Forgotten SNES Enix Games That Should Be Remembered
The Super Nintendo Entertainment System has a lot of beloved RPGs. Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, Super Mario RPG, the list goes on. Square Enix, which was two separate publishers then, was responsive for many of those titles as well as some that only fans of the genre remember. Typically, these titles don't get the same amount of attention the big names like Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest do.
However, with Live A Live being resurrected and brought to modern consoles and outside Japan for the first time ever, it's worth looking back and seeing what other titles could be brought back and remembered. The Enix side of Square Enix tends to be pushed aside in favor of Square's output, but it was still prolific during the SNES years, even outside the Dragon Quest series.
10 Things Modern RPGs Can Learn From SNES RPGs
Quintet was a company that saw a lot of success during the SNES days and that started with the highly influential Soul Blazer. This action RPG puts the player in the role of The Master's servant known as the Hero or Blazer. The evil spirit Deathtoll is killing the world's inhabitants and incarcerating their souls into his monsters. Blazer must liberate them by defeating the monsters, gain the power of the phoenix by obtaining three sacred artifacts, and gather six stones in order to gain access to the World of Evil, where Deathtoll resides.
The gameplay is classic in one of the sincerest ways. The player enters dungeons and clears them out of enemies in traditional dungeon crawling battles. Destroying the monster lairs in the dungeon will release a soul, typically of a human, but it could be an animal or a plant as well. As the player releases more souls, the humans in the nearby town will help Blazer with advice and
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