[!WTV] Gradius V (Loop 10)

[@pizzamanhall4035]

I have this game & this is the level select feature where if you play long enough, you'll be able to select the loop & stage. Its in the option menu. This video puts the stages together when you see the "now loading" screen. I must say this is a awesome video! I never passed loop 5 on very hard because my eyes & fingers became tired!! Good work! I watch this everyday before bed! Stage 5 Meteor my favorite!

[@MNanme1z4xs]

V was no doubt one of the best Amount Gradius, Mechanically its near perfect with the introduction of directional option. Graphic and music score is amount the top of PS2 gen. My only complain is the art direction, which consist endless mech factory with exception of 2 stages. While this is still a nicely done work in its own right, Gradius never founded on a mech heavy art style, unlike Radien and many others. Gradius was best know for its mythical world, exotic landscape, and diverse style of enemy. You went through many of these to sedge on the mech fortress build around a giant brain. Diversity in environment and enemy type gives you a feel of fantastic adventure, not a military mission style of progression. And I would hope they bring back the moai at least, the most famous land mark in Gradius.

[@Nordicus0114]

I felt the same way for this game

[@andiarrohnds5163]

the "endless mech factory" is actually original to this series though. you have very long opinions friend. please no more opinion

[@kj1621]

I know this is a 5-year old comment but I absolutely agree. I just wish there would be at least two more unique stages (Moai and Fire) with unique bosses to differentiate from the mechanical stages and bosses. Aside from the Moais, I also miss the fire dragons that the previous games like to throw at you.

[@packnerz2017]

What I only don't like about V is the OST's. If it has a good OST like the previous series, this can become my number one in the series.

[@andiarrohnds5163]

korean north best in china

[@ostravia]

Outstanding! and it must have taken you a long time as (and I can surely concur...) it does not get any more frantic. The memory stamina would melt most wills and the persistence of time prevails as you most eloquently have illustrated. Congratulations and well done.

[@r.a.6459]

And on top of that, 10 hours of TORTURE and complete focus JUST to get there!! It's ridiculous!!!

[@ostravia]

@@r.a.6459 It makes your hair grow grey in the end. A Wiko, a lot of practice and a good memory, and an ability not to panic helps.

[@r.a.6459]

@@ostravia To become expert, you need thousands and thousands of hours of deliberate practice, and this game is no exception, in fact, it's the most required thing!!!

[@fefraga2008]

This is by far the best player I have ever seeing in Gradius. All versions.

[@cesarhenrxr]

Thais is a TAS man...

[@statusquo7128]

This game proves that all humans aren't equal. Very nicely done.

[@jfsoloasjd]

I love this game, the very best part of this game is the boss fights, and it feels so nice to watch boss fights on high loop (difficulty) in this game. So thanks for uploading this. 😎

[@randmc1986]

Wow, now this really seems like the enemy is throwing everything at you it can possibly come up with, every turret is firing gapless lines of bullets until the screen is full of it, and you still survived and defeated the entire fleet... Guess those bacterians were pretty pissed at you!

[@r.a.6459]

When I first saw Dodonpachi Daioujou when my brother plays it, it was hard enough - he used 5 continues to finish the 5 stages... and I was stunned, how can you avoid 100s of bullets at a time???? Then come this. This is waaaay harder!!!

[@Tony-1971]

Beautiful looking shmup. I always prefer the old school 2D graphics in games, but this game is an exception. The visuals are gorgeous.

[@ReverseInReverse]

This video is a masterpiece and you should feel proud of it.

[@michaelpidoto3521]

Talk about mastery. I couldn't stop watching 😂

[@MaxiRyu99]

WOW, UNBELIEVABLE!!!!!!!! YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!

[@prshess]

Holyshit this game is amazing! Don't know how this one got by me, but I'm about to remedy that!

[@JPN850R]

It's too bad that Konami hasn't made any new Gradius/Salamander since 2004.....

[@r.a.6459]

@@JPN850R because they see this already good enough.

[@gmoney1999x]

Dude...I only envy the amount of rage quit sessions you had to bear to become that good. Hats off

[@round3974]

10周目以降のブラスターキャノンコアは誇張抜きでstg史上でも5本の指に入る強さ

[@NeverbeGoodat]

Direction Master!

[@JPN850R]

You & PEG are some sort of God......unreal. I think you & PEG will survive WW3 for real.....

[@r.a.6459]

I requested TurkishBullet19 to play this. That guy beat Final Fight 2 on Expert without losing a life.

