>Soul Blazer / Illusion of Gaia / Terranigma aren't a real trilogy bro, they're just spiritually connected!Absolute brainlet take. Anyone who thinks the Quintet Trilogy isn't a continuous direct chronological narrative didn't pay attention to the fundamental cosmological engine they built. It's literally ONE ongoing story of a dying universe trapped in an eternal dualistic cosmic reboot cycle. 1. THE COSMOLOGICAL RULESThe universe operates on a binary light/dark polarity. Light = Creation/Evolution, Dark = Stasis/Destruction. But they aren't "Good vs Evil" they're two sides of the exact same divine mechanism (The Will of the Planet). 2. SOUL BLAZER (The Genesis Phase)- The Demon King Deathtoll (Darkness) tricks King Magridd into opening the spirit realm to erase all life for profit.- The Master (Light) sends a Hero to free the trapped souls of plants, animals, and humans from Deathtoll's lair.- THE LINK: Soul Blazer establishes the "Soul Network." Souls are locked away in dark orifices across the world and must be manually unsealed and returned to the physical world to restore civilization. Notice how you literally rebuild towns item-by-item, NPC-by-NPC? That is step one of the cosmic cycle.3. ILLUSION OF GAIA (The Evolutionary / Decadence Phase)- Takes place centuries after Soul Blazer. Civilization has grown, but humanity has become stagnant, corrupt, and technologically advanced (the Ancient Civilization).- THE LINK: Dark Gaia (the evolution of Deathtoll) releases a Chaos Comet to mutate and reset the world. Will and Kara are the physical avatars of the Light Knight and Dark Knight (reincarnation of the Blazer). - To stop total annihilation, Will merges the Light and Dark powers to defeat Dark Gaia, but the Comet forces the world into a mandatory cosmic hard-reset. The old world collapses, and civilization is wiped back to zero, setting up the split-reality of the next era.(1/2)
Say what you want about Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma, but there's ENIX testimony that Soul Blazer and Gaia are not related, and that Blazer is actually a prequel to ActRaiser.
>>127796064. TERRANIGMA (The Rebirth and Final Cycle)- The planet has split into two physical spheres: The Lightside (Surface) and Darkside (Underworld).- THE LINK: Ark is literally the culmination of the Hero soul from Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia. In the beginning, Ark is in the Underworld (Darkside) unsealing the continents and lifeforms EXACTLY like the Soul Blazer hero unsealing towns.- You unseal the continents (Soul Blazer mechanic), progress human civilization through the ages (Illusion of Gaia themes), and discover that Dark Gaia and Light Gaia are just the same entity running a perpetual farm to keep existence running.- Ark defeats Dark Gaia, breaks the cycle forever, and in his final dream, flies over the fully restored Earth as a bird - matching the bird form/soul themes woven throughout all three games.Stop calling them "spiritual successors." Soul Blazer is the Creation, Illusion of Gaia is the Stagnation/Apocalypse, and Terranigma is the Ultimate Rebirth. It's one long, continuous 16-bit masterpiece of cosmic cycle lore.(2/2)
>>12779614ActRaiser and Soul Blazer sharing continuity only proves the origin of the Master before the cosmic cycle got corrupted. ActRaiser is the era where the Master directly intervenes using statues and angel avatars to fight Tanzra. By Soul Blazer, the Master is weaker, Deathtoll has taken over the Underworld, and the system shifts from direct divine intervention to using the Hero's soul to manually unseal captured lifeforms. ActRaiser is just Chapter 0 of the macro-cosmology.ACTRAISER (The Era of Direct Intervention):The Master descends from the Sky Palace, defeats Tanzra, and directly guides early human civilization. This is the pure, original state of the cosmos.SOUL BLAZER (The Shift to Unsealing):Centuries later, Tanzra's malevolence manifests as Deathtoll. The Master can no longer directly fight, so he sends the Hero avatar down to unseal souls from dark generator portals. The ActRaiser mechanics evolve into the Soul Network.ILLUSION OF GAIA (The Cosmic Distortion):Humanity reaches high tech, gets corrupt, and the divine system mutates. The Master and Deathtoll/Tanzra coalesce into the dual forces of Light Gaia and Dark Gaia. The Chaos Comet acts as the automated global reset button when civilization degenerates.TERRANIGMA (The Final Rebirth):The world splits into Surface and Underworld. Ark (the ultimate evolution of the Hero soul) has to unseal the surface world from the underworld using the EXACT same portal mechanics as Soul Blazer, then destroy Dark Gaia to end the loop for good.Enix saying Soul Blazer connects to ActRaiser does not disprove Gaia and Terranigma. It just means ActRaiser is the foundation of the creation myth before the world got shattered into the dualistic Gaia cycle. It is all one grand design by Quintet.
