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An average port of Seibu's classic shooter
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Rating: 3,
Useful: 1 / 1
Date: September 18, 2004
Author: Amazon User
In 1990, Seibu Kaihatsu and Fabtek released the shooter game Raiden, which literally means thunder & lightning, in arcades. It quickly became a smash hit, with many sequels and spin-offs to eventually follow.
In Raiden, you fly over a rural landcape destroying invading aliens collecting powerups, and dodging the fast-moving bullets (your ship is quite slow!). For weapons, you have the bog standard red spread shot and a focused blue laser, both of which you must change and upgrade constantly. Missles either home in or zoom forward, and can also be upgraded.
You also have three bombs, which take a while to land but shield bullets. Enemies, graphics, and music are basic but original, and there are three kinds of bonus items. Lastly, there are little details everywhere, cows grazing, boats sailing, people running around, chimneys smoking.
A couple of years later,Raiden was ported to the Genesis and SNES, under the name of Raiden Trad. This, however, was nowhere near as good.
Because of technical limitations, Trad has a horizontal monitor, unlike its vertically monitored arcade version. Music has been redone for the worse, making it sound like some poor MIDI. Graphics are obviously worse, and look very washed-out. Worst of all, sprites will flicker occasionally and the bomb sprite will inexpainably appear behind a boss after its defeat due to some sort of glitch. Plus, Raiden's originally rock hard difficulty was dumbed down for the SNES release, making it somewhat easy even on Pro difficulty.
The one thing that Trad improves over the arcade version, however, is that there is absolutely no slowdown, even in 2 player mode. Enemies and bullets will appear everywhere, but there will be no slowdown.
All in all, Raiden Trad is a somewhat average port of a reliable old classic. Pick it up if it's cheap, but if you really want to play Raiden, buy the Turbografx version, Raiden Project on Playstation, or even the PCB, if you're willing to shell out that much money.
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