Actraiser- SNES

[Greatergatsby]

Why on earth did i not know how awesome this game was?? Why did nobody tell me? I've been playing it for about 2-3 hours straight and i'm loving it. especially the sim portion of the game.

[ItsNoot]

I enjoyed it, but the sim experience was a little thin. A similar game that I enjoyed much more was Soul Blazer. You interacted with NPCs in your developing "town" and the action sequences were top down explorer style.

[sj_hurst]

Ignorance is no excuse.. you only have yourself to blame for not knowing Actraiser's awesomeness. :D ;)

The sequel didn't live up to the original. It had great graphics, but the gameplay was difficult (combined with fast-moving enemies) and they removed the simulation aspect of the game.

Despite it (the sim part) being "thin".. sim-type games were very new and simple at that time, especially on consoles. No biggie.. it wasn't the main aspect of the game anyways, just a short & pleasant diversion and still fun (at the time).

http://www.megadriver.com.br/site.cgi?pg=mp3search&what=ActRaiser&exactgame=1

starting @ 00:41 "Birth Of The People" :bigthumb:

[ItsNoot]

I'm a dingus sometimes. I remember Actraiser and Soul Blazer clearly being similar, but never realized they were in fact both Enix titles.

[sj_hurst]

Actraiser was one of the 1st SNES games.. it may have been a launch title, i think. Soul Blazer could almost be considered one of its sequels, though not officially (and for good reason, since it's essentially in a different genre than the main part of Actraiser 1).

From this, you can see that Soul Blazer had 2 unofficial sequels of its own. I didn't know about these games either until reading this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soul_Blazer_series#Soul_Blazer_series

With Actraiser 2, they took the 2D side-scrolling action from Actraiser 1 and tried to improve it (which I guess they did regarding the graphics and speeding up the gameplay, but they also made a game that's very difficult & frustrating). But it's worth checking out if you're really into 2D SNES platformers and up for a serious challenge.

[NuAngel]

I loved ActRaiser! It was one of the games that surprised me as an SNES owner - I didn't like SIM games, RPG's, etc... but the game had a great balance and was immensely fun!

NuAngel