SolSeraph

Not sure why this game gets so much hate, it's actually very good. Does it measure up to Actraiser? Realistically no, but that is a high bar to cross because it is legitimately one of the best games on the Super Nintendo. That said, it is an excellent take on the genre and I can recommend it to fans of that type of game. The "building" mode is essentially a Tower Defense game, the ultimate objective is to build out your town enough to where you can seal the enemy lairs by building temples near them. You do the building yourself rather than the town auto developing based on where you place roads, but you can place roads so you can spread out the village a bit, and this is key to being able to seal the lairs, as there is finite building resources that you have to manage, as well as managing food and population and arming your towers. After you get the temple built and manned, then you can enter the lair as long as it's not in the middle of an enemy wave. Once you defeat all of the lairs in an area, the final one will open up so that you can beat the area permanently. And the 1st and last stage follow the same basic formula as Actraiser, where you go through a linear stage and eventually face up against a boss. The regular lairs act as mini stages rather than the people sealing them, you usually get a minor upgrade such as to magic or health when you clear these. My main complaints about the game is that the difficulty is kind of all over the place, not to a ridiculous degree but the mini stages are super easy compared to the regular stages, you'd have to really try to die on those. I still haven't beat the 2nd area boss yet as it's very tough, but I was able to kill the 3rd area boss with a lot of ease comparatively. Also there are definitely some cheap hits that have that old trial and error feel of the old school games, perhaps that's intentional, but still pretty annoying. If you want a game LIKE Actraiser, I think you'll really enjoy this. Gameplay is solid, tower defense is basic but fun and fast paced, and it has very good graphics and music for a cheaper indie title. However, don't expect it to be exactly imitating Actraiser, it is definitely inspired but if you're looking for a game that plays exactly like it, this isn't it.

Eh. What can I say? The only reason im going to finish this one is because it pretends to be ActRaiser Sadly, the most it shares with ActRaiser are the frustrating platforming and boring combat(although, ActRaiser had a good excuse for that) To anyone else who doesnt share the nostalgia....no, just no. Awful "action" controls (overhead controls are actually pretty good) Terrible level design, some of them dont even really qualify as levels -- just screens where you move left and right. Really bad music OMG, the tower defense part -- I dont mind resource management, at all....but building placement doesnt make any sense, you clearly have green tiles to build there and "you cant build there" you usually just end up clicking the mouse around wildly until it lets you build it....somewhere. My question is, why? Why butcher this so hard? Its been over 20 years, youd think you can at least make the fight scenes better, like, make some cool combat, make it fun -- make the enemies not goblins and spiders and fish. Make interesting pitfalls or obstacles. It doesnt have to be Sekiro or anything, but like....combat was way more fun and interesting in ActRaiser. AND WHO DECIDED TO MAKE THE HERO LOOK LIKE A POWER RANGER WITH ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ WINGS!!?!? I donnoe -- without the nostalgia factor, Id say this game is a turd. Maybe they should have just made it a resource management game / tower defense, focus on one game...instead of making two bad ones.

The action / platform parts are passable but the tower defense parts are mind numbingly dull.

Heavily influenced by ActRaiser, but it stands on its own as a really solid, if kind of short, game. Nice combo of Tower Defense and Platformer. It makes for a really nice speedrun, and it is frequently on sale for just $5. It is absolutely worth a try. My biggest complaint...there is no hard mode.

So many good ideas, and not a single one is finished or polished to the point that it works. Charge attack? Cool, but you forgot the animation that shows that it's charging up... Take that example and apply it to every single aspect of the game. It's literally the beta groundwork of a good game, but in it's current state it's unfinished trash.

I hate to say, but this game was not what I had hoped for. A spiritual successor to Actraiser that doesn't have the same spirit in it. The sim half was reduced to being a tower defense game, with resources heavily restricted. There was no interaction with the villagers, like destroying a rock with lightening, so that the villagers may reach fertile lands or powerups for your character. You don't lead them to goodies for you, and their growth is no longer your growth. You don't have towns need resources and technologies from other towns to fully thrive. Even as your towns grow in size, you don't see them grow in advancement. The straw roof houses stays straw roof houses. The two halves of the game don't really connect. You don't see little Timmy wander into the dark clouds knowing that his parents will beg you to save him in platforming mode. The only connection between the two modes is that you use the TD mode to unlock the platform levels, and 5 platform levels to initialize new towns. There are some changes in here that might've been major improvements had they been handled better. This game could have been good with a few small changes. The tower defense pressure and resource management had the opposite problem, too much for one, not enough for the other, respectively. Music was good though! They did get that right! ACE Team, if you guys want to make a SolSeraph 2, I offer my services as a consultant to provide refined concepts for development. I guarantee I can bring in good reviews, not mixed ones.

Apparently this is supposed to be a spiritual successor to the original Actraiser. If you have come here looking for that, turn away now, as this game is not that. Not even close. I finally managed to go back and finish the entire game, and I couldn't be happier to uninstall a game than I am with this one. Even the highlight of the game (the side-scrolling action/platformer part) isn't great, and you can easily sword spam and defeat all of the bosses (especially the end-game boss). For well over twenty years, I have wished that someone would come along and re-create the original ActRaiser, or at the very least, make a new installment of the SNES game for modern times that would scratch that itch of simulation and action/platformer. This game does not do that, even in the slightest. Yes, you will have side-scrolling action/platforming stages, but the simulation aspect of it has been reduced to a simple tower defense, and it provides little, if any challenge to the game. If you enjoy the side-scrolling aspect of ActRaiser, do yourself a favor and download an emulator and find a ROM of ActRaiser 2, as that was the only game that carried over that aspect of the original ActRaiser. If you, like me, enjoyed the simulation aspect of the original ActRaiser, then do not bother with this game. You will be SEVERELY disappointed, and will waste money on what promised, and utterly failed to be, a faithful representation of a game that will forever hold a spot in my own personal top games of all time. In short, do not waste your time or money on this if you are looking for what I was looking for, as you will be extremely disappointed.

Langweilig, billig gemacht, ist nur tower defense + jump and run in einen Paket. Schon mit 2* Springen geht mir auf die nerven.