5/2/2023 0 Comments Gradius 2 reviewOverall, my only complaint is that this game is somewhat short if you get good at it. If you really want to just get a sense of the game’s audio, you can explore the music through the games built-in jukebox in the options menu. The sound effects are also spot on and really gives the gameplay an exciting edge to it. Despite the limitations of the platform, you can really get an array of different kinds of music whether it’s fast paced and frantic or mysterious and slow. You almost forget that you are playing a game that’s effectively in black and white because of the use of the various shades of grey and well done art. The games graphics are quite impressive considering what platform it is on. It just keeps you rolling through different kinds of action scenes. You can also get a sense of storyline as you progress through the game even though you don’t even get hardly any text whatsoever throughout gameplay. One wrong move and you lose one of three ships you are given at the beginning. This ensures that the game remains fresh as you play through it. The game features a vast number of enemies including flying space worms, enemy troops, turrets and most things I can’t even really identify easily. Great if you can collect it just as things start getting out of hand. Another kind of power-up you can get is a sort of “smart bomb” where if you collect it, all enemies on the screen are destroyed. You can speed up your space craft, get an “option” which is a light that follows your ship around to increase firepower, a missile that follows the ceiling and floor, destroying an enemy if it comes into contact with one, a forcefield to allow you to take more than one hit by an enemy shot before being destroyed, and a laser weapon should you choose that to name several. When it highlights the option you want, you can select that option and you are awarded what you earned. Each power-up toggles what you can get over one in the option bar below. After that, the game more or less opens up to show you what you can do to survive each level. The first level is of a larger enemy ship chasing you through an asteroid field, ending in the enemy ship crashing into a hole only large enough for your smaller ship to escape through. Suddenly, the larger ships are attacked and destroyed, only allowing enough time for you to escape. You are then greeted with two ships that appear to accompany you through space. The game starts off with allowing you to select a type of missile you’ll want to employ when you get that weapon (I personally chose the 2-way missile). The Gradius series is one of the more well known side scrolling bullet-hell shooter games that has such a long legacy. The game was released in 1992 and also goes by the name “Nemesis 2 – The Return of the Hero”. We look at one of the earlier iteration of the series released on the GameBoy. It has been cited for being an inspirational series and is a series that has continued to this day. By Drew Wilson Gradius – The Interstellar Assault is a sidescrolling space shooting action game.
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