Agreed. I consider Actraiser 2 to be one of the top 5 greatest SNES games ever made. No matter how many times I play it I can always get better as their is just so much depth to the combat.
They’re such a great developer! I sadly haven’t played Terranigma yet, but I plan to remedy that very soon. I’m very interested to see the connections between it, Illusion of Gaia/Time, and Soul Blazer.
such a great job covering this masterpiece! The SNES game will always have a special place in my heart, one of the first games I played for the system and I never get tired of it. The music is incredible
Thanks dez!! I’m pretty new to the game, but I really enjoyed finally going through it. Renaissance was actually pretty good and worth checking out if you loved the original. 👍
Fun fact- The composer made a Fillmore styled theme for the Hololive VTuber Inugami Korone called Inumore Koroneraiser due to her love of the game and it's music.
You continue to blow my mind with these videos. The amount of research, time, and heart you put into this is so awesome. Quality is top notch too 👌. I’ve only played the first Actraiser game and have great memories. As always I’ve learned a lot from your video. Thanks dude!
Having grown up playing these games, it was a real treat and delight to find this wonderfully assembled retrospective on ActRaiser. Thank you!!! You deserve way more subs for your hard work! I sometimes nickname myself "ActRaiser" in other online games, and you'd be surprised how many people love shooting the breeze about the series and Quintet's glory days. I'd like to add that for fans of this series, I recently discovered an indie game directly inspired by ActRaiser called Smelter. It has lots of snarky tongue-in-cheek humour, an in-depth simulation mode similar to Renaissance, but its action mode plays very much like Mega Man X if you can believe that. On top of that, it's also based on Judeo-Christianity and the main hero is Eve from the Book of Genesis of all people, haha. Anyway, this old gamer thanks you again for this video. Cheers!
Thank you so much! I appreciate the kind words and am happy you enjoyed the video! I actually had a friend recommend me Smelter as well a few months ago after had been talking about ActRaiser. This just reminded me that I still need to check it out, haha. Thanks again for watching!
I'm completely addicted to these videos since finding your page a few days ago (your awesome Gradius video brought me in and I immediately subscribed). I was a SEGA kid, but my cousin was the Nintendo kid. One summer we switched systems and I rented Actraiser. I played it to completion within the 2 days it was rented for. Such a fun memory. Great video!
That's awesome, thank you, glad you enjoyed this one! That's awesome that you beat Actraiser in 2 days as a kid since that game gets pretty tough towards the end. It's really awesome hearing people's stories about how they first got to play a game. I kind of went back and forth between Nintendo and Sega in the 90s so I got into both game libraries quite a bit. Funnily enough, I didn't play Actraiser until I was much older, but still loved it. Thanks again for watching!
Woooohooooo!!!! 🥳🥳 I was so excited to see a video uploaded from you. And then even more when I saw it was ActRaiser. I love this series. I have been playing ActRaiser Renaissance on Switch a lot. It’s a great series. Well done sir!
Thank you so much! I really enjoyed Renaissance and might double dip and go through it again on Switch soon, haha. I’m a huge Ys fan too so it was a fun surprise to find that Quintet was formed from the people who created it.
You always take on the best subjects :D. I remember seeing footage of Actraiser for the first time in a promotional video a Spanish magazine gave out to promote the launch of the snes. You could see the beginning of Bloodpool, the statue reviving, and the soundtrack... it all blew my mind. I was lucky to play the import early, since it was released so late in Europe as you mentioned, and I also played Soul Blazer around that launch time, all weekend rentals. I definitely could see the connection and loved how different those games felt to other games back then. And I recorded Fillmore with a tape put in front of the tv lol... I am crazy about this theme to this day, and just being able to listen to its remake made getting A. Renaissance worth it. I loved knowing more about Quintet, so they came from Falcom...also loved knowing about how Yuzo Koshiro ended up working in this game. I always thought the Y's main field theme has a strong Fillmore vibe to it, and I guess the vibe was the same in Yuzo's mind since he was working with the same people basically. Thank you for making these, they're a joy to watch.
