Because your ship's hit box (the area that actually takes damage) is smaller, for one.
If Vic Viper's hit box was as big as the average bullet hell shooter ship's hit box (about a pixel big), then I would ROCK AT GRADIUS.
Remember, Vic is made of Cardboardium. That ship will die if nearly ANYTHING touches it.
Buuut... it's not. Actually, I can't play methodical shooters that well anymore, I'm too used to sprays of bullets... BTW, search "DoDonPachi" or "Espgaluda", or "Progear".
Awesome soundtrack!
WilliDaChili 6 months ago
I absolutely love this game! Completed all of the Shooting sessions.
Oveneise 8 months ago
And they say sniping in Black Ops is hard...
Akmenss 10 months ago
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SirDamned 1 year ago
iunno, at 1:58 it looks like he gets hit a few time.
xengen 1 year ago
The patterns ressemble touhou... Just thats its pixels
dexneo 2 years ago
No.
SFKhoa 2 years ago
how can i rotate the screen in visual advance so i can play it vertically instead of horizontal view?
DeV1LSn0w 3 years ago
how the hell does he not die or even get hit once?!?!?!?
dakingz12390 3 years ago
@dakingz12390 easy
becauseimhi420 1 year ago
there ia a game like this on kongregate
WTFPS3RULZLOL 3 years ago
How the hell do people play games like this? lol - I die in Darius/Gradius level games with 2% as many bulltes and 900X more maneuver room...
nice to watch, though
Aluze 3 years ago
Because your ship's hit box (the area that actually takes damage) is smaller, for one.
If Vic Viper's hit box was as big as the average bullet hell shooter ship's hit box (about a pixel big), then I would ROCK AT GRADIUS.
Remember, Vic is made of Cardboardium. That ship will die if nearly ANYTHING touches it.
Buuut... it's not. Actually, I can't play methodical shooters that well anymore, I'm too used to sprays of bullets... BTW, search "DoDonPachi" or "Espgaluda", or "Progear".
BrightSuzaku 2 years ago 2
Shouldn't the DS version be BETTER?
deityofanimee 3 years ago
I'd been looking for a good bullet curtain for GBA, and this + Vulkanon do the trick :)
Mindliner 3 years ago
The background music sounds like The Cure's A forest
YeahManWoot 3 years ago
it looks like touhou but w/o the girls
Animefan164 3 years ago
I've played through the first version, it's fun!
PerfectBlindness 4 years ago
Seems annoyingly hard, but looks cool ans smooth.
Azrael7 4 years ago
that's a really well-put together game, nice job on it!
MerlockMagus 4 years ago
Good to see someone has played the brilliant Icaruga
edstercw 4 years ago
I played the first level and it's pretty hard. Really fun, though.
AparoidX 4 years ago
awesome S: I think after seeing this I wouldn't even TRY that on my own... though id like to hear the music again :D
EmoLike 4 years ago
some nice waves there. wonder if they're all generated or there's a mouse/wave recorder involved to get the base patterns
bitplane 4 years ago
Very awesome (and near impossible to play :P)!
I'd like to see a Nintendo DS version of this. :)
Agilo3 4 years ago
Wow, that is ridiculous.
Shaflugi 4 years ago
No, just awesome.... I've tried it myself and it's hard, really hard! Bullet Hell!
SmashDde 4 years ago