SolSeraph

 PC
Metascore
63

Mixed or average reviews - based on 4 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 0 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 4
  3. Negative: 0 out of 4
  1. Eurogamer
    Jul 15, 2019
    An homage to the genre-blending classic ActRaiser that never quite gets off the ground.
  2. Polygon
    Jul 12, 2019
    ActRaiser fans are likely hungry enough to want to at least try this — and the $15 asking price doesn’t feel like robbery — but I left SolSeraph after only a few hours, upset at the missed opportunity.

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User Score
6.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 4 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 1 out of 4
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 4
  3. Negative: 2 out of 4
  1. AJCk19
    May 3, 2023
    4
    tldr; a bad jack of all trades

    The game is trying to do too much. With trying to be a tower defense, town builder, and platformer, it comes    tldr; a bad jack of all trades

    The game is trying to do too much. With trying to be a tower defense, town builder, and platformer, it comes in between games that just do it better solo (Mega Man X, Tropico, Crystal Defenders).

    However, it does make a honest attempt of trying to be good, and it is a spiritual successor to Actraiser. Even though a lot of older fans are saying the OG Actraiser is better.    … Full Review »
  2. LorneReams
    Jul 15, 2019
    6
    I beat the first area completely and boy, does this really feel bad. I'm probably going to try to get through the second, but this is more ofI beat the first area completely and boy, does this really feel bad. I'm probably going to try to get through the second, but this is more of a tower defense with some light town building and then the absolutely worst action-adventure sequences I've played in a while. The controls are atrocious, Just floaty and bad hit detection, and there are some platforming that the controls are really ill-suited to. Also, one of the best parts of act raiser is the finding cool story beats during the maps (such as raining on a man dying of thirst, using lightning to open a cave, etc.) and the first board had NONE of that.

    There are still a lot of locked buildings that may have some of this, but if the first board is any indication, then probably not. I'll play at least through the second to make sure, but man, what a waste of potential.

    UPDATE:
    Now that I know what I'm doing, I zipped through the second board and it's more of the same. Find wood, get wood, build just enough houses and farms to support them, and then build barracks and archers, and then fill the whole map with free roads so you can drop priests next to the clouds, beat the stage, do like 5 times and then beat area boss, then stage ends. You can leave as there seems to be nothing left to do in the stage once you beat it. Lame as **** May try one more then I'm out. I'm really disappointed.    … Full Review »
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