Garudius (Gradius) '95 - Boss Run - Recovery Run - Part 1
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- Опубликовано: 5 окт 2024
- To Subscribers - The next portion of the Asterix LP has corrupted... so I'm going to upload this
in the mean time.
In what is clearly an effort to inflict the most pain possible on myself, I've gone and done the insane thing of attempting... recovery runs against Gradius bosses.
What... the heck is Garudius 95?:
It's a fan game, and a damn professional one at that, to the point when I first played it I was convinced it was an actual Konami product. It was created for the Japan only NEC PC98.
It can be found at: www.gradiushome...
What's a Recovery Run?:
Here's the basic idea: Get to the boss, and then die. Then beat the boss (and.. what parts of the stage it forces me to do.) with the few power-ups you get from the pre-boss checkpoint.
The hardest part about the Gradius series is, when you die, especially to one of the bosses, it's extremely difficult to continue. This is what makes the Gradius series amongst the hardest shoot em up's around.
I'm giving this great game hopefully a bit more video coverage. Enjoy!
As a general rule - the checkpoints in this game are fairly kind, which shows this guy showed some restraint where Konami didn't. XD
Boss Notes:
Hydro-Core:
The first boss to the has quite a few attacks at his disposal but isn't that hard to defeat. During the second phase of the boss he gains tentacles and starts firing even more lasers.
If he survives past this point he'll attempt to rush you and spray the screen full of destructible globs.. of.. water? I guess? He didn't live that long in this video.
Serial-Core:
I like this boss. :)
First phase is almost an exact duplicate of Crystal Core from Vulcan Venture ARC, to the point, much like that version of Crystal Core - you can sit in front of him and he won't move.
Second phase isn't much harder - the laser pattern is easy to weave between and the giant crystal lumps aren't a threat at all.
The third phase, now it gets interesting! You have to weave between his newly acquired shield, to deal damage to him, a nice attack. His laser isn't much of a threat as it has extremely bad aim.
Drastic Tortoise:
His bullet patterns can be tough to weave through, and the hardest part is just hitting the damn thing! You get hardly any power ups to use, and I preferred to take speed over the slow moving missile.
The second phase is much easier - in fact he can't really hit you whilst you're hitting him.
Grand-Core:
Oh dear. :P
Poor fellow - theres a safe spot directly in front of him! Stay there.. and.. well... see the results. XD
Being directly in the middle allows you to avoid most of his attacks, just back off when he eventually tries to ram you. (He should be dead by this point.)
Kougel Burn:
The level this things attached to is absolute hell, at least the boss isn't that hard!
Need to memorize the order of this guy's attacks, most are easy to dodge but his large fireballs certainly aren't - I needed an additional speed up just to avoid them. The secret is to keep moving - these things home onto you for a brief second.
He doesn't have much health - I haven't seen if he has any additional attacks as he never lives past this point.
Mistic (sic) Cicada:
Someone else remembers Lifeforce. :D
Ok, this thing is much harder than it looks. I found a couple of safespots by accident, and.. they definitely help. That eye-blast is nasty.
The second form is when it starts to get difficult. Staying above or below the beetle will let you avoid its spread fire, but you have to guide it as it crosses the screen. The most dangerous attack is the energy shield - it can be hard to avoid if your timing is a bit crap. The beetle also has alot of health - this doesn't help matters. 
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7:21 IT WAS PERFECTLY IN SYNC!!!
Yep
"The Hard war is cleared soldiers
then devote are highest legend
there are teach to young people
of next generaion"
"Also we low budget and very engrish"
Man finding this again brings me back to a simpler time in life
We were staying at a bed n breakfast for a few days while lookin at some houses with the hopes of moving into Ohio (with my father being retired from the air force we figured to take the opportunity to move closer to other family members) from Tennessee, and being fresh outta elementary at the time (for time reference I just completed my bachelor's in computer science this December), I didn't have much to call my own - I had an Amazon Kindle, a DS, and not much else in general
This series, and someone's playthrough of Xevious 3D/G, was enough to kept me entertained over those days when we weren't doin anything - it feels stupid to say that nowadays but like, I only knew about like
Damn, Konami should feel ashamed with all the non-creative bosses they have made! Learn more from this fan, Konami! I love the 3rd both very much, by the way.
