ActRaiser

ActRaiser (アクトレイザー- Akutoreizā ) is a game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, which was first published in 1990. In the game, two game genres are combined: Action in Jump 'n' Run - style and structure simulation such as in-game Sim City.

Action

The order of the world is maintained by a deity, known as " The Master ". Tanzra, " The Evil One ", is the eternal opponent of the master and wants to destroy the world. On Tanzras command whose six guards attacked the master and carried with him a several -day struggle of. Badly wounded, the master moved to the fight back to its floating on a cloud sky palace to feed his wounds there. He sealed the palace and fell into a long and deep sleep.

Tanzras hour had come: he divided the world into six countries, each ruled by one of his guards. The master woke up until several hundred years later, healed from his wounds, but he had lost his power after the people had turned evil. The master removed the seal from his palace and took on the task of ridding the world of evil.

Game History

The game changes regularly between Jump 'n' Run -like action units and sections that are similar to playing a gods simulation. The player character is equipped with a sword, with which it makes its way through the landscaped like a side-scrolling level. These are populated by classical mythology borrowed monsters. Have they been defeated successfully, it is necessary to beat the final boss of the level. If this happen, will open on the simulation level, a new section.

The player controls here as a god an angel who has to oversee the construction of a city. Here are attacking monster ward who come from burrows out. The population is instructed where to build roads, built houses and fields to be created. Aim is to seal all the caves from where the monsters have come to the upper world. A burrow is sealed when it is man who has succeeded to build a road up to it. In such a case, the population growth increases. The higher the number of inhabitants and the happier the residents, the greater the possibility that they offer to their god gifts. The gifts have an effect like this, that certain values ​​of the character to be increased. From a certain population density, which is reached when all the caves are sealed, disaster strikes, threatening the city, such as the eruption of a volcano. Now the second jump 'n ' run level is to deny this section. Also the final boss is defeated, this part of the world is finally freed from evil.

Already after the first action level, the player can move with a huge flying palace a large continent. In this way, it floats to the individual areas in order to found a civilization and to ward off evil. All dominated by Tanzra countries were liberated on this way, the master has fulfilled the task.

Further Issues

The game was followed by ActRaiser 2 is a sequel.

2004 saw the game as a mobile version on the market and included the first three levels of the original.

In 2007, the Wii owners opened up the possibility to download the game for the Virtual Console.