A HORRENDOUS-feeling port of Darius II that was outsourced to another porting team. It's slow, the sound effects suck, the remixes are okay but unfitting, nothing about movement or shooting feels gratifying, and the screen crunch is dire. The one thing that saves this port is just how weird and over-ambitious it is. They turned most of Darius 1 and 2's main bosses into mini-bosses (total of 26), and made a bunch of new bosses in their place. The new fights feel COMPLETELY out of place and don't match up with the artstyle or composition of the Darius series, and have this geometric glass style that reminds me of unlicensed genesis games. You're also not punished as hard for dying - you lose only 1 level of powerups instead of a complete restart, - but that doesn't make the game easier cause powerups have been made so scarce, so a single death might as well still be a run killer. I can't imagine how much effort it took to make all these additional changes to II, yet all executed were so poorly.

Not at all recommended unless you already like Darius and wanna play something that just flat-out makes you feel uncomfortable and confused. What a beautiful mess.