![]() ![]() G-Darius was ported to both PlayStation as one of the games for the console, and PlayStation 2 as part of Taito Legends 2. Once you reach the first half of the stage, the game will ask you which Area you want (for example Zone Alpha splits in Area A and Area B), depending on which Area the player uses, the enemies and the power ups varies, but also the Boss attack patterns, in Zones Gamma and Eta, the Areas decide if the player wants to attack the upper or lower part of Queen Fossil / Fire Fossil. So everything is resumed to wait to the right moment when it comes to using the Capture Ball.Īnother concept of Darius that changes in this game is the 'Zone Branching', not just by the use of the Greek Alphabet for the main zones, but also it uses the Latin Alphabet for the stage halves known as Areas. Also you've gotta learn where, when and how often you need to use the Capture Ball to create the Alpha Beam because even if you have 6 Capture Balls, you can't let the 'Need for High Scoring' goes up into your head, sooner or later you'll be facing a moment of truth where you'll desperately need the Alpha Beam to survive, because if you die, the Power Up bars will reset, and with a hard game like this you might be missing Darius Twin's 'Keep Power Ups after dying'. You've gotta now 'what's up' with both the game and bosses, or else you'll see how the enemy blows you up mercilessly again and again and again and again. Learning this about the Beams is a Life or Death Priority because the enemies in this game are no more the little cute jumping fishes, no man, you're gonna face gigantic bosses from half-screen to multiple screens long, fighting battles that last 4 or 5 minutes, and bullet hells that make Touhou Project look like a kiddie ride. You can counter its beam when it fires it by firing your Alpha Beam, commencing a Beam Duel in the pure style of Metal Black, but unlike Metal Black's 'The one with the most powerful laser wins' mechanism, the way of overpowering the Beta Beam consists of tapping the fire button, increasing the Alpha Beam's size, creating a Counterfold powerful enough to critically damage (or kill) the boss. After waiting for a while, the boss will release some capturable projectiles and will begin to charge its own beam, the Beta Beam. We've already learned two of the features of the Alpha Beam, but the main one is revealed during the boss battle. Also the captured type of enemy doesn't just change the multiplier, it also changes drastically the size of the Alpha Beam and the explosions size and time. To capture a captain you have to destroy its gold protection first, but it has to be destroyed by your conventional weapons because the gold objects and armored enemies are immune to the Alpha Beam. The multiplied points depend on what kind of enemy you captured: x4 if it's an average enemy or x8 if its a 'Captain', but capturing a Captain (mid-boss) isn't the same thing as the average enemy. This weapon along with its role as the bomb weapon, it's also the 'Score Making Weapon' because it will multiply the score of an enemy (or group of enemies). Fortunately, it won't self destruct like in Darius Gaiden, Your captured 'ally' will be with you until its destroyed or used as your bomb in two different ways: If you press the Capture Ball button, the ally will explode covering part of the screen with multiple explosions, but if you press and hold the fire button it will become into a charging energy beam until you decide to fire it, once you release the button, it'll unleash a powerful beam which is the Alpha Beam. Starting of with the gameplay's main feature: The Alpha Beam, this weapon redefines the concept of the traditional bomb format because it's not available at the press of the button, it has its 'how to' method to use it: The first thing to do is to capture an enemy using the Capture Ball, this will turn the former enemy of yours into your trusty ally. G-Darius redefines everything you know about Darius (and some aspects of shmups in general) since Darius Force ( Super Nova) and Gaiden. This game is not your basic shoot em' up so better start reading. ![]() Think you're an expert of shooting?, did i heared 'Yes.', well not anymore.įor this review, i'll give you a quick lesson about G-Darius.
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