Is R-Type Final 2 Worth Buying? - Find out in my Full Review! This has been one divisive game with opinions all over the map. This is my opinion and I'm sticking to it. What say you? ✅ Subscribe To My Channel ➡️ Support me on PATREON www.patreon.com/shmupjunkieslushfund Looking to buy the game? Below are my affiliate links. If you use them, a small portion goes to me and helps fund my channel and videos. Buy on Amazon Playstation 4: amzn.to/3tKLDBy Xbox One: amzn.to/3olF9rV Nintendo Switch: amzn.to/3uRee9v Buy Limited Edition from Play Asia Playstation 4: www.play-asia.com/r-type-final-2-limited-edition-english/13/70e4mr?tagid=1100485 Nintendo Switch: www.play-asia.com/r-type-final-2-limited-edition-english/13/70e4ml?tagid=1100485 CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Timmy demands a good review 01:14 - R-Type Final 2! Get hyped 02:30 - Uh oh 05:09 - Lackluster beginnings 07:37 - A Tale of Two games 10:07 - Now we're talking! 11:57 - A Brilliant Finale worthy of Delta 13:56 - An R-Type game for R-Type fans 15:33 - Enter the DLC 17:00 - Criticisms 20:17 - What about the Nintendo Switch port? 21:32 - How do I rate R-Type Final 2? 25:03 - If you love R-Type

Definitely the best rtf2 review video I've seen because you actually talk about the gameplay and design while taking past r-type games into perspective. My review of the review is 10/10

This is the best and fairest review of this game. That’s why I love your channel... you’re the real deal! Thanks for making these videos.

Fun fact, the ship graveyard is comprised of my failed attempts at the 6:1 boss on my first run before I restarted and took a different path.

Now that Final 2 seems to be fully fleshed out and all content added, I think it would be appropriate to give it a 2nd review because now I feel that it's a way better beast than it originally was!

Caught you early, Junkie, so I wanted to say how much you're killing it with your content. Your channel is my favorite discovery of the year and you've singlehandedly reignited my love for STGs. Your passion is infectious, too. (And it's a helluva expensive bug to catch... I've got a Supergrafx coming from Germany and the Aleste Collection coming in from Japan. You're gonna bankrupt me and I love it, haha)

To anyone that still did not play this game in japanese dub and change the ending song to japanese version yet, play it again in japanese!

Your R-Type Final 2 is literally spot on! I have similar feelings as yours when it comes to stage designs. The first three stages are so underwhelming, particularly stage 3 where it feels unfinished, and you can especially tell by looking at the battleship that looks so plain and out-of-place. Thankfully, later stages have become much better, and I especially like stage 7.0 where it features a slug that's collecting dead ships, and it also features R-9WB Happy Days as a corrupted, trans-dimensional fighter. It has the best music in the game by far, and it is an incredible homage to the R-Type franchise. It's one of the reasons why I usually go for the 6.0-7.0 route. I'm also a fan of the DLC stages, which are so challenging to play!

The game has issues but its addicting. And Fun

That’s how a review is done. Critical, yet accurate. Full of factual information from someone who actually put the time in.

Slug boy is a good boy, and tbh I like to imagine that the “Happy Days” acting as it’s “head” still had some humanity left. You can see that whenever it charges up the split wave cannon, it was either to blast a bunch of debris at the front away or mass clear a bunch of Cancers sneaking up behind you.

Great review, I am a long time fan of the series so it was an definite purchase for me, I like the game overall, hopefully Granzella and Kujo will continue updating the game and make it even better!

I started the game on R-Typer right away with the original ship...Gloriously frustrating lol I guess it's meant to be played at lower difficulties first then the higher ones once better ships are unlocked. I got to the boss of level 2 after 4 hours of playing used up like 60 continues lol Good to know there's so much content.

Have the Switch version. Can confirm. I have been driven mad, mostly from Stage 3... BUT... I have made it passed. I need to get better at the game, but I've been loving it. Edit: Also, I was one of those people who bought because I recognized the name, tried the demo, and enjoyed it. I'm not that good at the game, but it hit every mark. So much so that it got me to try other shmups, like Crimson Clover and Ikaruga. It kindled an interest in a genre I thought I would never have.

