Overview
- Also Known As
- Illusion of Time
- Number of Players
- 1 (Single Player)
- Genre
- Release Date
Super Nintendo
- 1st Sep 1994
- 27th Apr 1995
- 27th Nov 1993
- Series
Reviews
Review Illusion of Gaia (Super Nintendo)
This being a great game is no illusion
In the early days of the SNES, Enix made the beloved action RPG Soul Blazer. A strange but incredibly effective mixture of RPG and very light town-building elements resulted in one of the system's most underrated games. Although the game itself did not sell too well, Enix decided to try again, making a...
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Illusion of Gaia News
Poll Box Art Brawl: Illusion Of Gaia
Or 'Time', if you will
Welcome, one and all, to another edition of Box Art Brawl. Taking a look at last week's battle, Europe went up against two opposing forces from North America for the DS release of Magic & Might: Clash of Heroes. Full blown civil war, over here. Europe came away with the victory, though, bringing in 56% of the vote with...
News Hugely Anticipated Turn-Based RPG 'Sea Of Stars' Has Gone Gold
Game launches in August
Sea Of Stars, the widely anticipated RPG from Sabotage Studio, has gone gold ahead of its launch on August 29th, 2023. You know what that means: development on the game is now complete with the master build being submitted for certification. That means no more delays - hooray! Well... Apart from any incredibly unlikely...
News SNES Classics Illusion of Gaia And Mystical Ninja Receive MSU1 Audio Support
Will and Goemon join the high fidelity club
Another week and another two major MSU-1 Audio projects released by Super Nintendo fans. Considering both these classic soundtracks come in at nearly one hundred tracks each this is no small feat. Two epic quests featuring brand new audio possibilities await you. Caught between the brilliance of both...
About The Game
Will is a young boy, whose father, an archaeologist, died on an expedition to the Tower of Babel long ago.
One day, he receives a letter from King Edward, inviting him over to his castle. After being wrongfully imprisoned for not bringing a certain item the king wanted (Something he didn't even know he had), he escapes the castle together with the princess, Kara. The two soon learn that the end of the world is near - A red star in the sky signals the arrival of a comet which is said to appear every 800 years. If not stopped before it gets too close, its radiation will turn the entire human race into monsters, something it has already done multiple times before.
The planet's only hope are the "Mystic Statues" - Will must hunt down all six of them and bring them to the Tower of Babel where his father lost his life so long ago, and use their power to send the comet back from whence it came. On his quest he'll visit the ruins of various old civilizations which were wiped out by the comet on previous passings and even speak with some of the spirits of the dead. All of the main dungeons are directly based on real world locations, such as the Great Wall of China, Angkor Wat and Mu. Will also has to deal with cults, slave trading and other things which are very unusual subjects for videogames.
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I love this game Currently playing through it on the SNES, and have just arrived at "Euro". It does have some nasty difficulty spikes though (curse those vampires!)
THIS NEEDS TO HIT THE VC!!!
Illusion of Gaia was great, but it did have a very unbalanced difficulty at times which could make it frustrating to play.
i had the euro version Illusion of Time
this was great to play, was lots of puzzling, which was fun
i agree, this also needs to hit the VC for everyone to have even more fun on the wii
One of the many classics that I have missed out on as a child because I have never heard of it. I'm considering ordering it from eBay someday; unfortunately there's no IoG copy under PayPal, so I'm forced to..........BID!!!!
Frantic worries aside, is Illusion of Gaia really decent? 'cause I've read FlyingOmelette's review of it several dozen times already saying that it is. What kind of almost turns me off is that I read the story is lopsided. I also read that the game can be challenging at first. I'm all for challenge, I'm not afraid of it. I just wonder if it's gonna be fun; 'cause I am that interested.
PS - This has kinda bothered me for some time, and I don't mean to question a game I have yet to experience: but why is this titled Illusion of Time in Europe? I wonder if time has anything to do with the game at all. But maybe I'm just nitpicking (as usual), so I'll just have to experience it myself to see if it's fun.
