Yes, Gradius has an actual story. There's actually an anime from the 1980's, made by Konami themselves called "Salamander OVA", based off the Life Force (Salamander) series of Gradius games. Highly recommend.
Just learned about the OVAs last week and checked them out. I wasn't expecting a deep, articulate and well thought out multi-planetary war fueled by racism from Gradius but, well, it exists.
The anime is a bit of a letdown to me. Wasn't a huge fan of the Vic Viper's design in it. Also, no use of Options, and it ignores the Burton lineage which is a big thing in Gradius lore.
@@RetroNutcase It was alright. I mean it was from the 80's and it's not like there isn't many video game anime adaptions that aren't mature or shit. It did well for it's time and for what it is. Also the music was pretty good, orchestrated versions of the video game music and also had familiar enemies/bosses from the games, it was pretty faithful in that regard.
The original Japanese release of this called "Gradius Generation" has an extra unlockable mode and being a shmup doesn't really have a language barrier. I recommend that one over the western ports with cut content.
The German word for straight ahead is Geradeaus. I always thought since your ships go in one direction it was close enough. And thanks for making me think of my SNES screaming like Goku. That mental image is hilarious and will make the slowdown easier to deal with.
To answer your question, hell yes it's worth coming back to. My first Game Boy Advance game I got for my birthday in December 2001. The world had recently changed, 9/11 was still on our minds. It was an unsure time but getting a GBA and this game brought good memories.
Cool beans. :) This is one of the only Gradius games I haven’t tried yet and I’m consistently impressed by the way series can make it feel worth it to play through difficult sections over and over again to beat them when so many other games that tried the same thing just end up feeling frustrating.
Another sequel I wasn't aware of. And it seems like it's a pretty good one, being more forgiving and polished than Gradius III. I just love this channel
@sjake8308 They're, slowing, coming back to making games. I think "2020" really hurt their finances since casinos, their Pachinko machines, and gyms, their Health Clubs, had to be closed and, while things are opening up in Japan better now, they missed out on a big gaming surge due to "2020". Better Late Than Never. :)
I think it would have been better for the medium to sell their IPs to a better company… But I can’t stand the industry, so I’m bitter as hell. One toe in games journalism and I lost all taste for games after PS3/360.
@@GretchZ This is why I became a retro gamer. There are so many good games made in the past 30 years that I'm set up for life even if I never play another recent video game again!
Good review! I really like this game! It feels almost like a remix of some of the Gradius and Salamander games. It showcases some really cool sprite scaling and it definitely is one of the best shmups on the GBA. I think the only thing is it suffers from that issue that many early GBA games had where the colors have a bit too much saturation and everything looks a little washed out, but that is a minor thing. This game is well worth checking out if you're a shmup/Gradius fan!
@@sjake8308 Yeah, I know why the did it originally. The SP was a nice upgrade to finally have the backlit screen. There actually are a lot of mods for GBA games now to desaturate the colors on certain GBA games. Gradius Galaxies still looks incredible despite that.
Gradius Galaxies on the GBA is awesome! It gets overlooked because It's on a handheld. If you like Shoot 'em ups, you'll love Gradius Galaxies. It's the second Gradius to get overlooked. The first is Gradius gaiden on the PS1. It's one of the best Gradius games ever made! Check it out...Anyway, love your show, I watch every video you put up on TH-cam. I only wish they were longer.😊
I love the way they used battery save to make a shooter work in small doses: You can start at the beginning and try for the best score on multiple difficulty levels, but you can also start the game from any checkpoint (of multiple difficulty loops) and try to unlock the next check point. I loved playing this game when it was new. -Sturat
The severe slowdown and flicker in Gradius for SNES was not a hardware issue; it was a software issue and it wasn't Konami's fault. You can blame Nintendo's poor documentation for performance issues in the first wave of SNES games. There are patched ROMs that change a single line of code and remove most slowdown and instances of flicker.
