Heavy Metal Gamer: Gradius Review

Brand new review of a classic side scrolling shoot em up, and a difficult one as well. Another classic from Konami. Hope you enjoy the review!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Gradius
• NES
• Turbografx 16
• Game Boy
• video games
• side scrolling shoot em ups
• retro games
• Konami
• ARProductions2010
• AR Productions

[TrevHead10]

Nice review, gradius is great especially the nes version and is the easier game to beat compared to the arcade and TG16 ports.

Heres a tip, increasing youre speed by 1 or 2 asap it helps dodging plus allows you to quickly optain every pick up. The key to beating it is to get fully powered up asap and not die once, which is made easier by using the shield and having enough items in reserve so you can immeadiatly replace it when you take to many hits

[ARProductions2010]

@TrevHead10 Thanks for the tip, I will have to use that, my biggest problem is when you get to those 2 hills, and they are shooting rocks up at ya, but I found a way to get around that, just hide up in the left, or right top corner.

[SNESIvan]

And the TG16 isn't 16-bit, it's 8 but it's GPU is 16-bit. ;)

[ARProductions2010]

@SNESIvan Once again, you need to tell the sites that have info about the console/game that, not me.

[calvin3464]

Great review. Gradius may be an oldie but it's a goodie

[mkocja5a]

will you review gradius 3 pleeeeeeaaaaaaaseeeee? :)

[kimcheolho]

You need more speed....

[AlphaOmegaSin]

The Vic Viper! fuck yeah! love the gradius series, was one of my first shoot em ups that got me hooked on the genre.

[TrevHead10]

@ARProductions2010 Thats the easiest way, it helps if you have an option or 2, theres another trick with the laser which is to position yourself to the left and shoot the rocks as they come out of the valcano

The second satage is quite easy and full of power ups, the 3rd stage however has those crazy hard moah heads, it helps to destroy them, you might want to use save states to work out the best route. btw there are warps in the nes version so you can miss levels

[MrAverageRetro]

I have Gradius 3 for my snes me and my friend back in middle school early high school we used to play it a lot we got really far into it

[TrevHead10]

@SNESIvan Its just differences between american and british english

Brits say zed, US zee

[ABlackFalcon]

Good review, but yeah, the GB version really isn't a port, it's a new game partially inspired by the original. I'd say that's something different from ports, like most of those other versions are.