Gradius Gaiden (PS1) Full Run (Loop 4) on Hardest

[@PEG]

None of my videos are tool-assisted or use emulators in any way. All my playthroughs are done on real hardware.

[@Gencoil]

This and Gradius V are the only games in the series with mostly natural sounding voice overs.

[@justanaverageanimator2531]

What about Salamander 2?

[@Bloodreign1]

Gradius 2 didn't sound like a computer, nor did Gradius III. But you also have to note that the voiceover is likely the Vic Viper announcing to the pilot of the ship the weapon they chose.

[@opaljk4835]

I love in the opening text crawl the actor who plays alucard in Sotn keeps saying “gra-DEeeis” instead of “gradius”

[@mikef5386]

Man, forgot how smooth, clean, fast, and colorful those graphics are. Seriously, this game is just great to look at.

[@manjackson2772]

I'm not sure if there's actually been a better looking shmup than this game.

[@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69]

*LIMIT!*

[@DyspareEmbodied]

This game has a pretty sexy soundtrack.

[@forthesakeofthenationalist9375]

Yeah, especially the last stage speed and inside mission.

[@Bloodreign1]

@r33mote It still is, Gradius V, while good, just doesn't quite feel like Gradius to me. This game was pretty much the peak of the series, V tries too hard to be a bullet hell, something Gradius is not known for.

[@METAL1ON]

Gotta love the buzz of crt between levels when things are quiet.

[@konamimanMSX]

- Hey, you can reorder the powerup bars in Gradius Gaiden! - Yeah, but how can that be possibly useful? - Hold my beer...

[@polygonalcube]

A great run! I wish I knew about this combo and strategy when I played on Loop 0 Normal! Shame about the amount of dislikes; guess this wasn't the gameplay people were expecting.

[@KitFireburn]

This game is a bonafide masterpiece.

[@A47NIGHFLARE]

The 2nd stage, MOIA stage & Event Horizon is the best stage in this Gradius.

[@Bloodreign1]

Emulated the game for about 2 years as it and Gradius 4 at the time were almost taboo to me, couldn't play them as I had no real way to do so (nor knew of their existence). Eventually picked this one up on PS1, and then the double pack on PS2 that has 3 and 4 on it, problem solved. This one floored me as it didn't quite do the Gradius traditions the normal way, the Moai had new attacks, the volcanic level was no longer volcanic, and a black hole was eating the level up right behind you due to a gravity bend. The speed stage was also different as didn't really have the choose your own path vibe to it, not to mention it was in the last stage, only Gradius 3 arcade was sort of similar, but that speed stage was after the last boss, and quite short. SNES Gradius 3's speed stage seemed directly lifted from Gradius II.

[@CelestialReturner]

Limit on the first slot = OP!

[@TripDering]

"Do you think you can beat me? Such a loser" -Moai + Bacterians, 2014

[@chilup2007]

I remember playing this a decade ago and still remember how busted the Limit shield is regardless of loop. The ability to protect you from anything for three seconds gives me the opportunity to be aggressive against bosses. And the power meter positioning helped a lot!

[@dtz1000]

Amazing reflexes and control

[@wildheart1988]

This was a clever usage of power up bar order modification and Limit abuse. Never thought about it before.

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

28:35 Konami...we need to have a serious discussion...

[@Bloodreign1]

Shaped like a Manji, a traditional symbol of Buddhism, which the Nazi's stole and perverted.

[@DyspareEmbodied]

You see it too huh? I try and tell myself that it's just coincidence, but the conspiracy theorist in me won't let it go.

[@JamesEmirzianWaldementerGaming]

After beaten the game, And the game continued and loops to start endlessly. But there was a increases skill level loops during in this gameplay while Gradius developer for making this hardest loops game.

[@yatchyyosshy]

Limitを使用するプレイ初めて見ました。 かなりスリリングで「魅せる」プレイになりますね！ そして、ただでさえクセの強いジェイドナイトが、いっそう上級者向けの機体になりますね！！ とても面白かったです！

[@brunosolsol3165]

13:12 Moai: Shoots laser towards me Me: What in the name of Hylia!! :O

[@lllucasm]

the bipedal robot boss at the end is so fucking sick I love it

[@alicewolff5818]

Limit!

