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Live A Live

Released: Sep 2, 1994

Genres:

Grid-Based Role-playing (RPG) Squad Management Stealth Turn-based

Themes:

Fantasy Historical Mecha Science fiction

Perspectives:

Bird view / Isometric

Game Modes:

Single player

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Description from IGDB IGDB

Live A Live's story is split across seven seemingly unrelated chapters that can be played in any order, based on popular genres such as Western, science fiction, and mecha. Each chapter has its own plot, setting, and characters. Although the basic gameplay is the same throughout the game, each chapter adds a new factor to the basic formula, such as the stealth elements in the ninja chapter. After the first seven chapters are completed, two final chapters take place to establish the connection between the seven previous and resolve the story.

Wikipedia Description WIKIPEDIA

Live A Live is a role-playing video game in which the player takes on the role of eight different protagonists through nine scenarios. While each narrative has the same basic mechanics, individual stories have unique gimmicks; these include the use of stealth, a lack of standard battles, or using telepathy to learn new facts to progress the narrative. With the exception of one scenario, the player character navigates themed environments, ranging from the overworld area to dungeon environments. Battles are triggered differently for each scenario; some are random encounters, some have enemy sprites which can be avoided, while others are entirely scripted. The turn-based battle system is used across all scenarios, and features the player character and sometimes a party fighting enemies on a 7x7 grid, with characters able to move and perform actions such as attacking or using particular skills. Skills can be used without limit, though some take multiple turns to charge. Some abilities imbue tiles with extra properties, such as healing a character or dealing elemental damage. There are also different skill systems in place; there is gaining levels with experience points, which unlocks new abilities, though in others character progression is locked behind story events. In one scenario techniques are learned through seeing an opponent use them. Each character can also equip and use items, such as accessories to boost attack or items to recover health. If the player character, or party, is defeated, the game ends. The 2022 remake carries over the basic gameplay from the original, though redesigned and updated for the new graphical style, and with some features intended for ease of play compared to the original. Bars are added representing a character's health and "charge" time before their move is executed. Other additions include a sparkling effect over items and materials that can be gathered, a display showing a move's area of effect, and an optional radar system which shows the position of objectives on the map.

About Live A Live

Live A Live is a Grid-Based, Role-playing (RPG), Squad Management, Stealth, Turn-based game released in 1994 developed by Square Osaka Development Department that offers Single player gameplay from a bird view / isometric perspective playable on Super Famicom with 22 user ratings averaging 80.2/100. The game explores themes like Fantasy, Historical, Mecha. If you enjoy Live A Live, you might also like similar games in our database of 45,000+ titles.

Basic Info

Release Date: September 2, 1994

IGDB Rating: 80.2/100 (22)

Rating Count: 22

IGDB ID: 15835

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Additional Information

IGDB Rating: 80.2/100 (22 votes)

Release Date: September 2, 1994

IGDB ID: 15835

Платформы 1

SFC

Genres 5

Grid-Based Role-playing (RPG) Squad Management Stealth Turn-based

Themes 4

Fantasy Historical Mecha Science fiction

Player Perspectives 1

Bird view / Isometric

Game Modes 1

Single player

Companies

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Developers

Square Osaka Development Department

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Publishers

Square

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