From Cinelinx:
As an old-school JRPG fan, and a particular fan of the Super Nintendo, I often get asked by interested friends what my favourite SNES game of all time is. In a field populated by so many exceptional titles, and at a time when Japanese development styles weren’t compromised by a financial need to appease western tastes, that’s a hard decision to make. Keeping to this genre, and even in the shadows of the exceptional Final Fantasy 6 and Chrono Trigger, I conclude that it would have to be Enix’s Terranigma.
After Live A Live and Dragon Quest 3, which other classic Square Enix RPGs should be remade in its unique HD-2D art style?
The 1990s were a time where mech-suit manga and television shows were starting to filter into the United States. The result was that we got a boatload of cool mech games like Metal Warriors.
Still love the Power Rangers games but most of these underrated games cost an arm and a leg to buy unless you kept them around when they released.
Sparkster. Like Rocket Knight Adventures on the Sega Genesis neither game seems to be brought up much. I played both game a whole lot growing up.
Wow, would you look at that? A game list with some actual forgotten gems. Color me impressed.
Good stuff. 👍
I cannot praise EVO The Search for Eden enough. This game deserves a remake as it’s one of the wildest platformer JRPGs ever made. The concept of spending XP on evolving and devolving on the fly to navigate the world was really interesting. Evolution in games is rarely tackled creatively but EVO nailed it.
The SNES was an absolute unit when it came to releasing great RPGs. But not all the SNES RPGs got the same attention as Final Fantasy titles or Chrono Trigger, though. Here are a few unsung RPGs for the Super NES.
loved loved loved Secret of Evermore. still remember the tv spot from when i was a kid - creeps me out till this day.
Let me throw in a game that goes far under the radar for JRPGs on SNES:
E.V.O. Search for Eden
This epic game from Enix is like taking Feeding Frenzy and adding in evolution! You start as a prehistoric tadpole and use XP to evolve or devolve as needed to tackle this crazy unique RPG. It’s really hard to explain. Highly recommended and I would love to see a remake.
Terranigma is one of my favorite games of all time. Damn near a crime that it never got a Western release. Amazing game.