Square Enix has just announced a remake/remaster of the classic Actraiser game, Actraiser Renaissance. The game has just been released on Steam, and it comes with some free stuff until November 1st.
Actraiser Renaissance features remastered 2D graphics and 15 new music tracks. Moreover, it packs re-arranged original tracks by Actraiser composer Yuzo Koshiro. Not only that, but the game comes with new stories, expanded action and realm management gameplay, additional action stages, an all-new realm, and a new, powerful boss.
Furthermore, its dev team has added new magic that was not available in the original game, along with the ability to dodge. Players can also attack with upward and downward motions for a more dynamic action experience.
Lastly, the game has auto-save and difficulty levels.
In order to celebrate this launch, Square Enix also released the game’s debut trailer that you can find below!
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Looks nice
Whatever you’re smoking man, I want some!
Looks fine to me, considering is a 30+ years old game, and after the Final Fantasy disaster…this looks great in comparison.
This is a remake so it’s not 30 years old, it’s brand new
It’s a remaster…
Are you dense, how is this a remaster? A remaster reuses a large portion of the original game’s code. This was made from the ground up using Unity
Is the same game with “updated visuals”.
A Remake changes content outside of just visuals, know the difference r/tard.
Holy s*** you’re a special kind of moron, aren’t you?
Another shxtmaster from square
after throwing out IO interactive they trully just depends on Live Service(outtrigger, avengers), a lot of old game remaster, one console timed exclusive (FFVIII Remaster), and PC port.
has IO ever made anything besides hitman though?
Freedom Fighter’s ring a bell .. ?IO will make games depends on how much leeway their publisher gave, just like other devs did back then … There is also Kane and Lynch IP they made. NoClip documentary talk about their struggle during the time
It looks like a 1995 Saturn game, with prerendered 2D graphics.
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/18311971b3d1530802d60e88e562b7e318501564af4e65291e5dfa4b52e35368.jpg
Since I’m nostalgic, I can’t say I prefer those modern graphics. ?
They’re not better or really worse though, just a different taste.
Animation looks very stiff, like many cheap mobile games. (And like the original games, yeah I know. ? But stiff animation looks more acceptable on 2D sprites, though.)
I haven’t tried it so I can’t comment on the gameplay but many people say it’s an improvement, though.
The ‘remaster’ looks very low quality.