Raiden V: Director's Cut
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Raiden V: Director's Cut is an arcade developed by MOSS Co., Ltd., released 5 October 2017 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). The main story takes about 4 hrs to finish.
What Raiden V: Director's Cut is
Raiden V: Director's Cut is an arcade game developed by MOSS Co., Ltd. and released in 2017. It was published by PQube. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Raiden V is a shoot 'em up video game in the Raiden series developed by MOSS. It was released in Japan for the Xbox One on February 25, 2016, with a director's cut version being released worldwide for PlayStation 4 and Microsoft Windows in 2017, followed by a Nintendo Switch version on July 25, 2019, making it the first Raiden game to be made available on a Nintendo console since Raiden Trad on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 38 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
Raiden V: Director's Cut holds a critic score of 77 out of 100. That places it above 60% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 6 points above the year average.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 4 hrs.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo 2.0 GHz, 2 GB RAM and Graphic card with 512MB VRAM. At 2GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 6GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Raiden V: Director's Cut launched on 5 October 2017, within three weeks of Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole and Middle-earth: Shadow of War. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Cuphead, Assassin's Creed Origins, South Park: The Fractured But Whole, Middle-earth: Shadow of War.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Raiden V: Director's Cut yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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