This left the company struggling to produce any successful action-oriented titles, shifting focus towards pornographic mahjong arcade games instead.

Terra Cresta 3D was negatively received for its gameplay, level design, and inferiority to similar games on the platform, although its graphics and soundtrack were praised by some.

Assuming the role of three different starships — the Winger, Gamma and Beta — the player is tasked with completing six stages by destroying enemies and avoiding collision with them and their projectiles.

[3] Terra Cresta 3D is one of the company's last video games alongside titles such as Battle Round USA, as they suspended their operations in the early 2000s.

[9] In a 2016 retrospective review, Jess Ragan of Hardcore Gaming 101 called it a "disconcertingly watered down sequel" to the original Terra Cresta, disliking its graphics, transparency effects, camera angle and overall gameplay for being inferior to other shooters on the Saturn and to earlier titles in the series.

Ragan also praised the soundtrack for its usage of orchestral remixes of tracks from the original, saying that had Nichibutsu put the same amount of effort into the game as they did with the music it "could have been something special".