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.
The Story contains four chapters.
In the fist chapter "The Outset", Ark gets introduced as a boy who lives in Crysta, the only remaining village in the under world. He touches a mysterious box which freezes up all citizens in the village. By conquering towers in the under world, Ark unfreezes the village people little by little and incidentially resurrects the continents in the destroyed upper world. Hereupon, the Elder of the village instructs him to visit the upper world and resurrect the life.
In the second chapter "Ressurrection of the World", Ark ressurects all plants in the world making it possible to cross the mountains of Guiana. In the second step he reanimates all the birds, the wind, animals and most recently, the humans.
In the third chapter "Resurrection of the Genius", the elder of the village appears in Arks dream telling him to support humankind in making progress. Ark travels from city to city and helps in cities growth and the development of technologies. But he also resurrects Beruga, a scientist who put himself into a sleep state back when when earth was destroyed. He has a vision of a perfect world in which most people get killed by a virus and only a few people live on the world by being turned into immortal zombies. The elder appears again, telling Ark that his work is done and he can die now. Ark realizes now he as human from the darkside has been used by Dark Gaia for his plans over world's domination. Kumari, a wise man teleports Ark away and tells him to search for five starstones to call the golden child. Ark meets his Lightside self who kills the darkside Ark.
In the fourth and last chapter "Ressurection of the Hero", Ark will be reborn as a baby through Light Gaia. He beats Beruga and then travels back to the underworld to defeat Dark Gaia. The victory over dark Gaia destructs all the dark side, therefore the underworld with the village Crysta. Knowing that he'll be reincarnated, Ark accepts his fate and goes to sleep.
Replayability- too long and involved, plus to sparse of meaningful moment to want to take the journey more than once.
By far the best of the three Quintet Trilogy games. Had a very deep, involving (though somewhat convoluted) story with fairly interesting and likable characters- some of which are based of real people which is pretty rare. Very decent graphics and an easy to learn combat system make it a pretty great game overall, though it felt a bit long winded based on the point the story was trying to make sometimes.
Score Breakdown
“The Tale”
Story- 7
Pacing- 6
Characters- 7
Originality- 8
Linearity- 8
Length- 7
Epicness- 7
“The Presentation”
Visuals- 8
Display- 9
Music- 8
Sound FX- 8
“The Mechanics”
Ease of Use- 8
Innovation- 8
Replayability- 5