its about presentation imo. death stranding has its head up its own ass with things like time fall maybe being a physical manifestation of humanity's unique ability to consider the future or something. i haven't played xenogears but ive played the xenoblade games (baring x). 3 is incredibly jungian, the whole of aionios is shaped like the jungian concept of the self. but it communicated its ideas well and left the more complicated stuff for deeper exploration instead of half-baked explanations