Gradius vs. Life force/Salamander? Fight

Both are alright.

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>Gradius has Salamander bosses
>Salamander has Gradius bosses

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>>3687036
>gradius has salamander themes
>salamander has gradius themes

its like basically the same thing my dude

I vote Life Force, simply because I'm biased by having that and not Gradius while growing up.

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>>3687076
>says he didn't have Gradius
>but he played life force

>>3687078
Did you not see OP's premise?

they're both made by Konami and are practically the same games. What is there to debate?

>>3687090
I don't think you get the joke

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Gradius: checkpoint deaths, horizontal scrolling, 1 player at a time onry (everything annulled in V), game is longer
Salamander: faster, continue on death, vertical scrolling, fewer stages
Then there's this fucker, that equates to throwing your pc out the window

>>3687104
Salamander has 2P co-op and overhead scrolling stages, plus instant power-ups in most versions that aren't the FC/NES one and the JP Life Force.

>>3687020
Gradius is crazy good for being damn near a launch title (in North America).

>>3687106
You're right, I don't.

I've only ever played Salamander as part of the PS collection and as the original PCB. Are any of the other versions worth playing on their own merits?

>>3687479
(They're the same)

Xexex > Parodius > Thunder Cross > Gradius/Nemesis > Twinbee > Salamander > Axelay > dogshit > Otomedius

>>3687519
(I see. Thanks)

>>3687537
>Xexex>else
This guy gets it!

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>>3687114
No, Salamander for the MSX is the equivalent of taking a Popsicle and sticking it up your own asshole.

And if you're somehow talented and masochistic enough to actually beat the game, it decides to be a sore loser and tells you that the mission you were on was a failure anyway! In order to truly beat the game, you have to find a crystal hidden in once of the levels, but you'll never find it... unless you have Gradius 2 / Nemisis 2 in cartridge slot #2 while you're playing! Seriously, what other game makes you have ANOTHER game installed just to get the good ending?!

>>3687537
Thunder Cross is way too high but the rest is good enough

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Salamander is thecoolest-looking cart in the series for Famicom / NES. Maybe the coolest cart in the entire Famicom library. Look at this awesome thing.

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>>3688221