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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Video Games > Let's Play! > Destroying the Core Since 1985: Let's Play 30 Years of Gradius!
 
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PaletteSwappedNinja
Jun 3, 2008

One Nation, Under God.

Snorb posted:

A couple years ago, we got quite a few copies of Otomedius Excellent in at work. Not surprisingly, it was bargain-priced at $20.

My first thought when I saw it was "Yup. That's a blue-haired anime girl riding the Vic Viper. And of course they went for the tits-n-rear end shot on the cover."

My second thought was "'Inspired by the legendary Gradius series?' Why the gently caress didn't Konami just MAKE Gradius VI like everyone wants them to? Who actually asked for this?"

They were chasing the Touhou audience, basically. Shooting games are very niche, even in Japan, and going hard on the "character goods" aspect was seen as a way to attract new fans outside of the STG crowd. Even beyond all the fanservice, the game simply isn't much fun, but it has a ton of DLC so I'm sure it was profitable.

Otomedius Excellent is one of the games Koji Igarashi was punted onto after being removed from Castlevania, incidentally.

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