Rendering Ranger™: R² [Rewind]

I'd never played nor heard of this game until today, but I like Turrican so I figured I'd give it a shot. Long story short, it's amazing. Pure badassery from beginning to end, and even with the rewind feature it's tougher than a two dollar steak. I tip my cap all the way to the floor to anyone who played this on the original hardware and completed it. Unreal. Give it a shot please! FULL PLAYTHROUGH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SAdwLmwWw-Y

Rare SNES or rather Super Famicom classic brought to modern platforms including PC. Thanks Limit Run Games, Ziggurat and Rainbow Arts! Plays well and looks great.

[h1] ドイツの伝説的ゲームクリエイターManfred Trenzによる良作ACT/STG [/h1] スーパーファミコンで発売された、アクションシューティングの移植。 元々タリカンシリーズや、KatakisなどのACT/STGで海外で人気のある開発者の作品だったが、日本でしか発売されずプレミアがついている。 魂斗羅の様なアクションパートは難易度が絶妙に練られており、体力が設定されているがゴリ押しは通用せず油断で被弾や罠にハマる事もしばしば、ある程度の攻略の覚えは必須、ボスも攻撃パターンを把握しないと突破しづらくなっている。 強力なボムは時間で回復し3つまでストック可能、ガンガン使って行こう。 出し惜しむと物量で押されたり死亡時のパワーダウンで戦闘が苦しくなる場面もある。 STGパートも体力性となっているが、耐久力で受ける様な理不尽な被弾を強いられる部分は少なく、きちんと避けないと死ぬバランスになっている。 日本のサンダーフォースやR-type、グラディウスの影響かな？と思われる部分もちらほら、思わずニヤリとしてしまうだろう。 道中テキストによるストーリ―の説明は無いが、攻撃された母星→敵の基地や艦隊→敵母星の都市群→本拠地の中枢へと一連の繋がりを感じさせる物になっており演出面でも良く出来ている様に思う。 細かい部分で分かりづらい箇所や、高難易度の箇所もあるが、全体を通して丁寧に作られていると感じる部分が多く、遊んでて非常に楽しい作品でした。 ※起動時タイトル選択画面でウィンドウモードに設定すると稀に起動しなくなることがある模様？ゲーム自体は最高。

WOW!!!! I was super shocked when I found out that this game got a rerelease. For those who don't know, this is one of those games that pushed a game console to it's limit. In this case, the SNES. Some games on SNES would have special chips for graphical effects (Like Mega Man X2 and X3, which uses the CX4 Chip, creating Wire Frames for certain bosses.) and required some additional PIN connectors because of it. Google image it and you will see what I mean. Anyway, so this impressive (and expensive) Super Famicom (Japanese only) exclusive game has two graphic styles: one is the more traditional "2D animated" look and the other is the Donkey Kong Country-styled prerendered 3D graphics look. I should point out that the person behind the Turrican series, Manfred Trenz, was behind this title. A quick fact: the Turrican series was known for pushing the limits of their respective games' consoles (Mega Turrican is a great example because some of the effects used in that game were basically stuff that the SNES would do such as rotation, that weird low resolution effect that a lot of the SNES games loved to do, and scaling.). So you see that this game has two modes: Run and Gun and Horizontal Shoot-em up. Your wondering: what genre is this game mostly use? Well, it's half RNG and the other is HSU. There are 9 levels in this game and it will be going back and forth on them. All I can say is get good. If you are not a fan of either of these, this is a game you might want to pass on. Gameplay wise it's pretty good. I do have a couple of problems with it though. One, like the Turrican titles, you can't really tell sometimes when you are taking damage. A sound effect would really help instead of a quick flicker letting you know you got hurt (the ship shakes a little but sometimes you aren't paying attention to it because of obstacles in front of you). The other complaint I have is for the Shoot em up sections, you can change speed via select button but I can't tell what speed I am at because the game doesn't say which one you are at. So I have to move the ship and see what speed I am at. Now clearly, the original developers are probably not around anymore, so I can't make any recommendations to them saying "fix this and fix that." Do I like this game? OH HELL YEAH I LOVE IT! This is one of those games that I would of called a classic had it been released here (the Western version would of been called "Targa," which sounds like a main villian of an old 80s cartoon (but not in a good way)). If you like Turrican or Contra and like Shoot em ups, get this game! you will not regret it.

Good game, really enjoy the run n gun gameplay, picks up a gear for the shoot em up sections which are my favourite. The emulation is decent, a few flickering sprites but nothing bad. The package is a bare bones affair with bog standard options like rewind, save and load. The crt filter is really poor. The game works perfect on Steamdeck. Its a classic game which is one of the harder/expensive titles to obtain. Its well worth the asking price even if it is a bare bones package.

