It's very much a throwback to classic Gradius. What about the gameplay? Well, it's decent. Modern MIDI music sounds better than the FM synthesis shown here. In result, it sounds dated and not particularly impressive. It's bright, it's cheerful, not too grating, but it's obviously intended to evoke the feel of the NES/C64 days. But they seem to have decided to take the easy way out. (!) If Konami had redone the artwork in a higher resolution and used the Wii's graphical capabilities to smooth it out with proper alpha-blending, this game would look incredible. In fact, it appears that Konami may have reused some of the artwork from earlier games. At 480p, you can make out the individual pixels without much difficulty. I had high hopes for the graphics based on the Youtube videos, but the truth is that Konami didn't put much effort in at all. Instead, they simply stretch the image making its 16-bit graphics look even worse. Konami didn't even bother to extend the viewing area of this side scrolling shooter for widescreen TVs. While harsh, Gabriel has pretty much nailed it. I'll be playing despite these crappy graphics, definitely not because of. Don't disgrace your classic franchises anymore with this kind of visual crap. Even cutting the Wii slack for having to realize this game in limited storage capacity doesn't excuse it. They looked like this because the technology sucked. Games didn't look like this back then by choice. Compared to R-Type Dimensions, Omega Five, or Triggerheart Excelica, this title is absolutely laughable. It's a modern game which was intentionally crippled to look like a 20 year old game. From that perspective, it's hard to find fault with it.
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And I've paid to download quite a few shooters from the Virtual Console service which were only a couple of dollars cheaper.
If I were to view it as a classic game for something like the SNES or SegaCD, it seems worthwhile.
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