R-Type Final 2 Stage X4.0 with Albatross R-Typer
4This video is part of a larger playlist that will encompass the Ship Showcase. This is the twenty first video I recorded.
Ships in this series: Andromalius, Albatross, then lead into the ships from Armed Police Unit Gallop
The Albatross is a pure classic, having debuted in R-Type Delta. I was originally going to use this in a Delta stage, but changed my mind after having some difficulty completing Stage Y4.0, so I decided to make it easier on myself.
The red weapon is a beam that fires straight ahead and widens and narrows depending on the ship's horizontal movement. The narrow beam used to be super powerful in Delta, but not so much in Final and Final 2. The blue weapon fires lasers from the top and bottom of the tentacles, and when the lasers hit an enemy, they stick to it until the enemy either moves out of range or dies. The yellow weapon fires a pair of short range beams that come from the tentacles and will adjust themselves based on the horizontal movement of the ship. When the Tentacle Force is detached an shooting, it will home in on enemies, firing more bullets the more it's powered up, and devastating whatever it goes after. Bits are the standard Round variant. The missile is the classic Scatter Bomb, good for ground enemies. The Wave Cannon will blow up into a circular AoE on contact with an enemy or surface, making it useful for reaching weak spots hiding behind something, like the boss's in stage 4.0.
This stage is an homage to R-Type's stage 3, the battleship, and is very short. Since you get a decent amount of resources from the DLC stages, one of my viewers said that this is a good stage for farming. I didn't even think of that, and it is very true here. R-Type original started this trend of making your R-Type fighter attack a much larger enemy ship, and there's a stage like this in all of the main games.
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