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ActRaiser was one of the first games I ever played on the SNES. My friends mom put the huge deposit on her credit card and rented the system from the video store and this was one 2 games we rented with it, (the other being Super Mario World). Needless to say, we didn't sleep for a week. ActRaiser blew us away in every aspect. It's still one of my all-time favorite 16-bit games.

A day where SNES Drunk talks about Dark Cloud is a good day

A more recent game that combines two genres is Sakuna: Of Rice and Ruin. It combines side-scrolling action gameplay with a rice farming sim. The rice farming is so accurate that apparently players in Japan have been using the official Japanese government rice farming guidelines as a walkthrough.

ActRaiser is such a special, timeless game.....

ActRaiser was magic for me. One of those games that you always think that there's more things hidden so you play and play to find it

Guardian Legend is a great game, which like Actraiser, combines to different styles of game play. This one is a top-down shooter and also and top down adventure.

I'm glad you mentioned Dark cloud. For years, I wasn't able to put a name on that childhood memory. Thanks a lot :)

The Guardian Legend for NES was another one like this. A shoot em up with action adventure levels. Was incredible for it's time and still worth playing.

Sigma Star Saga was actually made by Wayforward. The company behind Shantae.

Just a note: Enix didn't develop ActRaiser or Soul Blazer. Both were made by Quintet, which is why the Soul Blazer trilogy came out under different publishers.

Hey, I'm the guy that did the partial translation patch for SD Gundam GNext back in what feels like caveman times. Unfortunately the way the rom was structured didn't lend itself to easy translation. My romhacking skills are... well... bad, but I did what I could. If you want a game that's basically the same but with a more complete translation, look at SD Gundam X. It's the first game in that series (GNext is the third) and its rom DID lend itself to easy translation. The gameplay is nearly identical; mainly fewer faction choices and the live battles move a little slower. The translation isn't quite as good (not that GNext is). I was literally using the project to introduce myself to Japanese. But it's basically a complete translation. Romhacking(dot)net has the patch up on it if you're interested.

I sank so many hours into Dark Cloud 2. It's such a beautiful game! Its gameplay is super rich and varied, its music is superb, its characters and story are unique and interesting, and its world's areas are fun to explore.

I am so glad you included Dark Cloud 2 in this. The Dark Cloud series is probably my favorite series on the PS2. It needs more love.

Ever Oasis on 3ds involves town building, action RPG combat (see: secret/trials of mana), and puzzle solving.

As soon as I saw the title/video theme, my mind went straight to Dark Cloud 1&2. Those games have always been my go to "Actraiser-likes". DC1 was a damn good launch title for the PS2 that doesn't get talked about enough these days.

Also look into Sakuna: of Rice and Ruin. Combines Actraiser and Harvest Moon mechanics with side-scrolling action.

Dark cloud 2. . . The low health beep beep beep haunts me

Was thinking about ActRaiser the other day! Small world

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OMG, thank you. I remember discovering ActRaiser completely by accident in the early 90s at Albertson's. I was blown away by how fun both parts of the game were, and have loved recommending/talking about it to people over the years. Thanks for this video, and for all of you in-depth, well-made content. Edit: I realize maybe it is necessary to add that in the early 90's, the Albertson's where I lived had a huge section at the front of the store dedicated specifically to a VHS and video game rental department. Writing this makes me feel old.

Correction: Soul Blazer (as well as its "sequels" Illusion of Gaia and Terranigma) weren't developed by Enix, only published by them. The developers behind them were Quintet, a company that was made up of ex-employees of Falcom, the creators of Ys.

If you love Dark Cloud 2, Rogue Galaxy is the spiritual sequel. It no longer has the town building element but keeps the rest of the gameplay adding in a bunch of AI companions and various sub-systems like a puzzle game factory mode you use to craft new equipment. One of the last great Level-5 RPGs in that style.

Act Raiser, Soul Blazer, and Dark Cloud 2 all in one video? Best SNES drunk video EVER.

