While the original R-Type offers more precise action, R-Type III has bigger boss fights, better graphics, and a more forgiving learning curve. The side-scrolling space shooter certainly seems to be ...

Like a Pokemon that hit itself in confusion, my mind was a bit of a mess as I started playing R-Type Final 3 Evolved. See, the game’s opening sequence starts out exactly just like R-Type Final 2. I ...

R-Type's one of my favorite shooters. It was also a pretty challenging one at that, and a game unlike any I've ever played before. R-Type Final is the fifth and last game in the franchise, drawing ...

Mohamed from Egypt has been covering Japanese and indie games for more than 5 years for local and international outlets. He is very interested in the Japanese language and culture, and is a long term ...

Ah, yes the 1980s. The decade that brought us oversized blazers, poofy Aqua Net hair and a certain side-scrolling shoot-em-up known as R-Type. Chronicling the struggle between humanity and the ...

Hades I'm playing Hades 2 right after finishing the original, and it highlights how Supergiant Games wants players to "git gud" or get lost Dragon Quest Dragon Quest 1 & 2 HD-2D Remake reminded me why ...

In what is already the weirdest thing we've seen in 2025 (two days in), someone decided to make a parody version of R-Type featuring the cartoon strip Garfield. Simply called Gar-Type, this is a ...

Granzella unveiled their plans to revive the R-Type series with R-Type Final 2 back in June. At that time, they held a crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter that ran just one week but was successful, ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Following the news that the classic shmup R-Type Delta was getting ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Ollie Barder covers Japanese pop-culture and gaming from Tokyo. Funnily enough, this is the second time I have managed to ...