I have absolutely loved this game on my Series X and can't wait for more DLC and bonuses. I mostly agree with your review in general, though one problem I notice is that Bit items just flat-out don't seem to exist? There's one in the first stage, but then afterward they just stop showing up, while powerups get showered on you like mad. It makes the bit feel kinda useless since it's not much of a benefit to begin with, so the fact it's uber rare in final 2 is kinda funny tbh. I do hope they add that to the upcoming patch.

Found your channel last month. I'm not the biggest SMUP player but I just love your genuine... love for these games. Your PC engine history got me to buy a PC Engine mini. I can't wait to jump in and explore all those games. Keep up the great work

Damn, not the first comment :( This channel has gotten me giving shooters a real "shot". I, just now, finished playing some R-Type on the PC Engine. Played some CD, then switched over to Hu Card. (Does the CD version have unlimited continues?) I've tried to play R-Type dozens of times, but I kept dying right away. It's not like Blazing Lasers which gives you a few stages to settle in, no, it's sniping you from behind with the 3rd guy you meet. I had always just given up, it was too hard to be fun. But not tonight, I was going to at least get to the first boss. I died over and over and over and over again, but finally I got there (and the boss was easy to beat). Level 2, died some more. So I switched off the CD version and tried Hu Card. And know what? I got through the first level only dying once. I knew what was coming, what to do, where to be. That level that, I swear, for YEARS (I've probably tried R-Type 20 or 30 times over the past 20-25 years on different platforms) kicked my ass right away so I gave up, will always be easy for me now. And I got to the 2nd worm-in-heart boss before I used my 2 continues on the Hu card version. Given maybe 5-10 more tries, I'm sure I'd beat it. This game that has been too hard for me my whole life now suddenly feels reasonable. (I will add, it's just because I was never motivated to try. I've beaten Castlevania III and the original Japanese Mario 2 on hard mode, so it's not that I suck at games, I just never felt motivated to play shooters until recently).

I’m getting this because I’m settling the score with an old enemy.

Seriously can't recall the last time I was blown away by the lighting in a shmup.

Nice video, man! I see we complained about the same things! I am still considering getting back to it, but I spent 2 weeks playing it, so I am in the mood for something different. Maybe I'll try to unlock all the ships and play the DLC levels too. I just did two of the 4 branches too.

I didn't realize there were three more DLCs for this since the last time I looked. I've been on an RTF2 binge for two weeks now. Plowed through all of the DLC levels, unlocked a ton more ships, and actually haven't been able to stop playing. If anyone finds my atrophied, toothless junkie body, please hook up a saline drip and strap me back into my R-9WZ Disaster Report!

Very fair review. You echo a lot of my feelings as well. At the end of the day, I’m enjoying it and grateful it exists. Looking forward to how it grows over time

Been waiting on this,love the facehugger lol,the 2nd half looks awesome,ill use the link and pick this up,great review man,subs are growing nicely👍

Reviews for this game or all over the place in terms of info and quality. I have seen ten minute reviews with more info in them then half hour long reviews. But here comes Shmupjunkie taken his time and producing the best review of the game yet.

I’m glad you posted this. My brother and I are diehard r-type fans and something about r-type final 2 didn’t gel well with us. Ashamed to admit; but, I gave up after stage 3. Even though I had unlocked 10 ships. Glad to know it gets better in the late game. You’ve reignited my drive to continue to play this highly ambitious game👍🏾 Thanks.

11:50 I had to pause the video on Xbox to get out my phone to comment because the ship graveyard level was an absolute marvel for me. I'm only 24 so I grew up with RTF and I have to say I _really_ love when these games explore atmospheric, dark, and dreary concepts like stage 3.5 of RTF, and the small backstory of the Cerberus fighter from Delta. "Dark Forest's Watchdog" is still to this day one of my favorite video game OSTs. The ship graveyard hit the feels for me with both the atmosphere and OST. Makes me wish there was an expanded lore universe I could lose myself in.

Really great review! Spot on with all of your thoughts, I can't wait to get to some of these later stages and unlock more powerful ships!

Great video. I know someone who bought it and seemed to feel the same way about the early portions and put it down because of it. I'll share your video and see if that can help motivate them to make it a little further. I'm now considering getting it, especially since I liked the first Final, and am happy to hear it's good for those that did. Keep up the great work!

