Radiant Silvergun
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On the Saturn, there are five difficulty levels (from very easy to very hard), and configuarable controls. The graphics are rendered in 3-D, but the screen is stationary and maintains the feel of a 2-D scroller.
Boss Fights
There are a few bosses per stage and one ultimate boss fight.
Radiant Silvergun is a vertical scrolling shooter with several weapons and a color-based chain system.
Gameplay
Radiant Silvergun is a vertically scrolling shooter playable either solo or with two-players. The player may select the order of select stages. In the arcade mode, there is a short tutorial that allows the player to practice using the controls for each. As in most shooters, extra lives are given at certain point levels. It is often said that Radiant Silvergun is the spiritual predecessor to Ikaruga.On the Saturn, there are five difficulty levels (from very easy to very hard), and configuarable controls. The graphics are rendered in 3-D, but the screen is stationary and maintains the feel of a 2-D scroller.
Firing Modes
There are six different firing modes plus the ability to use a melee sword. Each of the firing modescan be upgraded in a kind of leveling-up system. By getting more kills and higher combos achieved with a weapon, you can level it up to deal more damage, have a wider spread, shoot faster, or target more enemies.- Vulcan - A straight-forward shooting style similar to many other shooters. Upgrades spread and damage.
- Homing - One green shot comes out of both sides of the ship and home into one or two separate ships. Upgrades speed and damage.
- Spread - A blue lazer-like beam shoots out each side of the ship at nearly a 45' degree angle, turning into a blue circle upon impact which acts as splash damage. Upgrades damage.
- Homing Plasma - When held down, an circumference around your ship will appear and a few enemies at a time will be automatically targeted and shot small lazer-like homing bullets. Upgrades number of targets, speed, and damage.
- Back Wide - Similar to the vulcan bullets, but only a few are shot straight forward and many more are behind the ship. Upgrades spread and damage.
- Lock On Spread - Two lazer sights beam from your ship, spreading across the screen until they lock on to a target and continually do focused damage. Upgrades damage.
Chain System
Consecutive hits of similarly colored enemies count up as a chain system and become a multiplier for points in the same way that a combo system in a fighter works. This is similar to Ikaruga in the sense that it will cause the player to selectively defeat some or most of the same color before shooting the rest, or possibly ignoring them altogether. But there is no need for the ship to switch colors since all firing modes work on all colored enemies.Radiant Sword
The Radiant Sword is a weapon that is used like a melee sword, which can be used to attack and to absorb most types of bullets. By collecting enough bullets, an energy bar fills up, and when full can be used to unleash a powerful melee attack that virtually takes up the entire screen. The player is invulnerable during this deployment.Story
Despite it being a shooter, Radiant Silvergun on the Saturn has a short animated story at the beginning of the game. It is, of course, all in Japanese.Boss Fights
There are a few bosses per stage and one ultimate boss fight.Releases
The Sega Saturn and Arcade versions of Radiant Silvergun were released only in Japan. The menus are entirely in English and totally playable to non-Japanese. This game is somewhat rare due to it's limited country release. Due to the release of Ikaruga on XBLA, there have been speculation of Radiant Silverfun's eventual release for the first time outside of Japan on XBLA, but no announcements have yet been made.
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