I like Soul Blazer better than Illusion of Gaia too. I'm honestly addicted to the record screen theme which I believe is called "Into the Dream". Used to spend a good amount of time listening to it before start playing.

Brilliant variation on your usual format. Thank you!

I geek out a bit when one KZfaqr I follow references another KZfaqr I follow. So I really dug the John Riggs quote.

Yes drunk!

I want to thank you for making this video and hope you have a great rest of your day

Actraiser was a very unique amalgam of vastly different gameplay. It isn't easy to find a game that plays similarly. The level of analysis required to create that list must have been a difficult task. This is my favorite video by you. Bravo!

Thanks for all your videos and content. Really like coming home after a stupid day at work and watching some interesting stuff about one of my favorite consoles.

If I ever made my own game it would be like ActRaiser

Soul Blazer is FREAKING AMAZING! I missed this game 'back in the day' and having recently run through it, I can only say I'm so sorry I did. On the bright side, I discovered a new, exciting, massively enjoyable game later in life. :)

To add to this list, white knight chronicles is fantastic! Fills the hole that never getting Dark Cloud 3 has left in my heart. Unfortunately the servers have shut down so you can only play offline, but it's such a good game.

Oh man, Big Sky Trooper. That was one of my rental store discoveries as a kid. It was way better than I expected, and had a lot of personality. I haven’t played it in years, thanks for reminding me it existed.

A+ as always man. Great recommendations. I'm sure the research took some time on this one.

Great video, I would love to play any of these, thanks for bringing these games up

Fun video! I'll bet someone else already mentioned The Guardian Legend being another game that seamlessly meshes two genres together, but that could have worked here too I think. Keep on keepin on man!

Thanks for this! Awesome recommendations

Was very excited to see Max in the thumbnail. Dark Cloud 2 has been one of my all time favorites since i played it at age 13, and i played Actraiser specifically bc i saw it was similar to DC2

I know this might seem left of field but I feel like the Dragon Quest: Builders games on Switch may count in this category

every time you bring up chaos seed it blows my mind. will get around to it eventually

Soul Blazer is one of my favorite SNES games. When I saw the thumbnail for this video and saw Dark Cloud 2 I was really happy to see it get referenced. I loved so much about the game. Really well made game.

I actually just replayed Soul Blazer and Dark Cloud 1. Im about an hour into Dark Cloud 2. I have players guide too.

I played Henry hatsworth a lot, i never tought it would get mentioned anywhere, the game is like super forgotten.

I have wanted this list since I was a kid playing ActRaiser, pre-KZfaq. Great work!

Love your content!

Has anyone mentioned Legend of Mana for PS1? There's the "Over World" portion of it where you have to decide which artifacts to put next to each other based on their elements.

Great video! I love Act Raiser and Soul Blazer (By Quintet, not Enix btw) so seeing these other more obscure games is great! :D Keep up the great work!

Hey, just wanted to tell you that I checked out the HD Mode 7 emulator you talked about in the Lock On video and it’s really cool!

I was thinking about Dark Cloud 2 before watching this, what a surprise to see it! No one talks nearly enough about that game, but I can see why a lot of people wouldn't enjoy it. I really loved the atmosphere and art direction of the game, and the soundtrack had quite a number of chill tracks. I might have to replay it one of these days!

Legend of Mana is not quite the same but does feature world building. You have to literally build the world map as you go along, and placing different locations either closer or further away to your home has different effects when you visit them.

FireStriker is a mishmash of genres worth playing any way you can. I’m glad you mentioned Sigma Star Saga. It’s a great find.

Chaos Seed is a great-looking game concept.

A whole bunch of games I've never heard of before, that's my favorite kind of video you do.

Great video!

