I love how as soon as you go into space, the boss battle track goes from this high energy, funky "He he! We're having a boss battle!" music to 12:10 these ominous, alien sounding low synths that gives you the feeling that you're shooting at something so overwhelming that *you can't even fully understand it.* I only learned about this game because of the PS1 Demo disk.
Yeah the change in boss theme the first time you fight Hannibal is pretty jarring. The change to the boss theme for Yggdrasil (the final boss) is also pretty jarring too.
@@danthovict381Hell no. Einhander gets alot of praise just off the sheer fact that it's from Squaresoft and it was one of the first times they went away to trying something new outside of rpgs. The ray series is a little less known unless you are a a shmup aficionado.
@@danthovict381 Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzz !! Thanks dude, i was looking for the name of this game for so long! This shoot'em up was so Amazing ! even now i would like to play it
@@angrymobsters1599 tf you mean hell no, we lived through those times. Raystorm was popular, I bought it and played it as a kid so did my friends. Einhander was nowhere to be seen in stores or owned by anyone, dude above is right.
10:09 - This was the level that was featured on one of the PS1 sampler discs that would come in the mail. This is how I found out about the game back then and bought it. By far the best level of them all, in my opinion. But I gotta lend some credits to the last level; between the soundtrack and finding out just how much of an impact your mission had on over 7 billion people losing their lives... very emotional level.
Same! except that the sampler game comes with the PS my dad bought for us. we hooked into this game and replay this game over and over even if it's just the trial version. my bro and I were blown away when we got the actual game.
It's so cool that now we're gonna get a modern release of both this AND its sequel RayCrisissoon . In both original and HD version. Coming to the Switch and PS4.
When Raystorm first came out, Working Designs had a contest. You had to play at a difficulty called Combat mode and if you beat the game you got a special code where you could enter in a contest to win money. Eventually the contest was over and Working Designs released a code that would allow the Combat Mode to be turn off and Free Play activated. The code is online if you search for it. They actually limited the levels you could play unless you were on higher difficulty and fixed many flaws that the original Japanese release had.
Ah, the good old 32-bit days...almost as good as the 16-bit days. Raystorm was a bit of a throwback to that era but only in the best of ways: straightforward gameplay, selectable difficulty levels for all ages from 9 to 99 years, comic-book style graphics, epic boss fights and an almost danceable soundtrack. Technically though the game was more than up to snuff, surpassing even games that came after, like Einhander, R-Type Delta or the disappointing Thunder Force 5.
I know your comment is 3 years old but I had to say: When he said Raystorm surpassed Einhander, that's when I took it personal 🤨 lol I havent played Raystorm yet but soon we'll get a final verdict!
This game is really cool, i didnt ever get the full game but always played the demo version, it soon became an instant favorite. So a good nostalgia trip. 10:05
Here after Cyberpunk 2077. Never realized this was the golden age of gaming where you were able to play the game with no patches on day one. How time have changed.
I wish you uploaded in 60 fps! Raystorm (and Raycrisis) are among the most impressive looking polygonal games on the system, due in large part to running at 60 fps even with all of the crazy explosions and effects they have going on.
Sapharan Yes, Raystorm runs at 60 fps on PSX, as I mentioned above. You can see a list of PSX games with 3D graphics which run at 60 fps here: www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?26920-Games-with-3D-graphics-running-at-60-fps-5th-Generation-Consoles/
Sapharan For some idiotic reason youtube only allows videos to display at 60 fps if they're in HD resolutions. To cubex55: If you re-encode your videos at 960x720 or higher before uploading, they should show up on youtube at 60 fps. (But this could actually result in lower vid quality, ironically enough.)
Have you noticed how the bigger shuttles have the middle part destroyed, while the smaller ones are entirely destroyed? (these darker ships at the bottom of the level)
grumblekin This game really pushed the limits of the PS1. 60FPS with decent graphics on a home console at the time was simply unheard of, let alone an arcade-perfect port.
This songs sound track is better imo. The most impressive piece of musical work that einhander had was pretty much the first stage. This gane had great pieces stage after stage
Soundtrack slaps. I wish the industry would go back to having actual music that you can remember instead of generic orchestral hollywoodisms and ambient
I guess the command ship uses the hyperspace speed and instantly arrived near Earth base from moon gravity catapult like other sci-fi movies and games like Star Wars or No Man's Sky so the scene might not even spotted the command ship.
