Seriously... Why Does Nobody Talk About Terranigma !?

[A.K.B.]

Recently, I've been having the urge to play those old Jprgs and after playing Chrono Trigger It seemed like nothing can stack up to it ( aside from Grandia 1, which I played a long while ago and I don't know if I would cherish it the same if I played it today, but I digress ).....

WARNING !!

( I'm Gonna Be steppin' on a LOT of Tail now )


Secret of Mana ,to me, felt shallow in terms of how it delivered its characters and dialogue... ( the fan made patch kinda'f helped, though... )
FF3 just felt...... pretentious.
The other FF felt too Jumbled in terms of ideas, and you almost NEVER feel fully invested in a character, because the moment they start acting remotely human _ AKA FUCKING SIMPLE !! _ the HAVE to follow it by some REALLY HIGH-FANTASY SHIT !!
And you never feel like the intention was to be thought provoking, as the game is just to painstakingly filled with all those concepts and ideas that eventually never add up to cohesive whole....
On more than one occasion, I could've almost depicted how the writers for this game were pulling their hair, trying too squeeze out an idea so they could re-embark on their journey to make the Longest 40 or so hours of YOUR ENTIRE LIFE !!!
Yeah that was ff7, for me...
Anyway...
Skies of Arcadia was kind of childish ,I felt, and the art style didn't tick with me....
FF tactics and Tactics Ogre...... Those I liked. But comparing them to chorno trigger is kind of a mistake as they're extremely different ( FF tactics had a better story than TO, but To felt a lot intuitive and a lot less broken _ grind wise _ )
Xenogears.....
Well... Xenogears I have yet to play....

But Terranigma....
Terranigma is THE SHIT !!!
It's the only... ONLY!!! game that I could think that managed to pull of something is repeated and common as ( YOU FUCKED UP!! but that's okay because you're THE LONG AWAITED ALL POWERFUL HERO WHO'D SAVE US ALL! ) in a way that make it sound NOTHING like the way I just mentioned.

It's a really creative game in terms of concept, and it manages to merry the sense of dread and whimsy in a really cool way....
The combat is okay.... But the story is just a marvel ....
And in all honesty, I think the is on par with Chrono trigger.

But NO ONE EVEN MENTIONS THIS !!
I know it hasn't been released in the US and shit... But by now people should've became aware of it!! Yet rarely does anyone mentions this game anywhere!!
I mean COME ON!! Just.... WHY ?

 

[Alfador_VII]

I agree with this Terranigma is a forgotten gem. It's definitely my favourite non-Final Fantasy RPG of all time, and in fact one of my favourites of all time.

 

[Reasonable Atheist]

I like that you gave a nod to tactics ogre, love that game!
I have never heard of terranigma. Is it in English? If so i will totally play it, even if it involves a little swashbuckling.

 

[Pickles]

Man, I've still never finished it. I think my brother has the old SNES buried somewhere at his place, so I really should find it and finish that game. I somehow lucked into getting it from my grandad when I was like 6, but didnt really get it at the time. Got most of the way through about 12 years later but never got round to completing it for whatever reason.

 

[-Ezio-]

I like that you gave a nod to tactics ogre, love that game!
I have never heard of terranigma. Is it in English? If so i will totally play it, even if it involves a little swashbuckling.

i think i had a fan translation version for an emulator once. but i dont think there's an official english version.

 

[Kristoffer Mattila]

I like that you gave a nod to tactics ogre, love that game!
I have never heard of terranigma. Is it in English? If so i will totally play it, even if it involves a little swashbuckling.

i think i had a fan translation version for an emulator once. but i dont think there's an official english version.

It's totally in english. It just wasn't released in America

 

[NPC009]

I like that you gave a nod to tactics ogre, love that game!
I have never heard of terranigma. Is it in English? If so i will totally play it, even if it involves a little swashbuckling.

i think i had a fan translation version for an emulator once. but i dont think there's an official english version.

There is. It was published in English in the UK and part of continental Europe (the game was also available in French and German, IIRC).

 

[MonsterCrit]

I think the reason is like most of the Quintet trilogigy of which it is a part of it didn't see much acclaim or distribution.

SOul Blazer was competent as an A-JRPG; as was Illusion of Gaia; even if the story was a little silly (self roasting pig anyone?) Terranigma yeah, that was the best and it managed an interesting trick of scope and depth.

And yes OP I too found FF3 to be just plain pretentious. It took an act of will and a $20 bet for me to put up with it long enough to finish it. FF5 I kinda liked...FF4 meh... okay though again overly rated in my opinion.

 

[-Ezio-]

I like that you gave a nod to tactics ogre, love that game!
I have never heard of terranigma. Is it in English? If so i will totally play it, even if it involves a little swashbuckling.

i think i had a fan translation version for an emulator once. but i dont think there's an official english version.

