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Unusual for its time, Dark Half has you playing as not just your usual JRPG hero, but also as the villain. Chaos Seed takes a while to understand, but it’s a seriously ambitious and singular RPG that deserves a wider audience - much like Live A Live.

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It leans on the concept of feng shui, tasking you with fixing the planet’s energy by building out a series of caves with harmonious flow and then, of course, fighting monsters in them. Unlike many of the games on this list, Chaos Seed was not developed by Squaresoft or Enix, but rather Neverland, the creators of the Lufia and Rune Factory series. And wow, is Chaos Seed unusual. Like Live A Live, Treasure of the Rudras features an open-ended structure where you can choose to play any of several story segments in any order, followed by a final section, which can be affected by your choices in the earlier parts. In addition to that unique theming, the game also features an unusual magic system whereby you create your own spells called “mantras” by combining different syllables. Rather than the usual Christian themes that many JRPGs of the 90s leaned on, Treasure of the Rudras - as its name might suggest - borrows from Indian religion. Oh, and if you’re interested in learning more about JRPGs, I have to recommend the excellent A Guide to Japanese Role-Playing Games from Hardcore Gaming 101 and Bitmap Books. If you’re enjoying the game and want to try out something else that’s similarly off the beaten path, here are some SNES JRPGs with English translation patches available that might scratch the same itch. The Square JRPG is unusual amongst its contemporaries for its episodic structure, but it’s far from the only odd duck in the SNES’s large library. It took nearly 30 years, but Live A Live finally saw a western release last week.

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