![]() ![]() The said second game, Tengai Makyou II: Manjimaru was first released in 1992, also on the PC Engine (with Manjimaru suffix again being the name of the game's main character), to immense popularity which it still has to this day.īoth games were published by Hudson Soft and Red Entertainment (then known as Red Company), and the development was led by Hiroi Ouji, later best known as one of the main people behind the Sakura Wars series for Red Entertainment. Hence us playing the second game in the series here in this thread-so you don't need to worry about that. ![]() Somewhat in the style of these two other game series, although Tengai Makyou games are more or less set in the same universe, their plots are mostly unrelated and they can be played independently. It could even be said that at the height of its popularity in the 1990s, the Tengai Makyou series was quite literally the equivalent of Dragon Quest or Final Fantasy on the PC Engine platform. Although the graphics capabilities of the PC Engine platform were not much better than NES, the fact that unlike the Nintendo console, it had a CD-ROM drive, made a big difference! Suddenly you could have lavishly animated cutscenes and voiced dialogue! And yeah, the game was popular, as expected. The series started its life with the first few games published on the PC Engine platform, starting in 1989 with Tengai Makyou: Ziria (Ziria is the name of the main character), which is reportedly the very first RPG game ever published on a CD-ROM. The Tengai Makyou series of JRPG games (known in the west as Far East of Eden) is quite popular and well known in Japan, but not so much outside of it, mostly owing to the fact that out of all the games in this series, only ONE was ever released in the west and even that was just a dumb beat'em-up spinoff that nobody cared much about! So none of the mainline games ever came out in the west. The Tengai Makyou series and about this game Hello everyone and welcome to this LP of Tengai Makyou II: Manjimaru! This introductory post will be a bit longer than what you might be used to, simply because there are a number of things we need to cover before we start the game!
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