Gradius IV (Arcade/PS2) Full Run on Default Settings

[@faheemjerseyxs4222]

I always loved that konami intro, literally brings every memory, i can't even stop replaying that part :D

[@csr2legend]

I'm the center of the universe. My will rule every living thing in this universe.

[@kingtruly9323]

pilot: fuck you 33:00

[@purwantiallan5089]

Never played Gradius 4 game but it has tons of memories.

[@zippityzop]

Wtf did I just read?

[@bouncyblight2001]

Photon torpedo was the ultimate boss killer, sure you can’t really kill anything above or behind you but anything in front of you would get obliterated

[@Bloodreign1]

First time I had played this was when I bought this double pack on PS2 that it came on with 3. Boy I tell you what, it felt different, had always heard it wasn't a good game, but I'll be damned if it didn't grow on me extremely quickly.

[@Prisoner416]

Fuck anyone that says it's not a good game. The double pack is the main reason I bought a ps2 back in the day.

[@Bloodreign1]

Yeah it's a damned fine game, the black sheep of the series, but not a bad black sheep. Soundtrack is pretty low key compared to the other games in the series, but it doesn't have to be over the top either to be a great soundtrack. This game was my first Ebay purchase back in October of 2004 (the reason I signed up for an account there, and years later, still my go to place for imports), could never find this game in my local retro game shops, or game shops here period. I didn't spot one in the retro shop here till a full 11 years after I bought the game, in 2015. All I could do was laugh, it was sitting right there, but I no longer needed a copy. The owner of the shop remembered years before that I was looking for it, and asked if I still wanted to buy it. Told the poor guy, he was 11 years too late, Ebay had beaten him to the punch.

[@purwantiallan5089]

@@Prisoner416 have u tried gradius collection?

[@Bloodreign1]

@Damar Fadlan In later loops some say it surpasses Gradius 3 in difficulty.

[@InitialDL84]

This game gets a lot of flack, but it holds a special place in my heart since it's the first Gradius I got into. I think what hooked me in the most was the music! Especially that second stage! Then I played all the past games and Gradius 5, and I haven't looked back too much at this game since. It's still fun to play occasionally though.

[@unforgivn81]

After watching so many of these sorts of playthroughs, I was genuinely shocked to see the player die around the 17 minute mark.

[@PEG]

That's because this is a real playthrough, not some cheated emulator run like 99% of KZbin videos.

[@unforgivn81]

@@PEG Exactly. I've been desensitized to watching AI play old games rather than actual people.

[@TheBLBShow]

@@unforgivn81 They aren't played by an AI but they use Tools like savestates and slowdown to get a perfect run without the hassle of actually practising enough to beat the game legit. You can clearly tell with alot of shmup longplay videos that the player has no strategy at all and just relies purely on emulator tools.

[@valkiriforce]

Love the soundtrack of this game.

[@iam.thefinal]

Gradius III was the best hands down. Gameplay and soundtrack.

[@DarkRedZane]

I agree. I can't seem to like Gradius IV.

[@solarflare9078]

3 is nice, but it's way too hard for its own good.

[@Hyper_Drud]

@@solarflare9078 I like the SNES version better than the arcade version.

[@marx4538]

@@Hyper_Drud For me it's the reverse :D

[@EirinYagokoro]

I think Gradius peaked in 3 and Gaiden

[@METAL1ON]

Those pendulums in the final stage take the urine more than the lasers in Gradius 3's final stage. I wanted to like this entry into the series so much but to me the music whilst having a couple of good tunes really let it down compared to all the other versions. Great play through as always pal.

[@PEG]

Agreed, it definitely has the weakest music in the entire series (well the gameboy adcance game has a pretty poor ost too). It's too bad because there is a lot I really like about it, the rank system is a lot more fair than part iii for instance.

[@TheSpectre2300]

27:45-29:00 That was a pretty epic clutch! I thought for sure you were toast in the vertical segment!

