This craft is now capable of using a custom load out of weapons unlike its predecessors, as well as a variety of new weapons.Īfter visiting 9 different planets (both new and old in the series), the Vic Viper locates the location of the Bacterian leader and battles through a menagerie of enemies, including several bosses from the previous titles and a giant mechanical spider. A new version of the Vic Viper is created to help counter the Bacterian Empire's new tactics of defense. Once more, the Bacterians return, and this time much more prepared than before, and under leadership of a massive being known as Bacterion. With the hope that the Bacterians are done for once more, Vic Viper returns back to its home planet. The Vic Viper, now a more modified version of it, is tasked again to track down and destroy the head of the hostile empire, but also having to go through several new environments and enemies, whilst revisiting old environments as well.Įventually, the Vic Viper locates the Bacterian cruiser and after defeating a menagerie of old foes and infiltrating through tight security, the starfighter locates and battles Gofer, to which it destroys and beats a hasty retreat when the large cruiser begins to self-destruct. The Bacterians return once more, bringing the same destruction as they caused in the former game, but this time under leadership of a entity known as Gofer. The starfighter manages to destroy the brain and in turn defeat the Bacterian forces, before it finally returns to Gradius, as its mission is accomplished. It manages to get through tight security before it finally reaches the power source, a large, manipulative brain. The Vic Viper locates the aircraft carrier where the Bacterians are originating from. Their result is a small, but nimble fighter called the Vic Viper that is tasked to track down and destroy the main source of the Bacterians.Īfter visiting several different planets including one filled with volcanos and one containing a sentient, hostile version of Moai statues. In order to counter these forces, a starfighter is built by the Gradians in order to counter the evil forces. Opa-Opa ( Fantasy Zone Parodius variant)Īn omnicidal force known as the Bacterian Empire attacks the Gradius Empire for destructive ambitions.Much like Xaerous Brain who had his own parody in the Parodius series, Gofer was also parodied as well.At the same time, the game's subtitle, "Gofer's Ambition", was chosen to imply him as having his own agenda. His name was chosen in reference to a gofer, a term used to refer to a errand boy, to give the implication that Gofer was just a underling following someone else's orders.However, currently the anime trilogy is considered as non-canon in the Gradius saga. After Dan and Lord British rescue Stephanie, Paula fuses herself with Gofer, as the two transform into the Phoenix.Īlthough Gofer may be a part of Bacterian, the Salamander anime implies that Gofer is an organic weapon made by Bacterian, which has the ability to grow up and change the whole universe into the reign of Bacterians, gathering the intelligence from other creatures. Paula kidnaps Stephanie intending to turn her into a Cyber Brain and fuse it with Gofer, so that he would become the Bacterian's ultimate weapon. Here, Gofer is a gigantic construct of flesh created by Paula, though since he was still incomplete he appears in a demented state. Gofer appear in the third and final episode of the Salamander anime series. In the NES version, the tissues are part of the background and are indestructible, in this case, Gofer needs to be shot in the eye/mouth. In all games (except for the NES version) it is destroyed by shooting the tissues above him (a bit similar to the Xaerous Brain). In Gradius II Arcade and Gradius IV, Gofer does nothing, but in Gradius II NES and Nemesis 3, he can spew energy balls (which can be destroyed) or lightning bolts from his mouth. He claims that every piece of him spread across the universe will be reborn as copy of himself when he is destroyed again. It then changed its form into his new form shown in Gradius IV. When Gofer was destroyed in Gradius II, a piece of him landed on a distant planet and then mutated into a large battleship similar to the Xaerous Fortress from Gradius.
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