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TERRANIGMA WILL BLOW YOUR MIND!
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RedMask
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CloseLast year I beat Illusion of Gaia. This year I started playing Terranigma I've only just gotten to the surface world in chapter 2 but dear lord is this game already awesome. Chapter 1 of the game involved me reviving the continents of the earth. Each of the 5 dark towers I concurred resurrected a continent. So after every level you would see South America reborn, then Africa, and etc. I knew before playing that I'd be reviving the world but I didn't think that would just be the opening to the game.
But here's what really blew my mind. Before going to the surface world I remembered there was two side quests I could do, but for this topic I just want to focus on one of them. Now, when I went there I was expecting to maybe get a new piece of armor or maybe a good weapon; you know the kind of thing you expect a video game's side quest to give you.
When I finished this side quest text on screen appeared saying "On this day Polynesia was reborn."
Holy crap! I just did a side quest that revived a whole damn archipelago!
Tell me when have you done a side quest that has something like that as a reward?
But here's what really blew my mind. Before going to the surface world I remembered there was two side quests I could do, but for this topic I just want to focus on one of them. Now, when I went there I was expecting to maybe get a new piece of armor or maybe a good weapon; you know the kind of thing you expect a video game's side quest to give you.
When I finished this side quest text on screen appeared saying "On this day Polynesia was reborn."
Holy crap! I just did a side quest that revived a whole damn archipelago!
Tell me when have you done a side quest that has something like that as a reward?
It's great! I love the game to bits and it was well worth buying the SNES cartridge way back when. The music, the world, the storyline and characters... the way your choices change things... Love dat game~<3
The entire Soul Blazer Trilogy is awesome! Easily one of my two favorite game sagas ever, right up there next to Suikoden... You should play Soul Blazer next. It's the oldest of the three and it shows. But if you liked the beginning of Terranigma where Ark saves the souls of the people of his village, then you'll like Soul Blazer too because the entire game is like that.
There's not a lot of games like Terranigma. Rebuilding a destroyed world is a plot that won't ever get old. And you can write it all sorts of different ways.
Its really hard not to love Ark. The game wraps you up in so much mystique and mystery from the word go, and he's made out to be like a total jerk in the beginning. Its as things begin to slowly make more and more sense that you can feel the big reveal way before it hits, but you don't want to believe it because its just too much to handle. Those are the best twists.
I don't think its the most amazing game ever (I actually think its a bit boring to play at times) but the setpieces and the world are so magnificently done for the time I kept playing to unwrap the next bit of story. Its...one of the very few games I can say I was motivated to keep playing for the story alone.
Its really hard not to love Ark. The game wraps you up in so much mystique and mystery from the word go, and he's made out to be like a total jerk in the beginning. Its as things begin to slowly make more and more sense that you can feel the big reveal way before it hits, but you don't want to believe it because its just too much to handle. Those are the best twists.
I don't think its the most amazing game ever (I actually think its a bit boring to play at times) but the setpieces and the world are so magnificently done for the time I kept playing to unwrap the next bit of story. Its...one of the very few games I can say I was motivated to keep playing for the story alone.
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Yeah I might try Soul Blazer at some point. The reason I didn't start with that one is because I've known about Illusion of Gaia for many years and I only in recent years have heard of the other games. Apparently, there's even a spiritual successor to the series on playstation called The Granstream Saga. I think that's the one anyway.
It's definitely up there as one of my favourite ever RPGs on the SNES. It doesn't quite have the same razor-sharp wit as Illusion of Time did (air filled with the smell of roasting Hamlet, anyone?) but the storyline is great, the battle system is good fun, there's nice variation with equipment, and the graphics were really beautiful for the time.
RedMask
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author=Trihan
(air filled with the smell of roasting Hamlet, anyone?)
Yeah I remember that.
So I'm on the surface world of Terranigma. I'm doing a level in Africa but I also went to Japan and Arabia and there was nothing there. Do more places show up as you progress through the game?
Yeah, they fill up as you progress. If you go to places before the story does there won't be anything there yet.
RedMask
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author=Trihan
Yeah, they fill up as you progress. If you go to places before the story does there won't be anything there yet.
That's an odd design choice. They give you an option to go to Japan but there's literally nothing to do there yet. You would think there would at least be a treasure or something for attempting to go there early. Oh well, it's not a big deal still having fun with the game. Just find that odd is all.
The problem with that is that the game would literally be giving you something for nothing as it isn't particularly restrictive in where it lets you travel, even though the places you can go haven't been introduced in the actual story yet.
However, there actually are hidden areas in the world map where you can find secret treasure chests.
However, there actually are hidden areas in the world map where you can find secret treasure chests.
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