to beat this game, you must have low stress, regular exercise, healthy organic eating, and 8 hours of sleep every night. You also must have much confidence, because if you have any fear or anxiety playing this, the game will sense it and utterly annihilate you.
holy shit!!!! After 17 years i finally found out the name of the game that i used to play with my cousin every saturday/sunday!! Those were good times...
I literally just came here to say this. I was watching Isaac videos from NorthernLion and he mentioned this game. Talk about nostalgia...wow. I only remember up until half an hour in. Never did beat it
One of the most unforgettable shoot'em ups in history. I used to watch this with my older brother especially after school, PS. I still think that first boss is a ear tick.
So much so that it started as a glitch of sorts in the first game, but was deliberately added in in later installments and in competing game franchises as well.
When I was a kid playing this game, I thought the lag was purposely added so you could actually stand a chance in some of these insanely packed-with-bullets areas.....
+blow me If you want an intense scroller shooter, then check out "Summer Carnival '92: Recca" for the Famicom. That game is pretty damn intense, it is probably the closest that a Famicom game has come to bullet hell and it also uses a very interesting rave soundtrack, with lots of heavy bass and electonic-sounding effects.
Thanks! Ill take a look :) Love me some bullet hell. Surely youve heard of CUPHEAD coming out...? If not Id recommend to check it out... its a side scrolling bullet hell game styled like an old 1920's-30's cartoon. :)
@@ONIKdeftones To be fair it is a launch title so it is kind of expected at launch. At the very least the game is functional and playable despite the slowdown.
thank you for posting this. this was me and my moms favorite game growing up and this mother’s day without her hits different than the others since shes passed. appreciate it!
Really amazing run. More impressive than deathless, imho, because you had to fight back from no power-ups a few times at ridiculously late points in the game.
nah, a no death run in this game is practically impossible, it's a hell of a lot more impressive to never ever die because of the way this game is set up you can know where the enemies will spawn but they attack based on where you are and with so many different levels and attacks it's really really easy to fuck up it's rather easy to just use as many lives as it takes to complete the game, and a completely different story to only use one life or restart I think the furthest I have ever made it without dying was just past the mega boss rush
very, very impressive. I was impressed you made it through the boss rush with no shield, but to come back from the spots you died at... wow. great run!
One of my all time favorite SNES games. Beat it on Arcade. I would use the Reduce shield, with the Formation Option and Twin Laser. If you got all of the options, then picked up enough power ups to highlight the option power again, you could expand and contract the formation at will, almost covering the screen in a wall of lasers. Made it difficult for anything to get near you. Anything that did was easily evaded with your reduced size.
I use a similar configuration, with some changes. I use rotation option along with reduce and ripple/twin laser. I also go with small spread and tailgun. I often go with the full barrier for the exclamation mark.
31:45 - That was rough, it sucks when the game locks the players into those loose-loose situations. But either than that this was a fantastic playthrough! You played very well and I'm really impressed to watch someone to complete Arcade mode pretty much effortlessly like that! I was able to be easy and normal regularly. Hard difficulty I only Beat It a single time and I only had two lives left! OoO ( did you know there's actually a hidden level? Play second and wait until you get to the section where the ships are coming out from above and below and after you've destroyed all of the enemy ships and there aren't any more bubbles flying around carefully maneuver the Vic Viper into one of the open areas of the bubbles whether it's above or below. Once you touch the bottom of the screen the game will freeze temporarily and then the ceiling and the ground will disintegrate and the music will change taking you to a completely different area where you can rack up your score extremely high and received power ups much faster compared to every other level in the game. After that you can pretty much skip over the rest of the second level and go straight into the third level. It's really tricky and it takes time to get it right but once you can pull it off it's a really neat secret~) I was never able to get skilled at the game enough to be arcade mode though. But I always had lots of fun trying and improving. Maybe sometime I'll try again once by boot up the Super Nintendo again. Gradius III will always go down as one of my most beloved Super Nintendo games of all time. Thanks for playing and game on fellow-gamers.😎👍
There are at least 3 to 4 hidden levels in this game, the one you mentioned, stage 3 has one, the Moai stage has one, and the speed stage I believe also has one.
