Gradius III (SNES) Playthrough/Longplay
3Playthrough/longplay of the 1991 Super Nintendo game "Gradius III" on the hard difficulty.
"Gradius III" was an early Super Nintendo shoot 'em up release and a port of the arcade game with the same title. It really showed what the console was capable of, with its excellent graphics and sound that's a huge upgrade from the earlier NES games in the series.
There are some changes compared to the arcade version, most importantly it's a bit easier which makes it a better game (the arcade version is extremly difficult). This is still very difficult, especially if you die far into the game and lose all your upgrades, but more reasonable.
Gradius III is another excellent entry in the Gradius series, and improves in almost every aspect compared to its predecessors while still feel like a Gradius game. I say almost, because it suffers from slowdowns that occurs when there's too much happening on the screen at once. This is too bad and takes away from this otherwise excellent shoot 'em up.