Gradius Advance

Gradius Galaxies is an online GBA game that you can play at Emulator Online. This free Game Boy Advance game is the United States of America region. May 29, 1985  It was such a huge influence that Konami made at least 7 sequels and spinoffs of it, including Salamander, Gradius III, and the super-cute Parodius series. It's very hard, but worth your while. If you have MAME, then download it for crying out.

Gradius Advance
Developer(s)	Mobile21
Publisher(s)	Konami
Designer(s)	Hideaki Fukutome
Series	Gradius
Platform(s)	Game Boy Advance
Release	EU: November 9, 2001 NA: November 30, 2001[1] JP: January 17, 2002 JP: November 3, 2005 (Konami the Best)
Genre(s)	Horizontal scrolling shooter
Mode(s)	Single-player

Gradius Advance is a horizontally scrolling shooterhandheld video game developed by Mobile21 and published by Konami in 2001. It was released later in the same month in the United States as Gradius Galaxies and in 2002 in Japan as Gradius Generation (グラディウスジェネレーション, Guradiusu Jenerēshon).^[2] It is the only Gradius title available for the Game Boy Advance. The game's plot is set between Gradius III and Gradius Gaiden. Bacterion was developing a powerful weapon to use against the planet Gradius, but it was destroyed. A few years later it crashed on a planet and the planet gradually changed into a mechanical fortress. The planet Gradius then sent the Vic Viper to stop it.

Gameplay[edit]

The game play is almost identical to other titles in the series. The player takes control of the Vic Viper spacecraft tasked with destroying hordes of enemies. Various traditional elements of Gradius are present — the moai, an undefended final boss, and the upgrade power meter. The weapons system remained mostly unchanged as the configurations available are identical to Gradius III, with the exception that the edit mode is missing. There are four different types of weapons configurations: Balanced, (traditional Gradius) wide area (Salamander) power, and air-to-ground. Each configuration is indicated by the color of Vic Viper. Unlike Gradius III, there are only two shield options — shield and force field. In addition, the S. 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.

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. 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. Fortresscraft evolved mass storage io port. Additional challenges could then by unlocked by completing other challenges. The challenge mode was absent from the U.S. and European releases due to the game being released in Japan several months later.

Reception[edit]

Reception
Aggregate score Aggregator Score Metacritic 78/100[3] Review scores Publication Score AllGame [4] Famitsu 32/40[5] Game Informer 7.25/10[6] GamePro [7] GameSpot 7.8/10[8] GameSpy 71%[9] IGN 7.5/10[1] Jeuxvideo.com 14/20[10] Nintendo Power [11] Nintendo World Report 9/10[12]

The game received 'generally favorable reviews' according to the review aggregation website Metacritic.^[3]Nintendo World Report praised the game's awesomeness and said that 'it could even be considered the GBA's Ikaruga.'^[12]IGN praised the game's ability to save high scores directly to cartridge.^[1] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of 32 out of 40.^[5]

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References[edit]

1. ^ ^abcHarris, Craig (November 28, 2001). 'Gradius Galaxies'. IGN. Ziff Davis. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
2. ^'Gradius Generation Konami The Best'. Konami (in Japanese). Archived from the original on January 14, 2018.
3. ^ ^ab'Gradius Galaxies for Game Boy Advance Reviews'. Metacritic. CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
4. ^Weiss, Brett Alan. 'Gradius Galaxies - Review'. AllGame. All Media Network. Archived from the original on November 15, 2014. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
5. ^ ^ab'ゲームボーイアドバンス - グラディウス ジェネレーション'. Famitsu (in Japanese). Vol. 915. Enterbrain. June 30, 2006. p. 117.
6. ^'Gradius Galaxies'. Game Informer. No. 104. FuncoLand. December 2001. p. 118.
7. ^Bad Hare (December 5, 2001). 'Gradius Galaxies Review for Game Boy Advance on GamePro.com'. GamePro. IDG Entertainment. Archived from the original on December 16, 2004. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
8. ^Provo, Frank (November 21, 2001). 'Gradius Galaxies Review'. GameSpot. CBS Interactive. Retrieved January 14, 2018.
9. ^Brooks, Mark (January 20, 2002). 'Gradius Galaxies'. GameSpy. IGN Entertainment. Archived from the original on February 4, 2005. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
10. ^la redaction (November 23, 2001). 'Test: Gradius Advance'. Jeuxvideo.com (in French). Webedia. Retrieved March 17, 2020.
11. ^'Gradius Galaxies'. Nintendo Power. Vol. 150. Nintendo of America. November 2001. p. 148.
12. ^ ^abShughart, Ty (May 6, 2003). 'Gradius Galaxies'. Nintendo World Report. NINWR, LLC. Retrieved January 14, 2018.

External links[edit]

• Gradius Advance at MobyGames

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