結局私、あなたに何もしてあげられなかった。 今の私には、こうして傷の痛みを消してあげることしか………… 本当にごめんなさい……。』
フェイ 『エリィ……お前……』

Walkthrough

English Guide Ctrl+F WK51
Japanese Guide

Vocab

Script JPDB
CH52 Here Here
CH53 Here Here

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Discussion

  • Welcome to Disk2! Where’d the budget go? Will Takahashi learn time management in his future games? Hahahaha not for a loooong time
  • Am I the only one getting FF7 flashbacks with that first area Fei wakes up in?

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Week 29

Was fun to be in a forest with Elly again, like in the beginning of the game. As トーラ says 体に森の空気が染み込んで気持ち良かった. The mood of his house was super well made too.
And was quite strange to have almost no gameplay this week! (I guess the two-three fights that were not very hard technically count as gameplay, and we did get to move around a bit xD)

Next week!

Week 29


Welp, that answers my question from last week!


I wonder if kislev transforming into a giant ship that then goes full Voltron with the yggdrasil would have been any less bizarre if there had been dungeon sequences to cushion it and… nah :joy: The giant mecha sea urchin making little tap noises every time it hits Bart really makes the fight something special, though. So unapologetically weird, love it.



Another thing I love from this week is the whole sequence introducing the soylent system ground facilities. Lots of imagery reminiscent of cells traveling through the bloodstream until you reach the monstrosity growing at the end of it :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

I wish I hadn’t killed the little guys first in this fight, though. The big one starts insta-killing you after they’re gone, and heals itself at the same time. Wasted so many zetasols.

wk29: gotta go fast

Ooooh I didn’t pick up on that, pretty neat!

So Fei and Elly dreamed of their past lives, and Fei notes Elly is now a bit different. It’s weird she always had the same name though. And I haven’t forgotten she looks like the girl in the Captain’s locket (presumably his daughter). I wonder if that was her name?

LMAO Citan just pops out his own mega upgrade gear he had in his back pocket. Never change Citan.

Honestly the “Elly becomes motherly” thing I think was one of many things that made me drop the game 20ish years ago when I played it, along with the shift in storytelling. First it seems like a stretch for Citan to jump to that, second if it were due to the influx of past memories, I’d like to see that addressed with some nuance. Are they Elly? Is Elly them? I’m not entirely sure if it will though. I did like Elly taking time away from Fei for herself to sort her thoughts and wants though! Maybe it’s because we miss the details that make it convincing and only get the summary, but the transition to Saint Elly does not jive with me. If I thought they were doing something interesting with the past lives or with the masses moving blindly from one religion to another it’d be a different story. Well hopefully I’m wrong!

Okay but if Grahf is Lakan, and Fei is also Lakan (reincarnated)(also apparently lots of other guys too), how even??

Also LMAO at Fei still using the memory cubes and informing SPONGE of his exact location. I forget but didn’t they tell him directly they use them for that??? In the TV room perhaps.

Wait, KISLEV’S capital has the ship that Bart’s ancestor built? Does that mean Kislev used to be part of Ave? Did we know this and I forgot?

Wait so トーラ taught カレルレン nanotech? Who also was the one who placed limiters on humans in the past? So it’s a somewhat recent thing? Why then did some people mutate? I’m guessing it’s something SPRING was yammering about, germinating or whatever, to become parts of god. And the virus was part of what caused the mutation? And how did Hammer know?? カレルレン?

Also uuuuuh sorry guys, our bad. For modifying all of humanity’s molecular structure without consent. I wonder how Billy’s orphans are doing? Feel like if suddenly people started mutating, Billy would want to go to his kids, Bart to his kingdom (…that he’s supposed to be running. Did he cleanse it of Shakan’s supporters before he left?), Citan to his wife and daughter…it’d have been great to get a personal reaction rather than the 10k foot look at the world. It’s also help hammer home the effect if people we knew were affected.

So SBOOG takes the Wells and deconstructs them, to recombine into a new body for the servant of god? But sometimes they are to become the body of god? Did I understand that right? SPROG being created as instruments to revive god is interesting–like automatons. And Cain is the head, but seems to have broken free of his core instructions–maybe because he still has flesh and blood instead of data?

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Stop it you’re killing me :joy:

I have mixed feelings about it too, even after details of her past are revealed later. On one hand she’s spent most of the game conflicted about participating in war and being in the army, so changing into a pacifist isn’t that much of a stretch. On the other hand, we skip right past pacifist to go to “like a mother” so that’s *a lot* very suddenly. I got the impression that dreaming of her past lives was supposed to justify that change but I still think it’s a bit weak.

Secondary character stories might have been sacrificed as part of the time crunch this game went through. Or, possibly not. It’s not like it would be the first RPG to erase characters’ identities after they join the main character’s party. It’s always disappointing when it happens, though! I liked Billy’s orphanage :frowning:

I did this section a month ago and all the complicated plotting is getting mixed up in my head already, but looking back at the script I think: Those who would become the bodies of the servants of god, those who would become the body of god, and those who celebrate god etc. etc., all of them are the same people, the Wels in general. I think SOOUP deconstructing and reconstructing them was about turning them into more perfect beings who would be able to serve their purpose.

That’s something interesting that I’ve never even thought about, why did Cain split with GLORB? You make a good point, that might be it!

Elly

I think it’s a consequence of telling and not showing with the summary format. It takes all the sharp edges and little hipocracies of her character and sands then down but without the emotional payoff of character development.

It would have been great to see the completion of her character arc that took a big turn in Kislev after Fei made her confront the reality of the hurt her actions contributed to, and see her growing determination to instead heal and support those people (perhaps with a side of atonement as well, mirroring Feis journey). They could have added a dose of guilt since it was their plan to remove the limiters that allowed the virus to spread, as well as her struggle between her identity vs her past lives. That last one in particular would have been an interesting parallel to Feis identity struggle.

Who knows maybe we will get some more depth, I just suspect if we were were would have gotten crumbs by now.