
In ActRaiser 2, each magic is designed for particular situations and some magic is more powerful than others. This is different from the first ActRaiser in which the player had to select a particular magic before descending down to the world to fight monsters and was limited to only that magic for the duration of battle. When released, the magic may take various form depending on which position the Master is in.

Magic is executed by holding down the designated button to "charge up" and is then released, consuming a magic scroll which are limited when the Master enters an area. Armed only with a sword, and a shield which can deflect some attacks, the Master becomes heavily dependent upon magic. Controlling the Master, who now has a full set of functional wings, the player must navigate through dungeons and avoid certain peril by jumping, flying, falling, and floating to platforms. The side-scrolling action for ActRaiser 2 is far more advanced than its predecessor. The second act consists of monsters spawned from the primary evil, named after one of the seven deadly sins, with heightened challenge and peril. The first act of an area consists of monsters spawned from a lesser demon named after an unfavorable condition. After hearing their plight the Master descends to the world below to fight the monsters and rid the land of evil. The player, assuming the role of "the Master" ("God" in the Japanese version"), controls a floating palace to inspect the people of the world below. Gameplay for ActRaiser 2 consists primarily with side-scrolling platform action. Unlike the original game, which alternately combined platform game sequences and god game sequences, ActRaiser 2 is only a platform game. The position of ActRaiser 2 in the series timeline is not explicitly revealed however, many plot details suggest that ActRaiser 2 may actually be a prequel to the original ActRaiser, or take place in another universe entirely.

The game tells a story that draws concepts from the famous religious epics Paradise Lost and Divine Comedy. "ActRaiser 2: The Crusade for Silence"), is a side-scrolling platform game for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game console developed by Quintet and published by Enix (now Square Enix) in 1993 and is the sequel to the popular game ActRaiser. (December 2008)ĪctRaiser 2, released in Japan as ActRaiser 2: Chinmoku e no Seisen ( アクトレイザー2 沈黙への聖戦, Akutoreizā Tsū: Chinmoku e no Seisen ?, lit. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed.

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