G-Darius simply incredible

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:38 pm

Played this today via taito legends 2.

Never been more impressed by a 32 bit shmup, I might actually enjoy this game more than silvergun or border down. Just when I'd started to lose shmup interest this comes along and puts me back on track. 10/10

This game needs more love!

zinger · Post by **zinger** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 12:45 pm

Diabollokus wrote:I might actually enjoy this game more than border down.

Exactly my impression when I first played this game (but I do think BD is better now however). It's like a less complex BD with Darius atmosphere, lots of cool gameplay ideas, amazing bosses and a solid scoring system that blends very well with the classic Darius style of play. I wish I could play it now, but my cabinet isn't functioning at the moment...

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:06 pm

I played it this morning up to second stage and saw I think Giant emperor/queen/fossil boss my jaw dropped when it bit into the ship at the start of the fight then moved in and out of the screen not to mention the music...Border down yeah, presentation wise superior and I love it but dam big mechanical fish are hard to beat.

Macaw · Post by **Macaw** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 1:29 pm

Yeah, G-Darius is astounding thanks to the awesome music/bosses/atmosphere. The score system is pretty messed up and requires patience to appreciate, but then again score systems and gameplay arnt what Darius games are all about.

D · Post by D » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:34 pm

To compare it even better with borderdown, why not play it in your Dreamcast? It plays a bit choppy and is not recommended for serious play, but the graphics get cleaned up a bit and it looks a bit smoother.

ROBOTRON · Post by **ROBOTRON** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 3:44 pm

Great game...bosses take forever to kill though. Excellent music...graphically impressive.

DJ Incompetent · Post by **DJ Incompetent** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 4:06 pm

Nothin' but love for this game. 'So overdramatic for fighting fish. I like the long fights, as the patterns are mostly different through the whole fight. 2 straight hours of them tests the patience though. Thank god the real game only hits you with 5. One of the better soundtracks, but that's not sayin' a lot for this genre.

...don't plug the movie...don't plug the movie...don't plug the movie...

FRO · Post by **FRO** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 5:22 pm

Yeah, G-Darius is great. I would agree that it's only major drawback is that the bosses take a really long time to defeat, & some of them are prohbitively difficult. Otherwise, it's an awesome game.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 8:11 pm

are the ps2 and ps1 versions the same?

J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 9:33 pm

Yup. A major two thumbs up for G-Darius. It was, is and always be the best horizontal shmup for the PSone; at least in my opinion. The number of different levels to choose from is more than enough replayability. Much luv for this gem. Taito in it's finest hour.

CMoon · Post by **CMoon** » Mon Feb 12, 2007 10:27 pm

Why contrast it with border down? These are complementary games, and in my mind two of the best side scrolling shooters ever (oh, I'm sorry, am I supposed to say 'the side scrolling shooter ever'?? you silly kids!)

Can't imagine liking one and not the other.

Those who have the taito legends 2 version and the psx version, do you strongly prefer one to the other?

Pixel_Outlaw · Post by **Pixel_Outlaw** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:55 am

I got two copies of the game for a whopping total of 15 bucks shipping included. I LOVE it!!!! I STILL don't know how to do that reflect beam thing however....

Ayanami · Post by **Ayanami** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 5:30 am

The PSX version can run at a slow frame rate at times if you ask me. Is the PS2 version the same? Still a great game though.

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 6:36 am

fired this up in my cab yesterday and got stuck untill the wee hours.. fantastic game indeed, i just love the laser-counter system in this.
graphics are amazing, altho a little too amazing, once you get to the two last stages its kinda hard to see what the hell is going on, theres laser coloured shit flying around absoluteley everywhere.

that and i really need an autofire circuit for my cab

damn i wish they had made R-type Delta for the arcade

MOSQUITO FIGHTER · Post by **MOSQUITO FIGHTER** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 9:47 am

Ayanami wrote:The PSX version can run at a slow frame rate at times if you ask me. Is the PS2 version the same? Still a great game though.

The PS2 version runs much faster. Might even be too fast really. Makes the game much more difficult.

EOJ · Post by **EOJ** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:01 am

CMoon wrote: Can't imagine liking one and not the other.

I like Border down but quite dislike G-darius. G-darius looks like ass and I hate the enemy-capture system.

mice · Post by **mice** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:49 am

It's about time this game gets some recognition. It's a few hundred years too late though, isn't it?
Maybe the game was just too much when it came out.

I find myself running the between-stages music in my head at least once a day. Superb.

