In 2019, Sega surprised us all with the low-key release of a spiritual successor to one of the SNES’s launch titles, the Quintet-developed, Enix-published “ActRaiser.” This new game, developed by a Chilean work-for-hire studio called ACE Team could not be a true sequel, as Square-Enix still owns the original IP, and shortly after the release of the game in question, “SolSeraph,” the conjoined corporation released a remake of the game that started it all. It was shocking to me that, over the course of nearly 30 years, no other developer or publisher tried to do what “ActRaiser” did, combining the disparate genres of City Sim and 2D Platformer into a single game, replete with intriguing theological lore. Of course, after playing “SolSeraph,” it seems that such a unique fus... |
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