Glad to see your review up. I was waiting for it! I think your take on the game is a lot more positive than mine. I've already unlocked all the ships available currently and am back to playing Final 1 until the next update. Meanwhile, I'm remembering all the things Final 1 got right. Remember the force and wave cannon previews from Final 1? Where are they in Final 2? I'm glad you can walk around the museum now, but now you can't tell what a ship's lasers will look like before you register it. Let's be honest, here: just as some of the ships are OP AF, some of them are real stinkers.... usable, but painful. It would be nice to be able to tell which is which before you get in the cockpit. Final 1 did it. What happened? Oh, and handy tip for 7.1: at that spot where you're going around the last battleship and all the R-9s do a flyby, if you hit your DOSE right as the ships are on the screen, you'll *also* take out the bridge and main guns of the battleship, so when you fly over it, you don't have to fire on anything. You can just put your ship in the top right corner and put your controller down for the rest of the stage. It's again one of those "what's in the background, what can I interact with" things...

He hit that troll dude with a face hugger lol The salt and hate rofl !!! Good review, you hit every point I had thought of. The only one I feel you missed is one minor nit pick I had.... "How you gonna make new R-type game and no homage to original R-type theme song!" Devs fix this!!!!

It´s always great to watch your videos on sundays and this one is no exception my friend! I was hesitating about this one earlier but now I am sure I will definitely enjoy it very much. I hope loading time improves on the Switch with the next DLCs. Congrats, fantastic content and video!

That intro is even more funny that it is now known R-Type Final 3 is in production already

... been waiting for this one. Thank you Junkie for putting this together. All other reviews that I've watched came up short.... you nailed it. R-Type Final 2 needs more body horror stages. 'BYDO' is a anagram for 'body', after all.

Hopefully you'll also make a video at the end of the year looking at the "final" version with all the updates and dlc...perhaps even one about the Final 3 upgrade whenever it arrives? This video was fantastic.

Although RTF2 definitely could've used a few more months in the oven, I still knew you were gonna enjoy whats here. I really enjoyed your History of R-Type upload as well. I see Studio Mudprints is in good company with the likes of you, doing your thing right here lol. Shmup sites for battle tested, battle approved, & truly hardcore shmup fans? . . . Yes please : )

I really enjoyed this look at the game. I loved the first Final and I feel the same about this one. I'm looking forward to the upcoming ships and stages.

Man you are becoming my favorite KZfaqr these days. I had to pre order this game just because R-Type is just so much history for me. This one feels like an overall improvement over Final to me but still not as good as the OG R-Type, III, Delta, or even Leo for me (am I the only one who puts Leo up with these other legends?). Great review as always. I don't regret the purchase but it's definitely a bit disappointing so far. That said, stage three is as far as I've gotten so far and I'm glad to see there is better content to look forward to.

You are the real deal indeed. The genre approves. Thank you for taking the time.

great video, very thorough review and I appreciate all the fine details you covered. I havent picked it up yet, but I am definitely going to get the steam version when I get a chance to play it.

I too was a little nervous by stage 3, and started looking for ways to create a mod that would at least upgrade the map textures and fix the skybox on that level, but it got way better after that especially after unlocking more ships. TX-T "Eclipse" and R-11S2 "No Chaser" are my go-to ships at the moment for Score Attacks. Having the Steam version, I thought it'd be funny to play in the SteamVR Theater Mode, it was pretty epic and some of the surface/effect shaders appear to actually have depth information that can produce stereoscopic projections, but the framerate was about halved so I couldn't get very far due to lag. Anyway, this is the best review I've seen so far, a continuation of the quality in The Final History of R-Type which is how I found your channel :)

Great review! Really comprehensive stuff and well put together. Good pacing and structure.

Who got sent here by BitHead1000?!?!?!?! He was right; you are KILLING it! Don't you DARE go away because you are the real deal!!! Reporting for duty... I mean "Happy to be here!" You are the MAN! I've only been watching for the past couple days, but your love and dedication to this is apparent within the first minute or two of the handful of videos I've watched. I've only scratched the surface, but I can't wait to check out the rest of your content. I am right there with you on Ninja Gaiden! You are so spot-on with how you MUST approach the game to not only get the most out of it, but to even survive! This might not be the most appropriate place to mention it, so I apologize, but I just finished watching the "30 days" challenge, and I just can't hold back... Not much of a handheld guy either, but I happen to have a GameCube with the GBA adapter and may I just add, uhhh, "NINJA... COP (Ninja 5-0)?"... "Level 1 music?"... "C'mon, ANYBODY?!?"" Keep on truckin'- by the way, Ys is the bYs knYs!!!

