#Gradius gaiden shield options series#

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.

#Gradius gaiden shield options series#

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!