Radiant Silvergun
Live Wire · 2023 · Shoot 'Em Up, Bullet Hell, Top-Down Shooter, Difficult, Shooter
PC
Very Positive93% · 223
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About Radiant Silvergun
＜Story＞
July 14, 2520 AD.
The light emitted by a "stone-like object" excavated from the strata of B.C. enveloped the earth, destroying the human race. Only the four crew members of the space cruiser TETRA and one robonoid barely escaped into satellite orbit. ......
One year later. The TETRA is forced to re-enter the atmosphere because the ship's supplies have finally been depleted. The battle for the survival of the TETRA begins.
＜A highly strategic shooting game＞
The battlefield is a stage with various terrains, including intricate crevices and moving containers, where enemies attack from all directions, up, down, left, and right. Twenty-three bosses await in six highly strategic stages.
There are also secret bonuses that occur when enemies are defeated in a specific order, as well as hidden score items. The key to obtaining a score is to cover all of these items, build your own original attack pattern, and accurately destroy the targeted enemies.
Use weapons that level up in accordance with your score to update your high score!
＜Game Features＞
- Score system specialized for the origin of shooting games.
- Weapons that level up as you defeat enemies.
- 5 difficulty levels for beginners to enjoy.
- Story mode with a strong message.
- Beautiful 3D graphics.
- Sound that colors the game world by Hitoshi Sakimoto, who is highly acclaimed both in Japan and overseas.
- Game mode with the rules of "Ikaruga," the second installment of Project RS.
- CLASSIC / MODERN mode that can be enjoyed with different viewing angles for SegaSaturn version and XboxLiveArcade version.
- Compatible with keyboard operation.
- Online ranking to compete with rivals from around the world.
＜New Function＞
- Compatible with all Xbox / Nintendo Switch / PlayStation controllers
- CLASSIC / MODERN mode that can be enjoyed with the aspect ratio of the Sega Saturn version and Xbox Live Arcade version
- Compatible with keyboard operation. One keyboard can be used by two people, and can also be used in conjunction with a controller.
＜Notes on controllers＞
When playing with a SWITCH controller, be sure to set "Nintendo Button Layout" to "OFF".
＜Notes on play environment＞
If you are using a PC with the minimum system requirements, you may experience processing delays while playing.
We recommend playing on a PC that meets the recommended system requirements, including a graphics board.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Radiant Silvergun is essentially one of the greatest shoot-em-ups ever made, every time I come back to it I am easily reminded as to why it has such a legendary reputation. Released in 1998 in Arcade and on the Sega Saturn from incredible game makers Treasure Software (Gunstar Heroes, Ikaruga and Silhouette Mirage). This modern release features updated visuals, details and resolutions as well as a quality of life features not found in the original release. Your ship starts off weak but will become more powerful with a permanent classic XP based weapon system where your arsenal grows stronger the more you use each specific gun and will remain more powerful for each subsequent playthrough. It’s definitely on the slightly tougher side—don't expect to breeze through it on your first try, but as your weapons become more powerful and additional credits are unlocked you will progress further and further, as your skills increase you will be able you face higher difficulties. Enemies and bosses will attack with new patterns and additional weapons allowing each play through to feel new and different. The presentation is top-tier for its time and even by todays standards among the best aroun…18 found this helpful
Pretty unsatisfying port. There are frequent and very noticable hiccups in framerate. This should be as smooth as butter. It's literally worse than playing the game in an emulator like SSF. It may well be just a wrapper around one. The stylish menu of the Saturn version is gone, replaced with something lower effort than most games debug menus. Yikes. And if you've never played before you wouldn't have a clue how the game works. It's very bad at presenting vital information. Giant deadzone of about 30% on the left stick makes the movement controls very unresponsive and this can't be configured. I do feel like there's a bit of input lag. And the game is maybe running slightly too fast? Not 100% on either but it does feel off somehow. It has really bad outdated scaling options. Nearest neighbour or bilinear. No pixel antialias option so any scale other than 100% looks messed up. For some reason the default aspect ratio is distorted (as you can see from the moon not being round) and you have to choose "classic" to view the game normally. Sigh...8 found this helpful
for as good as treasure's action games are it baffles me tremendously that their shmups are so awful lol. needlessly convoluted controls, horribly unstable balancing, terrible camera behaviour, memorization centric level design. i just hate the way they design these. i feel like no normal person played it before they sent it out there. the port's good, at least? runs fine. looks good. sure. absolutely hate the game though.2 found this helpful
radiant silvergun is a great game. this port is not. shame that quality of life for games is so taboo now, considering how ikaruga's pc port is much more polished.2 found this helpful
♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ i went through the entire game with credit feeding to see the ending and then i played it like 2x over again and again and only NOW i realize you need to chain to upgrade your weapons jesus i got like level 10 at the very end wondering why this ♥♥♥♥'s impossible lol
Cleared the game without continues. It was a nightmare. I loved every second of it.
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