"I'm give up your appellation's technical monkey" was the most unexpected thing I ever saw after beating a video game on the hardest level back in the day. 😆
This game's hard as hell. I remember trying it out when I bought Gradius 3&4 on PS2, and was like 😳 I could barely get past the second stage. You make it look easy man, props!
i remember as a kid at the flame stage, i jumped for joy when i finally killed the 2 headed dragon and died to the exploding body peices right after......rip....made me cry so hard.
Have been searching for this game for so long, played it as a kid and would always make it to the speed level 😄😄 found the first Gradius on the switch but it just isn't the same 😒 brings me back, thanks for posting !
Thanks for posting this. I watched a playthrough last night that was very clearly TAS without listing that it was. This sure looks like you were playing!
@@Persac7 Still decently impressive! If you can beat Boss Rush, I'd say you have enough skill to be able to beat the game, since the Mechanical Base is only a little bit harder than boss rush.
Mula sa mga barkada! Yung tipong naglalaro ka nito tapos madami kang manonood sa likod mo na tuwang tuwa pag natatapos mo hehe.. sa pilipinas sikat yan highschool ako nahilig dyan hehe.. gradius 3 is the best arcade game ever. ☺☺
This was MY GAME growing up. Oh the nostalgia watching this video! This is straight up like a Nardwar question “Charlie, is it true you loved Gradius growing up?!?”
I preferred manually picking my weapons and options instead of the preset ones. Watching this gameplay, I cringe at certain parts of the game but she managed to pull through regardless. For shields, the miniature option is best because it makes your ship super small where you can dodge and squeeze through a lot of obstacles. By far, the best Gradius soundtrack ever!!!!!
Agreed! Best combo is E. Laser, R. Option and reduce. Like you said, you can squeeze into tight spots, still take multiple hits and the E. Laser and R. Option combo from a barrier around you that destroys anything that comes too close to you.
Oh man, you just made this so entertaining when you started the bosses stage with no shield! I was rooting here on my sofa hahaha And then you died in the next stage and was like "oohhhhh!!" Such a bad place to die! Hate when that happens 😂 I could tell how pissed you were at the last stage after dying twice just by the way you started playing haha Thankfully the last boss is the easiest boss on the run, so having not much power ups there is not really an issue. Awesome!
My brother was able to pass this game on arcade without dying with the only difficult part being the yellow lasers on the narrow spaces after the mechanical base level. Truly anyone who can pass this game has true skill.
ah my beautiful childhood, full of games like this that tortured me to no end just an fyi it's best to remember exactly where the enemies spawn and kill them as soon as they get on screen, it's a bad idea to let them fire at all tbh though sometimes you don't really have a choice but when you do you should definitely take advantage of that
Situations like that are exactly why I hated the double speed boost. I'd voluntarily die after the Speed Check level just to get rid of it and get a good portion of my stuff back before the boss rush. I didn't run speed down, I liked the shield refresh with the shrink shield.
The arcade version on Switch bodied me so hard that I have to go back to the SNES version today. The SNES indeed is still a tough game but at least this is for human beings.
Good run and nice recoveries. There's now a version of the SNES game without any slow-down - its pretty tough, though still nothing compared to the arcade game.
Goes to boss rush without shield. What a chad lmao. And I appreciate that you used type c. Most people just straight up used the OP combination of reduce and f option. That is also my pick but it's refreshing to see different ship type being utilized.
Childhood timeline : world one. Baby. World two. Realize this game isn't boring... World four really gaining confidence. The rock crush cave. : my god how hard is it going to get!? And when you get past it.... am I some kinda higher being?? Advance to normal mode and beyond. My vote for best Snes game. Here just for the nostalgia.
Feels like an imperfect remix port of the arcade game. The Gradius 1,2 and Salamander/Lifeforce references get lost with changed boss music. With that said, still looks fun.