I just played through Arcade mode on Duckstation for the first time since I played it on my PS1 (I still have the original game in mint condition but that's more or less a showpiece now).. Anyway I had it in my head for some reason that this game was easy, but the latter bosses are certainly not! I only had 4 credits remaining when the end credits rolled, but I suppose that's not too bad after not playing it for 20 or so years. Default settings/ship number/difficulty in the middle/combat mode. Still, it kicked my ass pretty good, and overall I didn't like it as much as I used to, certainly not enough to get good enough to be able to one CC it again. I really prefer the first 2D game and I don't like Ray Crisis either. I had it in 4K with all geometry fixed and it looked amazing I will admit. If you want to play this game on a modern computer, use Duckstation with PGXP correction on and a 16x Upscale if you have anything from a 3060 onwards. It looks like a modern game! But for me it was one of those situations where I should have just enjoyed the memory as the game is not the amazing game I remembered.
i rember in a old gamepro they showed this game and the way they described it i was like i want this game but i couldnt find it at my local shops. something about it made me want a new shooter. but after searching i did get xevious 3d so i could play as tekken charecters flying
i used to hate these games cuz they were so hard.. i haven't played one of these since the 90s though so i'm not sure if i would still hate them or not
I never really liked early 3D. Graphically, Rayforce, the predecessor , was more pleasant to look at. Also noticing that it sounds like they took Rayforce's soundtrack and only slightly rehashed it.
Calm down Juan, Rayforce is still considered as RAY series hahaha. That was just Kitten's opinion. Even if you compare it to, Raystorm's ambience still a lot more darker than both Raycrisis and Rayforce. Including the con-human conflict. And yet of Raystorm potentially placed on different Universe made this game as Rayforce of its own. That's why they made R-Gear to remastered Raystorm on PS3 in honor to prototype game of Rayforce: R-Gear.
Estoy buscando un juego anterior al año 2003, que se le parece pero no consigo encontrarlo, tenia un máximo de 4 naves donde escoger, la principal era el verde, y el primer nivel era equivalente a este videojuego, así con las montañas ⛰ , los disparos eran en forma de flechas, y aumentaban si recogias las recompensas por el camino, como máximo había 3 vidas, por lo que se hacía un ranking, y ya por último, el 2 mapa era un escenario como en marte, con arena y casi ibas a ras de la superficie, y si, tenia mejores graficos que este juego, creo recordar.
@@novato455 se le parece más al raycrisis, pero los escenarios no son tan futuristas, y los gráficos eran algo mejores ya que la nave que manejas estaba más cerca en el segundo mapa, que había muchos más, uno era completamente en el cielo, y podías conseguir vidas por el camino y creo que si tu nave la mejorabas, estoy 100% seguro de que el juego es anterior al 2003 y era un juego de pc, se podían jugar con 2 jugadores, cada pantalla tenía un boss y duraría cada una 3-4 minutos
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I love how as soon as you go into space, the boss battle track goes from this high energy, funky "He he! We're having a boss battle!" music to 12:10 these ominous, alien sounding low synths that gives you the feeling that you're shooting at something so overwhelming that *you can't even fully understand it.*
I only learned about this game because of the PS1 Demo disk.
Yeah the change in boss theme the first time you fight Hannibal is pretty jarring. The change to the boss theme for Yggdrasil (the final boss) is also pretty jarring too.
A seriously underrated ps1 gem.
Not underrated imo, this and Raycrisis are quite famous shooting game. The underrated one was Einhander.
@@danthovict381Hell no. Einhander gets alot of praise just off the sheer fact that it's from Squaresoft and it was one of the first times they went away to trying something new outside of rpgs. The ray series is a little less known unless you are a a shmup aficionado.
@@danthovict381 Geeeeeeeeeeeeeeeezzz !! Thanks dude, i was looking for the name of this game for so long! This shoot'em up was so Amazing ! even now i would like to play it
@@angrymobsters1599 tf you mean hell no, we lived through those times. Raystorm was popular, I bought it and played it as a kid so did my friends. Einhander was nowhere to be seen in stores or owned by anyone, dude above is right.