Are you talking about the FastROM hack? There's also an SA1 hack that SNES Drunk covered in a previous video, though that's obviously a different thing.
WOAH I just recently modded my GBA SP to be really cute and Kirby themed with a new screen too and now I'd obsessed with using it more. So this was one of the games I bought for it. It's super cool and very nice looking. That opening with the lighting in the distance is great. I'm definitely looking for more hidden gems/lesser talked about games for this system.
It depends on exactly what you mean by "hidden gem", but Astro Boy: Omega Factor is a surprisingly good game (at least it is surprising until you realise it was developed by Treasure).
IIRC, Gradius Gaiden had the name pronounced three different ways depending on which voiceover you choose in the options menu: the way you (and the commercial) pronounced it GRAH-dius, GRAY-dius, and gruh-DEE-us. I wrote an absurdly long paper on it decades ago.
@@ChibiKami That makes sense to me, especially considering its Japanese origin. I always pronounced it gray-dius, and my old roommate pronounced like gladius, so I wrote an absurdly long paper about it to annoy him! 😆
@@TrevinAdams If I still have it, it's buried in a backup somewhere, but I'll look for it! It was mostly absurdist filler, iirc about ten pages long. The only substance was that which was in my original comment, and references to the relevant anime.
Good video and I agree. I too was quite surprised there's actually some stories, actual named characters (a pilot named *James Burton* and the evil *Dr. Venom* being the most recurring characters), and consistent lore within the Gradius games. Hell, for the longest time I and my family thought "Gradius" was the name of the ship but it's actually the name of the planet the ship is from and your protecting. The Vic Viper craft you used in the games is actually a series of spacecraft units and the in-universe plots of the games and side games such as *Salamander* span over many centuries. Like well over 1,000 years and whatnot. The very first Gradius game taking place in the year *6658,* Salamander in year *6718,* and Gradius V taking place as far as the year *8010* even. Sure it's all very scattered and not important overall but a fun little read and interesting for fans who may care about that kind of stuff. 🥴
Everyone talks about Silent Hill, Castlevania, and Metal Gear, but meanwhile I'm sitting here feenin for a new Gradius! This was one of the first games I got for my game boy advance too!
I'm too lazy to scroll down to check if someone already said it, but there is a special 'altered' ROM out for Gradius 3 that fixes the slowdown issue and the game is so much better now. Of course, once the slowdown is removed the game actually gets a bit harder, lol.
When I had a GBA SP, this was my favorite game. It beat out Super Mario Bros 3 and Metroid Fusion for me. To this day, it is still my fondest remembered game and also the one that I always forget the name of. My trick to remembering the title is it's a gradient like colors. And then, I always forget the name and have to find it again to remember the name. lol
I always thought there was a story in III at least. I imagined the giant head had a complex mind that imagined all these landscapes in order to stop you from reaching them.
My older got me this for Christmas one time. He knew I loved the Gradius and Shmups. A delightful bite sized adventure. Only downside is the GBA sound quality. I know it was a early release title but the tunes are good but could of used a little more polish.
Sadly the GBA's sound hardware was severely lacking, both in terms of the speakers and the sound processors themselves. The compositions themselves are fine (if sub-par for a Gradius game).
I heard the original Gradius 3 was held back by the devs. Because they wanted to save money on the cart they only used 2/3 of the CPU speed. Retro bit did a rerelease of this game years ago that fixed the issue.
Also, the programming looks intentionally bad. With sprites frames loading every frame instead of only when a new one is requested, the starfield sprites being loaded everytime dispite not being visible in some levels, etc.
Well, the SNES/SFC could do WAY better than in Gradius III. Shmups like R-Type 3 and especially Super Aleste run circles around Gradius III with next to no slowdown and flicker. Super Aleste fills the whole screen with hundrets of projectiles, enemies and explosions while scaling an entire background.
