Fucking awesome game. My only complaints were:

1) The english dub in the anime cutscenes wasn't even passable. The acting itself was mediocre, but the lip-synching was some of the worst I've ever seen. However, the intro wasn't a victim of this flaw. The intro was fucking amazing. It's just a shame that the rest of the cutscenes weren't up to that level.

2) I'm not sure if I actually liked the way Xenogears looked. In the final cutscene, the gear looked fucking badass, but in-game it was just this tangled wad of spikes. It was a disappointment after getting Weltall-2, which was by far the coolest gear in the game.

3) All of the plot on the 2nd disc was amazing. The gameplay was just too condensed for me, though. I would have greatly preferred it if I'd actually gotten to explore the Mass-Driver facility or the inside of Merkava instead of the Anima Relic ruins. It just felt really ridiculous to glaze over these important locations and force you to trudge through a few relic-based dungeons instead.

Aside from those things, it was incredible. Amazing story and some of best character development and character interation I've ever seen. I enjoyed it thoroughly.