Thanks so much, really happy you enjoyed it!It’s awesome that you’re such a big fan and got to play the import early. I love hearing about people holding tape recorders up to their TV since I did the same thing, haha. I also was completely surprised that Quintet originated from Falcom. I’m a huge Ys fan so it was really interesting to learn that’s where everything originated. Thanks for watching!!
Great video! I've always loved actraiser 1 and 2 since i was a young child. I absolutely loved Renaissance and shed tears when i first booted it up. Unfortunately since its release i havent put the time into a second playthrough of it and thats because my first playthrough of it being about 20 hours long. Thats a pretty massive difference compared to the first games 1-3 hour playthrough.
Thank you! They definitely added quite a bit of extra content in Renaissance which makes it tough to do a quick run through like you could in the original.
ActRaiser is easily one of my favorite game franchises for its inventiveness and willingness to take a risk as you said. You expertly covered the history of this unique series and went into painstaking depth with details I've never seen elsewhere, well done.
Thanks so much, appreciate you watching! It really was such a unique experience and unlike anything else out there. It still breaks my heart to this day that Quintet stopped doing original projects and became more of a 3rd party support studio before eventually shutting down.
Man, actraiser was a real WTF game for me back when I was a kid. I remember me and a cousin playing it over a summer break and just having no idea what the hell was going on. All we had was the cart and it was the 90s. We were just two dorks without internet.
Man, I could only imagine, haha! I never played the game as a kid so looking at the city building segments in magazines was really strange and confusing since I'd never seen that in a platformer.
@@RewindArcade To be fair to us, we understood the platforming but the "simulation" part was over our nine and ten year old heads. We only ever made it to Bloodpool before giving up. I think FF and DQ were more our speed. Anyway, cool channel, man. I really like your content. The Ghosts and Goblins video is AMAZING. Thanks for making stuff like this!!!
@@RewindArcade If I may, I would like to suggest you to make a video on Master of Monsters, from Sega. It also has a great soundtrack and have influenced a lot of titles. Herzog Zwei is also a great game to check on. Congratulations for the channel!
Definitely, I was actually going to make a post asking people what series or games they wanted to see covered on the channel. Thanks for the recommendations!
I've only heard the soundtrack from this game, specifically Fillmore. I just wanna say that this game has some really disturbing, unsettling imagery in it, like Satan, for example. I'm glad I didn't play this when I was younger because I'm sure that Satan's design would've given me nightmares.
Yes, they're great! The original intent was for this to be a full "History of Quintet" documentary, but the scope was a bit too large and I struggled a bit with the script so I ended up doing just doing ActRaiser for now. I will probably cover their other games and string them all together into one big video if people end up enjoying this one.
Great video again😃 Yuzo Koshiro was really a fantastic composer🥰 now that such composer as him and Nobuo Uematsu are less involved in the industry, I am looking forward to young composer like Yasunori Nishiki
Man I really need to play this. It's rare in this time to see two big elements fused together like this. not only that, seriously blending a great artstyle and wonderful music. This game deserves to be played. Thanks for filling me in on the rich history!
Another great video, thanks! While I've never been a big Actraiser fan, I do enjoy the soundtrack very much. Gotta check out the soundtrack of the Renaissance remake!
The remake looks cool. One thing that is never mentioned about the action segments of the original is that they are _extremely_ stiff-feeling. If the remake manages to fix that then it's almost certainly worth giving a play. This was recommended to me on Twitter! Great vid, you earned a sub.
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it!! Yeah, the original’s platforming sections can sometimes be a bit clunky to control. Renaissance’s action stages definitely play much more smoothly, especially with the added attacks and dodge movement.
Dope stuff. I remember when I first played ActRaiser. I had let my friend borrow Donkey Kong Country 3 and he let me borrow this game because I hadn't heard of it before. I ended up loving it. The mix of styles was definitely unique. I don't think I had played a city building game before that point.
Thanks!! I think a lot people were first introduced to city building gameplay with ActRaiser (and SimCity on SNES too) since those type of games were mainly on PC and not home consoles. Was DKC3 any good? I never actually played that one. 😅
@@RewindArcade DKC3 is a great little platformer honestly. On par with DKC1, maybe a little better in terms of content (more secrets), but DKC2 is still the best.
