This game really does have an amazing story. Much of it is told through stage imagery and the music itself. The most poweful part being the last stage. Even though the city below is full of cloned people, they're people no less. At that point in time, Con-Human is just trying to protect them. The song, Quartz, reflects the feelings of conflict and guilt that the pilot feels upon seeing the city.
The final stage can be interpreted as basically the doomsday scenario for the children of Con-Human. And prior to strafing Con-Human's spire, the player characters are shooting down their evacuation ships. Another interpretation is that those ships could be an invasion armada meant to finish off the colonies… but they seem rather fragile compared to the fleet at the Moon.
@@dy031101 Yeees I'm so glad somebody noticed that. Really doomsday scenario is the perfect way of putting it. Con-Human was effortlessly steamrolling over original humanity's fleet when out of nowhere two ships with fleet destroying capabilities pretty much carved a straight path through everything it threw at them. From Con-Human's perspective, the thought of 2 ships so powerful they can defeat an entire fleet is extremely scary.
I've now watched and studied this run 20+ times. Absolutely awesome. I really appreciate you adding the captions as well, provides a ton of valuable insight that would have taken me ages to figure out on my own. Fantastic game and a beautiful run, really well done Jaimers!
what can and can't hit you on that final boss is a little confusing. the fat lasers seem to be below the player and on the same level at different times
It does get a little confusing for sure (much more so in the two sequels), I got turned off from RayStorm just from the cheap feeling hits where I couldn't visually distinguish where they were.
Love this- first memory was kid who was forced to get Sega Saturn in 6th grade, and this was my 2nd game "Galactic Attack". Years later as adult collecting everything I got JPN imports Layer Section I and II for Saturn, plus Ray Crisis for PS1. Now all 3 plus HD are neatly on PS4 as Ray'z Arcade Chronology! The sound effects and Zuntata's songs give such great nostalgia! This is up there with Raiden, Darius, U.N. Squadron, Thunder Force, R-Type as top iconic SHMUP series.
The ending gave me a bad case of The Feels the first time I played it. THE ULTIMATE SUICIDE MISSION. And that last sad shot of the player's cockpit, damaged beyond repair and exposed to space.
Awesome Video, great effort! Ive watched it so many times within the Last year and it has helped me a lot. I can make it to Stage 6 without dying but then loose all my lives at that Boss. This is my favourite stg!
Well usually I'm not fond of self advert but considering this is one of my fav consoles I'll check this out! I was just more used to the blue spiral (the european version of the logo)
26:49 creepy appearing Con-Human with waving effect, but hope the X-Lay will gathered together with Silver-Hawks and captian King Fossil (captured) from Darius series to destroy Con-Human clearly
The rank system and lack of auto fire for the secondary weapon make this one difficult and often frustrating shooter. Still, it was ahead of its time and was one of the few big time shooters ported to the Saturn in the West. I listen to the soundtrack repeatedly.
I believe he's saying something like "Mayday, mayday, get under cover immediately" since all of those defense ships at the end of stage 2 are just getting wiped out before you the wireframe model of the stage 2 boss enters. It's possible that the leaders of the earth space colony probably tried to send a few of their own ships to go to Earth, but they got wiped out from heavy attack.
"Emergency! Emergency! Get out of danger immediately!" upon close inspection, thanks to the arcade's sound test. As ubervirtuoso implied, those are friendly ships being blown to bits in the background before the boss appears. The game over screen shows you originate from one of these ships.
Given how the player explained the scoring system, I wonder if its system also applies in Dariusburst Chronicle Saviors when you pilot the X-Lay? (The name of the ship in this game)
@@momihog Eliminating human and then recreate them in Con-Human vision. Soo every victims that Con-Human killed will ends up cloned back to alive with Con's mindset. pretty sure it was the main goal of Cons.
Came back here sometime after the Ray'z Arcade Chronicle released for Switch, and just realized that you have added commentary for this one. Cheers! Does that mean the new run is coming soon?
