is an
RPG for the
PlayStation 2, and the third and final game in the primary
Xenosaga trilogy.
Also sprach Zarathustra, literally "Thus spoke Zarathustra", is also the title of
Friedrich Nietzsche's most famous work, which introduced the concept of the
Übermensch. The game was released on
PlayStation 2 on July 6, 2006 in Japan and on August 29, 2006 in North America.
Gameplay
Story
It is one year after the events of
Episode II and
Shion Uzuki has left
Vector Industries. After the "
Missing Year" fiasco, in which she uncovered information that revealed her former employer's shadowy intentions and her father's involvement with the
U-TIC organization, Shion joined the anti-Vector group,
Scientia. The
CEO of Vector Industries,
Wilhelm, is trying to "reset" the universe, going back to the point in time where it all began. Apparently, he has been doing this for millennia, in order to keep the universe from collapsing. While separated from her comrades from previous Xenosaga games, save
Canaan and
Miyuki, Shion is inexorably drawn back into their intertwined fates when she is contacted by
Allen Ridgely. Shion travels to
Fifth Jerusalem, where the previous Xenosaga crew is reunited. At the
CAT Facility, a mysterious new researcher,
Roth Mantel, has unveiled a next-generation model of android named
T-elos, who bears a startling resemblance to
KOS-MOS. After a series of experimental demonstrations, overseen by such VIPs as
Juli Mizrahi,
Mantel...
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