Topic: Illusion of Gaia, Secret of Evermore and Final Fantasy Mystic Quest

What are the chances of these games getting a re-release or remaster? It’s strange so many classic RPGs have been re-released but not these games although Mystic Quest did get one re-release on Wii virtual console over a decade ago. I have never played these games but would play them if they release them again on modern console. Also hope one day we will see a release of Terranigma in North America.

I have no idea how likely it is, but it would be awesome to have these rereleases.

Would be great to see as love all these. I think the problem is how they fit in terms what collection would they go on if not a remake. Soul Blazer, Terranigma, and Illusion of Gaia could be a collection as the Gaia Trilogy.

Secret of Evermore, probably need to be remake? Releasing a Snes game straight as a stand alone doesn't seem something they would do. Square Enix are very absent from NSO, so I think we can count that out as an option.

FF: Mystic Quest? Any other misc Final Fantasy games that could go with? I can't see it getting a remake, even though I would love it, as I have fond memories of it.

Slim but I would be first in line (well not for mystic quest). I enjoyed these and breath of fire (granted that’s capcom), brain lord, and EVO way more than the standard squaresoft fare of the time. So much of enix’s library died with the merger and I still wish for a world where they had the money to stay separate. Probably why I am such a stubborn DQ fan (you won’t take this from meeeee!).

@Ryu_Niiyama Enix was a publisher, they likely didn't own much of that "library" you speak of aside from Dragon Quest. Unlike Square who developed most of the games they published.

@KingMike and dragon quest was deved by chunsoft and I think TOSE (I literally just woke up so I am not googling it right now). I am aware of Enix’s publishing history. The merger meant that they were no longer publishing or involved with in any way the games I enjoyed over squaresoft’s (minus DQ). As I said so much of their library died with the merger and I am still not a fan of the merger.

Mystic Quest was featured in Theatrhythm Final Bar Line and Square Enix has been working through bringing games that appeared there over to modern consoles even recently like SaGa Frontier 2 and Bravely Default so maybe that reappears?

In terms of things like illusion of gaia im curious to see if theres some kind of licencing hell going on since a "collection of mana" style compilation with that, Soul Blazer and Terranigma was a dream collection of mine (especially if they get M2 on board like with the mana one)

Does feel like with some of Square enix pre-psone games it feels more common for them to get remakes like with live a live or the pixel remasters (iirc werent they completely re-done from the ground up in unity) though we did get a couple of compilations using emulation like the aforementioned Mana one and also the collection of the original 3 SaGa (aka FF legend) games so its not unheard of.

@Ryu_Niiyama Yes, they own the rights to Dragon Quest. But since Enix published so many games developed by other companies, there's a good chance they did not own the publishing rights to them forever. That was something outside of the effect of the merger.
Produce made Brain Lord and 7th Saga and its related successors. Quintet made the ActRaiser and SoulBlazer franchises and RoboTrek.
Assuming that those are "Enix" franchises is like thinking Dragon Quest should be a Nintendo franchise because Nintendo published a few of them in the west. We know very well that isn't that case but I say that as a demonstrative example.

@KingMike the merger of any company impacts what projects they embark on. When Enix was a competitor they had to publish games to compete with squaresoft. Which also means that devs would make pitches to them or they would pitch devs to ask them to enter into deals to make games. And they would focus on internal franchises to also produce games to compete.

A merger changes that direction for any company. So again, I am still not a fan of the squeenix merger, yes I am aware of the fact that most of enix’s catalog was not deved in house and likely licensed however that doesn’t change the fact that enix could no longer function as they did pre merger (exempting financials in this hypothetical scenario). Which is my lament. Who owns the games doesn’t really change that. That’s why licensing and publishing contracts exist in the first place. After all them owning 7th saga or Valkyrie Profile didn’t force squeenix to give them the same attention as they did bigger franchises like final fantasy. Otherwise we would be on Itagaki Street 22 by now. The publishing or internally developing games doesn’t matter as there are legal routes and directives to still produce products. But if the company is no longer focused on those products or is no longer in competition to produce/publish those products, their catalog (using this to denote products for current sale rather than library that includes past products.) changes. That is an unavoidable fact. Which means that I will never see a non merger enix catalog (for better or worse) again. Which for me personally is a loss. Again this is my personal lament that ignores financials in this hypothetical scenario.

I am not really sure what you are looking for from me here. It is possible to understand the facts of something and still wish/want/lament a hypothetical alternative scenario.