Grading the difficulty of each stage with Touhou diff be like: Area 1 and 2: Easy Area 3 and 4: Normal Area 5 and 6: Hard Area 7 and Con-Human: *Lunatic* And yes, i am still waiting for the day a Touhou fangame with proper Rayforce mechanic *I'm a dreameeeeeerrrrrrr*
F3 System can't do any 3D. This is all done via manipulating flat background layers and sprites on a per-scanline base to fake perspective and scale. Depth shading of some backgrounds and sprites further away is achieved by manipulating color palettes on the fly.
I need to get 3million for the trophy but I'm really struggling. You've got 1.6 by the start of stage 3 and I'm at 600k. I get that I really need to chain more links together but I just can't seem to maximise it at all
It's on one of the Japanese Taito Memories releases, and the PC Taito Legends 2. Got this game 3 different ways, that PC TL 2, have all 4 Taito Memories, and got this on Saturn as well. Very satisfying shmup. Have the other 2 games as well, Raycrisis on PS1, and Raystorm on PS1, Taito Legends 2 PS2, and on one of those Memories releases.
![[作業用BGM]レイフォース&レイストーム 楽曲集](/img/n.gif)
This game really does have an amazing story. Much of it is told through stage imagery and the music itself. The most poweful part being the last stage. Even though the city below is full of cloned people, they're people no less. At that point in time, Con-Human is just trying to protect them. The song, Quartz, reflects the feelings of conflict and guilt that the pilot feels upon seeing the city.
That's deep, even for a shooter
WARNING
A huge battleship
CON-HUMAN
Is approching fast
The most ridiculous thing in this game is flirting with depth. I really liked how 2d games can convey the depth and volume of space.
The final stage can be interpreted as basically the doomsday scenario for the children of Con-Human.
And prior to strafing Con-Human's spire, the player characters are shooting down their evacuation ships.
Another interpretation is that those ships could be an invasion armada meant to finish off the colonies… but they seem rather fragile compared to the fleet at the Moon.
@@dy031101 Yeees I'm so glad somebody noticed that. Really doomsday scenario is the perfect way of putting it. Con-Human was effortlessly steamrolling over original humanity's fleet when out of nowhere two ships with fleet destroying capabilities pretty much carved a straight path through everything it threw at them.
From Con-Human's perspective, the thought of 2 ships so powerful they can defeat an entire fleet is extremely scary.
I've now watched and studied this run 20+ times. Absolutely awesome. I really appreciate you adding the captions as well, provides a ton of valuable insight that would have taken me ages to figure out on my own. Fantastic game and a beautiful run, really well done Jaimers!
what can and can't hit you on that final boss is a little confusing. the fat lasers seem to be below the player and on the same level at different times
It does get a little confusing for sure (much more so in the two sequels), I got turned off from RayStorm just from the cheap feeling hits where I couldn't visually distinguish where they were.
The most gorgeous shoot'em up ever made.
Agreed
Absolutely
With one of the most depressing stories ever conceived for a shoot em up.
@@michalander2131 Probably like Ikaruga and Radiant Silvergun (I won't spoil them)
except ray crisis
6:11 ただ一機のX-LAYを降下させるための囮として時間を稼いで全滅していく友軍艦隊…泣けるぜ。
one of the best shmups out there
Love this- first memory was kid who was forced to get Sega Saturn in 6th grade, and this was my 2nd game "Galactic Attack". Years later as adult collecting everything I got JPN imports Layer Section I and II for Saturn, plus Ray Crisis for PS1. Now all 3 plus HD are neatly on PS4 as Ray'z Arcade Chronology! The sound effects and Zuntata's songs give such great nostalgia! This is up there with Raiden, Darius, U.N. Squadron, Thunder Force, R-Type as top iconic SHMUP series.
5:54 JAIMERS PLEASE. WHAT A GOD.
What? Why?
@@eng3d letting that enemy go off-screen but locked-on so once lock-on is released the ship is destroyed. Godlike maneuver
My favorite shmup of all time. Brilliant run! You made it look easy!
The ending gave me a bad case of The Feels the first time I played it.
THE ULTIMATE SUICIDE MISSION.
