Terranigma (1995)

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by Quintet, Enix Corporation, Nintendo, St. GIGA

Platforms:

Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Satellaview, Super Famicom Show more

Genres:Role-playing (RPG), Adventure

Themes:Action, Fantasy

Game modes:Single player

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Terranigma is an action role-playing game for the SNES. It is one of the few games which has never been released in North America. The Game is about a boy named Ark whose fate is to resurrect the earth and to contribute to the evolution of life.

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I never got to play this on the SNES and it has yet to be re-released. A friend recommended it & it became my life for a year. The story is astounding, if I didn't know better I would say that it was written by Hideo Kojima. The music and related artwork is really fantastic and it would be a tragedy if this jewel was lostWilver1ne

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@Wilver1ne

July 10, 2025

I never got to play this on the SNES and it has yet to be re-released. A friend recommended it & it became my life for a year. The story is astounding, if I didn't know better I would say that it was written by Hideo Kojima. The music and related artwork is really fantastic and it would be a tragedy if this jewel was lost

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@Opal1184

July 15, 2025

Oh my god. Id never thought it could be possible to find one of the greatest games evr here on gog. Loved it so much and maybe can love it again. Please make it happen.

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@stubborngull

August 02, 2025

Terranigma is an amazing game, arguably the best of a loose trilogy of really solid action adventure titles, with Soul Blazer & Illusion of Gaia/Time being its siblings. I think others have done a better job than me of singing the games praises - so instead I will focus on why this game, along with the other 2 in the trilogy but specifically Terranigma, really are begging for preservation. Quintet is defunct, the last game they released was in 2002, & they ceased having any kind of presence circa 2008. The Quintet trilogy has never been re-released, the only way you can play the games today is either by owning an orginal cartridge OR going the ROM emulation route. One of which has a hardware degredation problem, the other of which has known legality problems. And specifically to Terranigma - it never had a USA release. It has a full, official English translation, but that was for the European market. Meaning unlike the other 2 games there was a substantial chunk of the global consumer base who never played this fantastic game, which along with the rest of Quintet's library was certainly an inspiration for other cult classics like Legend of Mana & Dark Cloud. This is the kind of game that NEEDS preservation folks - it is in active danger of eventually being lost, & that would just be a real crying shame. FFS please give it a vote to help prevent that.

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@thoughtwrangler

August 02, 2025

This game is a testament not only to the power of video games as a medium for telling stories, but also to how much can be said in so little. At the risk of hyperbole, I feel like this game is on par with no less than Xenogears and Planescape: Torment in terms of the questions it asks and the answers it posits. The fact that it's a smooth, satisfying action RPG that is genuinely fun to play, and has a soundtrack that rivals the best of the RPG genre is icing on the cake. But it's tasty, sophisiticated icing. Like that fancy italian meringue stuff. What were we talking about again? Oh, right. Terranigma is a certified banger. I don't know what set of improbable circumstances would have to happen to bring this one out of the shadows of physical, region-locked cartridges and unlicensed emulation, but one can only hope.

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@superbum99

August 28, 2025

Having never been released in North America, I didn't play this game until I was well into college. I'm talking around 2010. I thought I was in for another great action adventure ala A Link to the Past but, no, it was so much more. I personally prefer this over even Chrono Trigger. Having read about the character limitations on the English translation due to cartridge memory space, it would be great if such a restriction was removed and replaced with a more direct-as-intended one to let the story really shine through. I typically don't have my emotions provoked during gameplay, but this game manage to do it. I massively recommend it.

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@Torulf Axebeard

September 26, 2025

Terranigma is, to my recollection, one of, if not THE last game to be released on the SNES. I remember seeing a review of it in a game magazine way back in the day, and I was fascinated with it immediately. It is a fantastic game, and the fact that it's almost impossible to play legally these days, along with other Quintet games like SoulBlazer, ActRaiser 2 and Illusion of Gaia is a downright travesty. I recall the first time I played the game and when you first stepped out of the starting village. Without spoiling anything, THAT moment convinced me the game was going to be something truly memorable. And I STILL had NO idea what was coming! What happened after Chapter 1 blew my mind. Suddenly the scope of the game was beginning to reveal itself, and epic doesn't even begin to describe it. The pixel art and animations are top notch for the era, as are the animations of the main character, Ark, in particular. The combat is a lot of fun with a good list of moves to pull off for a game of this genre. The music is also absolutely stellar, and sets the tone of the game brilliantly. It has an incredible mix of melancholy and hopefulness for a lot of tracks, with more upbeat tunes here and there, and also much more ominous, eerie ones. This game really should be widely available for everyone to play (legally!), so seeing this somehow, miraculously pop up on GOG (along with the other lost Quintet games) would be absolutely phenomenal.