[@CPS42069]

that movement is obviously sign of panic xD

[@Prisoner416]

I wish they'd release these games again.

[@mr.a8315]

On Steam games, you can get something called Arcade Classics Anniversary Collection. It has 5 or 6 Konami games, three are Gradius related. Gradius (Nemesis) and Salamander (Life Force) and Gradius 2 (Vulcan Venture), it also has 1981's Scramble. Gradius 0, haha. :P

[@cristanocosta5726]

Que jogão, o Gradius, todos eles, desde o Nintendo até o Playstation IV são indiscutivelmente os melhores jogos de nave elaborado pela Konami! São jogos difíceis, mas dão muita emoção tanto para quem joga para quem assiste!

[@TheFred128]

Dizem que gradius 5 é um dos melhores... O 4 até hoje não joguei

[@realevostevo]

These games are tough. And those checkpoints, aarrgggh just start me at the beginning of the level. I can't do jack without power ups in the middle of chaos.

[@JamesEmirzianWaldementer]

33:20 Gofer has fallen, Evacuating scene immediately…

[@kemikamiku375]

0:12 The piece is all apart

[@Mirum74]

Gradius II (NES) and Gradius V are the best versions for this game series.🗿

[@matthew4936]

you forgot gradius III

[@matthew4936]

SNES

[@cerealkiller1889]

Gradius III is the best of them all

[@greatsaiyajinman]

Don’t forget Gaiden

[@purwantiallan5089]

@@cerealkiller1889 no. Gradius Portable now the best bro.

[@nerdiloo9863]

Insane.

[@AlejandroHoss]

Poor final boss 😞 i only played the snes version but love this too

[@JasonsDigitalStuff]

All Gradius games had final bosses that did not attack you. They're defenseless mother brains and shit like that

[@Bloodreign1]

Salamander 2, and Gradius 2 MSX had final bosses that didn't just sit there, they actually defended themselves.

[@mrex666productions7]

@Damar Fadlan Technically you're fighting the final boss from the start and every other thing is an extension of that guy.

[@dracmeister]

"Wow, this looks like Gradius II!" I mean, it's supposed to be a "Gradius II 2" the subtitle "Fukkatsu" means "resurrection." In-canon, this happens after 3 however before Advance, which is supposed to be a more tragic take on "parts of me will be scattered" speech. As one of those pieces infects a planet so badly that you aren't able to save it at the end of Advance. There's a point of reality in "you will never completely destroy me." Since even to after 2 millenea has passed to Gradius V, you're still fighting off Dark Force. Even more omminously Venom is still "alive" in a sense, still vowing revenge. An eternal hell he's put himself in by weaponizing the Bacterians' affliction to the Dark Force. "You will never escape the shadow of my fear."

[@sunjoexys7251]

Can't believe I missed this one on PS2. Technically Gradius V is superior but IV has more variety and style. That's my thought after watching this video.

[@Bloodreign1]

Gradius V felt boring and more of a chore to get through. Sure the guys at Treasure, former Konami employees, made the game, but I never found Treasure's shmups to be all that great, their platformers and run and guns were fine though. Gradius Gaiden is the pinnacle of the series, and though this game visually doesn't hold up to Gaiden, it doesn't really have to, because it's challenge far surpasses Gaiden.

[@sunjoexys7251]

@@Bloodreign1 Thanks for your perspective. Let me see if I can get my hands on a copy of Gradius Gaiden

[@mutmut02_]

Still watching your videos in order to learn how to manage Gradius games. May I ask why did you pick this shot type ? Also, your new recording setup with the cab is really nice !

[@PEG]

I picked it because it's the only one of them with a good laser. Most of the lasers are worse than your basic shot in this game, no joke. Also the missiles can hit things above and below you which does come in handy, especially if you die and have to recover.

[@mutmut02_]

@@PEG Forgot to thank you : thanks !

