


Additional challenges could then by unlocked by completing other challenges.

The Japanese version further included a challenge game play mode that had to be unlocked by achieving a high score during a single play-through of the game’s normal difficulty mode. The game’s configuration allows the player to choose between three difficulty modes, with each mode consisting of three loops - progressively more difficult play-throughs that are unlocked as previous loops are cleared. option (“snake option”) is not present in this version the player can however choose to have the computer assign weapon power-ups automatically or purchase upgrades manually. Unlike Gradius III, there are only two shield options - shield and force field. Each configuration is indicated by the color of Vic Viper. There are four different types of weapons configurations: Balanced, (traditional Gradius) wide area (Salamander) power, and air-to-ground. The weapons system remained mostly unchanged as the configurations available are identical to Gradius III, with the exception that the edit mode is missing.
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Various traditional elements of Gradius are present - the moai, an undefended final boss, and the upgrade power meter. The player takes control of the Vic Viper spacecraft tasked with destroying hordes of enemies. The game play is almost identical to other titles in the series. The planet Gradius then sent the Vic Viper to stop it. Bacterion was developing a powerful weapon to use against the planet Gradius, but it was destroyed.Ī few years later it crashed on a planet and the planet gradually changed into a mechanical fortress. The game’s plot is set between Gradius III and Gradius Gaiden. It was released later in the same month in the United States as Gradius Galaxies and in 2002 in Japan as Gradius Generation. It is the only Gradius title available for the Game Boy Advance. Gradius Advance is a horizontally scrolling shooter handheld video game developed by Mobile21 and published by Konami in 2001.
