23 Years On, And We Still Can't Believe This Classic SNES RPG Didn't Get A US Release

I have so many child memories for this game. I still hear the endboss music in my head sometimes

A remake of this like the Trials of Mana one. That is what we want.
Really, Terranigma is one of the nicest RPGs ever made.

Shame it never came to the U.S. A localization for NA's NSO service would be great. It'd be cool if we could get some of IS' games as well, like Fire Emblem and Famicom Wars.

One of my favorite SNES games of all time, I enjoyed it enough to buy the Japanese version as well.

I want a Quintet Snes games collection on Switch

If they go the extra mile, fix Robotrek's terrible translation. It's mostly mediocre until at some point some villain's monologue gets extremely broken. At least fix that

I mean, Enix canceling their stateside presence by then led to STAR FRIGGIN' OCEAN never getting localized at all until the PSP era. At least Terranigma's European release ensured that even stateside players would have some access to an official English translation someday. But yeah, I can imagine it was a bummer back then.

I wonder who even has the rights to this game anymore.
I would certainly buy something like the Secret of Mana collection for this.

They should release this in a collection with Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia like they did the Mana games. Illusion of Gaia is my personal favorite game so I'd snap that up day one.

If this came to Switch I'd play it, definitely.

I got a repro cart of this game which is the Japanese version translated into English. I didn't get the PAL release as that one won't run properly in 60hz on my NA system. The game was phenomenal though, definitely a great finale entry to the Raiser Blazer series. I call it that as Quintet are dev who handles both the Soul Blazer and ActRaiser series. Hopefully a remake or re-release collection of these for Switch and PC would be great.

Yes, please please please bring this to Switch.

If they're gonna do this they should release Soulblazer and Illusion of Gaia too! Some of my favourite games of all time.

@retro_player_22

False. Actually the game was not euro 50hz optimized and would run normally on a NA/JP Snes

However, the game has a special lock-out chip or something, in which, to make it work on a NA Snes you have to use very specific rare devices. Some will make it work, but won't save. One device that make it work and save is the Pro Action Replay MK III. There's another one IIRC

The game sucked. Soul Blazer is perfect. Illusion of Gaia was pretty good. It seemed the Trilogy went downhill big time. I'm so sick of people praising this Terranigma garbage because it wasn't released here. It was for good reason! Oh and Actraiser is better then all. Even that sequel, though super hard, was good.

I want Illusion of Gaia too. Would be a real perk for being an NSO subscriber.

Need Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia for sure, I remember playing the Terranigma rom back in the day and not keeping with it. Would love to give it another shot! I’ve been praying for Nintendo to release SB and IOG since the og virtual console, but I just don’t think we are going to get them.

Would love to see the trilogy released, but alas it lives on my SNES classic due to certain means along with robotrek (I own 3/4 of those games and if I had lived in Europe I definitely would have owned physically Terranigma as well).

I would love to see these games getting the "collection of mana" treatment rather than tied to an online app.

but im not sure how much licencing hell they would have to go through.

How about Live A Live or Treasure Hunter G?

Glad I picked up a Super Famicom copy in the mid 2000s when SFC games were at a super-low price (like 5 bucks plus shipping complete).
Now even that version was up to like 50 last I checked.

One of my favourite games

Quite a solid action RPG, game's strength definitely lies in its strong narrative and worldbuilding (And music!). Few games manage to make me feel anything in terms of story but this one managed that.

I knew this would be about Terranigma before I clicked. Great game. I do like Illusion of Gaia a bit better though.

It’s the best action-RPG on the SNES. Actually, it is still one of the best ever. It has an epic story, great gameplay, pixel art, music. Hopefully it will appear on SNES online, but I would lay down some money for it too.

Quintet defunked, haven't made a game in years. Possible got the axe during the squaressoft Enix merge. I wouldn't hold your breath for anything from them on the switch. Probably better off spending the massive amount of money buying the snes cartridge, then to hope and pray.

Was hoping to see some game screen actions scenes but not much.

Still got my original copy in mint condition and still like the look of it!

Oh boo hoo, we never got Chrono Trigger, Earthbound or Super Mario RPG.

Waiting for this to come to NSO. (Fingers crossed.)

The whole Enix/Quintet trilogy of ARPGs was worth it. I will always have a weakness for Soulblazer.

Many years ago, I had someone mod my U.S. SNES with a 50/60 switch and an override switch (to disable the lockout chip) just so I could play my import version of Terranigma. Worth it.

This was the rpg that marked me.
More that Chrono Trigger or Final Fantasy. I still like the ending theme.

@Guru_Larry actually, we got all of those. Some on DS. The rest were on virtual console.

Americans really missed out. Terranigma made up for all the games Europe missed out on (Chrono Trigger, Earthbound, Super Mario RPG, all Final Fantasies and Dragon Quests). Well maybe not - but it's nevertheless just as good as those.

@cool_boy_mew - Abso-freaking-lutely this!

I’m dying to play this. It is in my collection. I just started Illusion of Gaia

meanwhile a NES game was released 24 years after the NES was discontinued, a new NES game has been created.
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Still my favourite game of all time.

This is my fav SNES game perhaps even my fav game of all time. Always wondered why it never got a rerelease on any virtual console. It is such a great game. Still treasure my copy.

Terranigma was on my SNES RPG-to-play list along with Earthbound and Mario, and at some point convinced myself that it hadn't seen a European release either. Probably just ignorant of the localisation times or distracted by the N64.

Would be nice to pay Nintendo, Square Enix or whoever to actually play it at last. And Soul Blazer. And Illusion of Time beyond a rental copy.

Basically just make all SNES RPGs available to everyone forever.