A lot of people seem to complain about the slowdowns, but I actually use them to my advantage. It is VERY helpful to shoot as much as possible when there are lots of projectiles around, since this slows down the gameplay and gives you more reaction time.
I made it ! beat the game on that f***in' difficulty setting (using autofire). I try the second loop, just for fun...it's nearly impossible : enemy speed at its max, no weaponry...I hardly and painfully made it to the middle of stage 2-1. So i don't think it's possible to 2-loop clear this mode, unless you're a hardcore nerd playing the game 8 hours a day since it came out. Thank you for inspiring me. The run will be on youtube soon.
+TBYVGS BOS What is amazing is you don't choose your shield as "reduce". I don't play the game anymore without that "reducing shield" which makes the game A LOT easier. Great run, more deserving than mine !
+TBYVGS BOS Good job clearing this game on Arcade mode! The second loop does look pretty ridiculous, but I think it would be doable with some very specific practice. If I already didn't have so much on my plate I might give it a shot but it will probably be a while lol.
+TBYVGS BOS Yeah I purposely didn't use the best weapon setup for this run because I wanted to try a run without using Reduce and F-Option (which I think is the best combo in the game).
+METAL1ON Arcade version is not hard. it's UNFAIR. I make it to the end of crystal labyrinth without dying but I lose all my lives on that f***ing cube rush. SNES version is more balanced and less frustrating.
Bravo man! This is so impressive! You've earned another sub! I've only ever been able to beat the game on Normal. I think the farthest I ever got on Arcade Mode was stage 3. Haha XD
Kaway kaway sa mga batang gapo at addicts sa Broadway nung 90's. I stopped my 2nd year in high school because of these arcades games. Pero kung mauulit ang panahon na yon , I will do it again.!!!
heres a tip always go into the custom weapon select...reduce shield( smaller ship ) saves lives...f option rotating option best ones.... and e laser kills bosses fast or the skinny lasers c lasers not twin... i played this game way too many times one of my faves
I would always die at that ceiling flinging rocks at me and maneuvering the small spaces afterwards. Such a big spike in difficulty especially if you loose your weapons
31:59 is why I use E. Laser, R. Option and reduce. When fully powered up nothing can get in close to you and you only have to worry about dodging enemy fire.
I feel like some areas are hard to get to. This option peg is using. And the option that is in formation is a good one because it covers a lot of the screen from a vertical plane. You can be deadly with that combo as well.
Rosia "CrazyPlantMae" This game was one of the launch titles in America. The launch titles for the SNES were actually quite amazing: even the Japanese launch titles "Super Mario World" and "F-Zero" (which were also launch titles everywhere in the world) were good enough to start with, but America also got "Gradius 3", "Sim City" and "PilotWings" as well, and all those games were different from each other. Perfect start for an amazing console.
Minute 32 i was like :OOOOO what? really insane video, from minute 35 on I didn't have memory of it, so I assume i never got that far when i was a kid lol
![SNES Gradius III [Hard] (No Deaths)](/img/n.gif)
to beat this game, you must have low stress, regular exercise, healthy organic eating, and 8 hours of sleep every night. You also must have much confidence, because if you have any fear or anxiety playing this, the game will sense it and utterly annihilate you.
I have some of that I got past crystal core and the others but I was almost at mechanical base
@@Persac7 You need to meditate with the Dalai Lama for a few years and try again.
@@mr.4096 I'm late but I beat the game 3 times
@@Persac7 But i beat the game in hard mode 2 times !!
@@Persac7 but did you beat the SNES or arcade version?
holy shit!!!! After 17 years i finally found out the name of the game that i used to play with my cousin every saturday/sunday!!
Those were good times...
NoFrameHell took me 20years lol, n today is the day i found out T.T tears of joy
JrMedieval Glad you guys found it after all this time, it's really an awesome game!
Gradius is like Galaga on space cocaine. Frickin love this game. And don't even get me started on the soundtrack.
I literally just came here to say this. I was watching Isaac videos from NorthernLion and he mentioned this game. Talk about nostalgia...wow. I only remember up until half an hour in. Never did beat it
One of the most unforgettable shoot'em ups in history. I used to watch this with my older brother especially after school, PS. I still think that first boss is a ear tick.
