Terranigma

Terranigma

SNES - Europe - 1st edition.

Developer Quintet Publisher Enix Published 1995-??-?? Platforms SNES Genres Action adventure, Action RPG Themes Adventure, Fantasy Series Gaia Distribution Commercial

Terranigma is an action-adventure RPG made by Quintet and published by Enix on the SNES in 1995.

Personal

Own?	No.
Won?	No.

Being a fan of other action RPGs for the SNES, I decided to play this game. I made it almost halfway through before becoming bored with it and gave up.

Review

5	5	7	5	4

Best Version: SNES

— This section contains spoilers! —

Good

• The graphics, music, and sound effects are all pretty good.
• The manual is well-made.

Bad

• There is an obnoxious delay at numerous points in the game dialogue and during cut-scenes.
• The extra-dimensional box which serves as the menu system, while quite charming, slows down the game a lot.
• There is an annoying thud each time you hit a solid wall while running.
• Throughout the game, there were several sections where I got stuck and needed to consult a walkthrough. There were just a lot of things the developers expected the player to try that were not intuitive at all.
• The lion cub escort mission is really annoying.
• A quibble, but the player's shadow is visible even when he's over a pit, which hurts immersion.

Ugly

• Nothing.

Media

Documentation

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  Game manual.

Videos

Longplay.

Play Online

SNES (Europe), SNES (France), SNES (Germany), SNES (Spain), Super Famicom

Representation

Strong female character?	Fail	There are a number of female NPCs, but none are that important.
Bechdel test?	Fail	I don't think women ever speak to each other.
Strong person of color character?	Fail	As far as I can tell, all strong characters are white.
Queer character?	Fail	There are no queer characters.

Titles

Language	Native	Transliteration	Translation
English	Terranigma
Japanese	天地創造	Tenchi Sozo	The Creation of Heaven and Earth

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