Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse
| Xenosaga Episode II | |
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| Developer(s) | Monolith Soft |
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| Director(s) | Koh Arai |
| Producer(s) | Tomohiro Hagiwara Shinichirō Okamoto |
| Writer(s) |
Tetsuya Takahashi Norihiko Yonesaka |
| Composer(s) |
Yuki Kajiura Shinji Hosoe |
| Series | Xenosaga |
| Platform(s) | PlayStation 2 |
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| Genre(s) | Role-playing video game |
| Mode(s) | Single-player |
| Aggregate scores | |
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| Aggregator | Score |
| GameRankings | 73.53% |
| Metacritic | 73 of 100 |
| Review scores | |
| Publication | Score |
| 1UP.com | C+ |
| Famitsu | 33 of 40 |
| Game Informer | 7.75 of 10 |
| GamePro | 4 of 5 |
| GameSpot | 7.8 of 10 |
| GameSpy |    |
| IGN | 7.9 of 10 |
| OPM (US) | |
| PSM | 6 of 10 |
| Yahoo! Games | 6 of 10 |
Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse (ゼノサーガ エピソードII 善悪の彼岸 Zenosāga Episōdo Tsū Zen'aku no Higan?) is a role-playing video game for the PlayStation 2 and the second title in the Xenosaga series, created by Namco and developed by its subsidiary at the time, Monolith Soft.
Jenseits von Gut und Böse, literally "Beyond Good and Evil", is taken from a philosophical work by Friedrich Nietzsche of the same name. Episode II was originally written by Tetsuya Takahashi, director of the previous game and Xenogears, a game that critics associate with the Xenosaga trilogy; it was directed by Koh Arai, who worked previously on Radical Dreamers, a visual novel set in the Chrono Trigger universe, Xenogears, Chrono Cross, and the first Xenosaga game. This is the only Xenosaga game to be released in Europe, so the European released contained a DVD movie featuring the cutscenes from Xenosaga 1.
The second installment to the series features the same cast from Episode I, still focusing on Shion, KOS-MOS, and their friends. Episode II differs in that the plot follows the characters Jr. and MOMO closer than previously, exposing much of their past, which was kept secret during the first game.
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