


Unlike Gradius, Salamander uses a more conventional weapons system, with enemies leaving a wide variety of distinct power-ups. The first player ship is Gradius's own Vic Viper ship, while the second ship is the Lord British space destroyer (sometimes called the "RoadBritish"). Also, Salamander was one of the first shoot'em ups to include cooperative gameplay. Most prominently, the game switches between horizontal and vertical stages, one of the first games of its kind. The game is noteworthy for a number of reasons. Not actually part of the series, but the spiritual successor and clips from it appear in Gradius Want to write us something? PM myself and I'll put it up! Please don't worry about images or videos as I can sort that out. But since there is little to no reading required, I don't see why not. I'm not entirely sure what the extras are, as I have never played the JP version. If you can find it, the Japanese version has some extras that weren't included in the US and EU releases seeings as the JP version actually came out AFTER the other two.

The difficulty ramps up every time you complete a loop, and the amount of tight navigation in this game will make you want to rip your hair out (unless of course you are Mthrmite, in which case, you have none). The legacy mechanics of powering up your ship and shooting cores are alive and well in this stellar shooter. The stages are beautiful, and the bosses are creative. Ill leave it up to you to find the codes. If you enter a slightly wrong version of the code, you get the power ups, but your ship self destructs in 5 seconds. If you enter the correct Konami code, you will get 2 missile upgrades, 2 lazer upgrades, all 4 options, and a shield instantly. For those of you that dont know, you collect powerups from mostly red enemies or killing whole chains of enemies and then stacking them to unlock abilities for your ship.
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Any veteran of the series knows that "Speedup, missile, double, lazer, option, sheild" bar. You cruise though deep space collecting power ups and using them on the bar at the bottom of the screen. All slightly different from each other, but any will do really. You choose your ship loadout which is either "balanced", "wide", "power", or "air to ground". Not that you would ever play a space shooter for the gripping story.īasically the gameplay remains unchanged from any other Gradius title there is. Eventually the planet begins transform into a mecha fortress and Gradius sends the tiny ass Vic Vipor to destroy it. Bacterion (and enemy of planet Gradius, I'm guessing) has one of their powerful weapons destroyed and it crashlands on some unfortunate planet. According to Wikipedia, the plot of Galaxies is set between 3 and Gaiden. My usual sites for dredging up information on old games are unusually dry this time, so alot of this is coming from my own knowledge, as well as some of the small but interesting tidbits I found. If you have played a Gradius before, you know exactly what to expect when you pick up this version. In 2001, Konami released the single best space shooter to grace the GBA, as well as the only Gradius that generation. Bortzy's back.and his front aint too bad either!
