Hmm…fine, I’ll be yer unicorn!
Soundtrack to Secret of Mana makes me cry evertim
Girl wins.
No Earthbound?
Me too.
I love this game so much, can beat it on a single life. Really looking forward to the new Rita’s Rewind game.
The theme music from this game is seared into my neurons
Iku Mizutani was a master for sure. Dude did incredible things with NES and SNES music.
Ah, Kirbo, my most excellent creation
Love seeing Terranigma here. Such a great hidden gem. If you’re a fan of Secret of Evermore or Illusion of Gaia, check it out.
Have I got this straight in my head:
Illusion of Gaia was the second in a trilogy: Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and a third one that wasn’t released in North America. And was that third one Terranigma or a different game?
Followed by Granstream Saga.
Holy shit I played the fuck out of this game as a kid. Completely forgot it existed until just now. I wonder how badly it’s aged
I’ve never played it, but judging by videos of gameplay, pretty badly. Most 3D games from that era have.
It was Terranigma.
Sounds right to me. Thanks for reminding me about my abandoned Soul Blazer playthrough 😬.
Edit: Shout out to Enix being awesome before the merger.
Soul Blazer is a melancholy game. You start it up and the world has been emptied of beings, throughout the game you restore beings to existence, and yet it doesn’t cheer up.
I’m about to commit blasphemy:
Y’all can keep the Castlevania. I’ll take the rest.
Simon is on his way to your castle as we speak.
Sorry Simon, but the princess is in another castle.
Aria’s the best one, anyway
Suddenly surrounded by spears, pitchforks and one torch
I mean uh, um,… “What is a man!?”
spears lower
I don’t disagree with you. Symphony of the Night is exceptional but Aria and Dawn are so, so good.
That crying you hear echoing through the ages is the sound of Superman 64 and well-intentioned grandmothers ruining Christmasses all across the world.
Nah, the Spiderman/Venom SNES games were where it was at. Never owned them, but spent lots with Blockbuster renting them.
Agreed, that game was awesome.
Superman 64 was famously bad. It’s in the conversation with ET for worst game ever made. And because it was bad, it was quicky discounted, and a lot of people who didn’t know how bad it was gave it as gifts.
I’ve never even heard of Terraniema (? Kinda hard to read that font).
Is it any good?
It’s Terranigma, it never got a North America release so not well known there. I’ve never played it but I hear it’s pretty good.
It’s considered to be the best game in Quintet’s non-god-game trilogy (Soulblazer And Illusion of Time/Gaia being the other t’o games).
It is really good, but has its’ unfair moments. Great music, too.
Maybe this was a localization thing, but interestingly, the game at one point kind of calls you a god (translated and from memory: “you are what humans call a god”). There are also multiple elements in the game that have religious themes: the protagonist’s name, Ark, which I always linked to the story of Noah, as it’s Ark bringing life to a world that was destroyed, death and rebirth etc. (possibly even thrice, the ending is ambiguous) - also the game is somewhat “anachronistic” to say the least. Also the translation of the Japanese title is roughly “creation of Heaven and Earth”.
While the game is technically a bit flawed, story- and presentation-wise it’s probably one of my favorites of all time. The subtly eerie setup with everything (e.g. the jingle presenting the acts’ titles), man’s “emancipation” from nature / Gaia, which arguably caused the catastrophe in the first place, the weird encounters - absolutely fantastic in my opinion.
I’ve seen this repeated a bunch of times but it seems to be an opinion predominantly held by Brits who played Terranigma growing up. I don’t understand it, as I played Illusion of Gaia growing up and love the game dearly (and have replayed it many times since then) but I’ve played Terranigma multiple times and lost interest not long after passing Bloody Mary. The game has gorgeous music and graphics (especially the two world map themes and the early areas) but the story didn’t engage me like IoG.
Yes, it’s a way less personal story. I think the gameplay is a bit more refined.
It does hit on similar existentialist themes like the other quintet games (that aren’t actraiser), though. If you prefer IoG, that’s valid.
Yes, Terranigma let you do a lot more different moves in combat which was cool, and the inputs were faster and didn’t involve charging which was a bit annoying in IoG.
Terranigma, very cool game
Super Mario World where?
Everybody likes that.
Me too.
You fool! Those are just NES games!
They’re both correct.
Hook up the old super nintendo and start asking questions like “Hey did you ever play Lufia?”
Lufia? I rented it from the video rental store back in the day. I never finished it, but I enjoyed the game.
Look into Lufia 2, it is one of the rare cases of a sequel being shockingly better than the first game. It is the only SNES RPG I put in the same class as those from Square or Enix, and I like it more than most of those.
, it is one of the rare cases of a sequel being shockingly better than the first game.
I feel like this happens (or at least used to happen) regularly in video games.
Yeah, I suppose that was true in the 80s and 90s for sure. Now that I think about it, I can name a several right off the top of my head and probably every Final Fantasy game was like that until 7 or at least 8.
So, Lufia is a LONG game. It’s got fairly limited graphics and sound for a SNES game but it packs in a lengthy quest. It feels almost wrong to offer that one as a rental.
So they meet in the middle at Actraiser?
Excellent game.
Great fuckin OST too
One of my favorites. I replay it every few years when I think about it again.
Too bad about the sequels…
I have not heard that name in a long time. … Long time.
I still whistle the music every so often.
