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R-Type Final 3 Evolved
» System: PS5 » Buy it for: £49.99 » Buy it from: Online, retail
Granzella is back with the third game in the R-Type Final series – except that it’s not quite what you’d expect. R-Type Final 3 Evolved is in fact an updated version of R-Type Final 2, although it has to be said that the updates do feel pretty substantial. As well as getting R-Type Final 2 in full, you’ll get the first wave of DLC for that game (though not all of it, which feels mildly stingy) and a brand-new PS5 exclusive campaign featuring seven stages created by Kazuma Kujo. If you’ve already played the PS4 version of R-Type Final 2, you can transfer your saved data.
This is clearly aimed at committed fans first and foremost, as it’s essentially a very generous extra helping of the R-Type Final formula. Fans will delight in the callbacks to previous games and quickly settle into the rhythm of trying, failing and eventually memorising each stage. The difficulty level can be pretty punishing right from the outset, but each stage has checkpoints and you can change ships when you continue – though each death is accompanied by the traditional loss of power-ups.