In most cases, Lag throws a serious wrench into a game and makes it unenjoyable. In Gradius, Lag is your friend.
So much so that it started as a glitch of sorts in the first game, but was deliberately added in in later installments and in competing game franchises as well.
+Thebluedud
I like to think of lag as a "Matrix effect", which lets you react more easily to fast and intense enemy attacks, lol.
When I was a kid playing this game, I thought the lag was purposely added so you could actually stand a chance in some of these insanely packed-with-bullets areas.....
+blow me
If you want an intense scroller shooter, then check out "Summer Carnival '92: Recca" for the Famicom.
That game is pretty damn intense, it is probably the closest that a Famicom game has come to bullet hell and it also uses a very interesting rave soundtrack, with lots of heavy bass and electonic-sounding effects.
Thanks! Ill take a look :) Love me some bullet hell. Surely youve heard of CUPHEAD coming out...? If not Id recommend to check it out... its a side scrolling bullet hell game styled like an old 1920's-30's cartoon. :)
This game in my opinion is one of the best games.watching this brings back so many memories i remember\miss about being a kid in the 90's
One of the best games in snes history. GRADIUS 3.
In gaming history* other than sonic and mario
Soundtrack is superb
I agree
It actually one of the worst port for SNES, I only liked the retro vibe but the slowdown man..
@@ONIKdeftones To be fair it is a launch title so it is kind of expected at launch. At the very least the game is functional and playable despite the slowdown.
This was a lot of fun to watch. I felt how challenging it is. The sound of the ship crashing is so gut-wrenching. Thanks for posting!
Danny Phantom Fright Flight
Destroy Core!
speed up. option .destroy them all...
i do not regret putting over 200hrs into this game as a child
I put in a lot more time masturbating. A LOT!
@@modo236 lmao
OMG I can't believe you did the boss rush with no shield! 😱 You are a legend dude! I love this game soundtrack by the way!
Greatest music ever composed. Just took me back to my childhood
Best soundtrack ever man
Do you remember a bit of Ted Nugent in there? I watched this entire playlist and didn't hear it. th-cam.com/video/0c3d7QgZr7g/w-d-xo.html
What about Life force on NES?
i mean it's good but i still haven't heard anything that came close to wings of death
Back then when Konami wasn't being a jerk to the gaming world
Streets of Rage 2
thank you for posting this. this was me and my moms favorite game growing up and this mother’s day without her hits different than the others since shes passed. appreciate it!
33:25 my anxiety just went through the roof. That was an epic save!
Amazing! The song at 26:00 is so so good! This soundtrack ROCKS!
You have good ears :)
Gradius III, U.N. Squadron and Darius Twins were my top snes spacecraft shooters.
Me and my brother still play this and Darius Twins every year around Turkey-day / X-mas. Still love the games.
Really amazing run. More impressive than deathless, imho, because you had to fight back from no power-ups a few times at ridiculously late points in the game.
Daniel Holley damn I agree 10000%
nah, a no death run in this game is practically impossible, it's a hell of a lot more impressive to never ever die because of the way this game is set up
you can know where the enemies will spawn but they attack based on where you are and with so many different levels and attacks it's really really easy to fuck up
it's rather easy to just use as many lives as it takes to complete the game, and a completely different story to only use one life or restart
I think the furthest I have ever made it without dying was just past the mega boss rush
Delimon007 I beat the game without dying on arcade difficulty
No Body proof?
Exactly!!!
I legit thought you were done for at 33:28, but you managed to surprise me with that tight squeeze. Well done!
So many close calls in this game... it's terrifying.
the most beautiful game and best soundtrack ever!!...
There's a designer somewhere still having a laugh about that giant ass bubble of death they put in.
very, very impressive. I was impressed you made it through the boss rush with no shield, but to come back from the spots you died at... wow. great run!
yeah,i think he is a big hero, or video game master.haha😂
2018 still an awesome game !!!
