I have watched hundreds of Gradius V players over the years and I am a player myself, but I have never seen a playthrough like this. The playthrough takes everything you know about Gradius's mechanics and you flip them on their head. Strategic posiitioning with multiples whilst using the E laser is excellent, and the selective charge firing takes some knowledge as to when to fire the E laser.
THE greatest shmup ever created. There are a few that come close (Ikaruga, R-Type) but none surpass this masterpiece. I still have it on PS2 both used and MIB, just wish they'd do a remaster for current gen. It'd be great on the go on Switch.
Gradius V is surprisingly still graphically impressive even after all this time. The level design is very good too. You can tell there was passion put into making this game. It's sad to see Konami practically abandon this franchise.
It's sad to see Konami, a once great video game publisher, almost completely abandon video games in general and become a mockery of their former selves. Seriously, someone with deep pockets just needs to buy out Konami's classic franchises.
Overall I think that Konami stopped making shoot em up because the genre became in a pretty small niche market, the last based in Gradius if I am not wrong was "Otomedius Excelent" exclusively for the Xbox 360. I think Gradius will back in some point of the future, I also love Gradius is my favorite shoot em up. About Konami itself the things were pretty harsh for the company between 2015 - 2017, but them are improving now, maybe not great but I think I can call it "good". About the mockery I think is pretty easy ignore it, foolish people (The people swearing and being rude) don't deserve much time but I think out there is people that have proper criticism for the company and them know that the proper way to critize Konami is not buying the games from the company. At least it seems like most people still trust in the company, the 1 millions copies sold of Super Bomberman R are a proof of that and the rude comments usually don't get too much attention compared to the nice comments. I wish them the best, hopefully next years will be better for the company. Hope dies last, and if not out there are more than 100+ worthy Konami old games that are worth checking. (At least for me, sorry if I sounded like speaking for you)
The sound design on this game is incredible, and so is the music. (I only found out recently that it's the same guy who did the music for Final Fantasy Tactics and FF XII).
Lol just been watching again this game is visually stunning and the audio is amazing too, got all the tracks on myipod. I wish a hd port would be released.
Gradius is my favorite shoot em up of all times so I like a lot to meet other fans from the franchise. I have seen a lot of videos from other shoot em up from Konami where people beat them in the hardest loop and not losing lifes. This video is pretty impressive!! Gradius V has a lot of intense and hard sequences and it is a great spectacle watching gamers with nerves of steel playing the whole game and beating them with no deaths. Congratulations, I am sure that it wasn't quite easy beat this. Destroy the core!!
Dude this is what intimidates me with Gradius games. There's just so many things going on and it's stressful to play. That doesn't mean though that it is not a good game, obviously it is. Looking at this, it was ahead so much of it's time before. The game aged well honestly.
I used to play every chance I had. I've been all the way to deep in loop 3 without dying. I absolutely love the intensity of this game. To this day I haven't seen any game get near this level of concentration. Excellent run 😎💯🚀
PEG, I can say it man, even after rewatching this dozens of times, dammit man, your skill with this game is unmatched. If this is as hard as the game can get, pending no subsequent loops are harder, you are the absolute best. *Tips hat*
i was thinking of what i could say....the kaizo gradius was pretty funny, but i would have loved to stood behind you at the arcade back in the day and watch you play something like this.
Ohhh... Gradius Loop. I remember my best Gradius loop is Gradius 1... 8 Loops then I got sleepy and died a hilariously miserable fate of just staring at the screen and bumping into objects till Game Over. My friend who was watching was dumbfounded and thought I got tired but when I explained my brain actually went off there for a little while, he said "What the heck? You actually fell asleep with open eyes?" That was when I was a Young Great Gamer Enthusiast. Now I'm just a random normal gamer who's fangs have become dull and lost its instinct.
Konami hired Treasure to make this game I think. Say what you will about Treasure, but they sure know how to make an awesome shmups. Ikaruga. Radiant Silvergun. Gradius V. Someone needs to hire those Treasure guys to make a new shmups on the new consoles.