And that last sad shot of the player's cockpit, damaged beyond repair and exposed to space.
I like when the story end is sad.
Kinda like in Radiant Silvergun, Ketsui and Ikaruga.
名曲
勿体無いけど 神プレイを見ずに、音だけを聞きながら作業してます。
Still one of the all time greatest games ever created. And that's without Zuntata's flawless soundtrack.
Fun fact: ZUN (yes, that ZUN) was a member of zuntata before he made touhou
@@God-ch8lq WHAT?!
@@God-ch8lq That explains UFO-Co from Space Invaders Extreme 2 appearing in one of the Touhou games.
And i am still waiting on the Touhou-fied Rayforce-OST
@@God-ch8lq This explains the name.
So smooth and effective. Just bought it for Saturn, just for the fun (ok, and the soundtrack) ^_^
Awesome Video, great effort! Ive watched it so many times within the Last year and it has helped me a lot. I can make it to Stage 6 without dying but then loose all my lives at that Boss. This is my favourite stg!
Those boss fight explosions are satisfying
2面のGと言う曲が好きです
Ahh yeah. I love me some galactic attack. I used to play the hell out of this game back in the day. Thanks for the upload
Your icon is good
Thank you. It's a dreamcast symbol because I'm starting a dreamcast focused review and longplay channel. You should check it out :)
Well usually I'm not fond of self advert but considering this is one of my fav consoles I'll check this out!
I was just more used to the blue spiral (the european version of the logo)
Oh yeah. I really like the orange but I need to pick up a pal dc for that blue logo
Rayforce/Gunlock/Layer Section/Galactic Attack has a pretty cool name.
WARNING
A huge battleship
CON-HUMAN
Is approaching fast
34:49 Huff... Huff.... I did it... I finally can (System shuts) rest in peace, and so can the world (Dies)
the world? he just blew up earth, son
Not he, she did.
@@burntyper I think that's the point
最後の希望X-LAY
X-LAYを降下させるためだけに囮になる、地球人類最後の残存艦隊
中心部まで侵入し、破壊するのはかつての母星！
作戦成功しても、死して屍拾うものなし
燃えるし泣ける最高の縦シューですね
My all time favourite. The best soundtrack, great gameplay, awesome graphics. I hope I can 1cc it one day... congrats to your achievemt
The music ❤️
Beautiful
Warms my heart to see this gem known by few
in the west maybe. the Taito stuff is pretty well known in Japan.
This game uses Xevious bomb gimmick as the main shooting system. This is genius
Kamui is a good successor to that game
8:59
地上の残骸、これって二面のボスの成れの果てなんでしょうかね。最近気がつきました。何しろプレイしている最中は気を配る余裕などありませんでしたし……
言われて初めて気づいた。
自分も全く余裕無しで遊んでいたので……。
このゲームはステージの繋がりがしっかりと描かれているのも特徴ですよね。
@@喜一-e7e
このゲーム実は面の進行変化がノンストップだったりする
面と面が途切れる事なく続いて行く
他のゲームだと例えばグラディウスシリーズだと面が終わると宇宙空間にリセットされる、ダライアスシリーズだと初代以外次の面のセレクト画面になる、他のゲームで多いのがスコアレポート表示で次面へ場面リセットですね
後、ゲーム画面の中で何気に次のステージが示されてるんですよね
一面だと敵基地の向こうに地球がみえてる、二面では徐々にその地球に近づいて行き地球手前でボス戦で撃破後大気圏突入演出で次は地球での戦いと、三面だと上空や浮遊大陸での戦いの最中に遥か下の地表が見える、四面は地表で戦いその途中地割れが起きて地割れの中に次面の地下都市、五面ではボス登場で地下都市より更に地下が…という感じに
マジだｗ気付かんかったｗ
爆散した破片パーツもそこら中に墜落してるｗ
Feels like this is the motivation for Crimzon Clover
Theodor Fons Likely is.
brings back the nostalgia
I love this soundtrack...
Zun probably worked on this before going independent with the Touhou series.
