For years Konami have been producing Gradius games, but one forgotten sequel for the NES was Life Force Salamander. NES-Bit sent n-g-m on a journey with this classic shooter in the hopes of seeing why it doesn't seem to hold as much praise.

In my eyes the original Gradius was somewhat annoying. Slow down on the screen when too many projectiles were coming towards you and you had to start from certain checkpoints if your ship gets destroyed. Life Force fixes these annoyances for me by creating a game that is slick and flows very nicely.

Lorfar1us via nes-bit.com »