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Postcleeem Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2021 8:54 am   Post subject: new evidence of Soulblazer's successor Reply with quote

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Hello everyone! Smile

Did you know that some fans of Quintet games eventually suggested that Soulblazer is closer to Actraiser than Illusion of Gaia in content and story?
That was an interesting idea when comparing the games, their story and environment.

A clear proof that Soulblazer is the first game of the Soulblazer/Illusion of Gaia/Terranigma series is given by the prototype version of Illusion of Gaia.
The game was to be called SoulBlazer 2: Illusion Of Gaia and the picture of the title screen of the prototype clearly shows the name Soulbazer:

http://snescentral.com/review.php?id=0387&num=0&fancy=yes&article=proto

Nice discovery to you (if you had never seen it before ^^)
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Postpsychokind Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2021 5:31 am   Post subject: Reply with quote

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that's a nice find! once again this shows that the localization of some of the great classics were really bad or changed the original meaning without the need to do so. In Germany the localizations were way worse even.
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PostShiva Indis Posted: Thu Oct 07, 2021 12:06 am   Post subject: Reply with quote

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Based on an interview with a guy who used to work for Enix USA, they wrote the translation (Quintet helped) and then Nintendo offered to publish. That's when the title screen was redone.

http://gaming.moe/?p=331

It seems like Enix was thinking about using the SoulBlazer name to build a franchise before Nintendo came along.

But imagine if they hadn't. Maybe we'd call Terranigma "SoulBlazer: Genesis" or something.
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