GRADIUS GAIDEN PLANT BOSS MANUAL
GRADIUS GAIDEN PLANT BOSS CODE

Macross Missile Massacre: Every fighter has its own unique missile.

Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Throughout the series, all fighters have the option to pick any shield as some form of defense, whether it's the Double Shield (highest defense but only protects the fighter's front), the Force Field (small hitbox and protects the whole fighter but lasts for three hits), the Guard Shield (nullifies Deadly Walls but only protects the fighter from above and below for three hits total), the Limit Shield (grants the fighter 3 seconds of invincibility), and the Reduce Shield (shrinks the fighter, greatly reducing it's hitbox but only lasts for two hits).

The only form of defense are the various shields throughout the series, but they have their own flaws (Shield has the highest durability out of the shields but it leaves the fighter exposed from the top, bottom, and rear, Force Field protects the fighter's entire body yet it lasts for three hits, Guard has a big hitbox and doesn't protect the front or rear, Limit lasts for three seconds, Reduce shrinks the fighter, reducing it's hit box but only lasts for two hits).

Glass Cannon: The fighters can pack a punch (especially with the Energy Laser or Gravity Beam), and while they have great speed and mobility, the fighters are all equally squishy One Hit Point Wonders.

Which may explain why they are able to outrun a black hole.

GRADIUS GAIDEN PLANT BOSS MANUAL

Faster-Than-Light Travel: The manual for Gaiden states that each of the game's four ships have a maximum speed of five times the speed of light.

Energy Weapon: Each fighter has its own special laser, such as the Vic-Viper's Simple, yet Awesome thin piercing laser, the Lord-British's ripple and disruptor lasers, the Jade-Knight's round and pulse lasers, and the Falchion-Beta's gravity lasers.

Thankfully, Gradius Gaiden introduces the Guard Shield, a shield that nullifies this trope while protecting the fighter from above and below for three hits total.

Deadly Walls: Frustratingly like in any other Shoot 'Em Up, all of the fighters are very vulnerable to walls, ceilings, and floors.

Cool Starship/ Space Fighter: All of them are kickass star-fighters that blast Bacterion scum to smithereens.Thankfully, other games like Salamander or Gradius V let you pick up your Options right on the spot.

GRADIUS GAIDEN PLANT BOSS CODE

Continuing is Painful: Every time whenever a fighter gets destroyed, it respawns with no power-ups, although the Konami Code can remedy this by giving you all of your power-ups sans the Laser or Double.

Bonus points for the Vic-Viper itself, since the Options' snake-like movement are what gave the Vic-Viper its name.

Attack Drone: The Options are possibly the Ur-Example of this trope for video-games as a whole, although unlike future versions of this trope, the Options fire the exact same weapon loadout for their respective fighters and they follow the fighters' movements.

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