All things considered 1987 was a good year for gaming. It gave us the original R-Type and its subsequent progeny. Fast forward to 2021 and an all-new R-Type game has been released, which is ...
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What modern designers can learn from R-Type’s 1980s arcade origins
Type. Its imagery is burned into the collective memory: the Force ping-ponging about the screen, the Wave Cannon charging in silence, levels that feel less like stages and more like hostile ecosystems ...
Ah, yes the 1980s. The decade that brought us oversized blazers, poofy Aqua Net hair and a certain side-scrolling shoot-em-up known as R-Type. Chronicling the struggle between humanity and the ...
The sequel to R-Type arrived in December 1989, two-and-a-half years after the original game. This gap between games seems perfectly reasonable these days, but back then there was genuine surprise that ...
Have you played any good shoot-’em-ups lately? If the answer to that is yes, I would be willing to bet it wasn’t made recently. The shooter genre has become so much of a relic that the term ‘shooter’ ...
R-Type wasn’t supposed to come back. When the studio behind it, Irem, released R-Type Final in the early 2000s, it meant the name literally. Final was supposed to be the last proper game in the ...
R-Type Final hit the PlayStation 2 in 2003. More than 17 years later, R-Type Final 2 will be arriving on most major platforms in Spring 2021. Understandably, most people are probably unfamiliar with R ...
It’s been a few months since we’ve gotten an update regarding R-Type Final 2, but Granzella revealed that a demo for backers of the shoot ’em up will release in July 2020 in a new Monthly Report. It ...
R-Type Final 2 offers tight, tense battles against organic and mechanical Bydo monstrosities. It continually puts the player in challenging situations no matter what difficulty level they’ve chosen.
Granzella has launched a third crowdfunding campaign for R-Type Final 2. Throughout its previous two crowdfunding campaigns, the game has been funded over $1.09 million. With the launch of a third ...
The demo for R-Type Final 2 is now available for PlayStation 4 via the PlayStation Store (U.S., U.K.) and Switch via the Nintendo eShop in the west, publisher NIS America and developer Granzella ...
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