[@sdlock83]

It is asinine how this game never made it to the U.S.! I remember reading about this game getting ready to be localized to the West in EGM. The graphics on the pages looked AMAZING!! Sadly, the West would not get a mainstream console release of Gradius until Gradius 5 for the PS2.

[@vram1974]

It was released as part of Gradius Collection for the PSP in the US. Shame it didn't make it to the regular PS or on the Gradius 3-4 disc for the PS2.

[@ikagura]

The musics are so good! Gradius Collection when?

[@vivi44]

Skill Level: Limit :)

[@cheapspace]

maybe im just slow but after playing gradius 5 (which is freaking awesome btw) i realized that the "speed up /option/ voice overs" Is the pilot telling the computer to activate those settings.

[@harizotoh7]

I always thought it was the ship's computer, Vic Viper itself saying that.

[@cheapspace]

@@harizotoh7 well during gradius 5 you hear both the computers voice and the pilots

[@下地誠-f5c]

最終面2機は驚きましだね😃

[@s浩則]

splendid performance 素晴らしいですよね

[@下地誠-f5c]

最終面の動きの早いロボットが 耐久があり手強い☺️

[@djshefu]

Even with the limit abuse, nice usage of the spread bombs! Esp in the boss rush! Also nice recovery when you died in the Black Hole level. I tried playing Gaiden like this, & it is MUCH harder than it looks. Accidentally picking up an extra power up screws everything up and if you're being bombarded by bullets and/or in a tight spot that you NEED the limit for, it totally screws you lol. I've done like u and used Jade Knight, but I'm currently trying to do the same thing with Lord British ( just cause that's my favorite ship in this game ). The limit abuse and the disruptor laser is actually a pretty decent combo imo!

[@djshefu]

nguyen danny It's a "tradition" of likr 90% of the Gradius Games to have a final boss that either does NOTHING or is incredibly easy to destroy. I've never understood why myself, but i just go with it lol

[@Bloodreign1]

+djshefu After all the hell the last level put you through, Konami decides to give the player a break at the end of the game. This does not hold true in Nemesis 90 Kai on the X68000/Gradius II MSX though as the final boss actually puts up a fight after a pretty difficult final level (and game overall).

[@packnerz2017]

This game looks easy with the limit abuse. But you're fucked up when you are at the bosses because you can't use that limit tech.

[@Wolfdragon92584]

Looks like a "greatest hits" of the series.

[@forthesakeofthenationalist9375]

It is. But sadly, it didn't released outside of Nippon until collection and complication released. My guesses, it will overrun the Americans audience selling copy or they think that previous installment such as the Gradius III is too difficult. So, they decided not to release outside. In any case, now everybody can play and is considered a missing gen in the old playstation.

[@Bloodreign1]

Greatest hits, but each hit had a new idea attached to it to differ it from the same ideas of past games.

[@InspirationHouseNetwork]

"The circle lasers are cool." (-James)

[@mariowario5945]

We need a new 2d styled gradius. 3d doesnt just cut it for this type of game

[@BlazeXth]

What about V?

[@ikagura]

Every Gradius are 2D... But we need a new Gradius game anyway

[@Bloodreign1]

@@ikagura Solar Assault would like a word with you, and yes, it is a Gradius game.

[@goldslime2250]

this is better than ps2 gradius

[@Bloodreign1]

Gradius V yes, I still happen to think Gradius 3 and 4, while not the peak of the series that this game is, are solid games in their own right, damn even the haters of G4.

[@csr2legend]

Victor Kidd : You think you can beat me with THAT?! Loser! Victor Kidd : How can you entertain me!

[@ftg_van_kase_gubk1609]

I didn’t never think “Limit” is useful.

[@RealSolerius]

Speed Stages becomes a joke with Limit Abuse

[@basica1002]

awesome...ultra maniac

[@_t_t541]

I like LIMIT and ROUND LASER

[@nicholasderassolis7842]

I love Gradius Forever

[@mtubr]

Gotta love the boss music

[@andiarrohnds5163]

best combat training boss spider ever

[@lisabailey2505]

He's or she is kicking ass at graduis who agrees

[@ZoneyDuel]

Chewbacca 3:34

[@MiguelitoJodedor]

Jade Knight

[@aderitosantos1695]

I alway say Gradius feel not like R type or thunderforce, see Gradius more organics enemmys

[@TheReimu1994]

Wow use Limit Barrier.Good Advantage

[@WildArmACF]

Nice run. I do wonder if you ever saw the hidden superboss after the boss rush. Im not sure how many loops it is in. But i think 6.

