See also Ikaruga, the Spiritual Successor to Radiant Silvergun. Things are just getting worse from this point on. The player takes control of a pilot in a small crew that escaped the Stone-Like's blast, helming the eponymous Silvergun and returns to the planet to discover the secrets behind the artifact. The story is rather bleak and depressing: In July 14 of 2520, a strange crystalline structure called the Stone-Like is found in an ancient ruined city, and then proceeds to kill everyone on Earth. The infamous boss warning screen appears about two dozen times and bosses take numerous different forms to try to annihilate the player. Being able to apply the right weapons on any different boss is key to obtaining these bonuses. The bosses in the game are designed so that they have multiple 'sections' which, if all destroyed before the 'core' of the boss, will award the players with point bonuses. Like previous Treasure games, Radiant Silvergun concentrates heavily on boss battles. The game is designed so that there is almost always a 'right' weapon for any situation.

Failure to do so results in a near Unwinnable scenario against the Final Boss, as underleveled weapons are ineffective and rendered useless. Thus, you'll need to use a variety of attack methods to level up evenly, as well as NOT destroying enemies of other colors so as to not break the chain. Weapons gain in strength as you score points with them, and destroying a chain of enemies that have the same color gives higher and higher bonuses as the chain continues. The gameplay is rather unique, allowing various combinations of three buttons to fire any of seven weapons at any time, as well as a charged attack. Roughly 11 years later, a Nintendo Switch port of the HD version was released on September 13, 2022. It was ported to Xbox Live internationally on September 14, 2011. Radiant Silvergun is a vertical scrolling shooter by Treasure, released exclusively in Japan for the arcades (on the Sega Titan-Video hardware) and on the Sega Saturn in 1998. I've begun to see the reason why we are here.'

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