@@dracmeister The composer of this soundtrack is Tamayo. At 1994, Zun has not yet joined Taito.
@@highspeedinfrared really? Nice 2 know
5:57 Instant Karma
Rayforce's opening aged better than Raystorm's opening.
Great game, it's a shoot'em up ever made i finish after january in 2020
You beat it 1cc ?
この宇宙から始まって地球？の敵の基地に迫っていく感じが大好き。
一応取説等では母星となってる。
後付けや他のシリーズとの整合性を考えてだろうけど。
26:49 creepy appearing Con-Human with waving effect, but hope the X-Lay will gathered together with Silver-Hawks and captian King Fossil (captured) from Darius series to destroy Con-Human clearly
Hell yeah ill pilot either the ARCF-ROTA PLUS or the
R-Gray 1
This game's OST and sound effects have eerie similarities to those of EarthBound and it's freaking me out
２面のGがめちゃくちゃいい曲なのもさることながら道中最後の演出が映える
The rank system and lack of auto fire for the secondary weapon make this one difficult and often frustrating shooter. Still, it was ahead of its time and was one of the few big time shooters ported to the Saturn in the West. I listen to the soundtrack repeatedly.
What is the radio operator saying at around 6:23?
I believe he's saying something like "Mayday, mayday, get under cover immediately" since all of those defense ships at the end of stage 2 are just getting wiped out before you the wireframe model of the stage 2 boss enters. It's possible that the leaders of the earth space colony probably tried to send a few of their own ships to go to Earth, but they got wiped out from heavy attack.
"Emergency! Emergency! Get out of danger immediately!" upon close inspection, thanks to the arcade's sound test. As ubervirtuoso implied, those are friendly ships being blown to bits in the background before the boss appears. The game over screen shows you originate from one of these ships.
Those are the diversion ships that were sent to give the x-lay time to pierce the atmosphere. While sucessful, clearly they themselves didnt make it.
メガドラである程度シューティングにはまってはいたけど
サターンでレイヤーセクションとして販売されたこれには別格にのめり込んだなー
画面に同化するゲーマー感覚もこのゲームで知った
このゲームが悲しいのは人類は既にほとんど存続を諦めてしまっていることなんですよねえ…
ConHumanを破壊しないと宇宙の全生命体の脅威であるという判断から創造主として最後の責任を果たすために絶望的な戦いに挑み、
そして、相討ちになって、もはや敵母星と化してしまった地球と共に滅んでいく…
単純にバッドエンドとも言えないのですが、
ひたすら悲しく、切ない物語です
極僅かのみ脱出できたはずの艦隊、囮で使いつぶしちゃいましたもんねえ
最終作戦で投入されたのは残存人類の95%
一応勝てれば滅亡は回避出来る計算
敗北した場合も地球圏外への脱出プランが発動するのでとりあえず全滅はしない予定
最低限の種馬と女子供を残して2面後半の衛星軌道上艦隊との絶望的な殴り合いに投入されてるんですけどね
活路を開くために死ねってキツい命令ですよね
従える気がしねえ
@@るるるれれれ-g2k
でも、人員・戦力・物資も逼迫しきった状況で
逃げ続けていてもいつかはやられるからなぁ…
I like the BGM from 17:10 to 17:22
Given how the player explained the scoring system, I wonder if its system also applies in Dariusburst Chronicle Saviors when you pilot the X-Lay? (The name of the ship in this game)
Sort of, yeah it does.
4面ボスが斃れて落下するシーンで｢ヴァー！｣というボイスが脳内再生されたのは俺だけじゃない筈。
グラディウス5では死ぬほど｢ヴァー！」出来ますね
神プレイ！
How cool……
Wait, last stage background is city or another place?
It is city inside the core of Earth, mainly housing enslaved scientist
Conhuman converted it
look like to Darius City but....
WARNING
A huge battleship
CON-HUMAN
Is approching fast
@@waibansteinburg8192
Con-human think only of eliminating humans.
Therefore, there is no such thing as capturing hostages or slaves.
@@momihog Eliminating human and then recreate them in Con-Human vision.
