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ActRaiser
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Few early Super Nintendo games asked you to be both a warrior and a god. ActRaiser does both, and that double life is why it still feels unlike anything else on the system. Quintet and Enix put two genres on one cartridge: you descend as the Master to cut down monsters in side-scrolling action stages, then return to your floating Sky Palace to guide a fledgling civilization through a top-down god simulation. It was an audacious idea for the console's first year, and it works far better than it has any right to.
The world has been carved up by the demon Tanzra and his lieutenants. Each region, from Fillmore and Bloodpool to Kasandora, Aitos, Marahna and Northwall, opens with an action stage that clears the land. Then the simulation takes over: a little cherub angel directs your people where to build, shoots arrows at the creatures spilling out of monster lairs, and calls down your miracles. Lightning clears trees and rock, rain and sunlight reshape the terrain, wind and earthquakes knock down obstacles, and every new citizen strengthens the Master for the next battle. Offerings from one town often solve a problem in another, so the regions feel connected rather than self-contained.
Then there is the music. Yuzo Koshiro's score was among the first to show what the Super Nintendo's sound chip could do, with sweeping orchestral themes that make the opening stage in Fillmore feel like an overture. Plenty of players first heard what 16-bit orchestration could sound like right here, and the soundtrack is still mentioned in the same breath as the genre-blending.
The blend has rarely been tried since. Quintet's own sequel dropped the simulation entirely, Square Enix remade the original as ActRaiser Renaissance in 2021, and the North American release added a Professional Mode that strips the game down to its action stages at a higher difficulty for players who want pure swordplay. Quintet would go on to Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma, but ActRaiser is where its taste for mixing creation and combat began, and a fine reason to dig back into the Super Nintendo's first wave of games.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Enix America Corporation
- Developer
- Quintet
- Genre
- Platformer, Simulation, Strategy
- Players
- Single player
About the game
ActRaiser is a 1990 platform and city-building simulation game for the Super Nintendo, combining traditional side-scrolling platforming with urban planning god game sections. In 2007, ActRaiser became available on the Wii's Virtual Console download service. A version of the game was also released for European mobile phones in 2004.
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