The Quintet Timeline! How Actraiser, Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma fit together

[@mackerelphones]

Since I have noticed a few comments seem to have misunderstood me, I would like to apologize for my weird humor and clarify something. E.V.O. was NOT made by Quintet and has nothing to do with the ActRaiser series. I cut to it as a joke since it features a more conventional take on Gaia as a woman, referring to my previous line about gender change being irrelevant to a divinity

[@jon4715]

Soul Blazer is the tightest of the four, imo.

[@seanmcbay]

These games are all special. They all have a certain sad wistful tone that I haven’t seen any other game come close to.

[@jud6ment]

I have a theory that the storyline of Terranigma comes after soul blazer but before illusion of gaia (or illusion of time for other parts of world). Illusion of gaia ends with the "white knight" who is Kara and "black knight" who is Will unite together to take on Dark Gaia on the comet. What is "original Ark" is reincarnated to Kara, the white knight, and "dark Ark" reincarnated to Will, the dark knight. Then the storyline follows the same hero reincarnated. Blazer reincarnates to Ark, who becomes two versions of Ark, which versions reincarnate to Kara and Will.

[@joaquinumpierrez9940]

Yeah yeah.. I didn't play the other game but my boy Will for sure is more powerful than the other two protagonist 😎

[@gustavonaranjochacon8864]

Superb video. My take with the timeline of the comet is this: it was created in the Friel Empire, being contemporary with the Tower of Babel. It's first passing was 800 years later, in the times of Egypt and China; 1600 years after the war, it passed for a second time, when Mu and Angkor were trieving; it's third pass was 2400 years after the war, in the time of the Inca and Nazca civilization. The fourth and last passing was in the times of Will and Kara.

[@anon6514]

Never thought of it that way. That's probably right. The fact that you come to the ruins of these civilisations in reverse chronological order, combined with the fact that you collect a mystic statue at each of them could suggest why nobody was able to locate all mystic statues in their lifetime. Will and crew needed a ship, camels and a plane to get to all of the places they needed to. I love the stories you can put together from the unfortunate folks who died to traps in these ruins too. It's excellent world-building. Even though I prefer the gameplay of Terranigma, IoG definitely gets my vote for storyline/characters/emersion etc..

[@CaptendoChannel]

Well there is another game related to this timeline, "Brightis" in PS1, with Paul's father as the main characters

[@Carnage84587]

Mannnn...I remember watching my brother play ALL of these - numerous times - when I was a little kid. Memories.

[@FatherDragonMusic]

I can't believe you didn't mention Turbo the dog! In Soul Blazer he lives in Greenwood, in IoG he's outside the house after Will and Kara are off the raft, and in Terranigma I'm pretty sure he was somewhere in NeoTokyo It makes me really happy people are still making videos about my all time favorite series of games though, thank you for helping keep the fire going

[@bitter-bit]

They did mention Turbo!! Also I love this series too

[@arkanjoteixeira]

He did though, around the 8 minute mark

[@TerrX21]

I’ve played and beaten all of these titles. Never once did i think they were somehow all connected! That is crazy! Thank you for shedding light on this, and I’m so glad I got to play all of these. Might have to hit up some Actraiser 2 again tho. I’m ready for some SNES pain again 🤣

[@bitter-bit]

I adored the game EVO so much

[@GiordanDiodato]

interesting fact, three of their members helped create the first two Ys games: Masaya Hashimoto was the director, programmer, and designer, Tomoyoshi Miyazaki was the writer, and Yuzo Koshiro was the composer. Edit: apparently I didn't know that Miyazaki and Hashimoto also worked on Ys III: Wanderers of Ys.

[@CaptendoChannel]

They left the studio right before the end of the development to create Quintet, this is why they weren't credited.

[@GiordanDiodato]

@@CaptendoChannel yeah I'm not surprised. Ys 3 feels like Falcom took a lot of control from them. It's also why I feel like their Gaia ARPG trilogy is the spiritual successor to the first two Ys games. The irony, of course, is that Ys is still ongoing and Quintet is long gone.

