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When Actraiser in 1993 for the SNES appeared in Europe, it had already had almost three years since its first publication in Japan on the hump. Nevertheless, the fascinating game principle in front of the TV: Alternately, in Sidescroll levels, they were actively depressed demons, and then playing from the bird s eye view with a golden bucket as a quasi-mouse pointer in the construction of cities of God.
Krude sounds, as action and gods simulation are two completely different genres, which basically had to repel each other. But with Actraiser, the two elements fit together wonderfully and harmonize a motivating whole. Beautiful graphic in the action scenes and the spectacular soundtrack of Japanese old master Yuzo Koshiro (Streets of Rage, Shenmue) are the icing. The remake of actraiser Renaissance, which is completely surprisingly surprisingly for PlayStation 4 and Switch appeared, shows that the unusual mixture is still working well.
opposites meet each other
Our entry into the game is an action stage, in which we let a statue struggled with a huge sword and over platforms hoping against all sorts of demons. After the victory over the Stage Boss then abruptly changes the genre. Those who think of gods simulation probably has small-scale PC games with complicated menus and a lot of training in mind. How should this please fit Arcadiger 2D action? You have to get involved in it, but the whole thing is basically simplified so much that it floods wonderfully. And above all, it fits the background story for a God who has to go forces through the faith of people to defeat evil.
In the construction stages, you gradually take care of the needs of five cities, each starting with only two inhabitants. You determine where roads are to be built, paves with divine magic (or wonder) the terrain for other houses and done with arrow and bow monster. The beasts regularly rise from the four demonic caves per section to devastate your city.
If your civilization has grown accordingly, you can easily seal the cave after you intervened yourself in the form of the divine statue to make the gardening housegoing monster-spawner. At the end of each section is another 2D Action Stage, which opens in a boss fight against the respective residual deputy. In every structure section, you will receive new magical sayings that you can use.
Rounding monsterhords
As far as that should sound familiar for the connoisseur of the original. In order to bring a little more Pepp into the construction stages, which can at least work well and like to deal with two hours at least for two hours, one has decided to spice the gods simulation with a little tower defense. For each city, you can build a given number of defense systems that are supposed to prevent incident monster hordes to advance up to your temple and destroy it.
You can only intervene, because your angel is limited to working wonders like lightning, but that consume magical energy. Supplying there is sporadically together with health refreshments on the fields of your pendant. In each city there is also a special hero, which you conduct over the card to wipe monsters. Depending on how far you are in the game, you can call heroes from other cities after filling an appropriate display, which then direct them to the focal points.
In each section there is a given number of these tower defense events that start by key points in the story. But it can also happen that you are randomly attacked by stray monsters after all caves are already sealed. The defensive rounds are a nice complement to the simple body of the original, as they bring variety to the otherwise quickly a little dull goddice. The only problem was the lack of control over the locations of defense systems for us in the test. Torhäuser, who is supposed to prevent the enemy, can only be built on certain places, which are not always comprehensible. It would be logical, for example, to secure the heart of the city, the temple, after all sides with such goals. But that does not work. Even once landscaped roads, the running paths for our heroes and the attackers, can not be changed to force the monsters about certain paths.
Technology Check: The game is currently plagued by microcracklists that occur in the action stages and hopefully adjusted with a patch. For the PlayStation version, which is based on this test (played on the PS5), this phenomenon has not noticed any disturbing.
Optics in need of getting used
Actraiser Renaissance is graphically significantly more modern than its 30th SNES model. Logical, you have to go over time. However, a stumbling stone is likely to hide for some fans of the original. Instead of gorgeous, hand-drawn graphics, a completely different look awaits you in the action rods. Sprites and backgrounds are reminiscent of PlayStation 1 title with advanced 2D objects, such as Skeleton Warriors. This graphic style is almost old baking than the original SNES optics today. But if you get involved, you quickly got used to it.
Absolutely inviolable, on the other hand, is the newly recorded (and also as a SNES-original) soundtrack with its pompous and driving fantasy action themes - well, not quite inviolable, because the somewhat to simple background button of the bodybuilder ensures a headache.
All in all, ACTRAISER RENAISSANCE is a thing today as today by its unusual genre mixing, which scores with accessibility and variety. Whether the price of 30 euros is justified, however, we venture a little to doubt. Ten euro less, we would find much more appropriate.
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