Xenosaga worth playing?

[yvk2000]

Fellow vgm fans,

Just recently I acquired the Xenosaga OST. To this day I refrained myself from listening to it, waiting for the moment that I would sit down and play the game. This decision was made 11 years ago after I played Xenogears (one of my favorite games and OST's of all time). Xenogears blew my mind back then and opened me to gnosticism and other mystic streams (making me realize Xenogears wasn't thát sci-fi).

I don't game anymore but I still have love for fleshed out gaming worlds with ambitious stories and great soundtracks. So now is the moment, either I just pop in the CD and start enjoying or I wait till I become a grandpa to try out Xenosaga and hear the music.

Anybody wanna chime on whether Xenosaga is up to the same standards as Xenogears?

Edit: I'm not planning on playing ep. 2 and 3