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So...what then happened to Quintet and where in the world is Tomoyoshi Miyazaki???

I got this game soon after it was released in NA. I beat it, but I didn't think it was that great. Good, but not great. I remember it being a decent challenge, though. Maybe my impression would be different if I played it again today. Why isn't this on the VC???

Originally Posted by hongcha

I got this game soon after it was released in NA. I beat it, but I didn't think it was that great. Good, but not great. I remember it being a decent challenge, though. Maybe my impression would be different if I played it again today. Why isn't this on the VC???

Because seemingly once they got Actraiser 1 on the VC Square Enix decided they put up enough Quintet games and called it a day.

Actually the Enix side of their old catalog has been mostly no shows on these services, frustratingly. Granted Enix was primarily a publisher rather than a developer, but couldn't they arrange with the developers to get this stuff on? Assuming that is Square Enix doesn't straight up own this stuff and thus it's a moot point?

I enjoyed this less than Soulblazer but it was still a great, great game. I'd love to see the trilogy remade on 3DS, especially since I never got to play part 3...

Impressive OP!!!

Illusion of Gaia is one of my favorite SNES games of all time. I wish I still had my copy. Fast paced action, a great story, some really deep themes. It deserves a bit more than a cult following.

Oh, it also has one of the most bizzare yet still heartbreaking scenes in gaming. "The air is filled with the aroma of roasted Hamlet."

Angel village always made me feel sad

I have the ending and credits themes on my iPod and they still choke me up to this day, given how grand the whole adventure is and what happens in the ending.

GOD WHAT A GAME.

This is quite possibly one of my earliest or best childhood RPG memories. One summer my dad rented it, and I watched him play it. Decades later I tried playing and it and I didn't even need lasik because my nostalgia goggle worked just fine! It's still really addicting.

This game was great, I have such fond memories of it. The ship coming out of the cave into the sunlight, with the ocean in the background was a memorable scene.

Originally Posted by Rollo Tomasi

So...what then happened to Quintet and where in the world is Tomoyoshi Miyazaki???

i could be wrong but i think most of the key people in quintet are still around working on different things. and miyazaki is god knows where

i still hold out hope there'll be another game in the soulblazer series. i mean i know it's way unlikely... but the destruction/creation theme leads to so many untapped gameplay possibilities. i'd love something like the first soulblazer or terranigma where the world is created as you progress

I fucking loved this game so much. Soundtrack was amazing, I'd love to see an orchestral mix of it.

It's a goddamned shame that Squeenix seems to have forgotten about this series.

This game is actually one of the few SNES cartridges I have that hasn't been lost, broken, or sold, haha. Been a while since I played it, but its gameplay is surprisingly still pretty unique even compared to the real-time/action-RPGs of today, so I'd probably still enjoy it. And that's not even considering stuff like the art and music.

I would've liked to see what else they could do with this series and its themes over time, but at least they managed to get three games out of it.

Originally Posted by hokagespit

took me forever to beat those fucking vampires when i was a kid.

This was the point where I gave up. Shit was hard.

Did anyone else sometimes use Will for segments that you're meant to use Freedan on (ie bosses,) just for the challenge?

Eric actually had a different line if you talked to him after killing the vampires as Will (since if you do that he doesn't find out that Will can shapeshift.)

I think I still have my copy but maaan it really has been a long time, I don't even really remember much of it though I think I was a touch underwhelmed though I played it after FFIII/VI, Chrono Trigger and other classic SNES RPGs so that was probably it. I should go look and see if I still have it... Oh how I wish Nintendo released their games in plastic cases and not cheap ass cardboard. I'd still have it, the manual and whatever else came in the boxes for all my old games. =/

Nope, don't have it anymore, damn. I do for some reason have Eye of the Beholder...

Originally Posted by Suzushiiro

Did anyone else sometimes use Will for segments that you're meant to use Freedan on (ie bosses,) just for the challenge?

Eric actually had a different line if you talked to him after killing the vampires as Will (since if you do that he doesn't find out that Will can shapeshift.)

Ah ah never did that.
Freedan is such a badass character.

I am always reminded of Mu for some reason when I think of this game. I feel like I was there forever when I played it for the first time.