Heracles no Eikou IV - Kamigami kara no Okurimono (Japan)
Super Nintendo (SNES)
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Reviewed in 1994
80
✪ Reviewed on January 14, 2025
74
A more ambitious, better written and tech tighter sequel. Ideal for extending the Heracles adventure.
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Category
RPG1 player12+
Description
Turn-based RPG in which Hercules receives a gift from the gods to save a world in peril. Published by Data East, released in Japan in 1994. Top-down exploration, turn-based combat, mythological characters and scenario involving the Olympian gods. Fourth and final entry in the Heracles no Eikou series on Super Famicom.
Heracles no Eikou IV - Kamigami kara no Okurimono review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
Data East sets its story in a mythic Greece rendered with unexpected care: colonnades, olive trees, harbours in pale stone, temples with sculpted pediments, and a bestiary lifted straight from legend, centaurs, harpies, cyclopes. The palette favours ochres and Mediterranean blues, which clearly sets the game apart from the medieval fantasies of the period.
The score avoids the expected heroic fanfare: plucked strings evoking a lyre, flutes, light percussion, and town themes leaning towards ancient dance music rather than orchestral writing. The fights gain intensity through rhythmic density alone, and a few mourning passages, very bare, stand apart from the rest.
The story is written by Kazushige Nojima, a few years before his best known work, and it shows: an amnesiac hero who gradually discovers why he cannot die, gods whose motives amount to caprice, and a reflection on immortality as punishment rather than reward.
Gameplay
"Excellent"
Fun
"Mild"
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Long"
Technical info
💾1,7 MB📅28/10/1994
Published by Data East
Heracles no Eikou IV - Kamigami kara no Okurimono (SNES) price, value & rarity
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Is Heracles no Eikou IV - Kamigami kara no Okurimono still worth playing in 2026?
The fourth and final entry in the Data East saga, Heracles no Eikou IV is more ambitious, better written and technically more solid than its predecessor. Hercules receives a gift from the gods to save a world in peril, in a better-paced and denser mythological adventure. It is the peak of the series, ideal for extending the experience after the third game. Worth discovering for fans of classic JRPGs and mythology, ready to use a fan translation for a moving, polished tale.