>>12779623They definitely all share the same themes and there is a similar thread running through all of them. I do enjoy seeing lore like this being all connected even if it's unofficial
>>12779606Based
>>12779606This is like people piecing together a Zelda timeline from games that were very clearly never written to be connected. If that makes you happy, go for it. But really, it's just them polishing and iterating on ideas they had. With Terranigma basically being the magnum opus, taking what's come before, adding new things and turning it into something epic.
>>12779704Yeah it's all about death and rebirth, the endless cycle of life and existence, all of Miyazaki's games tend to work those themes in.
Pretty good thread op
>>12779623>>12779615Using this 'timeline' and including ActRaiser, I'm not sure how I understand how there are two distinct Gods, the Master and Gaiaalso what about Robotrek and ActRaiser 2? Nah just kidding, but what about Brightis though?
>>12779730Brightis is literally the SECRET missing chapter of the creation loop. Look at the mechanics:The Light Engine is just Light Gaia. In Terranigma, the entire world relies on the push-and-pull of Light and Dark Gaia. In Brightis, the core mechanic is Flynn carrying/manipulating light sources to illuminate pure dark dungeons. It's literally the physical manifestation of Light Gaia restoring the surface world step by step.Remember how ActRaiser was Phase 1 (The Master rebuilding civilization), Soul Blazer was Phase 2 (rescuing individual souls from monster lairs), Gaia was Phase 3 (humanity's hubris destroying the world), and Terranigma was Phase 4 (Ark re-creating the continents and humanity)? Brightis is Phase 5. It takes place thousands of years AFTER Terranigma's ending. Ark resurrected the planet, but over time, humanity forgot the seal of light. Darkness began seeping back into the core, requiring a solitary hero (Flynn) to delve into subterranean ruins to manually restart the planet's internal light grid.Shade/Quintet literally reused the precise action-RPG physics and camera perspectives from Granstream Saga. Granstream is the sky-island era of the cycle; Brightis is the underground-cave era of the exact same cycle. They are two sides of the post-Terranigma coin.Why does Flynn spend 90% of Brightis wandering quiet, oppressive, ambient ruins alone? BECAUSE THAT IS THE CORE QUINTET DNA. You aren't just clearing a dungeon, you are doing spiritual janitorial work for a dying world.It fits directly on the timeline between the end of Terranigma and the full sci-fi reboot of the planet.ActRaiser = Building the WorldSoul Blazer = Reclaiming the SoulsIllusion of Gaia = Suffering the FallTerranigma = The Cosmic ResetGranstream = The Sky RebirthBrightis = Re-lighting the CoreIf you play Brightis and don't feel the ghost of Tomoyoshi Miyazaki whispering to you, you're hopeless.
>>12779732Kino. The "spiritual janitorial work" line sold it. It just makes too much sense. Quintet was playing 4D chess.
>>12779606Is this canon?
>>12779606Was there a youtube video on this series recently, its bizarre how many pointless threads there have been. Im aware Terranigma is getting re-released but this has been happening longer than that.
>>12779606>Soul Blazer / Illusion of Gaia / Terranigma aren't a real trilogy bro, they're just spiritually connected!proceeds to waste everyones time explaining how the 3 games are just spiritually connected.
You all should play Brightis
>>12779806That's not just a spiritual connection. It is saying it's literally all the same planet and continuity. The themes having to do with the spirit of the planet and rebirth doesn't mean the same thing as spiritual sequel
>>12779737>"You aren't juat X, you're doing Y"It's ChatJeetPT you retard
This site deserves to die if you faggpts can't spot the obvious AI bot phrases and structure
>>12779606>It's literally ONE ongoing story of a dying universe trapped in an eternal dualistic cosmic reboot cycle.I love these games but I really hate this kind of metaphysical bullshit in RPGs. It's too damn common for something that's so unrelatable on a human level, and is almost always forced and fake deep. Just tell a story about interesting characters and let the deeper meanings emerge on their own ffs.>meI'm swinging my sword at the bad guys because they're bad.>the gameAckshually you're restoring balance to the transdimensional matrix of thought, heart and mind, as foretold 1,000 years ago by the learned elders of [insert thinly veiled religious symbolism here].
>>12780157>Ackshually you're restoring balance to the transdimensional matrix of thought, heart and mind, as foretold 1,000 years ago by the learned elders of [insert thinly veiled religious symbolism here].Thanks for the free game plot, dumbass.
Why is it a quintet when there are only three games?
>>12780157There is no metaphysical bullshit. OP is a retard trying to convince you that Mario sunshine galaxy and 64 all have deep and serious lore connections
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>>12780760No one want's to talk about The Granstream Saga or Brightis. Both are great
>>12780760It's actually Quintetx3 and Ark has been reborn as a sailor, a kaiju and even a Chinese god from the mountains.
