Review: Darius Cozmic Collection Console (PlayStation 4)
Experience one of the most influential horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up series of all time from the comfort of your home, on your TV screen. Developed by the legendary TAITO Corporation and first released for arcade machines, the monumental Darius Cozmic Collection Console offers 6 of the best console entries in the long-running series in a total of 9 versions.
Pros:
- Graphics.
- 149.5mb download size.
- Platinum trophy.
- Nine games in one- Darius 2 (Megadrive), Sagaia (Genesis), Sagaia (Master System), Darius Twin (SFC), Darius Twin (Snes), Darius Force (SFC), Super Nova (Snes), Darius Alpha (PC Engine) and Darius Plus (PC Engine).
- Game manual for all the games.
- Display type-normal/pixel perfect/fit to screen/fullscreen.
- Smoothing-on/off.
- Scanlines-on/off.
- Backgrounds-on/off.
- Can rebind controls and change rapid-fire speed.
- Online leaderboards for each game.
- Replays-make your own or download and watch them from the leaderboards.
- Quicksave and load feature.
- Can quit out back to the game selection screen.
- Darius 2 has a two-game modes-normal and special mode.
- Darius Force has 2 modes-normal mode and boss endurance mode.
- Darius Alpha has 4 modes-normal, score attack, time attack, and 4 minute time trial.
- Additional game modes don’t support cheat codes or quicksave/load.
- Analague and d-pad support.
Cons:
- Only one background choice.
- Have to source your own cheat codes, no option to just turn them on.
- The basic description of the history of games.
- No extra bells and whistles content.
- The manual is just a Web page image of the controls.