Soo every victims that Con-Human killed will ends up cloned back to alive with Con's mindset.
pretty sure it was the main goal of Cons.
Even the game was cancelled, you can still buy it from the original creator/programmer of the game but i heard it was soo expensive.
Came back here sometime after the Ray'z Arcade Chronicle released for Switch, and just realized that you have added commentary for this one. Cheers!
Does that mean the new run is coming soon?
Maestro makes it look easy.
Grading the difficulty of each stage with Touhou diff be like:
Area 1 and 2: Easy
Area 3 and 4: Normal
Area 5 and 6: Hard
Area 7 and Con-Human: *Lunatic*
And yes, i am still waiting for the day a Touhou fangame with proper Rayforce mechanic
*I'm a dreameeeeeerrrrrrr*
I love if more indie shmups would have a lock-on mechanic.
Any tips for beating rayforce with a larger highscore without dying too many times?
omg I had no idea that earth died in this game I think its kind of like raystorm
Is this prequel to raystorm?
No
Raycrisis is a prequel to this game.
Raystorm isn't connected
Raystorm takes place in another timeline, this is the sequel to Raycrisis
Wow...! Is it real 3D? Or is it 2D-based pseudo-3D? I think it's the second. But, it looks FANTASTIC!!!!
2D. All 2D.
It uses scaled sprites
F3 System can't do any 3D. This is all done via manipulating flat background layers and sprites on a per-scanline base to fake perspective and scale. Depth shading of some backgrounds and sprites further away is achieved by manipulating color palettes on the fly.
this game looks way better than its sequels
a little rough with the last boss. what happened there?
aya shameimaru Yeah, and I kept getting a little aggrevated with him. "Just kill him! You are losing lives!"
this game should be called Laser Section instead of Layer! it is great and the music of the 1st stage is beautiful like most of space shmups
The RAY series are the best...
RayForce, RayStorm and RayCrisis
and Raytracers lol
@@QF_Dan72 What's that?
Raycrisis is the only game to feature a TLB in the Ray series
Can I play this game on playstation one
There is a game similar to rayforce, you can try Gdarius, also made by Taito. Super intense, loved that game when I was a kid.
Amazing
MECHANICAL DESIGN BY SENBA TAKATSUNA / T-1008
I wonder how that one "Kamui" fighter would have handled this...
2014 ARCADE
演出がカッコ良かったなぁ
また見に来ました
oh so this is where CCWI took inspiration from
Sssahhhhheeeeiiiittttt there was a game before ray storm
That was my reaction when I saw Radiant Silvergun for the first time as well. "Damn, there was a game before Ikaruga!?"
I need to get 3million for the trophy but I'm really struggling. You've got 1.6 by the start of stage 3 and I'm at 600k. I get that I really need to chain more links together but I just can't seem to maximise it at all
great !!!
that ikaruga feel
