Electronic Theatre In-depth Review: R-Type Tactics

The R-Type franchise will be familiar to the vast majority of regulars here at Electronic Theatre. Whether you’ve invested a good twenty years in the videogames industry or picked-up a Control Pad for the first time on a PlayStation2, there will no doubt have been an R-Type – or one of it’s many partisans – lingering somewhere nearby. The series has seen that many outings that it’s highly possible that a gamer could own several titles under the same header, yet with each playing intrinsically different within their Side-Scrolling universe.

From the masterful Super Nintendo Entertainment System release of Super R-Type to that of the Game Boy Advance’s dismal attempt at recreating…