Bile Fascination: A lot of fans bought the Arcade Archives rerelease of III AC just to meme on the game's truckload of Fake Difficulty.
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Too bad it slows down to a crawl on certain PS2 models. Best Level Ever - Stage 7 of Gaiden, which starts off as a seemingly-innocent volcano stage.and then gets gradually sucked into a black hole.Awesome Music - Gradius contains a large amount, listing them here would take too much space.
In addition, due to how the Bacterions can effectively regenerate from multiple pieces which then become new fully functioning Bacterions, it's also possible that they're intentionally leaving themselves open to spread across the universe. By the time you get to the Bacterion leader, you've already practically won. This is justified, as the final stage is usually a Genius Loci controlled by the Bacterions, and so in a sense, the entire final stage (and to an extent the entire game) is the boss fight. from Gaiden) or straight up doesn't attack at all (Xaerous Brain from the original and ReBirth, Zelos Force from Salamander, Gofer from II and IV, Venom from V).
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Anti-Climax Boss - And how! Almost every Final Boss in the series (with the exception of Doom from Salamander 2 and Venom in Nemesis II) either uses easily dodgable attacks (Bacterion from III, O.V.U.M.Adaptation Displacement - Most American fans believe that the NES version of Gradius is the first in the series due to the fact that arcade version was renamed Nemesis outside Japan.