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There's a New Game for the Sega Dreamcast

It's called Redux: Dark Matters. It's been in development for two years. It's super cool it exists.

Jan. 27 2014

Posted by: Patrick

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Redux: Dark Matters

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mikael110

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I don't understand how the gameplay works. They clearly got hit, but I saw no lifebar (the two bars at the bottom left appeared to be energy bars, related to their guns), and sometimes they didn't even bother dodging, and didn't die, but then they did die a couple times, to things that hadn't killed them a moment ago. Also, they went right past that powerup that was only a few pixels out of their path. 0_o`


It's pretty standard in games like these that the ships hitbox is not actually the ship itself but a small circular area near the middle of the sprite, often visualized as an orb, which is also the case in this game, so basically as long as nothing hits the orb you can see in the middle of the ship it doesn't count as hitting the ship.

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Looks like an R-Type clone. Yay? Neat that stuff like this is happening.

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The Dreamcast isn't dead you guys! It's just very very sleepy.

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Wow, that water level took way too many cues from R-Type 2's stage 2. Even the bastard crashing fish enemies are in there. I suppose when you get Hülsbeck involved you might as well take ALL the ideas from R-Type.

Believer258: Interstellar Assault (AKA Nemesis II: Return of the Hero in Europe) was a Game Boy original, after the GB got a port of Gradius 1 with increased boss variety this was a non-port. It was also the first time I've seen a shmup go smoothly from level to level without just cutting away and suddenly you're on another planet. What I found funny was that the GB Gradius games never had a passive final boss as the console and arcade Gradius games did but Parodius for the GB did have that. I didn't get the joke at the time and wondered if it was somehow broken.

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i think we have best soundtrack of 2014 right here....and WTH dreamcast??? cool

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Those look like (Canadian) Corn Pops (ie. Kix) =P

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DreamCast exclusives in 2014? I can appreciate the sentiment, but at a certain point masturbation is just easier, guys.

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Reminds me of when dreamcast was "next gen"