Lol, that Moai stage. Someone at Konami was like: "Dude, have you seen those big head statues in easter island? Totally alien made bro." And the gradius developer was like: "That would be kinda cool. We'll make them an enemy in the game... and they will shoot radioactive froot loops!"
Gradius IV is absolutely ridiculous. Even with inflationary save state abuse I had no chance through the last third until I slowed the game down by 50%, and that was still a serious pain in the a**. Hats off to everyone who can beat this game with 1cc.
I have this Gradius among others on the PSP and will I adore it, trying to play any of the titles on a small screen just makes me angry and unsociable! So being able to emulate on pc and play it on a large screen was a real blessing here, you even see and capture many details not possible on small screen as well. All the later Gradius games from IV onwards can be a nightmare to emulate if you don't know what you are doing...I'd love to play Gradius V someday.
I had no idea such things were possible. I remember playing this on my ps2 back in the day. I could get to the point where you clicked the two additional speed ups going thru the angled passages. Fuck you’re good man. Fuck!!! I LOVE that you’re this fucking good at this game. I fully appreciate how hard this game is and how skilled you are. The only thing that could have made this better for me to watch is to have your heart rate and blood pressure up on screen in real time. Bravo my friend. Bravo.