Darius Gaiden Overview
Darius Gaiden Free Download for PC (ダライアス外伝 Daraiasu Gaiden?) (planned to be released as Darius 3[1]) is a shoot'em up arcade game, developed and released by Taito in 1994. It is the third arcade installment of the Darius series.
Gameplay
Darius Gaiden is a two-dimensional shoot'em up. The player controls a space ship named the Silver Hawk and must guide it through scrolling stages, destroying enemies and avoiding obstacles along the way. The ship is armed with forward-firing missiles, aerial bombs and a protective force-field, all of which can be upgraded by various power-ups that are dropped by specially-colored enemies when they are destroyed by the player. New to the Silver Hawk's arsenal in Darius Gaiden is the 'black hole bomb.' When fired, the black hole bomb will create a large vortex in the center of the screen, which sucks in enemies and projectiles on the screen for a short moment, until it explodes into a powerful ball of lightning that inflicts massive damage onto every enemy on the screen.[2][3]
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Another feature introduced Darius Gaiden is the ability to capture minibosses, who appear in every stage. Each miniboss has a small, circular ball placed on them that, after receiving enough damage, will detach and float away, causing the miniboss to turn idle. If the player collects the ball, the miniboss will follow and aid the player. After a brief period of time, or the player loses a life, the miniboss will explode. Darius Gaiden Download free Full Version.
Story
Shortly after the events of the first Darius, protagonists Proco and Tiat help refugees from the planet Darius flee from the destruction caused by the Belser Army. They eventually find and set up a temporary colony on a planet named Vadis.[4] Suddenly, Belser rises again and launches a surprise attack on a spaceport on Darius, which was being used to help ferry the remaining Darians to Vadis.[5] The remaining refugees are killed, and Belser sets course for Vadis. A fleet of Silver Hawks are sent to fend off Belser, but are easily annihilated.[6] Once again, Proco and Tiat are given no choice but to fight off Belser once more.
Ports
Darius Gaiden was ported to the Sega Saturn in 1995, to PlayStation in 1996, and to Microsoft Windows[7] in 1997—2004 (the game was ported to the PC by different companies). The Saturn and PC versions were released in Europe and North America by Acclaim and Interplay,[7] respectively. In 2006 it saw re-release on the PlayStation 2, Xbox and PC in volume 2 of «Taito Legends.» Darius Gaiden Game free Download Full Version.
Reception
Darius Gaiden received generally positive reviews. Electronic Gaming Monthly gave the Saturn version a 7.375 out of 10. Though most of their four reviewers felt the game was too hard, they praised the music, the absence of slowdown, and most especially the striking graphics, and recommended the game to shooter fans as "one of the most intense [shooters] out there.[8]" Sega Saturn Magazine gave the Saturn version an 80%, praising the multiple difficulty modes, high challenge, graphics, and multiple paths through the game. Their sole complaint was with the music, describing it as "some fat bint warbling away like an Old Spice advert.[9]"
In a 2014 retrospective, Eurogamer called the game «one of the most confident and accomplished sprite-based games ever imagined». Darius Gaiden game free Download for PC Full Version.
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