In fairness, Gradius III was an early title and Konami would have had limited experience with the hardware at that point. They did a pretty amazing job of porting Parodius Da! a couple of years later, which would have been around the time R-Type III and Super Aleste were released. SNES Gradius III was certainly flawed, but it was much, much better than Super R-Type (which was a similarly early title).
Wish the series would return... but I don't trust Konami anymore. So it's probably for the best it stays dormant. Gradius Galaxies has great music too. Took me a while to come around to it but I do love it.
You gotta love how this game has a different name in every region (Gradius Generation in Japan, Gradius Advance in Europe, and Gradius Galaxies in America) My two big nitpicks with this game is that the hitbox is kinda out of whack as they put it way in the front of your ship which I never got used to. The other thing is that the music and sound design is kinda weak which perhaps makes sense since it wasn't actually developed by Konami (it was actually developed by Mobile21). Other than that, I played this one to pieces.
I'm pretty sure you pronounce Gradius the way you would say gladius, the Roman sword, with a short a. One of those cases where R's and L's are treated as interchangeable in Japanese, but since it's a sci-fi game no one's ever really bothered to fix it because Gradius sounds kind of cool and exotic as it is.
Weirdly enough, I went back to this one recently having not played it since it was originally released. It's definitely a solid entry in the Gradius series, but being tucked away on the GBA means it often gets overlooked (Gradius ReBirth is also a victim of this). It also suffers a little from not being quite as memorable as the mainline Gradius games (and the incredible Gradius Gaiden). Having a different name in each region is also not ideal.
One Minute ago! Here we go :D This Game was on my Mister when i got it, is fun! Edit: Btw. Parodius on the Gameboy is pretty good, test it out! Maybe on the Super Gameboy, to keep it SNES Drunk ;)
What's the Gradius game that had the ship flying in a circle as the enemies flew at you from the center of the screen? I had a Konami 6-in-1 cartridge for the GBA with that shoot-em-up on it but I can't remember what it was.
wait the manual seriously mentioned gradius gaiden?! (another great sequel a must-play for original playstation) but don't think I got around to this one. been meaning to relocate a game boy advance so might have to look for this one!
This game looks and sounds great. The GBA is still a top console. Still, if I'm going to play a Gradius 'any way I can', it's gonna be Gradius 5 from the PS2 every time. You really owe it to yourself to play it if you haven't already. And probably R-Type Final
Yes. I can also confirm that Gradius Advance / Galaxies IS worth playing today … lucky 🍀 I got me my own CIB version for my GBA 😎🚀💥👾 which I payed over the odds for 😣
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Yes, Gradius has an actual story. There's actually an anime from the 1980's, made by Konami themselves called "Salamander OVA", based off the Life Force (Salamander) series of Gradius games. Highly recommend.
Just learned about the OVAs last week and checked them out. I wasn't expecting a deep, articulate and well thought out multi-planetary war fueled by racism from Gradius but, well, it exists.
big gradius fan did not know there was an anime thank you for saying this!
The anime is a bit of a letdown to me. Wasn't a huge fan of the Vic Viper's design in it. Also, no use of Options, and it ignores the Burton lineage which is a big thing in Gradius lore.
I saw those. They were pretty good, and made me wish we could see more movies or shows based on Shooter games.
@@RetroNutcase It was alright. I mean it was from the 80's and it's not like there isn't many video game anime adaptions that aren't mature or shit. It did well for it's time and for what it is. Also the music was pretty good, orchestrated versions of the video game music and also had familiar enemies/bosses from the games, it was pretty faithful in that regard.
It's a good day when it starts with a new SNES drunk video.
Thanks for being there, dude.
The original Japanese release of this called "Gradius Generation" has an extra unlockable mode and being a shmup doesn't really have a language barrier. I recommend that one over the western ports with cut content.
Ah, I actually didn't know that! It's not mentioned on TCRF, either.
Yeah the JP version has the Challenge Mode. Definitely recommended over the US or EU releases.