Ah.. this game, brings my childhood memories back.. sit down in my living room and play Raystorm with my brother. Good old time
Stop saying bullshit! Nobody cares about you or your brothers, ok? 👎
Nathaniel Wijaya I play this game at late '90s. It such wonderful memory! 🙂✌
same
Me too. With mny cousin..90's
I’ve finally found it. Raystorm! I forgot the name to this game. Oh my the nostalgia
Me too though it's : rainstorm hehe
10:09 - This was the level that was featured on one of the PS1 sampler discs that would come in the mail. This is how I found out about the game back then and bought it. By far the best level of them all, in my opinion. But I gotta lend some credits to the last level; between the soundtrack and finding out just how much of an impact your mission had on over 7 billion people losing their lives... very emotional level.
Same! except that the sampler game comes with the PS my dad bought for us. we hooked into this game and replay this game over and over even if it's just the trial version. my bro and I were blown away when we got the actual game.
Same here, 3rd Fleet blew my mind. I used to replay the demo over and over to see how many ships in the background I could take down.
It's so cool that now we're gonna get a modern release of both this AND its sequel RayCrisissoon . In both original and HD version. Coming to the Switch and PS4.
Man i miss this game so much.
It was one of my favorites along with Einhander
Agree
I thought I was the only one. Man those two games were one of many that MADE my childhood
Played Einhänder, I liked it, now will play raystorm. @Zafo24pl do know about emulators?
@@sipion697 yeah but its not the same
@@Zafo24pl I know, but still... It allowed me to discover those games.
Great soundtrack!
yea
old game soundtract always memorable and good quality
Agree
absolutely
If you like this then you'll love a band call Sky Eats Airplane
Still got Raystorm, and it's one of the reasons I've kept all my PSX games.
When Raystorm first came out, Working Designs had a contest. You had to play at a difficulty called Combat mode and if you beat the game you got a special code where you could enter in a contest to win money. Eventually the contest was over and Working Designs released a code that would allow the Combat Mode to be turn off and Free Play activated. The code is online if you search for it. They actually limited the levels you could play unless you were on higher difficulty and fixed many flaws that the original Japanese release had.
That shiver-inducing start-up, yeeesssss
Ah, the good old 32-bit days...almost as good as the 16-bit days. Raystorm was a bit of a throwback to that era but only in the best of ways: straightforward gameplay, selectable difficulty levels for all ages from 9 to 99 years, comic-book style graphics, epic boss fights and an almost danceable soundtrack.
Technically though the game was more than up to snuff, surpassing even games that came after, like Einhander, R-Type Delta or the disappointing Thunder Force 5.
I know your comment is 3 years old but I had to say: When he said Raystorm surpassed Einhander, that's when I took it personal 🤨 lol I havent played Raystorm yet but soon we'll get a final verdict!
@zerocal76 for real and I absolutely love Einhander. He be spewing heresy!
This game is really cool, i didnt ever get the full game but always played the demo version, it soon became an instant favorite. So a good nostalgia trip. 10:05
Jesus the nostalgia hits hard
thank you for playing this brings back memories since its the first game i ever played
I kinda remember playing the demo of this on a PS1 disc sampler back then and this reminds me of something out of star wars!
That soundtrack bro will remember it til death...
I played this game back in my Elementary days :) totally brings back memories
Me too, now im in college
Me too! Also I'm in college, I clearly remember to play this as a child on Christmas while my mom was decorating the house hahaha, good times.
Ein absolut fantastisches Spiel aus einer besseren Zeit.
Auch heute noch macht dieses Spiel unglaublich viel Spaß 👍👍👍
i swear in my memory it was in 4k graphic and not pixelated like this :DDDDD
Yeah bro, definitely 4K HDR 60fps 🤣
Remember playing this , sat on my bed back in s London growing up , ❤
wow, this really take me back
Here after Cyberpunk 2077. Never realized this was the golden age of gaming where you were able to play the game with no patches on day one. How time have changed.
Another fine soundtrack by Zuntata
I wish you uploaded in 60 fps! Raystorm (and Raycrisis) are among the most impressive looking polygonal games on the system, due in large part to running at 60 fps even with all of the crazy explosions and effects they have going on.
