I just recently got into this old SNES game called Terranigma, and I have to say... I LOVE IT!!! It\'s by far one of the few greatest SNES games I\'ve ever played!

The game plays in a similar way to the only game I can think to compare it to, Legend of Zelda: A link to the past, except that Terranigma also gives us the presence of an Overworld RPG-style map. (With no random encounters! YAY!) However, unlike old Link from his SNES game, you can do a LOT more with Ark. From the start you can already walk, run, and jump by default. And you can perform several kinds of attacks depending on wether your standing still, running, or jumping, or any combination of the three! For instance, repeatedly hitting the attack button really fast will make Ark perform a sort of rapid-fire multistrike move with his weapon, and attacking while in the middle of a dashing-jump will make Ark do sort of a power body-crash at the ground, after which he\'ll skid a bit. (So watch out for holes!) Put simply the gameplay gets a 10/10 in my book.

As far as the plot goes, it\'s pretty deep. The story starts in an \"Underground\" world of sorts. (Basically, we\'re on the planet Earth, but Ark\'s home village of Crysta is deep beneath the earth\'s surface. I\'m not sure exactly where but probably the center for all we know...). If you watch the opening movie for the game, you\'ll see five masses of land being sucked into what appears to be a black hole of some sort, where they end up in the underground as five tiny blinking lights we can assume right away are souls of some sort. Each one ends up in a corresponding tower in the underground in various locations around Crysta.

Anywho, leaving that alone for now, you play Ark, a troublesome youth in the town of Crysta who\'s been stirring up trouble again. After making your roundabouts around the village you eventually get coerced by some pals to check out this forbidden door in the elder\'s house that nobody\'s supposed to go inside. (If you walk by it once or twice a voice calls out to you from nowhere asking for help.) You eventually get this door open and go inside to find a strange box with a batty little creature inside called Yomi. The elder catches you Red Handed telling you that the box and Yomi do not belong in the underground, and that by freeing them from imprisonment, you upset the balance of nature or something. So from here on, you\'re sent on a mission to revive the planet. First you have to go to the five towers surrounding and revive the continents. (remember that movie?) I won\'t tell you much from there, since it kinda spoils the game if you haven\'t played.

... wait, that\'s what we have spoilers for! Don\'t read unless you really don\'t care about being spoiled.

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\"Tisk, tisk Flare. You know better than that! ^_^\" ~ Breakman

[Edited on 27-1-2006 by Breakman]