The Wave Cannon, a weapon with the destructive power of a battleship's primary weapon, yet capable of being installed onto small-sized crafts.Ī variety of Missiles, each developed to compliment the special characteristics of individual crafts. The Force, a truly indestructible weapon, realized through a convergence of harvested Bydo. Humanity has developed many weapons over the course of the Bydo invasion. Some ships from the Tactics entries also appear as unplayable background elements in stage 1, and play a more direct role in stage 7.1. Achieving any ending also unlocks the ability to customize the title-screen's name and stage courses.
The game is very heavy on customization building on the basic color customization of R-craft in Final, Final 2 possesses customisation options for not only colors, but adds ship decals, a player model with customizable gender, suits, colors, and poses, and even a photo mode for the pilot and a chosen R-craft. Reading into the context, Jade Ross could also be the pilot from the original R-Type.
Interestingly, the pilot's name defaults to Jade Ross, the commander of R-Type Command, who is only otherwise name-dropped in Operation Bitter Chocolate. It explicitly follows Operation Last Dance, and the culmination of the R-99 Last Dancer. R-Type Final 2 presents itself as a collection of war memories, research, and records.