R-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony of destruction upon your foes.
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Not really a review or anything but I've played a lot of this game. Like, more than would make any amount of sense. I'm kind of squeezing blood from stone at this point. Don't have an exact time, but it's at least 400 hours. Got all the DLC, will probably repurchase the updated rerelease on PS5 when I get around to it.
This was the game that opened my third eye and activated my shmup neuron. I'm still strongly convinced that shmups as a genre are almost exclusively for boomers, but maybe being a boomer is cool sometimes.
but yeah it's ok, needs less grinding i guess (play this game please i can't convince my friends to try it)
This was the game that opened my third eye and activated my shmup neuron. I'm still strongly convinced that shmups as a genre are almost exclusively for boomers, but maybe being a boomer is cool sometimes.
but yeah it's ok, needs less grinding i guess (play this game please i can't convince my friends to try it)
As a fan of this series, I would actually rate this 2 more stars higher than the indicated rating. So why is it actually low?
The game has a plethora of highly-expensive DLCs, and without it, the game is basically just a slightly-worse R-Type Final, which in itself can't hold a candle up to the older R-Type games save R-Type II.
The gameplay, like all R-Type games, rely less on twitch and more on memorization and trial and error.
I still wouldn't recommend this game if only because of its price point.
The game has a plethora of highly-expensive DLCs, and without it, the game is basically just a slightly-worse R-Type Final, which in itself can't hold a candle up to the older R-Type games save R-Type II.
The gameplay, like all R-Type games, rely less on twitch and more on memorization and trial and error.
I still wouldn't recommend this game if only because of its price point.
Wanted to like this game, as someone who has played most of the past R-Type games, but the stages feel so lifeless.
The DLC stages are much better, which is really not a good sign because it shows that the team don't really have it in them to create good and new stages.
There's also the whole nonsense with R-Type Final 3 content being exclusive to PS5. Thanks for punishing those who got the wrong version of the game, I guess...?
The DLC stages are much better, which is really not a good sign because it shows that the team don't really have it in them to create good and new stages.
There's also the whole nonsense with R-Type Final 3 content being exclusive to PS5. Thanks for punishing those who got the wrong version of the game, I guess...?