Recommended settings: You are currently confronted with a page that's a bit of a mess of cross-references and thick with a language that can be tricky to display on English operating systems, so this section is to get you set up for this page. First, the page was designed using IE at 1024x868 resolution. It should look fine in any browser. It should also look a bit silly at 800x600 but work fine. The Japanese on the page uses S-JIS encoding. It's specified on the site, and if you use IE it probably asked you if you wanted to add the S-JIS character set if you didn't have it already. And the more char-sets you have the better, I say.

Legend: In the translations you'll find a couple of markers:

The Nisan cross marks explanations, justifications, guesses, cries of confusion, and anything else I feel the need to make note of. It links to the Notes page, which is hardly interesting from here, I suspect. The Church symbol marks any significantly different names that occur in the retranslations. You may want to check the Name Change page that it links to now, because I just used a changed name.

Other Remarks: I suggest completing Xenogears before perusing this page. Or just not reading the linked notes. I'm not going to do spoiler warnings anywhere except here. Going through the game two or more times is also recommended. Copyright Acknowledgement: Xenogears belongs Squaresoft and that brilliant Takahashi Tetsuya. No abuse of their rights of ownership is intended by this site or its poor student creator. People who check out this site: do not reproduce my translations without my consent. What I write on this page belongs to me. Please respect my many hours of work.

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