Terranigma

>>714561291 (OP)
terranigma balls

>>714561291 (OP)
kino

>>714561291 (OP)
Great game but I liked Illusion of Gaia more for the comfier story and characters.

Oh it's so good for me right alongside Mario RPG and Metal Warriors as games that I missed out on, but still held up playing them decades later. I really should go through the wiki and scout some more games that I've missed.

>>714561505
All 3 are great (I'm including Soul Blazer) but Terranigma's scale is unmatched to me.
>>714561552
Is Metal Warriors good? I've never even heard of it that I remember, and I have played a lot of SNES JRPG. But the amount of games it got was staggering. Same with PS1.

>>714561291 (OP)
Don't get the cover. Cool story though.

>makes nothing but kino in you're path
Shoutout to Robotrek. I loved that game. It's way down on the list compared to Terranigma, Illusion of Gaia and Soul Blazer though.

never played it, but the cover art's really pretty

I only wish the magic system was explained better. The game is much better on a second playthrough when you know how it works and you know, Bloody Mary becomes non-bullshit

Thought it was boring as fuck, like three basic enemy types to fight, a boss, then a new world that's just a sprite/palette change with a shop keeper who upgrades your weapons such that the next batch of stronger enemies are exactly the same in practice. I dropped it around the part where a baby goat falls down a cliff and gets lost/abandoned or something.

>>714561291 (OP)
My Terranigga
>>714563056
Filtered

>>714563056
>gets filtered by Bloody Mary

>>714563376
He didn't even get near that. He got filtered by Eklemata.

>>714561505
game is really good and at times hits

>>714561845
I hate that I never finished IoG nor Robotrek

>>714561291 (OP)
never got the hang of this game, I thought it was boring and somewhat confusing at times. Dropped like 5 hours in and went back to Phantasia, Earthbound or Chrono Trigger or whatever JRPG I was playing at the time.

>>714561291 (OP)
I got filtered around Zue. Really need to replay it sometime.

Dunno why, but I was stuck for a while trying to figure out what to do when I reached America and I was supposed to do the great lakes cave or whatever it was called

Does the european version have any kind of adjustments to 50Hz? I've modded my SNES a while ago and thought of just replaying it in 60Hz.

I think the game loses their charm when humans appear.

>>714561552
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBH0orRDkjw

>>714565839
That's the fucking point of the game

>>714561820
it's pretty clear when looking at the full image >>714561552 that it's supposed to be the underworld with the inner core of the planet in the middle. I think that's the place where the final boss fight takes place

>>714561640
Man I love Illusion and Terranigma but can never get into Soul Blazer. One day I'll brute force it just to complete the Quintet trilogy.

>>714566043
It's the first game so of course it feels rougher, but I still liked the game. Also play Actraiser 1, that shit is amazing.
From Quintet I still need to play Robotrek, Actraiser 2 and that weird ass PS1 game with the faceless characters. I playedit for a bit but didn't beat it. It wasn't bad, just didn't grab me right away.

>>714565841
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQdSDt4dMJ4

It's cool until you get to the Spanish castle. Grinding several levels was not fun.

>>714561407
LOLE!!!

>>714567137
I loved Robotrek as a kid, not sure how it holds up but I assume it would be good if you like other Quintet games. How's the Actraiser remaster?

The ending made me sad.

>>714561291 (OP)
The boss design was trash story felt forced at certain points.
The only reason i played it cause i had a crush on melina and wanted to be with her.

>>714567579
but enough about Zelda

>>714567350
Retard youre supposed to beat her with light magic.
Its probaly one of the easiest bosses cause aoe light gurantee hits anxway.

>>714567618
Zelda had a melina?
I never really played a zelda so idk.

>>714563056
Anon is right, the combat is really dull in this game

>>714567540

>>714565910
Right, iot had the fight in outer space. Terranigma is in the core. I now remember that I actually knew, but forgot. The underworld in the game is concave, I think.

>>714567780
Hey, how can bird fly underground, it's not possible, OK?

>>714567642
I know but I didn't think of it as a kid. The magic in general seemed useless and unfun to me

>>714567780
Ark deserves better
As a kid, it was so depressing to find that his reward for saving the world was to die alone and forgotten

>>714567960
I didn't even know you get your Magirocks back but tried the rings on Bloody Mary and it melted her.

>>714567707
Game doesn't even have a parry. How can you call this trash a game?

>>714565594
I'm not entirely sure what you're asking. But playing the game in 60Hz is the move. It feels much more natural. You can easily find the 60Hz modified rom, if you search on google. That's the only way I replay the game now.

>>714563467
what's funny is they tried to censor the cannibalism iirc.
but even then, and as a kid, i still knew they were cannibals.

>>714567780
I cried so hard as a kid when Royd and Fyda sacrificed themselves for us to escape the falling airplane and at the ending.

my niggas.
possibly one of most well-written games to date.
gameplay-wise the game was sort of dull but the soundtrack, art direction and the writing makes Terranigma one of my favorite games.
I always include it in my 3x3s

>>714564541
It's not too late, anon.

Did you guys hear the theory that everything in the Underworld is made of crystal, even the people? That the people didn't become frozen when Ark opened the box. Rather, they returned to their crystal forms. Forms that were merely animated by trapping an Overworld soul in the crystal.

>>714561291 (OP)
Terra***ma

>>714561291 (OP)
Kinda pissed me off that the choice between your identical lovers doesn't matter.

