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I'll never understand how people could call this game overrated or whatever. For me its one of the best games I've ever played. The music is burned into my memory and I love the characters too. Emotion is the key word here, because the game oozes it. Great review bits!

Fun fact: Illusion of Gaia was one of the first Let's Plays I've ever watched on youtube. Never heard the game before that (and still never played) but the graphics, sounds and gameplay was so charming to me. I love this game without even playing it!

The Quintet trilogy deserves a re-release with updated translations.

Wow man, for a game to be the most emotionally touching and thought provoking game you've ever played is quite a statement. Now I definitely have to play it

It’s so amazing that they add the level of care towards animals in the game. Most RPGs are completely blinded of Animals welfare and usually make them out to be objects that can regenerate at will. I’ll definitely give this game a try. Thanks a bunch!

Thank you for pointing out exactly the feelings i had while playing this game. When i played it as a child it really had a huge inpact on me and when i finally defeated Dark Gaia and ended the Story, i somehow felt so sad. But i liked the post credit scene, where they all were reunited in school again

I rented Illusion Of Gaia from Block Buster for my SNES 25 years ago. Love the game!

A great review, my kindred spirit! It's good to hear someone else talk about illusion of Gaia in such a light, because it was a defining game of my childhood. I was 11 when it came out, and my parents got it for me at an electronics store in a deluxe package with a t-shirt for the game! I weathered taunts from the jerks at my school about it, because it was just simply an amazing game that tugged on all of my heartstrings and I would cry throughout the playthrough many times. A masterpiece of game design, Sprite art, sound and level design, and just great overall gameplay experience! I just started a new playthrough two days ago, and between work and writing projects, I have already managed to get to Mu. I also played through the game last year after not playing it for several years, and also introducing the game to my son a few years ago, and he kind of liked it, but it didn't have the same impact on him. He was about the same age as I was when I first played it, but he's from the Minecraft/Fortnite generation, haha!

Man, you really nailed it with this video. I remember when I got this game for my birthday when I was I believe 6 or 7. It was by accident too.. I moved a lot as a kid, and there was a couple year stretch where my aunt and grandmother had a falling out, and my grandmother and I went to live with a man she'd met. They eventually put their differences aside thankfully, but during that 2 year stretch, it was mostly just my grandma and I living in this quaint little town in southern Indiana called Freelandville. (she passed recently sad to say) but those couple years with her hold some of my fondest memories. Apologies for going off topic, but right so, I had A Link to the Past before her and I moved and I wanted that game again for my birthday even tho I had beaten it countless times before lol and when I came home from school that day (2nd grade) I was super excited to save Zelda for the umpteenth time, yet there on the kitchen table I seen a sealed copy of some weird game I'd never seen before. Illusion of Gaia... What the heck? She explained to me that they were out of Zeldas everywhere but that she would find me a copy as soon as she could, but that for now she took it upon herself to ask the person at the store as well as do her own research by reading the latest copy of Nintendo Power (guys, this is how amazing this woman was. I'm choking up just typing this out) and she found a game that seemed to play very similarly to Zelda alttp. I thanked her and popped it in. She would watch me play, as well as she would play too. She had her own save files and everything lol. And man... As soon as I heard the music in this game and felt the gameplay I knew that she'd hit a homerun in discovering this hidden gem of a game. I've always been the type to find dark/serious themes in movies/games/art, etc captivating. Halloween was always my favorite holiday. Stuff like that. This game tho. It will forever remain in my top 3 games of all time, and I'd have to say that yes, it is my favorite SNES game. Tho admittedly I haven't played many. That's soon to change tho with my new Smoke colored LE Analogue Pocket (Stay on topic James! 😅) Anyway, brilliant video. You're right, when I first witnessed the scene where Kara's pet pig Hamlet sacrifices himself by jumping into the fire in order to save Kara and her friends from being cannibalized by the starving tribes people, my 7 year old mind was straight wrecked. Why is it they remake all kinds of crap, yet masterpieces like this RARELY EVER get brought up. Another game I'd love to see remade that never gets talked about is the first Legend of Legaia on the ps1. (The sequel on ps2 was ass, don't play that one lol) but the first was awesome. But was overshadowed by the release of FF7. A game that I've yet to play to this day because of that alone lmao. Ok I'll let yall go, just my two cents. But seriously, how amazing would a modern fully voiced Illusion of Gaia remake be if done right? Crazy to think about. Cheers, everyone.

