Cult classic platformer-cross-city-builder ActRaiser will enjoy a Renaissance on the PlayStation 4 from, well… Today! Surprise! The legendary 90s title – a fond favourite of Managing Director Damien McFerran – has been completely remade in high definition, and features the original soundtrack by Yuzo Koshiro.
“Actraiser Renaissance combines 2D platforming action (Realm Acts) with a city-building simulation (Realm Management) in the ultimate battle between good and evil,” the press release reads. While it’s not available on the PS Store at the time of publication, expect it to drop imminently.
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Oh wow thought this was Switch only. Sorry Nintendo, I’d rather play this without dri- well sh*t I forgot my DualSense was already messed up.
I remember playing this classic back in the early 1990s.a amazing game.i will definitely getting this.act raiser rennaisance and 👻 ghost and goblins ressurection feels like im back in the 1990s.word up son
Man I am so torn.
Nostalgia tells me to play this on Switch. But since I have both a Series X and a PS5...well...I may have to put nostalgia aside for higher resolutions.
Hmmm… never heard of it but I do like a hidden gem. 🤔
I didn't know about this game, saw it on the Direct and I'm actually pretty intrigued now. It'll probably be a buy at some point.
Cool surprise. A word to the wise - I had this on the SNES back in the day and it was.... eh well it ain't a great game (ain't too bad either). Maybe this remaster has given it some much needed quality of life improvements. At £25 this will have to be a heavy sale purchase.
I love this game. At heart it's basically an okay Castlevania mixed with an incredibly basic version of early Sim City. Yet together, those two bits become more than the sum of their parts. That said, it sounds barely different from the original so it's not worth the $30 it apparently is on the US store and presumably similar amount in Europe.
Ah cool, the not bad framerate version is coming out too then.
I've been gaming for 4 decades I have all systems that came out then until now and I've never heard of this game. I must admit this bugs me a little bit. Still though that aside it looks enjoyable so I'll give it a shot.
Now a rerelease of Valkyrie Profile man i need some 2D games.
@nessisonett well that sucks.
For some reason, I STILL don't have drift on my Switch and I have had it since 2019
@anoyonmus I’ve opened up both my Joy-Cons quite a few times for repairs or compressed air and they’re just completely dead now, the drift is kinda hilarious while annoying at the same time. DualSense is drifting left too and I’ve opened that up to no avail. Dunno if build quality is just worse than it was back in the day but I have 20 year old GameCube controllers I still use regularly that are in better shape.
@nessisonett @anoyonmus I've had my Switch and original Joycons since day 1 of March 2017 and no drift here. 🤷♂️
@EVIL-C nice
I love how Hades is 4K on PS5. It's probably unlikely, but it would be cool if Actraiser can run in 4K. I'm getting this on my PS5 instead of the Switch AFTER I read the reviews. The updated graphics look great but there could be issues because it's also being released as a mobile game.
@anoyonmus Build quality was definitely better in years past across the board, I would say.
I absolutely hate this art style that some of these remaster/remakes are getting. Makes me wish I had more hands so I could these visuals 4 thumbs down.
another dam remake remaster.
If it wasn’t for Sony and a few others we would have nothing new to play games wise.
After watching the Nintendo direct and Microsoft the other day, it goes to show how dam good Sony are at pushing out first party new AAA games.
Actraiser baby! I remember drooling over the review in C&VG back in the day. Only played it years later but awesome to see it rereleased. Only question is can you switch to the original pixel art?
I heard good things about this game but I never tried it back then, so I tried the snes original on some website and man the game is fun, still stuck on level 2 (blood pool) though, I can't direct my people to the last red demon circle. Definitely getting this remaster
Edit: Okay, the game graphics and animations are like mobile games, and the price is $30, I think I'll wait for a sale 😕
It would be cool if the game has street of rage 4 or river city girls graphics style.
@nessisonett Bad luck I think. The analogue stick part in the DualSense is EXACTLY the same part as in the PS4, X360, Xbox One, XSX and even the £160 Xbox Elite controller.
I think that time has proven that the part is generally pretty hard wearing for a highly used moving assembly - the most likely type to fail.
Though of course with millions of them in the wild it's normal that some have experienced problems either through bad luck, a bad batch or a bad part supplier... and ended up with drift.
The main thing that could be different is if Sony have made the dead zone smaller on the DualSense in the software which would lead to more games reading a very slight offset as drift.
BTW some games allow you to adjust the deadzone but not all. I've been wishing for this at a system level since I had drift on my 360.
The Switch on the other hand has a genuine hardware problem, that's even been decided in some courts. I honestly think it's harder to find users who haven't had an issue that those who have.
One of my favorite games growing up. To say i flipped when i saw this sitting there in the ps store is an understatement.
But.... Then the video demo starts playing...... D*MMIT! WTH?! what did they do?!? It looms awful!
The original had a lot of character and visual style. Guess they thought upending its visuals and changing it to look like the most generic mobile game was a good idea?! What on earth... Pass
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