[@fernandotorresgarcia7318]

GRADIUS IV FUKKATSU FOR SEGA DREAMCAST KONAMI 1999

[@GalaxyStandard77]

Only game where a organic flower explodes

[@warlockguy42]

Game looks different from what I remember

[@alanpiper3711]

Too many speed ups result in 💥 Now move on to Gradius V !!

[@SullySadface]

Oh good, it's Gradius 2 but with more framerate issues

[@ytnukesme1600]

no amount of cheating will ever help you beat this game, :) the game is literally made for perfectionists, there is no room for mistakes, i admit that i used cheats " that only got me so far " because as i said no cheat will help you, they only get you past enemies, but they don't nerf the stage design, i cheated and i still died A LOT.

[@Groxley]

Man if you think that about 4 don't ever play the arcade version of 3

[@claytonchesser1549]

PEG, how did you become such a god?

[@tsherwoodrzero]

How much bullet hell? Konami: Yes And I though Gradius III on the SNES was hard...

[@benjamincabana4388]

Gradius III (Arcade or PS2) is officially the Hardest Game on all the Gradius Series... Gradius IV is more easier (Believe or not)

[@purwantiallan5089]

@@benjamincabana4388 no. Gradius 3 5 and 4 on PS2 and PSP are the hardest ones.

[@benjamincabana4388]

In my personal experience, i found Gradius III more difficult, i put it the game in Easyest and its was very difficult, Gradius IV and V were in Normal and i Completed the Two games without more problems...

[@Zero56715]

14:51 why does this seem familiar.......

[@MajinErick]

Parts 4 and 5 are rough.

[@sergiosandoval4107]

Que gran nivel de dificultad es muy dificil

[@arcadenodeath2648]

jajaja like..awesome

[@久保田勉-f5x]

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[@XellosMetallium]

is gradius 4 a remake of gradius 3?

[@PEG]

More like a remake of Gradius II

[@최인성-k1v]

개잘하네

[@enixnova]

6 stupids = 16:58 & 17:20 & 17:44 & 26:09 & 26:43 & 27:15

[@julianseph842gamez5]

Miss counts

[@dabomb3336]

it was planned for the n64 and dreamcast but it was cancelled being non-canon

[@rushifellpainting4631]

Dabomb 333 What are you talking about? This game is canon

[@Bloodreign1]

Boy oh boy I don't know where you get your info from, the games canon, and I have never heard of any other release for this game other than the PS2 or PSP. No way was the N64 going to run this 100% like the arcade, and Konami's output on the Dreamcast was never big, or for any Sega console in general. Konami put their biggest output on Nintendo and Sony machines. The PS2 version is 100% exact to the arcade game, the PSP version suffers from some slowdown.

[@Maxx_XIII]

Wow, Gradius 4 ripped-off the majority of Gradius 1-3. Almost nothing is unique.

[@yunuslkambuno2162]

Konami 2020

[@yunuslkambuno2162]

Konami terbang Indihome

[@yunuslkambuno2162]

Membuat game konami rumah Konami retro

[@lankymaccrazyhair264]

I'm sorry but I can't take this game's 3d animations seriously. I know I know, it's an old game, they didn't have the technology, yadda yadda yadda, but seriously, Gradius 3 looks better in my opinion.

[@BlueSavior25]

Well there's always Gradius V, that one looks very good in 3D

[@lankymaccrazyhair264]

@@BlueSavior25 That's true.

[@Bloodreign1]

Konami were trying something new with this game, the tech wasn't going to be mind blowing, not for a shmup of the caliber of Gradius. You could say this was Konami getting their feet wet with shmups using 3D technology, though I believe they mostly used their 3D tech for racing games, and a fighting game here and there. I don't think there was another 2D-ish 3D shmup Konami made, outside of the fully 3D Solar Assault, another game in the Gradius series.

[@garvensman]

Nice job! Tough game to beat, no doubt. Side note: I think this is the ugliest game in the series. The PS2 visuals just didn’t age well.

[@sandraespinosa448]

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[@daritorremar1076]

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[@blastradius9136]

This is bullshit. How are you suppose to pass all this craziness at 20:53 ?