The player encounters more than fifteen types of enemy, not including level bosses. The ship remains locked at a set speed and cannot brake or speed up. Only the Game Boy Advance's directional pad, A, and Start buttons are used during gameplay.
The game is a simple forward-scrolling rail shooter, similar to the Star Fox series.
From top left, the number of lives remaining, score, and ship energy are shown. Despite lukewarm reception to the title upon release, Iridion 3D was a financial success, and influenced future Shin'en shooters such as Iridion II and Nanostray.īosses such as the Refusor usually have a single vulnerability-here, the green core. In contrast, critics derided the game's repetitive and frustrating gameplay. The graphics and sound were generally praised a year after its release, critics at Extended Play still considered it the best-looking game on the platform. On release Iridion garnered generally mixed reviews. More room on the game cartridge was available for graphics due to the game's use of the GAX Sound Engine, which allowed real-time decoding of song data in a small file size. Though billed as a 3D game, Shin'en used realtime encoding and resizing to manipulate the size of 2D sprites instead of creating a true 3D environment. Iridion began development as a shooter for the Game Boy Color when Shin'en decided to drop development and shift their focus to the Game Boy Advance, Iridion was the first game by the developer to appear on the system. The game spans seven levels from Earth to the aliens' home planet, each following a linear path that culminate with a boss. The player controls a single starship defending Earth from the alien Iridion.
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A launch title for the Game Boy Advance portable game console, it was released in North America on Jand in Europe on September 21. Iridion 3D is a quasi- 3D rail shooter video game developed by Shin'en Multimedia.
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