Raiden...

[MotherGunner]

Shit you think Raiden is frustrating?  Try playing Zarlor Mercenary on the Lynx!

[Tatsujin]

wow.. that shoot cadence is such slow, it must be a real torture to play that game.

[esteban]

I like that Raiden is a precursor of bullet hell without actually being bullet hell. I actually hate most bullet hell shooters, but I love Raiden because it doesn't feel quite so finicky and contrived. It puts on a show of being over realistic environments and realistic enemies and bosses (not like super-realistic, but realistic compared to many later, more conceptual shooters).

I agree with you. Raiden offers folks the opportunity to flirt with bullet-hell strategies during boss battles (i.e. pixel-perfect taps on the direction pad to dodge streams of bullets), but you don't spend the ENTIRE goddamn game doing this. And, with Raiden, you can try to devise alternate strategies to take care of the bosses (it sounds like vestcoat uses bombs to "clear the screen" of bullets... but what does he do when he runs out of bombs?).
 

[ceti alpha]

Shit you think Raiden is frustrating?  Try playing Zarlor Mercenary on the Lynx!

Wow. I can't believe how close up the viewpoint is. There isn't much room to maneuver.

[Mathius]

By sheer coincidence one of my favorite retro-gaming sites just put of this article on the entire Raiden series. Check it out!!''

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/raiden/raiden.htm

[ceti alpha]

By sheer coincidence one of my favorite retro-gaming sites just put of this article on the entire Raiden series. Check it out!!''

http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/raiden/raiden.htm

haha. That's pretty nuts. I love that site, too. If you want to know about a series of games, that's the place to go.

He seems to give the TG Raiden pretty decent points, and gives special props to the sound chip:

The Turbografx-16 port, handled by Hudson, is unfortunately quite frustrating. The graphics look decent, a bit pixilated but with brighter contrast than the arcade version, and the sound carries over well to the TG16's awesome sound chip. However, the gameplay somehow feels off, as the modified resolution somehow makes it a bit harder to dodge enemy projectiles and firing your own projectiles just doesn't seem to register as well. The worst change is how you start back at a checkpoint after losing a life, not just after continuing, and you only get six credits to beat the game. It's overall more frustrating than fun, even if it looks and sounds decent. Speaking of sound, it was also released on the Turbo CD under the name "Super Raiden" and given a cool Redbook audio soundtrack and two new levels, but otherwise little is changed from the flawed HuCard version.

-Hardcore Gaming 101 - Raiden

I whine about it more than I probably should, but since this article mentions it, I feel it gives me an opening.  Why didn't all vertical shooties come with variable resolution options? It makes games like Dragon Spirit far more playable, while Nexzr goes from superb to ubersuperb in arcade resolution mode.

[esteban]

I whine about it more than I probably should, but since this article mentions it, I feel it gives me an opening.  Why didn't all vertical shooties come with variable resolution options? It makes games like Dragon Spirit far more playable, while Nexzr goes from superb to ubersuperb in arcade resolution mode.

I wish it had been mandatory.

Hey, we should compile a list of games with "arcade" mode! Unless it has already been done... even then, I want to make a nice web page for shoot-em-up fans.

[Tatsujin]

Speaking of sound, it was also released on the Turbo CD under the name "Super Raiden" and given a cool Redbook audio soundtrack and two new levels, but otherwise little is changed from the flawed HuCard version.

-Hardcore Gaming 101 - Raiden

lol, a full redbook audio and two extra stages are just little changes for mr. hawdcaw gaming 101

[nat]

I whine about it more than I probably should, but since this article mentions it, I feel it gives me an opening.  Why didn't all vertical shooties come with variable resolution options? It makes games like Dragon Spirit far more playable, while Nexzr goes from superb to ubersuperb in arcade resolution mode.

I wish it had been mandatory.

Hey, we should compile a list of games with "arcade" mode! Unless it has already been done...

Been there, done that.

[sunteam_paul]

I whine about it more than I probably should, but since this article mentions it, I feel it gives me an opening.  Why didn't all vertical shooties come with variable resolution options? It makes games like Dragon Spirit far more playable, while Nexzr goes from superb to ubersuperb in arcade resolution mode.

I wish it had been mandatory.

Hey, we should compile a list of games with "arcade" mode! Unless it has already been done...

Been there, done that.

There should be a new forum called 'information' or something that has all the threads like these stickied in it.

[ceti alpha]

I whine about it more than I probably should, but since this article mentions it, I feel it gives me an opening.   Why didn't all vertical shooties come with variable resolution options? It makes games like Dragon Spirit far more playable, while Nexzr goes from superb to ubersuperb in arcade resolution mode.

I wish it had been mandatory.

Hey, we should compile a list of games with "arcade" mode! Unless it has already been done...

Been there, done that.

There should be a new forum called 'information' or something that has all the threads like these stickied in it.

That's not a bad idea.

Speaking of sound, it was also released on the Turbo CD under the name "Super Raiden" and given a cool Redbook audio soundtrack and two new levels, but otherwise little is changed from the flawed HuCard version.

-Hardcore Gaming 101 - Raiden

lol, a full redbook audio and two extra stages are just little changes for mr. hawdcaw gaming 101

HAWDCAW!!  

But yeah, I guess that is subjective whether or not you consider those changes big or small. I certainly wouldn't call them small changes, by any stretch. He probably expected graphical changes and was disappointed, so everything else were minor changes in his mind. heh.

[Tatsujin]

But yeah, I guess that is subjective whether or not you consider those changes big or small. I certainly wouldn't call them small changes, by any stretch. He probably expected graphical changes and was disappointed, so everything else were minor changes in his mind. heh.

So you would have expected SCD Raiden to look even better than the Huey Raiden? An impossible expectation :!:

But they knew of how to use the storage of a CD media best, add additional levels and tons of wavey BGMs

[ceti alpha]

So you would have expected SCD Raiden to look even better than the Huey Raiden? An impossible expectation :!:

Some people are just never satisfied. 

But they knew of how to use the storage of a CD media best, add additional levels and tons of wavey BGMs

I'll have to pick up Super Raiden, though it would help if I could make it to the additional levels. I really have to work on Raiden. I've only cleared it on MAME, and that's not the same when you respawn right where you died and can have unlimited credits.

[Tatsujin]

SCD raiden is easier than Huey raiden

isn't ope rn selling one for good money?

[esteban]

I whine about it more than I probably should, but since this article mentions it, I feel it gives me an opening.  Why didn't all vertical shooties come with variable resolution options? It makes games like Dragon Spirit far more playable, while Nexzr goes from superb to ubersuperb in arcade resolution mode.

I wish it had been mandatory.

Hey, we should compile a list of games with "arcade" mode! Unless it has already been done...

Been there, done that.

There should be a new forum called 'information' or something that has all the threads like these stickied in it.

That's not a bad idea.

Indeed!