Tengai Makyou: Ziria

Tengai Makyou: Ziria (天外魔境 ZIRIA, Tengai Makyō Jiraia), also known as Far East of Eden: Ziria, is a 1989 role-playing video game, which published by Hudson Soft on PC Engine CD-ROM². It is the first game in the Tengai Makyo (Far East of Eden) series, and follows a plot based on the legend of Jiraiya. The game was popular in Japan because its release on the CD-ROM format, which made it a large game for its time filled with voiced cutscenes and CD audio music.

Tengai Makyou: Ziria
PC Engine cover art
Developer(s)
Publisher(s)
  • JP: Hudson Soft
Designer(s)Shōji Masuda
Composer(s)Ryuichi Sakamoto
Tomotsune Maeno
SeriesTengai Makyo
Platform(s)PC Engine CD-ROM², cellphones, Xbox 360, PlayStation Network
ReleasePC Engine
  • JP: 1989-06-30
  • JP: 2010-10-20 (PSN)
Cellphone
Xbox 360
  • JP: March 23, 2006
Genre(s)Role-playing
Mode(s)Single-player

Reception

The game received a positive review from PC Engine Fan magazine, which rated it 25.67 out of 30.[1]

Ports and remakes

The game was re-released for Japanese cellphones in the 2000s.

An Xbox 360 remake Tengai Makyou: Ziria – Haruka naru Jipang (天外魔境 ZIRIA～遥かなるジパング～, lit. "Far East of Eden Ziria: Tales from Distant Jipang") was released in 2006. Gaijinworks was working on an English localization of the remake at some point, but had to cancel the project due to being unable to get past Microsoft's publishing minimums.[2]

References
  1. "ROLEPLAYING GAME". PC Engine Fan (in Japanese) (PC Engine All Catalog '92: PC Engine Fan Appendix): 33-48 (40-1). August 1992.
  2. "Screenshots of Gaijinworks' cancelled Far East of Eden: Ziria localization". 2015-05-25.


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