News: R-Gear to be officially released
Shocking news, indeed, even though you won't find anybody else noticing. This week's Famitsu, besides featuring the next-Darius-episode-after-a-whole-decade-is-being-made-for-a-portable-system tragicomedy, is also unveiling (for the Japanese public, actually -- a couple of screens emerged some days ago in the Western side of the world) the HD remake that Raystorm will be getting soon in the form of both, XBLA and PSN titles. The most interesting part though is that it seems to come with the announcement of R-Gear as an extra in Raystorm HD, which is no other that the actual sequel Rayforce was going to get before Taito decided that you needed polygons to sell a game.
There's not much hope that we can enjoy a proper version of this prototype given the HD systems' inability to display low-res graphics, but it's still a wonderful addendum we couldn't expect from these days' Taito, isn't it?
All the best!
Update: Seems it's not the game, but the players' ships from R-Gear what has been added for this iteration. Though, hey, you never know. Thanks to Aries no Kobayan for the clarifying picture!
http://gs.inside-games.jp/news/197/19765.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_W7HrxnJ ... re=related
Une légende du shoot'em up s'apprête à faire prochainement son retour sur PSP. Darius reviendra en effet sur la portable de Sony dans une nouvelle version intitulée Darius Burst.
Si le principe d'armement à trois niveaux - Shot, Bomb et Armure - est conservé, avec des options de couleur correspondante pour augmenter la puissance et la cadence, le joueur pourra cette fois compter sur un satellite, le Burst Unit, pour lancer une attaque surpuissante, le fameux Burst qui donne son titre au jeu. Le joueur sera du reste en mesure de choisir le stage dans lequel il souhaite poursuivre son génocide alien, un total de 11 zones étant annoncé, ce qui autorise de nombreuses variations possibles dans l'enchaînement des niveaux. La date de sortie - japonaise - reste pour le moment à confirmer.
http://www.gamekult.com/articles/A0000079047/