first, they got out a big core. then, they tried a bio weapon the brain golem then, the tetran then, another bio weapon, a gau and finally, none of them worked, so they tried a better way to stop the Vic viper, the covered core
....This is an excellent, excellent port! Wow! They did everything they could to make it as close to the arcade version as possible. Back in the day, people who purchased this game must have been REALLY happy! I don't think its fair to compare the arcade version or this version to the FC version, because they took a lot of liberties with that port.
Darrow Nemecek-Gulack Well I'd say the PC Engine version is the best, it's nearly arcade perfect but with an extra level, and difficulty options. The rare kind of port that actually improves on the original. I don't blame you for not getting very far though, this game is HELL.
BelatedGamer Personally, I like all the stuff they added and tweaked in the FC version. I MIGHT like it better than the arcade version, but I really like both games. I'll play the PC Engine version a little more now for curiosity's sake. Should be easier to see more of the game than Gradius 3, where getting past one level feels like an accomplishment.
Darrow Nemecek-Gulack Have you tried the SNES port of Gradius 3? It removes a few levels, and replaces one with an original, but the difficulty is lowered significantly.
@@Hellwyck Even the most hardcore players call them Shmups, hell there's even a Shmups forum for English speakers (I'm a member there), and once there was a French forum dedicated to this genre, it too was called Shmups. Kids don't even touch these games much, they are afraid of them due to their difficulty.
@@garsrandom4358 Then dies again lol. Though I believe Gradius IV is actually Golfer's third appearance. He returned in "Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction" iirc.
I can't wait to get my hands on the TG-16 mini and attempt this game, again. And have some some booze alongside me, because it is going to kick my ass.😆
I need to look up who the composer was on this. The OST still holds up. And I STILL don't understand why it took so long for this to come to the US in any form. It's CRIMINAL.
Throwing the existing Gradius I & II together as a Gradius Deluxe Pack like the PSX and SAT had complete with FMV opening and such would also be pretty spiffy.
The demo mode is gone, where the game shows off some of the stages, replaced by a kickass intro. And if the game is beaten on the hardest setting, you get an ending showing all the boss ships after getting devastated by the Vic Viper. Plus like the first PCE Gradius port, an extra stage.
For some reason I've always preferred the Famicom version of this game (and the 2a03 soundtrack, probably one of the best arcade to fc soundtrack conversions.) I have had my fun with this port though.
Also theres a very cool Patch/Hack for the NES Port called Gradius 2 AC Death ( www.romhacking.net/hacks/1574/ ) which makes it pretty close to the arcade with all the added stuff in NES Port still in there.
Yes, with a boss called Desert Core, even has a trick you can perform, and is quite risky to do, to gain an extra 6 lives (In the extra stage). There's a part where you can go to the top, or the bottom, which requires extremely tight movements, get through it, and the announcer will say YEAH, and you'll gain 6 extra lives.
A copy of this ran me $30, and I play it in Ootake (Magic Engine desyncs the intro for some stupid reason, the intro from the arcade, with the games listed by year, along with pictures from them), looking back, I don't regret it at all.
lightsouthaha for the PSP, yes indeed, there was just one slight thing that bugged me about the PSP Parodius Portable collection, some of the music got changed due to copyrights. Salamander one was cool with Xexex on it as well.
I'd like to see that lady who does that really good Andrea Libman/Fluttershy voice impression do a "Let's Play" narrative on this one. Oh for certain purposes, let's name the 1st stage boss "Philomena" so we can find out how she reacts when she is forced to 'kill' Philomena in the game.
That brain boss was actually ported directly into Salamander / Life Force as the first stage boss. Not only that, I recognized the aliens and the alien cocoons in the third or fourth level as nearly the exact same sprites that were used in Contra's final level as well. Oh, Konami, back when you were the gods of my childhood.
But Salamander is literally shown in the opening sequence of this game.. How could it have been ported to a game that didn't exist (by what you're saying)?
Look up people like Peg, or Seahawk, or Aquas, those guys are the true master pilots of Gradius, using no save states or other tools to help them win. I know one of the channel owners from a forum I help mod, he's said no skills are in these long plays (outside of one of the Mushihimesama longplays by a guy called Snake Eater, a young man who pretty much dedicates his gaming to 1CCing shmups). Those are the playthroughs you watch and go WOW for, true skill, lots of dedication to shoot em ups.