The JP version came out last (January 17, 2002), the EU release is the original. (November 9, 2001)
Also, he's playing the JP version as seen on 1:57.
The German word for straight ahead is Geradeaus. I always thought since your ships go in one direction it was close enough.
And thanks for making me think of my SNES screaming like Goku. That mental image is hilarious and will make the slowdown easier to deal with.
This was one of my favorites. Should’ve mentioned the mode that shows you exactly how to get past each part of the stages, even without power-ups.
Oh, yeah... the Help gallery...
Some of them are funny because the powerless option is just wait for the bosses to self destruct.
To answer your question, hell yes it's worth coming back to. My first Game Boy Advance game I got for my birthday in December 2001. The world had recently changed, 9/11 was still on our minds. It was an unsure time but getting a GBA and this game brought good memories.
I love when you step out of the SNES universe and do a 5-min review of some left-field hidden gem.
Excellent! Today is Nation Moon Day and it's all about celebrating space exploration! Right on for this upload today and great video!
Cool beans. :) This is one of the only Gradius games I haven’t tried yet and I’m consistently impressed by the way series can make it feel worth it to play through difficult sections over and over again to beat them when so many other games that tried the same thing just end up feeling frustrating.
Another sequel I wasn't aware of. And it seems like it's a pretty good one, being more forgiving and polished than Gradius III. I just love this channel
Hey you stole my comment, that's what I was going to say! 🤣
Perfect timing, just as I started getting into shmups again you upload a gradius video
It's like he knew this was the perfect time to upload!
Another SNES hatrick this week! Looks like a good addition to the Gradius library....and reminder that Konami used to make games.
...And many great ones at that.
@sjake8308 They're, slowing, coming back to making games. I think "2020" really hurt their finances since casinos, their Pachinko machines, and gyms, their Health Clubs, had to be closed and, while things are opening up in Japan better now, they missed out on a big gaming surge due to "2020". Better Late Than Never. :)
I think it would have been better for the medium to sell their IPs to a better company…
But I can’t stand the industry, so I’m bitter as hell.
One toe in games journalism and I lost all taste for games after PS3/360.
@@GretchZif Konami should ever decide to sell some or all of their IP they should sell to Capcom.
@@GretchZ This is why I became a retro gamer. There are so many good games made in the past 30 years that I'm set up for life even if I never play another recent video game again!
Good review! I really like this game! It feels almost like a remix of some of the Gradius and Salamander games. It showcases some really cool sprite scaling and it definitely is one of the best shmups on the GBA. I think the only thing is it suffers from that issue that many early GBA games had where the colors have a bit too much saturation and everything looks a little washed out, but that is a minor thing. This game is well worth checking out if you're a shmup/Gradius fan!
The oversaturated colours was a necessary evil because the GBA didn't have a backlit screen.
@@sjake8308 Yeah, I know why the did it originally. The SP was a nice upgrade to finally have the backlit screen. There actually are a lot of mods for GBA games now to desaturate the colors on certain GBA games. Gradius Galaxies still looks incredible despite that.
Have a great rest of YOUR day, bro!!
Say no the great reset
More GBA content, let's gooooo!
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This channel is awesome! Another awesome video man! I really loved gradius and finding another title to play is always a blast!
Thanks for taking the time to watch
@@SNESdrunk anytime! Keep it up bro!
this is the best written gamming channel. cheers my man!
I've been watching you for years, and I have to say, you deserve more subs, Mr. SNES drunk.
Your comment at 1:02 gave me an idea for a tagline for the GBA Gradius. "Same ship. New console" :D
Keep making lots of Videos I love watching your content constantly!!
