Gradius III (Arcade/PS2) Stage 10: Last (Mechanical Base)

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-Stage 10: Last-
Soundtrack:
1:04 - Part 1: Boss on Parade
4:39 - Part 2: Mechanical Base
9:02 - Part 3: Final Shot
11:44 - Part 4: Escape to The Freedom
Bosses:
0:06 - Mini Boss 1: Zub Rush MK II
0:29 - Mini Boss 2: Tetran
1:05 - Mini Boss 3: Covered Core
1:41 - Mini Boss 4: Big Core MK II
2:35 - Mini Boss 5: Crystal Core
3:39 - Mini Boss 6: Death MK II
4:02 - Main Boss 1: Dellinger Core
8:23 - Main Boss 2: Disrupt
9:11 - Main Boss 3: Shadow Gear
11:10 - Final Boss: Bacterion

[@Thebluedud]

The Arcade version of this game truly is one of the most sadistic games ever created.

[@Bloodreign1]

It's even more sadistic on the PS2, where you can turn slowdown off. The game becomes even more insane, if that's possible.

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

I know,right,this game clearly wants to taunt you

[@howlingdin9332]

The SNES version is better in every way.

[@ReaperX7]

The game is playable and beatable but the biggest threat you gave is the Crystal maze in the previous areas.

[@PEG]

Thr crystal level is flat out unfair. The rest of the game is pretty hard but manageable if you have a good route. The crystal level, well unless you have all the sequences memorized it's a lot of luck.

[@alienspacebat5218]

Boy, this was one long and hard final stage! Right off the bat a boss rush, then nine sections, six before the gunwall: mechanical fortress, crumbling walls, barrier ships, collapsing walls, mini shadow dancers, rotating beams and then a new shadow dancer and organic gauntlet, and after the "boss" an escape sequence!

[@alienspacebat5218]

Marcus Thomas I hear the SNES version was easier. How far did you get there?

[@MarxasThomas]

alienspacebat​ i have both versions but i got farther in the arcade one. The snes version i played when i was younger, i manage to finish that version. I noticed when i played the arcade version some of the stages and music were different from the snes version for example, the cell stage was basically identical in both games but the music was changed to a song called "uncharted territory" epic!

[@danialtarki572]

Don’t forget the lights shutting off repeatedly as part of an alarm.

[@bquinn5891]

And if you set your ship up wrong, or God forbid you died once, you are soft locked out of doing certain parts of this horrible horrible stage.

[@icecreamsamwich]

the final areas in gradius games always end up all fleshy and gross i like it!

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

true

[@nickz20]

Same for the Contra the alien boss😁

[@csr2legend]

I was born... out of the greediness of mankind.. while men exists, so well I!

[@darkerfalcon3747]

SNES: *low pitched burps*

[@lukebarga8797]

Sure it’s only 12 minutes, but they feel like the longest 12 minutes of your life.

[@darkerfalcon3747]

This arguably the toughest Gradius that i ever played (but also one of the funniest, greatest and well done to play). Thank god that in the PS2/PSP versions they added QoL improvements, such: a stage select that acts like a continue system, the possibility to use the weapons from the (technically different) SNES game and balanced difficulty on lower difficulties under the normal mode. Even if everyone says that this game is hard and they prefer the SNES reboot of Gradius II (Yes! That's the way i considerate Gradius III SNES), this doesn't stop me to prefer this.

[@michaelsticksdelaughter]

11:45 Let's Get Outta Here The Planet Is Going To Explode!

[@aljawisa]

8:50, this guy's playing it cool like the CPU.

[@ndr2q]

This is exactly why I think the SNES version is the definitive version of Gradius 3.

[@Persac7]

Cuz this is insane

[@mrex666productions7]

@@Persac7 Yes, and bear in mind it's also an Arcade game. Which means that you slot in like 300yen? to play as much as you want before you die. Now imagine dying 40-50 times before managing to clear it. At that point it's technically P2W.

[@darkerfalcon3747]

Seriously?

[@solarflare9078]

LOL @ the parallax scrolling at 9:38

[@chilup2007]

Around 5:20. I recall if I didn’t get to that point, I have to do the boss rush all over again. I was frantically saving my progress on my PSP hoping that the 10-1 checkpoint turn into 10-2.

[@PEG]

Yup. If you watch my full run of the game I die literally 1 second away from the next checkpoint and have to do the whole boss rush again. Ridiculous game design!

[@lankymaccrazyhair264]

Dadgum, there are games shorter than this level. In fact, i'm pretty sure there are games in the Gradiues series that are shorter than this level.

[@mrex666productions7]

Also, if you don't know about it, this is intended to be played in an arcade. AKA it's a P2P game. Konami is VERY big on P2P Arcade games even now, and it's the only thing they still have a market for save for Yu-Gi-Oh cards (which again, I have yet to see these two collapsing like their video game department did no matter how bad you think they are). So basically, you're going to slot in like 200-300-ish yen per play. If you get a game over you have to pay again and start from the beginning, like in stage 1. And combined with the completely and utterly sadistic gameplay that verges on trial and error, you'll need approximately 70 - 80 credits before you can manage a complete run. But then people were more tolerant at that time; if something like that were published in 2015 - 2022, it will assuredly tank any company who published it even if it's another company like SEGA (arcade games) or Bandai-Namco (more arcade games). And this is excluding any possible notions of gacha or other monetization elements added in.

