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I had been aware of raiden trad for a while collecting games on the genesis/megadrive. playing in on an emulator for the most part. But I finally decided to pick up the cart to have the real artifact in my collection and to play it on the hardware. Its a vertical scrolling shooter with only a single player mode and some adjustable difficulty settings. I know most other games in the raiden series, and even ports of this game will let you co op with a second blue ship. But that's not present here. Still I think what brought me to pick this up in 2017 of all times, is the sprite design, its very mechanical with hulking battle platforms and futuristic war machines, the later space level even has spider walkers weaving around a web of space station pipes. Every stage has a distinct setting, small animations and effects in the background to witness. The first stage is easy to cite for this. With soldiers running down a bridge, cows in a pasture, and underground bunkers opening up to deploy tanks. The music full of catchy little melodys, that will be in your head after you turn off the game. Its a bit nice that mechanically for a vertical shooter there is a bit of of left and right scrolling so your not contained to the screen as much and its a good immersive effect. Also enemy bullets are easy to see. Which is part of the reason I wanted to get serious about playing it. Since the distinct color is easy to weave around. Power ups kind of have a sense of humor with fairys coming to your aide when you die and a a few hidden mascot characters to find that count as the collectible medals adding to your score. I guess the humor comes with the power ups as well they will since bounce around the screen for quite a while. Taunting you into taking a risk for the power up. Changeing between the two shot types. Laser and vulcan shot, and the two missile types homing green energy with wider range and a more powerful straight missile. you can alt fire a limited stock of bombs. The greatest weakness however is the ship has no speed boost. just these weapons. Which makes the wider range shots far more important to progress. The game can be brutally difficult. But Its actually possible to recover your weapons and keep pushing through after defeat with generous power ups continues and checkpoints. A recommended genesis favorite for fans of shooters absolutely.Read full review
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