Gradius III (SNES) - 3-ALL Clear (2,311,500 to 4-7, w/bonus stages)

Gradius III (SNES version)
©1991 Konami

You ever just do a score run of a shmup, and afterwards think to yourself, "Wow, that was a massive waste of my time"? That was me when I recorded this run a few weeks ago. (As always, don't ask why it took me so long to upload. Reasons.)

I said in my previous video showing off the bonus stages (   • Gradius III (SNES) - Arcade difficult...  ) that I was interested in doing a serious score run of this game whilst using them. That video was uploaded in May of 2020, and here we are 3 and a half years later, and I've finally done it. This run was done on Normal difficulty since I didn't see myself making serious high loop progress on Arcade mode, even with the additional lives provided by the bonus stages. (Don't believe me? See how long Goliath took me on loop 3.)

I could probably get a better score than this if I wanted to try for one, but I don't. These kinds of runs are really draining for me, and as such I don't usually like to do them unless I have serious motivation. At least it's done now.

2-ALL Clear on Arcade difficulty, without the bonus stages:    • (CC) Gradius III (SNES) - 2-ALL Arcad...  

Played on my Wii U using the vWii Virtual Console.