11:46 Fun fact: Even if you don't shoot the big plane, it'll still crash anyways (I was curious what would happen to see if it managed to successfully launched but nope that didn't happen lol.) Notice how the left thruster is wobbly because the preparation for the launch wasn't completely done. Probably because they were in a hurry to get out of there ASAP 😆
Used to remember playing this with my brother when we come home from school. Dropped our bags and grabbed some lose changes then we'd head to the arcade with our uncle driving us there, this gives good memories.. Well except for him taking every fucking power up on the goddamn screen but y'know, still good fun
Small but great detail in this game: when the stage stop scrolling, your plane will activate its VTOL mode, and back to normal mode when the stage started to move again
My father has played this masterpiece at an arcade and went through it in charlie mission without running out of lives and using a continue. Somehow, it was also a little bit of an inspiration for him to actually introduce me to Newgrounds like that considering the pixel artwork, enjoyment and challenges. That was even before he had me as a newborn baby. Yes, he has already revealed it to me like that and he has also explained me that he was able to go through the entire game without running out of lives because of his incredible skills and efforts and not his adult age.
Still one of the greatest SHMUPs of all time. Even if Blackbird is disproportionately difficult compared to the bosses after it and the TLB is disappointing imo.
I remember... I once got REALLY into Raiden 2. Like, I played it all the time. I couldn't really get super far with each life/credit, but I kept pushing. I remember the last time I played the game, I had reached the boss of Level 4. Damn... can't believe I was about halfway. No way I'm ever gonna get close to good enough to play the secret boss. Never gonna happen.
01 Ground Crawler 02 Walkers 03 Albatross 04 Battle Axe 05 Thunder Fortress 06 Black Bird 07 Graphite 08 Huge Satellite Finale Boss - 09 Mother Haven Extra Boss - 10 Nodule Ending ____________________________ The List Of Bosses In Raiden DX
So Part two of the 3 different Raidens playing Raiden games: Transformer Train Combiner Raiden plays this game, no miss, while MK Raiden and MGS Raiden cheer on.
@@Mike14264 not sure if I used the word correctly but basically the bosses in Raiden II seem to perfectly correlate to the bosses in the original game, the first boss is 2 giant tanks (one on a rail and one with legs) but both virtually have the same attack, the second boss are both battleships on water, both games have a boss in the vein of a temple-aesthetic, they both have bosses which travel in a huge rocket before setting off, both games have a massive tank with a large middle nozzle, and most importantly stage 5 returns
Clearly the dev team's inspiration peaked with Blackbird. Everything after it is easier and far less awesome. Also that is the lamest true last boss in shmup history. Yet still, this game is amazing.
Playing raiden on max difficulty, feels like the game its in slowmotion and bullets are at 2.0x speed. Also I love the 5th boss fight, it is so insane and cool lookink ship launch into space, makes all the others bosses feel boring.
Ngl if i were to be that pilot, destroying those bosses would get boring as f#ck knowing i could dodge all those bullets and i have nothing else to do than hover, dodge, and shoot. 🤣
![Raiden II (1993) Arcade - 2 Players [TAS]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/dZGjgdsfzY4/mqdefault.jpg)
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Boss list:
00:20 00 Ground Crawler
02:32 01 Walkers
04:40 02 Albatross
06:41 03 Battle Axe
08:39 04 Thunder Fortress
11:40 05 Black Bird
15:49 06 Graphite
17:08 07 Huge Satellite
18:26 Final Boss - Mother Haven
20:42 Extra Boss - Nodule
El albatross siempre me gusto esa nave 😁
The Nodule is my favorite boss
22:09 No Ending
I love & prefer pixel-style, pre-modern 3D Raiden games because of the details they have on the background and the environmental damages.
11:46
Fun fact: Even if you don't shoot the big plane, it'll still crash anyways (I was curious what would happen to see if it managed to successfully launched but nope that didn't happen lol.)
Notice how the left thruster is wobbly because the preparation for the launch wasn't completely done. Probably because they were in a hurry to get out of there ASAP 😆
Used to remember playing this with my brother when we come home from school. Dropped our bags and grabbed some lose changes then we'd head to the arcade with our uncle driving us there, this gives good memories..
Well except for him taking every fucking power up on the goddamn screen but y'know, still good fun
What a fantastic memory, buddy.
Small but great detail in this game: when the stage stop scrolling, your plane will activate its VTOL mode, and back to normal mode when the stage started to move again
And Blackbird seems to engage its VTOL as well in it's final configuration since it os front facing you, no?
Raiden 2 = Original Version
Raiden DX = Update Version
Raiden X = Fan-made update version
My father has played this masterpiece at an arcade and went through it in charlie mission without running out of lives and using a continue. Somehow, it was also a little bit of an inspiration for him to actually introduce me to Newgrounds like that considering the pixel artwork, enjoyment and challenges. That was even before he had me as a newborn baby.
Yes, he has already revealed it to me like that and he has also explained me that he was able to go through the entire game without running out of lives because of his incredible skills and efforts and not his adult age.
Still one of the greatest SHMUPs of all time. Even if Blackbird is disproportionately difficult compared to the bosses after it and the TLB is disappointing imo.
Blackbird, is both pretty, dynamic and way more visually appealing imo, makes the rest of the bosses feel pretty dull, static, giant behemots.