Really Great Video as usual Sir Crisps! For whatever reason I didn't get notified on it when it dropped. With that, I didn't know they made Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma! They made really good games back to back in the 90s. Shame what ended up happening to the company.
Really enjoy a lot of Quintet's games. ActRaiser being one of em. I really loved the remake. I understand the dislike of the siege mode but it clicked with me. The update last month was pretty good with making it play like the original during the platforming stages. Really hope we get more remakes of Quintet's stuff.
I agree, I thought Renaissance was a lot better than many reviewers made it out to be and the Siege mode was really fun. The update released after I had already finished the script and had begun editing so it sadly didn't get mentioned. Hopefully Soul Blazer sees a remake next!
I beat the game in 2019 only. On the WiiU, but in the Wii virtual console mode and utilizing a SNES mini controller attached to the nunchuck!😊 Marvelous game!
Thank you! I got a lot of flack from people for liking the remake. It’s certainly not perfect, but I feel it’s far from the train wreck many make it out to be.
I agree with you. I think the remake is marvelous, I just got pulled away with other things but I have not forgotten about it. It's been on my mind recently and awhile ago. Your video popped up and I was like "Man, I gotta finish that remake." It was fun to hear about the development and I like how you showed off the remake. I was born in 86 and I remember playing the original when I was real little. I still have that cartridge. It was a fine remake, Just like FFVIIR is. People are going to hate no matter what. After I finish Tales of Arise then I am going to play through - Crisis Core Remake, FFVIIR and FFIV Ultima then FFVI T-Edition. Before I play ToA though, I am gonna go check on my town in the new Actraiser. 🍻
Great video, Chris! I could never get into ActRaiser but this video was really interesting, I didn't know about the religious aspects of the story line.
Thanks man! I definitely understand why some people weren't into the game. I didn't play it until only recently and it took some time for me to get the mechanics and controls down, but it finally ended up clicking for me. Crazy how many changes they made for the Western version!
Right?? Would love to know more about it. The crazy thing is Miyazaki said the game was about 70% finished when they scrapped it. It’s not really clear how much of its assets were reused for ActRaiser, but I imagine it must’ve been a substantial amount.
I would love to see a video on Quintet's Action RPGs: Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia/Time, and Terranigma. I've also heard that The Granstream Saga on PS1 night be related, either made by some of the same people, or a spiritual successor.
So funny story, this video originally started out as "The History of Quintet" before I decided to tone down the scope quite a bit and only cover the Actraiser games. The plan was to continue on with the rest of the games, but unfortunately this video flopped pretty hard so I put everything on the back burner for now. May come back to it sometday though. The Granstream Saga is made by Shade which was a side studio created by Quintet to allow them to work with other publishers without damaging their relationship with others (presumably Nintendo). I believe Kouji Yokota was put in charge of Shade. He had also worked on Actraiser and Illusion of Gaia/Time too. It's a really interesting history with a somewhat unfortunate ending. Anyways, thanks so much watching!
i absolutly loved reinasance, i just literally finished the game a few minutes ago, and im trully hoping for a remake on the same veing with AR 2. THIS is how a remake of this old games should be, its to much of hopefull tinking...but wish capcom would do the exact same thing with gargoyls quest/demon crest
Yeah, I was surprised Renaissance got so much hate in the comments. It’s far from perfect but I really enjoyed it. I’d love to see Capcom revisit the Gargoyle’s Quest series though I highly doubt that will happen anytime soon.
Thanks Vito, really appreciate that! I’ve been doing YT long enough to know that not every video will be a winner, but with most of my documentaries taking between 350-500 hours to produce, it makes things extra frustrating and defeating. Thanks a ton for the support though!
@@RewindArcade If you ever want to chat UA-cam strategy, let me know. I think one problem you may have run into is that the Actraiser logo is illegible at smaller sizes, making your thumbnail less than ideal. Always consider that many people are watching on mobile devices and your thumbnail will be very small in certain locations like search and recommended.
@@tonymarsala6939 Appreciate it man! There are plenty of other video game documentaries already on the channel too if you feel like giving any of those a watch. 👍
Man, I wish it was on there. I imagine either Square Enix doesn't want to license it to Nintendo or Nintendo has no desire to license it from SE. Fingers cross it gets added one of these days!