[@paxhumana2015]

I miss the Maoi heads. :(

[@michaelpidoto3521]

This guy is insane. I would have broke my controller already 😂

[@eoj99999]

Cheating or no cheating, this video is badass!

[@rezneba101]

clearly cheating. 4:22

[@walkwithme970]

@@rezneba101 agreed. boss fireball hit the body but ship was not explode.

[@Helio_Asou]

@@walkwithme970 Ship's hitbox is 1 pixel, I saw some conflictive part frame by frame and the enemies never touch the hitbox

[@fefraga2008]

So... not cheating. Incredible.

[@晴楽]

6:50くらいからの安全地帯入る軸合わせミスってるのに被弾無しということは…

[@ダダダ-w8u]

それ以外にも、そういう箇所があるね。

[@arvlann]

L'arcade existe encore !

[@M4gnumPY]

Normally yes, but in this video I played each stages individually using the stage select. For a better viewing, I put them together to feel like a complete walkthrough instead of makeing multiple videos.

[@shrasec2597]

Increíble, La de los asteroides para mi es imposible sin perder en very Hard que excelente jugador

[@Koopa126]

If someone asks you which is the hardest space shooter game of all time, show him/her this. Bravo for your stupendous skills!

[@Bloodreign1]

Show them the true King of hard space shooters, Gradius III arcade. This one, all you have to remember is one thing, your hitbox is one pixel wide, Gradius III arcade, the entire ship IS the hitbox.

[@themanpure]

Man this is extremely hard plus with the upgrades taken away for sure

[@MORJDK]

At 4:22 the projectile goes right through your ship ?

[@マーライオン-v9i]

ニュータイプ神話は本当なんだと思わされる………

[@METAL1ON]

Where is the actual hit box on the Viper I have seen multiple hits all across it in this video I know it is small but id like to know the location as this looks to me like invincibility is on all.

[@METAL1ON]

A year down the line without a response leads me to believe my original assumption is correct.

[@METAL1ON]

4 years later and still the same.

[@matrixandraia]

One of the most beautiful plays I've ever seen. Especially stages 6 and 7. The whole thing though... =)

[@biiiiiiiiiix]

that feeling when you're called a cheater while you're just super good at a game =) GG mate !

[@SoftwareAgentsTV]

I plan on doing a review of Gradius V in a few months and if it's okay with you, I might use some footage from this video in it. If it's not, I won't use it. -- AT

[@M4gnumPY]

Sure, you can use some footage from this video.

[@SoftwareAgentsTV]

Thanks, it'll be a few months, though. Also,m was there a strategic advantage to not destroying the enemy ships at 56:31 (when the Big Cores start appearing up until the High Speed Stage starts) or is that just showing off? lol -- AT

[@OJOUSA]

高周回のビッグコアmkⅣに真っ向勝負とか初めて見たわ…

[@alpargatabarata]

player master, best video youtube gradius v

[@Gingerzilla]

Indeed. That was a mad run.

[@gakimaru14]

これは無敵ですね笑

[@zero2nfinite]

Superb performance!

[@BeBoBli]

Bet you most want Gradius VI now that you've done damn near everything in V.

[@M4gnumPY]

Most importantly, Gradius VI made by TREASURE. Sadly, I don't see Konami announcing it anytime soon.

[@BeBoBli]

PY Savard V was developed by Treasure too apparently. In any case, it would surely be awesome and I hope they will still try again this gen.

[@PhantasyZX]

PY Savard They canceled... For unknown reasons...

[@EndymionMkII]

bebobli I guess now we will get Gradius VI Pachinko given what Konami has become.

[@msolom9521]

6:55 Where is the hit box ???

[@notbornyesterdaydude]

The boss designs are so cool

[@bluethunder7391]

Gradius 3, LifeForce and Gradius V are the best game ever.But love the whole saga of games.

[@M4gnumPY]

+Citizen Diaz I agree. It's really sad to know that KONAMI/TREASURE will never make another Gradius game. :(

[@bluethunder7391]

PY Savard I am depressed now.

[@newshero555]

グラ５ ループ１０タマ打ち過ぎ 個人的にはゲームセンターの基板で出して欲しいと願っています。 画像もBGM最高 サントラ版買いました。

[@stgosrsly]

39:22 MY GOD

[@vankristlabs]

Even more recently, people are smarming about this being "clearly cheated." It's not. Look at the cockpit. See that tiny strip of light, looks vaguely like a vertical stripe? That's the hitbox. It is one pixel. In art of the T-301, it's the mount where the cockpit connects to the spaceframe. They made that the hitbox in this, and it's a Treasure game, so graphically sometimes the models look like they should be getting hit but don't (Ikaruga, also by Treasure, comes to mind). This person is just really good, simple. Besides, if you think this is impossibly hard (it *is* hard, don't get me wrong), you haven't seen some of the others in this genre. Give Crimzon Clover a peek and then tell me that THIS looks impossible.

