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jarrod on 02 December 2010
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MrT-Tar said:
jarrod said:

MrT-Tar said:

I'm not sure why the US didn't get Terranigma and Europe did for that matter either.

Nintendo made a deal to localize several late term Enix SFC games, but Terranigma in Europe for whatever reason was the only one that went through.  They also actually got the rights to release Tactics Ogre (which Enix had licensed from Quest) and Dragon Quest VI too, but sadly those never made it.


Are the Saturn and PSX versions of Tactics Ogre just an upgraded port of the SNES version?  It's a shame they weren't localised.  The Playstation TO, along with DQ VII is the  next on my importing list.

While I can understand it for the likes of Earthound, Super Mario RPG was the strangest decision not to localise for Europe, considering the Mario name would have guaranteed a good return on it.  Maybe S-E and Nintendo had already fallen out by then. 

Europe not getting most english localized NES/SNES RPGs seems strange imo.  Europe did get most MegaDrive RPGs though iirc.

The Saturn and PS1 versions of Tactics Ogre (and Ogre Battle for that matter) are ports, but they're generally seen as inferior to the SFC originals due to various small changes and added load times (PS versions are worse than Saturn for this though).  I also prefer the original "chip tune" soundtracks to the orchestrated CD versions, but that's more a personal issue.  Quest didn't handle either port at all too, they were licensed out and done by ArtDink on PS and Riverhill Soft on Saturn.  Fun little side note, Riverhill Soft's R&D group eventually left the company and formed Level-5, Hino actually worked on the ports himself way back in the day.