Despite only seeing release in Japan and Europe, 1995's Terranigma is regarded as one of the highlights of the SNES RPG library, and copies change hands for startling prices on the secondary market these days.
Sadly, the game has never been re-released in any form, but that's something that some of the key creatives behind it hope to change. Miyoko Takaoka (maiden name Kobayashi, composer) and Kamui Fujiwara (art) have added their voices to a petition which will hopefully show current rights holder Square Enix that there's an appetite for a Terranigma revival of some sort.
Twitter user @kisatosandworld sums up what the petition hopes to achieve:
With the cooperation of Kamui Fujiwara and Miyoko Kobayashi, we have launched a signature movement requesting the archive distribution of [Terranigma]. If you love this work, want to play it, or if you are interested but can't play it, please help us! Thank you for your signature.
Developed by Quintet, Terranigma is considered to be part of a loose SNES trilogy that also includes Illusion of Gaia and Soul Blazer. Quintet also created the thematically similar ActRaiser for the console.
Are you a fan of Terranigma? Would you like to see the game get a digital release, or would you prefer a full remaster, as Square Enix has done with the likes of Legend of Mana and Trials of Mana? Tell us your thoughts in a comment below.
[source twitter.com]
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The World could use this right now.
That would be great!
The 3 games bundled
Just put together the trilogy like they did for Mana and people will buy it. Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma on Switch would be glorious.
I'd pay more than just good money to see these back on a modern platform
Hopefully they'll make a new game and include the old with it.
I've watched Youtube channel Resonant Arc's excellent retrospective on this game recently and it made me want to check this game out. Here's the link in case anyone is considering looking into this game. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgpfYxrcKUA
Edit: I swear I am not Resonant Arc, nor am I affiliated in any way, shape or form, except that I agree that he makes good content.
I've only ever played Illusion of Gaia; growing up, it was my favorite game of all time.
While I've tried Soul Blazer and Terranigma both, neither truly grabbed me the way Illusion of Gaia did. However, if any of these titles were to be added to NSO or re-released, I would without question drop big bucks on them.
MAKE. THIS. HAPPEN!
Been saying for yonks that Squareenix seem to be just letting the Enix library rot. Robotrek is an under appreciated classic!
Played these on emulators back in the day. Would love to see them get a proper release with quality of life improvements.
Such an underrated classic. Not as polished as some of the other Action RPGs of the time but just as unbelievably creative as them in every way, soundtrack is incredible too.
I'd love to see it, Quintet's SNES catalogue deserves more love.
@Abeedo Thanks for the link. I've actually never heard of this game.
Picked up a repro cart of this a few years back, it's quite excellent. Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia are also great, but Terranigma is definitely my fav of the three.
@GrailUK which is the oddest choice since it was Enix that bought Square. I assumed for years it was the other way around since they only ever rerelease Square content.
would definitely love to see a collection similar to the mana one, or even just a digital release, though preferable not exclusive to the NSO service since because the games are hard to come by they deserve to be able to be bought/kept.
Yaaasss! Such a great game. Bring it back!
I hope they redo the translation because a lot was lost in the SNES translation due to the character limit of the text boxes.
I...just a simple rerelease would DO!!
I'd rather see illusion of Gaia but I'd be happy with either.
@Illusion Bonkers.
About 20 years ago, I had someone mod my SNES with both a 50/60 switch and an override switch just so I could play this gem on my American SNES. It was well worth it!
I think standard rereleases of the three games would be more than enough. I never knew about Illusion of Gaia and Soul Blazer at the time. Maybe include them on a cartridge with bonus material. However, if they just rerelease Terranigma, that will do.
I'd definitely want the original (the full trilogy while we're at it) but i wouldn't say no to a remaster either.
I don't really have high hopes tbh. There's been ample opportunity to release these gems on Virtual Console and it's always bypassed them.
WOOOHOOOO! This is amazing news!!! I loved that game. Perhaps they could do the entire saga. Illusion of Time/Gaia remastered... OOOOOOOOOOH, GIMME!!!
This news pleases me greatly.
I've never heard of this but.. those lizard guys 😳
Uh, anyway, I think I'd be interested to try it out if they made it come back.
I am more interested in this than either Mana release!
Yes!!! Would be amazing.
I wish!! Everyone should give this game a try. In my opinion, this is, along with Chrono Trigger and Super Mario RPG, the best JRPG in the console.
I'm trying to be optimistic. I'll get this if they don't mess it up. Square's remakes are disasters more than not. Happy just to be play the originals tbh.
So like...has anyone solved the mystery of what happened to Quintet yet? Would those people that literally don't seem to exist be roadblocks to getting something done on a remake/remaster front?
People always like to talk about stories in games or whatever, it's not really my thing usually, I play games for the gameplay and music, but this game was an exception.
The story and world in this game was just something special, like it affected me on some weird deeper level and for a while I just could not stop thinking about it.
I have fond memories of this game, but I’m happy enough with that. Hopefully it sees a revival for those that want it, as it’s an excellent game/series!
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A Soulblazer + Illusion of Time + Terranigma Trilogy is something I'd love to get. Something along the lines of Collection of Mana would be amazing: Collection of Terranigma.
Also, Ark for Smash! I always thought, the next best Square Enix reps would be either from Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, or Terranigma.
Personally, I don't understand why every classic (non-licensed) game isn't re-released for every platform.
