kingcomrade
Kingcomrade
I've been playing with my SNES emulator, playing some famous games that I never got around to playing, and the one I'm playing first, Terranigma, I really enjoy. It isn't incredibly complex. Others in this genre of game (for the SNES, I know there are a few more for GBA) are Secret of Mana, Secret of Evermore, and Illusion of Gaia. If there are any more, let me know.
Anyways, in Terranigma, you start out with a dead world. You've got to revive all of the continents (Eurasia, Africa, S America, N America, and Australia) and there's two hidden continents (Polynesia and Mu), and then you go on to Chapter 2, you go to these continents and start reviving things. You start with plant life, then animal life, then human life. Then it goes on to Chapter 3, where you expand human civilzation. The first real town you visit after your beginnings in...Tibet, I think, is the psuedo-French "Loire," then through Spain to the New World, (the "American" colony is named "Freedom" and there are far too many black people there for my taste). There's a chapter 4, but I'm not there yet.
Anyways, you do things to help the commerce and such. Like, Loire starts out as a tiny hamlet, but as you do things for people to help them make money, the town expands until it's a big town, where you can get new stuff (at least, I think you can, I'm not sure if it changes anything). There's a guy named "Keinz" (a play on Keynes) who tells you the economic status of the towns. It's not all that complex, but it's interesting. It's as far as I've gotten. I'm actually not sure that expanding the towns does anything for you besides make you feel warm and fuzzy. And, of course, there are dungeons and castles and wildernesses that you have to hack your way through.
My only complaint is there are a bunch of "cinematics" that just go on forever. I spend a lot of time wishing for the Fast Forward command that my GBA emulator as. The characters, dialogue (which is actually translated pretty well in this one), and plot are typical jRPG trash, so they aren't worth waiting for.
Anyways, if you've got an SNES emulator, you might want to give it a try. I think I read somewhere that Terranigma is the sequel to Illusion of Gaia, but I haven't played that yet, so I don't know.
Anyways, in Terranigma, you start out with a dead world. You've got to revive all of the continents (Eurasia, Africa, S America, N America, and Australia) and there's two hidden continents (Polynesia and Mu), and then you go on to Chapter 2, you go to these continents and start reviving things. You start with plant life, then animal life, then human life. Then it goes on to Chapter 3, where you expand human civilzation. The first real town you visit after your beginnings in...Tibet, I think, is the psuedo-French "Loire," then through Spain to the New World, (the "American" colony is named "Freedom" and there are far too many black people there for my taste). There's a chapter 4, but I'm not there yet.
Anyways, you do things to help the commerce and such. Like, Loire starts out as a tiny hamlet, but as you do things for people to help them make money, the town expands until it's a big town, where you can get new stuff (at least, I think you can, I'm not sure if it changes anything). There's a guy named "Keinz" (a play on Keynes) who tells you the economic status of the towns. It's not all that complex, but it's interesting. It's as far as I've gotten. I'm actually not sure that expanding the towns does anything for you besides make you feel warm and fuzzy. And, of course, there are dungeons and castles and wildernesses that you have to hack your way through.
My only complaint is there are a bunch of "cinematics" that just go on forever. I spend a lot of time wishing for the Fast Forward command that my GBA emulator as. The characters, dialogue (which is actually translated pretty well in this one), and plot are typical jRPG trash, so they aren't worth waiting for.
Anyways, if you've got an SNES emulator, you might want to give it a try. I think I read somewhere that Terranigma is the sequel to Illusion of Gaia, but I haven't played that yet, so I don't know.