[@junioraraujo7966]

Impossible for a human being, I don't think it would even be a machine, I don't know kkkkk. To this day I still have the media game here at home, Gradius forever!

[@r.a.6459]

Someone out there needs to develop a DeepMind AI to play this game and train itself to perfection. Oh, this game and also the hardest shooter of the PC Engine (Deep Blue).

[@yamadatarou1517]

どんだけの時間やり込んだらここまで出来るようになるんだ・・

[@GungKrisna12]

When Gradius turns into bullet hell

[@AbaddonDrums]

I can do this, hold my beer. *turned into oblivion at first stage* ...oh well. But seriously , some maaad skills You have there. :D

[@kummer45]

Even with invisibility turned on the game is simply amazing.

[@Francis915Emoji]

i still sometimes watching this video for now on the day

[@内藤幸伸]

type2をここまで使いこなせるなんてうらやましいです。 販売国によってoptionの名前が変わるんですね。

[@アストロフィジックス]

設定でできるよ

[@naoki9993]

小学生の頃オプション無し縛りで友達とファミコンのグラデュウスIIやってたなぁ懐かしい

[@sriraktritipsirikul5153]

สุดยอด⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐

[@neolee-g3p]

you're god damn good at playing this game

[@MrBigace235]

Loop 10 = "YOU SHALL NOT PASS!!!" mode.Jesus man amazing run

[@Megalopros]

JUST HOW SMALL IS YOUR HITBOX AND WHERE IS IT LOCATED??, it honestly is just madness that all of these patterns are actually dodgeable

[@Bloodreign1]

1 pixel wide, the cockpit.

[@r.a.6459]

Legends said that if you cleared 10 loops of the game in a row, you can dodge raindrops!!

[@d0mochi]

Love how they also included bosses and boss music from salamander

[@はるさん-j4w]

神です🙂👍

[@Ghostgunace67]

Glad to see the video got more popular.

[@zsascsforever4155]

This is insanity!!!

[@kratosgod7705]

EN MODO ESPAÑOL NO SALE LOS SOUNTRACK LA MUSICA

[@GTR32ATESSA4WD]

Wonderful play

[@向嶋茂森]

当たり判定は1ドット フォースフィールドを張ると3ドット

[@子猫ねこねこ-g7g]

岩ばかりのステージのボスが、本気すぎてウケるんだけど笑

[@minoru1228]

岩ステージのボスでいつも詰んじゃいます。 頭が追いつかなくて。

[@ryulam2]

You played very strong, how can achieve this, it is impossible for me.

[@luckyspray]

OMG !!!!!! this guy is an expert !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@jyk1591]

Beautiful

[@furaibow6036]

これは間違いなく無敵ですね。 いくら判定小さいといっても各ステージ『今の絶対当たっただろ』ってのが、複数回ある。 パワーアップの順番もちょっとおかしい。 普通、高次周なら1速は最初にとるだろ。 レーザーより先にマルチプルだろ。 因みにPS2 版グラディウスVは所持しています。

[@たいぷあーる-b8w]

これ当たってない？

[@はるさん-j4w]

上手い‼️

[@jadecrowe7403]

3:54 な、何？ この 北斗の拳 風の「ヒデブー」みたいな 断末魔は・・・ｗ

[@ssbgodvegeta2615]

is this in Very Hard Mode

[@reykafuu]

yeah right, but the difficulty level is 10 times more difficult

[@ssbgodvegeta2615]

@@reykafuu dammmmm

[@devengod]

You missed the boss "Elephant Gear" of Stage 7c in your STAGE LIST description ^^

[@M4gnumPY]

+devengod You're right! Thanks. It's now in the list. :)

[@SealedBaylor]

Can someone explain what was happening to the lower Vic Viper at 1:15:21 to 1:15:44 ?

[@prshess]

How many controllers did you have to break to become that amazing?I'm going to guess 47! I'm I close? LOL

[@r.a.6459]

PS2 sure has games that made people rage quit, like GT4's Mission 23 and 34 as well as DDPDOJ with the insane bullet hell... but I think nothing comes close to this.

[@AktenJoe]

no human being played that !!

