INH Insanity DVD The Flash Desire: Raiden III

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Mon Sep 04, 2006 4:49 am

INH's next Insanity DVD will be of Raiden III. It will reportedly be released on 11.02 for 4980 yen, and will include the Raiden III soundtrack.

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Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 2:28 pm

Official page is up:

http://www.inhgroup.com/item/raiden04/

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 3:18 pm

i got a raiden 3 superplay DVD for free with my RF order

Post by **Dave_K.** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 5:26 pm

sven666 wrote:i got a raiden 3 superplay DVD for free with my RF order

I thought that was supposed to be a preview of Raiden III since it was just before it officially came out? Is it a complete superplay?

sven666 · Post by **sven666** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 7:48 pm

Dave_K. wrote:
sven666 wrote:i got a raiden 3 superplay DVD for free with my RF order
I thought that was supposed to be a preview of Raiden III since it was just before it officially came out? Is it a complete superplay?

i think so, its optimal scoring anyways (guys pressed up against the top of the screen at all times

).. never watched more than 2-3stages since its also boring as hell

zlk · Post by **zlk** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:21 pm

I think Sven is on to something. I will probably buy this dvd, but I am not too enthusiastic about it. Raiden III lacks the "wow factor" that other games like ketsui or mushihime sama have. There are lots of players competing for the highest score in R3 and they are all scoring very close to each other. R3 is pretty straightforward as a game and there aren't too many tricks for players to showcase their skills.

I enjoy playing R3 and think its a fun game, its just not a game I would want to see a top player play.

incognoscente · Post by **incognoscente** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 9:30 pm

Dave_K: The Raiden III Special DVD included with first-editions of the Onslaught Raiden Fighters insanity collection only shows stages 1-3 and was released several months before the game hit arcades.
Also, Stage 3 in the DVD became Stage 4 in the finished game :)

DVD score breakdown:
Stage 1 (including bonus): 1216200
Stage 2 (including bonus): 2733920
Stage 3 (including bonus): 4307140

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Sep 07, 2006 10:55 pm

Raiden III lacks the "wow factor" that other games like ketsui or mushihime sama have.

Also lacks other things like "quality" and "good graphics".

gunbird18 · Post by **gunbird18** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:04 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
Raiden III lacks the "wow factor" that other games like ketsui or mushihime sama have.
Also lacks other things like "quality" and "good graphics".

Sad but, oh so true...

But I guess we should keep in mind that this is Moss, working under the Seibu License. At least I hope there wasn't very many Seibu people working on it?

Kiken · Post by **Kiken** » Fri Sep 08, 2006 12:39 am

GaijinPunch wrote:
Raiden III lacks the "wow factor" that other games like ketsui or mushihime sama have.
Also lacks other things like "quality" and "good graphics".

Yeah.. but the soundtrack CD seems decent enough:

A recording done from the Master Data
A recording done from the Type-X output
A series of remixes (one of the musicians featured is WASi303)
Stage 1 from the LokeTest version of Raiden IV

And I like that the bonus video of the Double Play actually films the entire player sitting infront of the cab.