CCRB RECORD No. 0052
Xenogears
Determination: Explicit — Corruption 3, Denial 3, Deicide 2
The world's church is a front for a machine, the god it worships is a weapon, and the hero kills it — with characters named Abel, Cain, and a villain trying to rebuild God.
A cult-classic RPG steeped in Gnostic and Christian material: the Ethos church and its Bishop are revealed as instruments of the floating nation Solaris, the deity Deus is an interplanetary weapon, and the recurring souls at the story's centre are named Abel and Cain. Krelian, who lost his faith after a massacre, spends the game trying to become or remake God; the ending frees the Wave Existence and destroys Deus.