This is the first series of the game also the end of the lore
音楽 CHOKKAKU スペル違うっけな ちょっかくって音楽クリエーターがいた記憶がある
これもそんな気がします
ラスボスで遊ぶとは、恐れ入りました。
Ţ̶̛͖̈́ͅḢ̶͎̬Ì̷̢͚̞̪̜̣̄̄͘͘Ś̷̱̕̕͜ ̸̨̼̙̜͓̘̽͋̍̕͝Ỉ̶̟͇̲̔̐̑̔̕Ṡ̵̯̟̹̉͊̌̌ ̴̹͒Ţ̷̫̬̟̔̓̋͘͝Ḩ̸̗̼̭̪̼͋͂́̈́͠Ḙ̸̢̄̄̍̉̚͠͠ ̷̨̥̮̬͕̝̍C̴̨̼̓̊͋͜Ơ̶̧̅̎͛̂̌͘N̸̯̳̈T̵̮̄̾̑R̶̨̯̻͔̫̖̎̅̆Ȍ̸̡̡͚̟͕̗͂̌͘͜L̷̨̨͔͕̤̖̓̄ͅ ̴̡̛̛̼̙̠͖̂̄̊̂͋T̴̢͔̭̻̬̑̈́̍̇̆͝O̵͈̮̟̙̙̔͗͑͝Ẃ̴̨̡̲͖͕͙̱͂͊͂͊̿͛E̴̛͕͕̬̮̓͛̓̀̕R̴̡͙̱̲̣̄̋̐́͋͛̕
̵̢̙̘̗͓̰̥͋͂͗̇͠M̸͈̬̘̼̭̭̉A̶̛̜̩̹̺̐͒̑̒̌K̷̩̀̾̐͊̽̈́E̴̛̻̥̗͉̊̂ͅ ̸͍̟̥͙̅̎̐̅͗̓̕͜Ą̴͎̲̯̙̑͋̔̋̀̃͝ ̷̬͎̌̓̈́̂͐̄̚͜L̴̡̺͙͚͑̓̏̇̐͂̕͜E̷̮̓̓̈́̓̅͘͠F̶̯͔̃͐T̸̛̪͆̑̋̋ ̷̡̛̛̥͙̦̰͙̾̀̑͠Ṯ̶̘̺̭͚́̈̄̃̈̄̐U̶͎͖͉̜̗̾̈́̽̌̀̕͠ͅŘ̶̨̳͔̣̼͂N̶̡̯͖̟̅̋̏̾͠
̸̛̹͌̆̎̐̉͜Ơ̵̧̺͓̬̥̲͜V̸̤̝̰̲̖́̀̽̏͘͝E̴̺̻̜̰͆̅͊̀́Ȓ̶̹̲̥̎̔̒͑̀̐
RaySTorm was my first on the PS1, then RayCrisis, then This on an emulator
1994 TAITO
What system is this on
Arcade - Sega Saturn - IOS & Android
Super arcade home entertainment system
Taito FX-1
Can you beat Shikigami no Shiro III on Extreme-3 difficulty? It's harder than anything...
My friend, you haven't heard of Ketsui, have you?
Border Down is sitting drinking a coffee...
So pissed they removed this from the PS2 version of Taito Legends 2 but put it on the Xbox release. GRRRR!
It's on one of the Japanese Taito Memories releases, and the PC Taito Legends 2. Got this game 3 different ways, that PC TL 2, have all 4 Taito Memories, and got this on Saturn as well. Very satisfying shmup. Have the other 2 games as well, Raycrisis on PS1, and Raystorm on PS1, Taito Legends 2 PS2, and on one of those Memories releases.
Playstation sucks
By the way the musics reminds me of Phantasy Star Online
mix reflex and kamui
Did you just commit a warcrime at the end?
レイストームの旧作？
時系列的にはレイストームの前とか。X-RAYの残骸を回収&解析して出来たのがR-GRAYらしい。
Some of that Samus, I didn't know you play as a chick. Suicide mission, that's sad
Yeah at the end scene you can tell from the status on the hud all the systems are down and that would include life support.
@Channel07 It might of actually made it just out of the major blast range before it blew.
Give us a port for modern systems already!!!
M2 just announced they are porting the Taito Ray trilogy for PS4 and Switch in 2023 :)
@@siontissolid1139 Aaaaah awesome, all I need now is a port for pc (steam)
@@marcelmathes Gunlock + Layer Section but it's expensive....
また地球が破壊されておる…
ゲーセンでやってたけど、ステージ3が限界だったな…
玩野
１面の曲は神
お前も、お前も、お前も！俺のために死ね！のゲームですねw
cool that all three games in the series are available on the PS Store, though they aren't cheap
Beats buying the real PCB. It sells for $500-600 now.
@LamestLameOK
For a used one, definitely. New it was around $1000. The cartridge, not the F3 system board itself.
レイフォースって相対的に見てマイキャラ大きいよね？ 当たり判定もそこそこ大きいし。
NNNNNNNNNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
レイフォース・サンダーフォース・ネビュラスレイがごっちゃになってる人はきっと少なくない
音楽がおかしい
I don't like his unnecessary-no-shot-situation-play style.
It isn't nice just annoying.
youre a fuckin monster XD
one of the best shmups out there