This game on it's original difficulty (which was perfectly balanced), is actually quite ambitious for it's time. 7 playable characters that are in a race for 7 gems, and you can eventually team up with any rival. it has an extremely early variant of seeing enemies/treasures on the minimap, and a ingenious gps-like system to help you see where you need to go. Smart use of mode 7. It's a (relatively) early SNES turn based open world RPG that actually plays well (inspired by the first Romancing Saga).

While it's still holds up fine, i can't escape the feeling that it is a bit simple mechanically in comparison with a lot of other SNES rpg's. I'm sure if the American version wasn't so notoriously hard this game would have been a forgotten footnote in the SNES library.
More of a experimental curiosity than a great game, but fun to try nonetheless.

Reviewed on Mar 02, 2023


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