Tengai Makyō Zero

Tengai Makyō Zero (天外魔境ゼロ) is a 1995 role-playing video game developed by Red Company and published by Hudson for the Super Famicom.

[3] The battle system itself is more akin to the Dragon Quest series of games, with a special twist: unlike previous games in the series, the player does not learn new techniques via leveling up, but must instead seek out the hidden "hermits", which teach new techniques or elemental abilities.

[4] After one of the henchmen attack his village and slay his grandfather, the main character, Higan, learns he is the legendary "Fire Hero" and must set off to save the kingdoms.

Tengai Makyō Zero was never officially localized into western languages and attempts at fan-translation were stalled due to difficulties caused by the game's script size and bugs in the hardware graphics decompressor.

[7] Hardcore Gaming 101's Kurt Kalata called it a quality installment in the Tengai Makyō series, praising its graphics as some of the best on the Super Famicom.

A screenshot of Lost Templar's work-in-progress translation of the game [ 2 ]