Developed by Quintet and published by Enix in Japan in 1993, and by Nintendo, everywhere else, in 1994 and ’95. The later ‘Westernised‘ version was censored in places, but there are some good fan-patches of the uncut Japanese version available in English.

Illusion of Gaia features multiple player characters and a real-time combat system that awards jewels, which are used to boost your stats. There are no money or equipment systems.

The screenshots here are from the mis-translated and sanitised ‘Western’ version. Looking at the dates on the files, it looks like I played this way back in 2011. I don’t remember much about, if I was being honest, but the grabs and the game still look great. 🙂

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