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Gradius V impressions - IGN
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Naked Snake
Member
I played it briefly today, I got owned on the second stage... The game is either pretty hard or I was really unsober... But I definitely loved what I played and saw, can't wait to play more and it's good to know the game has difficulty settings ranging from Very Easy to Very Hard, and 2-Player mode rocks.
Gradius rox!
Treasure rox!
Konami rox!
Gradius rox!
Treasure rox!
Konami rox!
Well, god damn it. This assumption-style journalism needs to just die.
"The masters of the shooter" pissed me off enough to not be able to read further. And it's the very first sentence! They've made three of them! (Silpheed doesn't count, since it's so terrible it doesn't even count as a game.)
Game is good, though. Oh, and adel, don't worry.. The first couple of levels are only hard the first few times -- you'll get it down easily once you have more time with the game. The level 3 boss is where the real difficulty kicks in.
"The masters of the shooter" pissed me off enough to not be able to read further. And it's the very first sentence! They've made three of them! (Silpheed doesn't count, since it's so terrible it doesn't even count as a game.)
Game is good, though. Oh, and adel, don't worry.. The first couple of levels are only hard the first few times -- you'll get it down easily once you have more time with the game. The level 3 boss is where the real difficulty kicks in.
MightyHedgehog
Member
aku:jiki said:
IIRC, many members of Treasure are the same ones who created the first Gradius games.
aku:jiki said:Game is good, though. Oh, and adel, don't worry.. The first couple of levels are only hard the first few times -- you'll get it down easily once you have more time with the game. The level 3 boss is where the real difficulty kicks in.
What is that boss?
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The spider?
Yesterday i was able (very easy) to die the first time at the end of that boss.
Great game.
No dubts.
SNowball
PS: Every hour you play, u gain a credit. Very clever way not to make a game frustrating.
Baron Aloha
A Shining Example
Man... I'm picking up Gradius III & IV at the local EB when I get off work in anticipation for Gradius V and its all this threads fault!
I beat Gradius III on the SNES and I didn't think it was too hard. I beat it within a couple days. It only took a little practice. I hope the new one's difficulty is about the same. I hate shooters that are ridiculously hard (but the extra credit per hour thing might resolve that issue).
How's the PS2 version of Gradius III btw? Any upgrades? How's IV?
I beat Gradius III on the SNES and I didn't think it was too hard. I beat it within a couple days. It only took a little practice. I hope the new one's difficulty is about the same. I hate shooters that are ridiculously hard (but the extra credit per hour thing might resolve that issue).
How's the PS2 version of Gradius III btw? Any upgrades? How's IV?
sasimirobot
Junior Member
Im having a great time with it! The "spider boss" kicks my ass still, even though I think I know an semi-easy way to beat him
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Maybe that is too obvious, oh well took me a while to get it anyways.
Also anyone notice the dive in graphics after that level? Its all high tech metal rush and then it turns into "attack of the killer tomatoes" in style. Guess its just the Treasure quirkiness...
use ship 3 and move the options verticaly with R2 (or however you set it up) so you can shoot him while you are under or above
Maybe that is too obvious, oh well took me a while to get it anyways.
Also anyone notice the dive in graphics after that level? Its all high tech metal rush and then it turns into "attack of the killer tomatoes" in style. Guess its just the Treasure quirkiness...
the arcade version of gradius III -- which is accurately ported to the ps2 -- is considerably different from and much, much harder than the snes version.
gradius IV is somewhat easier, but it tosses one of those trademark gradius speed levels at you pretty early, which can be kind of a roadblock.
gradius IV is somewhat easier, but it tosses one of those trademark gradius speed levels at you pretty early, which can be kind of a roadblock.
neo2046
Member
DaCocoBrova
Finally bought a new PSP, but then pushed the demon onto someone else. Jesus.
That game was a damn slide show the slow down was so bad. Not exactly intense, you know?
No! And Treasure had absolutely nothing to do with that one.Culex said:
It also has terrible level and checkpoint layouts. You will find yourself at checkpoints where you're basically fucked unless you're really, really good. It takes what partly kills the fun of Gradius and amplifies it into a really boring mess.drohne said:
So they say. But so what? I'm having a hard time believing Treasure today consists of the exact same staff as 15 years ago...MightyHedgeHog said:
I guess, technically, you're right. There can be more masters than one. Does anyone ever use the expression like that, though? No.kaching said:
I think I'll have to stop reading forums, magazines and sites once the real Gradius review storm comes. The ignorance will hail down like golf balls, with names like Cave, Psikyo, 8ing/Raizing being mentioned nowhere while Treasure gets showered with praise time and time again for "revolutionizing the genre".
Doom_Bringer
Banned
neo2046 said:
awesome skillz
treasure misinformation has taken on a life of its own, but: prior to gradius v, no treasure staff or future treasure staff had ever worked on any gradius game. and in fact there were never any konami games on which more than a few future treasure staff worked. if there are konami games that seem like treasure games, it's because konami was such a heavy influence on treasure (in fact, the most treasure-esque konami games, rocket knight adventure and contra hard corps, were developed after treasure's formation).
off the top of my head, konami games that treasure staff worked on (usually only one or two people):
castlevania adventure (gameboy)
bucky o' hare (nes)
bucky o' hare (arcade)
the simpsons (arcade)
castlevania 4 (snes)
contra III (snes)
axelay (snes)
off the top of my head, konami games that treasure staff worked on (usually only one or two people):
castlevania adventure (gameboy)
bucky o' hare (nes)
bucky o' hare (arcade)
the simpsons (arcade)
castlevania 4 (snes)
contra III (snes)
axelay (snes)
according to the excellent treasure credits database at sf kosmo, "yaiman" worked on castlevania IV: http://sfkosmo.gamersgraveyard.com/treasure/about/info/matsumotoy.html
that's a great page for treasure fans to poke around, by the way. i just found out that hiroshi iuchi (founding treasure member and auteur of radiant silvergun and ikaruga) worked on shinrei jusatsushi taromaru. almost makes me want to pay the absurd ebay prices.
that's a great page for treasure fans to poke around, by the way. i just found out that hiroshi iuchi (founding treasure member and auteur of radiant silvergun and ikaruga) worked on shinrei jusatsushi taromaru. almost makes me want to pay the absurd ebay prices.