Checking out all three versions of Darius (1), and playing through the "Extra" version, in the Steam version of M2's "Darius Cozmic Collection Arcade" on PC, at Easy/On difficulty!
My shmups playlist: • smbhax's Shoot-'Em-Up adventures!
Oh! I guess I just saw in action with myself why the EXTRA version of Darius may not have nearly as many scores entered as the OLD and NEW versions: it lets you continue! So like once I realized that, I was sure gonna just play through rather than keep trying from the start with one credit for a score, and that's what I did (and save-scummed like a beast, especially the last stage which reverts to not allowing continues ; DDD), and no score got entered.
So now I don't know what to... Well heck I guess I'd probably just play EXTRA 'cause you've mostly got continues so I don't have to save scum QUITE the whole thing. ; )
But so far I THINK I've had more fun playing through Darius II--the stages and bosses feel a lot more varied in that one, it's got some story and a variety of endings, and I didn't have to save scum to get through! And on three screens MAN those boss lasers and little grey bullets of Darius 1 are so darned tiny and hard to see. = ooo
Darius 1's music starts out AWESOME but sure gets weird toward the end; not quite sure I even like the music in the 2nd-to-last stage, and the last stage's is a bit strange.
I spent so much time trying to work out how to dodge those fish-bullets-that-shoot-bullets from "FATTY GLUTTON-G" (1.10.08), finally noticed (1.19.19) if you hold still they just fire right around you. ; DD
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