There are technically only two official ActRaiser games. Renaissance is the 3rd entry in the series, but it’s just a remake of the first game. Solo Crisis on the Sega Saturn is more of a spiritual successor and not exactly part of the ActRaiser franchise.
I hate Renaissance and that is coming from someone who's favorite game on the SNES was ActRaiser. I cannot stand the art style, they shoulda went with pixel graphics. The tower defense gets tedious because it's so often and the amount of dialogue/story they added was overkill. I just skipped thru it all. Very disappointed with that game, great video thou. I wish that sega saturn version was created back then. That coulda been good.
I think renaissance completely ruined the game. No fucking reason to turn the angel into a anime child for nonces, and the characters they added were complete weeb trash, absolutely incompatible with the game the remake is based on. Not sure it the remake sold well but it sparks bad news for any of the other quintet games that could be remade
Remember ActRaiser to this day! It was very different from everything else and the music was on another level.
Actraiser 2 is easily the most underrated 2D action platformer of all time. So deep. So challenging. So fun.
Yeah, I think it gets a lot of hate since it ditched the sim elements, but there’s a lot to love in that game.
Agreed. I consider Actraiser 2 to be one of the top 5 greatest SNES games ever made. No matter how many times I play it I can always get better as their is just so much depth to the combat.
It's criminal that this channel isn't enormous. Amazing work
Thanks Aaron, really appreciate that and glad you enjoyed the video!!
Have to agree with you there, beautifully done video
👼🏽 Never played anything in this series but this was such a fun watch! The music is incredible!
Oh you gotta give em a shot when you can, especially Actraiser, Illusion of Gaia, and Terranigma
Thank yoooouuuuu!!
Emulate now!!
it's a great, short game, with a wonderful story.
@@Teknoman I love Illusion of Gaia, but still need to play through Soulblazer and Terranigma. Those sound great as well.
Love Quintet! Terranigma is one of my favorite games ever. Had ActRaiser as a kid but unfortunately I could never get that far in it.
They’re such a great developer! I sadly haven’t played Terranigma yet, but I plan to remedy that very soon. I’m very interested to see the connections between it, Illusion of Gaia/Time, and Soul Blazer.
such a great job covering this masterpiece! The SNES game will always have a special place in my heart, one of the first games I played for the system and I never get tired of it. The music is incredible
Thanks dez!! I’m pretty new to the game, but I really enjoyed finally going through it. Renaissance was actually pretty good and worth checking out if you loved the original. 👍
@@RewindArcade yeah this video totally made me want to give it a go!
Fun fact- The composer made a Fillmore styled theme for the Hololive VTuber Inugami Korone called Inumore Koroneraiser due to her love of the game and it's music.
You continue to blow my mind with these videos. The amount of research, time, and heart you put into this is so awesome. Quality is top notch too 👌. I’ve only played the first Actraiser game and have great memories. As always I’ve learned a lot from your video. Thanks dude!
Thanks Kenny, appreciate the kind words! Glad you enjoyed it!
I've only been subbed since the Ghosts and Goblins video, but I've never been so excited to see a video in my sub box. Actraiser is a gem.
That's awesome, thanks! I hadn't really played it when I was younger so I'm very new to the series, but I thoroughly enjoyed going through it.
Having grown up playing these games, it was a real treat and delight to find this wonderfully assembled retrospective on ActRaiser. Thank you!!! You deserve way more subs for your hard work! I sometimes nickname myself "ActRaiser" in other online games, and you'd be surprised how many people love shooting the breeze about the series and Quintet's glory days.
I'd like to add that for fans of this series, I recently discovered an indie game directly inspired by ActRaiser called Smelter. It has lots of snarky tongue-in-cheek humour, an in-depth simulation mode similar to Renaissance, but its action mode plays very much like Mega Man X if you can believe that. On top of that, it's also based on Judeo-Christianity and the main hero is Eve from the Book of Genesis of all people, haha.
Anyway, this old gamer thanks you again for this video. Cheers!