Anyway, gobsmacking game!

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 10:55 am

what is

gobsmacking

??

sounds gross

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:21 am

mice wrote:It's about time this game gets some recognition. It's a few hundred years too late though, isn't it?
Maybe the game was just too much when it came out.

oh for fucks sake this is hardly a "hidden gem" theres plenty of appreciation around.. its one of those games that pop up on topic about once or twice a year.

I for one actually bought it on release way back and have been enjoying it to and fro ever since..

gobsmacking = baffling, amazing, over-the-top-great....

mice · Post by **mice** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:07 pm

Did I sound upset? Was just meaning to point it out.
Shite was the word used when I tried to start a topic on this, in the old network54 forum, when the game came out.

Mikey · Post by **Mikey** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:24 pm

Well, many games will look good when you compare them to Border Down.

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 12:36 pm

ROBOTRON wrote:Great game...bosses take forever to kill though.

Use your capture ball to grab a smaller enemy craft. Hang around the boss just dodging for a little while, and wait for them to power up their big laser.

Absorb your captured enemy, and release your laser. Battle the boss' laser (button mash like crazy), and you'll be rewarded with an even bigger laser if you win. I believe this can be repeated more that once on later bosses.

Anyways, use that approach and bosses are made short work of.

I love G-Darius. It's probably one of maybe 3 all-3D shooters I really enjoy. Typical Tatio musical brilliance to go with the fun game too. I picked it up on PSX quite some years ago for $10 out of the bargain bin, and it remains my best cheapy score to date. My only complaint is I find it a tad easy, but that hasn't ever stopped me not picking it up every few months and giving it a run through.

Diabollokus · Post by **Diabollokus** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 2:05 pm

Yeah the PS2 taito legends 2 version runs very well, no slowdown, pretty hard as mentioned though near the end stages. Unfortunately its too easy to credit feed on this version.

I like the capture system, started to do the laser reflections on bosses now kills em much quicker.

Post by **Ghegs** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 3:19 pm

Diabollokus wrote:Unfortunately its too easy to credit feed on this version.

This is a problem with the player, not with the game or the version.

Strider77 · Post by **Strider77** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 7:31 pm

many games will look good when you compare them to Border Down.

this game looks quite good to me when going threw VGA... it's no gradius 5 but the again what else is.

MovingTarget · Post by **MovingTarget** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 8:10 pm

Gobsmacking...

picture a shocked person jaw dropped and slapping palm to face in order to hide their.... gob.

dai jou bu · Post by **dai jou bu** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:20 pm

Strider77 wrote:this game looks quite good to me when going threw VGA... it's no gradius 5 but the again what else is.

If you're referring to how the game looks, G.Rev already topped themselves:

Yeah, G.Darius is fun. Scale and believability of the boss fights were good.

elvis · Post by **elvis** » Tue Feb 13, 2007 11:29 pm

Strider77 wrote:this game looks quite good to me when going threw VGA... it's no gradius 5 but the again what else is.

Every now and then I play my copy through ePSXe. It allows you to play original PSX discs on your PC, and bump everything up to high res with nice texture filtering.

G-Darius at 1024x768 and full anti-aliasing/anisotropic filtering on my 21" SVGA monitor looks damned sexy.

It's a cheap thrill, but I get a kick out of playing all my old 3D PSX titles through hardware emulators that allow nice hi-res modes. Doesn't change the gameplay of course, but it's still a laugh.

J-Manic · Post by **J-Manic** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:00 am

elvis wrote:Absorb your captured enemy, and release your laser. Battle the boss' laser (button mash like crazy), and you'll be rewarded with an even bigger laser if you win. I believe this can be repeated more that once on later bosses.

There's no need for button mashing. All you have to do is keep your finger pressed down on the rapid/shoot button and keep it aimed directly on the boss' laser. Then it will expand on it's own. Have a laser battle against two lasers at the same time (with the bosses that spit out two lasers at once) and you'll be seeing something incredible.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:38 am

Strider77 wrote:are the ps2 and ps1 versions the same?

The PS2 version has less slowdown, but the arcade G.Darius is supposed to be like this. One eBay seller did gripe about the PS1 version's game speed not being the same as on the PCB.

Midlevel loading in the PS1 version causes a BGM pause which doesn't happen on the PS2 one.

Quad-countering Fire Fossil later on in the game is awesome. So is Haruka's milking spree on Great Thing (one hell of a nice replay, with a suicide to get more capture balls).

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