GRADIUS ORIGINS

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I can't believe they made influcca area into a whole game series

Personally I am not a big fan of the first three Gradius games. I know it's weird to say that in a review of Gradius Origins, buuuut I'm here for Salamander. And on top of perfect ports of Salamander 1 and 2 (2 being in my top 3 shoot 'em ups of all time) there is also a Salamander 3!! Which is great. Yes it is a little rushed, yes it is a little easy, but it feels like Salamander and it feels like the 3rd game we never got back in the day. So 10/10 M2. Now please make a Gradius Origins 2 Collection with Gradius Gaiden and Gradius Rebirth in it. Pretty please.

グラディウスⅢ バグでステージが壁の中を進みすぐに全滅。 高額で販売しているが、不良品にこんな金額を払う必要はないので購入は考えたほうが良いと思います。

M2 is probably the best when it comes to creating faithful, and passionate collections of early video games, and their collaborations with Konami have been some of their best work. Gradius Origins is no exception to this rule, and in many ways it is some of their best work yet. There are 6 games (7 if you count the JP version of Life Force as its own game) but M2 has included several variants of each that include regional changes, arcade hardware differences, and later version updates. Tons of DIP switches, and mode selections, all the modern emulation QoL, and additional HUD elements. The games are very tough, and can be unforgiving so don't be afraid to use the emulator features to your advantage as you learn. My favorite games were Salamander 2 and 3. Salamander 2 is a really unique and cool look with the awesome Option Shot system which is a really cool take on the traditional shmup "bomb". Salamander III is the brand new original game, and has some of the most creative stages and bosses in the series.

I had this one on the wish list for awhile. I enjoyed it. I knew of Gradius in the arcades. I knew of Lifeforce on the NES. It was an interesting concept, To be a ship inside a giant body. Like an antibody against germs. A concept explored in science fiction. Like the movie Innerspace, or perhaps the giant Vger cloud in Star Trek the motion picture, or the transformers inside Unicron's belly on The Transformers the cartoon movie. I appreciate that Konami put an invincible option for these games. Unlimited credits is one thing and it would have certainly mesmerized us as kids, the thought of unlimited money to play these games, but this in many ways much better. Allowing me time to admire the architecture of these games. Kind of like riding shotgun in a car VS actually driving. Or at a moving ride at a theme park. I suppose that Gradius and Life Force / Salamander are in ways sight seeing games. Like Ghost N Goblins or Castlevania. Explosions - I have always thought that Konami had the best explosion sprites w / sounds in their arcade games. Whether it was X men, TMNT, Contra, Super Contra, Gradius, Lifeforce, Or even the knew Contra Galuga. A silly idea but with so many getting into game development these days I think they could probably sell an explosions sprite pack w / sounds. In hindsite I am thinking that the straight beam weapon is the best weapon in Gradius or LifeForce. I am thinking that that weapon is to these games what the knife is to Ghost N Goblins. Options / Multiples - these glowing orbs follow and orbit around the player allowing them to use their primary fire and bombs through each of these satelites or drones. I always thought that gave Gradius / Life Force a uniqueness among all the other shoot em ups throughout history. Like a ninja swinging nun chucks. There are patterns there and techniques the player learns and uses to clean the screen with them. Bonus Features - It was a nice touch seeing some of the original clip art for the enemies and bosses. The sound player for each of the themes was cool, like its own little Winamp of sorts. But I am not a fancy dude really, stuff like that in a game for me is surely appreciated but not at all necessary. I just wanted to play through these games again. And I can now say I have won all of the Gradius / LifeForce / Salamander games. Thank you Konami for all of your games.

Another fantastic collection by the masters of ports at M2. This unlike their Contra and Castlevania collections does have online leaderboards which include replays. Multiples saveslots for savestates, stage practice, easy modes, a multitude of CRT filters. The only negative I can come up with is the high difficulty of the whole series, credit feeding wont save you without skill. The easiest title is Salamander 3, which is a new game made by M2 specifically for the collection and even that will test your skill if you're aiming for a prized 1cc. Give Gradius a try if you want to have a blast with an epic(in all the sense of the word) soundtrack, addictive gameplay, somewhat iffy hitboses and most importantly, SHOOTing THE CORE! Dont be turned off by its high price, the work put into these ports by M2 is nothing short of a bargain at its full price, no one in the industry does ports like those crazy bastards.

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