Oprainfall's retrospective on how older games have held up and compare to modern games begins with a look at Enix's classic action-platform-simulation video game, ActRaiser.
Oprainfall writes: "Actraiser aged well. Not necessarily like fine wine but good enough. The music could be better, the landscape could be more detailed, and the game could have had a bit more depth to it in all aspects. But the gameplay is what keeps it going."
The 1990s were a time where mech-suit manga and television shows were starting to filter into the United States. The result was that we got a boatload of cool mech games like Metal Warriors.
Still love the Power Rangers games but most of these underrated games cost an arm and a leg to buy unless you kept them around when they released.
yeah I had to resort to an everdrive cart for my Analogue Super NT because some game prices are just ridiculous.
Sparkster. Like Rocket Knight Adventures on the Sega Genesis neither game seems to be brought up much. I played both game a whole lot growing up.
Wow, would you look at that? A game list with some actual forgotten gems. Color me impressed.
Good stuff. 👍
I cannot praise EVO The Search for Eden enough. This game deserves a remake as it’s one of the wildest platformer JRPGs ever made. The concept of spending XP on evolving and devolving on the fly to navigate the world was really interesting. Evolution in games is rarely tackled creatively but EVO nailed it.
This was one of my favorite games during the 16-Bit era. Me and my cousin rented it not knowing what it was and ended up finishing it. Still, to this day, one of the most unique games I've ever played. Very addictive too.
This game is truly tops. 👍
Unfortunately, not all the best games are accessible today for a whole host of reasons:
- The title is too rare or expensive to find today
- The translated version of the game never made it to U.S. or the version that came along sucked
- A good or fun game was overlooked in its time and deserves some spotlight
Released only a few months after the Super NES itself, the game quickly showed off the promise of Nintendo’s powerful new system,.
Still unique, one of its kind. I am still waiting for a good spiritual successor or a sequel.
Yup. Great game and great music. I remember I had the Japanese version before I started studying Japanese so I had to figure out the god segments with pure trial and error as I couldn't read a single character. Good memories!
ActRaiser was one of those games where I saw the screenshots in mags and on the game box and was like "Damn the Super Nintendo has amazing graphics". A lot has changed since then. I barely remember playing it, but I remember being more impressed with it visually than gameplay wise.
Don't know if it holds up but this game is definitely one of the most amazing games on SNES I have ever played.
If any game deserves a remake it's this one. But it has to be done right. It has to be a Japanese team of monks that have a studio high in the mountains and create games through sheer force of nature that extends past our physical comprehension.
Its one of my favorite games on the Snes along with Contra 3 Alien Wars!
I love Actraiser back in those days, and it needs to either be remade or continued. Actraiser 2 with no sim gameplay was a bad decision.
Wow this brings back memories. I was only a youngin' when I first played this game. Didn't understand a single thing about the RPG elements and only played through the Arcade type version. Meanwhile my brother really got into it with that little Angle guy flying around.