Darius Twin
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Title screen
| Developer: | Taito |
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| Music: | Norihiro Furukawa, Pochi |
| Program: | Yasutaka Minami, Mituo Ogura, Junichiro Noguchi |
| Art: | Keisuke Miyanaga, Tōru Kawaishi, Shin Saitō, Yoshihiro Wakita |
| Release date: | November 1991 |
| Next game: | Darius Force |
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Darius Twin
Darius Twin is a horizontal-scrolling shoot-em-up by Taito released for the Super Nintendo/Famicom in November 1991. It is the first home Darius game to feature an original scenario, rather than be a port of one of the existing arcade games. It was re-released on the Wii Virtual Console in 2010, and again in the Darius Cozmic Collection (Console) release by M2 in 2019 for Switch and PS4.
Gameplay Overview
Controls
- X: Shot
- A: Subweapon
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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This section details some particular strategic information about the game and its gameplay, such as hidden 1UPs and some basic scoring tricks. For anything particularly deep or highly complex, you can probably leave it in the Strategy page.
(Currently evaluating whether or not this specific section should even include information outside of the separated Strategy pages. Worth thinking about as a community.)
Story
Taking place thousands of years after the events of the original Darius, Darius Twin sees the Belsar Army stage an assault on the planet Olga. The Silver Hawks are launched to put a stop to the invasion and drive back the Belsar forces.
Unlike most other Darius games, Darius Twin always ends with Zone L and always ends with the player destroying Super Alloy Lantern, then flying inside it to destroy the final boss Great Tusk.
There are 5 known endings for the game; how to get them is not precisely recorded, so we can only use our intuition.
- Ending 1 (Fake Ending): The game simply congratulates the player for clearing every level, then tells them to pull themself together and go for a better ending. This is presumably "achieved" by using too many continues or running out of time during a bossfight.
- Ending 2 (Bad Ending): Darius is reclaimed, but the player/s are forced to return home to Olga instead of resettling on their mother planet as they were informed of the enemy fleet approaching Olga.
- Ending 3 (Neutral Ending): Darius is reclaimed, and the player/s go to rest after the long battle.
- Ending 4 (Good Ending): Darius is reclaimed, and the galaxy's allied forces establish bases on both Darius and Olga to secure power and maintain peace and order throughout the galaxy.
- Ending 5 (True Ending): Darius is reclaimed. In addition, the player/s are able to retrieve important information concerning the Belsar armies, which enables the allied forces to launch a full-scale assault on the Belsar home planet and end the war once and for all. This is presumably achieved by clearing the game without deaths, and without running out of time during a bossfight.
Development History
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Version Differences
The European and North American releases feature stereo audio, compared to the Japanese version's mono output.
Trivia
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Gallery
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Video References
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Other
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