Chaos Field
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Arcade ver. title screen
| Developer: | Milestone Inc. |
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| Publisher: | Able Corporation |
| Director: | Manabu Matsumoto |
| Producer: | Hiroshi Kimura |
| Music: | Kō Hayashi Daisuke Nagata |
| Art: | Ryohei Murakami |
| Release date: | Arcade (NAOMI) : May 25, 2004 Dreamcast : December 16, 2004 Gamecube : February 24, 2005 (JP), December 20, 2005 (US) PlayStation 2 : December 21, 2005 |
| Previous game: | n/a |
| Next game: | Radirgy |
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About
Chaos Field (カオスフィールド) is a 2004 vertical-scrolling shooter arcade game developed by MileStone Inc. and published by Able Corporation. It was the first game by Milestone, and, like their other games, is a vertical shoot-'em-up. The game was only released in Japan, but eventually got released in the west with it's Nintendo Gamecube port called Chaos Field Extended. One day after the western release, a PlayStation 2 version, called Chaos Field New Order, was released in Japan. 'Chaos Field' is also included in Milestone's shoot-em-up collections for Wii (Ultimate Shooting Collection and Milestone Shooting Collection 2).
The game consists entirely of boss battles, featuring five stages with three bosses each. The player can choose to play as one of three characters, each with their own ship that has a unique primary weapon. The player also can flip the environment at will between two parallel worlds.
(Note from page creator: Some languages might be off due to my inferiority in english, it's not my first language, after all. Also, some medias shown in this page might be in a low res due to my lack of good hardware to get the high res one straight from the game. I might consider to get one from the internet instead, though... Anyway, this article is so incomplete and I'm still new to making this kind of thing, so please feel free to edit or fix this article if you wish. Thank you.)
Gameplay
Chaos Field is a vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up game consisting of 5 stages (called "Phases" in-game). The gameplay is a boss-rush style, where in each Phases, the player will fight against 3 bosses consecutively. The player can choose between one of three playable characters; each character with their own ship that have their own unique primary weapons and features. The game uses a HP system ("Shield" in-game) and the game can be set to have the player to have a maximum amount of 5 Shields per credit. The player only have one life per credit, however, and letting the "Shield" meter drops to zero will either take the player to the Continue screen (if the player still got at least one credit left) or the game ends. Selecting to continue lets the player to choose another character to play as or not, and their score will reset to zero.
Each ship are also equipped with short-ranged swords in each side of the ship that can wipes out almost all bullets from the enemy, as well as damaging the enemy too. Aside of primary weapons that differs between the characters' ships, all ships share two special abilities; one is offense-centered and one is defense-centered. First special (called "Lock-On") lets the player's ship locks onto enemies and releases multiple homing beams that strikes the locked target within it's range, and the second special (called "Wing-Layer"), will make the player's ship deploys a barrier that can absorb the enemy's bullets (and damages the enemy should they touch it). These two specials can be used as long as the player have at least one full META gauge, which can be filled by collecting META fragments (diamond-like item with a red core), obtained either by destroying the bosses' body parts or taking damage from the enemies' attacks. Collecting 10 META fragments fills up 1 gauge, and up to 10 gauges can be stored by the player. If the player tries to obtain more fragments while having a full gauge, the fragment's core will be white-yellow colored and gives the player bonus points instead when collected.
The game utilizes a main feature where the player can switch between two parallel dimensions, the "Order Field" and "Chaos Field". The gameplay is normal in Order Field, but while in Chaos Field, there will be multiple differences:
- The player's primary weapon will deal more damage to the enemies
- Lock-On special ability can locks onto and erases enemies bullets
- Wing-Layer barriers will grew a bit larger, allowing it to absorb more bullets easily.
- The enemies/bosses will also fire much more bullets and their attack pattern will change into a more complex one.
- The amount of META fragments obtained by destroying enemies and bosses' body parts will be reduced into a smaller amount.
Controls
(Controls shown below are the default controls for the Dreamcast version.)
- A: Primary Weapon Fire
- B: Sword/Saber Slash (can be used up to 3 times before small cooldown)
- L and R: Change between Order and Chaos field
- A + B: Wing-Layer (deploys a protective barrier)
- B + L or R: Lock-On (locks and fires homing beams onto the enemies)
Ships
| Fighter Ship | Pilot | In-game Description |
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| Fighter 1, "Mixed Blue", is a standard fighter that is improved and tuned based on the data of past combats. It has well-balanced maneuverability and striking power. | ||
| Fighter 2, "Flawed Red", is the newest and most advanced fighter that is designed based on the present standard fighter with emphasis placed on further reinforcement of maneuverability. | ||
| Fighter 3, "Fake Yellow", is a prototype that was built in the early stages of development. Though it's maneuverability is lower than that of the others because of it's heavy equipment, it's striking performance is higher than that of present models. |
Weapons
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Items
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Rank
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Loops
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Scoring
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Strategy
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Story
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Gallery
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Video References
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