Darius Cozmic Collection: Console (Switch, PS4)
I’m a huge fan of the Darius 2-D shooter series from Taito. But what is Darius? While it may look like a generic classic space shooter at first, it has some elements that helped split it apart from others in the arcade. One, a lot of the spaceships you battle are designed to look like robot fish. I don’t know why that is, but it gives the game a weirder tinge to it that I like. Two, the original arcade game was three screens long! This was advantageous because you could see far ahead of you and could plan accordingly. It also gave you a bit of elbow room since the game was also two player simultaneous. And three, the music was really good! The stage one theme, “Captain NEO” is one of my all time favorite pieces of video game music. Taito has an in-house band named Zuntata that does most of their game music, which is cool. Anyway, I was super excited to find out that now there are two collection of Darius titles for Switch and PS4. There’s an arcade collection and a console collection, and I’m reviewing the console collection for Switch.
