Live A Live is a very sincere and a celebratory game. What I mean basically is that this is one of those pieces of media that believes in the power of humanity and its power to be able to conquer evil. Initially you have these 7 chapters of different eras in human history that are only loosely connected by a villain being some version of "Odeo". Live A Live uses this structure of different eras to show off heroism in each said era. What won me over at the beginning of the game is how its influences are utilized and how much love was put into them. The variety, not just in setting, but in gameplay and overall atmosphere is absolutely breathtaking. With Prehistory being reminiscent of early 80s JRPGs, Imperial China taking influence from Martial Arts films, Edo Japan having this really cool pacifist or killer pathway, the Wild West calling back to Old Western tropes, the Present Day being such an awesome homage to Street Fighter 2, the Near Future reminding me of mecha anime, and the Distant Future taking influence from Alien and 2001 A Space Odyssey.

What truly is transcendent about Live A Live is that even though these 7 people don't know each other and are separated by the barriers of time. The good in people allowed them to come together making the last hours of the game a cathartic experience. This remake is the most based thing Square has done in about a decade. It's allowed current generations of JRPG fans to discover a revolutionary SNES title that never left Japan. Forever cementing itself even further into the genres history.