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Darius Force | |
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Developer(s) | Taito |
Publisher(s) | Taito[1] |
Composer(s) | Kiyoshi Kusatsu, Yoshio Watanabe[1] |
Platform(s) | Super NES |
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Genre(s) | Horizontal scrolling shooter |
Mode(s) | Single-player |
SNES - Darius Twin - The #1 source for video game sprites on the internet! Description: Darius Twin is a Action/Shooter video game published by Taito Corporation released on November 1, 1991 for the SNES.
Darius Force (ダライアスフォース, Daraiasu Fōsu), known as Super Nova in North America, is a horizontal scrolling shooter for the Super Famicom/SNES, released in 1993 and is part of the Darius series.
Gameplay[edit]
One main difference between this game and the rest of the Darius games is that the player can choose one of three Silver Hawks to play. The green one is the Silver Hawk of Darius. The blue one is the Silver Hawk of Darius II. The red one is a new prototype of Silver Hawk that exists only in this game.
There are three power-ups in this game, which can be obtained in three ways:
- Destroying a complete formation of ships like in Darius II and Darius Twin or amoebas.
- Destroying a flashing meteor during a meteor rain.
- Destroying a futuristic cage on the floor and/or ceiling of an area.
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The power-ups for this game are the red bubble (shot and bomb power up), the blue bubble (shield regenerate and level up), and the green bubble (randomly gives a bonus point or an extra ship). There is also a special power up that can destroy all enemies on screen if it's destroyed (like Darius II) or can make the Silver Hawk shoot a powerful laser beam if its grabbed by the player.
There is no power up bar, which means that if a Silver Hawk is destroyed, the shots and bombs are powered down to the minimum level. Also, when the player loses a ship on a stage, it is returned to the 'check point' (not identify in game) of that stage, if the ship has lost during a boss also return the last 'check point' before the boss appear.
Like Darius Twin, the player uses (by default) the Y button for shot and the B button for dropping bombs. As long as the player keeps pressed both buttons, the shots are powered down one level. The player can switch between bombs and side laser guns by pressing the R button.
The stages map for this game is very different of the rest of the Darius games. This map contains 15 stages, but only allows the player to take the forward or up paths, until the player reaches the L, N or O stage. Each one of those three stages contains its own boss and ending.
References[edit]
External links[edit]
- Super Nova at MobyGames
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Horizontal scrolling shooter Rating(s)0301.Darius Twin is the first home console installment of Taito long running Darius series. Like all Darius, the enemies ship look like marine creature. The 'Twin' in the title likely come from its multiplayer mode.StoryThe planet Orga is attacked by the evil armada of the space dictator Belser. The heroes embark in their 'Silver Hawks' ship to battle Belser.GameplayThe Silver Hawk battle the boss 'Dual Shear SP'.The ship have three major feature, Laser, Sidearm and Shield. The player can upgraded these systems by picking up powerup icons (Red for shot, green for sidearm and blue for shield.), one icons will immediately powerup either sidearm or laser while the shield take five icons to upgrade. Two type of icons also exist, an orange one which give an extra life and a yellow one which destroy all enemy on-screen.
A noticeable feature of the game is the death-penalty. Unlike most shooter, the ship don't lose power in his weapons after dying.
However, there is no continue, If all lives are lost, the player must start over from the beginning.The branching path system.The branching path feature has been kept. However, it has been simplified heavily.
There is only 12 stages, for a total of 24 possible paths.
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