Quintet and Enix Software's ActRaiser certainly takes the "god game" genre literally. Blending strategy and platforming action, ActRaiser puts players in the shoes of God itself to expand cities and ...

I’m not going to lie, I’m a mark for Actraiser. It’s one of my favorite games from the SNES library for just how different it was from everything else. Blending genres, this game mixed solid action ...

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I loved ActRaiser when I was young. I’d never played anything like it at the time. I adored the hybrid nature and what it was trying to do, even when certain bosses would overwhelm me. ActRaiser ...

Back when flannel-wearing grunge rockers were lighting up the music scene, I remember browsing through the video game section at Video Maniacs — a local Blockbuster competitor in Reno — and seeing ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Arguably one of the finest games of the 90s was the original ...

Actraiser 2 was one of the more highly anticipated sequels of the 16-bit era for me personally, as the first Actraiser was and remains a true classic. Enix made some changes to the formula established ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Rebooting the original Actraiser is not exactly a straightforward ...

ActRaiser was a Super Nintendo game in which players took control of a god-like entity who not only listened to the prayers of the people and acted upon them from on high, but would also take control ...

Back when flannel-wearing grunge rockers were lighting up the music scene, I remember browsing through the video game section at Video Maniacs – a local Blockbuster competitor in Reno, Nev. – and ...

The first Actraiser surprised many gamers with its state-of-the art presentation and its unique gameplay, so it's not entirely surprising that the 2nd one turned out to be a game with equal qualities ...