History VideoGame / RadiantSilvergun

%%* BigBad: The Stone-Like.
* [[spoiler: BadGuyWins]]: [[spoiler: The Stone-like ultimately succeeds in eradicating humanity, though Creator resurrects the species via cloning in a StableTimeLoop.]]

* KillEmAll: The game '''starts''' with a cutscene of this happening to Earth.

* DepopulationBomb: The game opens with the Stone Like scouring the Earth in a brilliant white light, annihilating all of humanity except those who happened to be in orbit.

* OhCrap: [[spoiler:Reana and Buster can only react with ardent terror as the Stone Like unleashes a new wave of light, a terror that only get's worse as they desperately try to outrun it]].

* OutrunTheFireball: [[spoiler:After the FinalBoss, the Stone Like once again unleashes the same bright light that annihilated humanity forcing Reana and Buster to try and outrunning it. [[SubvertedTrope Unfortunately it catches up to them]]]].

%%* DepopulationBomb: Seen in the end of Stage 2.

* MarathonBoss: When you fail to get combos and upgrade your weapons, you'll be fighting some of the later bosses and especially the FinalBoss for a long time.
* MarathonLevel: What the game lacks in terms of number of stages[[note]]In Arcade Mode, there's only four full-bodied stages, three of which you go through due to a mutually-exclusive choice, and two {{Boss Only Level}}s. Saturn Mode, on the other hand, makes Stage 6 much longer and makes you go through all six stages.[[/note]], it makes up for by making them very long. Stage 3, the first stage in the game, takes about ''ten minutes'' to complete. The longest stage in the game is Stage 4, which takes ''twice that long!''

%%* WaveMotionGun: Many bosses have that.

* PrimaryColorHero: The ''Tetra'''s Silverguns are blue, red and yellow, and the ship itself is blue and white.

* PlotlineDeath: [[spoiler:At the very end, the last two humans die.]]

* AirborneAircraftCarrier: Tetra [[spoiler:and its doppelgänger Penta]].
* AllThereInTheManual: There's additional backstory in Igarashi's journal, which put more focus on the researchers' findings. As it turned out, in addition to the Stone-Like and the Creator robot, the prehistoric layer contained what appeared to be ruins that seemed too technologically advanced for the time period. [[spoiler:Coincidentally, HQ is built ''right on top of it.'']]

* ButWhatAboutTheAstronauts: The Tetra's barely able to escape to an orbit around the Earth at the end of Stage 2. Stage 3 starts with them returning to Earth after a year because they had exhausted their food and energy supplies.

* HotBlooded: Guy [[spoiler:to the point where he kamikaze-attacks the Stone-Like.]]

* SenselessSacrifice: [[spoiler:Guy's attempt to destroy the Stone-Like at the end of Stage 5]].

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* EasierThanEasy: The console ports have a "Very Easy" difficulty. Which actually means "NintendoHard". Yes, the game is ''that'' brutal on all difficulty levels.

* UpdatedRerelease: One of Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show 2010 announcements was an XBLA remake. There was much rejoicing... except from those hoping to [[CrackIsCheaper invest in legit Sega Saturn copies]].

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. 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. 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. Failure to do results in a near {{Unwinnable}} scenario against the FinalBoss, as underleveled weapons are ineffective and rendered useless. The game is designed so that there is almost always a 'right' weapon for any situation. Like previous Treasure games, ''Radiant Silvergun'' concentrates heavily on boss battles. 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. Being able to apply the right weapons on any different boss is key to obtaining these bonuses. The infamous boss warning screen appears about two dozen times and bosses take numerous different forms to try to annihilate the player.

* BossOnlyLevel: Stage 6 (in the arcade version) is nothing but a fight against [[spoiler:Xiga]]. Stage 1 (in ''every'' version) is [[spoiler:a [[HoldTheLine "fight"]] against the Stone-like.]]

* AnachronicOrder: The game starts you off on Stage 3 (Return), then after that you have the option to go to either Stage 2 (Reminiscence), which occurs prior to the events of Stage 3, or Stage 4 (Evasion), set after Stage 3. Then the game continues to Stages 5 (Victim) and 6 (Stone-Like), culminating in [[spoiler: Stage 1 (Link), the ''first'' stage chronologically.]]

* AnachronicOrder: The game starts you off on Stage 3 (Return), then after that you have the option to go to either Stage 2 (Reminiscence) which occurs prior to the events of Stage 3, or Stage 4 (Evasion), set after Stage 3. Then the game continues to Stages 5 (Victim) and 6 (Stone-Like), culminating in [[spoiler: Stage 1 (Link), the ''first'' stage chronologically.]]

* AnachronicOrder: The game starts you off on Stage 3, then after that you have the option to go to Stage 2 (events prior to Stage 3) or Stage 4 (in chronological order). Then the game continues to Stages 5 and 6, culminating with what is numbered as the [[spoiler:''first'']] stage in the game.

* AnachronicOrder: Stage progression is as follows: Stage 3 (Return) -> Stage 2 (Reminiscence) and/or Stage 4 (Evasion) (depending on version) -> Stage 5 (Victim) -> Stage 6 (Stone-Like) -> [[spoiler:Stage 1 (Link)]]. The numbers indicate their chronological order.

* UpdatedRerelease:
** One of Microsoft's Tokyo Game Show 2010 announcements was an XBLA remake. There was much rejoicing... except from those hoping to [[CrackIsCheaper invest in legit Sega Saturn copies]].

* FlashbackEpisode: Stage 2 takes place one year prior and covers what happened leading up to the Stone-Like wiping out all of humanity.

* MarathonLevel: What the game lacks in terms of number of stages[[note]]In Arcade Mode, there's only four full-bodied stages, three of which you go throughh due to a mutually-exclusive choice, and two {{Boss Only Level}}s. Saturn Mode, on the other hand, makes Stage 6 much longer and makes you go through all six stages.[[/note]], it makes up for by making them very long. Stage 3, the first stage in the game, takes about ''ten minutes'' to complete. The longest stage in the game is Stage 4, which takes ''twice that long!''

* MarathonLevel: What the game lacks in terms of number of stages, it makes up for by making them very long. Stage 3, the first stage in the game, takes about ''ten minutes'' to complete. The longest stage in the game is Stage 4, which takes ''twice that long!''

* MarathonBoss: When you fail to get combos and upgrade your weapons, you'll be fighting some of the later bosses and especially the FinalBoss for a long time.

%%* LaserBlade: The Radiant Sword.

* EasierThanEasy: The console ports have a "Very Easy" difficulty. Which, unfortunately, can be described as "still NintendoHard".

* ApocalypseHow: The game ''opens up'' with a ApocalypseHow/{{Class 6}} example by the Stone-like. Four humans manage to survive it. [[spoiler:Until the end of the game.]]