I tried the accelerators they only go down or up they don't go to automatically find their target and that's not in order That's more like that la la fenta I got to Vulcan the volcano in space where you mentioned volcanoes in space a volcano The house of Europe must have a surface to stand on not a space and even if it is broken those eruptions should not go all over but only down Because there is no gravity in space just like that exaggerated ice when you are close all the ice cubes and blocks of ice come towards you. Well, if it has a magnet, it's black or metallic like the eating spoon, and then it won't be transparent to us. So it's either ice or you're pieces of metal or it's pieces of magnets and it's something exaggerated with life to see it coming to you not knowing where to go to avoid it and the ship is so slow unacceptably slow
Lazer is good for multi hit your opponent and it pierces defense. A good offense. Ripple is good to cover large range of shooting allowing you to hit on upper and down enemies of Vic Viper position
@@infinitecanadian It isn't cheating, hell wait till you get older and your hands start to hurt from hitting buttons too many times. Your hands will be thankful for that turbo. The games also tend to give autofire as an option, and if the game gives it an option without having to do a cheat code to access it, then it isn't cheating. Save states are a cheap way to beat games, a good way to practice stages sure, but autofire is something that will save your hands down the line.
this game is asian trash don't buy into this impassable it's only designed to screw you over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again Looking to avoid some obstacles others Hold your way back or up or if they don't surround you in such a way that I can't protect you, you have nowhere to go if you hide behind you bump into obstacles you hide in front And the same way up and down and the same way this is Asian trash like the one who developed it Stay away from this game because it's a classy mess made to make money without providing the satisfaction of being able to have fun it's not a fun game
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I love the sound effects in this version, I think they're better than the arcade.
same, they made Ripple laser sound effect less annoying than arcade version
The original Gradius on PC Engine wiped the floor with the coin op.
It sounds terrible
@@CPS42069Nah, the Arcade one is better.
first, they got out a big core.
then, they tried a bio weapon the brain golem
then, the tetran
then, another bio weapon, a gau
and finally, none of them worked, so they tried a better way to stop the Vic viper, the covered core
You forgot that they tried a dragon that can split into 3,Intruder
Pc Engine forever - screw the PS4 - Nec we salute you.
....This is an excellent, excellent port! Wow! They did everything they could to make it as close to the arcade version as possible. Back in the day, people who purchased this game must have been REALLY happy!
I don't think its fair to compare the arcade version or this version to the FC version, because they took a lot of liberties with that port.
+Darrow Nemecek-Gulack (Millennium Eagle) They did with this one too actually; the desert level is exclusive to this version.
Yeah, I haven't gotten that far in any of the versions...
Darrow Nemecek-Gulack Well I'd say the PC Engine version is the best, it's nearly arcade perfect but with an extra level, and difficulty options. The rare kind of port that actually improves on the original.
I don't blame you for not getting very far though, this game is HELL.
BelatedGamer Personally, I like all the stuff they added and tweaked in the FC version. I MIGHT like it better than the arcade version, but I really like both games. I'll play the PC Engine version a little more now for curiosity's sake. Should be easier to see more of the game than Gradius 3, where getting past one level feels like an accomplishment.
Darrow Nemecek-Gulack Have you tried the SNES port of Gradius 3? It removes a few levels, and replaces one with an original, but the difficulty is lowered significantly.
Where has the shmup genre gone? I miss you, shmups.
"Shmup" was what kids called them, players called them "shoot 'em ups".
@@Hellwyck Even the most hardcore players call them Shmups, hell there's even a Shmups forum for English speakers (I'm a member there), and once there was a French forum dedicated to this genre, it too was called Shmups. Kids don't even touch these games much, they are afraid of them due to their difficulty.
@@Bloodreign1 im a kid and i play gradius
"I am the strongest!"
Gofer, moments before "death"
gofer after his revival
"I am the center of the universe"
@@garsrandom4358 Then dies again lol. Though I believe Gradius IV is actually Golfer's third appearance. He returned in "Nemesis 3: The Eve of Destruction" iirc.
