![]() The good old experiment ship full of pulsating pink brains, tubes with experiments floating inside them, barriers of flesh trying to trap you and floating alien bubbles. The game consists of about 5 stages, with my favourite being the second, which is set in a classic shoot 'em up trope environment. The first quarter of each stage begins with you flying through the vastness of space before smoothly transitioning into a new area, such as the insides of a spaceship or sand themed desert planet. Flying from left to right you will shoot enemies flying towards you while avoiding bullets and collecting power ups. Then you are launched into space to begin the adventure. You are able to select your ideal craft from a selection of 5 with their basic weaponry. Then you get the standard game mode with unlimited credits. Highscores would go on to a leader board. Gradius Rebirth offers you a score mode on the main menu which hands you one life to get as far as you can. By challenging I mean it is actually brutally hard in places. However what I can say about Gradius Rebirth is that it is a solid and challenging game. It is a series I have given very little attention to, and I am mostly aware of it due to the fact that you can play the first stage of one of the Gradius games as a mini game in "The Legend of the Mystical Ninja" for the SNES. Now I will admit, I am not a huge Gradius fan. Now, let us take a look at the 3 Rebirth games.įirst up, Gradius Rebirth. I wanted to feel like I was playing a new version of Super Castlevania IV, or a new Contra 3. which personally, I am not a huge fan of. Konami also released Castlevania Lords of Shadow around this time period too. ![]() While Contra as a series had been fairly quiet for a while, Castlevania had been mostly focused on its RPG style Metroidvania games. That however is a whole other topic, but I am thankful that Konami made an effort in this case. Nintendo dabbled in Wiiware with "NES Remix" 1 and 2, altering NES games - so why not do more with the SNES games? Nintendo have said as much that they are afraid to produce a fully fledged F-Zero mainline game - so why did they not produce a Wiiware F-Zero game that basically looked like the popular SNES version, but with new tracks and cars? It would have been a very cheap endeavor and it would not only have given us a fresh take on a beloved SNES era game, but given Ninendo a gauge of interest in a potential bigger production. Why not produce a true Super Mario World sequel on the Wiiware shop to tide fans over until Super Mario Galaxy 2? It would have been simple to make, heck even fans make constant ROM hack versions online. I feel that Nintendo could have contributed to Wiiware a lot more too. ![]() Far too many remote-waggling and silly party games existed in the library. I do believe that actually, despite some really enjoyable and well crafted Wiiware titles, that overall, the medium did not live up to its full potential. However in the early 2000s, most of these smaller game developers were yet to exist. This is changing somewhat now there are more indie game developers in the market, thankfully. Side-scrollers had basically become a thing of the past on mainstream consoles. I was a big supporter of Wiiware and really encouraged the idea of developers contributing to the market with smaller ,shorter and relatively cheap games that were at least on par with the 16-bit Sega Megadrive or SNES era.Īs consoles evolved, games had, and still continue, to become longer, much more complex, and time-consuming. I downloaded all three of these titles, each averaging about £10. The series of games launched in 2008, starting with Gradius Rebirth, followed by Castlevania Rebirth and Contra Rebirth in 2009. Preboss 3 | Iggy Pop + Will Smith + Ozzy Osborne + AC/DC - Lust for Black Trains and Nodīig Moai | Pendulum + Metallica vs.Gamers let's dive head first in to the tale of the ReBirth trilogy, created by Konami for the now extinct Wiiware service on the Nintendo Wii's WiiShop channel. Stage 3 | DJ Earworm + Coldplay - United States of Pop 2008 (or Viva La Pop) Prestage 3 | Mastgrr + Lazy Town vs Lil' Jon - Cumstained Cake Preboss 2 | Squarepusher - The Modern Bass Guitar Prestage 2 | DJ Hixxy & Sharkey - Toytown Prestage 1 | The Avalanches - Since I Left Youīig Core mk1 | Rhythm Heritage - Blockbuster Title (Proof of Options) | State of Bengal - Flight IC408 Gradius Rebirth is Wiiware for Nintendo Wii. Type E is unlocked by beating the game a few times or it's a pity-prize for failing oh so very much. Loop 3 is the equivalent to beating the game a bunch of times and the difficulty spirals into suicide bullet balls hard. Very Hard mode is the equivalent to Loop 3. An experiment in modernizing retro game soundtracks.
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