Gradius Galaxies on the GBA is awesome! It gets overlooked because It's on a handheld. If you like Shoot 'em ups, you'll love Gradius Galaxies. It's the second Gradius to get overlooked. The first is Gradius gaiden on the PS1. It's one of the best Gradius games ever made! Check it out...Anyway, love your show, I watch every video you put up on TH-cam. I only wish they were longer.😊
Wow I had no idea this existed, always wonderful when you reveal a gem of a game right up my street :) Thanks as always for your hard work! 👊
The “screaming like Goku“ made my day. Completely makes sense. Ha ha ha
I love the way they used battery save to make a shooter work in small doses: You can start at the beginning and try for the best score on multiple difficulty levels, but you can also start the game from any checkpoint (of multiple difficulty loops) and try to unlock the next check point. I loved playing this game when it was new. -Sturat
You boys keep quiet down there.
The severe slowdown and flicker in Gradius for SNES was not a hardware issue; it was a software issue and it wasn't Konami's fault. You can blame Nintendo's poor documentation for performance issues in the first wave of SNES games. There are patched ROMs that change a single line of code and remove most slowdown and instances of flicker.
Are you talking about the FastROM hack? There's also an SA1 hack that SNES Drunk covered in a previous video, though that's obviously a different thing.
Neat! Looks great. Reminds me of playing the Gradius III and IV collection on PS2.
“… you can hear your SNES screaming like Goku” - man I love the scripts you write 😂
I don't know if anyone ever says it back, so... I hope YOU have a great rest of your day too, Drunk.
Enjoy the day thanks as always for
your dedicated work
NIce; just finished collecting some Gradius OSTs/ChipRips and always liked Grey-Dee-Us since the first game.
WOAH I just recently modded my GBA SP to be really cute and Kirby themed with a new screen too and now I'd obsessed with using it more. So this was one of the games I bought for it. It's super cool and very nice looking. That opening with the lighting in the distance is great. I'm definitely looking for more hidden gems/lesser talked about games for this system.
It depends on exactly what you mean by "hidden gem", but Astro Boy: Omega Factor is a surprisingly good game (at least it is surprising until you realise it was developed by Treasure).
glad to see you moving to the GBA catalogue ! good idea man.
Digging that music clip at the end.
IIRC, Gradius Gaiden had the name pronounced three different ways depending on which voiceover you choose in the options menu: the way you (and the commercial) pronounced it GRAH-dius, GRAY-dius, and gruh-DEE-us. I wrote an absurdly long paper on it decades ago.
the intended pronunciation is like gladius, a roman sword
@@ChibiKami That makes sense to me, especially considering its Japanese origin. I always pronounced it gray-dius, and my old roommate pronounced like gladius, so I wrote an absurdly long paper about it to annoy him! 😆
That sounds like a heck of a read if you still have it!
@@TrevinAdams If I still have it, it's buried in a backup somewhere, but I'll look for it! It was mostly absurdist filler, iirc about ten pages long. The only substance was that which was in my original comment, and references to the relevant anime.
@@eri4t4rk4 I'm sure it would bring back some crazy memories if you dug it up! That just sounds so over the top!
Its nice to finally see some GBA Drunk
Coffee and SNES Drunk...like Ice Cube said, "Today is a good day"
Awesome review man! This game looks fun.
0:59 Gradius Galaxies: Same ship, different day
Great game and great review!
Looks beautiful!
Good video and I agree. I too was quite surprised there's actually some stories, actual named characters (a pilot named *James Burton* and the evil *Dr. Venom* being the most recurring characters), and consistent lore within the Gradius games. Hell, for the longest time I and my family thought "Gradius" was the name of the ship but it's actually the name of the planet the ship is from and your protecting. The Vic Viper craft you used in the games is actually a series of spacecraft units and the in-universe plots of the games and side games such as *Salamander* span over many centuries. Like well over 1,000 years and whatnot. The very first Gradius game taking place in the year *6658,* Salamander in year *6718,* and Gradius V taking place as far as the year *8010* even.
Sure it's all very scattered and not important overall but a fun little read and interesting for fans who may care about that kind of stuff. 🥴
Just play this recently with my brother with the gameboy player.
Definitely a quality GBA game.