I can't wait to get my hands on the TG-16 mini and attempt this game, again. And have some some booze alongside me, because it is going to kick my ass.😆
I need to look up who the composer was on this. The OST still holds up.
And I STILL don't understand why it took so long for this to come to the US in any form. It's CRIMINAL.
Yes and the game itself Whoever developed this mess should go to jail
The sound tracks is amazing
easily the best 8-bit port out there
i love gradius!
I wish pc engine would released gradius 3 on it to complete the orignal trilogy if nothing else.
True, although it does have Salamander, so that's something at least (and Parodius I suppose).
If someone could make a homebrew
Throwing the existing Gradius I & II together as a Gradius Deluxe Pack like the PSX and SAT had complete with FMV opening and such would also be pretty spiffy.
Gradius 3 can be a Super CD-ROM game which can be enhanched with the Arcade Card. Or simply an Arcade CD-ROM port that requires an Arcade Card.
If Gradius III was on PC Engine CD, It could be easily destroyed that Gradius III SNES (aka Gradius II Reboot) port.
0:57 Here come the little suns! Don't fly too close!
Fly The Vic Viper And Destroy The Core Once Again In Gradius 2 GOFER No YABOU For Your Turbografx 16 From Konami!
Gradius 2 on PC ENGINE is only fractionally diferrent than on arcade.
The demo mode is gone, where the game shows off some of the stages, replaced by a kickass intro. And if the game is beaten on the hardest setting, you get an ending showing all the boss ships after getting devastated by the Vic Viper. Plus like the first PCE Gradius port, an extra stage.
Was available on the Wii Shop Channel.
For some reason I've always preferred the Famicom version of this game (and the 2a03 soundtrack, probably one of the best arcade to fc soundtrack conversions.) I have had my fun with this port though.
because you're a casual and prefer easier games
***** For the most part not really.
+AntichristDemoncore That's rather unfair of you, the FC port has a lot of shit added in.
Also theres a very cool Patch/Hack for the NES Port called Gradius 2 AC Death ( www.romhacking.net/hacks/1574/ ) which makes it pretty close to the arcade with all the added stuff in NES Port still in there.
@@Hayao gradius 2 on pc engine is only fractionally tougher than arcades.
What a masterpiece
i never knew the pc engine version had an extra stage
Yes, with a boss called Desert Core, even has a trick you can perform, and is quite risky to do, to gain an extra 6 lives (In the extra stage). There's a part where you can go to the top, or the bottom, which requires extremely tight movements, get through it, and the announcer will say YEAH, and you'll gain 6 extra lives.
I am the strongest!
I'm just a small portion of empire bacterian!
is it just me or did nintendo took a page of the alien brain boss thing at the 23:00 mark when they designed andross's brian form in star fox 64
A copy of this ran me $30, and I play it in Ootake (Magic Engine desyncs the intro for some stupid reason, the intro from the arcade, with the games listed by year, along with pictures from them), looking back, I don't regret it at all.
lightsouthaha for the PSP, yes indeed, there was just one slight thing that bugged me about the PSP Parodius Portable collection, some of the music got changed due to copyrights. Salamander one was cool with Xexex on it as well.
Great Play!!!! You are awesome!!!
I'd like to see that lady who does that really good Andrea Libman/Fluttershy voice impression do a "Let's Play" narrative on this one. Oh for certain purposes, let's name the 1st stage boss "Philomena" so we can find out how she reacts when she is forced to 'kill' Philomena in the game.
Destroy the mall!
Classic!
"I am the strongest!" No, only Cirno is the strongest!
Average anime enjoyer
That brain boss was actually ported directly into Salamander / Life Force as the first stage boss. Not only that, I recognized the aliens and the alien cocoons in the third or fourth level as nearly the exact same sprites that were used in Contra's final level as well. Oh, Konami, back when you were the gods of my childhood.
But Salamander is literally shown in the opening sequence of this game.. How could it have been ported to a game that didn't exist (by what you're saying)?
It's called a Golem.
Salamander was made first bro
@@Hellwyck its a brain
His NAME is golem
Btw
I AM JUST A SMALL PORTION OF THE EMPIRE BACTERION!