[@Basscraft21]

I actually named my Dog turbo lol because of soul blazer

[@jeffondrement160]

You forgotten the Granstream Saga and Solo Crisis, made by Tomoyoshi Miyazaki for PS1 and Saturn by Tomoyoshi Miyazaki

[@emotrashcracja5305]

Im convinced theres direct links between Terranigma and Xenoblade/gears and Soul Blazer and Demon Souls/Kingsfield I wonder if miyazaki is related to hidetaka miyazaki both thematically and mechanically the games have similarites

[@juanramos8903]

Excellent video. Thanks. Subscribed.

[@ekzac]

Great theory! Looks like you put a lot of effort into connecting the games! I doubt the developers thought of all this, thus the inconsistencies, but this is a pro not a cons for the video.

[@mackerelphones]

Meaning the creators might not have intended is still meaning that is there : )

[@Uniquename12345a]

Awseome video !!

[@arkanjoteixeira]

Great video

[@darkpopolonx]

Sorry for my english, I'm a French gamer. Cool video. I personnaly would place E.V.O. at the very beginning of the timeline (only preceded by 46 Okunen Monogatari on PC-98, you should take a look at this game), since it tells the creation of the Earth, mentions Gaia and gives the Nazca Lines the same origin as in lllusion of Gaia/Time. For the "problem" of the Soulblazer World not corresponding to any of the other World of the "series", we may have an answer in the recent remake of Actraiser, titled Actraiser Renaissance : after Tanzra/Satan's defeat, a dimensional portal opens that leads to another world called Alcaleone. There we fight another God/Master, defeat him and takes his place. The layout of Alcaleone reminds me the one of the Freil Kingdom of Soulblazer. ...Or maybe my hype for a Soublazer remaster is too high and makes me see things that aren't ? :-P

[@mackerelphones]

Ah, my bad. E.V.O isn't part of the series. I just dropped it in as a joke bc it reminded me of the unrelated material from Quintet! I should have been clearer But that's a good part about ActRaiser Renaissance, though. I haven't played it, so I leave it to others to determine how it might fit into the series

[@darkpopolonx]

@@mackerelphones Thanks for your answer. The joke about Gaia is clear, don't mind with that :) ! But since E.V.O. was edited by Enix too, it makes, to me, a little sense to put it in the timeline. For Renaissance, it's a true remake of Actraiser 1, so I think it just comes at the same place.

[@kurorolucifer8775]

@@darkpopolonx ah un autre francais dans le coin je vois, alors en fait EVO est dévelloppé par Almanic (renommé Givro) qui a ensuite aussi develloppé trois autres jeux pour Enix, Wonder Projet tjrs sur SNES, Wonder Projet 2 sur N64 et enfin Nanatsu Kaze no Shima Monogatari, un jeu d'aventure graphique sur Saturn assez particulier à voir et je crois qu'il y'a malheureusement aucun patch pour ce jeu, qui n'a jamais quitté le japon et qui je crois est à l'origine de la chute du studio qui n'a plus rien fait après ca. Toujours est-il que comme pour Quintet, ces quatre jeux sont liés par le fait que ce soient tous des simulations de vie traitant de l'évolution, et ce qui est génial comme le prouve ton amalgame c'est que ca s'incorpore parfaitement avec l'univers de Quintet, et plus largement avec celui d'Enix qui a toujours aussi baigné dans un lore ou la question de la religion a une place importante avec le culte de la Déesse notamment, c'est super intéressant de voir à quel point ca participe à l'identité de l'écurie Enix, sinon moi récemment j'ai installé Just Breed sur ma NES Mini, un des rare tactital rpg d'Enix, leur dernier jeu sur NES (et le seul à ne pas etre un Dragon Quest), qui comme Star Ocean sur SNES, pousse au maximum les capacités de mémoire et la puissance de la NES, et c'est un très bon jeu à mon sens, si tu l'as jamais essayé je te le conseille vivement, en tout cas moi j'ai hâte de jouer à tous les jeux Enix (et de Square) qui m'attendent encore

[@darkpopolonx]

@@kurorolucifer8775 Hello compatriote ! Je te rejoins totalement : malgré un développement fait par Almanic, EVO s'intégre parfaitement aux productions d'Enix (et de Quintet). Tu me diras si Just Breed fait référence à la religion lui aussi ! J'aimerais bien y jouer également mais là je projette de faire Robotrek sur SNES, de Quintet lui aussi, et GranStream Saga sur PS One, développé par Shade (en réalité par le staff de Quintet qui a pris ce nom parce que travaillant sur une console non-Nintendo). J'espère y trouver des références à Gaïa ! Sinon, ta présentation d'Almanic me rappelle un article du troisième tome de Level Up chez Third Editions. Je connais très bien cet article puisque... c'est moi qui l'ai écrit 😉😜