There is. It was published in English in the UK and part of continental Europe (the game was also available in French and German, IIRC).

released in the UK but not america? that's new. usually the UK gets screwed.

captcha: "in spades". quite right captcha. UK gets screwed in spades.

 

[Ima Lemming]

It peaked early on with that bit in the canyon with the lion cub, but after humans are revived it's all downhill. And who's bright idea was that forced stealth castle where the guards have no fixed patterns and you get thrown out of the entire level every time you get caught?

 

[Dalisclock]

I enjoyed the game back in the day. I enjoyed the concept and the idea of you helping to guide civilzation after bringing it back from the dead. However, IIRC, the magic system was broken and the Spainish castle was incredibly diffcult.

I also found it weird that somehow the world is being recreated and returned to a modern level of tech from....well, nothing all within a matter of a few years. At first I figured "It's an abstraction and the main character is immortal, so it's actually thousands of years". Except the presence of the other main characters contridicts that, because they remain throughout the game and don't age either.

It does feel like a logical progression from Illusion of Gaia(which is still my favorite in the trilogy).

 

[chozo_hybrid]

I guess most people like me, had never heard of it before. Sorry? I do however think it looks pretty cool and would love to play it.

 

[teamcharlie]

Seems like the thread has already answered the thread's original question, but those Quintet games are absolutely rad. If you're looking for something kinda along the same lines as Terranigma on the SNES, you should definitely check out E.V.O.: Search for Eden. No idea how well known it is, but it's a multi-epoch-spanning evolutionary RPG where you try to keep the history of evolution on track as a time traveling mutant fish that turns into all sorts of stuff. It's really good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.V.O.:_Search_for_Eden

 

[Chimpzy_v1legacy]

released in the UK but not america? that's new. usually the UK gets screwed.

captcha: "in spades". quite right captcha. UK gets screwed in spades.

Not just the UK. The PAL region in general missed out on a lot of jrpgs from the 8-bit to 32-bit eras, except if you lived Eastern Europe and such, in which case you were just screwed altogether. Terranigma is to my knowledge the only high-quality jrpg from that time that we got that NA didn't.

Things are a lot better nowadays with many classics having gotten rereleased as ports or downloads, but some we still don't have any legit way of playing (looking at you, Parasite Eve and Chrono Cross).

 

[Ima Lemming]

Seems like the thread has already answered the thread's original question, but those Quintet games are absolutely rad. If you're looking for something kinda along the same lines as Terranigma on the SNES, you should definitely check out E.V.O.: Search for Eden. No idea how well known it is, but it's a multi-epoch-spanning evolutionary RPG where you try to keep the history of evolution on track as a time traveling mutant fish that turns into all sorts of stuff. It's really good.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.V.O.:_Search_for_Eden

It also costs $200 on eBay just for the cart. Glad I snagged my copy before retro collecting became huge.

Captcha: daz oontz. The hell?

 

[-Ezio-]

released in the UK but not america? that's new. usually the UK gets screwed.

captcha: "in spades". quite right captcha. UK gets screwed in spades.

Not just the UK. The PAL region in general missed out on a lot of jrpgs from the 8-bit to 32-bit eras, except if you lived Eastern Europe and such, in which case you were just screwed altogether. Terranigma is to my knowledge the only high-quality jrpg from that time that we got that NA didn't.

Things are a lot better nowadays with many classics having gotten rereleased as ports or downloads, but some we still don't have any legit way of playing (looking at you, Parasite Eve and Chrono Cross).

.hack//G.U is the one that still annoys me. i so wanted that game.

 

[FPLOON]

Huh... It's been a while since I've heard the name "Terranigma"... I believe the last time I heard about it was after following an external link from a Rule 34-based website... But anyway, it always sounded like a game I would love to play, but can't due to a lack of a full global release or something like that... Still sucks that I can't fully experience the game firsthand, though...

 

[BreakfastMan]

The "not coming out in the US" really is the thing that bit it in the ass. The game is fucking amazing, I completely agree with you there, worthy of being up there with the other greats from that generation like Crono and Earthbound, but... It didn't come out in the US. Which was a huge mistake, considering how well thought of other games from that same company that did come out in the US, like Act Raiser, Soul Blazer, and Illusion of Gaia, are very well remembered. But, that is how it is...

 

[RedDeadFred]

Probably because hardly anyone remembers it or knows that it exists. This thread is the first time I've ever heard of it. Hard to talk about something you've never heard of.

 

[Nazulu]

I knew existed awhile ago, but I just haven't gotten around to all the classics yet (slowly getting there).

I went to look it up on Youtube in the spirit of this thread, and holy shit is the music and pixel art awesome. It's definitely on my list of things to come now. I'll probably play Chrono Trigger before though, since I own that now.