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Saturday 24 February, 2007
I got slightly farther in my second session of game play, but I didn't make it to the 'boss', or if I did, I must have died before he showed up on the screen. I got to some part where there's two volcanos and they spew rocks out, and I got hit by one and that was game over for me. Gradius is quite difficult. I think the power ups make the game harder than it should be. For someone playing Gradius for the first time, you're not going to know that you should shoot all first enemies you see. You're placed around the middle left part of the screen and the first enemies approach from the top right. You could stay there and shoot them as the come at you and move in a Z like pattern, but you'll only hit 3 out of the 4. Or if you try to move around to hit them, your ship will most likely be too slow. If you hit all 4, you get a power up and getting power ups early on is important because your ship moves slow without the power ups. Its rather difficult to dodge the fireball things when your ship moves very slow. I think the flaw in Gradius is that its heavily dependant on the power ups. Without that speed power up, you're probably going to die a lot. However, I'm thankful that Gradius had checkpoints along the level, so when I died, I did not have to resume from the beginning. The game is hard as it is, so I can imagine it being frustrating to start all over from the beginning each time you die.
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