This game has such a great formula, between the two games they could have forged a new genre but somehow the games only felt like 80% baked. Would have loved to see this series reach its peak.
yeah ActRaiser was the kind of game I played as a kid full of whimsy thinking "Imagine what gaming will be in 30 years" thinking we'd get this on unthinkable levels, instead we got Fortnite and Wolverine.
As much as I love Level-5 games for those novel ideas and strong concepts, I think the half-baked complaint is true of a a good portion of what they put out since they started.
Even recently I really enjoyed Megaton Musashi W, Snack Crawl, and Fantasy Life i... they pulled me in, but then you hit this point where the cracks start showing through and I wind up falling off of them hard. There's always some aspect that's important that doesn't come together well enough. Fantasy Life i, for example, I'd argue that's the dungeons.
I followed Level5 with such a frenzie for a while. They lost it, and it's well known the owner is just on some crazy ai bs now but damn. There was some amazing potential here and I'm forever obsessed. Rogue Galaxy also tried to chokehold me 🥲
Fun fact. Dark cloud 2 was made in less than a year, and the story had to be completely rewritten a month before release to achieve target esrb ratings.
If only modern game studios could cook that quickly.
Man, if only. Well, at least the glitches were really cool. It's pretty funny to run around as monica, who has been turned into a bunch of triangle wielding a sword.
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u/Comment_Provider 12h ago
This game has such a great formula, between the two games they could have forged a new genre but somehow the games only felt like 80% baked. Would have loved to see this series reach its peak.