Uploaded January 2025 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
After an untold numbers of attempts, I finally got a decent run put together. Still too many mistakes, mostly in the final stage but whatever, I'll take it. Played on PCB.
00:00 - Stage 1
02:05 - Stage 2
05:45 - Stage 3
09:06 - Stage 4
12:56 - Stage 5
16:16 - Final Boss
17:51 - Fake Last Boss
Notes:
Stage 1 - Pretty much the best I could expect, almost 280K, which is the highest I''ve ever done with this ship.
Stage 2 - Solid, although could still be better. Can get in the 1.5M+ in the best runs.
Stage 3 - Pretty solid although I've hit 2.4M several times in the past
Stage 4 - Used 1 bomb on accident (second bomb), which caused the table to advance too far (green ships) and had to use another bomb or I'd be dead. Still very good score, 2.2M is possible.
Stage 5 - Once again, probably the most mistakes. Didn't have any bombs so I couldn't bomb the large carrier cluster which slowed me down a lot. Could also potentially save the bomb on the final boss, but it's very, very scary when on pace.
Probably could do another 400K on the final stage a bit better on the earlier stages to make 14M a reality, but I'm really sick of this ship and it's lack of range.
After an untold numbers of attempts, I finally got a decent run put together. Still too many mistakes, mostly in the final stage but whatever, I'll take it. Played on PCB.
00:00 - Stage 1
02:05 - Stage 2
05:45 - Stage 3
09:06 - Stage 4
12:56 - Stage 5
16:16 - Final Boss
17:51 - Fake Last Boss
Notes:
Stage 1 - Pretty much the best I could expect, almost 280K, which is the highest I''ve ever done with this ship.
Stage 2 - Solid, although could still be better. Can get in the 1.5M+ in the best runs.
Stage 3 - Pretty solid although I've hit 2.4M several times in the past
Stage 4 - Used 1 bomb on accident (second bomb), which caused the table to advance too far (green ships) and had to use another bomb or I'd be dead. Still very good score, 2.2M is possible.
Stage 5 - Once again, probably the most mistakes. Didn't have any bombs so I couldn't bomb the large carrier cluster which slowed me down a lot. Could also potentially save the bomb on the final boss, but it's very, very scary when on pace.
Probably could do another 400K on the final stage a bit better on the earlier stages to make 14M a reality, but I'm really sick of this ship and it's lack of range.
![Gradius AC (Switch) - 5 Loops Clear [5-ALL to 6-4] 2,455,800 Pts](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mZA2XXzVdBY/mqdefault.jpg "Gradius AC (Switch) - 5 Loops Clear [5-ALL to 6-4] 2,455,800 Pts
New PB for the Arcade Gradius, 5 loops cleared and 2.4 Million points!
Stages:
00:00 - Loop 1
16:43 - Loop 2
33:55 - Loop 3
51:11 - Loop 4
59:04 - Horrible mistake and long road to recovery
1:13:27 - Loop 5
1:31:03 - Loop 6
My recovery practice is starting to pay off, I died in 4-4 which would normally be a death sentence but I managed to partially recover a bunch of times and cleared that loop and the next one. That said, it took a ton of lives to do it, way more than it should have.
Need more practice on the beginning of stage 5 under recovery conditions as I really should not have died there. It ended up costing me lives in Stage 6 and 7 which should have been avoided.
Im still not sure if I want to try and gut this out for 10 Million but I must say it seems less impossible the more I play.")
