R-Type III The Third Lightning for SNES

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Review #443

R-Type III The Third Lightning

Good, not great

SNES 1994 Irem Shooter Shooter › Horizontal
R-Type III The Third Lightning screenshot for SNES
Screenshot used for review/reference purposes.
4 / 5

Gameplay

I hemmed and hawed over this rating.
The lack of difficult levels is a big deal here. The game is brutally difficult and without a way to dial down the difficult it's even more daunting to think about playing. They at least added midlevel spawn points.

2 / 5

Level Design

Levels feel more crowded and busy. Sometimes in a good way, and other times in an annoying way.
Oh and stage 2 is just plain stupid. Its built around two things I hate - water drops that kill you and extremely tight spaces. The boss fight is horrible.
Stage 4 isn't much better. Going slooooowly into a huge ship then backing slooooowly back out is not my idea of fun.

4 / 5

Theme

R-Type was the king and it knew it. The opening cutscene is badass despite the fact that there's no story to speak of. Great presentation

5 / 5

Art Style

Impressive effects and use of mode 7 for rotation the environment and huge sprites and backgrounds. How is this on the SNES?

4 / 5

Audio

The music is the same or maybe a bit better than Super R-Type but the sound design takes a step back. Still good, but not great.

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