[@HALLPLINE200]

これは無敵ではないですよ。この方の動体視力は神クラスですね、凄いですよまさにスーパープレイです。

[@ごーけい]

確かに当たり判定は小さいですが大画面でスローにして見たらわかります。無敵です。

[@Scaraboy13]

I love it when people literally say your cheating even tho your not some don’t get the memo The Vic Viper T301 has the most tiniest hitbox out of all the VV models you literally had so many NDE’s I can’t even count anymore But some people are idiots to think you cheated because they probably never played a shmup before in their lifetime. Luckily treasure compensated the insane difficulty of the game by letting you phase through shots like that. the hit box for the T301 is like what two pixels large which is just insane.

[@M4gnumPY]

Scaraboy13 V3 - Yes, you’re right. All best shmup do this to make the games more accessible which is good design. It would suck to die because of the very tip of the nose of the ship hit something. There is a good documentary about shmup on youtube that explain their evolution. The smaller hitbox lead to the creation of Danmakus. Take a look if you find it, its great.

[@Levin_Pilot_246]

@@M4gnumPY Cave: My bullet hell games also compensate for microscopic hit boxes, but no slowdowns even at critical situations! Treasure: *done the same thing with Ikaruga, and Gradius V* Cave: O.o

[@M4gnumPY]

Since I'm playing each levels using the Stage Select option, no playback was recorded during level 2. When there is no recording, the game usually plays a pre-recorded sequence of the ship moving in the level, but since I'm playing on LOOP 10, Treasure probably didn't pre-record anything at higher loops.

[@genta4444]

いつからビックバイパーの当たり判定弾幕ゲーと同じになったんだ

[@向嶋茂森]

今回から

[@lambda494]

Do you use a special controller or just the Dual Shock 2? Do you use analog or pad? I can barely beat this game on normal. This was amazing.

[@M4gnumPY]

I used the Dual Shock 2 and mostly play with the DPAD but I wish I had a good arcade stick for precision. For this walkthrough, I had to do a lot of retries for several months using STAGE SELECT option. The most difficult stages being the Asteroid Field (including the boss) in Stage 5 and Stage 7 (Speed and Impregnable Fortress) because it's a very long stage which include a tough boss halfway through. But, it wasn't too much of a chore because Gradius V is a great SHMUP I really enjoy.

[@celebrategout1008]

where the fk is the vic viper's hitbox lol

[@vankristlabs]

It's a single pixel, located in the cockpit. If you look closely, it's a slightly bright spot.

[@Francis915Emoji]

year 2020 still watching this

[@PassportBrosBusinessClass]

The fucking hit detection on this game...

[@仁平英敏]

理解不能😅

[@JPN850R]

I hear some crunching noise in the background at the final stage. Lemme guess, you have 3 arms and eating chips while playing, and have 3~4 eyes, right? Otherwise....THIS IS GOD DAMN IMPOSSIBLE MAN!!!!! THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG (RIGHT) WITH YOU & PEG'S VISION MAN!!!!!

[@antonioguglielmetti2661]

That's death in any other Gradius game 16:26

[@teji0157]

Craziest game play I've ever seen…

[@tarouwakamatsu3579]

すげー

[@neltlen]

are you using a pad or a stick? your movements look so precise

[@egaosenshi4637]

Incredible, unbelievable, respect!

[@つかさあきら-y1k]

当たってるよね？

[@Nirufas_tears]

いまさらだけどあたってますね。　1時間9分48秒のところがわかりやすい。　でもスピードＭＡＸで斜め移動すると当たり判定が変化するとかの仕様ならわからないけど。

[@ostravia]

@@Nirufas_tears There was not hit.

[@taiyo_akane]

異次元すぎて草

[@子猫ねこねこ-g7g]

一機分の隙間も無いのに避けるか、、でも無敵モードでもやってるのかな？たまに当たっているような、、

[@bluescrndotnet]

Didn't actually know that this had multiple loops... Loved the game, but the later levels were tough enough for me on the first loop! And now i want to get the PS2 out again...

[@詳細-q5u]

1:13:32 What?

[@MNanme1z4xs]

I should realize the art style may be compromised by the PS2 performance limitation, organic 3D model had not very compelling result on old consoles. With more processing power available for modern hardware, and advancement in optimized rendering algorithm. I can expect the developer to take back that vibrant approach in future installments.

[@user-Libra112]

この人がシールド使うとこってほんとにやばいんだって分かる...

[@ostravia]

If you use a shield the multiplier increases.

[@炭酸-m7j]

へにょりレーザーが美しい

[@johnnyridden5139]

当たり判定おかしくない？

[@ごーけい]

コクピットの下に僅かに当たり判定がありますがこれは無敵です。

[@Lutukor]

01:15:20 Wow, you really sucked at Gradius in the past.