Good list, thanks! Mind you Soul Blazer (and ActRaiser, Gaia series, ...) were only *published* by Enix. They were developed by Quintet. They are definitely worth mentioning because it's amazing what this small company has meant for the SNES. They also kind of disappeared mysteriously according to Internet legend. But take that with a grain of salt :) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quintet_(company)

Great video. I loved both Dark Cloud games. Was so glad to see Dark Cloud 2 can be played on the PS4, have restarted it again this month.

Nice to see Henry Hatsworth getting some love!

I loved Actraiser and Soulblazer, thanks for the recommandation, I'check out a couple of them at least. Chaos Seed looks cool and closet to Actraiser ! :)

THE HORDE on 3DO . Build the city, then defend it from the horde. Was a very funny cinematic action strategy game.

I sure love dark cloud 2, still go back to the soundtrack every now and again

A couple games that I was thinking could have been on this list is Birthright: The Gorgon's Alliance, and the Kingdom Under Fire games. The first mixes RTS, and rpg dungeon crawling, while the later mixes RTS and Dynasty Warriors style action combat.

You had me at Dark Cloud

Sacrifice, Herzog Zwei and Brutal Legend are kinda similar. Dawn of War 2 for a smaller scale RTS without base building and which has boss fights.

I'm a huge fan of ActRaiser and have played everything i thought possibly could feel similar including Soul Blazer and Dark Cloud, but for a more modern game that combines specifically a feeling of town progression with that action-combat style of game, Dragon Quest Builders 2 was so very much worth it! it has a phenomenal story to boot, and don't let the brand of Dragon Quest fool you, you don't need to playing any other game to know what's going on. Also, most people (myself included) might be put off that it looks like Minecraft, but once you get playing you realize the comparison is only surface deep. I can't reccoment Dragon Quest Builders 2 enough for anyone who likes ActRaiser for the town-sim sections, as you get to build entire communities from essentially scratch!

Good call on Big Sky Trooper. I pride myself on knowing a lot of retro games and especially. Lucas Arts games but I’ve never heard of that! Way to surprise me! Have a great day man, love your videos so much

I was in AWE of Actraiser when i 1st saw the 1st early screen shots in EGM and Nintendo Power!! When i 1st played it the sunmer of 1991 i was COMPLETELY blown away at the soundtrack 1st of all that Sony sound chip made it shine and could NOT believe all that was coming from a cartridge instead of CD-ROM lol Which ironically was very foreshadowing of what would come later for Sony. The graphics on this game was a world away from the NES i could not fathom the leap forward in detail and shading and paralax scrolling!! The RPG element really brought a different perspective to the whole just hack n slash side scroller. That scene as you enter the lair to THIS DAY still gives me chills as the 1st day i played it 30 years ago!! Actraiser has stood the test of time!!!

I like this series (games you might like). :D

Dark Cloud 2 is one of the most addictive games I ever played. I once had something like an 18-hour marathon with that game.

Chaos seed looks amazing

Dark Cloud 2 was an amazing game back in the day. Played lots and lots of it. Monica was one of my first game crushes as well lol good times

Even if I don't have interest in the games being talked about I never miss a SNES Drunk vid, always a pleasure to see the different games that are out there and between Drunk and Sega Lord X, I get my fill of retro gaming goodness.

Just came across your episode on the pod cast with New Game Plus and I had to come to the channel. Got my sub

Actraiser was my favorite game back in the day. I remember playing Dark Cloud 2 (Dark Chronicle) back in the day, and that led to Georama getting implemented in White Knight Chronicles before Level-5 went with their Inzauma Eleven, Professor Layton and Yo-kai Watch properties.

Still remember playing Act Raiser for very first time and hearing it's music, I was blown the frig away...

I'd love to see a true spiritual successor to Actraiser

Omg dark cloud 2 is one of my favorite games ever

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This is the best video to have because this is the best kind of game to have. Thank you.

Oh yeah, Henry Hatsworth got a mention! This gane is so friggin cool, one of my favorite on the system!

