Did anyone else get the Episode I DVD when preordering Episode II? I've watched the first 2/3 of it and it SEEMS to me like a lot was edited out. I can't figure out why they would do that. They left out everything that happened with Kos-Mos before her actually "awakening." They left out the entire introduction to the Realians. They left out everything about how Shion and Kos-Mos got onto Chaos's ship (which includes Chaos's introduction). I just wonder what the thought process behind that was. If they're going to give us a DVD of all the cinematics, why not give us ALL the cinematics, ya know?

Maybe they were tyring to make it a more cohesive movie-like story-line for people who hadn't actually played the game, but if that was their goal, I don't think it worked. I definitely felt like a lot was missing and when watching it with someone who had NOT played the game, I found myself often explaining what was going on or what important event we had just missed.

Yes, it would be even LONGER, but so what? That's why it's broken into chapters. Maybe the problem was disk space? This stuff takes up a LOT more room as a DVD than it did as a video game since in the game most of the scenes were rendered on the fly, but as a DVD they all have to be pre-rendered. I suppose if they had included EVERYTHING it would have taken up two disks, but so what? I personally would have gladly PAID for a copy of the ENTIRE Episode I story on DVD.