Raiden III x Mikado Maniax Review (Jaimers)
Writing this review with the hope this info reaches the devs more easily so they can fix the game-breaking issue that is currently forcing me to give this a negative review.
Will change this to a positive review once this is fixed.
Raiden III is an arcade Shoot 'Em Up that first came out in 2005, with various ports over the years.
This latest re-release is basically an upgraded version of the last PC port on Steam, but now supporting:
- Higher resolutions up to 4K.
- A huge assortment of music arranges for you to pick-and-choose from.
- A lot of new wallpapers.
The input lag on the Steam version is pretty low as well, so I want to say this is the definitive version of the game to play.
However, there is currently a bug with an achievement that is so broken that it prevents the game from being played in any favorable manner, and it's downright unplayable at anything slightly higher level.
The "Quick Shooting Master" achievement is an achievement about getting the x2.0 flash shot a 1000 times, basically destroying enemies as quickly as possible to get the maximum amount of score from them.
The issue here is that every time you get a x2.0, the game freezes for about half a second. You can imagine this being a problem when you constantly aim to get x2.0's.
It's maybe caused by the game registering the x2.0 for the achievement many multiple times over than it's supposed to, resulting in the freeze.
This problem does not happen in Dual Mode, since the achievement cannot be gained in that mode.
You can see a demonstration of the issue here: https://streamable.com/oj0f2t
This being the only issue that prevents this from being called the definitive version makes this especially frustrating.
It seems like this would be a quick, easy fix, but it's been over a month since this problem was first reported and nothing has been fixed as of yet.
With the previous release of Raiden III being de-listed from Steam to make room for this release, it's especially egregious that this bug persists, as there is now no way to play this game on Steam in any favorable manner.