[@kurorolucifer8775]

@@darkpopolonx Alors non Just Breed est un peu moins bavard là-dessus, bien que l'antagoniste principal soit présenté comme le megagod ressuscité par un sorte de Judas, m'enfin c'est cool t'as plusieurs personnages controlant chacun une armée composée d'un mage, de deux guerriers et deux archers en general, les premiers pouvant manier épée et lance (avec une portée plus grande pr la lance) et les archers un arc, un boomerang ou eventuellement une arbalète (pour attaquer en ligne droite ou couvrir tt une zone), pour ceux que tu cites je compte aussi les faire quand je me mettrait au catalogue Quintet, et oui je sais pour ce changement de nom en Shade mais j'en connaissais pas la raison, c'est vrai qu'ils ont fait aucun jeu sur 64 alors qu'il y'en a eu deux sur Saturn et Brightis plus celui que tu cites qui ont étés carrément édités par Sony, j'ai aussi vu que GranStream saga serait dans la continuité de la trilogie earth and heaven (soul blazer, illusion of gaia, terranigma), de la meme manière que soul crisis sur saturn est la suite spirituelle des actraiser, en s'accent plus sur le coté gestion et construction qu''avait abandonné le second au profit de l'action, avec encore un coté tactical rpg ou tu switche entre combattants et constructeurs, et ou tu joue sur un plateau en 3D reversible, bref ca a l'air cool aussi, y'a une ytb francais qui en a fait une vidéo si tu veux voir, et pr finir t'as Planete Laika pour suivre le coté sf de robotrek meme si là je sais pas si y'a un lien, en tout cas ca a l'air d'etre leur jeu le plus bizarre, sinon dis moi en plus sur cette article, ca m'intéresse bcp, t'as fait ca pour toi ou tu taffe là-dedans ?

[@Valientlink]

Illusion of Gaia was allowed to slip against NoA's policies a bit. Words like "die/death" or "kill" often, but in games like FF6 for instance they are never used. The word "kill" is only used once in FF6

[@travim5483]

Do a individual video in length of each game? Great video

[@richardfilmer4886]

Very good video

[@mackerelphones]

What I like to hear

[@whateveridk]

The Granstream Saga?

[@edgy22]

I would love to see more of these kinds of videos! Also, if I were to get 1 game in the series, which one should I get?

[@mackerelphones]

Terranigma, for sure, although I only really appreciated how good it was after I played Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia afterwards and could compare them

[@edgy22]

Mackerel Phones wait,so what is the most fun gameplay wise?

[@mackerelphones]

@@edgy22 Terranigma, though it is a more story-heavy sort of game. If you want just "sit down and get to the action" I'd go for Soul Blazer, which is mostly walking around dungeons slashing at monsters. A lot of people really like Actraiser, but personally, I think it's overrated. I have long plays of all three games posted if you want to check them out

[@kurorolucifer8775]

@@edgy22 why dont play all their games, they are not so many

[@darksuns7384]

psst, actraiser 2 takes place in the God's world, not earth.

[@necrosadotor]

cool vid

[@saynotop2w]

I really tried to like Soul Blazer and IoG. ActRaiser and Terranigma aged far better because the core game is designed soundly.

[@zerospirit]

And it all started because quintet used the exact same sounds clips to save money.

[@seankoellewoodTV]

Also Liam is a Form of Will(iam) so Will maybe rebirth as Leon...

[@bitter-bit]

I never knew this

[@ZetaCancri]

man iog is awesome

[@JudgedMentalMusic]

AR2 was so disappointing

[@darklordyianni4463]

They aren't really in the same world though.

[@Redd00Chan]

2:43 yeah boi

[@mackerelphones]

Michelangelo was into God in more ways that one

[@baconatorrodriguez4651]

What the. E.V.O. was not by Quintet. Thumb's down. .

[@rgbcrafts]

200⁰ like.

[@panthekirb7561]

"Problematic elements" cope seethe cope cope

[@moonie9000]

You sound emotionally triggered by two words. You ok?