Raiden Nova - CRITICS ARE CALLING IT EVERYTHING FROM SHIT TO FUCKING SHIT!

[Mortificator]

Raiden No

[BrianC]

Raiden No Va

Fixed

[Emuser]

Related to getting that 500k, I guess you can afk farm enemies in survival if you play on easy.

1) Purple upgrades for regeneration and plasma that locks on to stuff in any direction. Orange upgrades for all the defense abilitles and missiles. Whatever you think will help most in the last two slots.
2) Find a spot away from any spawned miniboss. Lean something on your controller's right stick to keep the 3-way plasma shooting.
3) Go to sleep / work / whatever. Profit!


100k enemies in ~8 hours letting it run. Maybe would have went longer if I used a ship with a better survival passive.

One point of danger though, if the starfish boss decides to show up it will very, very slowly move across the map towards you. And then start spawning more and more bosses around it if you don't do something about it.

The requirement in the achievement page requires Normal difficulty or higher, sad to say

[Lemnear]

but does the game really suck that much?

[Despatche]

This is very funny, I'm glad I simply forgot this game existed. This is the game Raiden fans deserve.

On that note:

given Moss' recent track record

Fuck off. Raiden V is their best game, and the best not-Fighters Raiden game.

Anyway:

"Micras"

Isn't this a made-up word? I don't think there's any hard rule on how to spell it. I understand it's an Ultraman reference, but... wouldn't the same apply there?

[Steven]

Anyway:

"Micras"

Isn't this a made-up word? I don't think there's any hard rule on how to spell it. I understand it's an Ultraman reference, but... wouldn't the same apply there?

I was under the impression that it's always been Miclus until now.

[Jeneki]

There's a lot of goofy Engrish in this game so I wouldn't sweat the Miclus.
I mean, this game can't even spell bomb the same way twice.


Has anyone tried the Raiden 1 ship yet? It has an extra special undocumented ability: it always dies in one hit. Screw your hp and defense upgrades, you're playing oldschool now.

[fuse]

Thread title did make me lol, but in reality I'm not quite so down on this - was never expecting traditional Raiden (and honestly? I'm not mad on 4 or 5), and as a weird hybrid of twin-stick shooter and Vampire Survivors, I don't hate it. If you're looking for something to properly sink your teeth into long-term though I get it's definitely not that though; I'm at the same point as a few of you seem to be now, which is having done most everything except to destroy 500,000 enemies, and I can't say I feel sufficiently challenged or particularly fussed enough to grind that out.

[Jeneki]

If anyone is curious what 500k gets you:

Spoiler

Uh, point and laugh I guess.

[dwn_013_crash_man]

Raiden No-vay
I think I'll just stick to V, II, and DX.

[Austin]

I had fun with it for a couple of hours, then promptly proceeded to forget I even bought it. It wasn't a bad idea, but needed to be fleshed out a lot more to remain interesting.