Across the series, the Force Field is by far the most commonly-used shield whenever it's available, due to the original Shield being very tanky but also only guarding against frontal attacks and the shields being easy to deplete due to their big hitboxes.
GRADIUS III SHIP SPRITE SERIES
While it does house a Final Boss that takes barely any effort to dispose of as per series tradition, it's a bit unexpected that the stage right before said final boss isn't too difficult either.
The final stage of Gradius V is a slightly harder version of Stage 2 where the player(s) ascend instead of descend, but it is significantly much shorter and easier than the previous stages, such as Stage 6 and Stage 7, both of them regarded as the hardest levels in the game.It's sandwiched between Stage 7 and its fireball shower from hell and Stage 9 which is home to the infamous "Cube Rush". Stage 8 of Gradius III arcade version is a plant stage that's surprisingly straightforward and easy for being 80% into the game.Bile Fascination: A lot of fans bought the Arcade Archives rerelease of III AC just to meme on the game's truckload of Fake Difficulty.
GRADIUS III SHIP SPRITE PS2
Too bad it slows down to a crawl on certain PS2 models. Best Level Ever - Stage 7 of Gaiden, which starts off as a seemingly-innocent volcano stage.and then gets gradually sucked into a black hole.Awesome Music - Gradius contains a large amount, listing them here would take too much space.By the time you get to the Bacterion leader, you've already practically won. This is justified, as the final stage is usually a Genius Loci controlled by the Bacterions, and so in a sense, the entire final stage (and to an extent the entire game) is the boss fight. from Gaiden) or straight up doesn't attack at all (Xaerous Brain from the original and ReBirth, Zelos Force from Salamander, Gofer from II and IV, Venom from V). Anti-Climax Boss - And how! Almost every Final Boss in the series (with the exception of Doom from Salamander 2 and Venom in Nemesis II) either uses easily dodgable attacks (Bacterion from III, O.V.U.M.Adaptation Displacement - Most American fans believe that the NES version of Gradius is the first in the series due to the fact that arcade version was renamed Nemesis outside Japan.Accidental Innuendo - "POUND through the entrails and SHOOT ABADON!" Something about that sounds unsettling.
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