a project related to Xenogears was being developed. He also revealed that a sequel to Xenogears was initially planned, but never came to be. In June 2000, Sugiura Hirohide, president of Monolith Soft, said that a sequel was being considered before being cancelled due to the company's film investments at the time with Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within. While Xenogears has never had an official sequel or prequel, there was speculation that Namco and Monolith Soft's Xenosaga was a prequel when it was first announced. Tetsuya Takahashi was the director and writer for both Xenogears and Xenosaga and noted that "with our relation between Square, I think it is difficult for us to say it is a direct sequel or prequel". Approximately twenty members of the Xenosaga development staff had previously worked on Xenogears. On the connection between Xenogears and Xenosaga, Takahashi has stated:It's probably more suitable to say that it follows the direction and style of Xenogears. [...] Now that we are under a different company, we figured we should start everything from scratch all over again. Though there are familiar faces that serve as important characters in Xenosaga, others are more like self-parodies, so we don't really want Xenogears fans to overreact. Like movies, sometimes you have the director of the movie or friend of the leading actor appearing as cameos, so it's similar to that.Xenogears has occasionally been featured in other Square Enix properties. On 21 October 2016, it was revealed that Xenogears would be featured in World of Final Fantasy as a mirage. In 2017, gears from the game, along with avatars of Fei and Bart, were included as pre-order cosmetic bonuses in Square Enix's mecha shooting game, Figureheads. On 11 February 2018, in celebration of Xenogears' 20th Anniversary, Kunihiko Tanaka and Junya Ishigaki collaborated with Square Enix to release Xenogears Bring Arts figures of Fei, Elly and Welltall. The cast of Xenogears were also featured in Final Fantasy Brave Exvius'' for a limited time as part of a collaboration event. Notes References External links Official website 1998 video games Dissociative identity disorder in video games Dystopian video games Existentialist video games Fiction about consciousness transfer Gnosticism Japanese role-playing video games Martial arts video games Nanotechnology in fiction PlayStation (console) games PlayStation Network games Post-traumatic stress disorder in fiction Production I.G Religion in science fiction Science fiction video games Video games about cannibalism Video games about