The only thing Fei can do now is to try and find out how he knows how to pilot a gear and why this particular gear feels so familiar. Using the gear he clears the invaders from the village, but the villagers turn their anger on Fei as he fought back and they blame him and chase him out of the village.
During the battle Fei becomes trapped and his only means of survival is to enter the cockpit of a crashed gear, but when he does, something stirs within him and he automatically knows how to control the gear. But their normal lives are destroyed when their village gets caught in the crossfire of a gear battle between Aveh and Kislev.
The game begins with Fei living in the and the whole village looking forward to the wedding of the year. The game is set in the world of Ignas where 2 great nations are at war: Aveh and Kislev. The game pretty much touches on everything: love, hate, loyalty, racism, religion, the nature of humanity, etc. strange man in a rural village with memory loss sets off on an adventure, the game explores much darker themes and gets very complex toward the end. While at first the game seems to be following traditional rpg territory, i.e. The people of his own village banish him, and he sets out on a complex and gripping quest. But a civil war finds its way to his home, and while attempting to fight off the invaders, his enigmatic past catches up with him. The game begins with Fei, gregarious martial artist and painter, preparing for a big wedding. Xenogears is known for its storyline, which is heavily influenced by philosophy (such as the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud, and Carl Jung), religion and Biblical allusions, and science fiction concepts (most notably nanomachines and the relationship between man and machine). Due to not reaching one million sales within a year, the game was not green-lit for any sequels. The game is considered to primarily represent 'Episode V' of the story of the game's world. The game was developed by a team including director Tetsuya Takahashi (who later joined a team at Monolith Soft, developer of both Xenosaga and Xenoblade Chronicles) and famed composer Yasunori Mitsuda (known for his work on the Chrono series). Upon its release, it was met with positive acclaim from critics, garnering an 84% average rating on reviews aggregate Metacritic and a 91% on Game Rankings. The game features a millennia spanning science fiction storyline and multiple battle systems, and is the basis for the tangentially related Xenosaga series. Xenogears is a console role-playing game released by Squaresoft in 1998 for the PlayStation.