You can tackle them in whatever order you please.
These chapters at the start of the game cover Prehistory, the Wild West, Imperial China, the twilight of Edo Japan (meaning the mid-1800s), the present day (meaning the ’90s), the near-future (with a telepath named Akira, and yes, the movie titled after a telepath of the same name would’ve predated this game!), and the distant future (with a robot!).
Live A Live is split into seven initial “chapters,” which were each designed to be theoretically playable in one day. Tokita wanted to take advantage of the larger storage capacity of the SNES to make a sort of inverse of Final Fantasy: instead of smaller stories contributing to a large arc, what if the game was an omnibus, with multiple standalone stories in different time periods and locations? So what is Live A Live? Live A Live marked the directorial debut of Takashi Tokita, who had served as lead game designer and scenario writer on Final Fantasy IV. But even back in the ’90s, Live A Live was notable for its ambition. The Final Fantasy series is a huge success, but SquareSoft has just had to swap the release date of Final Fantasy VI with a new one-off RPG, Live A Live, due to delays in the latter’s production.Ĭompared to Final Fantasy VI, Live A Live was actually somewhat of a sales flop upon release, which perhaps explains why it never received wide release. They’re just about to enter their golden age and earn a reputation as one of the best studios for role-playing games in the world. Since the 1987 release of a game known as Final Fantasy, the Japanese video game company SquareSoft (or simply Square) has been gaining momentum and credibility.
To answer these questions, let us travel back in time, much like in Live A Live itself. A small handful of people in North America lost their minds upon hearing this announcement, but the rest of us were left wondering, “Wait… What is Live A Live? And why does this remaster seem to be a big deal?” Perhaps no game better exemplifies this than Live A Live, which was revealed to be getting an HD-2D remaster in July and has never before been released outside of Japan. There were many game reveals in the February 2022 Nintendo Direct that appealed directly to the blissfully surprised hearts of the hardcore JPRG fans of the world.
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