※このレビューは「資料価値」の観点は極力排除して書いています。 [strike]というかそこを求める方はもうこれ読まずに買って遊んでると思います。[/strike] 日本国外で人気のあったシリーズの精神的後継作がなぜか日本でだけ販売され、恐ろしくプレミアがついていたスーパーファミコン用のアクションシューティングが復刻されたものです。 過去に「タリカン」というゲームシリーズを製作したスタッフがだいたい集まって作られたものです。概ね魂斗羅やメタルスラッグの系統みたいな感じです。あと完全な横STGステージが挟まったりもします。 若干敵配置やゲームバランスに大味なところは見受けられますが、 基本的にはアクション面・STG面ともにパターン構築と丁寧なクリアリングさえすれば先に進めるような出来にはなっており、 慣れれば群がる敵を雑に一蹴する爽快なゲームプレイを楽しめるかと思います。 ただ、今のところ次のような不満点を感じています。 (さすがに実機版を触った事がないので実機由来の現象なのか移植によるものなのかはわかりません) ・L/Rボタンを押したときの射線変更が入りにくい アクション面で十字キー入力をしていない状態で、Lを押すと前斜め上に、Rを押すと前斜め下にその場で射線変更できるのですが、これがやけに入りにくい気がします。他の入力はそれなりにキビキビと反応してくれるのですがそれらだけ押してからのタイムラグが大きいような。 ・全体的に背景物の区別がしにくい 本作はほとんどの画像がプリレンダCGで作られているのですが、背景まで美麗に作り込まれているせいで足場と穴のコントラストにほぼ差がなく、「そこが足場かどうか」というのを初見で見破るのが困難です。 正直落ちて覚えるしかありません。 ・火力が足りない スタート時・死亡後復活時は武装の強化段階が初期段階に戻るのですが(少なくとも難易度NORMALでは武装そのものは失われません)、 その状態だとアイテムキャリアーを破壊するのにも難儀するくらい火力不足です。 敵が多い場所で死亡してしまうとアイテムキャリアーを破壊する余裕がないのに破壊しないとまともに先に進めない状態になり、メガウェポンを切らざるを得なくなりまたジリ貧になって死亡する……みたいな負のサイクルに入ります。 幸いにも回復アイテムがよく出るゲームなので早々死にはしませんが、後半面では一回死んでしまったら残機がいくらあっても終わりくらいの気持ちでプレイしたほうがいいでしょう。 なので、リリース直後のバージョンを遊んだ現状では気持ちとしてギリギリおすすめできない方が勝つかな……というところです。 「プレミアソフトだ」という部分以外で気になった方は、Steamで配信されているゲームではないですが、先に実質的前作のコレクションソフトである「タリカンアンソロジー」を触ってから戻ってきた方が色々と楽しめるかな、と思います。

TLDR: Play Contra this game sucks ass! I love classic games, but this one was all youtuber hype and graphics, but the stages, enemies, and somewhat the controls just suck or are super boring. The graphics are not worth looking at in order to suffer from boring music, stages, enemies, and balance...my goodness if I bought this from Funcoland back in the day, I'd ask for a refund; IT SUCKS!

A classic. Stand aim works like Super Metroid. L1, R1. Enjoy!

Rendering Ranger: R² é um relançamento moderno do clássico cult de ação side-scroll dos 16-bits que une run ’n’ gun e fases de shoot ’em up com visual retrô atualizado. Desenvolvido por Manfred Trenz e raro originalmente no Super Famicom, agora chega globalmente com filtros, sistema de save e recurso de “rewind”. O jogo se destaca pela estética nostálgica marcante e ritmo frenético, com nove níveis intensos e chefes enormes. Muitos elogiam sua fidelidade ao espírito retro e sensação técnica sólida, mas a dificuldade old-school pode frustrar jogadores casuais. Contudo, há críticas à ausência de inovações mais profundas: hitboxes e design de inimigos podem parecer rígidos, fases longas repetitivas e a música é simples, o que afeta a experiência geral. Alguns usuários relatam bugs na versão Steam (crashes), então potencial instabilidade pode aparecer. No conjunto, é um título divertido para fãs de ação retrô e curiosos por história dos games, mas pode não agradar todos os públicos modernos. ....... \_☠_ ▄▂_ .........[█|||███████]▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▄▃▂ ..__▂▅█ Mafia do Retrogame █▅▄▃▂ I███████████████████████████] ...◥⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙▲⊙◤ CANAL MAFIA DO RETROGAME - YOUTUBE @mafiadoretrogame https://www.youtube.com/@mafiadoretrogame GAMEPLAY ATÉ ZERAR! https://youtu.be/3KGlPc8Wqic

Okay, to WHO THE HELL EVER actually** beat this game, legit, is a liar. Between stages 6 and 7 is becomes quite apparent that you're at the final boss. I mean, considering how difficult it was to even get to those bosses. Stage 8 and 9 are SADISTIC. I could *not* imagine someone constantly putting quarters in this thing and actually came out happy they've played it. The rewind feature is, hardly helpful. This game is so stretched out and the levels to squeeze through the worlds smallest tunnels. And the worst part, after you lose all your lives out of frustration, even with using rewind. There is no continue. Nope, just a straight up GAME OVER. Okay, ouch.....I love my Shmups...but this is terrible.