Housemarque

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The Reap
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The REAP - Weapons

The one thing that sets a good shooter from a bad shooter in my opinion is a good weapon system. R-Type has it, Nemesis/Gradius has it and Thunderforce has it, and thankfully, so does The Reap. The weapons in The Reap are nice and varied and they are gradually introduced to you the further you progress. There are five weapons to collect altogether, and they can be powered up, four of them can be powered up to level 3 strength, while the initial weapon you start off with is powered up to level 2. Heres a rundown of the weapon systems:

Ion Cannon

Your run-of-the-mill basic twin cannon, and the weapon you start off with. This is powered up to Level 2 strength. It fires forward, is moderately powerful, but is not really worth persevering with.

Blue Plasma

This is given to you in the first stage, and can power up to Level 3. It starts off as a strong forward firing shot, and upgrades to a more useful blue plasma spread, firing five directions. It covers a wide area and is very useful later on.

Electric Spline

This is given to you on stage two (underwater) and is fairly weak to begin with. It is a homing beam which has the same physics as the homing laser of Raiden 2 and later sequels, and when the Spline is fully powered to Level 3 it becomes a double homing beam capable of commiting mass destruction. Very useful when fully powered up.

Electric Shock

This weapon is much the same as the Blue Plasma in that it starts off as a single shot and upgrades to a fiveway spread. However this weapon is a homing weapon, and can also be charged in one of two ways to increase strength of the shot. First method is to leave it idle for a few moments the fire. The second way is to hold down the fire bullto a-la R-Type and let go after the shot is fully charged. Excellent swarming weapon, suffering from lack of strength and slow firing.

Flamethrower

The weapon given to you in the final stage, this has very short range to begin with, but when powered to Level 3 is becomes a mid to long-range weapon with very high powered strength. Is useless against some enemies, but can kill very quickly when used against others.