What a review! Killed it as usual, thanks SJ!

Played it a couple times so I can't fully say if I love it or not, but damn the game is definitely R Type hard as it should be, and I love how it stays true to the variety of ships like the first game had. learn the R Type formula and you'll get it. Sure it's "slower" since it's not a bullet hell but doesn't mean it's any less of a game

Your content is sooo good! Have you seen that glitch "colorboy" found with the Delta stage 1 in it? It's very interesting. Also, I second you doing best shmups on the switch. I'm down for you including arcade archives! Please keep making content, i eat it up!

Great points made here definitely, your reviews are always so concise and thoughtful! I need to get back to playing more of this game! Now I've seen what to look forward to it looks badass! I knew there'd be a lot content stuffed in this game, didn't know there was dlc too. Killer content buddy, you slinging dope vids every week!🔥🔥🔥

New to your channel and loving your style of review. This is actually my first R-Type (not counting the time I emulated 3) and I'm finding a lot to enjoy even on Switch. Your wrap-up of this review makes me think of a concept of sorts I came up with about different "types" of a score. A "good" 7 out of 10 vs a "bad" 7 out of 10 if you will. I genuinely believe that sometimes a good 7 out of 10 game can be more enjoyable than a bad 8 or 9 and Final 2 is a brilliant example of that in my eyes. I've beaten the main game and the DLC several times now in my journey to try and get good enough to beat it on R-Typer difficulty. Yes, I realize I just watched a review on a game I've already played, but as a game design major, I think it's important to watch reviews on games I've played to better understand the subjective elements of its design.

Thanks for this really helpful in depth review!!! It was awesome!

Your previous R-Type video got me fully into completing all the past games and I’ve been having a charged-up blast playing them all. Thanks for your honest review of Final 2 which I know I’ll be picking up soon for PS4/5.

I was in the 7th grade the first time I had ever heard of RTF. My friend had the game manual inside of his school binder and he showed me it raving about how cool it was. I was able to play it at my cousins house (my uncle was a huge SNK fan and collected arcade cabs so that was how he had heard of r-type) sometime later I got my own used copy thru gohastings. I was so crap at the game I used cheats on baby mode and used the 3.0 exploit to unlock all the ships. Now I'm 28 playing that same copy of RTF on my ps2 and RTF2 on my ps4. My interest in shooters has been revived and I'm loving this channel as well as others like it. I love the game but I wish it had more lore and cinematic cutscenes as well as unique updated gameplay. When I see cool Einhander levels on the PSX I wish RTF2 had some more of those action moments with crazy camera angles. It feels like there is loads of lore missing because I'm not even sure when this game is taking place in the story or even what its all about. I wished it had a bigger budget or more production time so we could have seen a more flushed out story with voice acting instead of just an opening demo that gets underwhelming after a while. The gameplay seems solid but the game is super stingy with certain upgrades like Bits and an unpredictable 3D hitbox. Some of the levels don't flow together as something cohesive, like going from a plant production area of a space colony to fighting a warship and back inside to another bydo infested area of a space colony then followed up by going underwater??? Its confusing but you can edit your own playlist after all. Some of the older ship effects and polishing up are missing, like ships no longer "grind" on the walls and floors of stages with a unique "sparking" animation. Also no final wave cannon for the final boss fight? It didnt seem like the epic finale of the first RTF. Just so many little things feel like they are missing. Either way Im still obsessed with the game.

What I love are the customizable options. You can even customize your pilot, with outfits, helmets and poses. I love that stuff. You cant deny the love the deffs put in this game ❤️

Great video! You say you don't consider yourself a reviewer, but you're one of the best videogame reviewers on the internet. Giving a game a mark at the end of the review is completely unnecessary, and in fact whether you like it or not doesn't really matter either. What makes you a great reviewer is that you give the viewers the necessary information to decide whether they would like the game or not if they bought it. Most "reviewers" don't do that. They usually show gameplay and say "I think this is awesome!" or "this sucks" and that's that. They don't say why they like or dislike the game, and that's because they don't know.