I literally just played this for the first time yesterday. Small world man.
Everyone talks about Silent Hill, Castlevania, and Metal Gear, but meanwhile I'm sitting here feenin for a new Gradius! This was one of the first games I got for my game boy advance too!
Missed this one. Good stuff
This was a weird time for Gradius. There were also two exclusives for Japanese flip phones.
Would love to see you review Blaster Master Zero one day, I think you'd find it dope
I'm too lazy to scroll down to check if someone already said it, but there is a special 'altered' ROM out for Gradius 3 that fixes the slowdown issue and the game is so much better now. Of course, once the slowdown is removed the game actually gets a bit harder, lol.
When I had a GBA SP, this was my favorite game. It beat out Super Mario Bros 3 and Metroid Fusion for me. To this day, it is still my fondest remembered game and also the one that I always forget the name of. My trick to remembering the title is it's a gradient like colors. And then, I always forget the name and have to find it again to remember the name. lol
Awesome thanks 👍👍
I've never played many shmups but I think I should try out Gradius Galaxies. it looks damn impressive!
Facts
It's certainly a good one. It's also very accessible for a Gradius game.
The music kinda reminds me of harmony of dissonance. Very solid shmup
Good stuff pal!
Gradius Galaxies is one of my fav Gradius games. Maybe even my fav along with Treasure/Konami’s Gradius V
I always thought there was a story in III at least. I imagined the giant head had a complex mind that imagined all these landscapes in order to stop you from reaching them.
My older got me this for Christmas one time. He knew I loved the Gradius and Shmups.
A delightful bite sized adventure. Only downside is the GBA sound quality. I know it was a early release title but the tunes are good but could of used a little more polish.
Sadly the GBA's sound hardware was severely lacking, both in terms of the speakers and the sound processors themselves. The compositions themselves are fine (if sub-par for a Gradius game).
LOVE THIS GAME!....Never got past the rushing screen towards the end. :/
I found this in a discount bin in Wal-Mart. One of my favorite GBA games.
I heard the original Gradius 3 was held back by the devs.
Because they wanted to save money on the cart they only used 2/3 of the CPU speed. Retro bit did a rerelease of this game years ago that fixed the issue.
Also, the programming looks intentionally bad. With sprites frames loading every frame instead of only when a new one is requested, the starfield sprites being loaded everytime dispite not being visible in some levels, etc.
Never knew this existed. I loved shmups as a kid, I don't think I ever beat one though.
Well, the SNES/SFC could do WAY better than in Gradius III. Shmups like R-Type 3 and especially Super Aleste run circles around Gradius III with next to no slowdown and flicker. Super Aleste fills the whole screen with hundrets of projectiles, enemies and explosions while scaling an entire background.
In fairness, Gradius III was an early title and Konami would have had limited experience with the hardware at that point. They did a pretty amazing job of porting Parodius Da! a couple of years later, which would have been around the time R-Type III and Super Aleste were released. SNES Gradius III was certainly flawed, but it was much, much better than Super R-Type (which was a similarly early title).
Yep!
I'm Gradius you covered this.
Really great game. Great video (as normal) :D
That game definitely looks good. The last Gradius game I played was Rebirth on Wiiware and it’s really hard.
Nice vid 👍
There's a book called Collapse that has a super interesting chapter on Easter Island.
Total length of video: 270 secs.
Total length of "SNES Drunk": 3.5 secs.
1.3% of the video was spent listening to "SNES Drunk".
Believe it or not, there actually is an official 3 episode anime of Gradius/Salamander out there lol
I played a lot of gradius 3. I would love to play this one. Unfortunately I no longer have a GBA and the e shops are shut down. 😢
Wish the series would return... but I don't trust Konami anymore.
So it's probably for the best it stays dormant.
Gradius Galaxies has great music too.
Took me a while to come around to it but I do love it.
You mean you didn't know that Gradius tells the story of legendary space pilot rogue, Gary Gradius?!
