I would never really critique a Gradius game, of all things, for its story, not unless something was deathly wrong with it. We're told none of this in the opening animation, though: we're just shown a scrolling procession of the Gradius games that came before this, including pre-Gradius Konami game Scramble. So you are sent off in typical Gradius fashion: one Vic Viper against several levels of Bacterion freaks. The remains crash on a nearby planet and turn it into a mechanized fortress world (which begs the question of why this was not the original plan in the first place) which must be killed before it gets too powerful.
Bacterion creates a weapon they intend to use on Gradius, but it was destroyed before it could be finished. In Gradius Galaxies' case, in between the events of Gradius III and Gaiden, the war between Gradius and Bacterion rages on. Like most of the game there's nothing spectacularly wrong with it. I really hesitate to talk about Gradius Galaxies from a story perspective. Or Gradius Generation if you're Japanese. But is it founded? Well, I've played it through a couple of times, so here's my thought process as I lived with Gradius Galaxies. You can imagine my disappointment, then, when Galaxies and Gaiden played nothing alike. Back before I got Galaxies I had heard of Gaiden and thought Galaxies was a Gaiden approximation for the GBA. Lots of gorgeous sprite visuals, ships with wide arsenals, plenty of interesting levels and amazing bosses. Yet another game I was introduced to only after it appeared on the PSP, Gaiden was my mental image of what a Gradius game should play like.
There isn't anything particularly wrong with this game, per se, but when anything right I can point out has already kind of been done by other games in the series, in particular its older Playstation sibling, Gradius Gaiden. I'm sorry, but when you don't add a single thing compared to games anywhere from one to a few years your elder, I will call you out as the runt of your particular litter. So someone tell me if there's ever been a bad Gradius game, because I'm seriously calling Gradius Galaxies out for being one simply because it doesn't measure up to its peers.
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I'm sold there never has been: Gradius 1-3 were classics, I know some shmuppers who swear by the Salamander games, I am forever smitten by Gradius Gaiden, Gradius V was thought to be the second coming of shmups not more than a few months after R-Type Final put an end to the R-Type series as a shmup franchise, the Parodius games are well-remembered and Otomedius isn't what you'd call a blight on the franchise. Somebody tell me if there's ever been a bad Gradius game. Developer: Mobile21 (published by Konami)
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