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@ModdingNewbie

2 жыл бұрын

I own a copy of _ActRaiser_ 1, and the most memorable parts to me were the discovery of wheat and the first time I connected two of the cities with a road. Something about the game makes those feel like great accomplishments.

@Sparkbomber

2 жыл бұрын

The sountrack. I love this game to bits. The remake is ehh.... not bad, but has less charm. I still am glad that I owned Actraiser on the SNES. Actraiser 2 otoh... Looked good but it was unfun. No simulation mode and bloody over the top difficulty.

My brother and i switched on Actraiser. He would play the side scrolling portion and I would do the simulator portion. It was great fun for us both.

@lauraw2526

2 жыл бұрын

Ah, same!

One of my favorites on the SNES that I had as a kid. I got it at a video rental shop. I kept renting the shit out of it so eventually, the owner just let me buy it for 20 bucks. Love this game.

@magvs_mæstro216

2 жыл бұрын

Nice. Wish blockbuster would of let me do that with FinalFantasy 3/VI lol

Actraiser is a gaming masterpiece. Actraiser 2, on the other hand, is a gorgeous piece of art that forgot itself. That being said, 2 years ago, I approached it with a very 1990s mindset and sat my ass down on the carpet and gave it the same treatment that I gave Super Ghouls and Ghosts. 8 hours a day, taking breaks, memorizing every single pattern and enemy placement. Happy to say that I finally beat it on normal, but it absolutely came at great cost lol. Not an easy game! Best advice I can give? Master the double jump/float and you must absolutely master 2 or 3 of the spells. If you aren’t willing to appreciate the decade the game was made, do not even try.

Back then I never did play the first one, but Actraiser 2 was my go-to rental during many summer weekends. What a great game, even though i never finished it. I remember a magazine had one of those photo collage maps of a tower in the game and I was so stoked when I finally reached that level. But that one broke me, don't remember ever beating it, lol.

Loved this game as a kid. The music and story of the townspeople moved me to tears. It was so unique and although very challenging, I beat several times over.

The mix of genres was awesome... I imagine it helped keep it from ever seeming monotonous..

As a kid I wasn't very good at platforming games and didn't have much patience for them either. But I *loved* the simulation parts of this game, so I remember getting my brother to beat most of the platform parts while I built up the cities. I think it was the first simulation game I played, and started my lifelong love of simulation games.

The excellence of Actraiser 2's graphics cannot be overstated. Absolute masterpiece. Still more beautiful than 95% of games released TODAY! The music is also exquisite. Way too hard though.

Actraiser Renaissance is pretty good on the PS4. I imagine it is even better on the PS5. I don’t know about the Switch though.

@StiffAftermath

2 жыл бұрын

I find the sim parts waaaaaay too long though. The pace just becomes too tedious in both action and sim mode IMO.

@YojiKyuSama

2 жыл бұрын

It plays alright. Animations are a little weird.

I'll be watching this episode tomorrow, thanks for your work!

The music of the first game and that cover art. Inspired so many graphic novel creations in my childhood. Psssst... The carts shown on ebay are chinese repros. Better to spend the money on a real cart IMO.

@gvfo

2 жыл бұрын

I was going to say the same thing. The original cart is closer to 50 dollars these days and you can tell them apart because it’s a first model cart, a bit “fatter”.

@StiffAftermath

11 ай бұрын

This was one of the first snes games, and one of the best! Gosh, I wish I could go back in time...

I got Actraiser 2 first, and I’ve played it many times since. It’s hard to get used to, but a really incredible presentation. The first game is perfect as far as I’m concerned. Just fun front to back.

I thought that the first half of this video seemed oddly familiar. You double dippin' cheeky guy you, ha. Jokes aside, I'm glad that you expanded on your previous video. The added transition in between is pretty awesome as well. I have yet to play this title. However, after watching your videos on it I plan on checking it out here soon. As always, great analysis man. Keep up the good work

@Xygor

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the feedback! Glad you liked the video.

I played this as a kid. Your video made me recall so many things. I was always frustrated that I couldn’t level up enough to get the last health bar to have the same health as the bosses.

Nice job professor. Just picked this up on my Playstation and, after watching this, will have to give it a shot sooner rather than later

This is one of my favorite SNES games! I vividly remember the music to the opening title as well. It's pretty iconic, but for me, I was more blown away by the music for Filmore act 1. The first stage of the game sounding like that just got me excited for the rest of the action stages! To this day I don't think any level 1/first stage track has ever beat that one and that's saying a lot considering how long it's been. My favorite moment was getting to the first simulation area in Filmore. That REALLY surprised me. I had rented the game based on the front of the box at the time so I had no manual an no indication of what I'll be in for so it was one of those things I picked on a whim. When I discovered that the game blended two of my favorite different types of games into one, I knew I was playing something truly unique and awesome.

