An old game from the SNES games. I rented this one with a friend of mine who insisted we rent it. I dutifully put it in and soon it took my breath away. It doesn't have the polish graphics of today, but the sprites are fantastic. The storyline is deep and involving dealing with a lot of real life issues and morals that really stick with you as time goes on. The actual plot is basically a cliche: You, a kid who lost his father and the rest of the crew on an exploration somehow survived with no memory on how and ended back with your grandparents back in a small cape. When you are asked to bring a ring to the castle, you are thrown in jail for not having the ring and eventually find out from a being called Gaia that you have powers you have never imagined and you have to save the world. You travel to actual places on Earth with your friends, learning and developing along the way. The music is fantastic to listen to and easy to hum to. The dialogue is hilarious from your grandmother's meal choices to the princess apologizing that you're in jail. But when it gets serious, it's serious to a T and is very deep. Before the times Nintendo became kiddy this is a shining example of it being a deep involving storyline that makes you really think. Anyone else play it?
I only played its sequel, Terranigma. Visiting real countries and participating in their development by helping historical figures (Edison, Keynes etc ...) was quite refreshing, considering most RPGs from that era were just a pile of shonen tropes. Well, Terranigma is a pile of shonen tropes too, but the real world history spin on top of it made it memorable. From a gameplay perspective it' s basically a zelda clone with exp, so nothing groundbreaking, but hey, if it ain' t broken ... I should definitely get around giving Gaia a try. Oh, and it' s not a Nintendo game, it' s from Enix, Nintendo was merely its NA publisher.
Yeah, Enix and Quintet. Btw... If you're having problems buying it as it can get a bit expensive, you can always do the i- *gets shot* X_________X Anywho... I don't think it'll ever come out on Virtual Console. The stuff they talk about in the game would be enough to cause the new president of Nintendo to roll in his non-existing grave. Some are child labor, slavery, and a little bit about war. It happens in different segments of the game, but it still is heavy and realistic enough for you to actually feel for not only the characters that are involved, but the minor ones that have it happening. And yes, it's a clone, but it also has it's own unique edges to it where it is not a full-out clone where Enix is just getting one. One being there's only one sidequest and trust me, it's the biggest pain in the ass sidequest ever made. That and it's mostly a VERY linear game with dungeons for exploration. You can visit certain places at some points, but once you hit a certain point in the game, the plot won't allow you to go back.Which isn't to say it's a plothole, there's actually good reasoning as to WHY you can't go back with originality behind each one. I highly recommend it, especially if you liked Terranigma. It's the third of a series.