PFBM would 60fps actually make sense? Does any psx game run at 60fps? xD I'm pretty sure this is uploaded with native fps and native resolution ;p
Sapharan Yes, Raystorm runs at 60 fps on PSX, as I mentioned above. You can see a list of PSX games with 3D graphics which run at 60 fps here: www.sega-16.com/forum/showthread.php?26920-Games-with-3D-graphics-running-at-60-fps-5th-Generation-Consoles/
i'm suprised now. there is a lot of psx games that runs at 60fps.. i never notcied that xD
That's weird, youtube can do 60fps, so i wonder what's up with that.
Sapharan For some idiotic reason youtube only allows videos to display at 60 fps if they're in HD resolutions. To cubex55: If you re-encode your videos at 960x720 or higher before uploading, they should show up on youtube at 60 fps. (But this could actually result in lower vid quality, ironically enough.)
10:09 The most memorable level of this game (To me). Love this game and this level =D.
I have to agree with that lol. I remember that I always failed on level 5. (Carthage Base)
+Ze Medic I nerded out and downloaded the song xD. LONG LIVE RAYSTORM! lol
Have you noticed how the bigger shuttles have the middle part destroyed, while the smaller ones are entirely destroyed? (these darker ships at the bottom of the level)
+Ze Medic Actually I have. Must be the power source in the center rupturing, lol.
The 3rd Fleet level was also the one featured on the demo disc many people played. Great stuff.
First game I ever played. Still have the original PSX disc.
I missed the original RayStorm. Now I'm playing the HD version of the game
One of my favorite games as a kid
I need to steal my father's wallet again to play this on rental, then got beat up by a metal belt while back to home 😂😂
Game was hard but awsome. I was amazed the first time playing this due to only playing the snes at the time.
Locking on multiple targets at once makes the game very addicting
Shooter perfection. This game has it all!
My first ever played game in the PSX!!!!
Holy shit I was looking for this game
Forgot its name and wanted the soundtrack so bad :D
me too. so memorable.
The graphics haven't aged well but the soundtrack is easily one of the best ever made for a shmup! Second only to maybe Einhander...
grumblekin This game really pushed the limits of the PS1. 60FPS with decent graphics on a home console at the time was simply unheard of, let alone an arcade-perfect port.
Looks good to me
This songs sound track is better imo. The most impressive piece of musical work that einhander had was pretty much the first stage. This gane had great pieces stage after stage
Had a great soundtrack this game
Wow, this game takes place in 2219 which is 200 years away. I would be dead then.
Soundtrack slaps. I wish the industry would go back to having actual music that you can remember instead of generic orchestral hollywoodisms and ambient
R type delta has this problem, but still slap ass when it comes to stage 1,2,3,4 and the final boss ost
This soundtrack is memorable
This was my childhood.
I hope Taito re-releases this game someday.
They already did on iOS and Android for $10
Bro the fact that you never used one credit at all just shows how good you are at this game. Mad props. What difficultly was this on?
0:49 No enemy command ship below the R-Grey
1:12 R-Greys are already over the command ship
I guess the command ship uses the hyperspace speed and instantly arrived near Earth base from moon gravity catapult like other sci-fi movies and games like Star Wars or No Man's Sky so the scene might not even spotted the command ship.
this is better than asmr
fk that shit
this is almost 20 years ago...
Now 25 😆
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I love the arcade game this is great too!
I just played through Arcade mode on Duckstation for the first time since I played it on my PS1 (I still have the original game in mint condition but that's more or less a showpiece now).. Anyway I had it in my head for some reason that this game was easy, but the latter bosses are certainly not! I only had 4 credits remaining when the end credits rolled, but I suppose that's not too bad after not playing it for 20 or so years. Default settings/ship number/difficulty in the middle/combat mode.
Still, it kicked my ass pretty good, and overall I didn't like it as much as I used to, certainly not enough to get good enough to be able to one CC it again. I really prefer the first 2D game and I don't like Ray Crisis either. I had it in 4K with all geometry fixed and it looked amazing I will admit. If you want to play this game on a modern computer, use Duckstation with PGXP correction on and a 16x Upscale if you have anything from a 3060 onwards. It looks like a modern game!
