Darius is ok.

Not in the same league as Gradius, RType, Thunder Force and other classics.
And not anywhere close the shumps Treasure has made.

Still, if this is a collection of somesort, I may purcahse. Otherwise ill jsut keep playing Snes rom shumps.

It makes me happy that the PSP is getting a ton of support unlike last year.

All your links are broken :(

The only Darius games ever released on SNES were Darius Twin and Super Nova. Hopefully they aren't the only Darius games that helped you form your opinion on the series.

And you can see whether this is a collection or not - I just posted the Famitsu article, and there's even info posted in this very thread.

OK, try the links again!

Darius? Meh.

Are we really going to get this here? I mean, SHMUPs arent as popular as they once were.

Meh? I bet you weren't even born when the first Darius games were released - they were revolutionary for their time - and not just because they used 3 screens!

I played some Darius games and I don't see what's so good about them. Darius Twin was pretty awesome on the SNES, but yet it was VERY repetitive. That's my big complaint about the Darius games in general: so much repetition, no innovative gameplay mechanics. It's dull, what can I say! (Also, wtf's up with the sea animals?)

I think the best Darius game I've played was the one on Saturn called Darius Gaiden. No surprise, I mean, Gaiden is in the title and most games with Gaiden in their titles rock! xD

I'm not sure I like 'innovation' all that much. Darius games are proper, straightforward old school SHMUPS. Ther was a ton of 'innovation' in Darius though - level branching, 3 screens arcades, in-game opera music, and even fish armadas.

The problem is that a bunch of other straightforward old school SHMUPs that came out after it were already better than Darius (Raiden and Star Soldier series comes to mind). Also, compared to R-Type, Gradius and a bunch of others, there's just not much going on for Darius. To me, it just didn't age that well.

Oh, and the level branching isn't really that innovative when all you do is change the scenery but keep the same repetitive enemy waves over and over again. I must say that the 3 screens arcades looked nice though, but yeah, I wasn't born when that happened.