It depends on what you're after.
At $29.99. It has been as low as $8.99.
- Controls: 24 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Co-op: 8 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Multiplayer: 5 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 39 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Difficulty: 26 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 15 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 535 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 250 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
-Raiden IV Overkill had full controller support, but this game has Partial Controller Support; Why?
Basically this is more of a Story-driven version of Raiden compared to the prior arcade titles in the series-the actual gameplay is similar to Raiden 3 & 4 but with some nice new options, like being able to choose the specific versions of each power-up you want, a sort-of-co-op assist feature, and branching storyline paths which (I guess) are detemined by your skills.
I really want to like this system as it is an interesting innovation, the only major issue being that it is reliant on players being online, and sadly, it's eventually going to end up becoming completely useless, as Arcade STGs are very much niche, more so today than any other game, especially in the west.
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Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $29.99. The lowest we've tracked is $8.99.
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We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.
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