But for me it was one of those situations where I should have just enjoyed the memory as the game is not the amazing game I remembered.
Damn, this shit looks awesome. Kinda like a mix of Nanostray and Ikaruga (or Radiant Silvergun).
O button, R1, R2, L1, L2 has no use 😂 But still was one of my fave back then
In RayStorm HD, pressing both laser and shot at the same time will trigger SP Attack
Looks great
That PlayStation start up
Gosh! I always died at zone 5 where got lots of stones.
asteroids
It's weird not seeing the "push 1 or 2 player button" screen.
Anything from Stage 4 is brutal, i keep dying many times to the enemies
tell me the blue mecha name in that intro
Awesome aircraft design ^.^ I feel like...that this game was remade?
Doggieworld3 It has a remake on xbox 360 (all regions) and ps3 (japan only)
no wonder GUNDAM OO-Raiser looks familiar
OMG THAT INTRO
ps1 ?
G Darius and raystorm? perfect.👌😑👌
i rember in a old gamepro they showed this game and the way they described it i was like i want this game but i couldnt find it at my local shops. something about it made me want a new shooter. but after searching i did get xevious 3d so i could play as tekken charecters flying
i used to hate these games cuz they were so hard.. i haven't played one of these since the 90s though so i'm not sure if i would still hate them or not
Playing RayStorm. Not using R-GRAY 2. How are you so casual?
20:01 how !?
The hitbox is on the exhaust (the green thing). Side wings are still fair game.
can you do syphon filter for psx?
a prrro infancia a dios :,v
Aww you are nice!
I have play... 7 age.
The end game. :')
cheat mode on ? /
anyway my favorite is R-Gray 2 for top score.
I never really liked early 3D. Graphically, Rayforce, the predecessor , was more pleasant to look at.
Also noticing that it sounds like they took Rayforce's soundtrack and only slightly rehashed it.
raystorm is way more better you dumb fuck!!! than rayforce stupid!!!!!
@@MasterExploder61 roasted him hard lol
Calm down Juan, Rayforce is still considered as RAY series hahaha.
That was just Kitten's opinion. Even if you compare it to, Raystorm's ambience still a lot more darker than both Raycrisis and Rayforce. Including the con-human conflict. And yet of Raystorm potentially placed on different Universe made this game as Rayforce of its own. That's why they made R-Gear to remastered Raystorm on PS3 in honor to prototype game of Rayforce: R-Gear.
Yea I couldn't get past the Red gear....shit was impossible to beat
ooooooooooooooh, chiiiiiillddhoooooooooooooodddd!!
Agree
What the Hell is a PSX?
The first PlayStation.
@@OverseerMoti Thanks for Pointing that out
@@OverseerMoti I didn't know that the PSX existed Until many Years back
Infancia total
I could never get past the first level
just practice you can do it
@@Blueflag04 it gets really tough in the last stages
laf my ass off is just like starfox or how uthers call it lylat wars in europe i think
I cant even tell wtf is happening!!!
i thought this is gonna be a perfect run..
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Estoy buscando un juego anterior al año 2003, que se le parece pero no consigo encontrarlo, tenia un máximo de 4 naves donde escoger, la principal era el verde, y el primer nivel era equivalente a este videojuego, así con las montañas ⛰ , los disparos eran en forma de flechas, y aumentaban si recogias las recompensas por el camino, como máximo había 3 vidas, por lo que se hacía un ranking, y ya por último, el 2 mapa era un escenario como en marte, con arena y casi ibas a ras de la superficie, y si, tenia mejores graficos que este juego, creo recordar.
Creo que te refieres a Star Soldier para el N64, o raycrysis la secuela de raystorm (si no me equivoco).
@@novato455 se le parece más al raycrisis, pero los escenarios no son tan futuristas, y los gráficos eran algo mejores ya que la nave que manejas estaba más cerca en el segundo mapa, que había muchos más, uno era completamente en el cielo, y podías conseguir vidas por el camino y creo que si tu nave la mejorabas, estoy 100% seguro de que el juego es anterior al 2003 y era un juego de pc, se podían jugar con 2 jugadores, cada pantalla tenía un boss y duraría cada una 3-4 minutos
sonic psx playstation 1
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