Thank you so much! I appreciate the kind words and am happy you enjoyed the video! I actually had a friend recommend me Smelter as well a few months ago after had been talking about ActRaiser. This just reminded me that I still need to check it out, haha. Thanks again for watching!
A great tribute to one of my favorite games that is so weird. yet somehow worked well. Great job!
Thanks, really appreciate that! It really is a weird combination that just ended up working out in the end, haha.
I'm completely addicted to these videos since finding your page a few days ago (your awesome Gradius video brought me in and I immediately subscribed). I was a SEGA kid, but my cousin was the Nintendo kid. One summer we switched systems and I rented Actraiser. I played it to completion within the 2 days it was rented for. Such a fun memory. Great video!
That's awesome, thank you, glad you enjoyed this one! That's awesome that you beat Actraiser in 2 days as a kid since that game gets pretty tough towards the end. It's really awesome hearing people's stories about how they first got to play a game. I kind of went back and forth between Nintendo and Sega in the 90s so I got into both game libraries quite a bit. Funnily enough, I didn't play Actraiser until I was much older, but still loved it. Thanks again for watching!
I have such fond memories playing ActRaiser as a kid in the 90s! Had to rent it a few times to beat it. Thanks for the doc!
It's such a unique game, especially back then in the early 90s where nothing like that had really ever been done before. Thanks for watching!
Woooohooooo!!!! 🥳🥳 I was so excited to see a video uploaded from you. And then even more when I saw it was ActRaiser. I love this series. I have been playing ActRaiser Renaissance on Switch a lot. It’s a great series. Well done sir!
Oh… and the Ys series too. ❤️❤️❤️
Thank you so much! I really enjoyed Renaissance and might double dip and go through it again on Switch soon, haha. I’m a huge Ys fan too so it was a fun surprise to find that Quintet was formed from the people who created it.
You always take on the best subjects :D. I remember seeing footage of Actraiser for the first time in a promotional video a Spanish magazine gave out to promote the launch of the snes. You could see the beginning of Bloodpool, the statue reviving, and the soundtrack... it all blew my mind. I was lucky to play the import early, since it was released so late in Europe as you mentioned, and I also played Soul Blazer around that launch time, all weekend rentals. I definitely could see the connection and loved how different those games felt to other games back then. And I recorded Fillmore with a tape put in front of the tv lol... I am crazy about this theme to this day, and just being able to listen to its remake made getting A. Renaissance worth it.
I loved knowing more about Quintet, so they came from Falcom...also loved knowing about how Yuzo Koshiro ended up working in this game. I always thought the Y's main field theme has a strong Fillmore vibe to it, and I guess the vibe was the same in Yuzo's mind since he was working with the same people basically.
Thank you for making these, they're a joy to watch.
Thanks so much, really happy you enjoyed it!It’s awesome that you’re such a big fan and got to play the import early. I love hearing about people holding tape recorders up to their TV since I did the same thing, haha.
I also was completely surprised that Quintet originated from Falcom. I’m a huge Ys fan so it was really interesting to learn that’s where everything originated.
Thanks for watching!!
Great video! I've always loved actraiser 1 and 2 since i was a young child. I absolutely loved Renaissance and shed tears when i first booted it up. Unfortunately since its release i havent put the time into a second playthrough of it and thats because my first playthrough of it being about 20 hours long. Thats a pretty massive difference compared to the first games 1-3 hour playthrough.
Thank you! They definitely added quite a bit of extra content in Renaissance which makes it tough to do a quick run through like you could in the original.
ActRaiser is easily one of my favorite game franchises for its inventiveness and willingness to take a risk as you said. You expertly covered the history of this unique series and went into painstaking depth with details I've never seen elsewhere, well done.
Thanks so much, appreciate you watching! It really was such a unique experience and unlike anything else out there. It still breaks my heart to this day that Quintet stopped doing original projects and became more of a 3rd party support studio before eventually shutting down.
You need more subs, man. The quality of your work is unrivalled.
Thanks a ton, that means a lot!
New content? Let's go! The production never ceases to amaze me.
Thank you, glad you’re enjoying it!!
