Sorry for the black above this. Don't know what happened. But as I've said before Christian like characters are the enemies. They seem to be some sort of psuedo surreal Catholic group. Though they are Christians their actions seem far from good. Deceit, very hostile attacks and others make them seem evil. Also the priest like Patriarck cusses in one scene. He also has this demonic look about him. Even if they are evil its still bad the creators portrayed Christians like that and they made the good guys fight against them.
This is me playing and reading about Xenosaga Episode 2 concerning its religious content.
And keep in mind thought the graphics in the sequel are a lot better the battle system is so difficult to master it made me want to do this:
It involves breaking an enemy's zone. Which there are three. A.B, and C. The moves you do will determine the zone you violate. You have to have the right combination (which can be up to 2 to 4 letters) in order to perform the break. So your going into a battle doing trial and error trying to find the enemy's zone break and by the time you do find it out the enemy launches an attack that kills you. SO FRUSTRATING!