R-Type Final 2 CLASSIC SIDE SCROLLER SHOOTER REMAKE!
8R-Type was one of my favorite shooters as a kid and great to see its being remade with love! R-Type Final 2 looks and feels like the oldschool original, but with extra lights and whistles!
Looking forward to the full game!
Here's the wiki description:
R-Type Final 2 is a game developed by Granzella Inc. for the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S (via Xbox Smart Delivery), Nintendo Switch and PC, released in April 2021. It is the newest title in the R-Type franchise and the first one in ten years since R-Type Tactics II: Operation Bitter Chocolate.
Description
R-Type Final 2 positions itself as a collection of war memories, research, and records. It explicitly follows Operation Last Dance following the culmination of the R-99 Last Dancer. Interestingly, the pilot's name defaults to Jade Ross, the commander of R-Type Command, who is only otherwise name-dropped in Operation Bitter Chocolate. Reading into the context, Jade Ross could also be the initial pilot of the original R-Type.
The game is very heavy on customization; building on the basic color customization of R-craft in Final, Final 2 allows not only colors, but adds ship decals, a player model with customizable gender, suits, colors, and poses, and even a photo mode of the pilot and a chosen R-craft. Achieving any ending also unlocks the ability to customize the title and stage courses. Stage names can also be changed.
Those familiar with the Tactics entries will see a lot of familiar ships here, especially the Space Corps capital ships that appear in the stage backgrounds.
Story
Mission Brief
From the the R Manual:
Humanity has developed many weapons over the course of the Bydo invasion.
The Force, a truly indestructible weapon, realized through a convergence of harvested Bydo. The Wave Cannon, a weapon with the destructive power of a battleship's primary weapon, yet capable of being installed onto small-sized crafts.
A variety of Missiles, each developed to compliment the special characteristics of individual crafts. And the Bit, an artificial Force created to assist craft with an offensive defense.
The previous military operation, Last Dance, was initiated with the goal of developing a craft able to utilized all of theses weapons-the Ultimate Interchangeable Fighter. And once realized, humanity successfully struck the source of the Bydo.
The objectives of the current mission, R-TYPE FINAL 2, are to compile the military history of the war between humanity and the Bydo, and to pass down the know-how for anti-Bydo weapon development.
Yet unpublished military records and war memories are required over the course of this compilation. As new war records are still being discovered, we foresee that mission will stretch over a long period of time.
And so, in recognition of their achievements, those who complete a certain amount of compilation work in relation to this mission will be given the right to change the provisional "R-TYPE FINAL 2" title.
Over and out.