Gradius 3 (Arcade) Stage 2

A video of myself playing stage 2 of this ridiculously hard arcade game. Normally, I might add - this is not a tool-assisted recording. Looks like I finally found a use for Double...

P.S: If you want to make derogatory comments about the way I play, at least have the decency to provide a link to a video of your own run where you do better. Thank you. ^_^

Category:

Entertainment

Tags:

• gradius
• iii
• konami
• shmup
• hori
• shooter
• shooting
• horizontal
• arcade
• coin-op
• coin
• op
• game
• bubbles

[Annoyboy]

Definitely laser for the boss, but double makes this whole stage much easier. Double = wide-spread enemies, Laser = focused power

Nintega, sorry I didn't see your question earlier. I can get about halfway through stage 3 on the arcade version. I don't like it; the game is too (cheaply) hard to be fun.

[Annoyboy]

I find that Double is only useful in very specific situations (for example halfway through Gradius 2 stage 4 when there's an enemy pod in a small gap at the top of the screen, or on Gradius Gaiden for the Moai boss). I tend to use Laser for 99% of the game.

[Kurayamiblack]

I'm not sure how hard Gradius V really is (it looks pretty mean) but I'm pretty sure the hardest Gradius game in existence is either Gradius V or THIS.

[Corad4]

Can you give me tips on beating this stage on the normal difficulty setting? I beaten it on the easiest setting, but normal, i just keep dying...

[EmperorZetta]

This was the stopping point for me. I can get through the SNES version on hard without dying once, but this...

[PsychoJosh]

Oh my god you took so long on the boss that it blew up on its own.

[javier7high]

hard

[knightonlinefan]

o man do i love this version of gradius 3.

im good at it.

but wow, if u die there's like a 5% chance u well make it any farther xD

[Bloodreign1]

God I need to fire this up in my PS 2 again sometime, or just play the PSP version for awhile (chances are if I play the PS 2 version I'll jump on Gradius IV first).

[CarmenOfSpades]

By the way what difficulty are you playing on? Normal I presume?

[CarmenOfSpades]

Evil, evil game. But at least the slowdown helps... sort of ;-)

Wow, I didn't realise the double is actually useful! I'll have to try that again if I ever put this evil, evil game in my PS2 ever again!!

[Angel50000]

You're using a double on the stage 2, I don't use doubles on that stage. I alway use lasers, my weapon combo is, spread bomb missles, normal double, normal lasers, F option, force field.