You gotta love how this game has a different name in every region (Gradius Generation in Japan, Gradius Advance in Europe, and Gradius Galaxies in America)
My two big nitpicks with this game is that the hitbox is kinda out of whack as they put it way in the front of your ship which I never got used to. The other thing is that the music and sound design is kinda weak which perhaps makes sense since it wasn't actually developed by Konami (it was actually developed by Mobile21). Other than that, I played this one to pieces.
Really cool.
Great video as always.
Any chance you'll do any TurbografX, Atari 7800, Atari Jaguar, Sega Master System or Game Gear games in the future?
It won't take long to do the good games on the Atari Jaguar! I'd love to see some PC Engine videos though, that console was sweet.
Ah.. yeah!
I'm pretty sure you pronounce Gradius the way you would say gladius, the Roman sword, with a short a. One of those cases where R's and L's are treated as interchangeable in Japanese, but since it's a sci-fi game no one's ever really bothered to fix it because Gradius sounds kind of cool and exotic as it is.
Weirdly enough, I went back to this one recently having not played it since it was originally released. It's definitely a solid entry in the Gradius series, but being tucked away on the GBA means it often gets overlooked (Gradius ReBirth is also a victim of this). It also suffers a little from not being quite as memorable as the mainline Gradius games (and the incredible Gradius Gaiden). Having a different name in each region is also not ideal.
Sweet 🎉
Do you know Invader from Lost Boys Games for GBA? It's my favourite Shmup besides Iridion II!
Yeah boi!
Are you going to do Steam Drunk again someday? Wanted to see your thoughts on The Ninja Warriors Once Again and Pocky and Rocky Re-shrined.
One Minute ago! Here we go :D
This Game was on my Mister when i got it, is fun!
Edit: Btw. Parodius on the Gameboy is pretty good, test it out! Maybe on the Super Gameboy, to keep it SNES Drunk ;)
"Polish that Konami games _used_ to have." Ow, that one really hurt.
What's the Gradius game that had the ship flying in a circle as the enemies flew at you from the center of the screen? I had a Konami 6-in-1 cartridge for the GBA with that shoot-em-up on it but I can't remember what it was.
I think you're talking about Gyruss, though it's not a Gradius game.
The name Gradius is the classic Roman sword "gladius" by way of Japanese pronunciation.
"Blasting the cholesterol out of someone's arteries" 🤣🤣🤣
wait the manual seriously mentioned gradius gaiden?! (another great sequel a must-play for original playstation) but don't think I got around to this one. been meaning to relocate a game boy advance so might have to look for this one!
Yeah, Gradius has a story, with even more lore in the European and Japanese regions.
I thought you were going to say “Same ship, different day.”
That “bloodline” looking level reminds me of “Life Force” on nes.
Yeah, it's a callback to Salamander.
This game looks and sounds great. The GBA is still a top console. Still, if I'm going to play a Gradius 'any way I can', it's gonna be Gradius 5 from the PS2 every time. You really owe it to yourself to play it if you haven't already. And probably R-Type Final
Gradius Gaiden is the best in the series for me, but Gradius V is definitely up there.
Hope we get this via Nintendo Online's Gameboy Advance library or something.
BITD I bought mine brand new for AUD$99.95 😮
Played that game heaps too
Yes.
I can also confirm that Gradius Advance / Galaxies IS worth playing today … lucky 🍀 I got me my own CIB version for my GBA 😎🚀💥👾 which I payed over the odds for 😣
1:15 😆3:00 Reminds me of Parodius..
Can’t help but notice that the vertical movement looks very sensitive. Is it as difficult to control as it looks?
Gradius has a story: MSX games (Nemesis)
Vic Viper comes up in Zone of the Enders 2
It's supposed to be Gladius, as in the Roman sword, but Engrish R/L mistranslations confused it.
Yeah, that dawned on me at some point, but I've never seen it talked about anywhere.