The game's script ( with ideas from Tetsuya Takahashi ) is by Yuichiro Takeda, who worked on Xenosaga: The Animation.

Music for the game was composed by Kousuke Yamashita, who scored the soundtrack for Xenosaga: The Animation.

An anime based on Xenosaga, titled Xenosaga: The Animation, premiered on TV Asahi in Japan on January 5, 2005.

Soundtrack albums for each of the three main games have been released ; two versions of the soundtrack album were released for Episodes I and II as well as a single for the theme song of Episode I. Xenosaga Freaks and Xenosaga: The Animation have also sparked a soundtrack album each.

KOS-MOS is also a major character in the anime Xenosaga: The Animation and appears in several crossover video games.

* Xenosaga: The Animation ( Jan. 2005-Mar.

* Xenosaga: The Animation ( Gaignun Kukai, Albedo Piazzolla )

* Xenosaga: The Animation ( Andrew )

* Xenosaga: The Animation ( Allen Ridgely )

* Xenosaga: The Animation ( Shelley Godwin, Pellegri )

* Xenosaga: The Animation ( character designer )

In addition, she was in the mobile game Pied Piper, Xenosaga I & II, Xenosaga Freaks, as well as the anime Xenosaga the Animation.

"" RPGamer also praised the design change, though they felt that Shion's lack of glasses in that episode was " amusing ".< ref > In a review of the first volume of Xenosaga: The Animation, GameSpot compared Shion and KOS-MOS to " the ultimate fanboy fan-service pair ", feeling that Shion was an example of a " cute, yet smart glasses girl ".

* Xenosaga: The Animation ( Mary Godwin )

The anime itself follows the story of Xenosaga closely, albeit removing several scenes and adding others.

He designed the characters for Xenogears and Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, as well as character concept design for the anime Key the Metal Idol.

In a review of the Xenosaga anime, another reviewer from IGN noted that Shion's idealism and naivety were out of place considering her tragic past, and that it was annoying " since it seems to happen a lot with anime heroines ".

: Question: If Xenosaga Episode III is the last game of the Xenosaga series no matter what, would that change based on fan requests and sales?

Is there a chance that Namco Bandai will make more games based on the Xenosaga universe ( RPG or not )?

Additionally, he provided the voice for antagonist Dmitri Yuriev in the Xenosaga series and for The Master of Whispers in the game Guild Wars: Nightfall and for Emile Dufraisne in Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell: Double Agent., in addition he played the role of Detective Gerard Stephens in the Batman Begins sequel The Dark Knight and voiced Dr. Terrence Kyne for the animated sci-fi horror movie Dead Space: Downfall based on the Dead Space video game.

He has worked on over a dozen games since then, including the spiritual sequel to Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht, and major titles such as Shadow Hearts and Luminous Arc.

Released on July 6, 2006, Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra is the final title in the Xenosaga series, effectively cutting the initial projection of the series in half.

A retelling of the first two episodes titled Xenosaga I & II was released on the Nintendo DS in March 2006 in Japan.

Released on cellular phones in Japan, Xenosaga: Pied Piper is set one hundred years prior to the start of Episode I.

Released in Japan on April 28, 2004, Xenosaga Freaks contained four separate parts: Xeno Komi, which plays like an illustrated, voiced text adventure, a word game called Xeno-pittan, an encyclopedia of Episode I terms, and a playable demo version of Episode II.

Xenosaga I & II was released in Japan on March 30, 2006.

Episode IV, Episode V, Episode VI and two games being developed for an unknown platform known as Xenosaga: Frontier and Xenosaga: Exceed were all summarily cancelled when Namco pulled the plug on the series.

: Namco Bandai: Yes, the Xenosaga universe is a grand concept and the number of ways we can think of to expand on this is infinite.

However translation of further chapters has been put on indefinite hold due to the announcement by Namco USA that the Missing Year will be translated and posted up on the Official English Xenosaga III site.

The " Third Armament " as its also known makes a real-time appearance in Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse on the Ω System.

Yasunori Mitsuda is a highly known composer of such games as Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I, Chrono Cross, and Chrono Trigger.

As well as giving its classical concerts, the LPO has made several film soundtracks, including Lawrence of Arabia, Philadelphia, The Mission, The Lord of the Rings film trilogy as well as some CD albums of video game music from the Square Enix series Dragon Quest composed by Koichi Sugiyama, Symphonic Poem: Hope for Final Fantasy XII, the soundtrack for Xenosaga Episode I composed by Yasunori Mitsuda and even Elkie Brooks ' Screen Gems, the entire album of which was used in modern films.

He is best known for his compositions for the video games Chrono Trigger, Chrono Cross, Mario Party, Shadow Hearts, Shadow Hearts: Covenant, Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I, Soma Bringer, Xenoblade, and Inazuma Eleven.

Mitsuda names his favorite works as the soundtracks to the Chrono series, Xenogears, Xenosaga Episode I, and the original album Kirite, though he also says that all of his soundtracks are " representational works ", as they represent who he was as a composer when he made them.

His favorite pieces overall are " The Girl Who Closed Her Heart " and " Pain " from Xenosaga Episode I and pieces from Kirite.

* Xenosaga Episode I: Der Wille zur Macht ( 2002 )

Xenosaga Freaks, a lighthearted game with a playable demo for Episode II, was released in April 2004 in Japan, but was not released elsewhere.

Xenosaga: Pied Piper, a three chapter-long cellphone-based game depicting the history of cyborg " Ziggurat 8 " 100 years before the start of Episode I, was released in Japan in July 2004.

Xenosaga Episode II: Jenseits von Gut und Böse is a role-playing video game for the PlayStation 2, and the second installment in the series.

Despite the fact that Episode I had never been released in Europe, Sony and Namco released the Xenosaga series in Europe starting with the second episode.

Xenosaga Episode III: Also sprach Zarathustra is the third and final game of the trilogy.

Other notable Xeno Komi events that foreshadowed Episode II or referenced other Xenosaga side stories included a nightmare Ziggy had of Sharon and Joaquin Rozas after KOS-MOS knocked him unconscious and MOMO briefly meeting Jr. and Sakura in her subconscious domain.

The Episode II portion of the game has been completely rewritten by Xenosaga creator Tetsuya Takahashi, which expands and enhances the storyline.

Episode I of both Xenosaga and ( according to the Xenogears Perfect Works book ) Xenogears take place in T. C.

As of Episode II, scenario writer Soraya Saga was removed from the Xenosaga team.

After these events, Episode III was declared to be the last primary Xenosaga episode.

Composer Yasunori Mitsuda also left the Xenosaga series after the first episode, and while the character designer Kunihiko Tanaka re-illustrated the characters for Episode II he distanced himself from the project as other artists credited as production designers took over the character designs.

With the cancellation of the series at Episode III, several other Xenosaga projects ended their development cycles.