Uploaded November 2023 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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Hot off the trails of the first three Ys titles, Masaya Hashimoto and Tomoyoshi Miyazaki split from Falcom to go do their own thing elsewhere. Forming Quintet and pushing Action RPGs forward at a rate Falcom couldn't quite keep up with when the two crossed paths on the Super Nintendo again. Let's look at their humble beginnings with Actraiser in this review.

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