Man it felt good to play this game again!
RPG: Actraiser
System: SNES
Time spent on the RPG: 4 hours
Cheats used: None. Probably would have taken an hour or so less if I made myself invincible in the side scrolling stages, but eh, the victory feeling so well earned made up for it.
The experience:
Here we are with another special edition of this project. What's so special about it? This time I actually am not wearing any pants. Yes, that's right, I'm not wearing pants at all.
Seriously though, it's the first rpg I've played since I halted the project. It's also the first rpg on this project that I have beaten, several times in fact.
Like Final Fantasy Legends 1, aka SaGa 1, this will contain SPOILERS!
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The situation is that a good friend of mine from my childhood had this game, and it eventually became mine. I've beaten this game...I think 3 times. The first time without even using states.
What can I compare this game to? Hmm, I guess Dark Cloud and Soulblazer. Thankfully, like Soulblazer, and unlike Dark Cloud, the game is awesome! Seriously, this game, like Soulblazer shows Dark Cloud how not to suck! It's the same kinda idea. An evil force has destroyed the world, and you need to rebuild it. The difference is that the main villian, who while he never says a word, isn't a cheesy DBZ villain lookalike. There's more of course, and I'll get to it.
Anyways, in the game, you name yourself, and are told by your most loyal ally, who goes by the name as Angel (and is one.) that the world has basically been destroyed by the ultimate evil that you fought long ago. You have been resting for what I assume is at least several hundred years, and now is the time to finally fight back.
Then you're finally able to have some actual interaction. You are given several choices from a menu, but all you really can do that does anything is "Fight Monsters." You're given an awesome little close up scene where you go into a part of the world map, and then you are brought into one of 2 of the games main phases. The game is part side-scroller, and part world builder. Both are immensely fun, and I honestly can't decided which I like more.
In the side scrolling phases, you, the god of this world have your very essence transferred into a statue of a warrior, who in turn becomes human. You then go around slashing up monsters, eventually running into a boss to kill at the end of each level. Basically, it's your standard Side Scrolling levels in a lot of platformer/action games.
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Project Beat a Game a Day, along with my Daily NES Archive:
http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/563947-a-view-to-a-kill