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Annihilate Your Enemies With a Few Taps in Rayforce

The classic top-down shooter goes portable.

Jan. 13 2012

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The vertical nature of the iPhone seems perfect for this but touch controls are just.. eh... Maybe a good game for that iCade add on if that thing even works.

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Bullets. Bullets everywhere!

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Course what they don't mention is the fact that their charging $12 for a 15+ year old arcade game with more than likely less than ideal touch controls. That might work if they re-released it via XBLA much like Raystorm HD (which is lame because Rayforce is pretty great).

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The last thing I want to do is play a bullet hell shooter with my finger blocking my view, but to be fair I've never played it and don't know if it's that type of game or not

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I hope you had that quest already, mrfluke. :)

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Is there anything more awesome than that Rayforce song? Almost want to buy for that alone.

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I have this on Sega Saturn.

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The input lag is low on these devices, having vertical display for an option is great, but touch input still sucks. I've played a bunch of shooters on my Android devices and tried some Cave games on an 3GS and an iPhone4, and no thanks. Especially for prices like that.
 
Of course, if I had an Xperia Play.. that could be used vertically..

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"The exhilarating lock-on laser."
 
Uhh... what?

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Not a game I would wanna play with touch controls.

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Incredible game, much better than any of Cave's shooters.

I cant imagine that an iphone version will be the ideal way to play it. The japanese saturn version is dirt cheap

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Screw the app store. Give us an XBLA and PSN release!

*begins importing Saturn version*

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@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

"The exhilarating lock-on laser." Uhh... what?

I laughed pretty loud

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@Dark_Lord_Spam said:

"The exhilarating lock-on laser."
Uhh... what?
The only explaination you need.
The only explaination you need.