Hats off to you sir. Good run. Glad to see i'm not the only one who loves this game.
Omg mi Infancia Resuelta en menos de una Hora, Casi Lloro de la Emoción, Thankyou So Much
One of my all time favorite SNES games. Beat it on Arcade.
I would use the Reduce shield, with the Formation Option and Twin Laser. If you got all of the options, then picked up enough power ups to highlight the option power again, you could expand and contract the formation at will, almost covering the screen in a wall of lasers. Made it difficult for anything to get near you. Anything that did was easily evaded with your reduced size.
Hawk-wind missiles too, right? If so that’s the load out I like to use.
@@Hyper_Drud yep
I use a similar configuration, with some changes. I use rotation option along with reduce and ripple/twin laser. I also go with small spread and tailgun. I often go with the full barrier for the exclamation mark.
31:45 - That was rough, it sucks when the game locks the players into those loose-loose situations.
But either than that this was a fantastic playthrough! You played very well and I'm really impressed to watch someone to complete Arcade mode pretty much effortlessly like that!
I was able to be easy and normal regularly. Hard difficulty I only Beat It a single time and I only had two lives left! OoO
( did you know there's actually a hidden level? Play second and wait until you get to the section where the ships are coming out from above and below and after you've destroyed all of the enemy ships and there aren't any more bubbles flying around carefully maneuver the Vic Viper into one of the open areas of the bubbles whether it's above or below. Once you touch the bottom of the screen the game will freeze temporarily and then the ceiling and the ground will disintegrate and the music will change taking you to a completely different area where you can rack up your score extremely high and received power ups much faster compared to every other level in the game. After that you can pretty much skip over the rest of the second level and go straight into the third level. It's really tricky and it takes time to get it right but once you can pull it off it's a really neat secret~)
I was never able to get skilled at the game enough to be arcade mode though. But I always had lots of fun trying and improving. Maybe sometime I'll try again once by boot up the Super Nintendo again.
Gradius III will always go down as one of my most beloved Super Nintendo games of all time.
Thanks for playing and game on fellow-gamers.😎👍
There are at least 3 to 4 hidden levels in this game, the one you mentioned, stage 3 has one, the Moai stage has one, and the speed stage I believe also has one.
Oh this game used to give me hell as a wee lad, but I've always had a spot in my heart for it!! Great SNES game!!!
the soundtrack brings me back.
I always liked the miniature shield.
bones10145 the mini isnt really a shield. It just shrinks you so it makes the enemy harder to hit you.
@Jumpy Cat hurt/hitboxes are a thing, look it up
@@fungifago aren't hurtboxes for fighting games?
@@HEMIpoweredherochaoyou can absorb a few hits with Reduce so it does in fact function as a shield ….with the added benefit of being harder to be hit.
"I'm give up your appellation's technical monkey" was the most unexpected thing I ever saw after beating a video game on the hardest level back in the day. 😆
Very impressive, you were humble enough to show a runplay where you died. You are a great player!!!
This game's hard as hell. I remember trying it out when I bought Gradius 3&4 on PS2, and was like 😳 I could barely get past the second stage. You make it look easy man, props!
Them skill shots with your options inside the boss's jaws. Damn.
i remember as a kid at the flame stage, i jumped for joy when i finally killed the 2 headed dragon and died to the exploding body peices right after......rip....made me cry so hard.
Ohhh same... Its my 1st time encountes that boss... Hehe
Get the 2 headed dragon to circle you so when you kill it off, the pieces will fly AWAY from you!
Have been searching for this game for so long, played it as a kid and would always make it to the speed level 😄😄 found the first Gradius on the switch but it just isn't the same 😒 brings me back, thanks for posting !
Thanks for posting this. I watched a playthrough last night that was very clearly TAS without listing that it was. This sure looks like you were playing!
Thanks. All my runs are real on this channel, I don't do TAS runs.
Kick ass man! I remember this game was hard as hell as a kid! I had fun with it but I died MANY TIMES before I finally beat it. Ohhh the memories. Lol
Nostalgia pura, era un niño cuando lo jugaba.
