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Live A Live throws you into seven wild RPG scenarios—sneak through a castle as a ninja, solve space station murders as a robot, or fumble through caveman courtship without words. Each chapter’s mechanics flip the script, and that turn-based combat? Yeah, you’ll learn real quick not to stand in the fireball zone.

Developer: Square

Genre: Role-playing

Released: 1994

File size: 1.65 MB

Game Overview

Live A Live is one of those weird, ambitious SNES RPGs that somehow got lost in time—until people realized how brilliant it was. You jump between seven totally different stories, each with their own vibe: a caveman trying to impress his crush without words, a martial arts master picking a successor, a ninja sneaking through a castle, even a robot solving murders on a spaceship. No two chapters play the same—some focus on stealth, others on psychic puzzles, and the sci-fi one ditches combat entirely for pure eerie mystery.

Combat’s turn-based but with a twist—positioning matters because attacks hit in patterns, so standing in the wrong spot means eating a fireball to the face. The Old West showdown had me resetting a bunch because I kept walking into shotgun blasts. Meanwhile, the ninja section? You can literally avoid every fight if you’re patient (I wasn’t).

At first, the stories seem random, but stick with it. Once you finish all seven, the game pulls a wild twist that ties everything together. It’s the kind of payoff that makes replaying earlier chapters way more satisfying.