RayCrisis HD (PS4) - WR-03 TLB 1CC - 11,797,760 Pts (Map 19)

RayCrisis is an arcade shoot 'em up from Taito, originally released in 1996. This is the third and final game in the "Ray" series, and it's also Taito's final shooting game. Now 25 years later, Taito has released complete remasters of the entire series on the PS4 and Switch.
It can be a little confusing figuring out which games to buy though. I'm playing the RayStorm x RayCrisis HD Collection, which is available for $39.99. But there's also the Ray'z Arcade Chronology, which includes RayForce in addition to these two games. That one is available for $49.99. I'd recommend getting the Chronology over this collection, because you're just paying $10 more for a super high quality port of RayForce, which is arguably the best game in the series. And as far as I know, there's nothing in this RayStorm x RayCrisis collection that lets you purchase RayForce as DLC afterward, so it's a hard sell in comparison to the Chronology. But they're all great games anyway, so the only wrong choice is to not buy either of them!
This is my first clear of this game. Normally I'll spend a lot more time learning to score well in a shmup, but this time I just didn't feel like it. So this is more of a survival oriented clear, while trying to score as much as I can along the way. This game is a lot easier than RayStorm, so you don't have to spend a lot of time practicing. That's something I appreciated coming straight off of RayStorm. This game is easier to get into, and it's awesome. I really like pretty much everything about it. It's short, fast paced, looks great, has an interesting scoring system, and I like how you can customize which stages you play, as well as the stage order. I'd like to go back to and dig in deeper some day, since I've barely scratched the surface.
Huge thanks to ININ Games for providing me with a key!
Chapters:
0:00 Intro
1:15 Stage 1
1:54 Stage 2
4:25 Stage 3
7:10 Stage 4
10:20 Stage 5
12:14 True Last Boss
14:00 Ending & Credits
PS. I recorded the intro and initial fly-in separately, then faded it into my replay.
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Beat 'em Ups (e.g. Final Fight): • Beat 'em Ups
2D Action (e.g. Metal Slug): • 2D Action
STG/Shmups (e.g. Dodonpachi): • STG Replays

[@MAYOFORCE]

I'm noticing a lot of these early 3D/early 2000s shmups have a lot of final bosses that are just weird alien geometrical shapes or orbs. Probably influenced by Evangelion.

[@Karyovin]

Loved how this dovetailed nicely into the start of Rayforce I've kinda become a fan of Taitos late shumups and their stories despite how grim they were. Kinda similar feelings with Einhander Epic Music by Tamayo as always

[@TheElectricUnderground]

Fantastic! I need to get my runs done this weekend before the deadline ha.

[@sei-dragon6318]

Great play👍🏻 I also play with WR-03.

[@Mingodough]

I noticed in the description it says it’s taito’s final shooting game. I thought it was Dariusburst unless someone else developed that one and taito just licensed it out?

[@iconoclast575]

Yep, Burst was developed by Pyramid. I believe this is the last game from Taito themselves.

[@Karyovin]

@iconoclast575 That was a shame since their FX-1B/PS1 shooting games were some of my absolute favourites, Raystorm,Raycrisis and G.Darius If only these series at least continued onto the NAOMI/DC

[@johngavalas74]

I take it you can unlock other ships?

[@iconoclast575]

Nope, it's just WR-01 (the RayForce ship), WR-02 (RayStorm), and WR-03 is a hidden ship that's unique to this game.

[@johngavalas74]

@@iconoclast575 how do you get the WR-03?

[@johngavalas74]

Sucks this game is so short ill be happy when i actually beat i die alot and when i get to a certain boss after i kill it i get the game over screen