Perhaps this is a game that would really be more at home as a $5 Virtual Console download. But as far as cute, cheerful retro RPGs go, it's certainly worth heading Far East for.
Youre thinking: Far East of what? Japans thinking: something in Japanese that translates as “Oh, that 2 million selling RPG, which brought proper cutscenes and CD-quality music to the genre via the PC Engine in 1989 and provided admirably stiff competition for yer Final Fantasys and yer Dragon Quests.”
In other words: this remake of Far East of Eden II is big news to those in the know. Its traditional, all right - village boy sets off for take-turn battles to rescue Japan from ...