4:35 Whoa, those plants are FIRIN THEIR LAZORZ!!!! Sorry... I couldn't resist XD
Gradius VI or Gradius 6 is on the way ... while Gradius V is unbelievable in the difficulties against the bosses ... we will see what konami will shows us in the future .... Gradius 6 will be something like a LEGEND to all Gradius games ^_^
aliultimate009 really?! You got proof of that?!
Just a choice by the creator of the game.
The first music is taken from Gradius 3's second boss theme, the second is taken from Nemesis 3 on the MSX.
I suppose he wanted the organic bosses to have music from the latter game, seeing how that game almost exclusively has organic bosses.
Makes sense
When I saw the thumbnail, I thought HOLY SHIT KING TUT!
When the video ended, i thought HOOOLLLYY SHHIIITT KING TUUUT!!
GRAND CORE?! FLEENSTONES?!
i like this version of the gradius 3 boss song, it sounds...subtle.
Heh. The programmer who made this game certainly both was a fan of the series and knew what he was doing, both in terms of gameplay and checkpoint placement.
It looks like he continued the grand tradition of making crystal levels really difficult - the tight flying combined with those floating crystals that explode into 8-way fragments look painful.
Looking forward to the other part of this run!
Wow on the 3rd boss the theme just reminded me of "Shoot the Core". I hope you can get that one going again ACE, that was awesome!
Parts.
:p
This game has alot of bosses.
The crystal level isn't as bad as it first appears - the 8-way fragments don't actually hurt you, and are just for show.
For the most part this guy showed restraint where the main series would normally go "yep, that's fine."
The final level is how-ever a utter nightmare. I guess he wanted followed Gradius 3 very closely in that regard.
Been playing this recently, I'm not great at shmups but this game is really really well made, it's very fair and the level design is great.
The boss themes are pretty damn cool for this game.
7:37 ZERO.... THIS ISN'T YOUR GAME... GET OUT!
Patrick Townsend boss: dude im just a fire zelos force mate
Vic viper: :/
you mean the final boss of kirby 3
8:55 King's Tut face is priceless,he is like:
This little bug burned my face XD
Wow, The 2nd boss REFUSES to die!
7:30 ITS DARK MIND FROM KIRBY AND THE AMAZING MIRROR!
Had no idea this existed
Crystal Core XD but th last one of the serials, remind me if one type of attack from the last boss of Contra 3/ Super Probotector
And woah! Drastic Tortoise was the one you showed when you did your ''next projects'' video o_o at the speed you showed it, the guy was slow, but now configured it looks an awesome boss fight.
Also very wicked bosses here are, konami should b proud of this fan made gradius :D
PS: Bad to hear about the Asterix Footage gone wrong :(
This is a lot like Gradius 3. Grand Core is fricking awesome, BTW.
It is ideal system of gradius which I expected.
And Damn... This Gradius Series Has Been More Older Than DOOM Series. How About... Fixing This Vic Viper With A BFG 9K Cannon, And Replace Missiles With Heatseeking Rockets, And... Add More Explosions And Blood In The Death of Bacterions With Visor So Beautiful, It Responds With Every Hit You Take (With Hit Points Now Added), And Replace Lives With Infinite Tries And Easy Power-ups?
Yeah! I Mean How About Crossing Brutal DOOM Mechanics With A Gradius Game? We Can Create A BRUTAL GRADIUS!!! Fuck Yeah!!!
N O P E, just remake it without the blood n shit and remove the doom stuff and were clear!
The game itself. Both are a central boss that open and close, and fire from their arms that they wave around.
5:14 That boss is straight out of Super R-type (Stage 3)
Awesome.
Whoa, this game Missile is actually strong, if not counting Spread bomb from Gradius II.
AWSOME! ty
@pminer1113 Shoot em up's tend to get harder. They nearly always have useless starter bosses - that's part of the genre.
This game has 22 bosses, and it seems a bit unfair to judge the game harshly just because you don't like two of them. Games tend to get harder as you go along after all.
It's also a Fangame, and running on a system with some serious limitations. Considering everything, it's one of the most impressive Gradius fangames I've ever seen.
Yes! This game is awesome! I hope you continue this run!
the crystal level is my favorite so far.
Are you gonna show all of the bosses in the final stage? What a pain that section was, even though it was ingenious.
@pminer1113 Wait, so you simply stopped watching after two bosses? That's like reading the first chapter of a book or five minutes of a new TV series and then giving up on it because the story 'wasn't developing fast enough', isn't it?
