Uploaded June 2021 | Updated September 2026, 1 day ago

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My best score run of the 3rd entry in the Darius arcade series
(fifth in general) developped by Taito and released in 1994 on F3 System.
The game bring some change to gameplay adding smart bombs (black hole)
and the possibility to capture midbosses by shooting to a sphere in their body but without killing them (very important for scoring).
Difficulty rank is pretty much determined by the strengh of main shot
so is a good idea to not max power until final stage , also max shot
is weaker than the previous level and not good for destroying boss
parts (another very important source of score).
In this run i followed the route ACEHLQV without dying or bombing,
the final bonus for remaining lives and bomb is huge,
unfortunately i damaged too much the final boss and i lost around 150K.
The graphic is very good thanks to the F3 system but what really stand off in the game is the super good OST from Zuntata (house band in Taito)
full of original tracks with genre mixes like opera choirs and techno.
I played on Wolfmame 0.219 in June 2021 with 30Hz autofire.
00:00:00 Title
00:00:24 Zone A
00:02:05 Boss A (Golden Ogre)
00:02:41 Zone C
00:04:17 Boss C (King Fossil)
00:06:03 Zone E
00:07:50 Boss E (Electric Fan)
00:09:08 Zone H
00:10:31 Boss H (Neon Light Illusion)
00:11:27 Zone L
00:13:31 Boss L (Double Dealer)
00:15:14 Zone Q
00:17:01 Boss Q (Deadly Crescent)
00:18:48 Zone V
00:20:30 Boss V (Risk Storage)
00:23:57 Ending + Credits