Way back in the 16-bit era – the 4th Generation, better known as The Golden Age – Enix, the developer/publisher best known for ‘Dragon Quest’ and later for its merger with Squaresoft to form Square-Enix, did some very stupid things. Instead of localizing “Dragon Quest 5” and “Dragon Quest 6” for Western release, the company pushed absolutely terrible games, such as “Brain Lord” and a ruined localization of “Elnard” (which we know as the hideously unbalanced and nearly unplayable “The 7th Saga”). During this time, Enix served as the exclusive publisher for what amounted to a Japanese Indie development group known as Quintet. Quintet was responsible for two of the SNES’s most unique and memorable titles, “ActRaiser” and “Soul Blazer,” which both went on... |
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