Oh man, what's the best way to play this on a modern PC?
one other question do you have any ideas why certain boss's have different music than others? like the pharoh one`
Saw kougal burn and legit thought it was a fiery dark matter battle from Kirby. Guess someone was inspired but I couldn’t say anything who
It just got knocked from it's resting place, wouldn't you be pissed off? XP
I wish there was a Soundtrack for this!
...Did you just say "Solar Assault"?
guys there was a side shooter game like this for the snes. i dont remember much accept the first boss is a giant bug with pincers like a stag beetle. if anyone can tell me the name i would be ever so greatfull
Athrizel the only game i can remember of having that type of boss is gradius 3
Was the first level of that game youre talking about a desert level?
That's Gradius 3 mate. :P
Check the Video Response i've just added, I did a video about that game a while back.
the gradius games are nice and all but it leaves me a few questions in mind.
first off all: where da hell do those cores come from?! and why?!
if someone has the answer then please share it whit me
thanks in advance
0:42 But Wait, Wasn't That Problem Solved In Gradius V, When You Can Finally Come Back, Claim Few Left-over Multiples, And Continue On, From Where You Died?
That was available on Salamander and Salamander II.
Yeah.
I don't know about G5 though. I'll have to take a look at decent level gameplay with deaths to see if you can recover like that.
I took a look at Wikpedia and it says that you can't recover like in Salamander. It puts you back on a checkpoint, losing all your items.
Salamander And Salamander II, And Then Later Gradius Games Have Recovery Function!
favourite part:
Tutenhamon likes oranges,it seems ;-)
King Tut was quite good XD
Always called him this way XD
k also when ur fighting the fireball boss when he swings that arm of fire. doesnt that remind you of the smorg boss from paper mario ttyd?
if we would like to match the difference in this game we can see that it's ideas may not be acceptable by Gradius Team if we've added it in some Gradius stages because the fan made game might be way different than the original but i must admit that the bosses attacks were outstanding ^_^
please don't misunderstand me but .... the pro players can master this game in a flash seriously after i kept an eagle eye on the bosses actions and processed it ^_^
Gradius IV on Hardest loop 1 is harder ^_^
Mistic Cicada aka DANMAKU CICADA!
I wonder how much money James would get if he dragged all those diamonds back to gradius and sold them?
Is it just me, or is the Drastic Tortoise's first form very similar to the second boss of nemesis 2?
What emulator are you trying to use?
Whoever made this really spammed armsmon the bosses. What was that music for drastic tortoise?
Hmm, Kougel Burn reminds me of a certain bloody...orb...thing from Salamander...
Mister Argenr you mean zelos force?
*a scream is heard in the distance*
:/
I can't even get this working...
Where can I find the rom and emulator for this?
KOGEL BURN reminds me of zero from kirby
9:04 the heck did he eat!?
How many attempts did this take you?
since the player had managed to beat the bosses with only machine gun then just let them self destruct in 3 minutes like they do on the most of Gradius games and leave the controller or the keyboard to me then you'll see what i can do to them in these 3 minutes XD
can you give me a specific name for the nemisis 3 one? im sorry for all these questions
Its Giant ROBO! at 8:25!
I wish i could find the music for the Cicada boss fight :/
The piece of music is called "Fighters Blood", and is originally from Nemesis 3 on the MSX. It was re-used in the Wii Ware game Gradius Rebirth, so a search on RUclips should point you in the right direction.
Here you go... this is a link to the entire soundtrack: ruclips.net/video/aGRumHgosM0/видео.html
I should reword that. I COULDN'T get it working. I tried about a year ago. I can't remember the emulator. Can you recommend one?
Are these original Gradius Bosses??
heh, not bad ACEspark, nor bad ^_^
Why is Tutankhamen a boss?
It's a reference to a similar boss in the NES version of Life Force.
I was going to ask, was this on the game gear?
Isaac garcia
NEC PC-98
The Great Agitator I said I was going to
Isaac garcia
Ok.
so your playng this on a nec 98 series?
nice moves!
wow tutunkaumen .!!!! very nice
Why the hell does the music sound like a dish?
dats fm sound 4 ya m8
Where can I find this game.The link in the description are dead.
Changed the link in the description.
You can find an emulator for the game at Zophar.net
I found it,thanks.
lol Serial Core gets no love.
gradius fake?
fan made
4:12 nice!