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@SkyLineZero2015

September 28, 2025

This was and IS the BEST game ever created for the SNES. It is beautiful, it has many to discover, the story is exccelent and the characters are very rar. The combats are nice. But i would play the game in an NEW balance, because it was toooo easy to play. If you could make it a litte bit more difficult, than it would make double fun! It makes so much fun and i played it last month on my SNES. This would be very nice, if GOG could import it to GOG with more difficult balance and high resolution option. I would buy it DIRECTLY on release. GOG i beg for it. ADD IT TO GOG. I want start a new journey with the main character ARK and FLUFFY, to safe the world - our earth - and release the world from Ragnara and Beruga.

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@hatlock

November 15, 2025

This was a dream game for me as a young adult. I loved Illusion of Gaia as a child and in many ways this game gave me much more of what I loved about that game. The progression from reviving the worlds continents, to plant life, animal life, then a world wide trek through human history was astounding. Quintet ended way to soon. This would be a fantastic game to have available to more people.

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@realnessgeek

December 31, 2025

I recently played a Japanese import of this game. Terranigma is a game that never made it to the US - only released in Europe and Japan. The gameplay is great with its Zelda-like feel. Instead of using a sword to attack enemies, you use a spear and you get different kinds of spears as you progress. The central theme to the game is world-building as your character is tasked with reviving the earth and the living things on it. Like others may have said, the game touches upon life, humanity, light and darkness, and other deep themes. What also makes this game stand out is that you get to meet characters based on real life historical figures (like Alexander Graham Bell, Thomas Edison, Will Wright, etc.) which connects this game to the real world, despite its fictional setting. Another feature this game offers is that you get to help villages grow by completing specific tasks which gives you that satisfying feel of accomplishment. If this game gets greenlighted on GOG, it will be the first worldwide release of Terranigma/Tenchi Souzou.

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@clasalle7

June 01, 2026

One of the greatest games to never release in North America. This game was ahead of it's time. It's a shame it hasn't seen any official release outside of the SNES.

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FreelancerEight hundred years prior to the start of our story, bitter conflict divided all of mankind. A handful of colonists struck out on their own to begin anew - far away from the Earth and its turmoil. Several ships were launched with enough equipment and supplies to give the hundreds onboard a fighting chance - but since the area around far-off Sirius had never been surveyed, no one really knew what to expect. What they found was a new frontier of free-flowing natural resources, unexplored territories, great wonders and lurking dangers. Each ship, representing the clusters of people and their earthly place of origin, settled into different parts of the galaxy pre-selected by their ship-board computer to give them the best chance of survival. Life was hard in the beginning, but over the 800 years the different colonies prospered and expanded their territories, claiming more and more systems for their own. Survival and propagation eventually led to growth and profit as each of the colonies developed specialties and fostered commerce. As the colonies grew and time passed their connections with their roots on Earth dwindled and they lost their memories of the conflicts of the past. Soon their attention was dominated by new, more immediate conflicts. Feelings of lost ancestral connection spurred anachronism in the look of the great cities, and created a somewhat distorted image of each colony's cultural heritage. In the ever-expanding outer edge of the territories, frontier lawlessness prevailed. The Houses: Each shipboard colony that left Earth carried some memory of its origins in its name. The Liberty carried Americans, The Bretonia flew from The United Kingdom and surrounding territory, The Kusari from Asia, and the Rheinland launched with Germanic cargo. As each ship settled and colonies began to expand, they knew little about each other and their advancing development. Finally, little by little, the individual colonies found each other and began to set up trade routes to link their systems for commerce and solidarity. Today, with each colony firmly rooted in its respective corner of the galaxy, the colonies rely heavily on each other for trade and industry but also compete for resources and new territories in the Border Worlds. The colonies mandate member governments in "The New Alliance" within the Sirius sector. To control conflicts, each colony has forged alliances and treaties with others as they have grown. Competition remains fierce, however. Struggles rage for supremacy in business, commerce, resources, power and control. There can be tenuous peace between colonies' political agendas, but the grabs for holdings constantly unsettle the volatile frontier.

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