Man, actraiser was a real WTF game for me back when I was a kid. I remember me and a cousin playing it over a summer break and just having no idea what the hell was going on. All we had was the cart and it was the 90s. We were just two dorks without internet.
Man, I could only imagine, haha! I never played the game as a kid so looking at the city building segments in magazines was really strange and confusing since I'd never seen that in a platformer.
@@RewindArcade To be fair to us, we understood the platforming but the "simulation" part was over our nine and ten year old heads. We only ever made it to Bloodpool before giving up. I think FF and DQ were more our speed. Anyway, cool channel, man. I really like your content. The Ghosts and Goblins video is AMAZING. Thanks for making stuff like this!!!
Totally understandable, haha. And thanks, glad you’re enjoying the channel!
ActRaiser is one of the best games I ever played. Thanks for the video.
Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video! It's such an awesome and unique game with an amazing soundtrack.
@@RewindArcade If I may, I would like to suggest you to make a video on Master of Monsters, from Sega.
It also has a great soundtrack and have influenced a lot of titles.
Herzog Zwei is also a great game to check on.
Congratulations for the channel!
Definitely, I was actually going to make a post asking people what series or games they wanted to see covered on the channel. Thanks for the recommendations!
Nice job! I learned many things. I really like how you follow the people involved in making the game 👍
Thanks Lonny, glad you enjoyed it!! I try to write it as close to a story as I can instead of just listing off facts. 😅
Ah the golden age of the Enix quintet! Love Actraiser, but the aesthetics and ost of Actraiser II are far superior. Nice video!
Thank you!! Yeah, Actraiser 2's sprite art is gorgeous and some of the best the Super NES had to offer!
I love this franchise
I play ActRaiser and it's still excellent today. 😀👍🎮
Agreed, still holds up!
I've only heard the soundtrack from this game, specifically Fillmore. I just wanna say that this game has some really disturbing, unsettling imagery in it, like Satan, for example. I'm glad I didn't play this when I was younger because I'm sure that Satan's design would've given me nightmares.
yessss!!! thank you for this video, we need more Actraiser.
Thanks Amanda, had a lot of fun making this one!
Oh yes I love Quintet. Hope to see a video about Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia/Time, and Terranigma. 😁
Yes, they're great! The original intent was for this to be a full "History of Quintet" documentary, but the scope was a bit too large and I struggled a bit with the script so I ended up doing just doing ActRaiser for now. I will probably cover their other games and string them all together into one big video if people end up enjoying this one.
@@RewindArcade yes I understand the big task to cover them all in one unique video. 😅
This channel is a hidden gem man... deserves so mucho more recognition, love at first sight... im subbed
Thanks, really appreciate that and glad you're enjoying my videos!
Great video again😃 Yuzo Koshiro was really a fantastic composer🥰 now that such composer as him and Nobuo Uematsu are less involved in the industry, I am looking forward to young composer like Yasunori Nishiki
Thank you!! And I agree, there’s a lot of great younger music talent right now in the game industry. Love Nishiki’s work!
Man I really need to play this. It's rare in this time to see two big elements fused together like this. not only that, seriously blending a great artstyle and wonderful music. This game deserves to be played. Thanks for filling me in on the rich history!
I absolutely recommend Renaissance since it adds a lot, but the original is a lot of fun too. Thanks for watching man!!
@@RewindArcade Honestly just go to the part where you talked about it. something to add to the list!
Another great video, thanks! While I've never been a big Actraiser fan, I do enjoy the soundtrack very much. Gotta check out the soundtrack of the Renaissance remake!
The soundtrack is one of the best parts so I totally understand. The Renaissance OST is amazing!
The remake looks cool. One thing that is never mentioned about the action segments of the original is that they are _extremely_ stiff-feeling.
If the remake manages to fix that then it's almost certainly worth giving a play.
This was recommended to me on Twitter! Great vid, you earned a sub.
Thank you so much, glad you enjoyed it!! Yeah, the original’s platforming sections can sometimes be a bit clunky to control. Renaissance’s action stages definitely play much more smoothly, especially with the added attacks and dodge movement.
