Tag: SNES
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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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Weekend at Puggsy’s

Recently, I had the chance to sit down and work my way through Puggsy, a Mega Drive game, near and dear to my heart. I have no plan to talk about the gameplay in detail, but I wanted to write a short piece exploring my personal relationship with the title. As part of my research for…
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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…
