A classic Enix game that is worth your time.
In ActRaiser, you're God. During the Action-Adventure portion of the game, you take control of a statue that comes to life with a sword and you fight your way to the end of the level where you defeat the boss of the level. In each land, you'll go through 2 stages fighting a boss in each. Be it a centaur that shoots lightning from it's lance, or an Egyptian sphinx head that tries to crush you like an insect.
After you're victorious, ActRaiser takes on a very different aspect where you must help people who worship you build their town up. The more people that worship you, the stronger you become in a sorta pseudo RPG style. You do gain experience and that makes you grow stronger but, not by killing monsters or clearing stages. Rather, you gain experience by the number of people that currently worship you cumulatively over all of the territories that you have people that worship you.
During the management part of the game, you take control of a little Cupid character who must direct where the people are allowed to build and protect them all the while by shooting the various interesting looking creatures with your arrows.
Creatures in the game come in many shapes and sizes with some more threatening than others. For instance, the giant bat will still citizens and take them to its lair to devour them while the giant skull thing will cause earthquakes and kill all of your citizens and leveling any building that's not level 3.
ActRaiser is 15 years old but, still as fun as it was when it was first released. Those that can appreciate the simplicity and enjoy the nostalgic feeling of playing games from obsolete systems such as the SNES will enjoy this classic game and will find it well worth the time to play and this is a worthy game for the archives.