This is a list of notable characters from the video game Xenogears, a role-playing video game released in 1998 by Square Enix for the PlayStation video game console. Kunihiko Tanaka was lead character designer, while Tetsuya Takahashi and Masato Kato were lead writers. Xenogears was a commercial and critical success.[1] Readers of Japanese gaming magazine Famitsu voted Xenogears the 16th best video game of all time in a 2006 poll.[2]
Xenogears follows main protagonist Fei and his friends as they learn about Deus, a powerful, self-aware interplanetary invasion system that crashed onto the planet ten thousand years prior to the game's story. Deus has been secretly controlling the planet's gradually increasing population to one day bring about its own resurrection. Fei and Elly, the main protagonists, have been reincarnated throughout history to ensure that Deus never achieves its goal.[3] Miang, the embodiment of Deus and the main antagonist, opposes Fei and Elly and has reincarnated several times to manipulate humanity's progress.
- ^ "Titles of game software with worldwide shipments exceeding 1 million copies" (PDF). Square Enix. 2004-02-09. p. 27. Retrieved 2008-03-01.
- ^ Edge Staff (2006-03-03). "Japan Votes on All Time Top 100". Edge. Archived from the original on 2008-07-23. Retrieved 2008-08-19.
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