| QUOTE (Jazz @ Apr 7 2008, 02:50 PM) | | AGradius III sounds promising dont know about Act Raiser or Blades of steel, how awesome are they? |
Actraiser's fairly hit and miss. The game alternates between a sideview platformer and a city simulator.
(Unfortunately, neither resembles Zelda II or SimCity very much, that's quite misleading.)
Neither mode is particularly complex but the music is neat. If you've played Soul Blazer, you'll recognize the musical style and some of the graphics and sound effects (ie. getting injured, health bar)
Basically, you are a fallen god whose sworn enemy killed almost everybody in the world. Your goal is to build up cities so that you can be powered by faith of the people and defeat your sworn enemy.
To build a city, you must first make it fit for civilization (by playing the sidescroll mode and beating a boss.)
You then build up the city while protecting it from cute monsters (and one ugly one) blowing it to pieces. If you try to build on top of a monster lair, the people will seal it, and then you don't have to worry about that monster anymore. The monsters themselves may be defeated by shooting them with Cherub's arrows, but he can't fire arrows if the monsters collide with him and deplete his health. (You gain health back every time people come out of the central church senate thing to expand the town.)
When the total population of all of your towns hits a milestone, you go up a level and get extra health and magic points. (You do not get a bonus to damage.)
After you've sealed every monster lair and built up the town sufficiently, you'll have to fight the second boss for that city because everybody is terrified and refuses to work.
After you have proceeded far enough in a given city's development, you can go civilize and build another one.
Tip 1: Don't build up one town and ignore all the others. Every town will have something bad happen in it that keeps them from doing anything, making that town boring as hell. To fix it, you'll need to take an item that you get when you've built up another town far enough, and use it in the other town. You might have to fight the second boss as well or instead.
Tip 2: In the city building mode, get rid of blue dragons and skulls as soon as possible.
Tip 3: Use the Earthquake skill as soon as your town is able to build stone houses (they hold more people.) Earthquake blows up anything that isn't a stone house, and then the villagers will replace those houses with stone ones.
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