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TWRoO on 19 May 2009
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txrattlesnake said:
TWRoO said:

It does pan a bit though yes?.... the Retro Evolved that comes on the Galaxies disc is a single rectangular level, but it i slightly larger than the screen, and there is a kind of bounding box for the ship so that it stays relatively in the centre of the screen. (so if you go up the the "wall" of the level you willl see the ship near the middle, and blackness outside the grid that is the level.

Unless I am getting Galaxies mixed up with RE now.

 

That is the way Retro Evolved is.

 

Ah, then it is the same on the Wii.

The Galaxies are the same in principal as Retro Evolved.... except there are different shapes and sizes for the levels, a number of new enemies and a couple of things that aren't really enemies, like the flippers, which are white squares that you can't go though, nor shoot through.... but the enemies can, and they move about. Or the minelayers, which you can't touch as they kill you, but otherwise they just go in straight lines through the levels laying mines, and if you move over a mine you can set off a chain reaction for some huge points (the mines don't hurt the ship)... then there are the black holes, which don't hurt you but they cause a vortex, so your ship and all the enemies are spinning around and toward the centre of the level.

Also you get a little robot drone thing, which can be set to different tasks, like simply helping you fire, or defending you by ramming close by enemies and such.... and by collecting geoms you can train the drone in each of the different tasks so that it is more efficient.
The levels increas in difficulty as you unlock them by collecting geoms from the level, as well as rewards for getting gold/silver/bronze medals

And each level has an online leaderboard of it's own... one of them I got lucky and managed a huge score that is ranked 16th currently (it was 14th)... but I have no chance of getting near the top in the early levels as people clearly practice on them a lot.... the first training level I think I am in the late 300s (out of about 40,000 I think)

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Seriously if you enjoy RE and have a Wii, buy Galaxies. It's awesome (you don't seem to going by your collection though) And because it doesn't sell so well you can find it cheap as dirt.... I got my copy for £8 (Which I think is 800-900 Microsoft points)