Tengai Makyou

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Far East of Eden (天外魔境, Tengai Makyō^?) is a widely popular series of traditional console RPGs that are available in Japan and Taiwan.

Though originally intended to be only three games, it has grown to encompass a number of remakes, gaidens and genre spin-offs across a variety of platforms.

1 Overview
2 Creators
3 Games in the Series
4 External links

[edit] Overview

The main series is composed of three separate games within the land of 'Jipang' (a parody of feudal Japan), each which follows a descendant of the 'Fire Clan' and supporting cast in battles against a range of often comical villains. The stories of the games, though primarily of 'fantasy' fare, also attempt to provide commentary on common misconceptions about Japanese culture by western societies.

[edit] Creators

The games are primarily the creation of Ōji Hiroi and Red Entertainment. Virtually all publishing tasks have been handled by Hudson Soft (now a subsidiary of Konami).

Most players will note that the series also makes reference to another 'creator', P.H. Chada, who is usually represented as an 18th or 19th century sociologist/historian similar to that of Sigmund Freud or Karl Marx. The imagery however is part of a running joke in the series, as P.H. Chada does not exist. He is a fictional 'author' of the stories of the Tengai Makyō series, whose blatant exaggerations of 'Jipang' represent the misconceptions western societies have held with regard to Japan.

[edit] Games in the Series

Core Games

Tengai Makyō: Ziria - (PC Engine CD)
Tengai Makyō: Ziria (REMAKE) - (XBOX 360)
Tengai Makyo II: Manjimaru - (PC Engine CD)
Tengai Makyō II: Manjimaru (REMAKE) - (GameCube, PS2)
Tengai Makyō II: Manjimaru (REMAKE) - (Nintendo DS)
Tengai Makyō III: Namida - (PS2)

Other Games

Tengai Makyō: Fuun Kabukiden - (PC Engine CD)
Tengai Makyō Zero - (SNES)
Tengai Makyō: Daishi no Mokushiroku (trans: 'The 4th Apocalypse') - (Sega Saturn)
Tengai Makyō: Daishi no Mokushiroku (REMAKE) - (PSP)
Kabuki Klash - (ARCADE, NeoGeo)
Tengai Makyō: Karakuri Kakutoden - (PC-FX)
Oriental Blue: Ao no Tengai - (Game Boy Advance)