Designers and their favourite recurring themes.

[Lodestar]

Kojima and referencing other game series within MGS.

[KillerJuan77]

Atlus and religion.

Have you noticed that Atlus pretty much puts at least one demon of some sort into every game they make?

Yep. They also love to include Mara , we need more green cock-shaped monsters.

[lisalover1]

Atlus and religion.

Have you noticed that Atlus pretty much puts at least one demon of some sort into every game they make?

Yep. They also love to include Mara , we need more green cock-shaped monsters.

I SUMMON THEE, MIGHTY PENISWAGON!

[Xeogred]

Kojima and referencing other game series within MGS.

And breaking the 4th wall, lol.

Most Enix SNES games were very heavy on religious/Christian themes, especially Quintet developed games. They just went all out. On one hand I can see how America didn't get Terranigma, yet we still got other games like EVO or Actraiser where you literally play as God. Hah.

[Hobie-wan]

Compile giving you a multitude of (usually numbered) implements of destruction in their shmups.

Sid/Cid in FF games.

[o.pwuaioc]

How about Sonic games going from green daylight to mech night? Also, as a kid I always correlated Casino Night with Carnival Night for some reason.

[lisalover1]

Kojima and referencing other game series within MGS.

And breaking the 4th wall, lol.

Most Enix SNES games were very heavy on religious/Christian themes, especially Quintet developed games. They just went all out. On one hand I can see how America didn't get Terranigma, yet we still got other games like EVO or Actraiser where you literally play as God. Hah.

So, just out of curiosity, what was Terranigma's relation with Christian themes, anyway? Just curious as to what all the talk is about.

[o.pwuaioc]

Kojima and referencing other game series within MGS.

And breaking the 4th wall, lol.

Most Enix SNES games were very heavy on religious/Christian themes, especially Quintet developed games. They just went all out. On one hand I can see how America didn't get Terranigma, yet we still got other games like EVO or Actraiser where you literally play as God. Hah.

So, just out of curiosity, what was Terranigma's relation with Christian themes, anyway? Just curious as to what all the talk is about.

I'm not so sure about Terranigma (still yet to play!), but have you played Soul Blazer?

[Xeogred]

Kojima and referencing other game series within MGS.

And breaking the 4th wall, lol.

Most Enix SNES games were very heavy on religious/Christian themes, especially Quintet developed games. They just went all out. On one hand I can see how America didn't get Terranigma, yet we still got other games like EVO or Actraiser where you literally play as God. Hah.

So, just out of curiosity, what was Terranigma's relation with Christian themes, anyway? Just curious as to what all the talk is about.

Well you start off in the underworld, resurrect the world, then several species, then humans, and other things like that. It's hard to sum up but the game is just crazy weird and loaded with evolution/religious themes everywhere. Like most Quintet games, you pretty much take up the role of God pretty much. A lot of their games seem to preach that technology is bad as well kind of bringing about greed causing the downfall of man, and stuff about eternal recurrence (Illusion of Gaia focused a lot on this). Soul Blazer was kind of like the prelude to the ideas they'd expand upon in Terranigma.

[BoringSupreez]

^^^ So did Enix take a pro or anti religious stance? I can't really tell from your post.

And I don't get why a Japanese game company would even tackle that stuff from any point of view. Aren't 90% or Japanese people Buddhist or Shinto or whatever?