I've played the game on and off at various times throughout my life. This came after "practicing" on emulators on a wide screen TV (terrible for such a game) and SNES9x on PSP. Fed up with the faults of the emulators (4:3 resolution is best for Gradius III), I decided to fire up my old cartridge. I was quite shocked by the results.
Two or three bottlenecks always got me: the fire dragon boss (which can really screw over the player), the speed up stage (and the transitions before and after), and the penultimate stage, especially when the walls fly at you in sequential chunks. My nerves began acting up with excitement around that last one during the run.
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