Gradius V was on the PS2, yeah, and it's totally great! Pretty 3D graphics, not terribly advanced even for the time, but good clarity which was sometimes difficult when going polygonal. It does a neat thing with the "story" mode where you start with a higher number of continues the more time you spend playing the game. So like any good shooter, you'll probably not even come close to finishing it on your first dozen attempt, but on top of getting further because you get better at the earlier levels, it throws you some mercy for shown diligence until you either master it enough to beat it, or until you have like 20 continues and can just brute force it.
This looks neat. Obvious Gradius throwback, but looks well made.
There are more games that I wish I'd played that probably deserve to be on a list, than there are actual games that I've played that deserve it. I can think of like... three games that I like a lot, have played, and were released this year... and somewhere around seven that I feel like I'd have loved if I got around to them. This is awkward...
@magusmaleficus: Sure, people are entitled to care passionately about boring fiction. I just don't know how anyone comes to the decision to do that.
I don't know how some people come to the decision to be assholes on the Internet, and yet here we are. Perhaps this mysterious coincidence is a clue that a lot of things aren't decisions at all, they just happen to people. How did you decide what kind of music to enjoy? How do you rationalize that decision? You probably didn't, you probably just like some stuff and not other stuff, and maybe you'd prefer if people didn't get up in your grill about it.
Someone really needs to bring F-Zero X to a UPF. That game gets brought up relatively frequently but nobody at GB knows anything about it. I think the fact that, yes, all the 30 nutjobs from F-Zero GX are in that game, the art design is just as crazy if not worse, and every race has all 30 racers on the circuit at all times, at a constant 60 FPS, might probably blow Brad's mind. The game was ugly as hell, but it still plays wonderfully and totally deserves to be remembered!
If you stare into the eyeholes of his mask, you will find that Il Piantissimo does indeed have the face of the Running Man from Ocarina of Time (who also played the role of the mailman in Majora's Mask)
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