#Gradius 2 x68000 intro plus#

This was ported to the Mega Drive but apparently it wasn't up to the task as there is HUGE amounts of slowdown and drowned out sound (what the fuck).Īn excellent revamp of Gradius 2 that patches its atrocious scrolling to be silky smooth and appends a few new levels. Prowl through levels hunting key targets culminating with a showdown against really challenging bosses. If these don't get you interested you're fucking deaf. Top down tank shooter with amazing music composed by Motoi Sakuraba (of tri-Ace/Tales fame). Bundled with the original X68000 to display with classics what awesome conversions the system was capable of.

Same great Gradius action, now with a slightly altered soundtrack and none of the shitty slowdown seen in the PC-Engine version. The music in this game is also extremely catchy and pleasing for some reason, even the short intro.Ī super moe overhead cute-em-up (think Legend of Valkyrie), whith lots of secrets and extra characters unlocked by defeating bosses.Īrcade perfect port, and it even has an exclusive Space Harrier level! However I hear this version was in the Japanese only Fantasy Zone 2500 collection for the PS2, so you get more that way.

Eggs are strewn about levels and gifted after eliminating certain enemy formations which give you extra heads, stronger weapons and temporary superpower - bringing you up to parity with motherfucking King Ghidorah. However there is one more arcade perfect port: Capcom Generation 2, for Saturn and PS1, which has the first three games all in perfect translation from the arcade!Ī Xevious clone, but it's better than Xevious! Morph into a dragon and rain destruction from the goddamn sky with two shot buttons to attack aerial and ground enemies. It even has difficulty dip switches which go up to eleven. The X68K had the advantage of powerful hardware near identical to Capcom CPS boards, so it's no wonder this is the most faithful to the arcade. Arcade perfect in every sense of the term. Save your beloved Prin-Prin from the clutches of the Demon World in this prohibitively difficult classic. Move inside of power-ups and follow them down screen to collect all three at once, a necessary skill to master! Bosses in particular also have specific weaknesses: the first pair of which are stupid enough to fire an energy orb at one another if you bait them to fire. A throwback to simpler times, the gameplay is simplistic, fast and fierce with very intricate patterns of enemies. Without the X68000 we would have missed out on the best shooting game of all time, and that would've been a damn shame. The paltry Shotgun spread not doing it for you? Compound it with the Multi charge and cover the screen with your Contra-style spread shot! Pretty unexciting graphics but the gameplay more than makes up for it. You can mix and match temporary power-ups for some potent combinations. Three ships to choose from each with their own parameters and arsenal. Homebrew that fleshed out into a surprisingly enjoyable game. Still, it remains the rarest and most sought after title in the Castlevania series.

The Chronicles re-release on the Playstation contains this game in unaltered format which makes the X68K version obsolete fucks up with numerous things, the screen is cropped at the top and makes enemies load later than they should during vertical scrolls, the AI of some enemies and bosses is worse, and time depleats much quicker making it almost impossible to complete the level with Death without dying due to time during it.

One rare oddity is the 'herb' subweapon, found nowhere else in the series, that can be used as a healing item. Ridiculously hard with relentless enemies and plenty of traps. There a 90% chance that if the game is on here it's better than any other port.Īnother iteration of the original Castlevania with all new levels and secrets.

#Gradius 2 x68000 intro plus#

Plus you can use a SNES and Genesis controller if you buy the adaptor, or feel free to try some of the other perfectly good controllers made for this computer. This thing had specs near identical to arcade hardware of the time (Capcom actually used those to program CPS1 games), and the screen is perfect for them too. Sharp, instead of trying to compete with the dominating NEC computers, created a powerful machine targeted at gamers, programmers and designers (think of it as the Macintosh to PC-98's DOS). You like arcade perfect ports right? Oh ok, how about better than arcade quality ports with little extras here and there? Well then, I think you'll do just fine here.