Iridion 3D

I really liked the game, as this is a digital version of the GameBoy Advance title, and with the save states I can finally win against Mainframe in Hard difficulty (mwahahaha!)

Barebones port of a Game Boy Advance launch shmup title with a unique 3D perspective. It has an especially amazing soundtrack and visuals for a GBA game, and although it is quite short and not that hard in the game department, it still offers memorable levels and bosses (especially the last one).

I just started playing it and oh boy, it is pretty nice, I love this early 3D games that the GBA got, it´s kinda cool to see how the developers managed to almost achive 3d grafics on a 2d specialized console. The port seems to run fine, the only thing I would love to see is the addition of some shadders so it can look more like crt, but that is just personal preference.

Iridion 3D is an extremely simple, but a great and efficient shoot'em up! Some stage levels can be cheesed by simply staying on the lowest part of the screen holding the shooting button and only dodging incoming debris horizontally. Unlike in many other shmups, shooting every single enemy is not viable, you're meant to dodge the majority of obstacles and reach the end in one piece instead. Bosses do require some level of skill and logical thinking on how to defeat and dodge the bullet hell that ensues. In my opinion, it's the coolest part of this game! Since I was trying to complete the game without cheating, I wrote down the password codes on a sheet of paper. At Stage 7, I lost all my lives and had to input the level code to go back to where I was! I never thought I would unironically use this feature on a retro game, but here we are. I have to say, the fire dragons coming out of the lava looked pretty cool in this level. The code I had to input was Q5KDVBZSP.

Yeah, Iridion 3D was not a very fun game even back when it was originally released. Most 3d space rail shooting games have a slight problem with the difficulty in judging distances when there aren't enough obvious points of reference in the game-world. This can make basic things such as dodging feel rather imprecise. However, most games in this genre also include additional mechanics that re-introduce a level of finesse to the experience. Not so in the case of Iridion 3D: The only mechanics are shooting directly forward and avoiding enemies and their projectiles, and the ambiguous 3d hitboxes run rampant through the entire game. At least the game still looks nice, even when divorced from the context of the primitive handheld hardware that it was originally designed for.

One of my favorite childhood shooter games. Had it as a kid back in the rom/emulator days, then I bought a copy for the GBA, now as an adult, bought it again for PC. Graphics were amazing then, even hold up well to retro-style graphics today. Game is difficult now as it was back then, but its got a lot of replayability and a lot of fun. The soundtrack is also as awesome as I remember it.

MY CHILDHOOD!!!

I got this game in the very early 2000s at KB games (remember that?) in the under $5.00 bin with my dad. It was a fun and simple game and definitely killed time playing this.

GBA 게임을 포팅한 것으로 알고 있는데, 에뮬 게임을 PC 포팅할 떄의 게임 편의성 같은 것이 아무것도 없습니다. 그 흔한 임의 저장 없이, 저장도 스테이지를 클리어할 때의 코드를 입력해야 됩니다. 화면 옵션도 버튼 변경도 아무 옵션도 없어요. 또, 제 경우에는 게임 패드로 플레이하는데, 아날로그 스틱으로는 정상적인 조작이 안되서 십자버튼으로 플레이해야 하더군요.

as an original GBA owner of this game, its nice to see this game preserved in some capacity for the modern day . i will mention a few reviews here bring up the emulator chugging hard when too much is happening , but this is mostly playable; and gives newer gens an idea of what we grew up with . its not perfect but i want more people to try this and hopefully push fore a modern remake of this game. Majesco , please remake this game! it would be so cool for it to be truly 3D, and not sprite 3D