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Terranigma 2 - Full Beta [GER/ENG] - Envile Media

www.envile-media.com

not a rom, just a Windows executable. Seems like they nailed the aesthetic and gameplay seems fun. What do you think?

 

[amigastar]

Never played the original on SNES, was it any good?

 

[March Climber]

Never played the original on SNES, was it any good?

If there's one game that genuinely fits the term 'hidden gem' it's Terranigma.

• Great JRPG with a badly timed release date
• It unfortunately never made it to the US (Huge market loss)
• It was drowned out by the combined might of Square RPGs and Dragon Quest RPGs on the SNES
• It released a year after the PS1 launch (2 years after in EU)
• It was never ported to PS1

So when people online in the west started discovering and discussing this game at large around the late 2000s when sharing SNES emulation/rom stories on forums and gamefaqs, it was far, far too late to support it.

I just hope that if this fan sequel is good, the creator will hopefully make an indie JRPG and earn money doing this.

Edit: If you're curious, Terranigma plays like a mixture of Secret of Mana, Beyond Oasis, and LttP Zelda.

 

[Ferdimage]

The original was the game I bought on my first McDonalds paycheck when I was 13, loved it!

 

[amigastar]

If there's one game that genuinely fits the term 'hidden gem' it's Terranigma.

• Great JRPG with a badly timed release date
• It unfortunately never made it to the US (Huge market loss)
• It was drowned out by the combined might of Square RPGs and Dragon Quest RPGs on the SNES
• It released a year after the PS1 launch (2 years after in EU)
• It was never ported to PS1

So when people online in the west started discovering and discussing this game at large around the late 2000s when sharing SNES emulation/rom stories on forums and gamefaqs, it was far, far too late to support it.

I just hope that if this fan sequel is good, the creator will hopefully make an indie JRPG and earn money doing this.

Edit: If you're curious, Terranigma plays like a mixture of Secret of Mana, Beyond Oasis, and LttP Zelda.

Cool, cool. I'll make sure to give it a try someday.

 

[March Climber]

Cool, cool. I'll make sure to give it a try someday.

One last thing, the director of this game, Tomoyoshi Miyazaki, has an insane track record.

Check this out:

• 1990 ActRaiser
• 1992 Soul Blazer
• 1993 ActRaiser 2
• 1993 Illusion of Gaia
• 1994 Robotrek
• 1995 Terranigma
• 1997 The Granstream Saga

I remember finding this out years ago and was amazed. It was one of those times where I decided to check out what else a game director/dev team worked on and it lead me to a treasure trove of great games.

 

[JTCx]

Never played the original on SNES, was it any good?

Its incredible

 

[mèx]

Not a fan of these fan sequels, but it looks interesting. I'll check it out when I'm done with Elliot maybe.

One last thing, the director of this game, Tomoyoshi Miyazaki, has an insane track record.

Nobody knows what happened to this guy, he just up and vanished.

Quintet was so good, their output was indeed insane during the SNES era.

Never played the original on SNES, was it any good?

It's a timeless masterpiece.

 

[NeoIkaruGAF]

I tried Terranigma a few months ago (FPGA on a CRT, 60Hz mod, aka as close to the original experience as you can get without actual original hardware) and honestly, I didn't feel it.
I was following up a replay of Soul Blazer and my first playthrough of Illusion of Gaia, so maybe a bit of fatigue clouded my judgment. But I found Terranigma much less immediate, way more redundant, and less interesting as a game. The story is promising, but the game didn't pull me in. The grind is the worst offender: the two previous games didn't continuously respawn enemies and if you cleaned up every room once, you never really had to grind.

This fan sequel looks promising, but I've learned through experience that fanmade sequels / remakes / homages of old 2D classics are rarely as good as they look and sound from previous.