Darius Extra - Stage 1

For Intergalactic Shmuppreciation Month 2010, this is Darius Extra.

Darius (ダライアス) is the first game in Taito's big fish series, where you battle through 7 stages, and have the option to choose the next stage after the boss is beaten.
The first game featured 3 screens next to each other, creating an extra wide screen for the player. This was very unique, but made the arcade cabinets very large.
Darius has really fantastic music created by Zuntata, not only does it sound great, the music is related to what the type of stage it is. Also the Final Boss music is used in the end credits of G.Darius.


The first Darius game was a little too easy in the arcades, so Taito ramped the difficulty on Darius 2, and also remade Darius, as Darius Extra.. and made it much much harder than the original version. Also this version gives an Extend bonus at the end of the game (1 million per life), to stop people checkpoint milking the final boss.
For a rather difficult challenge, I play the harder version. :D

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Gaming

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• Darius
• Taito
• shmup
• superplay
• replay
• Video
• Game
• ダライアス

[KiethSomataw99]

what would you think of a darius game in which if you die, you weapon, bomb, and shield levels are reset to start but you drop all the powerups you picked up so you can get them back

[Bloodreign1]

I like the PCE CD version of this one, the action gets packed into 1 screen sure, but the redbook audio is awesome. The action's pretty frantic as well as you don't have 3 screens worth of space to move in, but in the end it was a solid port of a great arcade game.

[somahiru]

I know right?

it´s so satisfiying, and soometimes even more, like with Golden Ogre, he splits in parts and then BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM....

so awesome

[Outshinedsg]

The 3 screen configuration really lends this game a monumental character... the play area looks huge!

I miss Darius Gaiden's amazing boss explosions though. It's not quite as satisfying if they just descend to the bottom of the screen without exploding like a supernova =).

[TheCardBoardKid]

opps, i always thought it meant to not miss any enemies. lol my bad. Great job!

[Smraedis]

@TheCardBoardKid No Miss means to not get hit, as in no deaths