Given a brief from the bosses at Square that they create a distinctly “American” Secret of Mana, the team latched onto a 1950’s B movie aesthetic with a tongue in cheek sense of humour as it would be accessible and appealing to an American audience. Assembling a team of coders and developers at the Redmond office, Square Soft began developing their very first game. This became known as Square Soft and it was in charge of localising and distributing Square properties into Western markets.īy 1994, the company was ready to try something different. Square, back before they merged with Enix, recognised this and opened a subsidiary company in 1989 in Redmond, Washington. Nintendo had proven that not only was there a market overseas for games, they had also pushed them into the mainstream of popular culture. Secret of Evermore: A Product of Redmondīy the late 80s, video games were no longer a Japanese obsession. What made the game so different from everything else in the genre is that Secret of Evermore was the fact that it is a Japanese roleplaying game that wasn’t made in Japan.

Its not the graphics, which were already obsolete with the worldwide release of the Playstation earlier that year. What makes Secret of Evermore so unique? Its not the combat system, which is shamelessly lifted from Secret of Mana following its clear success a few years earlier.

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