Quote Originally Posted by Lord Chainsaw
The plot is very developed, especially for an SNES RPG. It is presented in a simple fashion, but nonetheless, it is a quite interesting and developed theme. Each of the Soulblazer games contain some of my favorite video game plots, and as a result, are some of my favorite video game stories of all time. Quintet truly is amazing, and I've been meaning to try Dark Cloud II.

To me, Illusion of Gaia appears as if it would have made an excellent movie. "Moviefy" it a bit. Cut out the boss fights (maybe leave Jack and Sylvia as an example of evolution gone awry) and replace Dark Gaia with the de-evolution and corruption of mankind manifested in the possession of one of Will's companions (perhaps Neil and his scientific genius exceeding what is meant to be human to these primitive archetypes of man so bent on religion and worship to a deity) and we have ourselves a somewhat decent film. And of course, we can't forget to throw in everyone's favorite bounty hunter, the Jackal. I can sum up the entire theme of the story with one line from Will's Dream in South Cape:

"Do you consider the comet to be a good sign or a bad sign?"

Excellent game. And perhaps if we had competent movie directors instead of rampaging fools like Uwe Boll, we'd finally see a good movie in the Illusion of Gaia.

But I'm just ranting. We won't see an Illusion of Gaia movie. It would be cool though.

Ah, I meant to say not very plot driven. The plot is pretty good, but the story isn't presented in great detail.

Quote Originally Posted by Kawaii
Not an RPG, but definitely a fantastic game. Tons of memorable scenes and settings.
Well, you level up, and there's a world map, so it does have some RPG elements in it even if it's not a true RPG.