AT first level 5 looks the weakest of the lot (level 6 is the worst)

Boring grey blocks literally take on a new lease of life as they cleverly morph into baddies... You don't know which ones are going to change next!

Here's an example of how a seemingly innocuous bunch of blocks morphs into a snake.

Quite soon you'll encounter a purple blob, which is actually the end baddie! How so? Well, after a few shots it morphs too, into variations of previous R-Type bosses! Great stuff - you'll find that the shoot-your-force-into-the-belly attack works on this one as well!

Don't recognise this one... has anyone seen him before?

Not much of a challenge...

Ah! thanks to the unknown shmupper, this boss is seen in R-Type 2 level 4. Cheers!

And neither is the 'mound' revisited. Again, old R-Type strategies work exactly the same here.

Until you get to the famous spinning circle, which has a nice new chassis.

Watch out when you blow it up, as it has a last backwards dash at you. Mind and get INSIDE the circle pretty quickly, as it speeds up to horribly fast levels after a few seconds.

After getting bored of morphing, you fight the purple blob again. And so to level SIX, and the finalé!