21st September 2005, 8:00 PM
This is one of the games I got for SNES. Looking into it, it's a port of R-Type II, minus one level and plus two new ones (levels 1 and 6). It's classic R-Type gameplay... which means a very high difficulty level, lots of environmental puzzles, and enemies that, while annoying, are a bit easier to deal with than is average for a shooter. It's a decent shooter... except for one thing: that when you die you have to start the level over. Big, big mistake. Other R-Type games, including the arcade and Game Boy versions of R-Type 2, don't force you to do this. When you're at a boss, die, have lives left, and have to start the stage from scratch it's just painful... if not for that teh game would just be cruel hard at anything above Novice (which isn't too hard, I finished it on Novice earlier today), but as it is... ouch. Just ouch.
The other problem of note is the massive, extreme slowdown -- seriously, start firing your guns with a special weapon on an otherwise empty screen and it must get cut in half -- but that's expected for a title that came out close to launch, sadly... and I must admit, it makes the game easier moving so slow. :)
The only other "issue" is that I've always preferred Gradius's style of shooter gameplay to R-Type's, but that's not R-Type's fault, really...
And if you finish it on Hard and loop over, or use the level-select cheat and choose the level past '7', there's one more difficulty level, Pro! Aren't they nice?
The other problem of note is the massive, extreme slowdown -- seriously, start firing your guns with a special weapon on an otherwise empty screen and it must get cut in half -- but that's expected for a title that came out close to launch, sadly... and I must admit, it makes the game easier moving so slow. :)
The only other "issue" is that I've always preferred Gradius's style of shooter gameplay to R-Type's, but that's not R-Type's fault, really...
Quote:This game has four different levels of difficulty, Novice, Easy, Normal, and Hard. I prefer to think of them as Easy, Hard, Impossible, and shouldn't-even-be-allowed-to-be-this-difficult setting.
And if you finish it on Hard and loop over, or use the level-select cheat and choose the level past '7', there's one more difficulty level, Pro! Aren't they nice?