The Subconscious Creation Story

               After playing through several SNES games this summer, I've found a very interesting preoccupation in a few of them. Specifically the games Terranigma, E.V.O and Illusion of Gaia. All three games have a running preoccupation concerning the fixing or rebuilding of the world. Two of them use Gaia, who for those of you who don't know their Greek mythology, was a greek Goddess (well not a Goddess, a "Titan") that predated Zeus as the ruler of all life. In fact Gaia was thought to be the mother of all life. It's interesting that several games, all of them being RPGs (illusion of Gaia is a fence sitter), would take this concept of rebuilding the world and make it the central theme of their game. I believe that developers gravitated towards this preoccupation because the Super Nintendo was the entry way into the Golden Age of video games, especially when it came to RPGs. Developers realized they could tell compelling stories through games and what better story to tell than the story of how everything came to be. It is after all a story that all mediums of art have had their hands in at least once. I see these games more as a subconscious rite of passage these developers were taking for the sake of legitimizing their art. And when you play through these games it's clear that the choice of theming wasn't done for the sake of the frivolity of the game, but instead was a conscious effort to provoke deep thoughts about "where we came from", "why are we here", "what is the role of the individual in this world". The list goes on and on.
            I'm not putting this forth as the sole reason these games were made. I'm just pointing out something that I think is pretty cool and further proves that video games are a medium of art. If any of you know of other SNES games or any game really, that touches on this theme of "rebuilding the world" or "fixing the world", usually with a strong connection to divinity and ancient ties, then please leave a comment. I've been a bit lonely with my own thoughts lately :P.