Raiden III: Better with Two Ships

As I haven't mentioned, since I have been on a sort of gaming hiatus, I bought Raiden III a while ago. I was sort of sad that I paid $30 good dollars for it at Gamestop and then saw it for $20 at Wal-Mart, but I got over it.

I played Single Mode for a little while (2 or 3 hours), but got bored with it pretty fast. The ship was too slow and unless you used the Vulcan Shot, it was painfully difficult to kill anything if it didn't appear onscreen already within your line of fire. I was also getting stuck at the stage 3 boss. I stopped playing and shortly after I participated in STGT'07 and stopped playing videogames after that. Once I got bored with the real world and returned to enjoying the company of electronics instead of people, I decided to give Raiden III another shot. Tried Single Mode again. Still boring. I gave Dual Mode a try after that and I'll be damned if it isn't a lot better then Single Mode. Since there are only to buttons aside from movement, the PS2 controller is able to handle controlling both ships at once fairly well, and ship speed is much less of an issue since there are two of them. It certainly isn't Mushi or Galuda, but I now feel those 30 bucks weren't wasted. I might write an actual review, although since I have to clear it in order to try Boss Rush or see any of the Extras, I might not.

Hooray for jumping on abandoned bandwagons.