Darius Twin

Darius Twin si the first home console instalement of Taito long running Darius series. Like all Darius, the enemies ship ook like marine creature. The "Twin" in the tittle liekely comeform it's multiplaye ability.

Story
The planet Orga is attacked by the evil armada of the space dictator Belser. The heroes embark in their "Silver Hawks" ship to battle Belser.

Gameplay
The ship have three major feature, Laser ,Sidearm and Shield. The player can upgraded these systems by picking up powerup icons (Red for shot, green for sidearm and blue for shield.), one icons will imediatly powerup either sidearm or lser while the shield take five icons to upgrade. Two type of icons also exist, an orange one wich give an extra life and a yellow one wich destroy all enemy on-screen.. A noticeable feature of the game is the death-penality. Unlike most shooter, the ship don't lose power in his weapons after dieing. However, there is no continue, If all lifes are lost, the player must start over from the begginning.

The branching path feature have been kept. However, it has been simplified heavily. There is only 12 stages, for a total of 24 possible paths.