ゼノギアス // Xenogears Story Club [ongoing]

[Akashelia]

Shaders

@simias

bezel/Mega_Bezel/Presets/MBZ__0__SMOOTH-ADV

If you feel like giving your GPU a workout

This one is pretty fun! It did take a long time to apply.

I tried a bit of everything because I would like to find something that looks like @eagleflo’s, it looks both smooth and sharp at the same time!
Will be trying edge-smoothing\xbr\xbr-lv3 but I’m open to suggestions
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[Voi]

Another Friday has arrived:

ゼノギアス // Week 13 // Chapter 21 & 22

ゼノギアス // Week 13 // Chapter 21 & 22 Week 13 2026 January 24 Last Week Week 12 Next Week Week 14 Home Thread ゼノギアス Ending Point After you emerge from the , save at the nearest save point. Screenshot Gameplay Gameplay notes Unique Missables "FMVs” Walkthrough English Guide Ctrl+F WK20 Japanese Guide (the map here is really good) Vocab Script JPDB CH21 Here Here CH22 Here Here NPC - Dblock Here [Missing?] NPC - Cblock Here [Missing?] Discussion Guidelin…

[Akashelia]

Can't play the game anymore, I'm stuck playing with shaders xD

Best one?
\shaders\shaders_slang\bezel\uborder\base_presets\uborder-bezel-reflections\uborder-bezel-reflections-newpixie-crt.slangp

This one I will need when I replay Golden Sun
\shaders\shaders_slang\border\gameboy-player\gameboy-player-crt-easymode.slangp

With this one the kanji is really sharp, unfortunately too many artifacts
shaders\shaders_slang\edge-smoothing\xbr\other presets\4xbr-hybrid-crt.slangp

[Voi]

New week is up! It’s a bit shorter than usual. Those of us behind–catch up!! Those not behind, go play FFII!

ゼノギアス // Week 14 // Chapter 23

ゼノギアス // Week 14 // Chapter 23 Week 14 2026 January 31 Last Week Week 13 Next Week Week 15 Home Thread ゼノギアス Ending Point Save in the kings’s room (the bedroom area) after the string of battling. Screenshot Gameplay Gameplay notes Unique Missables "FMVs” Walkthrough English Guide Ctrl+F WK22 Japanese Guide Vocab Script JPDB CH23 Here Here NPC - Dblock Here [Missing?] NPC - Cblock Here [Missing?] Discussion Guidelines Everybody should feel free to post …

[Voi]

Apologies everyone, weekly thread will go up tomorrow morning. I am feeling pretty under the weather today

[Daisoujou]

Hope you feel better soon, rest all you need. Skip the week if necessary!

[Voi]

Week 15 is up

ゼノギアス // Week 15 // Chapter 24

ゼノギアス // Week 15 // Chapter 24 Week 15 2026 February 7 Last Week Week 14 Next Week Week 16 Home Thread ゼノギアス Ending Point At the house after the boss rush. Note: I decided to end a bit into CH25 rather than right before the end of CH24 (in the hanger). It seemed more narratively satisfying. Screenshot Gameplay Gameplay notes Unique Missables "FMVs” Walkthrough English Guide Ctrl+F WK23 Japanese Guide Vocab Script JPDB CH24 Here Here NPC - Dblock Here [Missi…

[eagleflo]

スクウェア・エニックス

お誕生日おめでとう！

[simias]

Interestingly FFVIII released one year later exactly:

Dolly (@dolly1265.bsky.social)

[eagleflo]

And Vagrant Story two years later:

スクウェア・エニックス

They sure love their “second week of February” release slot. Amazing output from Square back in those days.

[simias]

@eagleflo

Amazing output from Square back in those days.

Genuinely insane release schedule. Parasite Eve released one month after Xenogears, then later that same year you had Brave Fencer Musashi.

Meanwhile if I look at the list of games released and developed by Square Enix in 2025 there’s only the FFT remake. I don’t even know what’s the last game Squeenix has developed that’s not a sequel or remake. Apparently they do a bunch of original stuff for arcades, so that’s nice…

[eagleflo]

Xenogears thread with release posters:

あぐ

[Voi]

We draw ever nearer to the halfway mark for number of weeks…

ゼノギアス // Week 16 // Chapter 25 & 26

ゼノギアス // Week 16 // Chapter 25 & 26 Week 16 2026 February 14 Last Week Week 15 Next Week Week 17 Home Thread ゼノギアス Ending Point Save on the bridge (aka the second time you are on this bridge, see screenshot to compare where people are standing) Screenshot Gameplay Gameplay notes Unique Missables "FMVs” Walkthrough English Guide Ctrl+F WK24 Japanese Guide Vocab Script JPDB CH25 Here Here CH26 Here Here Discussion Guidelines Everybody should feel free to p…

[Akashelia]

Gameplay questions - 修得技

1. I have some skills caped at 100, when do they unlock? When I reach a certain level?
   
   
2. I saw that some skills require 7 AP, and we only have 6 AP in combat so far. Wondering if 7 AP unlocks at a) a certain level, or b) another trigger such as event / point in the game / item.
   Just want to know if it’s a) or b) but don’t want to know the specifics, if possible!

[eagleflo]

Deathblows are also capped by level – those ones will unlock when you get to level 38 and 46, respectively.

We need a future story event to happen before 7 AP is unlocked.

[Akashelia]

ありがとうございます
(I’m level 37 :x)

[Voi]

Hope you like reading

and card games

ゼノギアス // Week 17 // Chapter 27, 28, 29

ゼノギアス // Week 17 // Chapter 27, 28, 29 Week 17 2026 February 21 Last Week Week 16 Next Week Week 18 Home Thread ゼノギアス Ending Point Save nearby after the captain leaves and the characters notice a battle outside. Screenshot Gameplay Gameplay notes Unique Missables "FMVs” Walkthrough English Guide Ctrl+F WK26 Japanese Guide Vocab Script JPDB CH27 Here Here CH28 Here Here CH29 Here Here NPC Here Here Discussion Guidelines Everybody should feel free to p…

[Voi]

Thread will go up tomorrow. Sorry guys, got pulled into lots of work stuff on my off day and haven’t had the time to pull the thread together yet. Gotta morning meeting tomorrow then I think my part will be wrapped up and I can get the week up.

[simias]

Good for me, I wanted to finish tonight but I have a headache and this week feels particularly dense so far…

[VikingSchism]

No worries, I’m currently on a plane to Japan and still need to catch up to last week (about halfway through currently) in any case