The Good Shmups
AKA "The Dadregga List" AKA "There were better shmups on the Saturn than Radiant Silvergun"
AKA "The Dadregga List" AKA "There were better shmups on the Saturn than Radiant Silvergun"
This is the finest shmup ever made. It's one of the hardest, the most arcane, the most baroque, the most mechanically deep, the best looking, the best sounding shmups of the pre-bullet-hell era, and it directly inspired Cave to make Dodonpachi (the head of Cave loved this game and later hired the lead dev from Garegga to design Cave titles)
Black Label is a variant mode of the base game Daifukkatsu(Resurrection), and you'd be forgiven for assuming that's all it is.
Whoa nelly, nope. This is a completely different game from the mind of one of Battle Garegga's designers, with completely new mechanics and a completely new soundtrack.
This is my second favorite DoDonpachi of all time, and one of the best Cave titles ever.
I adore this game.
AKA Darius 2 - Specifically the Sega Saturn, since it's close to the arcade version.