>>13991625Monolith Soft did Xenosaga before Xenoblade 1
And back when the staff used to be a part of Square they did Xenogears.
Xenosaga collapsed on itself and sold really poorly, and a lot of people attributed its failure to how complex and hard to grasp the plot line was and how the characters weren't really heroic.
Takahashi, the director of the Xeno games said that Xenoblade 1 was an attempt to boost morale by creating the mainstream-accepted consensus of what a 'good JRPG' was at the time, which involved a much more simpler plot line, much more heroic, one-dimensional characters and shit. Takahashi's outright called Xenoblade 1 a shonen plot.
