Tengai Makyou - Daiyon no Mokushiroku - The Apocalypse IV (Japan)
Sega Saturn
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Reviewed in 1997
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✪ Reviewed on July 23, 2024
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Ambitious and humorous Hudson/Red Company Japanese RPG, renowned for its memorable characters. Polished production, off-beat humor typical of the series. Significant Japanese barrier. A pillar of 1990s Japanese RPG.
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RPG1 player7+
Description
Traditional turn-based Japanese RPG in the Far East of Eden series, fourth installment. Published by Red Company, released in Japan in 1997. Epic story set in a fantastical feudal Japan, turn-based combat, offbeat humor blended with a serious narrative, full Japanese voice acting and detailed 2D visuals. Continuation of the Tengai Makyou saga on Saturn.
Tengai Makyou - Daiyon no Mokushiroku - The Apocalypse IV review
4/5
Art direction
★★★★★
"Striking"
4/5
Music
★★★★★
"Excellent"
4/5
Story
★★★★★
"Captivating"
The series has always played on a Japan imagined from abroad, and this entry pushes the device further: cheerfully approximate architecture, costumes mixing eras, creatures drawn from folklore but treated with the good humour of a cartoon. The highly detailed 2D backdrops alternate country villages and improbable sanctuaries.
The orchestration aims for the breadth of adventure cinema: wide strings, solemn brass, choirs at the turning points, with traditional Japanese passages slipped in wherever the story veers into folk tale. The series always cared about this, and the format allows recordings full enough to carry long dialogue sequences without tiring.
The writing rests on a difficult balance: an apocalyptic threat handled with the seriousness of a grand fresco, but told by characters who refuse solemnity and defuse every scene with a misplaced remark. That blend, the series' trademark, allows brutal shifts of tone where comedy gives way at a stroke to something markedly darker.
Gameplay
"Solid"
Fun
"Pleasant"
Addictiveness
"Captivating"
Difficulty
"Balanced"
Lifespan
"Massive"
The fourth entry of the Far East of Eden saga, this traditional JRPG unfolds a Japanese-fantasy world rich in villages, dungeons and turn-based battles. The long main quest and the polished progression reward patient exploration. That scope, in the spirit of the great RPGs of the era, offers a lifespan JRPG fans cultivate.
Technical info
💾0,47 GB📅14/01/1997
Published by Bandai
Tengai Makyou - Daiyon no Mokushiroku - The Apocalypse IV (Saturn) price, value & rarity
Complete: box, manual and disc/cart very clean. Lightly handled.
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Is Tengai Makyou - Daiyon no Mokushiroku - The Apocalypse IV still worth playing in 2026?
A turn based Japanese RPG from Bandai, The Apocalypse IV is the fourth entry in the Tengai Makyou saga, famous for its world of a fantasised Japan seen through the prism of Western imagination, its offbeat humour and its polished production. The classic turn based structure, the writing full of personality and the richness of the staging make an ambitious production for the Saturn. Left in Japan, the title demands the language. For a fan of retro JRPGs or someone curious about the Far East of Eden series, the title keeps a singular world and a real generosity.
