Xenogears: Perfect Works Build
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A collaborative overhaul of Xenogears with a new English script, rebalanced characters and Gears, restored content and a menu of optional comfort patches.
What it changes
Xenogears: Perfect Works Build, led by NoharOSP with a team of writers and testers, takes its name from the Japanese Perfect Works art and lore book and aims to make the game feel more complete:
- Script: a retranslation done without AI, with names and terms brought closer to the Japanese originals. The main story script is finished; NPC dialogue is being redone town by town.
- Balance: reworked character and Gear stats, items, shops, Deathblows and Gear attacks, documented in the project wiki.
- Restorations: lines and details that were cut or lost in the American release are put back, along with many fixes to bugs from the original game.
- Options: in the patcher you choose what to apply, including halved encounters, 1.5x or 2x experience and gold, instant text, no battle flashes, no damage cap, no level requirement for Deathblows, Japanese controls and undubbed battle voices and movies.
Version 0.11.4 extends the NPC script to the Breidablik market, plaza and arena, brings back two Gear parts and fixes several bugs.
Playing it
Windows users get a patcher that works on their own disc images and lets them pick patches; on macOS and Linux the release offers ready-made patch sets to apply with xdelta. Don't load save states made before patching: use a normal save. Follow the instructions on the GitHub page. Credit to NoharOSP and the Perfect Works team.