+Mitjitsu This game is not difficult at all with a few experience. Or you are a very bad player.

@@JohnDuff_59 Man, what a dick

Is this game really not that hard ? I'm practicing segments of the game and I find it hard for now lol.

@@ben.shinobi Olala je vais me faire une pure soirée Radiant Silvergun 🚀 Merci :))

ben shinobi thank you man! There is one doubt why is the robot from the beginning looks a lot like the robot they call Creator? Is it the same class or something?

The truth is that the robot in the beginning WAS Creator...like a paradox.

besides, I would love too see that.

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Aow. Thanks

You're welcome. :D

The stages are numbered by chronological order. Since the Stone-Like transports you 100,000 years back in time, it's listed as stage one, since that is LONG before anything else in the game happens. The worst part is that as a result of the ending, thanks to the Stone-Like, the world is stuck in a perpetually never-ending loop. At least you get your revenge in Ikaruga.

imortal333 so that stone- like is the same from Ikaruga? Then does it means that Stone-like reactivates again in order wipeout humanity once again?

This is before Ikaruga. You finally destroy the Stone-like in that game. This game apparently takes place in some horrific loop in time, done very Final Fantasy 1 style.

Yeah I knew that this was before Ikaruga...but you said a time loop? I do not like the sound of this. How exacly there is a loop on this game? And what about Ikaruga? I thought that Stone-like reactivated itself on that game and in that game we saw Stone-like's destruction.

virtual pellot The big plot twist of the game is that at the end, the Stone-Like resets time, wipes out the two protagonists and deactivates. The robot guy in the cutscenes was teleported too, and he got some of their DNA sample so that he could clone them and restart the human race. Then humanity finds the Stone-Like again and the story starts again with its reactivation and subsequent destruction of humanity, with the 2 heroes chasing after it again. This looped until, somehow, things went differently and Ikarugs happened instead, finally ending the cycle with the sacrifice of the two protagonists in that game and the final destruction of the Stone-Like God.

Late reply, but the objective here is the same as any other shmup: shoot at stuff and try to survive long enough to see the end of the game. What sets this game and Ikaruga apart from most others in the genre, and what's part of their core appeal (at least to a player like me), is that their scoring systems are predicated on a puzzle game-style chaining mechanic that stresses accuracy and careful consideration of what you shoot and when. Makes for a slightly more cerebral shoot-'em-up experience, and it rewards those who want to put in the time to explore how every beat of every stage is constructed in order to formulate plays that maximize score. And maximizing score is especially important in Radiant Silvergun because you've got seven different weapons at your disposal and their power is directly tied to your score-the more points you accumulate with each, the more powerful they get. Late-game bosses can become excruciating if you don't level up your weapons evenly. The chaining concept itself is pretty simple, though Silvergun's implementation of it was a little unrefined. Basically, enemies come in three different colours: red, blue, yellow. Shooting three in a row of the same colour awards a chain bonus, and these bonuses increase as you continue destroying enemies of one specific colour in multiples of three. As soon as you shoot a different coloured enemy, the chain breaks and the multiplier resets, generally meaning fewer points returned per new chain, ergo lower score, ergo slower weapon leveling, etc. Prioritizing shooting enemies of only one colour has the side effect of leaving about two-thirds of all enemies that enter the screen alive, giving you less room to breathe. And then it gets kinda weird from there... You can shoot one red, one blue, and then one yellow enemy and it still counts as a chain as long as you continue shooting only yellow enemies (I think?), and there are secret dogs located in specific spots in each stage that you can reveal with your Homing weapon and they award more points the more of them you find. Ikaruga would take the idea and make it into something a little more palatable. In that game, there are only two enemy colours to worry about (black or white, with polarity being tied to everything about this change), and you're allowed to switch between them every multiple of three to keep a string of chains going. Also, since Ikaruga has no extra weapons or weapon leveling, chaining becomes purely for competitive scoring purposes and isn't required to actually finish the game. I know this "match-three" puzzler approach to shmups doesn't always appeal to everyone, as it does somewhat stifle a player's natural inclination to shoot everything they see without recompense, but, to me, shootin' games as meticulously well-crafted as RS and Ikaruga make a compelling argument that these kinds of mechanics can still make for something engaging. This comment has gotten way out of hand. I'm going to stop now.

Radiant Silvergun's hard in Arcade Mode at least, because if you don't strategically level your weapons up by using them successfully, they won't do any damage at all later on. There are combos to do, invisible dogs in the scenery you highlight using the crosshairs from your homing attack, and even specific moments where it'll reward you for using a particular weapon. All are pretty much necessary for the smoothest progression through the game, and it's strongly recommended to take out every single piece of a boss rather than going for a quick kill, drawing encounters out massively. Saturn Mode (above) seems to recognize that as a little too hard for most, and at least saves your levels between playthroughs for each weapon. Radiant Silvergun kinda confounds me a bit. I always prioritize the arcade mode in games like this, and it's genuinely strenuous. I've only played the XBOX 360 version and the console mode on that seemed to be forever stuck on a single credit. It's a shame, because both this and Ikaruga are lavish, well-made luxury shooters with interesting visual and audio styles. The XBOX port has the bonus option of the Ikaruga "Three in a row" chaining if you have a completed save from that game, and it makes the game flow a lot more freely, even though there's a sense of elegance lost. I just wish the barrier for entry wasn't so high for Silvergun, the Soulsborne games have nothing on this!

You score a lot by only shooting enemies of the same color, and by doing optional damage to bosses (though the latter is very common in top-down shooters).