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Across the series, the Force Field is by far the most commonly-used shield whenever it's available, due to the original Shield being very tanky but also only guarding against frontal attacks and the shields being easy to deplete due to their big hitboxes.

The final stage of Gradius V is a slightly harder version of Stage 2 where the player(s) ascend instead of descend, but it is significantly much shorter and easier than the previous stages, such as Stage 6 and Stage 7, both of them regarded as the hardest levels in the game.

It's sandwiched between Stage 7 and its fireball shower from hell and Stage 9 which is home to the infamous 'Cube Rush'.

Stage 8 of Gradius III arcade version is a plant stage that's surprisingly straightforward and easy for being 80% into the game.

Bile Fascination: A lot of fans bought the Arcade Archives rerelease of III AC just to meme on the game's truckload of Fake Difficulty.

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Too bad it slows down to a crawl on certain PS2 models. Best Level Ever - Stage 7 of Gaiden, which starts off as a seemingly-innocent volcano stage.and then gets gradually sucked into a black hole.Awesome Music - Gradius contains a large amount, listing them here would take too much space.In addition, due to how the Bacterions can effectively regenerate from multiple pieces which then become new fully functioning Bacterions, it's also possible that they're intentionally leaving themselves open to spread across the universe. By the time you get to the Bacterion leader, you've already practically won. This is justified, as the final stage is usually a Genius Loci controlled by the Bacterions, and so in a sense, the entire final stage (and to an extent the entire game) is the boss fight. from Gaiden) or straight up doesn't attack at all (Xaerous Brain from the original and ReBirth, Zelos Force from Salamander, Gofer from II and IV, Venom from V).

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Anti-Climax Boss - And how! Almost every Final Boss in the series (with the exception of Doom from Salamander 2 and Venom in Nemesis II) either uses easily dodgable attacks (Bacterion from III, O.V.U.M.

Adaptation Displacement - Most American fans believe that the NES version of Gradius is the first in the series due to the fact that arcade version was renamed Nemesis outside Japan.Accidental Innuendo - 'POUND through the entrails and SHOOT ABADON!' Something about that sounds unsettling.This mode also the only one to feature leaderboards. ReBirth features two modes: A standard single-player mode, that gives you unlimited credits (also known as, continues), and Score Attack, which gives you only one credit to beat the game with. Bosses may change behavior or physical appearance after a certain amount of damage has been dealt to them. The way to defeat these foes is to 'shoot the core,' which the game reminds you to do at the beginning of each battle. The bosses, considered to be one of the highlights of the series, are all new (unlike the levels). ?: Gives you a shield that protects you from enemy fire for a limited number of hits.Option: Gives you a small orange ball that follows you ship, and adds extra firepower.Laser: Replaces the cannon fire with a laser.

Double: Fires multiple cannons simultaneously.

Missile: Gives you missiles that allow you to attack ground-based enemies with ease.

Speed Up: Increases the speed of your ship, the Vic Viper.

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And as always, you can upgrade your ship in various ways via the 'Power Meter,' by using capsules that enemies drop upon vanquishing them. Like previous installments, ReBirth tasks you with navigating various enemy filled environments by shooting everything in sight. Players reprise the role of James Burton, Gradian pilot of the Vic Viper, as he combats a new Bacterian threat after the planet Antichthon falls silent (with its mother computer hacked).Īs of January 30, 2019, the game can no longer be acquired due to the closure of the Wii Shop Channel. The game's story is set in the Gradian Year 6664, two years before the events of Nemesis 2. The first in Konami's ReBirth trilogy (which also includes Contra ReBirth and Castlevania: The Adventure ReBirth), Gradius ReBirth is a deliberately-retro re-imagining of the Gradius series, combining classic gameplay mechanics from earlier games in the series while including synthesized rearrangements of the series' musical tracks. Gradius ReBirth is a 2D sci-fi fantasy side-scrolling shoot-'em-up developed by M2 and published digitally by Konami for the Wii in Japan on September 2, 2008, in North America on March 9, 2009, and in Europe on July 3, 2009.