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Rudra no Hihou Super Nintendo
A late Squaresoft JRPG for the Super Famicom. Four disparate groups of adventurers attempt to prevent the extinction of the human race from a fated destroyer: the titular Rudra.
Rudra no Hihou ("Treasure of the Rudras") is a scenario-based JRPG for the Super Famicom and the last game Square developed for a Nintendo console for six years. It was later added to the Virtual Console for Wii in 2011 and again for the Wii U Virtual Console in 2015. The game has yet to be officially localized into English, but translation group Aeon Genesis put out a fan translation in 2006.
The game sees four heroes - each of which is named by the player before starting - who embark on different quests relating to halting the arrival of the Rudra: a deity of destruction that is fated to appear every ten thousand years to eliminate the dominant race and replace it with a new one. The human race's Rudra is due to appear, with various portents that spur the heroes into action. The first three heroes' campaigns can be played in any order, but all three must be completed before the fourth becomes available. In each campaign, the selected hero and their party will occasionally meet other parties mid-way through their adventures.
The game uses a time limit system - the Rudra is fated to awaken sixteen days after the start of the game - but time only moves forward after the player has made progress with the story. Sleeping in inns or grinding outside of town won't move time forward. Each of the four heroes' campaigns are concurrent, and events that occur on specific days can be observed by multiple parties.