@EmmatheBest Sadly, no. As I understand it, Squenix has tried to look into re-releasing Quintet games, but they've been unable to nail down the full rights. They did Actraiser on Wii VC and nothing else ever, so I guess that didn't end well for whatever reason.
That would be a lot of fun to see these games resurface; never played Soul Blazer or Terranigma, but I loved Illusion of Gaia back on the SNES.
Yes please! Thank you!
Would be awesome to get a faithful pixel version on cartridge. Pixel graphics running at 720/1080p and 60fps is a beautiful thing. I've never tried this game and would love an opportunity to do so on Switch (to do so on looks weird, four two letter words all next to each other).
DO IT!!! In fact bring the whole Quintet Trilogy out like this. I'm talking about Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma.
We definitely need a collection of all three games (Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma) for the Switch, called it the Blazer collection. Throw in the Granstream Saga in there too if they want. These games needs an OLED revisit.
Yes, release this game along with Soul Blazer and Illusion of Gaia in a trilogy..and then remaster them!!!
After Final Fantasy VI, Terranigma is the second best JRPG on the SNES, and probably in the top 5 best JRPGs in history, for any console or platform. FF6 > Terranigma > FF7 > Panzer Dragoon Saga > Chrono Trigger would I guess be the top 5.
The original Illusion of Gaia (not the official SNES port, but the fan translation) is of similar greatness, and is in the top 10.
It's just extremely sad that so few JRPG fans outside of Japan and Europe have ever heard of Terranigma. The situation kind of reminds me of a Gacha mobile JRPG that I played last year and the year before that called Tales of Erin; its on the google play store, but its unfinished, and thats tragic, but whats even more of a tragedy is that so few have ever heard of it. Tales of Erin has the most emotionally moving storyline that I have ever experienced in a game, and it's easily got a story better than anything Hollywood has put out since the LOTR trilogy by tenfold, and if it had been finished it would probably have been better than Final Fantasy VI and would have become the best storyline in JRPG history... yet almost no one even knows of its existence. Its very disheartening, and what it says about society and its entertainment industries is not good.
I want a Quintet Collection that has the following:
@Skid No problem
I really should play that game, but in America the only play to real copy (without buying an expensive cheat device in addition to the game) is the Super Famicom copy.
Someday that copy I got for like $5 in 2004 will get played, once I feel I can kinda read it.
(no, repro is not an option. I could just download a ROM and play the game on the same illegality, and it will also prevent a scammer from getting money.)
@Hydra_Spectre PAL version of ActRaiser has a difficulty select and a port of the arcade version included. However, like the other Quintet games, PAL versions only changed the sound to 50hz.
Although I recall playing that proto translation of IoG many years ago, and I recall I would NOT consider it better. It definitely felt like an Enix translation, rather poor English. Even the finished Enix games I recall playing started out okay on the English quality but started to fall apart near the end.
It will be made available for PC as there is clearly no demand for this on consoles. Right, Squenix...? 😡
@KingMike Well, in my opinion, it is the better of the two official translations.
Yes yes yes yes yes YEEEEEEEEES!!!!!
Especially for our American friends, who never had the pleasure. They deserve it.
Truly one of the greatest SNES (A)RPGs. Easily in my top 10. I would happily replay it.
@Hydra_Spectre uncensored prototype translation. Not heard of that. I am intrigued.
Please happen. This never came out in NA, and I was lucky enough to have played a portion of it emulated but didn't get a chance to get far with it. I asked so hard for Seiken Densetsou 3 and got it much to my (still) disbelief, so I'm holding out hope for Terranigma. Illusion of Gaia is one of my favs of ALL TIME (the emotion, music, graphics... Wow) and Soulblazer was decent enough. Please help me complete the trilogy SE!
Loved Soulblazer and LoG. Tried many times to play Terranigma and Bahamut Lagoon but ran into loading issues with the emulator that was used. That was over 20 years ago and have always wanted to finish both of these games. Without hesitation I'd drop any amount of $ to do so.
Yes please we need this! I'd be perfectly happy with a straight port honestly.
This warms the heart…genuinely loved illusion of mana and really didn’t think it had the love it did until I read these comments.
@khululy I didn't know this limitation, interesting. However in any case I think the original official English translation on the PAL version should be preserved as it has a certain charm of its own.
I just wonder whether some of the dialogue and overarching themes would pass QA in this PC age that we live in... e.g. The deliberately broken English that some of the NPCs speak in Yunkou and Neotokio; Cadets casting a "Sexy Look" etc...
@razezar Depends who publishes the game I reckon.
I wanted Square Enix to release it in America!
I made an account just to post this. Terranigma is my favourite game, second is Secret of Mana. I would LOVE a remaster of Terranigma, and a direct sequel.
PLEASE!
I hope they do this, every now and then I have a look online to see if there will be a remaster or anything, this is one of my favourite games that I would love to play again however I find it difficult to go back to that style of game. If this is done I hope there will be multiple endings.
@SteefeGAMING I also made this account just to comment here, hopefully we get a remaster !! 😍😍😍
100% THIS! I always preferred the Enix RPGs back in the day.
I was just thinking about Terranigma and how much I would love it if the whole trilogy was released in a set like the Mana games were. I have played them all but would buy and replay them if rereleased in a set. Terranigma is an amazing game and like other similar SNES titles has timeless graphics. I prefer the original graphics for Secret of Mana and Trials of Mana as well.
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