It's not the game I hoped it could be at launch, but overall I'm fine with it. A 7/10 R-Type even existing in this age is a huge win for me. If they polish it post release I could see this being just under Delta and III for me.

Have to agree on the checkpoints... to a point. The ship graveyard is filled with all my losses at the triple wheel part of 6.0 and the 'meatwall' of 7.2.

Love your vids. Thanks for the heads up about G-Darius HD! I've got that on my wishlist as also played Burst CS :) I haven't looked of you've reviewed Raiden V yet? Gonna check later. Keep it up ✌

R-Type, Darius and Thunder Force have been the best all-time shooter classics.

I might give it a quick buy after watching this. It just genuinely looked very slow to me but I’ll give it a chance. Great review my guy!

A nice and very detailed review, thank you very much!

Love your videos man, another great one!

Great review. You helped me decide whether to get it or not. I did and I'm looking forward to diving in. Thanks! That picture in the background is awesome by the way.

The PS2 Final looks amazingly smooth and beautiful when the internal resolution is increased 6x times to 4K or 8x times to 5K with emulation.

Amazing review bud, so much detail and information ,il definitely be buying this next 😊😊

It was cool to see some of the later stages in the footage, because those actually do look awesome! I only saw footage of the first five stages before, and I wasn't too impressed.

Great review! I loved your comments at the end. I'm not looking for scores, but for honest opinions from people whose tastes I respect, like you. I'd probably get this game for Christmas, I hope it's still on sale by them. By the way, you only took 1 week for this video, you're going to spoil us!

I still have to grab the full game but i was surprisingly taken by the demo. it really tapped into the moody atmosphere of final and felt like I was returning to a place I wasn't supposed to come back to. which is, in a sense, the perfect way to expand on final. excited to give the full thing a go soon.

Nice one man, a measured, honest review, unlike the majority. What makes this game so important is that studios are going to be watching how well this does and decide whether or not to make their own revival, or a new IP. One dude said this looked and sounded like a euro shooter, I mean wtf!? Its gorgeous later in, plus the dlc is incoming... Anyway, thanks man, look froward to the next vid!

You can actually see individual credits for each stage. Its not surprising the best levels ended up being Kujo's levels. He's designed some of levels in Delta and the game systems of that title.

Fantastic review, glad I found your channel!

Great review mate. Having not gotten massively far in the game, mid level 3, (yet) due to lack of good awake time (I need to be very alert for games like this) I like what I saw whilst also noting that stage 1 and 2 (definitely harder) weren't your typical R-Type puzzle shooter mechanicals but personally I think that' might be because they are trying to attract a new audience for the series, slowly luring new players into what for me so far has been much easier than previous games. I even took a stab at R-Typer, which on the first level is completely doable even for me LOL, another indicator to me that this is to try an attract a new player base, which as shooter fans we should be grateful for, growing the player base is ultimately how we get these back into the limelight, where they belong, for more developers to invest time in this genre we all love. Whilst I have not seen a massive amount of the game I personally feel I will in time and don't doubt for a second that it's going to get a lot tougher. Checkpoints are generous, unlike some of the previous games and balanced similarly to the original Final game, for me. As fan service goes, for me they delivered, I think it is much more important to deliver a game that everyone can enjoy, as opposed to a game that only elite players can enjoy, which ultimately cuts off a lot of gamers from experiencing the magic of these games and ultimately limiting sales. Being a reasonable (in my younger years) to these days and average shump player (on my good days LOL) I feel this offers a good challenge but obviously can't comment for the elite community. Excellent job mate, I agreed with every woird. Excellent edit, and that face hugger skit had me in stitches, along with Cleetus, I sincerely appreciate the effort and time you put into these, as a fellow KZfaqr I know this is hours and hours of effort.

First of all, thank you so much for putting this review together. You answered every question I had about it and then some. I think I'm in the minority, but I was a huge fan of Final 1 for it's atmosphere and storytelling (I love the poems dammit!) and I feel like the story here seems to be a big step back. But, it's awesome to hear that almost everything else is a huge step forward. Oh, and I finally got a copy of Delta. I'll let ya know how it is. ;)

About mission 3, the name is Brake in: stolen AI factory. It has purple lines, and the mothership is purple. It feels like a VR level. Maby the developers went for this VR/AI style?

