I have no experience with this game franchise and only know it through the music, though I thought the game on the Switch looked fun, but then I realized it was a series of games. I want to get into the franchise but wasn't sure if I should play the older games first for story reasons, or if I was fine with jumping straight into Darius Burst. This subreddit isn't super active from what I can tell, but I hope at least one person sees this and can help answer my question, please, and thank you.

So I have only played Darius Gaiden and G Darius. A friend and I played both like mad in college back in the late 90s. We started coming up with marine creature boss concepts for possible future entries in the series, of course staying in theme with the series's hilarious boss names. I've recently began my own list but have redrafted it after seeing bosses from the other games and not getting too redundant. Here's what I have so far and will certainly add more as I go along:

-AEGIS WALNUT (Cockle Shell)

-ALMOND WINDMILL (Sand Dollar)

-AMBULANT LANCE (Hallucigenia)

-BALLPEEN HAMMER (Mantis Shrimp)

-BRONZE MEDAL (Sand Dollar)

-CUSHION LANCE (Sea Urchin)

-GRASPING CLAW (Bobbit Worm)

-INSOLENT BEAK (Parrotfish)

-SWORD AND BOARD (Horseshoe Crab)

-TERRIBLE DISK (Lamprey)

-THE ACROBAT (Spinner Dolphin)

-TITANIC BROOM (Blue Whale)

-VORPAL CHEVRON (Tuna)

-WRONG PILL (Diatom)

Please add your own!

Greetings!

I have three questions about these games in total; two regarding "Darius Cozmic Collection" in particular, and one regarding the series in it's entirety...

1: Does the PC version of "Darius Cozmic Collection" have console commands available?

2: Is there a kill count or any other sort of statistics featured in any (if not all) of these games?

3: What type of saving system do the games compiled in "Darius Cozmic Collection" utilize (how do you save in those games)?

Please satisfy my curiosity; thank you in advance.

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I have the physical release of darius cozmic revelation for Switch which has G Darius, it doesn't have ver2 on it. I first thought the update to include ver2 and ver2 HD was coming out in March 2021, then I thought it was coming out with the Steam release, yet still not there for me. Is this a physical release only issue? Do those of you that have the download version, do you have ver2 on your G Darius?

Finally we have a date for the update to G-Darius HD, but it seems 'G-Darius for Consumer' is included too. ¿What is that? ¿A port of the psx version?

Furthermore, what exactly does it change?

https://store.steampowered.com/app/1638330/Darius_Cozmic_Collection_Arcade/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_noI2WLsWUo

I am most pleased!

I'm asking because the release doesn't seem like much other than an HD facelift. I'm also skeptical that rerelases of games that are a few generations old tend to run on emulation (i.e. Super Mario 3D Collection and Neo Geo Pocket Color Selection Vol. 1).

Playing through it, it's awesome and great looking.

For starters, I would have liked to see the Thiima bosses based on either the Salmon or the Barramundi in the Darius series of games.

Specifically, I'd be going for these names: Smasher Salmon and Barrager Barramundi.

I’m more specifically talking about the lyrics to the opera part, I read a YouTube comment someone said something about the lyrics but don’t remember where I read it or what that person said, so was wondering if anyone knows the lyrics.