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R-Type Final 2 Sequel Game's Kickstarter Campaign Launches on Monday
posted on by Crystalyn Hodgkins
Video game production company Granzella announced on Friday that its Steam). The company stated the campaign will last for "about a week," but will announce the campaign's end date when the campaign launches.
The campaign will feature 14 reward tiers, with rewards including digital or physical copies of the game, a hardcover art book, soundtracks, T-shirts, and the right to put the backer's name in the staff credits, among others.
The game is a planned sequel to Irem's R-Type Final PlayStation 2 shooter game. The planned release date is in 2020 worldwide. Granzella shared several screenshots and designs from the game (see below gallery).
The game will be the first R-Type game in the series to be made for 16:9 aspect ratio screens, with stages from previous games being rebuilt from scratch with "new expressions and interpretations." The game's "Real-time Level Function" will automatically change the difficulty of the game based on the player's skill. The difficulty level can be checked on the screen. Players can also set a cap in difficulty level. Additionally, the game will feature different player fighters, and players can unlock more fighters by meeting certain conditions.
The first R-Type arcade shooter debuted in 1987. R-Type Final debuted for the PS2 in 2003, while the R-Type Tactics and R-Type Tactics II sequel debuted for the PlayStation Portable in 2007 and 2009, respectively. Tozai Games launched R-Type Dimensions, a compilation of the first two R-Type games, on PC via Steam last November.
Source: Press release
