I’m posting this video because I’ve just finished a playthrough of this game. I had played it on the original SNES system twenty years ago and could “sense” how good of a game it was. Since it was pre-Internet days I was pretty much he only person I knew who really got into RPGs. It was only until later I knew how really popular it was.
Seeing the ending again reminded me of how a little uncertain the resolution was. Terra was more or less the main protag—the kids she cared for and Duane and Katarin’s baby are shown but it’s not clear that those are things that tied her human side to the world after all the espers disappeared. Unless, in fact, it really wasn’t that specifically but just the general sense of having friendship and finally being part of the world and not an Empire-controlled slave.