This is one of my favorite games on a system absolute filled to the brim with amazing games. Hands down my favorite action RPG on the SNES.

I was 14 when I played this I teared up a bit lol

Oh yes, spread the love for this gorgeous game! ✊️ I'm always amazed to find others who know of it! Ive has it as my favorite since i first played it as a little kid.

Agreed. This was a staple of my childhood for how it moved me in my youth

Woah, I just found out this game existed! I can’t wait to try it!!

Great video! Love this game so much. My favorite game on the SNES is the one that everyone hates because of the camera. Brandish, and it's wonderful sequel Brandish 2: The Planet Busters. Dude these two games have some of the greatest music and atmosphere of all time. I love that in the options menu I can customize my buttons and camera to my liking as well. Some of the dungeons are so large that the labyrinth style gameplay can weigh on your mind and I think it's a great thing. It's like drawing a maze when your a kid but it's hundreds of layers deeper than that. I could go on and on about Brandish but if you haven't checked it out I think you'd love it too. The camera never bothered me for some reason but I think it makes some folks disorientated because of how instantly it flips I dunno.

It's one of those games that prove that a game doesn't have to be great to be great fun. It has its issues and it isn't a favourite of mine. But it's fun, colourful, has strong moments, funny moments, and some great tracks. It's not Chrono Trigger, Final Fantasy VI, or even Terranigma, not even close. But it doesn't have to be. Games on an epic scale require the right mindset to fully enjoy them. Illusion of Gaia is a "casual epic", I'd say. It has always been my "between games" game. When I wanted something with a story and some goosebumps moments but didn't have the time and mental space to appreciate another run of FF6-10. Just like it doesn't always have to be a favourite or fancy dish of food, or a movie or book that reinvents the genre. It's like a lovingly crafted filler episode that is just so fun and enjoyable to watch that you don't mind that it doesn't put another deep twist to the plot. Also, there are few tracks in video game history that are as hauntingly beautiful and melancholic and vaguely threatening as "Signs of the Past."

A must have on your mini Snes🙂

I look forward to seeing your Terranigma review. I won't give anything away, but it really deserves its reputation. My wife gave me a repro cart of it for my birthday a couple years ago. Man, it instantly became one of my all-time favorite games. I had never played it before, so no nostalgia glasses involved. I still think Illusion of Gaia is my personal favorite of the trilogy overall, but I feel Soul Blazer is more replayable, and Terranigma has the best story as well as some of the best music.

Played this game back in the day when it first came out, and it really resonated with me. Replaying it now for a review, and I still enjoy the themes, but some of the flaws show such as the difficulty moving freely using the D-Pad (especially when running), and also some of the dialogue localisation is a little off. Despite this though, I am enjoying it -- and currently stuck on the Vampire boss. Haha. Anyway, great review. Appreciate the thought and thoroughness to it. Keep up the great work!

Serisouly need to get to this soon. also, comments on the computer were hard to find.

My childhood memory..❤

I'm actually almost finished with my copy of Terranigma. Pretty amazing game. The seller was awful, but the price was incredible. I remember being a bit let down by Illusion of Time about 16 years ago, but after I finish Terranigma I'll probably give it another chance AFTER I play my newest game - an australian copy of Lufia 2 🙂 As always, a great review put together!

Really enjoyed the vid, illusion of Gaia was great as a kid, but this review has me thinking it's worth another play thru some more mature lens

I think this is on the nintendo online service? I'll have to give it a shot one of these days

This game was underrated i think i always loved playing this one

Wonderful video! Thank you

Really well written review, you convinced me to play it.

I love this game. So nostalgic!

The music is haunting. I would play this again with a good script. It is hard to go back to early Nintendo censorship.

I agree with everything that has a similar experience with Gaia as a kid

Can someone tell me... what is the point to the "rest" option when you're in deep space? You just disappear and a song starts playing, and as far as I could tell, there's no way to get out of it afterwards. Anytime I think of this game, that question always pops into my mind

My favorite game of allll time so many hours i put in on it when i was a kid

In the earthen womb never fails to make me cry🙃.

This was one of the best games of its time 💯

Illusion of Gaga is great the music is an work of art 🎨. 😀👍🎮

Hope they update this for the switch at some point

I love this game. That said. Have you played Chrono Trigger?

This was a great game, mostly due to the soundtrack and the great dungeons. The story and world was a bit of let down

I'm one of the few that prefers Illusion of Gaia over Terranigma, although Terranigma is still excellent in my opinion.