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It’s bigger, it’s badder, too much for the ALFI-PH2RX Phoenix02!

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Same size. Maybe just a little smaller than sprite but certainly not pixel-sized like in danmaku shmups.

@@ArekTheDragon | Where can I find this game's OST?

@@lancecurry7538 What do you find so special about this game's OST?

@@lancecurry7538 you can buy game in steam

I mean, the plot looks like this: The player is a rebel fighting an oppressive government, and then they make a truce to repel an alien invasion... That's the most basic thing. But what was the deal with these ZODIAC ships?

​@@vicraiden3068 Oh boy, the lore of the Alltynex trilogy is a long one. If you didn't know, RefleX is part of a trilogy called The Tale of Alltynex. I'll try to explain the story: Thousands of years before the events of the first game, Alltynex Second, there was a planet with a humanoid species called the Raiwat. The Raiwat created 12 living cores which are the ZODIACs, and used them to create an empire. As you can see in the final boss, they have ridiculous fire power when connected to their frames (the white angel like mechas). One day, a ZODIAC went rogue, and the other 11 followed. The Raiwat were no match and they were almost entirely wiped out. They attempted to create a 13th ZODIAC called Ophiuchus to wipe out the other 12, but before they could, a faction of Raiwat called the Yuda Clan stole it and fled to what is now known as Earth. Without the Ophiuchus ZODIAC, the Raiwat were defenceless once again. It took them centuries to regain control of the other 12, and their planet was left uninhabitable. They evolved into (as the guide book calls them) beast-men to survive. On Earth, the Yuda Clan used Ophiuchus to create human society. There's a government called the Senate which is mostly comprised of Yuda descendants. They knew that the Raiwat would seek revenge and eventually attack, so they devised a plan to fight back involving awakening the Ophiuchus ZODIAC. Meanwhile, scientists predicted that in the future, a shortage of resources would create a depression and reduce some advanced countries to third world levels. So they too devised a plan, and this was the birth of ALLTYNEX and the city of Aeneas. ALLTYNEX is a supercomputer created to manage the resources and economy fairly. It runs underneath Aeneas like roots, stretching 20KM deep at it's furthest point. In the first game, the plot is that ALLTYNEX went rogue and wiped out humanity within 72 hours, leaving a single fleet outside of Jupiter that attempts to fight back 40 years after the incident. It sounds like a cliche scifi plot, but here's where things get a bit interesting: ALLTYNEX was never evil. The Senate programmed it to thin out humanity as well as activate the Ophiuchus ZODIAC. They thought that the various nations would pose an issue in creating world unification in preparation for the Raiwat invasion. The fleet by Jupiter was purposefully allowed to escape, as the Senate never intended to wipe out humanity. When the fleet returned to earth, they had found that Ophiuchus had been activated as intended, but it had gained control of ALLTYNEX, which had actually turned it evil. This is why you fight through the game, instead of the Senate simply telling ALLTYNEX to call off it's attacks. The final boss of ALLTYNEX Second is Satarial, with the title "Visitor from Qliphoth". To activate the core, the Senate searched for parallel dimensions using the power of the Ophiuchus core. They found 18, with 7 of them containing ALLTYNEX computers. The other 11 were sealed off and designated Qliphoth. The other 7 were connected to ALLTYNEX in the game's dimension, and they began to siphon power and processing resources from each other in order to activate their respective cores. Once you defeat ALLTYNEX, the Ophiuchus Core attempts to escape, and summons Satarial from one of these closed off dimensions. After you defeat it, the player ship is enveloped in an orb of light. In this light, the pilot learns of the incoming Raiwat attack, and then disappears. He reappears 200 years later. This begins the events of RefleX. The Senate are still preparing their attack, by unifying smaller nations under the Erda Union, which would have made a dystopia. However, new nations arise earlier than anticipated, among several religions. Wars between nations are a constant fact of life. The Senate gives up on it's attempts to resolve things peacefully, and enforces rule by military power. Some countries join willingly however. Their army, known as the Global Unified Army (GLU for short, but it's never referred to as that in the guide book or game) begin to oppress smaller nations. A resistance group called Valkyness, backed by the Gehenna Church and the Serpent religion, arises to prominence, and becomes a major power. They soon declare war on the GLU and Erda Union. The pilot from Alltynex Second, Guehala Dennis, becomes a scientist working for the Erda Union and GLU. He is responsible for every boss up to stage 4. They all use man made ZODIAC cores, based on information found within the Ophiuchus ZODIAC, which