SUCH A STRONG LEG 🦵
Dope stuff. I remember when I first played ActRaiser. I had let my friend borrow Donkey Kong Country 3 and he let me borrow this game because I hadn't heard of it before. I ended up loving it. The mix of styles was definitely unique. I don't think I had played a city building game before that point.
Thanks!! I think a lot people were first introduced to city building gameplay with ActRaiser (and SimCity on SNES too) since those type of games were mainly on PC and not home consoles. Was DKC3 any good? I never actually played that one. 😅
@@RewindArcade DKC3 is a great little platformer honestly. On par with DKC1, maybe a little better in terms of content (more secrets), but DKC2 is still the best.
Nice, I’ll have to check it out!
Really Great Video as usual Sir Crisps! For whatever reason I didn't get notified on it when it dropped. With that, I didn't know they made Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma! They made really good games back to back in the 90s. Shame what ended up happening to the company.
Thank you good sir! Yeah, I learned so much about the company making this. Definitely an unfortunate end to such a talented company.
Excellent video, I wish you many more subscribers and success.
Thank you Rhett, much appreciated!!
Really enjoy a lot of Quintet's games. ActRaiser being one of em.
I really loved the remake. I understand the dislike of the siege mode but it clicked with me. The update last month was pretty good with making it play like the original during the platforming stages.
Really hope we get more remakes of Quintet's stuff.
I agree, I thought Renaissance was a lot better than many reviewers made it out to be and the Siege mode was really fun. The update released after I had already finished the script and had begun editing so it sadly didn't get mentioned. Hopefully Soul Blazer sees a remake next!
I’m in love with ActRaiser.
I hope II gets a remake in some capacity.
While it’s sadly unlikely, that would be really awesome. I’d want them to get Koshiro back for the rearranged soundtrack too! 👍
I beat the game in 2019 only.
On the WiiU, but in the Wii virtual console mode and utilizing a SNES mini controller attached to the nunchuck!😊
Marvelous game!
That’s awesome, better late than never! 👍👍
So glad I subbed
What a fantastic video. Yuzo doesn't get enough credit
Thank you! And I totally agree, the guy is a legend.
another banger of a video!!!
Much appreciated, glad you enjoyed it!!
Awesome video. I am going to finish this remake.🍻
Thank you! I got a lot of flack from people for liking the remake. It’s certainly not perfect, but I feel it’s far from the train wreck many make it out to be.
I agree with you. I think the remake is marvelous, I just got pulled away with other things but I have not forgotten about it. It's been on my mind recently and awhile ago. Your video popped up and I was like "Man, I gotta finish that remake."
It was fun to hear about the development and I like how you showed off the remake.
I was born in 86 and I remember playing the original when I was real little. I still have that cartridge.
It was a fine remake, Just like FFVIIR is. People are going to hate no matter what.
After I finish Tales of Arise then I am going to play through - Crisis Core Remake, FFVIIR and FFIV Ultima then FFVI T-Edition.
Before I play ToA though, I am gonna go check on my town in the new Actraiser. 🍻
Sending in the statue to seal the caves was a mistake. The point was for the people to be strong enough to seal the caves themselves.
Great video, Chris! I could never get into ActRaiser but this video was really interesting, I didn't know about the religious aspects of the story line.
Thanks man! I definitely understand why some people weren't into the game. I didn't play it until only recently and it took some time for me to get the mechanics and controls down, but it finally ended up clicking for me. Crazy how many changes they made for the Western version!
I would've loved to have seen that rpg concept they scrapped
Right?? Would love to know more about it. The crazy thing is Miyazaki said the game was about 70% finished when they scrapped it. It’s not really clear how much of its assets were reused for ActRaiser, but I imagine it must’ve been a substantial amount.
Ohh yes!!
YES!!! YES!
I would love to see a video on Quintet's Action RPGs: Soul Blazer, Illusion of Gaia/Time, and Terranigma. I've also heard that The Granstream Saga on PS1 night be related, either made by some of the same people, or a spiritual successor.
So funny story, this video originally started out as "The History of Quintet" before I decided to tone down the scope quite a bit and only cover the Actraiser games. The plan was to continue on with the rest of the games, but unfortunately this video flopped pretty hard so I put everything on the back burner for now. May come back to it sometday though.