Time definitely has something to do with the plot.
Illusion of Time was bloodly brillant, with one of the most in depth storys that flow with so much emotion on the snes. Quintet really knew how to create a game that could capture everyone. This and Terranigma are very underrated RPG's and should be more classified as classics with those greats such as SoM, LTTP, Chrono trigger, Super Mario RPG. This game had great graphics which helped to set the story and great boss battles. The games music was so brillantly writtern and so rememberable, I personally love the South Cape tune. Its a fairly short game but some parts can be very difficulty at times due to the unbalanced difficulty throughout the game. I loved gathering all 50 red jewels to get a reward of fighting solid arm. Great game with a great story line.
@Drake - Oh. Never mind, then. I was just curious then.
I'm so purchasing this game someday, as I'm a big fan of SoulBlazer (the only game I played of the trilogy).
I really want to see this on VC soon, please Nintendo.
Facebook fan club with roughly 98 members who want to have this game released
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/group.php?gid=28200371722&ref=ts
Looks like Illusion of Gaia/Illusion of Time is gonna have a review soon. Can't wait to read it (the review).
One of my favorite SNES games.
I looked up that this game is one of the few games that was published by Nintendo, when it was developed and programmed by (a) different company(/ies) (in this case, Quintenix [Quintet/Enix]).
For the American SNES cartridges it's easy to tell what's published by Nintendo or another company by looking at the bars near the title in the top of the cartridge. If it was published by Nintendo, then the bar is red; but if it was published by someone else, then the bar is violet/purple. It's funny how all these years I didn't know why the bars were differently colored until I found out months ago.
EDIT: Wait a minute. I've lately noticed that the reviewer's post is a gray box, while the nonreviewer's posts are simply paper white. I wonder if Drake is reviewing the game, 'cause his post is in a gray box?
EDIT2 [May 1st]: Days ago (on the 28th of April) I got this game in the mail. I've been enjoying it, and it's a very great game. Almost as great as (or maybe just as great as) SoulBlazer, the prequel. The game was a great experience from beginning to end. I beat the game today on the 1st of May.
I think my posts are in grey boxes because I created this game page. I am planning on reviewing it though!
Cool. [Delayed reply of mine was delayed]
I enjoyed the soundtrack. I actually set up the volume of my widescreen HDTV to 30.
First game I ever played in the trilogy. Still my favorite to this day.
The, oft quoted, "Golden Era" of video games, referred, very much, to those, sadly, very few years, when the greatest of all JRPGs were released on the SNES.
Ending with the brilliant TERRANIGMA, preceded by genuine "classics" such as ILLUSION OF GAIA/TIME, EARTHBOUND, FF6, etc, these were the days when, it seemed, back then, every new release contained that essence of "magic" that came with experiencing never-before-seen sights, sounds, and gameplay twists and turns that ONLY came in that era of "the new"!
Nothing was "dissed" by players — because everything was amazing!
The first insertion of that, reassuringly solid, cartridge, meant, from the opening "set the scene" moments, to the, almost sadly-triumphant, endings, day upon day of wonder and magic!
Everything was still so new back then.
Nothing felt old and stale - because nothing WAS old and stale!
Call me an old nostalgia-freak ( I really don't mind! 😊 ) but I truly long for the day when Nintendo ( I assume they still own the rights to publish these iconic JRPGs? ) announce that they're releasing them all for the SWITCH!!
Yeah, yeah, I know I'm probably " wishing on a star " ....... But, OH how I hope that I'm NOT!! 😊😊
Take it easy all!
Illusion of Time is a timeless game it may have been my first RPG I owned it's fun and challenging which is good the bosses can be a pain sometimes but with enough health it should be smooth sailing. It kinda reminds me of Zelda when you have to rescue the princess in the beginning of the game.
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