/vr/ - Retro Games

>>8183563
>Every single fucking level has its own tileset, holy shit lmao.
>I wish there were more puzzles in the sim sections. The sim part feels like a tutorial stage of a bigger game.
enable cheats on your emulator and just turn on Professional mode, unless you already unlocked it by beating the game.

Then just have fun with the platforming challenge

>>8183567
I beat the game and it stopped at the Game Over screen. Is there actually supposed to be something after the credits? What's "Professional Mode"?

>>8183570
After completing the game once, an extra mode "Professional!" is revealed. This is every Act back-to-back with no Sim Modes. The Master begins with maximum health, but all enemies have double health.

One source says:
>Complete the game, then press [Up] or [Down]x2 at the title screen. An option for professional mode will appear below the "New Game" selection. In this mode, your character has no magic and regular monsters are twice as hard to kill.

In the Euro version they call it action mode and it has difficulty settings, it's a bit different than Professional US mode

>>8183579
>This is every Act back-to-back with no Sim Modes.
Well, I certainly don't want that. Action stages were alright but only in conjunction with the sim mode. On its own, ActRaiser would be a very forgettable action-platformer, I'd say.

>>8183590
yeah most ActRaiser fans are just playing Professional mode now, story is kinda okay once, first time through that's about it

Why does nobody ever talk about the 2nd game?

>>8183593
What I am saying is that Professional mode sounds worthless and the opposite of what I enjoyed about the game. It's a very sub-par action-platformer, in my opinion. It's only fun when I have a new spell that two guys on a boat found on an island and gave me because I'm their favourite god.

>>8183596
OP here. I tried playing it several times over the years and it's nondescript. Only the first game caught my interest, and I should've played it earlier.

>>8183596
Because it's a generic deadset middle of the road platformer, there is nothing special about it.

>>8183615
>>8183615
Nah ActRaiser 2 is a good platformer overall. One of the major sources of hatred for it was the challenging difficulty from start to finish. It got a reputation for being ''impossible'' and ''unfair'', it wasn't of course, very beatable game but you had to memorize sections and enemies quite a bit.

>>8183598
>>8183615
I dunno, sounds like you're a shitter and probably not into action games or things that take skill

>>8183593
>yeah most ActRaiser fans are just playing Professional mode now
Do you have a single fact to back that up

>>8183651
quintet and actraiser discords

>>8183660
You could have just typed "No." instead. Would have been much quicker.

>>8183596
filters shit players, i.e >>8183615


>>8183663
seething

>>8183671
Not him but having the opinion that ActRaiser has a ho-hum action portion is not an uncommon opinion.

Quit playing ActRaiser 1 without the sim parts. Just go play 2, which probably filtered your dumb shitposting ass.

>>8183687
>Not him

>>8183563
>Jumping and attacking is a bit silly and sticky
In fairness, you are playing as an animated statue

>>8183615
>>8183596
While its one of the better looking SNES games, with far more ambition, I agree on other anon's premise: Its a mediocre action platformer.
While the moveset has improved, the graphics and the ambition.... ActRaiser 1 works because of how the Sim mode breaks up the stages, to create a nice blend of a experience.

2 really lacks that. It also means 1 will have people who don't play action platformers normally, but won't play 2 once they realize there isn't the kind of game they wanted.
1 also gets played because its a Launch game for the SNES, which means it ends up in more lists.

So what's wrong with the remake? I thought it looked good from the trailer.

>>8184891
actually pretty good aside from the first stage looking like shit and an obvious mobile port. only real problem is frame rate so play on pc or ps5

>>8184904
>aside from the first stage looking like shit
All of the action stages look like shit. Pre-rendered graphics like it's fucking Donkey Kong Country on a GBA. I witnessed a rolling bolder with TWO frames of animation. It was just flipflopping back and forth. I couldn't stop laughing.
The town building segments have been padded out with a bunch of shitty story, each town has a generic anime hero that you use in the BRAND NEW tower defense RTS sections, which are the total opposite of fun.
Building up Filmore is particularly bad since it takes you out of the game every 30 seconds for another tutorial, it's annoying as hell.
Pass on it and buy it if it goes on sale if you absolutely must try it.

>>8184912
>rts
I wish it was RTS

>>8184891
it's actually fine.
people complaining about the graphics, but i enjoy dracula X chronicles, so there i guess.
i do think the new stuff is neat, but you kind of lose that sense of godliness the original game gives you because everyone talks more and the angel talks directly to you as an actual character instead of you being just GOD

>>8184929
the new angel is distractingly gay

>>8183563
I'm playing the remake, it feels like a PSX platformer. I'm not enjoying the sim parts though, they're way too long.

>>8184984
It's because of the animu art style
Anime post-1980s is inherently really disgustingly gay and actually does turn people into trannies

i think it was interesting that they gave this guy a little bit more.
the conversation with him and the angel was neat.

>>8185053
no, this one is specially gay. he mentions putting stuff in his mouth several times, he has some cheeky expression that looks borderline flirty and his outfit has a short billowing skirt, it has a low neckline which emphasizes his "cleavage" and it makes a point of showing his midriff.
also his legs are pointing inward, it's all very feminine stuff. it's distractingly erotic compared to every other character, not sure why it was necessary to make the angel into a sissy
this guy looks normal so it has nothing to do with the style
>>8185062

>>8184891

kill me pete

>>8183563
>Because of the remake
WHAT?

>>8185253
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1393370/Actraiser_Renaissance/

>>8185253
>He doesn't know
Don't get your hopes too high.

The remake is pretty alright

not bad for a launch title

>>8183563
these games are super overrated

What retroarch shader are you using? This seems nice.

>>8185670

meaning what? they aren't fun?

>>8185685
what

>>8183563
That remake just looks so shit next to the original. It is way too overdone on the details, has anime artstyle, character has these new moves that had no business being in the game. I just simply prefer the original. It was based in every way.

>>8185803
>japanese game has an anime artstyle
WHOAAAHOHHOHOOOOO never would've guessed

>>8185813
Not him but
What's wrong with you? You're acting like an asshole.

>>8183563
>>8183564
Because of how the sprite looks I always saw him as a golden elf. My brain kind of just ignored the fact he has armor on.

>>8183596
I tried playing it but the controls just feel really off and the game just didn't seem like it would be as good as the first anyways. Everything I know about the game also doesn't seem like its a good game so I haven't cared to try beating it.

>>8183563
The music was tits, and the sim/action combo was unique. I agree that both stages were a little rough, but the whole thing was still so damn fun to play and listen too. Graphics were also top notch.

>>8185813
Oh okay then why is it that it has a completely different style for the 1991 game vs this remake? There ain't no point discussing anything with you clowns anyways. Going by what a few anons here said as well I definitely think its shitty now.
>>8184912
>>8185125

>>8185947
>implying it wasn't

>>8183628
>I dunno, sounds like you're a shitter and probably not into action games or things that take skill
You think so? Because to me it seems that I disliked action stages in ActRaiser precisely because I've played and beaten numerous action games that were vastly superior to it.

>>8186776
>""I-I'm n-not a shitter I swear!!""
>no proof, no replays, no nothing

Is there no archive for /vr/???

>>8185284
If you don't like this angel then you are gay.