![]() ![]() However, the rescue activities of the Imperial Government and its reconstruction efforts never reached the Wreeks, causing four more to die. After this battle, only 12 Wreeks survived. However, the Imperial Government grieved over the Wreek people, refusing recognition.Īttacks on the Gradius star in the "Northern Cross Battle" had little direct effect on the Wreek settlement area, but many Wreek people perished due to the influence of cosmic radiation emitted from the explosion of stray bullets. This singular power is maintained by a strong and special magnetic ion held in their bodies, thus making them susceptible to a variety of cosmic rays which exist in nature, this being their reason for taking residence in the southern hemisphere, where the incidence of cosmic rays is relatively low. The psychic power possessed by a Wreek was known as Wreek Power and was known to be usable as an energy source for all kinds of powered equipment and living bodies. Although their lifestyle was primitive, they possessed psychic powers which allowed them to communicate telepathically with other tribes. ![]() The Wreek was the only ethnic group living in the southern hemisphere of Planet Gradius. The Empire's major operations are focused on the northern hemisphere where the sun is shining while little development of the southern hemisphere has been done. The Gradius Empire, with its planet as its mother star, has a population of about 2 billion people, and colony stars called seven neo-space plants on its vicinity. For this reason, the northern hemisphere benefits from the sun the entire year and conversely the southern hemisphere has been closed to darkness. The Planet Gradius is located at a distance of 280,000 km from its sun and its axis is kept substantially horizontal to the sun. But, who could foresee that slight damage to the Southern Hemisphere closed to the darkness would later become a trigger to lead the Gradius empire to crisis? In this fight the damage the Gradius Empire suffered ranged to 65% of the planet as a whole, most of it concentrated in a certain imperial city on the northern hemisphere. There are plenty of nods to other Konami games and Gradius music.Gradius Calendar 6644, the First Planetary War, which broke out with the Bacterian Subspace, is described as " Northern Cross Battle" in Gradius's history. ![]() If you are familiar with Konami games in general, the Parodius is worth a hit, especially Jikkyō Oshaberi Parodius (which you can easily find for a SNES emulator). It has the PS2 graphics to it, as well as some amazing music (including some shout outs to Gradius and Life Force). ![]() If you can only have one game, I would probably suggest Gradius V. Otomedius is an extremely interesting take on the game, and also the first where flying into a wall will not kill you (and if you have a 360 you can get a digital copy from the store). The same is for the Gradius III and IV you can get on PSX. The PSP collections are exact copies (for the most part) of the arcade version of whatever game. it is very unique in that you can determine how you want your power ups arranged, the only time this can happen. I actually own a JPN import of this game for PSX. In terms of Gaiden, until showing up in the collection it never made the US (without emulation). The nice thing about the Life Force series is that it is mainly 2 player at the same time (which for Gradius only happens during Gradius V, and in Sexy Parodius). One of the main spin-off series, Parodius, pokes fun at the game and the bosses. Well, you have the main series, Gradius, and then Life Force/Salamander. ![]()
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