An original and innovative game.
User Rating: 9.1 | Live A Live SNES
Live a Live is one of Square's most underrated games and was never officially translated into English. Nonetheless, this is an outstanding game and has the key elements required for it to stand the test of time. The game, like Square's more popular Chrono Trigger, is based on time. However rather than taking the characters through time, the game takes the actual player through various periods in a variety of different locations. This is done by breaking the game into a series of shorter games that feature different characters and can be selected in any order. Amazingly each sub-game manages to maintain an interesting storyline and pleasant characters, which when combined with great theme music makes the game very effective. However once completing all the individual stories they intertwine to conclude the game. Since completing Live a Live a number of years ago, I am yet to have the fortune to come across a game that bears the slightest resemblance to this. It is simply amazing how the stories successfully shift from being humorous to sad and from a thriller to more philosophical.
