I've never really gotten into the Parodius series and last week I decided to go ahead and play as many as was convenient hen read the HG101 article. Basically they're parodies of Konami's other shooters primarily Gradius. There are a lot of cross over characters and most of the games also use Twinbee's Bells. Twinbee is another series I plan on going through soon. I played Gokujou Parodius, Parodius Da!, and Jikkyou Oshaberi Parodius S.
It helps that I played mostly the SFC versions of the games and my emulator decided to recognize rewind. I wasn't playing these for skill. I was playing them for research more or less. They aren't as interesting as I was expecting and even while I was playing them they sort of ran together. The most identifying mark between them was the cast of characters I could control. Also that Da! was incredibly hard possibly based on the character I was chosen. After about 20 minutes of rewinding and dying in the same 30 seconds I quit. It feels like some sections of the game are completely based on if you get an invincibility bell or not. I know that saved my skin a 3 or 4 times across the games.
Jikkyou is notable because it has a guy narrating all the way through on a SFC game. I believe the cart size is impressively huge. Also you fight Twinbee with tits. I mean Twinbee has breasts. yeahh... I guess I need something more than honk honk splurt bwaaoooohhhh humor. I couldn't tell you a think about the music. There is a lot of non-necessary animation which in my mind reads "these guys really liked this project and were proud of it" than engaging to me.
I guess I'm just wired weird. Sorry Parodius! I might still buy Otomedius despite everything telling me it's not a very good game.
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