(PCE) Darius Plus

Taito’s multiscreen horizontal shoot’em up was ported to PC Engine in 1990, the first release was on CD (Super Darius) then 6 month later the hucard version was released as Darius Plus.
Darius is known for its huge robot fish bosses and for the multipath story : the first level is unique then every time the player finishes a level he can choose which one to go through; this ends to multiple endings and different difficult, similar to Outrun branching stages.
The hucard version lacks the original soundtrack as the CD counterpart but offers 16 stages and bosses compared to 11 of the original version; Darius Plus was released only in Japan.