is why they're called ZODIAC-HUMAN in their boss warnings. He mainly joined the GLU however to learn the truth behind the ALLTYNEX Rampage Incident. This gave him new purpose in life after finding out that the death of his lover, family and friends were purposeful. Revenge. He joins Valkyness, and implants the Ophiuchus ZODIAC into a Phoenix ship, and instructs it to be delivered to the Valkyness base on the moon for mass production. The ZODIAC is the reason behind the impenetrable shield. On route, the carrier Ophiuchus is attacked by the human piloted Virgo. Guehala is on board, and dies in the explosion. The Phoenix MK II is the only survivor just by chance, as he happened to be close to the ship at the time. The ship fights through the stages up to the moon. It turns out that the fleet in stage 3 was not there to attack the Phoenix, but rather to fight the incoming Raiwat invasion. Your intervention and destruction of the Sagittarius devastates their opposition. After your fight with Cancer, the Raiwat invade. One of the ZODIACs destroys both Cancer and the base, and they begin their assault. They feared the Ophiuchus, and had found Earth by monitoring the drastic surge in energy and power over the years that human society prospered. Realising what had happened, the Erda Union proposed a ceasefire with Valkyness. Since they had been mostly annihilated by the ZODIAC that attacked Cancer and the airbase, they agreed. The difference in offensive power was great however, and soon only the Phoenix and Virgo were left to fight off the ZODIACs. They went off to fight one of the ZODIACs and the Observer-Defender craft Scutum at the ruins of Alltynex. Virgo was destroyed, but Spica Astra barely survived what transpired there. All's she remembered was the terrible battle that occurred with the ZODIAC, and the Phoenix II spreading it's own wings of energy like the ZODIAC. What had happened is that Ophiuchus had been activated once more. The pilot died in the assault, but the ship survived, gaining incredible firepower and infinite shield capacity but losing all armour plating. The Raiwat demanded an immediate surrender from the Erda Union, and they agreed. The Raiwat dismantled both them and Valkyness and interrogated senior Erda members for information, but no one knew what had happened. The Phoenix fought against the 12 ZODIACs, soon destroying them all. However, the battles were terrible and dangerous, and reduced earth to slag, scorched earth, and rubble. The Gehenna Church began to develop their own technology to fight back. The Neural Nest Network, the Kamui craft based on Brain Fusion Theory, and things using the Orbital Mechanised Temple (the final stage), though I'm unsure as to what. These were all desperate measures born of desperate times, but they damaged the Raiwat more than anticipated, forcing them to withdraw to mars. The Raiwat soon ordered the commander of the attack to call off their assault. The final ZODIAC, Libra, had been launched just before this however. They withdraw before seeing how the battle ends. The final boss is Libra. The final two ZODIACs brawl throughout the Orbital Mechanised Temple, alongside two autonomous Kamui units. Both the Kamui and Libra succumb, and having completed it's purpose, the Ophiuchus core drifts off to sleep and crashes to earth. Sensing all threats were neutralised, the Neural Nest Network inside the Temple does the same. This isn't the end of the story, however. These parts confused me a little, so they may be inaccurate. This is the story of Kamui. Around the events of Alltynex, a scientist called Xaffiquel developed brain fusion theory. If you fuse two brains together at the genetic level, will they think the thoughts of brain A or B? He experimented on animals and increasingly more intelligent creatures. But nothing worked. Until he realised that psychic entities were needed. He began to work for a secret government institute called Addis. Officially it didn't exist, but it existed all the same. They began to kill off families of psychic individuals, mostly children, and performed Brain Fusion Theory on them, implanting them into Kamui units. Ironically, as if by fate, Xaffiquel's daughter possessed psychic powers. He attempted to find them, but the spies of Addis soon found out. His wife was killed, and the procedure was performed on his daughter. Xaffiquel goes mad with grief, and performs the procedure on himself, implanting himself into the Adjudicator unit as part of the Orbital Mechanised Temple. He drifts off to sleep alongside his daughter, both inside the temple, one day intending to annihilate humanity. It takes humanity millions of years to reach the Orbital Mechanised Temple after being devastated once more by the events of RefleX. A signal is sent to both Xaffiquel and his daughter. They awaken, and Xaffiquel begins his assault. He rebuilds ALLTYNEX, and it too attacks. His daughter however, regains her memories. She begins to fight back against Xaffiquel, and battles throughout the armies of autonomous machines and ships, soon killing off Xaffiquel and the Orbital Mechanised Temple entirely. And uh, that should be everything. Hopefully lol.

