Square Enix, Yuzo Koshiro Really Wants 'Illusion Of Gaia' And 'Terranigma' Remakes, Thanks

I'd rather not have them if they're just going to be on the same level as the ActRaiser remake, which I personally feel lost all of the charm and magic of the original with those particular new visuals. If it were done truly right, sure. But the odds are not high imo. I mean, Christ, imo the recent remake of Super Mario RPG fell victim to the same thing, and that was a first party Nintendo game. So, not a lot of optimism here to be honest.

@Sketcz

I, too, love Robotrek! its an "emulator classic," for me personally, as I came across it in the late 90s as one of my first ZSNES experiences, along with harvest moon and seiken densetsu 3.

thanks for the trip down memory lane, friend 😊👍

Illusion Of Gaia! I keep my cart handy as I must return to it every couple years.

These don't need remakes. They just need to be made more available. But apart from Actraiser, Quintet games have been left out of modern options like Virtual Console and NSO, and there's really no excuse.

In my opinion, Terranigma is the best 16-bit game that nobody has ever played. It holds up as-is. Just get it out there.

SquareEnix should do a Soul Blazer Collection that includes that game along with Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma (and even the Granstream Saga, if they have/can get the rights to it).

They already did a physical Collection of Mana as well as the digital Collection of SaGa. Give us a physical collection of these games also and call it a day.

I'm glad an industry legend like Yuzo Koshiro is voicing his opinion. We need more of this.

@Sketcz The tactical random battle system of RoboTrek was done in a couple other Japanese RPGs that were not released outside Japan.
Light Fantasy and its sequel, and Song Master, come to mind.
Though of those games, only the first was fan-translated (and possibly machine-translated at that, I can't remember. I just remember having to look it up after a report that its save functionality is slightly oddly programmed and so only supported by somewhat more recent emulators. One more reason to ask people to stop using ZSNES is a good reason to me!)

But what about SoulBlazer? Don't we want that too?

@Razieluigi Hopefully a collection with region variants included as well. The Quintet games were some affected by Enix America's demand to make games harder for the west.
The PAL version of ActRaiser exclusively included a mode based on the arcade version (as well as a difficulty option). Sadly the poor 50hz conversion (like other Quintet conversions, they adjusted the music but not gameplay so it can never run correctly) keeps it from completely supplanting the US version.

I really need to play Illusion of Time, seen as I own it and I really like the look of it. Never played it back in the day. I should also play Terranigma. I did own that too but at £300 I thought I’d sell it and just play it on my SD2SNES, and at full screen 60hz too with the NTSC hack. Regardless, I’m not sure they need a remake do they? They still look great today. Maybe just re-release them as is, like they did with the Collection of Mana.

I'd be happy with a straight remaster if that's all we are to get (with NA Terranigma release!). It'd be nice to get a full remake Trials of Mana style tho if they want to get fancy, but I'm worried S-E's lost appetite for that kind of thing.

I'd rather just have them released as is on the Switch, or if there are remakes then also releasing the original in the same package. One weird thing about videogames is that people think you have to upgrade everything to resell it, imagine if every classic book was rewritten before being republished.