If konami won't make gradius 6,then I will...
once again showing everyone how the master of game piloting is :) This looked like a harder, more detailed version of Gradius III
all the longplay in the channel are made with savestates, slowdowns and other cheating tools)
Look up people like Peg, or Seahawk, or Aquas, those guys are the true master pilots of Gradius, using no save states or other tools to help them win. I know one of the channel owners from a forum I help mod, he's said no skills are in these long plays (outside of one of the Mushihimesama longplays by a guy called Snake Eater, a young man who pretty much dedicates his gaming to 1CCing shmups). Those are the playthroughs you watch and go WOW for, true skill, lots of dedication to shoot em ups.
Why did America not get this game until 2006?
Mostly due to VRC4 and the failure of the TG16.
@@ArrisonChan But not even PSX release?
@@ArrisonChan gradius ii on pc engine marginally worse than gradius ii arcade.
@@purwantiallan5089 Not sure what that has to do with US releases, but I do agree. Extra stage is neat though
@@Nestalgba92023cuz Bernie was an ass
I love your longplays cubex55!!! :)
Got it 😎
Gofer Is Hardest Boss Ever
He truly is the strongest
Especially gradius 1 gofer !!!
@@Persac7I'm pretty sure Gofer only appeared in Gradius II, Nemesis 3, and Gradius IV.
Dat final "boss"..lol XD
So suppposedly the first game Koji Igarashi worked on... Not as a director, but rather a programmer...
Or as some of us like to say, he got coffee for the real programmers.
I like the 2 way missles better. But that is just my opinion.
I tried the accelerators they only go down or up they don't go to automatically find their target and that's not in order That's more like that la la fenta I got to Vulcan the volcano in space where you mentioned volcanoes in space a volcano The house of Europe must have a surface to stand on not a space and even if it is broken those eruptions should not go all over but only down Because there is no gravity in space just like that exaggerated ice when you are close all the ice cubes and blocks of ice come towards you. Well, if it has a magnet, it's black or metallic like the eating spoon, and then it won't be transparent to us. So it's either ice or you're pieces of metal or it's pieces of magnets and it's something exaggerated with life to see it coming to you not knowing where to go to avoid it and the ship is so slow unacceptably slow
It is still the same as the arcade version.
17:40 isn't this area from Nemesis?
Can't get past the 2nd level. Imma pro :3
Better than sound is good
Sound Effects are too loud. I wanna hear the music.
play it on a CD player then :)
@@ia3525 Okay thx!
見ていてハラハラする。
安定しない危なっかしいプレイですね。
もっと安定化出来るのに。
Glitchs And Bugs So Loaded
I never understand why people use Ripple laser for this game....that is the worst weapon.
Nah it gets bigger and expands
Not bad
The range and spread is decent, yes, but I'd rather have a laser that pierces through things over Ripple.
Lazer is good for multi hit your opponent and it pierces defense. A good offense. Ripple is good to cover large range of shooting allowing you to hit on upper and down enemies of Vic Viper position
Cheater! You used turbo!
The PC Engine controllers literally had turbo built into them as an option, so that's not really what you call cheating.
@@Bloodreign1 Just because a controller has turbo built in does not mean that it isn't cheating to use it.
@@infinitecanadian It isn't cheating, hell wait till you get older and your hands start to hurt from hitting buttons too many times. Your hands will be thankful for that turbo. The games also tend to give autofire as an option, and if the game gives it an option without having to do a cheat code to access it, then it isn't cheating. Save states are a cheap way to beat games, a good way to practice stages sure, but autofire is something that will save your hands down the line.
@@Bloodreign1 It is cheating if autofire isn't used as an option.
If you're preferring to hurt your fingers to keep pressing buttons be my guess
oh yeah your right ^_^
32:37
what he said? 32:32
"I am just a small portion of the Empire Bacterion."
this game is asian trash don't buy into this impassable it's only designed to screw you over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over again Looking to avoid some obstacles others Hold your way back or up or if they don't surround you in such a way that I can't protect you, you have nowhere to go if you hide behind you bump into obstacles you hide in front And the same way up and down and the same way this is Asian trash like the one who developed it Stay away from this game because it's a classy mess made to make money without providing the satisfaction of being able to have fun it's not a fun game