I got Xenogears for Christmas, gifted to me by a parental unit the year it came out. Neither of us knew what it was about. To them, it was likely just one more thing to keep me occupied when they didn't feel like dealing with me.

Well, that parental unit was religious whenever it suited them, and loved dropping the religious guilt. They were also abusive in multiple ways during my upbringing. Later on, as I distanced myself from religion (and them), they had the nerve to tell me they were trying to save my soul. (Nevermind the fact they'd behaved so much worse in their adult life than I had, including the abuse/neglect of children and abuse of animals.)

To this day, of all the things they ever gave me, I've only kept Xenogears. It greatly amuses me, because one of the themes is about killing God (ftr, that's not what turned me from religion, it was actually other people's shitty behavior). Imagine that, the religious parental unit unwittingly gave me a game about killing God.

Last laugh? Why yes, I do believe I'll have one.