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1. GRADIUS REBIRTH SWITCH UPGRADE
2. GRADIUS REBIRTH SWITCH FULL
3. GRADIUS REBIRTH SWITCH TRIAL
4. GRADIUS REBIRTH SWITCH SERIES

In the former, there are unlimited continues, and in the latter, players are given one life to rack up as high a score as possible. There is a Standard gameplay mode and a Score Attack mode. There are five stages and five ships to choose from, as well as two different modes.

GRADIUS REBIRTH SWITCH UPGRADE

As is typical of the series, the weapon upgrade system remains intact.

GRADIUS REBIRTH SWITCH SERIES

Once again, players jump into the series mainstay ship, the Vic Viper, and head out in side-scrolling shoot-em-up stages to to battle hoards of deadly aliens and massive bosses. At this time, the Gradian Government deploys James Burton and the Vic Viper to attack the Bacterians. The mother computer of Antichthon has been taken under the control of a group called the Bacterians. In the "Gradian Year 6664," the planet Antichthon (part of the Gradian Empire) becomes suddenly quiet. Like the other ReBirth titles, this game is also a throw-back to the 16-bit era, and takes inspiration from various titles in the Gradius franchise, including the Nemesis and Lifeforce titles. To omit such a simple addition from this game is a pretty serious loss.Gradius ReBirth is a part of the ReBirth series from Konami on the Wii, which includes old-school revisits to the Contra and Castlevania franchises. I hate to knock a game for something it doesn’t have, but it has to be said, since most of the best Gradius games in the past allowed for two player co-op.

GRADIUS REBIRTH SWITCH FULL

The game’s developers seemed to be aware of this, which is probably why they allow for you to record a full replay of anything you do in Score Attack mode, and/or upload your high scores to the game’s online leaderboards.Īs nice as those features are, they don’t make up for the main extra I was hoping for out of Gradius Rebirth: two player co-op. Just a few more seconds of survival provided me with a sense of total victory, more so than I’ve gotten from playing through some other games in their entirety. On one of my many attempts to get through the Moah heads level on Loop 2, just surviving for a few more seconds than I did on my previous attempt caused me to pause the game, take a deep breath, and perform a fist pump. Gradius Rebirth is definitely a game that focuses on making the player take pride in achieving what they once thought was impossible. If it weren’t for the fact that you can start your game from any of four checkpoints in any level once you’ve gotten to them at least once, and that you can use the “Konami code” from any of these checkpoints to load your ship with weaponry, I wouldn’t be writing this right now. Die once, and you lose everything, which basically leaves you screwed. Like most classic Konami games, Gradius Rebirth is a game where you need to power up early, and keep your power-ups through the whole game, in order to stand a chance. On normal and above, Gradius Rebirth is much harder than most Gradius games, to the point where I don’t think I’ll ever be able to beat it on ‘very hard.’ In order to see the game’s “real ending,” you have to beat Loop 2 on normal or higher, which was so incredibly tough to do that I honestly didn’t think I’d be able to do it in time for this review.

GRADIUS REBIRTH SWITCH TRIAL

There are five difficulty settings, three of which are nearly impossible to beat without hours of trial and error. I’ve played just this section of the game at least twenty times since I got the game, and it’s still exciting. There is a sequence at the end of Stage 2 that is designed like nothing I’ve ever done in a shmup, where I had to simultaneously blast the walls in front of me so that I could safely pass through them, while dodging the enemies flying at high speeds from behind me, and also trying to collect the power-ups from those enemies after blowing them up. On the higher difficulty settings, some stages are nearly impossible to beat without the right ship, so you’ll be trying each of them out at least once over the course of the game.Įach level is based on something found in a previous Gradius game, but with enough added twists to keep it feeling fresh and unpredictable. You start the game with three selectable ships, with two more “experimental” models unlockable by meeting certain in-game requirements. Also fully intact is the signature Gradius power-up chain (speed up, missile, double, laser, option, and “?”), although there are now a few new ships that make use of the chain in all new ways. The tried-and-true Gradius level structures of opening power-up collection section, main level section, “panic” section, then boss fight, have all been perfectly retained. For the most part, the game makes good on its intentions.