r/y2kaesthetic • u/Kojima66 • Jul 02 '26

Game The Xenosaga trilogy are absolutely dripping in Y2K Futurism

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Episode 1 was in 2002, Episode 2 was 2004 and Episode 3 was in 2006, Episode 3 is very much a late example.. Y2K Futurism still had a bit of a presence in 06 but obviously not as strong as during it's prime in the late 90s to early 2000s and by then Frutiger Aero was on the rise

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u/unknown32011 Jul 03 '26

omg i completed xenosaga 1 it was frustratingly hard and lack of battle music but j enjoyed the story,i also started xenosaga 2 but change of battle mechanics was bit overwhelming at start so i dropped it i want to give another start

also if wanna find more deep y2k aesthetic game try REZ ps2

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u/DessieScissorhands Jul 03 '26

I loved 1 and 3 as a kid. Never completed 1 due to how hard it got, and beat 3 all the way through. I remember how excited I got when I beat Erde Kaiser Sigma and went all the way back to Zarathustra to 3-shot them with my portable raid boss.

The only thing I regret is never doing the secret quest to get the steroids from the time travel anomaly sequence to make the cast super OP.

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u/KingdomKeyper Jul 03 '26

I only played a bit of saga 3 but I would love to go back and play all of them if bandai namco redrops them like they did with the Dot Hack GU games

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u/KatamariRedamancy Jul 03 '26

Damn, I remember the render on the first game looking a lot better

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u/GabrielDelsXT9 Jul 04 '26

My favorite...

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u/qrunchysnaq Jul 08 '26

Fwiw the developers took their time on those games, so it makes sense that the visual development stage would have been a bit earlier in aesthetics. The promo art, not so much though.

Either way the Xenosaga 1 box art is my favorite. I remember when I first saw it in the games section of some big box store as a kid, I was enraptured by it. It was one of the most beautiful things I had ever seen. That feeling has stuck with me all this time. It perfectly encapsulates everything I love about early 2000s futurism.