I think its a Gradius tradition for the penultimate boss to be much harder then the final boss because I remember the same thing happening in the third game.
I guess it's kind of just a weird case of "Spiritual Sequel" vs. "Named Sequel". If you're curious, you can find the interview with Machiguchi where he says Gradius was going to be Scramble 2 in my source document in the description.
Shmups is a fun word to say 🤣
I think its a Gradius tradition for the penultimate boss to be much harder then the final boss because I remember the same thing happening in the third game.
I thought Super Cobra was Scramble II.
I guess it's kind of just a weird case of "Spiritual Sequel" vs. "Named Sequel". If you're curious, you can find the interview with Machiguchi where he says Gradius was going to be Scramble 2 in my source document in the description.
3:00 Got to wonder where the other 400-ish thousand other copies went?