Que jáponeses que son los creadores y por ende uno de los países donde más se consume videojuegos porque son los creadores se sorprendan de como pasas GV es que estas en un nivel Dios, yo soy fans de Gradius desde la NES hasta este última versión de PS2 su ost, los efectos, los gráficos, la historia, los jefes, sub jefes y naves bacterians; todo es fabuloso de este video juego se lucieron en su totalidad ¡Gloria siempre a gradius y a la VIC VIPER!
this wansnt originally going to be called gradius. the original was supposed to be called "gladius", but a japanese-english error, but it kept its name due to the fanbase.
In all the Gradius games, there's always an open passage behind the extremely weak final boss. ...what if we used our warp engines to go around all the BS levels and CAME IN from that back door? 🤔
great channel, I love all the games you play, I must ask what controller are you using? I had a Saturn pad for my PSX shmups back in the day before I sold most of my older systems and games
+Rob Dobson Thanks! Back when I played this in 2014 I was using a PSOne pad (the controller that came with the small, white PSOne). Now I'm using Sega Saturn pad with a PSX adapter.
By the way. I just recently made it to the stage 7 boss on Gradius III SNES, before getting a game over. I've beaten the game on Normal Mode multiple times, but that's the farthest I've even gotten on Arcade Mode. I'm nowhere near as good as you (obviously), but I am getting better! ;) I think I just shaved a year off my live playing that though. Haha!
I grew up with GI~GIII & Salamander (arcade, 1985~1990), and there used be a lot of Japanese players being at this level.....except you go above & beyond. Quite impressive (I used to loop 7~8 on GII, but on GV I keep crashing into walls lol). I still can't beat the boss at the meteor stage without losing 2~3 Vipers, and the high-speed stage is a joke (those damn shutters). GV is insanely difficult (GIV was even worse).
I HATE STAGE 7. The traps in part 1 are ridiculous because when you die- it starts a chain reaction of deaths. Even the best players get destroyed here.
![[TAS] Great Bishi Bashi Champ](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/1SBWtAJprCw/mqdefault.jpg)
I have watched hundreds of Gradius V players over the years and I am a player myself, but I have never seen a playthrough like this. The playthrough takes everything you know about Gradius's mechanics and you flip them on their head. Strategic posiitioning with multiples whilst using the E laser is excellent, and the selective charge firing takes some knowledge as to when to fire the E laser.
GRADIUS V even in 2023 is still legendary.
THE greatest shmup ever created. There are a few that come close (Ikaruga, R-Type) but none surpass this masterpiece. I still have it on PS2 both used and MIB, just wish they'd do a remaster for current gen. It'd be great on the go on Switch.
Gradius V is surprisingly still graphically impressive even after all this time. The level design is very good too. You can tell there was passion put into making this game. It's sad to see Konami practically abandon this franchise.
All the blue is so deadly and so so beautiful
It's sad to see Konami, a once great video game publisher, almost completely abandon video games in general and become a mockery of their former selves. Seriously, someone with deep pockets just needs to buy out Konami's classic franchises.
Overall I think that Konami stopped making shoot em up because the genre became in a pretty small niche market, the last based in Gradius if I am not wrong was "Otomedius Excelent" exclusively for the Xbox 360.
I think Gradius will back in some point of the future, I also love Gradius is my favorite shoot em up.
About Konami itself the things were pretty harsh for the company between 2015 - 2017, but them are improving now, maybe not great but I think I can call it "good".
About the mockery I think is pretty easy ignore it, foolish people (The people swearing and being rude) don't deserve much time but I think out there is people that have proper criticism for the company and them know that the proper way to critize Konami is not buying the games from the company.
At least it seems like most people still trust in the company, the 1 millions copies sold of Super Bomberman R are a proof of that and the rude comments usually don't get too much attention compared to the nice comments.
I wish them the best, hopefully next years will be better for the company.
