The final boss is essentially just a huge brain in a tank. There’s an outer space level, an underground level, a fire level, a Moai level (featuring a cybernetic Moai boss), and a mechanical base level. The underground level contains waterfalls that hover in mid-air, which is similar to a stage in Xexex. If you’re not careful, you can destroy the foundations of these platforms, causing the ceilings to collapse down on you. The second level is reminiscent of one of the stages in Gradius 2 on MSX – it consists of glass platforms, which can be shattered by shooting at them. The levels aren’t too interesting, with only a few cool innovations here and there. Much like Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance, the music quality is severely compromised, featuring obnoxiously shrieking bleeps and bloops that sound significantly worse than your average NES game. While the graphics are decent, the same can’t be said about the music.
Here it’s a buzzsaw-like machine that inflates to take up a huge portion of the screen – it’s similar to the one in Gradius Gaiden, but much, much more menacing. In many previous Gradius games, there’s an invincible boss that will slowly make its way back and forth across the screen, forcing you to hide in small nooks to avoid getting crushed. There’s also some occasional use of rotation and scaling effects, like huge, slowly rotating asteroids with narrow openings in the middle. Some of backgrounds, like the bright red moon in the cavern stage and the comet in the warp level look pretty impressive. The graphics are better than Gradius III but not quite up to the level of G radius Gaiden. It’s not exactly innovative, but as a miniature version of Gradius, it’s quite good.įor starters, it’s obviously not nearly as compromised as the previous Game Boy titles, so despite the low resolution, it’s still quite playable.
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Gradius Galaxies was developed by Mobile 21, a joint venture between Nintendo and Konami which focused on portable games.
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