@@jole-u7o Wow... That's some deep lore for a shmup series. And to think world ended three times... Wow.

@@vicraiden3068 You're right lol, it's pretty in depth. It's one of my favourite series, I've read the guidebook a lot and even got my PDF copy printed as a hardback. I made some mistakes on the Kamui lore, but it won't let me edit it. Here's the updated version which should be 99% accurate, hopefully: This isn't the end of the story, however. These parts confused me a little, so they may be inaccurate. This is the story of Kamui. Around the events of Alltynex, a scientist called Xaffiquel developed brain fusion theory. If you fuse two brains together at the genetic level, will they think the thoughts of brain A or B? He experimented on animals and increasingly more intelligent creatures. But nothing worked. Until he realised that psychic entities were needed. He began to work for a secret government institute called Addis. Officially it didn't exist, but it existed all the same. They began to kill off families of psychic individuals, mostly children, and performed Brain Fusion Theory on them, implanting them into Kamui units. Ironically, as if by fate, Xaffiquel's daughter possessed psychic powers. He attempted to stop them finding her (weird typo here previously), but the spies of Addis soon found out. His wife was killed, and the procedure was performed on his daughter. Here's the new stuff: Xaffiquel goes mad with grief, and performs the procedure on himself, implanting himself into the Adjudicator unit as part of the Orbital Mechanised Temple, one day intending to annihilate humanity. However, he couldn't go through with his plan, so he drifts off to sleep, intending for the Neural Nest to activate them both thousands of years in the future. It takes humanity millions of years to reach the Orbital Mechanised Temple after being devastated once more by the events of RefleX. A signal is sent to his daughter by the Neural Nest (a code implanted by Xaffiquel), and it, based on ALLTYNEX and using the ALLTYNEX OS, begins to attack. His daughter fights across the planet, attacked by sentient bio-weapons and humans all the same as she attempts to remember her origin and purpose. She eventually reaches the Neural Nest and it reactivates her memories and they fight. She eventually defeats it, wiping out ALLTYNEX once and for all. For all intents and purposes this should be the end of the tale. But that's not the end of the battle. Before being defeated, the Neural Nest Network activates the Adjudicator, the ultimate weapon of destruction. She knows what she must do, and goes off to fight it, eventually destroying the Adjudicator and killing both it and herself.

@@vicraiden3068 some interesting things of note. The Neural Nest Network/ALLTYNEX boss in Kamui recreates bosses from, as it quotes "the era of AI dominion" (alltynex), which is the first boss of Alltynex Second, and "the era of photon shield reflection" or something like that, and it's Scorpio in this game. Kamui was the first released but the last chronologically, so the planning was neat. Even the 4th (or 5th I forget) stage of Kamui is the city Aeneas, which as we know is an important part of Alltynex lore. The final boss theme for Adjudicator/Xaffiquel is "He Who Will Judge", and the final level of RefleX is called Judge because it's the same location. The final boss of Kamui is the temple itself that makes the final stage of RefleX. The temple doesn't appear in Kamui during the final boss for time restrictions. The final boss of Alltynex, Satarial, looks suspiciously like a ZODIAC during its final phase, and ZODIAC Ophiuchus' shell/frame (the white mecha) is the miniboss of the final stage.

The creator of Reflex is a big fan of Rayforce, so it is not surprising that there is a tribute to Rayforce.

@@Zwielicht703-yv3yo Wasn't there another game by the same author with a lock on?

​@@ikagura yes it called AlltyneXsecond

Please show some respect ma brada