Love Act Raiser and never knew Dark Cloud 2 was a town builder RPG! Btw, you should play Goemon's Great Adventure, one of the few side scrollers on the N64 and probably the best (and the hardest) one.

Soulblazer is a childhood favorite I love returning to.

Absolutely love the Dark Cloud series, imperfect gems with a TON of charm & a weapon upgrade system I love to this day. The building is more complicated in 2, but it also allows for creativity & adding your personal touch. Herny hatsworth is a game I was just trying to describe to my wife. It was a hard game to describe then and still is now, but is a ton of fun and extremely creative.

I love getting Drunk in the morning!

I too wish you, good sir, a great rest of your day! Great recommendations here which I will surely try out in due course. Toodaloo!

Here's some off-the-wall suggestions for games like Actraiser that fit quite well: A couple of old-skool J2ME mobile phone games: Tornado-Mania by Digital Chocolate - combines two different "genres": a Katamari Damacy style part where you destroy the world with tornadoes and collect buildings, and a 2nd city builder part where you put the collected buildings back into a working town Dungeon Town by Kairosoft (makers of GameDevStory): first a town planner game, but with a secondary game where you recruit adventurers to raid monster-filled dungeons to seal them and get treasure to build more town - very Actraiser! The Bullfrog classic Dungeon Keeper is also a bit Actraiser-ish. A town (well, dungeon) planner thing with a demonic monsters and knights theme. Great humour too.

Without having played _ActRaiser_ yet (it's on my ever expanding list), I would like to mention the first _Drawn to Life_ game on the Nintendo DS. The main gimmick of the game is that you use the stylus to draw your own character (there are pre-made ones, if you're not a pixel artist), as well as other elements in the game; however, the basic structure of the game is reminiscent of _ActRaiser_ - you, the player, are literally God and create a hero (as in, your character) to save your people. In between the side-scrolling levels you walk around a village that gets more and more areas, people and buildings as you unlock them in the levels. It's a really fun game, one of my favourites on the DS!

It's nice to see Dark Cloud 2 getting some recognition, it's definitely my favorite PS2 game of all time.

Dude Henry hatsworth is the jam! I love that game!

I first rented this game from Family Video back in 1998, and fell in love with it. Found a used copy at FuncoLand a few months later for $37, bought it and enjoyed many years of playing this masterpiece.

You just got me craving to play Actraiser again. Its been too long. And soul blazer looks great gotta check that one out and I've never heard of big sky trooper. Looks kinda rare, ill keep my eye out for it Thanks drunk you know how to put me in a good mood on a Tuesday morning.

Dark Cloud 2 is phenomenal, but quite grindy. If you don't mind ze grind, it's highly recommended and just keeps giving you new stuff to do. Awesome stuff.

Master of the Monster Lair for the DS. You design floors of a dungeon to meet certain requirements, but also to be convenient for your own use as monsters drop resources. Both a top-down "town" builder, and a fairly standard jrpg battle system. With a touch of town sim elements, since this is your career and you fulfill resource requests from places like the local furniture store. I had a LOT of fun with it for a while, but it's unreasonably grindy. All of your materials come from killing monsters, and you need/want a lot of materials. So after a constructing a couple floors you'll find yourself marching through all the monster dens of each floor on your way down to the one you're working on, every in-game day. (Swinging your magic talking shovel is tiring work, you can only do so much per day) A really neat game that's well worth trying out if you like mixing genres, especially building+???.

I love Dark Cloud 2, Excellent game.

Very nice!

Dark Cloud is one of my all time favourites. Great game all around.

probably not exactly in the same vein, but Dragon Quest/Warrior VII has you recruiting a bunch of villagers to build a new village. it's more of a side quest but I thought of it while watching this. great video, thanks a lot for compiling such a niche list!

I absolutely love dark cloud 2! Amazing game! One of the best in the ps2! Mark hamill does a voice roll in it too.

Thanks for mentioning Daichi-kun Crisis. I'm a big PC Engine fan and had'nt heard of this before.