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• gamedeal user

  Feb 26, 2022

  Dear Granzella. Please, please, PLEASE, remake every single R-Type stage on this engine. I would happily buy each of them for full price. Thank you, R-Type community. With that out of the way, the end of the second Stage Pass is finally out, and they certainly picked some interesting stages to give the Final 2 treatment. Abandoned Lab is the first of these, Stage 4 from the original R-Type Final, and considering how the other Dobkeratops depictions in Final 2 so far are rather static, I was interested to see how they'd handle the boss at the end of the stage. The stage itself is absolute eye-candy, the glass of the "tank" still teasing at the contents inside it, all of the stage elements are there. The boss itself has an obnoxious checkpoint leading up to it that's around 15-20 seconds long that can't be skipped, which is a shame, but shock horror! The boss isn't an embryonic, anemic Dobkeratops having been experimented on, but is in fact a fully grown Dobkeratops in the SubAtomic armor from R-Type 2! It was an interesting twist, for sure, with the water in the tank drained and a new variant on the fight itself, it was a nice surprise. It's good to see they're keeping up the tradition of making the Final stages slightly different to their original counterparts, but it still would have been nice to have seen the original boss. The second stage, Glitnir Station, is another Tactics stage, and made for a more enjoyable stage in terms of its music pacing compared to Fortress Geirrod from the previous DLC Set 5. A Hyllos model ship also guards the generator this time around, taking a lot more damage than the waves of ships prior. But even more interesting to me, replaying the stage on a higher difficulty, there's a second segment AFTER this boss where the music changes! One of the carrier fleets tries to make an escape and you have to gun the thing down before it gets away. A much more solemn song plays for this one as well. If this stage can do mid-stage song swaps, why can't DLC 5, butchering Delta Stage 4's music so only half of it plays? But I digress. The final stage is stage 2 of the original R-Type and it is candy for the eyes, a gorgeous stage without a doubt. It's a hell of a lot harder than the original game's stage too courtesy of being the final stage in the stage pass, with one of the midstage checkpoints being near impossible on R-Typer and higher if you die thanks to being too weak to fight some of it back. With absolute onslaughts of high-HP enemies coming at you, including a new, heavily pregnant one that spews its young as it passes you, it's a stage I feel I'm going to dread doing in the future. The boss itself though is the return of the Gomander, one of the series' staple monsters. I wish it had stayed out of this game. GOOD LORD IT'S HIDEOUS, A boss already ripe with visual symbolism of female reproductive organs with giant worm-like maggots inside of them, and you animated the thing to make it move and squirm! Blegh, it's a much larger Gomander than the one in the original game too, but it still fights in seemingly the same way though. Overall I think they adapted all three stages very nicely in this one, and I look forward to seeing what they do with future stage passes! ... There will be more stage passes, right Granzella? There better be.
• gamedeal user

  Nov 23, 2022

  More R-Type stuff. 3. Level is very hard.