R-Type Final 2

released on Apr 30, 2021

R-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony of destruction upon your foes.


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I backed this game and don't regret it, but the DLC that I was supposed to get never came. It truly is more of R-Type Final, but that's not really a good thing.

As a fan of this series, I would actually rate this 2 more stars higher than the indicated rating. So why is it actually low?

The game has a plethora of highly-expensive DLCs, and without it, the game is basically just a slightly-worse R-Type Final, which in itself can't hold a candle up to the older R-Type games save R-Type II.

The gameplay, like all R-Type games, rely less on twitch and more on memorization and trial and error.

I still wouldn't recommend this game if only because of its price point.

Wanted to like this game, as someone who has played most of the past R-Type games, but the stages feel so lifeless.

The DLC stages are much better, which is really not a good sign because it shows that the team don't really have it in them to create good and new stages.

There's also the whole nonsense with R-Type Final 3 content being exclusive to PS5. Thanks for punishing those who got the wrong version of the game, I guess...?

Dunno why I bought this, shit absolutely stinks. Sludgy, slow, ugly, and that's before you even start playing!

shmups knock me on my ass so hard, especially R-Type, this game is like performing brain surgery with an Etch-a-Sketch, but the colorful understated body horror theming has always kept this series a favorite in my mind
where Final and Final 2 succeed is in being an orgiastic pleasure of beautiful backgrounds, alternate paths, and a long list of unlockable ships getting progressively more overpowered with all the design variation and power disparity of a DBZ roster
as sirpospin says in their review, the checkpoint system is pretty flawed, taking all your powerups away is really punishing, but if you're a shmup person you are probably used to this (I am not)
also, support Granzella who made this game
for those who aren't familiar, ever since the 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami took out all-time great studio Irem and got their then-upcoming games Disaster Report 4 and Steambot Chronicles 2 canceled
I always felt bad for them after that, and seeing them come back from the dead like a phoenix in the form of Granzella a few years later, remaking their canceled game, was cool enough that it makes me want to support them on principle
Granzella is a good developer you should buy their games and support them and their head Kazuma Kujo (well, even if this game has a billion level DLCs)

Jogo decepcionante
Em 2021 e fizeram um shooter com continues contados, slowdown pra cacete, filler desnecessário e ainda por cima um level design cagado. Qualquer shmup do Super Nintendo dá de 10 a 0 nesse revival cagado. Perdoaria se tivesse lançado em um Xbox 360/PS3 mas do jeito que tá não dá. Pelo menos a música é no mínimo escutável e as naves tem poderes bacanas.