Xenosaga: Pied Piper (2004)
Genres:Role-playing (RPG)
Themes:Science fiction
Game modes:Single player
Story:Xenosaga: Pied Piper is a role-playing video game co-developed by Monolith Soft, Namco Mobile, and Tom Create. The game was published by Namco in 2004 for mobile devices.
The game was only released in Japan, originally in 2004 as 6 Vodafone apps, starting on July 14th and fully released on October 13th. They were available as 3 chapter purchases, each split into 2 parts released within weeks of each other.
The game was made available for i-mode devices on July 6th 2006, through Namco's monthly subscription service.Show more
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This game is currently lost media, yet its story is so canonical that in Xenosaga Episode III, they tried to cram as much summary of its story into a segment on the final planet as possible to catch you up on one of the party member's backstory. That's as good of a reason for preservation as you can get.
Update: As of 2025-03-17, Pied Piper is no longer lost media. Thanks to Keitai Wiki for their preservation effort and helping me in documenting this game more in-depth on MobyGames.
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