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Coming through

>>14676628

BELLS FROGS BIG CHERRIES PETER PAN MAGIC CHEESE

>>14676713

>[AVANT-GARDE FREESTYLE JAZZ INTENSIFIES]

>>14677019

Chronicle Saviours (including Another Chronicle and thus to some extent Burst) offer the best gameplay Darius has to offer, even if it's aesthetically inferior to Gaiden and G. For starters, it actually has a scoring system worth a damn, whereas Gaiden was too straightforward for any significant scoring strategies on top of being held back by items returning random score values, and scoring in G mostly consisted of memorizing where to fire your beam and awkwardly positioning yourself to kill things with your options for an additional score multiplier. Meanwhile in Burst you get a higher multiplier for finishing off the last enemy in a group with your Burst, on top of the Burst being rechargeable by dealing damage and canceling bullets making it more flexible to get higher scores, especially if you're playing with Assault and finishing off the last one with a Burst Finish.

Beam Dueling in G would consist of mashing button, whereas it's a matter of timing in Burst. It feels nowhere as visceral in Burst, but the upside is that the boss doesn't have to be paused for what is essentially a QTE, so bosses continue attacking like normal in Burst and Counterbursting doesn't make you invulnerable towards attacks from up and down.

The Fixed Burst was an afterthought in Burst, but in CS most of the bosses were redesigned to fire more bullets, making good FBurst placement and energy management even more important. Just compare Great Thing in Burst to G.T.B in CS. And even then it doesn't have to be solely used for defense, you can drop one to output more damage when a full Burst doesn't really call for it.

Being able to turn in CS/AC allows for enemies to come from both sides (G-Darius only turned the player ship during select moments), which gets quite fun in the rotating fortress stages, especially in AC with its massive screen space (and some of the rare Twin bosses). The increased screen space in AC also makes the limited shot count of your ships matter (with the tongue-in-cheek exception of the Gaiden and its supercharged autofire) and facilitates even more point-blanking, making it the closest to the originals in this respect, especially when played with Origin.

Some of the later bosses can get quite demanding because of how many different bullet types are used at once, and from how many angles you would get shot at. The bosses in Darius I were just too simplistic because of technical limitations and Gaiden and G had too much of a tendency to reuse the same simplistic spread pattern with some trademark Taito homing bullets thrown in.

The older stages from the PSP game are still present in CS and still kind of average, though the newer additions in CS and AC are actually rather neat, such as the speed-up cube rush, the callback to D1 in zone Z, the aforementioned rotating fortress stage, and some of the hyperspace sections.

>>14677072

>it dumps on the entire idea of losing power upon death

what good did this shit ever do but make recovery more difficult than necessary

>powering up itself has little meaningful variance

the power-up system in all Darius game was equally silly since abstaining from leveling up would involve trying to avoid rotating power-ups, at least in Burst you had more reason to abstain since Missiles would cancel other missile-type bullets and Laser would cancel Laser-type bullets

>>14677764

/breading your own post.

Disgraceful.

>>14678252

And I forgot the arrow.