This is recorded from a stream so there's a little hiccup on stage 3 of 3 or 4 seconds, nothing more.

So yeah, finally, Gradius II is conquered. This is a straight up improvement of the first game, and the one that created most of the bases of the Gradius series. It's a really good one, and also a hard one. The game is obviously longer, but also the stages are a lot crazier than on Gradius I. Plus, most of the checkpoints are impossible to recover from, so a No miss run is more or less required in order to clear this game. From the Crystal stage onwards it's pretty much impossible (for me) to recover, except for the Moai stage, the Speed stage and the end of the final stage (the mechanical spider boss). And this is the main problem of this game, it is really punishing.
This game also introduces the Option Hunter enemy, whom will steal your options. He is the vain of my existence and my personal destroyer of good runs.

So overall the run went as expected. There were some problems on the Moai stage and I had to improvise the whole stage (you'll have to see which problems I am talking about and how I overcome them :P) but everything else went great.

Kinda relieved to be done with this game. This was one of the hardest 1cc I've done of this series, although I know for a fact that 3 and 4 are going to be much worse. Yikes.

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