Gradius II: Gofer no Yabou/Stage 8: Difference between revisions

* Once you reach an are where the floor and ceiling level out and the enemies stop appearing, fly over to the right.  Duckers will begin to appear above and below, while the next major challenge approaches from the left: Crab.  Crab is a large purple machine whose height extends from the floor to the ceiling.  It has six legs, three on top and three on the bottom, and it makes its way from the left to the right.  It is indestructible, and you'll only means of survival is to avoid colliding with its legs.  This means committing the Vic Viper to the top or bottom half of the screen, and slipping beneath the legs as they lift up and advance to the right.  Crab has no weapons of its own, but the Duckers which appear on the floor and ceiling will be shooting bullets at you, and these bullets can pass through Crab, so be careful.

* Once Crab reaches the right side of the screen, it will hesitate, shake its torso, reverse course and return to the left.  Unfortunately, the game gives you very little warning about this, and because of the speed of the scroll, you only have one opportunity to fly through either of the two left most legs.  If you miss it and are stuck on the left side, you will die when you collide with the legs.  Once you successfully dodge the first step to the left, it will decide to go back to the right for a while.  Then it will make one final change of course and commit to returning to the left.  Once again, you ''must'' dodge the left legs on the very first step or you will be crushed by them before they lift again.  Then slip past the next two legs as it leaves the screen.  Of course, the entire time you must watch out for the bullets being created by all the other enemies which you can't necessarily get to quickly (or safely) to stop them from shooting.

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== Boss: Gofer ==