Status Chovus Mar 29, 2019
Beat on difficulty 6 as the spaceship. I was not inclined to play as one of the silly ship types though did appreciate that each has different abilities. Since the laser disabled my upward shot I chose not to use the laser at all, which also led me to not be able to use the shield or ultimate for some …
Beat on difficulty 6 as the spaceship. I was not inclined to play as one of the silly ship types though did appreciate that each has different abilities. Since the laser disabled my upward shot I chose not to use the laser at all, which also led me to not be able to use the shield or ultimate for some reason. Every time I tried to activate "?!" it would reset all of my powerups, so I just ignored it for the rest of the game.
While the silly graphics were somewhat amusing, I found the technical quality of the game to be worse than Gradius 3 with there being less precise shooting required for bosses and often times not much feedback that you are actually doing damage. I struggled hard at one point in the game where the screen is swarmed with a huge stream of umbrella like enemies because of the sheer quantity of them and how much health they have. It took quite a few tries to beat that. The rest of the game after that was a joke in comparison and there was no challenging final boss.