Commenting before watching the whole video but keep up the awesome work as always!!!

10/10 for this quality review!!👍🏻

Thank you for this great review. It really helped me decide if I wanted to get it or not. Also, it’s great seeing your channel continue to grow.

Mouahahahaha LOVE the baby alien come on the face of the silly guy ! SO FUNNY !!!!! Thanks a lot for that ! I cry of laughing :-D

They should make R-Type Final Fight, with Haggar in space doing a spinning piledriver on the Bydo empire.

Yesss ive been waiting for this! If you like it or not no matter! Finally new shmup junkie :D

I have also been playing R type final 2 on the ps4 and for the most part have enjoyed it. I did start on practice to learn the levels and found they do adjust with difficulty. I am now trying to play it on normal but that second boss is frustrating with those tentacles. Sometime I make it but not often. Junkie will you be recommending ships and showing strategy’s in future videos?

nice fair review! I got the switch version and yes 15 seconds of load time in a game that kills you constantly is a huge extra layer of frustration lol. But despite that, my initial buyer's remorse of my day 1 purchase went away after playing more without dying as much in the first 2 stages. I do wish I got it on ps4 instead just for that load time issue. I hope the devs address that load time issue soon. btw, as usual I enjoyed the skit lol.

Fantastic review, thanks very much! I played R-Type on the Sega Master System when I was 14 and it was amazing. Nice to see this released.

Another fantastic episode my friend. I have the physicals for both Switch and PS4. I imagine it will be a while before I get around to playing it on the Switch (after some optimization). The load times are infuriating beyond belief. ;)

This is the best R-Type Final 2 review out there. I've had the game for 2 weeks and run out of continues right before the branching path. D'oh! That stage eats me alive but I gotta keep at it!

I love how theses games aren't just fresh, but are also like love letters to the older versions of the games. How homage is paid, be it a returning boss, a redone stage, or just reminjders of things like your past ships, they're all present in these games 😀

Great review I really enjoyed my time with r type I just wish that the unlock system form final 1 was keep over the new material system.

great review, love the comparison to the older games! sure the game has alot of issues (there is no denying that) but the game is still fun and feels like an r-type game through and through . i think it was worth the wait and iam really thankful that we got a new entry after all these years. iam really looking forward for how this game will get updated over time tho and for how it looks now, the dlc homage stages might steal the original stages the show in the end .

Found this video at random. I'm an Old semi-shmup fan that only had one R-Type game under his belt until then, which was Delta for the PS1 (I was more into Star Soldier and Galaga back then). When I learned that this game was being made through Kickstarter, I plonked money down to make sure I got a copy for the PS4 just because of how much I loved Delta. I won't lie, I was a little disappointed... that I was given a Japanese copy which required a Japanese account to gain access to DLC down the road. So, I ended up buying this game again for a second time and just combined the Inaugural Flight edition with the Kickstarter exclusive slip cover for the game and called it my complete edition (then sent my Japanese copy to a friend of mine). I gotta say, It's as hard as cast iron ball-bearings to play, as I'm not the most experienced R-typer or Shmup player, but I've had lots of fun, even despite the pineapple level giving me a few hours of frustration. It was everything I wanted to see and more, especially with how custom the game can get, and I'm so glad that the game gets extremely creative and interesting after the first quarter of stages. The R-Type Slug in the Garbage level was probably one of the strangest yet coolest level following boss I've seen in a game like this.

Exelent review, thanks for sharing!

That stage 3 battleship design is so strange compared to the stage 7 armada. Saying it looks like two different games is an understatement.

Bithead 1000 sent me here, and I’m thankful he did! Awesome content, keep up the good work 👊