The Granstream Saga is made by Shade which was a side studio created by Quintet to allow them to work with other publishers without damaging their relationship with others (presumably Nintendo). I believe Kouji Yokota was put in charge of Shade. He had also worked on Actraiser and Illusion of Gaia/Time too.
It's a really interesting history with a somewhat unfortunate ending. Anyways, thanks so much watching!
Really solid channel
Thank you!!
that remastered of ActRaiser caught my eye in the direct, i kinda wanna try it one day lol
It's a lot of fun, but I had a lot of issues with screen tearing on the PC version so maybe go Switch instead.
Great video 😀
Thank you!!
i absolutly loved reinasance, i just literally finished the game a few minutes ago, and im trully hoping for a remake on the same veing with AR 2. THIS is how a remake of this old games should be, its to much of hopefull tinking...but wish capcom would do the exact same thing with gargoyls quest/demon crest
Yeah, I was surprised Renaissance got so much hate in the comments. It’s far from perfect but I really enjoyed it.
I’d love to see Capcom revisit the Gargoyle’s Quest series though I highly doubt that will happen anytime soon.
Ahh good ol Mode 7
The best, haha!
I only recently discovered this remake. Is it the same NO! is it fun YES!
Agreed!
I loved this video!! I’ve actually not heard of Actraiser until now but this video was fascinating! Thank you for exposing me to this series :)
Thanks Corey, glad you enjoyed it! It’s definitely a really interesting series. The other SNES Quintet games are actually pretty cool too.
Keep it up man. I know it sucks when a video doesn't land but consider it a gift for your loyal followers. You got a sub from me!
Thanks Vito, really appreciate that! I’ve been doing YT long enough to know that not every video will be a winner, but with most of my documentaries taking between 350-500 hours to produce, it makes things extra frustrating and defeating. Thanks a ton for the support though!
@@RewindArcade If you ever want to chat UA-cam strategy, let me know. I think one problem you may have run into is that the Actraiser logo is illegible at smaller sizes, making your thumbnail less than ideal. Always consider that many people are watching on mobile devices and your thumbnail will be very small in certain locations like search and recommended.
I have a huge phone but I literally cannot read the words "The History Of" in your Actraiser thumbnail. They are a blur at that size.
This is bad ass
Thanks!!
@@RewindArcade I'm definitely subscribing to this channel hoping to see more videos like this keep up the great work bro
@@tonymarsala6939 Appreciate it man! There are plenty of other video game documentaries already on the channel too if you feel like giving any of those a watch. 👍
Why isn't ActRaiser in the SNES lineup on Switch...
Man, I wish it was on there. I imagine either Square Enix doesn't want to license it to Nintendo or Nintendo has no desire to license it from SE. Fingers cross it gets added one of these days!
I think SE over-analysed the original game when making Renaissance. The Sim sections were a horrendous over-kill!
What happened to Tomoyoshi Miyazaki ? Will i find out in this video ?
Maybe tonight~~
Yes! Well, sort of…. 😂
Yeshua video game series wasn't there a 3rd game in the series?
There are technically only two official ActRaiser games. Renaissance is the 3rd entry in the series, but it’s just a remake of the first game. Solo Crisis on the Sega Saturn is more of a spiritual successor and not exactly part of the ActRaiser franchise.
Didn't really enjoy the remake the whole time I was playing it I just wanted to go back and play the original.
I’m one of the few that really enjoyed it, but I totally get why a lot of people didn’t care for it.
𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙤𝙨𝙢 🙋
I hate Renaissance and that is coming from someone who's favorite game on the SNES was ActRaiser. I cannot stand the art style, they shoulda went with pixel graphics. The tower defense gets tedious because it's so often and the amount of dialogue/story they added was overkill. I just skipped thru it all. Very disappointed with that game, great video thou. I wish that sega saturn version was created back then. That coulda been good.
I think renaissance completely ruined the game.
No fucking reason to turn the angel into a anime child for nonces, and the characters they added were complete weeb trash, absolutely incompatible with the game the remake is based on.
Not sure it the remake sold well but it sparks bad news for any of the other quintet games that could be remade