The original game had memorable and unique bosses, while II kind of just has a bunch of modified variants of tanks @@griegomamey4624
The detail on the background, what a well polished game!
11:58
This boss blew my mind as a kid, the fact that the the stage eventually goes up into the atmosphere was AWESOME
The launching sequence is also cool
The beginning of the blackbird fight is hilarious
Straight up fires the burners in a panic and blows up one of its own engines lol.
The extra boss is basically T-1000 in tank form
I didn't know that there was an extra boss. Did they remove that in Raiden 2? Or do i have to play the game in higher difficulty?
@@GaladrielHV it's in Raiden DX. An updated version of Raiden II
I remember... I once got REALLY into Raiden 2. Like, I played it all the time. I couldn't really get super far with each life/credit, but I kept pushing. I remember the last time I played the game, I had reached the boss of Level 4. Damn... can't believe I was about halfway.
No way I'm ever gonna get close to good enough to play the secret boss. Never gonna happen.
Boss theme is really mindfvck.
01 Ground Crawler
02 Walkers
03 Albatross
04 Battle Axe
05 Thunder Fortress
06 Black Bird
07 Graphite
08 Huge Satellite
Finale Boss - 09 Mother Haven
Extra Boss - 10 Nodule
Ending
____________________________
The List Of Bosses In Raiden DX
So Part two of the 3 different Raidens playing Raiden games: Transformer Train Combiner Raiden plays this game, no miss, while MK Raiden and MGS Raiden cheer on.
With Virtual ON Raiden readying up Raiden Fighters Aces for the next playthough.
Black Bird「ｵｯﾌﾞｪ!もう来やがった。まだ左が終わってないのに！ええい、もうこのまま発進してまえ！」
Love these shoot em up types, where the big foes get gradually more on fire!
Always looks cool....
OMG THIS IS THE GAME IVE BEEN SEARCHING FOR 16 YEARS since my first pc got busted. i thought its name was Defender or Defendor
22:59 Seriously Is this Game Never gonna give us an Ending?!
the ending only Just land into Carrier. But it take off again for Next Loop.
In my personal opinion I think that Black Bird is the hardest boss in this game 🤯
Good one.
12:01
左エンジンがプルプルしだして壊れる所すき
I never knew a stage 0 existed, plus everything in Raiden 2 is an allegory to Raiden 1
An allegory? How so?
@@Mike14264 not sure if I used the word correctly but basically the bosses in Raiden II seem to perfectly correlate to the bosses in the original game, the first boss is 2 giant tanks (one on a rail and one with legs) but both virtually have the same attack, the second boss are both battleships on water, both games have a boss in the vein of a temple-aesthetic, they both have bosses which travel in a huge rocket before setting off, both games have a massive tank with a large middle nozzle, and most importantly stage 5 returns
@@turrican3839 yeah, after seeing a video of the first game's bosses, I see what you mean. Especially the first fight, that one's just blatant.
@@Mike14264 oh yeah and another thing, many of the enemy types are shared too
@@turrican3839 yeah, I especially remember the choppers and red-eyed tanks.
Clearly the dev team's inspiration peaked with Blackbird. Everything after it is easier and far less awesome. Also that is the lamest true last boss in shmup history. Yet still, this game is amazing.
i wonder if someone got electricuted while making the thunder fortress
Well it is in a desert, and sand deserts are notoriously horrible for grounding.
"Everyone was hurt in the making of this building"
I remember playing it on Ps1. Ah....the memories 😓😓.
i still remembered playing this game from late night until morning,about 4-6 times completing all stages
I played it on my dad's old computer... Good times.
Excelent
I can't find the video where you fight against golems and giant magma salamander
Raiden 2 is still probably my favorite raiden game. I still prefer sprite based games over modern games.
Playing raiden on max difficulty, feels like the game its in slowmotion and bullets are at 2.0x speed.
Also I love the 5th boss fight, it is so insane and cool lookink ship launch into space, makes all the others bosses feel boring.
_looks at amount of bullets_
Yeah, boring... uh, yeah...
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@@Mike14264 I mean, design wise, they all look boring. In terms of difficulty they are tough af.
play Raiden Fighter (Arcade) No Damges all bosses
I wonder if Black Bird inspired Battle Garegga's 5th boss...
Ah yes raiden one of the all time heavy hitters of shmups along side games like dodonpachi gradius and more
Ngl if i were to be that pilot, destroying those bosses would get boring as f#ck knowing i could dodge all those bullets and i have nothing else to do than hover, dodge, and shoot. 🤣
I need to be Ultra Instinct Goku to play this game
The Nintendo Switch has one version Raiden IV.. is it the sequel?
HELL YEA
Where can I get/buy this game?
最後のボス、何アレ？アーケード版限定のボス？
Looks like Raiden II.
Next thign everyone soon find out is black bird is the shooters brother.
sooo much freaking attacks to evade. wtf.
my apologies, but you are using hack in 18:06, is clear the ship was hit.
Hardest shooter game when im still kid
But after cleared all touhou game this look like child play for me
Reeeeeeally dragged the fights out on this one.
Hmmmm interesting 🧐
Wow this is so awesome and😮😎
parivara boss
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9:51 11:21 12:21 13:38 15:34
16:52 18:11 20:13 21:36 19:07
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Ending