Hope dies last, and if not out there are more than 100+ worthy Konami old games that are worth checking. (At least for me, sorry if I sounded like speaking for you)
@@MrSuperspeedsonic they should give the rights to Treasure, cause it looks like its in good hands!
Making a true Gradius Collection like on PSP but for PC and current gen consoles would be a good begining
The sound design on this game is incredible, and so is the music. (I only found out recently that it's the same guy who did the music for Final Fantasy Tactics and FF XII).
FF TACTICS?
ＢＧＭが神ってるところ，弾幕やエフェクト含め全てが美しいに尽きる…
人間やめてるレベルのプレイヤー。
更にこんな鬼畜ゲーム作ってしまうメーカー。どちらにも脱帽です。
Very impressive skills you got. Never seen any one play this kind of level. Its insane!!!
Especially on loop 6 to 8.
Dude this is plain I N S A N E !!! My respects to you sir. And in the Operation Wolf final words
YOU ARE A REAL PRO
I ever lasted 9 loops.
Lol just been watching again this game is visually stunning and the audio is amazing too, got all the tracks on myipod. I wish a hd port would be released.
Gradius is my favorite shoot em up of all times so I like a lot to meet other fans from the franchise.
I have seen a lot of videos from other shoot em up from Konami where people beat them in the hardest loop and not losing lifes.
This video is pretty impressive!! Gradius V has a lot of intense and hard sequences and it is a great spectacle watching gamers with nerves of steel playing the whole game and beating them with no deaths.
Congratulations, I am sure that it wasn't quite easy beat this.
Destroy the core!!
Dude this is what intimidates me with Gradius games. There's just so many things going on and it's stressful to play. That doesn't mean though that it is not a good game, obviously it is. Looking at this, it was ahead so much of it's time before. The game aged well honestly.
宇宙戦争が起きたら、この人に託そう。
Simply beautiful. Well done!
That is some arcade level serious bullet hell. Im impressed.
デザインから音楽まで、センス抜群だよな、、完璧。 クリアできなかったが、、
I used to play every chance I had. I've been all the way to deep in loop 3 without dying. I absolutely love the intensity of this game. To this day I haven't seen any game get near this level of concentration. Excellent run 😎💯🚀
For me i ever lasted 8 loops.
PEG, I can say it man, even after rewatching this dozens of times, dammit man, your skill with this game is unmatched. If this is as hard as the game can get, pending no subsequent loops are harder, you are the absolute best. *Tips hat*
Thanks! Gradius V does indeed continue to get harder up until loop 10. Pretty rediculous for a game this long!
Tviks is the best gradius v player ever with a score of 39 million and 16 loops. While this guy is impressive he's not quite on that level.
I know this video is a few years old but DAMN! Your gameplay is LEGENDARY!
He is using CHEAT,this is impossible to play without cheat
@@ssdivizion None of my videos use cheats.
@@ssdivizion impossible? That's why you fail... @PEG is good this is what I call dedication.
@@PEG you're awesome bro
@@miguelromero4130 I agree with Master Yoda but disagree with you,sorry
The only thing I would have love to see in this game are the Moais ( easter island heads ) it would have been phenomenal.
i was thinking of what i could say....the kaizo gradius was pretty funny, but i would have loved to stood behind you at the arcade back in the day and watch you play something like this.
Back again lol, fully enjoying this whilst eating my tea.
こんな難しいのに需要があるのがすごいw
相変わらず敵を撃破してからの返し弾が鬼畜レベル‼️
それをギリギリでかわす神テク✨
もう凄すぎて口あんぐり( ｡ﾟДﾟ｡)
I consider it legendary.
ほんと素晴らしい。初代から難しいゲームだけど、とことん探求する人がいるから面白く進化したプレイができるのでしょうね。次回作出て欲しいです。
Agree.
Ohhh... Gradius Loop. I remember my best Gradius loop is Gradius 1... 8 Loops then I got sleepy and died a hilariously miserable fate of just staring at the screen and bumping into objects till Game Over. My friend who was watching was dumbfounded and thought I got tired but when I explained my brain actually went off there for a little while, he said "What the heck? You actually fell asleep with open eyes?"
