I'm going to do a little detective work on the game I am most looking forward to 
One thing I find a little curious is how they have not revealed the game's name yet. Just an X which looks like a cross between the Xenogears and Xenoblade X. I am wondering if Takahashi is going to spiritually tie together his three franchises? It's possible:
So we have a couple of trailers for Takahashi's new game, but I am just going to focus on the second one since it seems to reveal a little more. My hypothesis is that it is going to be a re-imagining of Xenogears, this is the evidence:
1. The Gears are made very much in the Xenogears style, but with a few enhancements. They are referred to as "dolls" in the Hud, but this information can possibly change. Xenosaga also had Gears, but they were of a smaller sort, and did not bare much resemblance to these ones in the upcoming game.
2. First 40 seconds show a character walking through a Gear hanger, very very similar to those in the Yggdrasil.
3. 48 to 58 seconds in show a desert city with Gears that look like some of the mining gears shown in Aveh in Xenogears. The city during these sequences bares resemblance similar to Dazil in the nation of Aveh.
4. 58 to 1:00 shows some greenery, this shot looks like a scene from Xenoblade, but could easily be Lahan region. There is a large dinosaur type creature shown, these were also present close to the Lahan region in Xenogears, although the only appearance we see around Lahan is in Black Moon Forest. Kislev had a much wider variety of giant dino-type things, and Lahan is on the border with Kislev.
5. 1:01 to 1:05 shows a desert region - nothing of the sort appeared in Xenosaga, and none existed in Xenoblade. In Xenogears, the second major area, Aveh, was located in a desert.
6. 1:06 to 1:08 is an interesting shot, multiple moons or other nearby planets, I don't think this is shown in Xenogears, I am not actually sure if the planet had any moons at all. One thing is certain here, this isn't Earth... If this game follows the Xenoblade philosophy, if you can see it, you can go there.
7. 1:09 to 1:23 show various scenes from desert and grassy plains environments. Some with battles, some with changing weather conditions... I am wondering if this game will have a Drtagon Quest 9 style multiplayer based on the HUD? THAT was the best offline multiplayer experience I have ever seen in an RPG by far. Although considering it is home console, it is more than likely online multiplayer. Really off topic here though
8. 1:24 to 1:29 is interesting - those flying creatures are making the same noise as Gnosis from Xenosaga. Although they could easily be just whale like creatures using a sound effect Takahashi likes.
9. 1:33 to end - That thing looks like a giant Mechon from Xenoblade. it is massive, look how small the Gears get as they fly close to it. There are no Mechons even close to this size in Xenoblade. It could also be related to the Gnosis from Xenosaga, but that would be a stretch. I am guessing it is a weapon of sorts, these sorts of things were commonplace in the Xenosaga universe. This doesn't really help my Xenogears case, but the battle is in space. So it looks like Space travel is possible. Xenogears didn't have much in the way of Space travel, the furthest you went was to Etrenank, the capital of Solaris. At least at some point in the Xenogears history there was a space program. We only really know that Shevat used to on the top of Babel, and then it flew off - but Shevat could have easily been using 10,000 year old tech, Etrenank looks as though it were constructed in the history of the 10,000 year old Xenogears world. This part essentially causes my hypothesis to fall apart a little since this is one scene that is not a part of Xenogears... Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a part of a re-imagining.
Note: at the end of the original teaser, people claimed the figure at the end looks like Shulk, and therefore is Shulk:
I don't buy this since there were a few characters in Xenosaga that looked like this too. Give him white hair and put a smile on his face and he is Albedo. Either way, it doesn't hurt my hypothesis of a re-imagined Xenogears that potentially links up Xenosaga and Xenoblade in the process.
All in all though, way more information is needed.
One thing I find a little curious is how they have not revealed the game's name yet. Just an X which looks like a cross between the Xenogears and Xenoblade X. I am wondering if Takahashi is going to spiritually tie together his three franchises? It's possible:
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1. The Gears are made very much in the Xenogears style, but with a few enhancements. They are referred to as "dolls" in the Hud, but this information can possibly change. Xenosaga also had Gears, but they were of a smaller sort, and did not bare much resemblance to these ones in the upcoming game.
2. First 40 seconds show a character walking through a Gear hanger, very very similar to those in the Yggdrasil.
3. 48 to 58 seconds in show a desert city with Gears that look like some of the mining gears shown in Aveh in Xenogears. The city during these sequences bares resemblance similar to Dazil in the nation of Aveh.
4. 58 to 1:00 shows some greenery, this shot looks like a scene from Xenoblade, but could easily be Lahan region. There is a large dinosaur type creature shown, these were also present close to the Lahan region in Xenogears, although the only appearance we see around Lahan is in Black Moon Forest. Kislev had a much wider variety of giant dino-type things, and Lahan is on the border with Kislev.
5. 1:01 to 1:05 shows a desert region - nothing of the sort appeared in Xenosaga, and none existed in Xenoblade. In Xenogears, the second major area, Aveh, was located in a desert.
6. 1:06 to 1:08 is an interesting shot, multiple moons or other nearby planets, I don't think this is shown in Xenogears, I am not actually sure if the planet had any moons at all. One thing is certain here, this isn't Earth... If this game follows the Xenoblade philosophy, if you can see it, you can go there.
7. 1:09 to 1:23 show various scenes from desert and grassy plains environments. Some with battles, some with changing weather conditions... I am wondering if this game will have a Drtagon Quest 9 style multiplayer based on the HUD? THAT was the best offline multiplayer experience I have ever seen in an RPG by far. Although considering it is home console, it is more than likely online multiplayer. Really off topic here though
8. 1:24 to 1:29 is interesting - those flying creatures are making the same noise as Gnosis from Xenosaga. Although they could easily be just whale like creatures using a sound effect Takahashi likes.
9. 1:33 to end - That thing looks like a giant Mechon from Xenoblade. it is massive, look how small the Gears get as they fly close to it. There are no Mechons even close to this size in Xenoblade. It could also be related to the Gnosis from Xenosaga, but that would be a stretch. I am guessing it is a weapon of sorts, these sorts of things were commonplace in the Xenosaga universe. This doesn't really help my Xenogears case, but the battle is in space. So it looks like Space travel is possible. Xenogears didn't have much in the way of Space travel, the furthest you went was to Etrenank, the capital of Solaris. At least at some point in the Xenogears history there was a space program. We only really know that Shevat used to on the top of Babel, and then it flew off - but Shevat could have easily been using 10,000 year old tech, Etrenank looks as though it were constructed in the history of the 10,000 year old Xenogears world. This part essentially causes my hypothesis to fall apart a little since this is one scene that is not a part of Xenogears... Of course, that doesn't necessarily mean that it is not a part of a re-imagining.
Note: at the end of the original teaser, people claimed the figure at the end looks like Shulk, and therefore is Shulk:
I don't buy this since there were a few characters in Xenosaga that looked like this too. Give him white hair and put a smile on his face and he is Albedo. Either way, it doesn't hurt my hypothesis of a re-imagined Xenogears that potentially links up Xenosaga and Xenoblade in the process.
All in all though, way more information is needed.
Last edited by Julius Seeker on Wed Jun 11, 2014 6:53 am, edited 1 time in total.
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