R-Type

released on Nov 01, 1989
by Irem

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NEC

A port of R-Type

R-Type is Hudson Soft's port of R-Type for TurboGrafx-16. Unlike the Japanese two part release for PC Engine (R-Type I and R-Type II) it was released as one complete game.


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I seriously don’t know how I keep getting myself to play more shmups on this console. It's just a weird habit. This won’t be a long review as I’ve already reviewed the Arcade and GB versions in the past. I think this originally was on that page but got moved to here.

R-Type really made a good transition to the PC Engine keeping a lot of the quality of the Arcade version. I’d argue it’s up to par with it especially for the time. Now if you didn’t like this game in the Arcades, just don’t bother with this. R-Type can be a grueling hard challenge for anyone especially the inexperienced shmup players. You’re gonna have to practice this one unless you have no shame like me and just use save states. I do wish this game didn’t do those go back to checkpoint deaths but I’ve always just been that way about this genre.

I should point out that this is a US only title, kind of. You see in Japan it was released in 2 parts in about a 2 month gap within each other. I don’t really know why they did it like that but they did. This just puts them both together making it exclusive here though a complete version was made for the CD add on.

The game still looks pretty good, it’s been a while since I’ve played the Arcade original so I can’t fully remember how accurate this is. It did feel like there was more sprite flicker but otherwise it looks pretty good to me considering the hardware. Even the music is quite good and fits the PC Engine sound pretty great compared to many other games on the system.

In the end R-type is pretty fun though it might feel outdated considering you can just play the Arcade version. Back then though this was still a fun package to own and should be in anyone’s PC Engine collection or I guess Turbografx 16 collection. I still think stage 6 is awful though, seriously does anyone else think that level is horrible? Anyway yeah good game give it a try like I said.