Radiant Silvergun [Steelbook Edition]
Radiant Silvergun [Steelbook Edition]
Radiant Silvergun [Steelbook Edition]
Radiant Silvergun [Steelbook Edition]
Radiant Silvergun [Steelbook Edition]
Radiant Silvergun [Steelbook Edition]

Radiant Silvergun [Steelbook Edition]

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Sealed: the original seal is intact. Any flaw in the seal is noted here and shown in the photos. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.

Item Description

For a long time, Radiant Silvergun was the shooter people talked about more than they played. Treasure released it in 1998, first in Japanese arcades and then on the Sega Saturn, and because the Saturn version never left Japan, most Western players knew it from import shelves, magazine features and its towering reputation among shoot-'em-up fans. After a 2011 remaster on Xbox Live Arcade, it arrived on Nintendo Switch in 2022, making Treasure's most ambitious vertical shooter easier than ever to sit down with.

Its weapon system is the first thing that sets it apart. There are no power-up pickups; your Silvergun fighter carries its full arsenal from the start. Three buttons fire a forward vulcan, homing lasers and a spread shot, and pressing them in combination opens up more, including the Radiant Sword, a close-range blade that can slice through pink enemy bullets. Weapons level up the more you use them, so your arsenal gradually grows to reflect the way you play.

Then there's the chain system. Enemies come in three colors, and destroying ships of one color in an unbroken sequence builds escalating score bonuses, so serious players plan routes around which targets to hit and which to leave alone. Add more than twenty bosses, stages that shift scale and direction without warning, and Hitoshi Sakimoto's sweeping score, and every run becomes a puzzle as much as a reflex test. Even the story is unusual for the genre: set in the year 2520, it circles a mysterious excavated object called the Stone-Like and the extinction of humanity, a bleak backdrop that adds to the game's cult mystique.

Radiant Silvergun is also the spiritual predecessor of Ikaruga, Treasure's later color-switching shooter, and the two make a fascinating pair for anyone tracing the studio's design thinking. The Steelbook Edition was one of the collector-oriented physical versions produced for the Switch release, a fitting format for a game that spent years as a Japan-only legend. Few shooters reward repeated play as richly, and having it on Switch means you can work on your chain routes anywhere.

Fast factsgame data via IGDB
Released
2011
Publisher
Microsoft Studios
Developer
Treasure
Players
Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op
About the game

Set on the earth and in space on July 14, 2520 A.D., the film explores the mystery of mankind's extinction. Various terrains become battlefields. Enemies attack from all directions. There are 23 bosses in total. Aim for a high score by making full use of score bonuses and level-up weapons! This remaster first released on Xbox Live Arcade was based on the Sega Saturn version.

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