A classic scrolling shooter that really makes you relive moments and feelings buried in the past, and that's a good thing. Shame that level design sometimes is flawed, resulting in some frustration, and the graphics are not as good as they could've been.
Redux: Dark Matters is an interesting old school side scrolling shooter. If you are in love with these kind of experiences, you’ll find this game pretty fun and interesting, despite its flawed level design.
Redux: Dark Matters is a game to be taken into consideration if you are just in love with R-Type, and if you look for an old fashioned a shoot 'em up with something more modern. The problem is that the game does not excel in anything, offering solid game mechanics but without major innovations.
A fast-paced, old-school shoot'em up, fun to play while it lasts, but that unfortunately suffers from a poor artistic direction, a lack of original ideas, disappointing bosses, and a schizophrenic level of difficulty.
Redux: Dark Matters is not an exemplary shoot-em-up, but it is a rather a safe and well-executed one where fans of the genre can get an immediate sense of its influences.
Redux: Dark Matters on Steam isn’t worth getting excited about given the wealth of better alternatives, and even if you’re a Dreamcast collector, there are far better shooter releases for it in recent years.