A few decades ago the masses believed video games were a waste of time for lackadaisical youths to pacify themselves while ignoring their responsibilities as both kids and young adults. As more and more people started understanding the benefits of gaming so too did the perception of what a video game is and, most importantly, the benefits gaming can bestow on a person’s life changed.
Hi, my name is James Bullock and I am a gamer who has spent the better part of his existence testing the laws of physics, exploring the vastness of a world ruined, and been a champion inside various arenas courtesy of digitized worlds both driven by reality and created through pure unbelievable ingenuity unlike anything seen by human eyes. And as a gamer I’ve discovered something else video games provide: life lessons. Today I examine a game that proves love knows no boundaries, “Xenogears”.
Love Knows No Boundaries
It’s been said time and time again that “There’s someone out there for everyone.” In the case of “Xenogears’” Fei Fong Wong and Elehayym “Elly” Van Houten, when that person meets that “someone” they refuse to let him or her go. Their initial meeting is rather forgettable. Fei, after losing his grip on reality while trying to protect his home village of Lahan, is exiled for destroying everything around him with a big robot that fell out of the sky. While venturing through the nearby forest, Fong Wong encountered a stranded solider in Van Houten. They experienced a certain familiarity about one another, but the feeling was fleeting.
The game moved past their initial encounter with Elly being mostly forgotten about until the two reunite and start to fall in love – a relationship initnailly bonded by truth and realization that sometimes to needs of the many didn’t outweigh the needs of the few. It was around this time in the game’s narrative when the truth begins to reveal itself: Fei and Elly were actually reincarnated beings who had seen humanity’s birth, growth, and thirst for power. The people their spirits were attached to thousands of years earlier were madly in love, too.
It became incredibly obvious that the spirits currently connected to the two lovebirds were the definition of “soul mates” that, no matter what, where or when would find each other and produce undeniable love. Fei and Elly (and their spirits) werre the perfect representation of undying love for one another that extended beyond space, time and even death itself.
Have you learned any major life lessons from playing “Xenogears” or any video game for that matter? Leave them in the comments below and, as always, thanks for reading.
