Illusion of Gaia

1ce · **Posted:** December 26th, 2007, 12:23 am

So, is there any other game/book/anything that remotely has the awesome characters and feel of Illusion of Gaia? This game stills impresses me and I love it to death. Easily one of the top five best games for me.

I've also been wondering if this would be a decent rpgm project or not.

Discuss.

myoky · **Posted:** December 26th, 2007, 4:31 pm

Soul Blazer for the SNES is supposed to be the prequel, I own it and have beaten it twice, good game.

Terranigma, which only came out in Japan is Illusion of Gaia's sequel, Lantis should know more about it, he played more of it than me.

Lantis · **Posted:** December 26th, 2007, 4:36 pm

Myoky nailed it on the head. In fact... Soul blazer, Terranigma, and Illusion of Gaia were all apart of an unnoficial series.

I highly suggest both of those titles.

myoky · **Posted:** December 26th, 2007, 4:44 pm

and don't forget the spiritual successor Granstream Saga...

Lantis · **Posted:** December 26th, 2007, 4:49 pm

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Blasphemy.

(From Random Game Progress months ago)

Lantis wrote:

I have long since finished playing Terranigma. And it was a good game. I'd say that Illusion of Gaia is a bit better than Terranigma, but it's still a good RPG that one sould play through if they are fans of active time... and as I stated, I moved on to the "next in the Gaia series"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaia_series

Quote:

The Granstream Saga

The Granstream Saga was made by Quintet and shares similarities with the previous games, such as the theme of regenerating the land.

The story follows a young man called Eon who must stop the sky's continents from sinking into the ocean.

<rant>

First of all, Enix didn't even make the game. Second of all... there is no mention of Gaia at all. There is nothing that this game has in common with the other three titles. And if that isn't enough... the game blows a hot steamy load of suck.

You don't get a bit of experience from fighting... in fact, you get squat. So you spend most the game walking around enemies that are to retarded to walk into you. The way you get level is all through the story. You can not level up yoruself you can only be at a level the game allows. So if you find fights too easy or too hard, tough... You have MP but you can't re-fill it by sleeping at an inn. You can only do it by using items. SOMETIMES when you defeat an enemy, it will restore some MP... but you won't have to waste it if you don't hit the enemies... you are going to level up reguardless of how little you fight.

And here's another thing... the story is about as gay as it gets. There are some of the dumbest ideas I've seen yet. For example: You run into a "good" scientist. Eentually, you run into him again... but oh no! It's his EVIL TWIN! Actually, it's not his evil twin... it's his evil HALF. According to the game, you can have so much good and so much evil in one person that they split into too diffrent people... and if they tried to re-unite... they would explode. That's right... blow up. Like freaking C4 style. And all the NPCs and characters are like, "Oh... that makes sooo much sense". I think it would be a challenge for us here at the Mag to make plots in our games worse than this...

Battle is about as dumb as it gets. You only fight one enemy at a time... and you are targetted on them at all times. You can walk forward, back, and strafe... then you can attack. It doesn't get any more in depth than that. Well, you can block... and even use magic. But the spells are so costly and do so little, it's litterally pointless.

Also, the game has you running pointless errunds like like in Dragon Quest 8. But even worse. You are in a town with many people and you can progress in the game unless you talk to a towns person who says really nothing relivant to what you are doing at the time. It happen throught out entire game. I had to use a walkthrough for every step of the game that wasn't in a dungeon.

Speaking of dungeons.... there was nothing to them... you just walk through them... no puzzles... nothing other than enemies and treasure chests. The only thing that changed was the scenery.

I'm not sure who wrote Granstream Saga into that wiki... bu it is blasphemy and taints the other three titles. I give this game a 1/10 and suggest you stay far away from it. If you can somehow link the creators of Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma to Grandstream Saga, it would be only by inane points EVEN IF ENIX MADE THE GAME. The moron who put Grandstream Saga on the same page as those other wonderful titles needs to hang himself with a playstation controller... but he's probably so dumb that he'd try to do it with the PS3's WIRELESS controller!

As of now, the game lays in shards on my floor as an overly powerful enemy sent be back over an hour of gameplay of which had no save points in between. He wasn't even a boss... It is by mercy that the cd gets out with only that much. It should be taken and sent to the depest darkest corner of the earth (which is probably a Regal Hole) to rot with all the other disapointments in video game history.

</rant>

*takes a deep breath*

I'll probably be moving on to the newst Atlus title, Odin Sphere. I'm trusting after playing such a let down, that ANYTHING will seem better...

1ce · **Posted:** December 27th, 2007, 2:38 am

SoulBlazer is a great game, already played through it.

Yes Lantis, we all know about you and Granstream Saga. Put it to rest already.

Some game with these characters you really get into, and a mysterious, epic quest with subtle undertones. That's what I want.

myoky · **Posted:** December 27th, 2007, 8:36 am

you should play some of the Digital Devil Saga games, they are amazing.

SarahsKnight · **Posted:** December 27th, 2007, 12:06 pm

... Hey, 1ce, since you just happened to mention that you think Illusion of Gaia has awesome characters, then, I am curious, which one was your favorite? .... Well, aside from the obvious choice being, of course, Hamlet the self-sacrificing pig. ^_^

*sigh* I don't think any other video game has taught me to hate vampires so much as this one did ....

Guarionex · **Posted:** December 27th, 2007, 12:11 pm

I had that game, and beat it, but sadly, I don't remember a thing from it.

myoky · **Posted:** December 27th, 2007, 4:49 pm

worst part of th game was the Sky Garden... hated that place and it's infernal double sidd rooms.

My favorite character was of course Will... If I had to pick someone else, Lily.

1ce · **Posted:** December 27th, 2007, 4:50 pm

Sarah's Knight wrote:

... Hey, 1ce, since you just happened to mention that you think Illusion of Gaia has awesome characters, then, I am curious, which one was your favorite? .... Well, aside from the obvious choice being, of course, Hamlet the self-sacrificing pig. ^_^

*sigh* I don't think any other video game has taught me to hate vampires so much as this one did ....

Before I even finished reading the sentence, I was going to say Hamlet. That pig rules. Quite the scene he made.

I'm not sure I really had a favorite. Come to think of it, what I like about the game characters is they are all human, have weaknesses, and generally want to go out on a dangerous quest. All their different backgrounds and characteristics make it interesting.

Fayorei · **Posted:** December 29th, 2007, 1:55 am

Man, I never did beat IoG. I got stuck. That part with the Inca(I believe) ship was TRIPPY.

It was fun until I got terribly stuck.

Bonanza · **Posted:** December 29th, 2007, 4:53 pm

I bought it from a flea market this summer. I only played it for a couple hours then put it down.

Lantis · **Posted:** December 30th, 2007, 1:31 am

A shame... it's a wonderful game.

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