KANGEKI! LET'S GO NEXT GAME!
Those red balls with the blue tentacles are indestructable, but if you shoot at them enough, the red balls shrink a little bit, making them slightly easier to avoid. If you're actually crazy enough to do, you can shoot the tentacles down and destroy them.
You'll meet more of these and some without tentacles, followed by that blue ship again.
Hope you have two Options for the next level, as you'll need them to break through the lattice-like fields in your path. The laser combined with the two Options makes this a lot easier.
The boss here is not that blue ship again. Instead, it's some alien thing that shoots all these red balls at you. Stay close to the center and fire at it. You'll need two Options and the Laser for this, so you can break through all the firepower as you shoot this thing down. Having "??" here helps. When you destroy this thing, you'll go on to the next level.
Tune in next entry for the final boss.
Great video! This seems like an awesome game. Thanks for sharing your playthrough of it.
ReplyDeleteYou're welcome.
DeleteNot my playthrough; it was played and uploaded by TheKnightOfNee, as mentioned in the title.
But Gradius is a pretty awesome game for its time, and it still holds up today, even though it can be challenging.