That was when I was a Young Great Gamer Enthusiast. Now I'm just a random normal gamer who's fangs have become dull and lost its instinct.
I love these kind of shooters. This game looks great. Wish i could get it on my PS Vita
ハードコアーなちちびんたりか様、ご機嫌そうで何よりです。
The Option Thief appearing while the brain was talking at 1:03:39 made me laugh so hard. Even funnier is that the thief stole nothing!
He came for shits and giggles
He left because he wanted to live
Awesome gameplay! You're skills are impeccable. Well done. 💯
この人は本物。GJ!!
Gaming skill at its finest. Simply beautiful.
This game is awesome , real masterpiece !
Konami hired Treasure to make this game I think. Say what you will about Treasure, but they sure know how to make an awesome shmups. Ikaruga. Radiant Silvergun. Gradius V. Someone needs to hire those Treasure guys to make a new shmups on the new consoles.
Yeah man, Treasure in their prime, were a force to be reckoned with
This kid playing is insane!
すごい 攻撃の当たり判定や距離感が完璧すぎる
世界は広い 凄い人がいるもんだ
Great no death run, another challenge is to kill all enemies on screen, wished they showed percentage of enemies killed like some shooters
Cannot even get past loop 2 on very hard. Congratulations! Loved your run!
I haven't played Gradius since part 3. Didn't know they had more. Gotta get out under this rock.
Gradius V is fun as hell, dude.
There's like 10+ Gradius game (counting the Nemesis and Salamander series)
25:30、34:33、39:12、47:42、47:54、48:03、48:11、52:13、52:36、1:17:33
Holy hell! This is my first time even hearing about Gradius V....It's come a REALLY long way from the days of Gradius and Lifeforce...
Impressive, most impressive.
This is some God tier gameplay shit right here lol, wish I could play ikaruga like this or this game.....
u are a real gamer dude
Steam should release this great game
You're living legend
"You're a living legend"
Indeed
Really great run, 5 hours is a brutally long time to be going
Congratulations that was pretty amazing to watch.
I hope I will be alive when they remake this in VR
En serio lo sacaran en vr?
Here after Nijigasaki NEXT SKY OVA Movie. GRADIUS V 19 years later still hold up impressively.
41:40 ここでフォースフィールド切れてからそのまま生還するのすごすぎる
ラストにしゃしゃり出てくるオプハンに笑う
My god Ill always get pumped up to that stage 2 startup music.
"your a living legend" all i had at my highest was "What the hell?!" :P
Man What I would give to have this series rebooted
I'm afraid if Konami would consider such a thing nowadays, it would be a microtransaction and lootbox infested mobile game.
와우 진정한 예술의 경지네
탄막게임 최강자
잘보고 갑니다
^^b
Que jáponeses que son los creadores y por ende uno de los países donde más se consume videojuegos porque son los creadores se sorprendan de como pasas GV es que estas en un nivel Dios, yo soy fans de Gradius desde la NES hasta este última versión de PS2 su ost, los efectos, los gráficos, la historia, los jefes, sub jefes y naves bacterians; todo es fabuloso de este video juego se lucieron en su totalidad ¡Gloria siempre a gradius y a la VIC VIPER!
wow this game evolved since i played 20 years ago
That High-Speed section… it is the BANE of any Gradius player. Beacon is also a cast-iron bitch stuck right after it.
この動画みてPS2買ってしまったｗ
E-laser is so cool
this wansnt originally going to be called gradius. the original was supposed to be called "gladius", but a japanese-english error, but it kept its name due to the fanbase.
OOOOOOHH YES! thats it mad spealling error
*raughs*
@@123TeeMee ror
The legendary 255 loops stages, I was totally amazed. But this 5 loops stages looks also too much difficult.
Based on true facts!