[@WildArmACF]

No i think im thinking of gradius 5

[@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69]

Heaven's Gate, the game's superboss, appears after the first loop. Beat Neo Big Core and THEN you fight this monstrosity. And it is the hardest boss in the game.

[@Bloodreign1]

Gradius games normally have infinite loops, but difficulty stops building come loop 8, the exception being Gradius V which caps at difficulty in loop 10.

[@かぶちゃん-z7k]

この頃のコナミは良かったなぁ。。。 今のコナミは、単なる権利ゴロの会社だしなぁ。

[@Bloodreign1]

The Konami that made this will never come back, many of the very talented devs for this and older Konami games are long gone from the company.

[@MiguelitoJodedor]

Juegas muy parecido a mi! Jajaja xD Pero hay que verte en multiplayer a ver que haces con sólo 2 option :)

[@Blahblahblah28504]

To this day, I will never understand why we didn't get this game outside of Japan until the PSP.

[@Bloodreign1]

Sony of America's anti 2-D stance is likely why.

[@Blahblahblah28504]

Yeah I can see that. It's still stupid.

[@Bloodreign1]

@@Blahblahblah28504 It was stupid, but it could've been worse, look what Saturn owners had to deal with, a lot of the console's best software stayed in Japan.

[@ssdivizion]

Limit and too many options are the real drawbacks of this excelent game,3 options for normal mode,and 2 for hard mode are enough

[@Bloodreign1]

4 Options has always been a staple of the series, 2 for the NES and Game Boy games, maybe the MSX games as well. Trust me, when you have to use Double, 4 options helps a ton as the shots do not fire fast, and you need the coverage for bullets that 4 options gives you. As for Limit, it's good for a laugh, and can be abused, but only the best can abuse it as well as PEG does in this video. Even when activated, you can move through walls yes, but you best do it quick because once it wears off (it doesn't last that long, and sucks as a shield), and you have no protection, a life will be lost right quick. It offers no real protection in battle either.

[@armas_ectos]

This game was RGB before RGB was cool...

[@下地誠-f5c]

モアイがどんどん知能つけて、 レーザモアイ、回転モアイに☺️

[@cfnovak1]

Shits lit...

[@themega10046]

this and X2 need to be on psn.

[@下地誠-f5c]

６面の植物ステージのBGMがいいね🤗

[@toyvania]

Destroy the core!

[@captaingavin421]

lol at the space swastika boss ship so awsome

[@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69]

And now I cannot unsee Laser Tetran as anything other than a Space Swastika. Thanks for that...

[@Bloodreign1]

@@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69 Think of it as a Space Buddhist Manji, where the symbol originally came from, it might help.

[@ProfessionalNamielleLewder69]

@@Bloodreign1 I dunno, considering the Bacterian Empire is all about killing and destroying anything that isn't themselves, I think Emperor Bacterion may have been Space Hitler.

[@hyperboreen4854]

@@Bloodreign1 Fake News. The oldest swastika was found in Ukraine.

[@nguyentuankiet5642]

Loop 4 in 44:44 Wow

[@terezinhapereira9581]

Adorava jogar.foi o único que chegar no final.valeu😘

[@mkoyama]

My god, I had been wrongly thinking that the 'limit' ability was nothing but a useless crap...

[@ReikuYin]

4 seconds of pure invincibility. It has it's use. you just got to put it someplace more accessible. I mean in it's default place it's crap but as your speed up?

[@MsFlyingCake]

The problem is that you can only have one during boss fights

[@ToscoX1]

event of horizon music please?

[@forthesakeofthenationalist9375]

Here it is with extended theme: kzbin.info/www/bejne/foG6nJRuoshkn7M

[@RYE-1110]

What is a loop?

[@sammyyo461]

Once you finish an entire run of the game, the next run (or "loop") will be more difficult than the last.. .. ..

[@jjchoychi5134]

Even stage 1 is very hard

[@michaeljamesdelossantos173]

Destroy the core

[@lambsauce7969]

L I M I T

[@MiguelitoJodedor]

Ahora haz el mismo juego pero con el Lord British, Falchion B y Vic Viper.

