#GRADIUS GAIDEN HARDCORE GAMING SERIES#

But to say finally: GRADIUS V is the perfect Game for 2 players who wish to became heroes! And heroes are needed in this game. Some critic have every game I played, so GRADIUS V have one critic: Some situations are unfair and you must have luck to pass the situation. So I involve my Buddy and hours of hours passed until we reach the final confrontation. However, the explosions of the little formations in the beginning of a stage are a little weak, but you can live with it! And The Game Stage Design? Well I enjoyed every Stage, well-designed areas of asteroids, huge spaceships, you feel in place that you are in a deep galaxy. The Sound effects are great as well, you feel the bounce in your speakers every time. It was special because it was the first shooting game to have the weapons bar. A horizontally scrolling shoot ‘em up game, it was influenced by one of Konami’s previous games, Scramble, the anime film Lensman, and Star Wars. The Graphics are supreme and if you played it in 60HZ you will get a extra graphic effect when Stage-Bosses explode (awesome!!!). The first Gradius was released in arcades in 1985. It's a little too hardcore/unfair for my tastes, which is why I need to knock the difficulty down on the versions of it that I've played. G ghibli99 Member 3 Gradius III (Arcade) is almost universally regarded as the hardest Gradius. Example: with FREEZE you reach the cores easier, with ROTATE you have an extra shield for enemies (but not for shoots). Gaiden probably still tops my list as the best. All of this controls giving the game a deeper game play and makes it worth playing it again cause all controls have specific strategy.

Major debut: the all-new multiples control which includes: Freeze / Direction / Spacing and Rotate.

#GRADIUS GAIDEN HARDCORE GAMING SERIES#

With all features that the Gradius Series includes, supreme new installments debuts in Gradius V. Hence you get the incredibly painful to read run downs of every fucking detail.īut then you also get really amateurish descriptions on the writers personal feelings on the game after playing it for a few hours/minutes.Planet Gradius is in danger again, so the Vic Viper T-301 is on next mission to destroy the menace from the bacterias of venom. I would describe it as ' they can't decide whether they want to be an encyclopedia or a review site'. This for me is the primary fault of the site. That's why it always makes it worse when opinion creeps in: it's fine to talk about the game and its components, it's not fine to talk about the quality of a game you can't play. I never thought HG101 was a 'review' site, more an encyclopedia, hence the long windedness and dull/lengthy prose. Also, they lack an enjoyable sense of humor, the writing on vgjunk i.e. Many articles start with a generalization that is vaguely connected to the subject at hand, a thing I find unnecessary. I like the site a lot for its exposure of worthwhile games, but the writing tends to be a bit on the boring side. For a retro shooter package, Gradius III and IV is an excellent value-just. Generally, hg101 isn't a good place to get opinions about action games (gameplay-heavy stuff), they tend to be more competent when writing about adventure (atmosphere-centric) games. It's a wonderful version that nobody plays cause ''It's the arcade game Players control one of four different starships in their mission to eradicate the Bacteria army from destroying the planet Gradius. Many stages were totally remixed, with tons of added parallax. Gradius Gaiden a is a 1997 horizontal-scrolling shooter video game developed and published for the PlayStation by Konami. In fact Cotton X68K is a total remix, it has a few totally exclusive bosses, and the old bosses all have new attacks. Must not have even played it, as the very first stage has different areas, totally redrawn sprites, and the boss has a differentĪttack pattern. USA release, but it can't be emulated yet so therefore does not count right?Īnd while not exactly the same thing, the Cotton article claims X68000 Cotton is a straight port of the arcade game. Oops, Vajra on the LaserActive got an official

The article even claims no Data West games were released outside of Japan.

Not even trying to actually learn and get good at the game. The walls warping in stage had to be perfectly timed to make it possible.Īnd yeah I 1cc'd it on my real Towns computer, unlike the writer that just save-stated his way through on an emulator,

Sure it's challenging, but it's well made, some of the later level design is pure genius, According to them it's OMG TOO HARD IMPOSSIBLE!! Funny, I was able to 1cc it in about a week.Īlso difficult does not equal shit.

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