[@Tacoguy777]

Even with the p2w element by insterting coins/credits to play, this game like many other Gradius games kicks you back to a checkpoint. Compare that to other shumps like 19XX (made by Capcom) where on death you can keep going exactly where you got killed off.

[@mrex666productions7]

@@Tacoguy777 Yes but the checkpoints are egregious. Who would had been thought about kicking you directly back to the Gunwall if you get killed by it. And EVEN after you get to the spider walker, if you get killed anywhere in the walker section you FIGHT THE GUN WALL again. And the Gun Wall is absolutely awful especially when no powerups.

[@Tacoguy777]

@@mrex666productions7 I can't imagine having to spend actual credits/coins on this arcade machine to keep continuing to play. I'd probably end up broke since it took me over 100 tries to beat this game on the Switch, lol.

[@nickz20]

Hope there is A plane like that in real life ..for sure that plane is unbeatable😁

[@user-pi2pw2nt7k]

ボスラッシュは覚えているけど、要塞ステージの回転レ―ザ―と中ボス、シャドーギア、再生細胞壁と肉団子が厄介！

[@Austinc5904]

Gradius 3 GRIND COMMING SOON

[@METAL1ON]

Yarghh "pirate speak" There be some legendary player hanging in the arcade and if its a woman I'd drop anchor in her lagoon, be it a man then well done me hartie.

[@FossaMagna55]

ｲｲﾈ・

[@TheDaexiled1]

..... This game..... the horror I endured..... finishing it after 1k attempts seemed like...... Do not play, it's brutal

[@user-tv6hn3so3d]

スプレッドボムって便利♪

[@lankymaccrazyhair264]

The arcade version of 3 feels like an unfinished and unbalanced beta they rushed out the door because they ran out of time/money. Kinda a shame, since this game did have a lot of great ideas, some of which didn't make it into the otherwise superior SNES version.

[@Persac7]

Ikr

[@mrex666productions7]

It's not unfinished, just horribly unbalanced. Especially bear in mind you have to pay up everytime you play, and if you die you have to re-pay that much money and repeat everything from the first step. Assuming if one Credit is 300 yen and you use 80 attempts to succeed in a full start to finish run, this is a total of 24,000 Yen aka 185.62 USD for a complete goal. And I believe in practice you need at least a hundred tries or more to pull one a clean run.

[@darkerfalcon3747]

1.It's not unfinished. Konami decided to use only new features for Gradius III, instead to re-use features in the previous games. 2.Like Gradius II, Konami decide to cranked up the difficulty, but since it came out in a year where arcade operators were putting pressure on developers to make the games brutally and stupidly hard. They make Gradius III (AC) brutally and stupidly hard. 3.It can be unbalanced (especially for beginners), but if you give up at the first try you can never beat the game, you have to retry more times and study new skills and strategies. That's how i beated Gradius III Arcade. 4.Someone complains that Gradius III doesn't have continues. Let's tell the truth: if you played the JP version of the first Gradius and Gradius II and when you lose all your lives, you can see that it's game over and you can't continue. Since Gradius III Arcade came out in Japan (even in Asia) and never outside Japan, per tradition, they decided to use the same treatment for Gradius III. Maybe if Gradius III was come out outside Japan, there was a chance that a continue feature could be implemented. 5.The Arcade Version is *far* totally superior at the SNES one. It has new features (such the Pseudo-3D high speed stage). The SNES version removes most of the new features and mechanics from Arcade Version and re-use most of the features of Gradius II. Gradius III SNES it's just a reboot of Gradius II that plays more Gradius II and less Gradius III.

[@darkerfalcon3747]

​@@mrex666productions7Totally agree with you

[@ryandiggs750]

I like the arcade version better especially the final level music before the final boss

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

I've thought up some lyrics for 9:02

[@Austinc5904]

Cmon tell us

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

@@Austinc5904 ok

[@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff]

@@Austinc5904 DAMN KZbin WON'T LET ME PASTE THEM HERE!!!

[@Austinc5904]

@@Alienboi2005vidsandstuff oh no

[@Persac7]

The thumbnail isnt mechanic base but ok

[@PEG]

The entire stage is called Mechanical Base

[@Persac7]

@@PEG after the gunwall 8:57 is final shot not mechanical base

[@Tacoguy777]

@@Persac7 Final Shot is just the name of the music that plays after Gunwall is killed (8:57). The whole stage and thumbnail are correctly named Mechanical Base though.

[@osupu2200]

おみごと(*´д‘*)

[@user-iq9jr3uz5w]

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[@puterawidy669]

Mission 3

[@lordjoyous]

The final boss is so weak that if you don’t even shoot it it just dies lol

[@darkerfalcon3747]

Same for: Xaerous Brain (Gradius) Zelos Force (Salamander) Gofer (Gradius II)

[@lordjoyous]

@@darkerfalcon3747 I hate that lol

[@darkerfalcon3747]

​​@@lordjoyousMe too, lmao.

[@lordjoyous]

@@darkerfalcon3747 fight back homie! Fight back!! Lol

[@bquinn5891]

Did this crap twice and never again. I hate this game so much.