I love the soundtrack
Amo esse jogo !!💖💖💗💗 ay lover super Nintendo !!!!😭😭💖
Johnathan Jordan Sound effects are modest enough.
I remember I was 6 yrs old. Beating this game was one of the best moments in my life
When I was 6 I couldn’t get passed the bubble level 😂
@@Lashorty-de-RDi could just Pass the plant level, i was Stuck at the speedy level
And I'm over here, unable to beat the game on easy....
Lanky macCrazyhair same man.......
@@charaznableplays2110 A while a go, I was able to beat it. Keep at it, man. It's hard as balls, but it isn't impossible!
@@lankymaccrazyhair264 True I beat it on normal twice but that's it and that took me until I got grown about 10 years ago
I'm on easy and I get to that boss rush
@@Persac7 Still decently impressive! If you can beat Boss Rush, I'd say you have enough skill to be able to beat the game, since the Mechanical Base is only a little bit harder than boss rush.
This is already insane, but now that there's an patch that fixes all the slowdown in the game, a run like this would be complete madness.
Nice video and I'm glad that you put the losses in there also still awesome run
im not a great gamer by any means, but growing up through this era, this is one of the games i could NEVER beat. excellent work here!
Great game play. Reminds me of the good times I had as a kid playing this game with my brother.
还是小时候无忧无虑，可以玩游戏不用考虑其他事情。
Mula sa mga barkada! Yung tipong naglalaro ka nito tapos madami kang manonood sa likod mo na tuwang tuwa pag natatapos mo hehe.. sa pilipinas sikat yan highschool ako nahilig dyan hehe.. gradius 3 is the best arcade game ever. ☺☺
Yung nakakabadtrip talaga yung biglang papatayin ung switch...
True!! Ahahahah
Mas badtrip pa jan nung wala ka nang piso....tapos nakalimutan e pause...
25:22 my body's shakin when I hear the music (literally)
Lol it's an easy boss tho
Yep
Boss is too easy lol
I was born... out of the greediness of mankind... while men exists, so well I!
This was MY GAME growing up. Oh the nostalgia watching this video! This is straight up like a Nardwar question “Charlie, is it true you loved Gradius growing up?!?”
Ah yes, my favorite shoot 'em up of all time, and one of the first games I ever played. I never tire of this one! :)
Agreed. The space sections and boss battle music in particular always got me feeling so pumped!
I preferred manually picking my weapons and options instead of the preset ones. Watching this gameplay, I cringe at certain parts of the game but she managed to pull through regardless. For shields, the miniature option is best because it makes your ship super small where you can dodge and squeeze through a lot of obstacles.
By far, the best Gradius soundtrack ever!!!!!
Agreed! Best combo is E. Laser, R. Option and reduce. Like you said, you can squeeze into tight spots, still take multiple hits and the E. Laser and R. Option combo from a barrier around you that destroys anything that comes too close to you.
Back in the days when games had a satisfying ending after 30 mins - an hour of hell.
Lol yeah like a single screen of just text saying Congratulations!
Impressive - try as I might I was never that good to finish these kinds of games!
Love the "Easter Island" Figures,using "O" Rings!
Am I the only that thinks this game is hard as hell?
nope
Joey Peña game gave me fits but I still enjoy the hell out of it
And this one is considered by some to be better than the arcade version of Gradius 3 because it is easier.
Jack Burton All they had to do is throw some continues in the arcade version of Gradius 3. Nope! They had to make it practically impossible!
Joel Have you played the original version of this game? It has more stages and overall is WAY harder.
one of the best flying nes games with the best weapon combos i loved the laser ring option along with the mega crush!
Oh man, you just made this so entertaining when you started the bosses stage with no shield! I was rooting here on my sofa hahaha
And then you died in the next stage and was like "oohhhhh!!"
Such a bad place to die! Hate when that happens 😂
I could tell how pissed you were at the last stage after dying twice just by the way you started playing haha
Thankfully the last boss is the easiest boss on the run, so having not much power ups there is not really an issue.
