Actraiser Renaissance

懐かしくなって購入しストーリーをアルレカオネまで一通りクリア。 他の人のレビューにもあったけど強制タワーディフェンス以外は楽しめました。 やりこみ要素を消化していく気力はないけどSFC版を思い出しながらそこそこ楽しめたので良し。 一周したらそれで満足してしまう。当時もそんなゲームだった気がする。 懐古ゲーマー向けだと思うので新規さんには正直おすすめしない。 昨今のアクションゲーに慣れているとアクトレイザーのアクションはストレスがマッハではなかろうか。

Actraiser for SNES was a favorite growing up. The remake is still Actraiser: a novel blend of hack and slash + city building sim with great music. Like with many of their remakes, SqEx felt the need to add things to the remake rather than just give it a graphical overhaul. Unfortunately, a lot of the additions fall flat. There's a bunch of additional story added to each area, which is fine. Instead of your villagers automatically sealing monster lairs they reach, you have to do a mini-level. None of these take more than 20-30 seconds but they aren't particularly interesting. Finally, there's a bunch of mandatory tower defense stages added on the overworld map. These just aren't very well-designed. There just aren't many natural choke points so you set your towers where you can and hope to supplement them with your heroes and magic as best you can. But then the enemies start having magic resistance and/or flying and everything just gets incredibly annoying and tedious. I could have done without this. Hindsight 20/20 and all, but I would have liked to see some quality of life improvements like your civilization automatically upgrading (maybe the villagers slowly replace older structures) rather than you needing to earthquake everything each time your civ levels up. Especially since, with the updated graphics, it's not always clear what civilization tier various buildings are at. Also adjacent developed tiles automatically connecting so you don't need to manually guide progress between them would be nice. Finally, I would have liked to be able to track how many +Max MP scrolls I'd found in a level while in it. Weirdly, many of the additions are anti-QoL. For example, you get tomes that level up the tower defense champions that you have to manually use but the tomes are character specific and there's no reason to horde them (self-imposed challenge?) so why not just auto apply them? Also, resources to build towers are Tedious with a capital T. I found myself spending most of my time sitting around waiting for fields and factories to generate mana and resources so that I could progress. It's about as fun as it sounds. Overall it holds up and I would recommend it but some of the additions make me want to just pop in the original and play that instead.