Nemesis
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Nemesis is the first entry in the long-running Gradius series on the Game Boy. Its side-scrolling shoot'em up gameplay follows the series template closely. Players control the Vic Viper through five levels, most based on levels in earlier entries, for a kind of 'greatest hits' of the series. There is a cave level (as in level 1 of the original Gradius), the mandatory Moai stage, a Gigeresque organic level, a graveyard (similar to bonus stages in the MSX and PC Engine version of the original Gradius) and a high-tech base. Besides the classic core ship in the first level, all boss enemies are entirely new.
The cycling Gradius power-up system is reused here: collected power ups advance the power meter which can be activated at any time to gain the highlighted item. The line-up includes the classic selection of speedups, missiles, dual shots, lasers, option satellites and forcefields.
The game allows players to start in any of the five levels and even to set the number of lives to a maximum of 99.
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- ネメシス - Japanese spelling
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Average score: 81% (based on 12 ratings)
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Average score: 3.5 out of 5 (based on 13 ratings with 1 reviews)
a fun action game that got rave reviews at the time
The Good
Well, it's a typical console side-scrolling action game. The graphics and sound were as good as a GameBoy permits, in other words nothing to rave about but solid. It's mindless but a lot of fun and increasingly difficult.
The Bad
Nothing really. It was very good for a GameBoy game... comparable games on other systems at the time (Xenon 2, Turrican 2) were technically better and may have had more features (due to the GameBoy's obvious limitations), but this game was very solid.
The Bottom Line
At the time being it got rave reviews from magazines and fellow gamers. It's still fun, but nothing with historical significance or anything. Don't go out of your way to get it - there's plenty of others like it - but Nemesis was really the first of it's kind on the GameBoy.
Game Boy · by Gothicgene (66) · 2014
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Game added by Terok Nor.
Additional contributors: Rik Hideto.
Game added June 5, 2014. Last modified January 26, 2024.