I’m happy I got the snes cart in my collection. Such a timeless classic that you can easily spend hours building the towns.

Something you forgot to mention about the remake Actraiser Renaissance is the addition of a tower defence mode mixed with the city building mode. It completely changes the pace of the city mode because it dictates when you're allowed to seal monster lairs or not, not counting all the story cutscenes that have been added which constantly interrupt your game. Just a bit of warning for the fans who might consider getting the remake instead of tracking down the original game.

The first games music was so iconic i used it in my star wars reviews videos

I will never forget the bombastic intro of the song of the first level.

Both games look great

I own a japanese copy, boxed released in 1990, it has an awesome manual and cover art. Thanks for the review!

I got it on my Wii when I was taking Bible as Literature in college. I recall joking with the TA about going old testament on the village people. Additionally, I loved the first Dark Cloud game on PS2.

I think this game is truly under appreciated.

I finally realized where I've heard this guys voice before!!!! It's just like the Hot Ones guys voice!

I believe there was an instrumental version of the sound track releases in Japan many many moons ago.

2:39 WALPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOLEEEEEEEEEE!

Actraiser 2 SNES is the only actraiser game to get because I have 1&3 for SNES/switch and PS4 and PC

i still have my Actraiser cart and hacked the snes mini and it it along with Soul Blazer and some other games

This means that Act Raiser is literally a Bible Game.

I remember enjoying Actraiser but it always got me hung up on the simulation aspects. While as an adult I appreciate what they did, I didn't enjoy them. Wasn't a fan of SimCity, so I guess that makes sense. I LOVED ActRaiser 2, in the same way I loved Chakan and WeaponLord. Ultimately, enjoyed them but too hard for my enjoyment. I'd rent them, enjoy the whooping I received, annndd then went back to playing Chrono Trigger, Demon's Crest, and Final Fantasy III. :D

The music at 6:09 sounds like Sami’s’ theme from Super Metroid. Sound close to the same sound chip.

Actraiser was one of the few games av available at our rental store. I took a chance on it and it just blew me away with how fun it was. I was severely disappointed by Actraiser 2, however.

I bought the remake the second I heard about it, but good lord, the game can't get out of it's own way. Constant tutorial stuff pops up to interrupt you, and adding the tower defense stuff just DRAGS everything out

Hell yea!!

Sad they don't make games like they used to anymore where you can just pick it up and start playing and come back later and can beat the came in a few hours instead of spending hundreds of hours. Actraiser 1 was awesome back in the 90s and have great replay value today. Tried Actraiser 2 for a bit and didn't like it much due to the stiff controls and no building feature.

Instead of messing with an absolute masterpiece Square Enix should have remade #2 to bring it up to par.

I never got to play the first one. I did get the 2nd one for one of my birthdays though and as much as I loved the graphics and music, the game was WAY TOO HARD

Where did you get those prices? Are those repros? I was just searching this up on eBay and its going for INSANE prices

Honestly, it was for the best that they changed the God/Satan names for the english version. Satanic Panic was still going pretty strong in the 90s :-/

Fantastic game. If someone could explain how to not get hit during the faster(end game) Minotaur boss fight that would be great.

I loved the all the quintet games I played back in the day. I just wish I could have bought the games back then as opposed to renting them. Actraiser 2 was one of the best action platformers on the SNES, to bad it still ended up being a bit of a letdown due to dropping the angel segments..

I believe I saw someone beat Actraiser 2 hard difficulty at a games done quick a few years ago. Edit: yup I did back in 2019. This was before gdq went completely off the rails and started having completely obscure games no one has heard of that has maybe 3 runners and the runner showcasing it misses 75% of the tricks but gets a spotlight over runners and games people would like to see because they check the right boxes. kzread.info/dash/bejne/omaCtMmIm7a7p8Y.html

@Xygor

Жыл бұрын

That's pretty darn impressive!

i rented this game as a kid and was like man... What lame crap is this. And then You get ported down into the world. And Filmore starts jaming, and you hacking dudes up with your sword. love the hell out of this game so much fun

You showed repro carts on ebay, china, hong kong etc

Do saga frontier series with focus on the second one.

no mention of how slow and broken the gameplay is on AR2? why does youtube keep suggesting me your videos?

ActRaiser Renaissance looks like a hideous cell phone game.

Me as a kid: actraiser is fun but I don't like these building parts. Holy shit ACTRAISER 2 KICKS ASS!🤯🙃🤷🏻‍♂️

They have a pc remastered version of this game.

@Xygor

2 жыл бұрын

I mention that in the video!