XZR EXILE - PC Engine

PC Engine Game Music
XZR: EXILE
CD•ROM² Compact Disc
エグザイル 時の狭間に (When Trapped Between)
Sadler
The protagonist, a Syrian killer and secretly the son of the Caliph who was kidnapped by assassins as a baby and raised as their own. In the first game he sets out to stop oppression and ends up killing his father, then the Russian General Secretary and the President of the USA. In the second game a scouting mission has him embroiled in searching for the Holimax to bring about world peace. In the end he realises world peace can never be achieved and so wanders out into the desert. The final game sees him focusing his sights on the nebulous concept of "hatred". He also enjoys a good cigarette, except in the Japanese Megadrive and American Genesis games, where his cigarette is removed.
Rumi
Sadler's love interest and according to the manual, an expert with knives and fluent in eight languages. During the first game she's only 16-years-old. Mainly she exists as the game's anime eye-candy, repeatedly getting kidnapped in the first two games and then disappearing from the party to search for items like lost scrolls. Towards the end of XZR II she's supposed to die in a cave-in along with Jofre but, thanks to wonderfully bizarre retconning, is written back into the third game. When playable she falls in the fast, but weak archetype.