![]() The 50% discount is only there for a week though if you want to pick it up. There's also a clearer rank system, low rank leans more towards high end novice attacks, high rank is more akin to arcade, and the game throws plenty of lives at you so it's a nice intermediate difficulty which the game was sorely missing, and you can just deal with the TLB at low rank and claim the 1cc.Īlso a new soundtrack, which I think more than a few don't like. Enemy patterns are a bit different, Stage 2 mini boss has been shifted to stage 4, there's another change in stage 5 that I forget, but mostly it's the same. Same four modes, but each has a Gradius style upgrade bar which can also change option and lock types as well as give a shield, and also includes the hyper, plus unlimited becomes the easiest of the four because in that mode you can cancel bullets by shooting at close range. But with the price at 3873 yen, you expect some very good music, especially if there's only about 60 minutes worth.The difference here are the Arrange modes, which are definitely worth the $10 (with the discount). ![]() If it wasn't for the exceedingly high amount of money this CD costs, I could recommend it to any Gradius fan. Darius (Famous Recording Series) DARIUS 30th ANNIVERSARY EDITION. Cotton (SoftBank Mobile Phone) COTTON Original Soundtrack. The obvious downside of the Power Disk is that it has seemingly driven up the price of the album to an unfortunately high price. Chou-Jikuu Yousai Macross 2036 / SUPER DIMENSION FORTRESS MACROSS 2036 (PCE-CD) Cotton 2 / Cotton Boomerang (Arcade) COTTON Original Soundtrack. And it actually sounds decent on a regular soundcard, since the composition is fairly simple. I had always liked this tune, and was very happy to hear it again. Big time Gradius fans will recognize this as the first level theme from the MSX version of Gradius 2. The only true upside to this disc is a bonus MIDI file labeled "Omake". Unfortunately, unless you have a decent synthesizer, this disc is near worthless - the files sound like unlistenable junk on my Soundblaster Live. Heck, they could've done without the Gradius 4 music entirely.Īs a "bonus", Konami has included a 3.5" Power Disk with MIDI versions of a few of the songs to play on your computer. Soundtrack consists of 16 tracks tracks with duration over about 25 minutes. Though the new version is very good - it's longer, has a nice beat, and is very relaxing compared to the quick pace of the original music - the producers definitely could have picked more than just this one track. Album was composed by and was released on October 05, 1987. ![]() The only track picked was "Speed", from one of the final levels of the game. One of my other big disappointments is the lack of music from Gradius Gaiden. It doesn't help that the synth actually sounds worse than the one used in the original soundtrack. This is especially true with the tracks from Gradius 4 - the pieces arranged weren't some of my favorites to start, and the expanded versions just aren't very interesting to listen to. On the flip side, however, sometimes the arrangements are filled with random guitars riffs that don't fit much of any melody whatsoever. Sometimes the arranged versions sounds pretty good, like "Tabidachi", the navigation theme from Gradius 2, in which a short, thirty second tune has been turned into a very enjoyable five minute track without getting too repetitive. The rest of the arrangements mostly combine a few melodies from various games and extend them into a medley. These opening tracks are my favorites on the CD, but I can't identify what tunes from Gradius they are based on. The second track is faster and filled with synth guitars. The first begins with an obvious tribute to the old Star Trek title theme, before moving into another piece that is dramatic science fiction music at its best. The most notable are the first two tracks on the CD. ![]() Most of the tracks have been arranged quite a bit from their original format. Music from Gradius, Gradius 2, Gradius Gaiden, and Gradius 4 appears on here. It's still very artificial, but mostly tolerable. Most people mistake this for the type of MIDIs you can download and listen on your computer - it's similar, but these are from a higher quality synthesizer. ![]() But the title doesn't say a whole lot about what the music on the CD is like - just that they are MIDI arrangements. As a stout Gradius fan, it is my duty to purchase just about every CD labeled with the moniker of Konami's seminal yet apparently unpopular (at least in the United States) shooter series. ![]()
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