KONAMIを含め、当時のゲームは
とても面白い作品が多かった。
とても素晴らしいプレイです！👍️
感動しました！ありがとうございました。センキュ～ ﾆｬｰ 😹😹
This is inhumane, hardest shooting game I have ever seen... BTW, I can't even able to complete raiden by throwing 10 round tokens.
1:03:42
option hunter: ight imma head out
wow, you're the best.... :D
Dude , you are BADASS !!! 👍👍👍
やる方もすごいけど、造る方もえげつない。
メチャクチャ利益あげてる零細企業の仕事内容のようなゲームだな
フリーズは兎も角Eレーザーは結構ネタ装備なんですよ～
In all the Gradius games, there's always an open passage behind the extremely weak final boss.
...what if we used our warp engines to go around all the BS levels and CAME IN from that back door? 🤔
一面のボス強すぎて笑うしかない
ソーラーズアサルト、ビマニを超えてさらに進化した、グラドゥースですね。カッコイイのひと言です。
28:10爽快感すげぇんだが
すごい！アメーバのとこ鬼畜！
Superb.
can't believe how unforgiving is this game at that difficulty. this dude must be really used to pain to be able to play it so well
MAN,THAT'S HARDCORE!!
That's nightamre precisely and this dude is using cheats for sure
画質めちゃくちゃ良い
Great moving and nice dodge
great channel, I love all the games you play, I must ask what controller are you using? I had a Saturn pad for my PSX shmups back in the day before I sold most of my older systems and games
+Rob Dobson Thanks! Back when I played this in 2014 I was using a PSOne pad (the controller that came with the small, white PSOne). Now I'm using Sega Saturn pad with a PSX adapter.
*WHAT SAY THE NARRATOR WHEN YOU LOST YOUR LAST LIFE?*
"You're a living legend"
@@PEGThanks.
Are you human....playing with perfection
Man, I would love to play Gradius VI on the Nintendo Switch one day... Like that will ever happen! Haha, oh well. :P
I think the likely hood of Gradius VI happening is worse than an asteroid hitting the earth or the sun going dark lol.
By the way. I just recently made it to the stage 7 boss on Gradius III SNES, before getting a game over. I've beaten the game on Normal Mode multiple times, but that's the farthest I've even gotten on Arcade Mode. I'm nowhere near as good as you (obviously), but I am getting better! ;)
I think I just shaved a year off my live playing that though. Haha!
Haha! Yeah, you're probably right... No harm in being hopeful though! :)
WHY DOES THE FIRST LEVEL LOOK SO GAWD DAMN HARD?!?!?
I grew up with GI~GIII & Salamander (arcade, 1985~1990), and there used be a lot of Japanese players being at this level.....except you go above & beyond. Quite impressive (I used to loop 7~8 on GII, but on GV I keep crashing into walls lol). I still can't beat the boss at the meteor stage without losing 2~3 Vipers, and the high-speed stage is a joke (those damn shutters). GV is insanely difficult (GIV was even worse).
Can we talk about III? Dear God that game is brutal.
シールドの使い方が計画的すぎて震えましたわ((( ；ﾟДﾟ)))
Nice play!
What controller are you using?
Why does red bad guys go Whaaaaaaaa? I love this game
It's a tribute to Salamander/Life Force, which has a final boss that does the same thing. Why it "screams" I have no idea though.
@@PEG Oh yeah! I remember now. The Salamander arcade game. The last boss was an orb. It said whaaaaa and fell down the floor in the end. Nice
Damn, got serious quick.
How did you capture this footage?
A masterpiece shmup. Are you using an arcade stick on your run?
Used a ps one controller back in the day for this.
22:50 Plot twist you're cleaning someone colon
Boy I thought I could fly. Wow.
I HATE STAGE 7.
The traps in part 1 are ridiculous because when you die- it starts a chain reaction of deaths.
Even the best players get destroyed here.
人間を超えてる
たまにGradius Vプレイ動画を見たくなる
映像も音楽もいいね。4kでリメイクしてくれ
I wish they didn't scrap the Gradius series.. Imagine a PS5 gradius... Sheeeese.. Bet it would need an epilepsy warning