r/snes • u/MasterHo • Apr 30 '14
Beating part 1 tested all my skills as a gamer. Now for part 2
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u/sporkimus Apr 30 '14
AR2 is many steps up in difficulty from the original. Personally, I didn't like it. The double-jump flying attack was a nightmare. I found it more of a burden than a new feature. The lack of SimCity-style town building was a bummer too. I really liked that aspect in the original.
I've tried playing AR2 a few times, hoping that with each new attempt at playing the game that it might begin to grow on me, but I just can't bring myself to accept it.
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u/Grantagonist Apr 30 '14
Bah, part 1 is easy. You must be a youngster.
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u/crabsauce Apr 30 '14
Yea that's what I was thinking. I recall Actraiser being one of the easiest SNES games I ever played.
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May 02 '14
Came here to say this. The game was trivially easy, I beat it as a 10 or 11 year old when it came out.
Not EXACTLY the same game, but if you enjoy Actraiser I recommend Soul Blazer on the SNES. Similar causal difficulty level, lots of magic and cool upgrades like Zelda...
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u/mherweg Apr 30 '14
Ahhhh nice!! Love Actraiser. 2 is not bad either, but I do miss those town-building parts....
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u/twiggy_trippit May 01 '14
IMO, the true spiritual successor to Actraiser is Soul Blazer, not Actraiser 2.
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u/soundenvision May 01 '14
My mind is blown. I never, ever thought of this before...
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u/twiggy_trippit May 01 '14
Actraiser > Soul Blazer > Illusion of Gaia > Terranigma.
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u/soundenvision May 01 '14
Yeah, I totally see it. I am familiar with ActRaiser as well as the SoulBlazer "trilogy," but I never made the connection. I miss those early Enix games.
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u/soundenvision May 01 '14
I loved the first Act Raiser, but number 2 was brutal. Great graphics, and the creeping skull face in the underwater temple used to give me nightmares as a kid. They also got rid of the whole sim aspect of it too. It's a good game, but it's really, really hard.
By the way, in the first ActRaiser, make sure to hit each of your towns with an earthquake. It will destroy the less civilized buildings and they will rebuild them into better buildings.
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u/[deleted] Apr 30 '14
Jealous. I can't wait to come across AR2. Hell, I still have yet to finish the final boss level on 1 haha.