Awesome!
This sound track was phenomenal!!!!!!!! One of my top 5 video games for the SNES
I love the bosses, stages and most importantly the music in this amazing game!
What can I say...
"I'm give up your appellation's" ;)
Great job. The Arcade mode is quite a challenge, even with those slowdowns all over the place.
My brother was able to pass this game on arcade without dying with the only difficult part being the yellow lasers on the narrow spaces after the mechanical base level. Truly anyone who can pass this game has true skill.
Where is our *Gradius Anniversary Collection* Konami?! 😭😤
Sadly not enough ppl care about 2d shooters, despite how excellent and fun they can be. Sucks
Retro Soul "Sadly, no one outside the hard-core and Japan cares about 2D shooters"
Fixed.
@@85futureshock This is sad but true. Its a very niche genre to enjoy.
@@retrosoul8770 I got my R•Type Collectors Edition for the Snes, but yes, something like a Gradius Collectors Edition would be great.
ah my beautiful childhood, full of games like this that tortured me to no end
just an fyi it's best to remember exactly where the enemies spawn and kill them as soon as they get on screen, it's a bad idea to let them fire at all tbh though sometimes you don't really have a choice but when you do you should definitely take advantage of that
OH MY GOD
I Have this game on my snes, AND I ALWAYS THOUGHT THOSE BOXES WERE AN ISSUE WITH MY CONSOLE
HOLY CRAP IM SO RELIVED NOW OMG
31:45 Even though there was no mic, I could hear the person scream the F word.
Situations like that are exactly why I hated the double speed boost. I'd voluntarily die after the Speed Check level just to get rid of it and get a good portion of my stuff back before the boss rush. I didn't run speed down, I liked the shield refresh with the shrink shield.
ahhhh good ol gradius 3, good times, damn good times.
The arcade version on Switch bodied me so hard that I have to go back to the SNES version today. The SNES indeed is still a tough game but at least this is for human beings.
Good run and nice recoveries. There's now a version of the SNES game without any slow-down - its pretty tough, though still nothing compared to the arcade game.
Goes to boss rush without shield. What a chad lmao.
And I appreciate that you used type c. Most people just straight up used the OP combination of reduce and f option. That is also my pick but it's refreshing to see different ship type being utilized.
Childhood timeline : world one. Baby. World two. Realize this game isn't boring... World four really gaining confidence.
The rock crush cave. : my god how hard is it going to get!? And when you get past it.... am I some kinda higher being??
Advance to normal mode and beyond. My vote for best Snes game. Here just for the nostalgia.
I’ve played this game on my snes over a thousand times and never get tired of it! Truly a classic shooter game.
Feels like an imperfect remix port of the arcade game. The Gradius 1,2 and Salamander/Lifeforce references get lost with changed boss music. With that said, still looks fun.
Isn't it crazy how non of us knew the damn name of this game but loved it to death 🤣🤣🤣
A lot of people seem to complain about the slowdowns, but I actually use them to my advantage.
It is VERY helpful to shoot as much as possible when there are lots of projectiles around, since this slows down the gameplay and gives you more reaction time.
Yeah lag is your friend here.
The fire stage always killed me. I’m guaranteed to lose a life and start from scratch on that level.
Great job dude on clearing this game on that damn hard difficulty! In this category it is for sure within the hardest shmups......
+Angelostar88 Thanks dude!!
right! the gradius/salamander series is one of the hardest shooters for VI players like myself. easy to get blown.
Megustava mucho jugar este juego también por las música que llevaba los escenarios
Te recomiendo Super Hydorah
i remember playing this for hours enjoying every single bit
Once you hit the stage 3 music the game become radical!
All the music is
I made it ! beat the game on that f***in' difficulty setting (using autofire). I try the second loop, just for fun...it's nearly impossible : enemy speed at its max, no weaponry...I hardly and painfully made it to the middle of stage 2-1. So i don't think it's possible to 2-loop clear this mode, unless you're a hardcore nerd playing the game 8 hours a day since it came out. Thank you for inspiring me. The run will be on youtube soon.
