My biggest surprise at today’s Nintendo Direct, by far, was Square Enix’s reveal and insta-release of ActRaiser Renaissance — an unlikely return of the ...

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 ...

Fast forward three decades and Square-Enix have decided to give Actraiser a rebirth of sorts on contemporary home and mobile platforms in the form of Actraiser Renaissance, a shiny remastered edition ...

GameSpot may receive revenue from affiliate and advertising partnerships for sharing this content and from purchases through links. As part of the September Nintendo Direct, Nintendo made an ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. One of the stealthier game releases in recent memory is that of ...

Nintendo delighted fans of the classic platformer and city-builder when they announced ActRaiser Renaissance, a remaster of the original game during its September Direct. What’s more, the game is out ...

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Actraiser combines 2D platforming action (Realm Acts) with a city-building simulation (Realm Management) in the ultimate battle between good and evil! Featuring the soundtrack that sent shockwaves ...

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 ...

Stan owes their love of turn-based RPGs and all other things gaming to a second-hand Game Boy Advance SP and Wario Land 3. Persona, Zelda, and Pokemon rank among their all-time franchises, but they ...

SNES classic Actraiser gets a surprise remake that is closer to a full reboot, but does the weird mix of god game and platformer still work? Whenever anyone talks about 16-bit games they’d like to see ...

Actraiser was something of a formative game for me back when I started retro gaming. I don’t know why, it just stands out in my memory. It’s an interesting game; the very definition of being more than ...