Ok, just my opinion, but... I think the "vanilla" game really SUCKS. The graphics are soooo boring... Backgrounds look like a discolored mess and sometimes you think you might distinguish what might look like some buildings but you're not sure... Maybe just some rusty metal junkyard... ugly, boring, depressing. Thanks god the enemies design balances this... And I'm talking mostly about bosses, cos regular enemies are boring as well. Speaking of them, boss fights take FOREVER. Average levels are VERY short and take a few minutes to complete, while a boss will take more than 10 minutes, repeating the same patterns over and over and oveeeer....uuuuugh... The 3D is VERY basic, which is a shame nowadays... Old 2D shmups from the 90s looked so much better than this... (Dodonpachi😍) I still have to get used to the weird hitboxes... And finally, I just don't like the "line-shaped" bullets, and there are a LOT in this game... Buuuuuut... The DLCs of this game... might be the best DLCs I have ever seen in any game.😲 That's where the gameplay starts shining. Basically, the DLCs let you play with ships of other shmups (which are in general, I'm sorry to day, MUCH better than Darius Burst), like Dodonpachi Resurrection (OH MY GOD) or Deathsmiles, for example. Not only this, they also added some levels which were specifically designed for these new ships DLCs!!! And again, no need to say, they're actually better than the vanilla levels. Also, of course, you don't necessarily have to use these news ships in their own levels, you can combine them however you want. All of this content make this game one of the BIGGEST shmup ever!! (unless I'm wrong, I don't think I ever saw another shmup with this concept. I think this is unique!😲) Special mention for the marvelous music.😍 There are no words to describe it. It's not even my style, but it just feels magical. (in BOTH the vanilla game and the DLCs, which do add some remixes for some fo them) Seriously, if you're like me and only tried the original game without any DLCs and were disappointed, give it another chance and download this version with all the DLCs, it's incredibly better! 😍👍 (I play ONLY the DLC mode, I have zero interest in CS or AC modes.) Oh btw... Don't look at the screenshots or videos and think "looks easy, this is not a bullet hell shmup!"... It IS hard as hell, don't worry about this. Only the first level, like in most shmups, is boringly easy. Edit : I get lots of slow-down when using the "Varth" ship... But I actually wonder if it doesn't do it on purpose, to recreate the original slowdowns in this old game...
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I've download the game and extract the 4 parts file and I try to launch the dariusburstcs.exe (with admin, compatibality mode, double click normally). It fail and prompt "the application was unable to start corrently (0xc000007b). Click OK to close the application. I've tried uninstalling every virtual studio and restalling back everything and still fails. Hope someone can reply me upon this really old game. Thank you!
"Chronicle Mode includes a whopping 3000+ stages that can be unlocked by global players." are you serious? iirc the average "Darius" game has...24? stages? A through Z... 3k+ sounds absurd...and awesome! must...have...this...game! lol
ok, finally works fine! Thx Igg Don't extract the archive, you need to explore the archive, then explore the .iso and extract what is into the .iso. So you get the setup.exe with the .bin. I hope this help you. (sorry for my english)
The graphics are soooo boring... Backgrounds look like a discolored mess and sometimes you think you might distinguish what might look like some buildings but you're not sure... Maybe just some rusty metal junkyard... ugly, boring, depressing.
Thanks god the enemies design balances this... And I'm talking mostly about bosses, cos regular enemies are boring as well.
Speaking of them, boss fights take FOREVER.
Average levels are VERY short and take a few minutes to complete, while a boss will take more than 10 minutes, repeating the same patterns over and over and oveeeer....uuuuugh...
The 3D is VERY basic, which is a shame nowadays... Old 2D shmups from the 90s looked so much better than this... (Dodonpachi😍)
I still have to get used to the weird hitboxes...
And finally, I just don't like the "line-shaped" bullets, and there are a LOT in this game...
Buuuuuut...
The DLCs of this game... might be the best DLCs I have ever seen in any game.😲
That's where the gameplay starts shining.
Basically, the DLCs let you play with ships of other shmups (which are in general, I'm sorry to day, MUCH better than Darius Burst), like Dodonpachi Resurrection (OH MY GOD) or Deathsmiles, for example.
Not only this, they also added some levels which were specifically designed for these new ships DLCs!!!
And again, no need to say, they're actually better than the vanilla levels.
Also, of course, you don't necessarily have to use these news ships in their own levels, you can combine them however you want.
All of this content make this game one of the BIGGEST shmup ever!!
(unless I'm wrong, I don't think I ever saw another shmup with this concept. I think this is unique!😲)
Special mention for the marvelous music.😍
There are no words to describe it. It's not even my style, but it just feels magical.
(in BOTH the vanilla game and the DLCs, which do add some remixes for some fo them)
Seriously, if you're like me and only tried the original game without any DLCs and were disappointed, give it another chance and download this version with all the DLCs, it's incredibly better! 😍👍
(I play ONLY the DLC mode, I have zero interest in CS or AC modes.)
Oh btw... Don't look at the screenshots or videos and think "looks easy, this is not a bullet hell shmup!"... It IS hard as hell, don't worry about this.
Only the first level, like in most shmups, is boringly easy.
Edit : I get lots of slow-down when using the "Varth" ship... But I actually wonder if it doesn't do it on purpose, to recreate the original slowdowns in this old game...
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I've tried uninstalling every virtual studio and restalling back everything and still fails. Hope someone can reply me upon this really old game. Thank you!
are you serious? iirc the average "Darius" game has...24? stages? A through Z...
3k+ sounds absurd...and awesome! must...have...this...game! lol
Don't extract the archive, you need to explore the archive, then explore the .iso and extract what is into the .iso. So you get the setup.exe with the .bin.
I hope this help you. (sorry for my english)