Tag: Nintendo
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The Unspoken Melancholy of Terranigma
Quintet’s ‘Soul Blazer Trilogy’, as it is dubbed by fans, contains some of the best-loved, niche JRPGs on the Super Nintendo. While both Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia have their die-hard admirers (if anyone can find someone that feels the same way about PlayStation 1 spiritual successor The Granstream Saga, hit me up, that’s a rarity), Terranigma has always stood as the…
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Death, Nature & Ihatovo Monogatari for the Super Nintendo
Posthumously famous Japanese writer and poet Kenji Miyazawa wrote a lot about space, but not space as we know it. Instead of the cold, isolating expanse of nothingness that we are familiar with, Miyazawa’s space is a flourishing, vibrant and surreal paradise; it is, quite literally, heaven. Pink flowers bloom on the rivers of the Milky…
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Sin and Punishment Review – At the Top of the Treasure Chest
Due to my recent acquisition of an RGB modded Nintendo 64 and an EverDrive-64 X7, I was able to indulge in something I’ve wanted to do for a long time — play Sin and Punishment on original hardware. Often considered the ‘one that got away’, Treasure’s rollercoaster third-person rail shooter was a popular choice for import gamers…
Gamer! Beware! 