[ SECRET POST #2806 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2806 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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02.
[Five Nights at Freddy's]


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03.
[Star Trek, MCU, Batman Begins]


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04.
[Twilight Saga]


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05.
[Xenosaga]


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06.
[Doctor Who]


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07.
[Great British Bake Off]


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08.
[Law & Order: Criminal Intent]


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09.
[Minecraft]


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10.
[Macklemore]










Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 044 secrets from Secret Submission Post #401.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeat ].
Current Secret Submissions Post: here.
Suggestions, comments, and concerns should go here.

Comments

[ex_earthshaker594]

Aw, thank you! I just revamped my stuff after realizing how old some of my icons were. I'm actually the same birth month as Uranus, so I was already biased.

Back to the topic: so many older fans don't understand that, which is a shame! I would have been--hm, nine?--when Xenogears released, and until they released it on the PSN it was pretty hard to track down a copy. Xenosaga was my first brush with Takahashi, and it made me appreciate Xenogears when I went back and played it, even if I didn't prefer it. The reasonable ones who love the old and new games are always quieter than the "purists," to boot.

It's even sillier when you realize both of them had the exact same problems behind the scenes and never got released in the form Takahashi wanted. I think Xenoblade is the first time he got a finished product to where he wanted to be, even if he had to limit some of the scope. Naturally, a lot of people call that one too simple. Fans sometimes.


EDIT: I also forgot to add this, but hooray for Edea! I hated the last chunk of BD, but she was a highlight. <--Whoops! Should have been here. Sorry for the double edits.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

It's a shame really, I wish that Takahashi had gotten his vision on both counts. One for the second disk of Xenogears (which was so linear that it made me want to bash my head in) and Xenosaga (where he left after the second game) but each game has it's own unique beauty. Both Yasunori Mitsuda and Yuki Kaijura did AWESOME on the soundtrack and have produced some of the most beautiful music for those series. Xenogears had the uniqueness of 'killing god' storyline which made it almost controversial for it's time (and had me rethinking my stance on religion just as surely as Utena rethought my whole concept of sexuality.)

But then Xenosaga had dynamic characters, the gear battles had been streamlined (it wasn't blocky and choppy like Xenogears) and the storyline wasn't rushed at the end like it was in Xenogears (also, bash head inducing.)

It's nice when the sane people in fandom meet up with other sane people. It really reaffirms my faith in awesome people out there!

(and thank you about the icon, I love Edea.. currently she's my favorite female ever along with Leia from Tales of Xillia!)

[ex_earthshaker594]

(There were so many cool ladies in BD. I hope Edea comes back for the second one.)

Wow, was killing some god variation so uncommon back then? Nowadays it seems like you can't go a step without killing a divine being along the way. Maybe it's just the SMT franchises becoming so popular. I think it's about as old, but I'm sure it had the same trouble as Xenogears with getting localized. I definitely enjoyed aspects of both games, though! I even own all the CDs since the music is beautiful, as you already mentioned.

I mostly just ignore fandom at large now and stick to my IRL group. It keeps things much more fun.

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Back in 98, that was a new one. Final Fantasy Tactics sort of set the whole thing with "blame god or blame yourself' but Xenogears pushed the envelope with a lot of judeo-christian allusions. It almost didn't make it to the US because of severe religious themes.

I guess you could say that once Xenogears came over, everything became sort of old hat and killing god because de riguer.

[ex_earthshaker594]

Neon Genesis Evangelion was the same time frame too, wasn't it? I just checked the original SMT release and it was almost around the same time--a bit older since it was the SNES. Guess Japan got on a major kick!

[alwaysbeenasmiler]

Actually if you look at NGE and the last disk of Xenogears, in the very last dungeon you fight 'seraphs' which look ALOT like the Angels from Evangelion (which leads me to believe that Xenogears probably ripped off stuff from Evangelion just like FF6 ripped off Star Wars.)