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On September 17, 2026, Clear River Games announced that it will release multi-platform versions of “Illusion of Gaia,” the action RPG originally released for the Super Famicom in 1993, on January 14, 2027. The game will be available on PC, Switch 2, PS5, Xbox Series X|S, Switch, and Xbox One. Physical pricing is set at ¥4,980 (before tax) for the standard edition, ¥7,000 for the SteelBook Edition, and ¥17,800 for the top-tier Gaia Edition. On 5ch’s Hardware/Industry (Geha) board, posters called the price steep for a remaster of an old SFC title, questioned the pricing compared to Konami’s revival titles, and debated the bulkiness of the limited edition’s bundled items and whether the port is emulation-based.
Clear River Games announced today (September 17, 2026) that it will release the action RPG “Illusion of Gaia” (PC / Switch 2 / PS5 / Xbox Series X|S / Switch / Xbox One) on January 14, 2027.
Pricing for the digital version has not yet been decided. The physical version will be available for Switch 2 and PS5, with the standard edition priced at ¥4,980 (before tax), the SteelBook Edition at ¥7,000 (before tax), and the Gaia Edition at ¥17,800 (before tax).
Pre-orders will be rolling out at retailers starting today.
Source: 4gamer.net / Original article here
What people said
why do they only bundle stuff that makes the package needlessly huge?
Do they seriously think bigger = happier?
Classic pattern: hype at the announcement, everyone cools off once the price drops, and by release day it's completely forgotten and nobody's talking about it.
Konami's being incredibly reasonable here.
Square Enix doesn't seem to care at all whether kids can actually afford this.
I wanted to buy it as a game card.
The Switch 2 version IS on a game card.
That's just a malicious thread title.
Honestly "Switch, Switch 2, and others" would've been a better title.
Anyway, ¥5,000 feels off. Isn't that basically the same as full price back in the day?
I did want it, but full price is a bit much…
Full price back then was over ¥10,000.
Also, this thread's way too late —
the limited editions were already sold out by 11am yesterday.
On the usual Geha board this thread would just be titled "Switch 2"
with something like "Bad news: Switch 2's Illusion of Gaia is a rip-off."
If it were an actual remake, I'd have bought it without hesitation.
Though there's the dilemma that I'd at least prefer Square Enix not be the one doing it.
This one's being developed and published by an overseas company, like what happened with Front Mission.
Illusion of Gaia's a great game, but there's no way I'm buying this.
Isn't making it more playable itself an added feature?
Seriously?! Leave it to an overseas publisher.
Of course, it's playable on the original Switch too.
If it follows the Front Mission model, that means if you wait, the digital version might even drop 90% in a sale.
Different publisher, so there's no telling what the sale discount rate would be.
like, people who don't get old games like "Kaitei Takara Sagashi" (an obscure retro arcade title) just won't buy them.
That's exactly why I'm saying a price like ¥800 won't cut it.
Barely any brick-and-mortar stores are even carrying it, so it's going to end up pretty rare.
Basically, I can't even buy one.
Kamui Fujiwara (the game's character designer) said production hasn't even started yet and that he wants to do something about it, so hopefully there'll be a reorder.
I'll probably just consider buying it if it goes on sale.
At least read the article before posting…
Personally I'd have liked a Hard Mode.
The original's back-half balancing was pretty loose.
So this is basically emulation under the hood, isn't it?
Thought so, and sure enough the screenshots in the article clearly look like emulation.
If they'd gone full "3D Classics"-level remake, you couldn't tell — but I doubt they put in that much effort.
welcome to the remaster hell arc.
So the Switch 2 cartridge actually works when inserted into a Switch 1?
That's rough, way too sloppy…
Guess that tells you all you need to know about the quality inside too.
Background and key points of this discussion
“Illusion of Gaia” is an action RPG developed by Quintet and released for the Super Famicom in 1993, with the original package back then priced at over ¥10,000 including tax. The publisher behind this new release, Clear River Games, appears to be an overseas company handling the license rather than Square Enix itself, and the thread saw some confusion and correction over that point. On pricing, many commenters compared it to Konami’s recently announced revival titles, and there was also dissatisfaction with the tendency for limited edition bonus items, like music boxes, to bloat the package size. Whether the port is based on emulation of the original ROM can’t be determined from the article alone, and how far the Arrange Mode’s minimap and save-anywhere features go will likely shape how the release is ultimately received.
*This article is excerpted and summarized from the 5ch (Hardware/Industry [Geha]) thread “PS5 and Others: “Illusion of Gaia” Release Date Set for January 14! Standard Edition ¥5,478, Limited Editions ¥7,700 and ¥19,580.”
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