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The fans on either of side of the Xeno-series (Xenogears and/or Xenosaga) have had to endure a certain amount of abuse, be it from the game's developmental history or ridicule at the hands of gamers who can't stand pedantic JRPGs. It has compressed the fanbase into a fairly defensive bunch of enthusiasts. It's not likely we'll be seeing any spiritual successors to this franchise for a while, so I decided to post a couple of images in order to lament the series' current state (i.e. nonexistent). Below are just a few images from The Perfect Works Collection, one of the most (if not the most) extensive Xeno-books ever released. It features over 300 pages of artwork, design materials, and narrative footnotes to lay out the original title's (Xenogears) rich little narrative.

This post originally started out as an examination of the original Resident Evil’s mansion, but has since only become a minor footnote in accommodating an elaborate day dream I had while watching the 1990 remake of Night of the Living Dead and REC (and by direct association, Quarantine). This post should go up on Fanatical Conception, but since this is more of me just pouring reckless desire out, it seems much more fitting to serve as simple whimsy here. Anyway, a lot of discrepancy lies between Japanese and American game design, and Resident Evil is innately a Japanese game aimed at Westerners. Since there’s no real hope of seeing more cross-Pacific game franchises occur (other than the passing comment Kojima recently made for Metal Gear), I think this can satisfy those urges as well. The Japanese (generally speaking of course) are way too muddled down in their sense of tradition and social discipline to see something like this through. So here’s some arbitrary musings from a reckless Westerner.