Nice, balanced review that highlights both the good and not so good aspects. of the game. The Switch version is mostly serviceable, but it REALLY chugs on stage 7.1 and is almost intolerable, especially with that checkpoint placement. It feels a little harsh to point that out when you consider what the game is and that we can have it portable at all though. Ultimately, I think Final 2's level design and pacing of the action never really reach the heights of Delta, and in terms of tone it never really reaches the depths of melancholy that Final manages. But it sits somewhere nicely in the middle, and it has all of those ships with enough stages and difficulty settings that perhaps it doesn't matter so much, especially when there's more homage stages on the way. Personally, I'm just happy we got more R-type and hope that continues into the future. It's not dead anymore at least! I think you maybe sold Stage 2.0's level design a little short though - it does actually have some interesting elements running through it, in that it doesn't want you just holding down fire for the duration of the stage. The pineapple flowers only shoot pollen in response to your shots, and the glow bugs are attracted to the biggest light sources (including your Force, rapidfire, and wave cannon charge). So there's a delicate balance of using wave cannon to make the pineapples expose the weakspot, while not attracting too much attention from the glow bugs while your force is doing other things.These things are introduced separately before being combined and I think that's an interesting dynamic. It's maybe the only R-type level I can think of that tries to punish you for holding down fire (Super R-type's slowdown doesn't count!). The aesthetic and that boss fight really are bland though, you're not wrong.

Great review! I think you nailed it with the observation that R-Type fans will appreciate it despite its flaws, and those who loved R-Type Final 1 will love this. While I wish the first 3 levels were better, especially the boss designs, I am enjoying it quite a bit.

So far I'm enjoying this game. Good soundtrack and micro lighting/details. The only complains I have so far is stage 3 design/graphics and lack of red power ups.

Just subbed to the channel, because this is one of my favorite genres of gaming, but I have a question. Have you heard of this one SHMUP called Philiosoma? It's on the PS1 and I remember emulating it once. It's a pretty interesting game in my opinion, and has something of a story! It's kind of R-Type lite, at least storywise imo. I'd also like to throw a hat in for Einhander, which I had as a kid, but I never beat it until I was in college.

I being playing R Type since Delta and I love the game I enjoyed Final back on PS2 and i think R Type Final 2 looks pretty fun i am going get it at some point it looks awesome but the video u did on reviving it was pretty good and got me interested even more so thank you!

Lmaooooo I swear there's people who have a strong opinion on games they haven't actually played. Timmy represents them all 🤣 thanks for the review man. I was gonna skip out on this, but I think there's more than enough here to justify the purchase. Even if it isn't my favorite.

This was a really great review and I appreciate the depth and fairness of your video. R-TYPE might be one of the most important franchises to me personally. Super R-Type was the second game I ever played, the first game and one of the first things I ever spent my own money on and it is the genesis of my love for challenging games, this genre, and the series as a whole. To be able to back this, when I thought I'd never see another R-TYPE, and see it actually be released has kind of been a dream come true. Is it a perfect game? No. But good god do I love it so.

Thanks for your analysis. I've bought the physical Special Edition for the Switch, and over time I've came to similar conclusions. The load time is definitely a bummer, and the game took its sweet time to make me like it. There are a number of smaller issues that got in the way of my enjoyment, but I'm an R-Type player through and through, so I knew (or at least hoped) that there would be rewards. The ship graveyard alone was worth the purchase, but I've decided to shelf it for a few months before investing more time into it. I hope for a better experience then. All in all, I want to support those devs, so no regrets. But this is not yet in my R-Type Top 3 yet. Thanks for the video =)

Nice videos! BTW how about a video about Salamander/Life Force?.. ports.. or history, that will be cool

I've been playing this one a fair bit since my previous R-Type was Delta on PSX and that was a tall order since I absolutely loved Delta. (And I want it to get the remaster or re-release treatment on multiple platforms!) Anyway, from what I gathered from the story bits in game, you're not playing a "campaign" as in previous titles but collecting information and researching stuff for a war archive or something, which is why you can eventually alter the stage orders change their names and even rename the game title. A sort of "R-Type AGES" or "Best of" affair, which amplifies the sense of disjoint/confusion as you progress forward. I also noticed on the harder setting Stage 1 boss becomes a nice surprise and I do wonder if later stages also pull such radical changes on higher difficulties. Seems that there is far more than meets the eye... yet they chose the three blandest 3 stages to be the meat most people will see. Oof. It's a shame and I hope they can patch in a sort of Darius choose-your-stage thing or put those select items earlier, and maybe update Stage 3 so it doesn't look so unfinished and textureless. (In fact, seeing the far more detailed ships in that other fleet stage makes me wonder if they forgot to texture the whole thing or is indeed part of the "simulation"/research.)

I was thoroughly impressed with the job granzella did with this, awsome game, it definitely lives up to the original (which im going to buy again today) im still on the fence on which version to get, as i have a PS4, and a switch. But thanks shmup, great review!