Comments on: ActRaiser (SNES Review) https://indiegamerchick.com/2023/11/11/actraiser-snes-review/ Indie and Retro Gaming Reviews from the one and only IGC Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:50:17 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Matty https://indiegamerchick.com/2023/11/11/actraiser-snes-review/#comment-63250 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 11:50:17 +0000 http://indiegamerchick.com/?p=28814#comment-63250 I only got around to playing this recently. I remember it raising eyebrows when it came out thanks to its weird genre mix; I think it manages to do it in a way that works (the city-building stuff folds into the arcade stuff quite nicely rather than it feeling like two separate games). The Japanese take on Christianity that forms the backdrop to the whole thing is… interesting.

]]> By: Matty https://indiegamerchick.com/2023/11/11/actraiser-snes-review/#comment-63248 Tue, 14 Nov 2023 10:54:51 +0000 http://indiegamerchick.com/?p=28814#comment-63248 “two zombies throw their torsos at you”

See, Altered Beast was missing that too.

There’s also a home computer game based on Moonwalker, I’ve never played it but it’s apparently utterly dire and not worth (moon) dusting off.

]]> By: Toad64 https://indiegamerchick.com/2023/11/11/actraiser-snes-review/#comment-63245 Sun, 12 Nov 2023 18:28:08 +0000 http://indiegamerchick.com/?p=28814#comment-63245 I still love Actraiser to this day. Also, the music is so so good! Such a weird combination of sim and action game, and like you said, it doesn’t really do either of them really well, but they just feel great combined. I never played Actraiser 2 since I heard they took out the sim parts and I just wasn’t interested. I thought the remake had some good parts, though I’ll agree the tower defense was unnecessary. I did however like that instead of your townspeople sealing up the portals, you needed to go down and do it yourself in a brief action sequence.

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