+TBYVGS BOS What is amazing is you don't choose your shield as "reduce". I don't play the game anymore without that "reducing shield" which makes the game A LOT easier. Great run, more deserving than mine !
+TBYVGS BOS Good job clearing this game on Arcade mode! The second loop does look pretty ridiculous, but I think it would be doable with some very specific practice. If I already didn't have so much on my plate I might give it a shot but it will probably be a while lol.
+TBYVGS BOS Yeah I purposely didn't use the best weapon setup for this run because I wanted to try a run without using Reduce and F-Option (which I think is the best combo in the game).
+TBYVGS BOS Arcade mode on the SNES version isnt even as hard as the arcade version set on easy.
+METAL1ON Arcade version is not hard. it's UNFAIR. I make it to the end of crystal labyrinth without dying but I lose all my lives on that f***ing cube rush. SNES version is more balanced and less frustrating.
Cara que nostalgia esse game e simplesmente fantástico poxa que saudades das epocas das locadoras
Bravo man! This is so impressive! You've earned another sub! I've only ever been able to beat the game on Normal. I think the farthest I ever got on Arcade Mode was stage 3. Haha XD
Thanks for the support!
No problem! :)
Btw, what's your favorite Gradius game, and how long did you have to play to get so good at all these Shoot 'em ups?
24:04 that felt like a movie scene, the slow down while dodging and the music matching the speed up.
Kaway kaway sa mga batang gapo at addicts sa Broadway nung 90's. I stopped my 2nd year in high school because of these arcades games. Pero kung mauulit ang panahon na yon , I will do it again.!!!
i love the soundtract of this game since when i was a child old but gold
this game actually the prequel to Lifeforce,the story continue afer you beat that brain
long le hoang thanks! Totally going to check into that. Had. O idea.
heres a tip always go into the custom weapon select...reduce shield( smaller ship ) saves lives...f option rotating option best ones.... and e laser kills bosses fast or the skinny lasers c lasers not twin... i played this game way too many times one of my faves
man i spent a lot of time playing this game got so good knew all the secret levels
MAN I LOVE THIS GAME!!!
I would always die at that ceiling flinging rocks at me and maneuvering the small spaces afterwards. Such a big spike in difficulty especially if you loose your weapons
Best game soundtrack ever
31:59 is why I use E. Laser, R. Option and reduce. When fully powered up nothing can get in close to you and you only have to worry about dodging enemy fire.
I feel like some areas are hard to get to. This option peg is using. And the option that is in formation is a good one because it covers a lot of the screen from a vertical plane. You can be deadly with that combo as well.
I remember this game blew my mind at the time, you can have MORE THAN TWO OPTIONS???? what dark magic is this???
Janne Aalto did you go through the stage of not knowing what they were and freak out with them following you thinking they would kill you...lol
OMG! I still remember this game when I was 7 😍.
Rosia "CrazyPlantMae"
This game was one of the launch titles in America.
The launch titles for the SNES were actually quite amazing:
even the Japanese launch titles "Super Mario World" and "F-Zero" (which were also launch titles everywhere in the world) were good enough to start with, but America also got "Gradius 3", "Sim City" and "PilotWings" as well, and all those games were different from each other.
Perfect start for an amazing console.
One of my favorite games from childhood ♥️
I love this soundtrack.....It make me wish to go to the space.
Who else hesitates on the Weapon Select screen just to hear the cosmic synthesized beauty???
Gradius 3 Los Jefes Son Sorprendentes Y Los Niveles Exelentes
This was my most played SNES game back when I owned one. I freakin' loved it. I used to run through Arcade mode all the time. This was a great run.
Lab this game so much. Miss my childhood days man! :'/
I remember the plant level being the farthest I ever made it as a kid. Jesus this game was difficult.
I imagine if the soundtrack is remastered in today's standard..
One of the games that defined my childhood
Minute 32 i was like :OOOOO what? really insane video, from minute 35 on I didn't have memory of it, so I assume i never got that far when i was a kid lol
Lol