I just finished Terranigma for my first time. Quite an experience, I must say! Absolutely an SNES classic, no doubt about it. I was actually stumped during the final battle too. I wasn't sure what you were supposed to do. I couldn't figure out how to damage him for awhile! I finally noticed if you back away from the boss towards the bottom of the platform he comes closer and you are able to damage him. I was THIS close to checking a guide because I literally tried everything I could think of. I even equipped Elle's cloak during his beam attack that halves your HP thinking it would deflect damage back, lol! I would have been MEGA pissed if I had to resort to a guide too because I didn't need to use one the entire time. A LOT of the procedural events in that game required you to talk to every NPC in various villages/cities. If you weren't taking down notes (or mental notes, at least) I could see people getting extremely lost, especially at the end where you need to collect the 5 stones. Seriously, equipping a flower and talking to a penguin to proceed in the game? There was ONE NPC that hinted at this in an old town. You then had to find an old stopover bird point that took you to Greenland. Pretty fucking obscure, even if it is an old game!
I'm not sure if it was the English script or what, but I honestly had trouble following the story in Terranigma. The ending was really nice and there seemed to be a lot of touching moments throughout the game, but I was a bit confused as to what was going on half the time. Did anyone else feel that (or remember?) the game being kind of all over the place? I mean, I get that it was about reincarnation/evolution, etc. but once it started talking about
I don't know, maybe I wasn't paying attention enough during some dialogue.
Regardless, I loved the idea of the game a lot. The sidequests/town building shit was so fucking cool and memorable. I will definitely play this game again one day and go for a perfect save because I definitely missed my chance to obtain all of the Magicrocks and one of those special weapons. Now, back to Soul Blazer!
I'm not sure if it was the English script or what, but I honestly had trouble following the story in Terranigma. The ending was really nice and there seemed to be a lot of touching moments throughout the game, but I was a bit confused as to what was going on half the time. Did anyone else feel that (or remember?) the game being kind of all over the place? I mean, I get that it was about reincarnation/evolution, etc. but once it started talking about
the two copies of each person (including Ark), the virus strain stuff, and the original Crysta events, I kind of lost track of what was happening.
Regardless, I loved the idea of the game a lot. The sidequests/town building shit was so fucking cool and memorable. I will definitely play this game again one day and go for a perfect save because I definitely missed my chance to obtain all of the Magicrocks and one of those special weapons. Now, back to Soul Blazer!