Actraiser Renaissance

Had a good time 100%ing the game; it was a pretty nostalgic journey. I wanted more stuff to do in it in the end lol. The new tower mode was a surprise, but a pleasant one at that; it was fun making combinations between specific heroes during the late game. While I'm not a big fan of the graphic style they went with, the game is pretty solid and worth the money content-wise; it's a nice remaster with additional content. Having the option to toggle modern movement on and off was nice. I went through the whole game on hard difficulty with the old-school playstyle, and it was rewarding; I had to switch to modern for divine difficulty, though. Pretty sweet to have included both the original and remastered OSTs. If I had to nitpick two things: first, I'm not a big fan of what they did with the angel character; she's so sassy and sometimes mean, lol. Second, some of the quests were just straight-up padding and grinding, like "go kill X things because of reason"; it feels like the game could have been done without them, really. The plant boss on divine difficulty might be the hardest boss to do, I had to switch between modern and old-school movement to beat her. Overall a good game, if you played the original back then go for it! If you never played it before, give it a shot on sale or something if you aren't sure about enjoying this type of game. Man, now I wish for a sequel/spiritual successor.

If you know what this game is, you probably have lower back pain

First, this is a children's game. If you keep that in mind, you'll know what to expect. It's very simple and repetitive, but it's quite similar to the SNES version. They added a ton of dialogue, updated graphics, a new "raid" style system within each kingdom, a new "champion" for each kingdom to help drive the dialogue, and there was a lot of other interesting changes. I don't like the "level 20 for each character" trophies, as they are a simple grind that takes hours and hours. No challenge, just time with the game running. The "special" mode seems interesting, but it's mostly just "replay" value for a game that used to be one and done... focused on a speedrunner/completionist mindset as far as the challenge. All in all, I liked this trip down memory lane, but it took 20+ hours to complete a single run through. Most of that was reading, and most of that reading/plot is at a middle school level or below. There is a skip button for most (maybe all?) dialog scenes. There's also "quests" to complete for each kingdom, and mostly focused on wait around for production (food, resources), or do what you were going to do anyway (clear the map of obstacles), or let them develop (build farms/factories/houses). There isn't a lot of skill required to play this. The platforming is very basic, the controls are simple (Jump, swing, magic) with Up+swing, Down+swing, and LorR+swing being the only "combos" involved. The boss battles at the end of each level have very limited/basic patterns of attack. It's not "Nintendo hard". Again, as a children's game, it's great. I wouldn't recommend it for anyone over the age of 15 unless you wanted a trip down memory lane.

Très bon remaster, Jeu semblable à nul autre dans son déroulement, mais que ce soit la phase de tower-defense ou la phase plateforme, les deux sont très jouissives. Le jeu est aussi très beau et les musiques sont entrainantes. Juste la V-sync qui ne fonctionne pas.

Excepcional. Mantém o aspecto nostálgico do clássico, porém desenvolve mais a história. A trilha sonora que já era formidável ficou espetacular. Esperando ansiosamente pelo remake do clássico ActRaiser 2.

I really want to see "Terranigma" receive this kind of love too! Perfection!

If you really enjoyed the SNES version (i played it to death), you will enjoy this remake. The new combat system and magic attacks are great and the enemies and bosses have some new patterns. The tower defense system isn't great but it's not awful. The addition of the heroes is a nice touch and adds more story to the game.