>>714567873
>The underworld in the game is concave, I think.
The underworld is built along the hollow-earth theory: its sky is pointing inwards towards the center of the earth.
The thing in the center of the cover is actually *NOT* where the final boss fight takes place.
The final boss fight takes place inside the sun.

The sphere depicted in the cover is the reincarnation chamber. It's where the continents of the true earth sleep, unreachable by Dark Gaia's hands directly - even in the middle of its domain. ("The light inside the darkness," it's all very poetic.)

>>714568049
>his reward for saving the world was to die alone and forgotten
He reincarnates as a bird. The ending of the game literally has him fly across the world, until he lands in Light-Elle's village and pecks at her door, to be let in.

>>714565594
Yes. It adjusts some of the timing of the dialogues, which means if you use the 60Hz patch to make the game run at 60 again, it causes some cut-off in e.g. dialogue presented on screen in passive subtitle format - like the dolls before Bloody Mary doing their childrens rhyme.

>>714577785
I wouldn't use a patch, just have my SNES run at 60Hz.

>>714574075
That theory is correct. The game literally states Ark and everyone else are duplicates created from crystal who, at the end of the game, are 'returned to true form' by Dark Gaia.

Post Dark Gaia's defeat, Light Gaia cannot sustain the spell because it cannot affect the underworld's crystals. It can keep it going for just a bit longer, like a terminal patient on life-support, but it cannot fix it being undone.

That's why eventually Ark is scooped up and his soul reimplanted into a bird by Light Gaia. He gets his true final wish, in the moment's of his final death: to see the world, the whole world, that he fought for flourish.

>>714565841
>>714567205
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wu0f4Znd85k
Wait for the 1 minute mark.

(It doesn't take much to please me, but by god that 15 second loop in the original does the trick. And this certainly knows how to blow it up to epic scale.)

>>714578137
The theory also went on to state that dark Ark, who started as another one of Dark Gaia's puppets, actually managed to gain true humanity through his journey. Which each major event marking a step along that journey. I forget the details, so you'll have to look it up yourself, if you want it all explained. I also forgot the title of the video, so I can't link it.

>>714566043
Soul Blazer is a much more straight forward and shorter game. I liked how brisk it felt after Terranigma.

>>714567579
>melina
Who? The game had an Elle and a Mei-Ling.

>>714561291 (OP)
It has its 30th anniversary this year - October 20th, iirc.
Given Square has been on a remastering binge of late, I am both expectant and fearful...

>>714578348
>The theory also went on to state that dark Ark, who started as another one of Dark Gaia's puppets, actually managed to gain true humanity through his journey.

He did. You literally see him go through a meta-phoric rebirth sequence at the hero's grave, to be reborn as Light-Ark aka 'The Hero' and merge with the original's soul. The problem is his body originally came from Dark Gaia and that aspect still lingers like a cancer, which is why his body ends up dying either way. But its the reason Light Gaia can still save his soul, after.

>>714565594
IIRC, the gameplay does run slower but the music was re-timed to play properly at 50hz (this is also probably why some dialogue timings are adjusted). It's really obvious during the intro sequence for instance, when it gets to the part where the clock is the only thing on the screen and the 13th hours shows up, it's supposed to be silent, but if you use the 60hz patch, the music will be behind and still playing.

So if you use the 60hz patch, things will be mistimed but I imagine if you're just playing it at 60hz on actual hardware with an unpatched rom, you won't have the same issue but the music will be faster while still being in sync.

>>714561291 (OP)
Good game up until the halfway point when you have to start grinding if you want to deal any damage

>>714579061
>So if you use the 60hz patch, things will be mistimed but I imagine if you're just playing it at 60hz on actual hardware with an unpatched rom, you won't have the same issue but the music will be faster while still being in sync.

Correct. Except the pitch on all the sound will be off. Honestly, if you're playing on original hardware anyway - just play it at 50 Hz and use an upscaler to perform 50-to-60 conversion if you must.

>>714579748
I play through Terranigma every other year.
Never had to grind to do damage.

Just don't expect stuff to die in one hit. It's an ARPG. Not an action game.

>>714579882
If you're slightly underleveled you only deal 1 dmg per hit.

If you never had to grind that means you got lost more in the maps and killed more mobs per dungeon so you ended up at the right level or higher

>>714577419
Really? How did the get there? So I did remember it right, it's in outer space.
>chamber
Right, where life rests. It's indeed poetic, as its near dark gaia. How did the scientist activate darkness? Neo Tokyo is awesome btw

>>714580020
>>714579882
I think he is talking about the infamous queen boss fight. its kinda funny that people completely ignore the magic system of this game. which is insanely overpowered and also bypasses the level range of that fight

For me, it's Leim/Liam's theme. Peak adventure vibes.

>>714580434
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AL1Prrtl1Gg
>mfw 0:48

this game had some good /x/ vibes
was it ever explained who yomi was?

Does this game actually have a story or is it more barebones SNES shit that only has allusions to one? Soulblazer was a fucking chore for how shit its story was.

>>714582194
Just play it lol

>>714582194
yes, the story is actually quite impressive for a snes title

>>714582194
>Does this game actually have a story
YES. For fuck's sake.

>>714578534
You know what, just let it happen. Quintet is so underrated and I wouldn't mind a re-release or even a hueg retarded remake of the entire "Quintet trilogy".

>>714582194
better than soulblazer storywise, but the gameplay is dated and feels like a chore at times, the good parts of the story come later also