[@darkenergy725]

es increíble

[@AlthofandruAdhafi]

Come back here after several years and i just want to say that put Limit on the first ability upgrade is "unethical"

[@Bloodreign1]

The game gives it to you as an option the ability to customize the power bar, use it as you must.

[@davy_K]

wow.

[@ALIENSHADZ]

i remember this, think i had this, there was one game like this but it was a dragon or something .. does anyone know the name

[@CricketDynamo720]

I know I'm 2 years late to respond, but if you haven't found out by now, i think the game you're looking for is Syvalion.

[@かすにゃーすまるえら]

これから始めますが1周目すら無理な気がする、

[@kng_rei]

慣れればLimitなしでhardest2週目最終ステージくらいまではいけるよ。

[@joshuatimbol696]

How did you play this on an actual American PS1? I thought Gradius Gaiden was only released on the PS1 in Japan.

[@PEG]

I have a mod chip in my ps1.

[@joshuatimbol696]

@@PEG Fair enough.

[@CarlosSilva-bh4bi]

The graphics and music are godly, but the Final boss is a lame decepcion

[@Bloodreign1]

Gradius final bosses have rarely ever fought back, outside of Gradius II on the Famicom, where Gofer shot a few bullets, or Nemesis II, aka Gradius 2 MSX, where Vemon fought back furiously, or Doom from Salamander 2, who put up quite the fight. Gradius 3's Bacterion final boss shot 3 slow fireballs, in the arcade version, only 1 could kill you, the other 2 took you to Easter Egg bonus stages from Gradius 1 and Salamander 1. SNES Gradius 3, all 3 shots killed you if you hit any of them. Parodius carried on that tradition with bosses at the end that did very little, unless it was the special stages in Gokujou, or the hard to get extra stage of Sexy Parodius.

[@theinsanitytheory5527]

3:36 wtf

[@jjchoychi5134]

Limit

[@jessejace]

What kind of stupid final boss was that?

[@PEG]

All the final bosses in Gradius games are like that. They rarely do anything, they usually just sit there and let you kill them. The one in this game is actually "harder" than in most of the others in the series lol.

[@jessejace]

PEG I think Life Force and Gradius III were the only ones I ever finished. But now that I think about it, Life Force's last boss is pretty dumb too. I don't remember what's at the end of Gradius III.

[@GalaxiaShadow]

To be fair, most of the Gradius Final Bosses are like Mastermind

[@forthesakeofthenationalist9375]

Except Salamander 2. The final boss is the only one that is challenging.

[@Bloodreign1]

@@PEG Salamander 2 and Gradius 2 MSX are lone exceptions.

[@BlinJe]

is this a TAS?

[@Sonicxtremer]

No it's not. If it was a TAS video then you'll see the ship of the player moves super fast

[@BlinJe]

+Sonicxtremer Haha cheers. I know, I was just annoying pegboy.

[@Sonicxtremer]

ha!

[@ebrawebraw4167]

44:42

[@のんたん-i2u]

りみっと

[@siapola8811]

Green plane is the worst

[@saif5311]

All this gam3s copy of nemesis 1 2 3

[@Bloodreign1]

Newsflash, those are of the same series, Gradius, and I see no real ideas lifted from those games, but the arcade games instead, but given fresh ideas to differ them from past iterations. You really have not played enough Gradius, remedy that and play more Gradius, and you'll see the error in your statement.

[@gt-r6912]

Ça c'est pour les pubs 👎

[@IMPROVISADOR]

Parodius hahahha

[@Bloodreign1]

It is a Parody of Gradius, and a damned fine series of it's own.

[@greatmusclesman8462]

lol ure using cheat codes and u must have no life to play this game all theday

[@PEG]

lol no. I don't use cheat codes in any of my playthroughs.

[@12trijavirgo18]

PEG you are awesome! drink it in mannnnnn lol

[@606808909]

Behave muscle douch pegs mastered a classic and is legendary, hasn't wasted his time *alltheday*

[@Bloodreign1]

No, PEG is one of the few on this app that don't use tool assist. Even channels like Replayburners has started doing TAS on some of their videos, when their videos were once all raw skill. Want tool assist, go check out World of Longplays or someone else.