![]() ![]() I suppose this part was added to make sure your ship was upgraded, but I found it annoying, as you can still be killed if you're upgraded (it only takes one rock to put an end to that ship). If your ship is not properly upgraded, you will be destroyed. Near the end of section one, there's a bit where these two volcanoes will shoot out tons of rocks randomly. The other sections have more of an enemy base feel to them as you fly through narrow passages and avoid A LOT of bullets! Turrets will shoot from overhead, robots will run along the ground and shoot, pods will fly out of bases, and all of these will produce a crazy amount of bullets on screen that can be very hard to dodge.Īs much as this game is adored, I do have some gripes. Well, it's a video game, so it doesn't need to make sense. I don't know if a programmer was drunk when he suggested they put easter island heads in space, but they listened to him, and somehow the series maintained these ugly heads all the way through. These have become a staple in the Gradius series. ![]() Section three is especially memorable for its easter island heads (which shoot rings of death!). There are six sections in the game, so you'll fight this guy five times.Įach section is unique. Each time this boss increases in speed, but besides that, all he does is move up and down and shoot. It's this round machine that shoots four lasers while moving up and down. However, the boss is the same thing in every section except for the final boss. Each section begins with opportunities to snag upgrades, moves into the main part with a change in music, and ends with a boss. ![]() Gradius does not have levels instead the game is broken up into sections. But that brings up another thing: this game is freakin' hard! If one stray bullet touches your ship, the whole thing explodes as if precious TNT were attached to its hull! The only protection you can get is the shield, but that will take quite a bit of upgrading to acquire. Here's the problem: if you die, you'll lose all your upgrades and start over with nothing that's right, your ship will be slow and powerless. Red ships and turrets will always drop upgrades, and you'll want to get them. These upgrades are the most important part of the game. Speed up will increase your ship's speed slightly, missile will give you the ability to shoot down (they also travel along surfaces), double will give your ship a second gun which shoots diagonally up, laser changes your gun from a typical gun to a faster laser, option gives your ship a pod that shoots along with the ship (very helpful), and ? is kind of like a surprise (sometimes it will produce a shield at the front of the ship, which is also very helpful). When you snag an upgrade item, the first one will become highlighted you can press B to upgrade or you can wait and increase in another area. At the bottom of the screen is listed the different upgrades in this order: speed up, missile, double, laser, option, ?. The main point of the game is to get upgrades which bad guys drop and enhance your firing power. The game starts with your ship moving very slowly and shooting a simple shot. The game is a space shooter (you have some serious problems if you didn't know that by now). This one I'm talking about here is the NES port, released in 1986 it was developed and published by Konami, master of the arcades. Of course, it was hugely successful, so it received several ports. The original Gradius was released in the arcades in 1985. It is perhaps the most famous shooter series in video game history. A game that is very difficult, yet soars high after all these years. ![]()
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