ActRaiser 2 - Chinmoku e no Seisen (Japan) - Software MAME

Nintendo Super Famicom cart. published 31 years ago:

アクトレイザー2　沈黙の聖戦 © 1993 Enix, Limited.
(ActRaiser 2 - Chinmoku e no Seisen)

TECHNICAL
Game ID: SHVC-A8

TRIVIA
Released on October 29, 1993 in Japan. The game sold 40,000 copies in Japan. Retail price: 9300 Yen.

Throughout the game, the Master must fight six lesser demons to gain access to six greater demons under Tanzra's direct command, after all of which the Master must fight a machine constructed by the humans, and then Tanzra himself. The six pairs and the human machine all represent the Seven Sins, and Tanzra represents Satan, specifically as he is portrayed in Dante's Inferno.

• Gluttony is a crop-devouring ant demon.
• Envy is the vengeful wraith of a queen whose jealousy consumed her.
• Greed is a demon that transformed a once generous king into a golden, jewelry-clad dragon.
• Lust tainted a king with the image of a beautiful woman and then trapped his mind in its womb-like belly.
• Wrath is represented as a giant made of fire who must be battled inside an erupting volcano.
• Sloth is a giant snail whose tampering with the waters and rain have weakened the surrounding villages.
• Pride is the machine constructed by the humans as a false idol and a mockery of the Master.
• The final boss Tanzra is a representation of Satan in Dante's Inferno, a giant, three-headed beast trapped from the waist down in a frozen lake.

Just as the main bosses of the game represent the Seven Deadly Sins, major locations of the game have a symbolic or ironic connection with the demon that is plaguing them.

• Diligence and Industen (Industrious) were once the hardest of workers, but then became so weak that they even lost the will to live.
• The queen of Devote, instead of devoting herself to others, was so incredibly jealous of all other beautiful things that she sank her kingdom under the sea.
• Temponia and Modero (Temperance and Moderation) once had extravagant amounts of food, but then starved.
• The former friendly nations of Favorian and Justania (Favor and Justice) were engaged in a bloody war brought on by the demon Fury. The demon filled the Justanian king's heart with wrath.
• The king of Lovaous (Love) was plagued by the demon Deception in his dreams, which filled his mind with thoughts of lust.
• The king of Stormrook, overcome by greed, takes all of his citizens' money and sends them to a prison called Gratis, which means "for free", a play on words both for greed and for a prison.
• Humbleton (Humble), a highly civilized, technologically advanced nation with no faith in the master, enacted a plan to build a tower (Tower of Souls/Babel) to reach the heavens and become Masters themselves.

TIPS AND TRICKS
Play demo level
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Set the difficulty level to hard, then enter BJQX TRKC DLSZ as a password.

View end credits
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Enter MTkM SkTk HNSH as a password. Note: Press Select to enter the lower-case letters.

Start last stage with 38 lives
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Enter MFMJ TVSY FVPX as a password.

Fight with Tanzra
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Enter LONG LONG AGO. As a password.

Fight ActRaiser Boss
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Enter Xxxx Yyyy Zxxx as a password.
Note: Press Select to enter the lower-case letters.

SERIES

• ActRaiser [Model SHVC-AR] (1992)
• ActRaiser 2 - Chinmoku e no Seisen [Model SHVC-A8] (1993)

STAFF
Lead Director: Masaya Hashimoto
Scenario Director: Tomoyoshi Miyazaki
Art Director: Ayano Koshiro
Lead Programmer: Masaya Hashimoto
Object Programmer: Shigemi Kita
Scenario Writer: Ayano Koshiro
Script Writer: Tomoyoshi Miyazaki
Scroll Designer: Ayano Koshiro
Object Designer: Hitoshi Ariga
Assistant Designers: Naoko Suzuki, Sadao Kobayashi, Hiroshi Hayashi
Sound Composer: Yuzo Koshiro
Game Testers: Yoshiro Takeshita, Tomoko Miyazaki, Yutaka Sasaki, Tsutomu Hayashi, Youichiro Numaguchi, Akira Sasaki, Megumi Tsuruno, Tatsuo Hashimoto
Quintet Staff: Hisashi Yokota, Reiko Takebayashi, Akira Kitanohara, Iyunichi Ishida
Enix Staff: Takao Kawaguchi, Yasuyuki Sone, Kazunori Takado, Yuuchi Kikumoto, Hideki Yamamoto, Sadao Yahagi, Kenjiro Kano
Special Thanks: Keiji Honda, Shinji Futami
Game Coordinator: Robert L. Jerauld
Producer: Tsuneo Morita
Executive Producer: Yasuhiro Fukushima

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