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Otomedius Excellent - Xbox 360

Platform : Xbox 360 |
Rated: Teen
4.2 4.2 out of 5 stars 98 ratings
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  • Classic 2D side-scrolling shoot-em-up Gradius-style gameplay gets a stunning update
  • Brilliant graphics and an excellent soundtrack. Environments are rendered in hi-definition and complemented by thrilling music.
  • Choose from nine characters on-disc to battle through all-new stages of thrilling shoot-em-up action
  • Team up with a friend or two over Xbox LIVE Arcade or on one Xbox 360 to have help obtaining hard-to-get items
  • View your unlocked stills and graphics in a new Gallery that grows as you progress through the game
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The lovely ladies of Otomedius Gorgeous arrive in the US for the first time in Otomedius Excellent!, the highly anticipated sequel to the Japan-exclusive arcade hit! Featuring heart-pounding classic Gradius-style shoot-em-up gameplay, a dazzling array of stunning visuals, and thrilling multiplayer action, Otomedius Excellent! is sure to be the must-own shooter of the year.

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Otomedius Excellent is a unique side-scrolling Action-Arcade game exclusive to Xbox 360 that combines space ships and pretty girls in a way that could only have had its roots in the arcades of Japan. Features include: nine characters to choose from, Gradius style gameplay, three-person multiplayer support locally and via Xbox LIVE, improved graphics over previous games in the series, a stunning soundtrack, and much more.





The lovely rocket-riding ladies of Otomedius Gorgeous arrive in the US.
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The Japanese Otomedius Franchise Has Arrived

The lovely rocket-riding ladies of Otomedius Gorgeous arrive in the US for the first time in Otomedius Excellent, the highly anticipated sequel to the Japan-exclusive arcade hit. Otomedius Excellent is an Xbox 360 exclusive and features nearly ten playable characters, heart-pounding classic Gradius-style shoot-em-up gameplay, a dazzling array of stunning visuals, thrilling multiplayer action locally or via a connection to Xbox LIVE, an improved upgrade system, downloadable content and of course the Otomedius Excellent game disc. With all this and more it is sure to be the must-own arcade style shooter for Xbox 360 players in 2011 and beyond.

Key Game Features

  • Classic Gradius-style gameplay gets a stunning update. Experience 2D side-scrolling shoot-em-up gameplay like never before.
  • Brilliant graphics and an excellent soundtrack. Environments are rendered in hi-definition and complemented by thrilling music.
  • Lovely characters to pilot through an expanded world. Choose from nine characters on-disc to battle through all-new stages of thrilling shoot-em-up action.
  • Three's company as you team up with a friend or two over Xbox LIVE Arcade or on one Xbox 360 to have help obtaining hard-to-get items.
  • Eye-popping Gallery mode. View your unlocked stills and graphics in a new Gallery that grows as you progress through the game.

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4.2 out of 5 stars
4.2 out of 5
98 global ratings

Customers say

Customers like the condition and value of the video game. They mention it's good for the price and good for achievements. However, some complain about the difficulty level, saying it'll require lots of trial and error and memorization. They also say the levels are fairly boring and quickly become predictable. Opinions are mixed on the visual quality and quality.

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8 customers mention8 positive0 negative

Customers find the value of the video game software to be good for the price. They also say it's a decent anime-style shooter game, and good for achievements.

"...Otomedius Excellent:Pros: Ocasional bullet hell shooter, cheap, cutesy, excellent soundtrack, visually stunning, frustrating, but with good..." Read more

"...for Xbox 360 and are wonderful shoot-em-ups/shmups that are worth your time and money. Not this worthless piece of garbage!" Read more

"Got it right on time for a good price. Game is pretty fun for a Gradius clone. Bought it up before it raises in price like Akai Katana." Read more

"great little game for the price." Read more

3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

Customers are satisfied with the condition of the video game software. They mention that it came in excellent condition.

"This arrived fast and in impeccable condition!!! Very happy and would buy from them again, thank you!" Read more

"Came in excellent condition" Read more

"Came in on time and in Good Condition..." Read more

3 customers mention3 positive0 negative

Customers like the soundtrack and art style of the video game software. They say it's a great soundtrack and very enjoyable.

"...Pros: Ocasional bullet hell shooter, cheap, cutesy, excellent soundtrack, visually stunning, frustrating, but with good frustration...." Read more

"...PROS:The vibrant music fits to the gameplay well, although some may not appreciate the often upbeat tones found during boss fights...." Read more

"Awesome Japanese arcade shoot um up. Great soundtrack and art style. Very enjoyable. Highly recommended" Read more

26 customers mention16 positive10 negative

Customers are mixed about the quality of the video game software. Some mention it's a great game, with excellent game play and fun. They say it'll keep them entertained for a little while. However, others say it is annoying, boring, and weird.

"...However that being said it is a fine example of a bullet hell game. I had a blast from beginning to end. I got exactly what I was expecting." Read more

"I love me some Gradius and I like cute girls. The game is fun and easy to play, but the 2 player mode is not the best...." Read more

"...can't recommend Otomedius Excellent to collectors, as this one has little or no value, and with a third of the content as DLC, it probably never..." Read more

"Very well drawn everything else and a fun 3D side scrolling shmup in the middle.Anyone wanna buy me all that dlc lol?" Read more

9 customers mention6 positive3 negative

Customers are mixed about the visual quality of the video game. Some mention that the art looks fantastic, while others say that the graphics are not all that great.

"...Otomedius Excellent:Pros: Ocasional bullet hell shooter, cheap, cutesy, excellent soundtrack, visually stunning, frustrating, but with good..." Read more

"...The amount of graphical bloom in some areas almost makes me physically ill; combine this with the fact that some enemies seem to bloom in similar..." Read more

"Very well drawn everything else and a fun 3D side scrolling shmup in the middle.Anyone wanna buy me all that dlc lol?" Read more

"...Great backgrounds and enemy designs with lots of colors catch the eye and look great.CONS:..." Read more

5 customers mention0 positive5 negative

Customers find the difficulty level of the video game to be boringly easy and painfully difficult. They also say it requires lots of trial and error, memorization, and repeated plays. Some customers also say the game is too easy and that it's hard to build up weapons at first.

"...difficulty broken by unlimited continues, slow to start, hard to build up weapons at first, DLC and paywalls prevent any game from being standalone..." Read more

"...This is the single worst flaw of the game, requiring lots of trial and error, memorization, and repeated plays to figure out...." Read more

"...continue after continue (don't worry about dying!) Waaaay too easy ( I beat it on the hardest setting in about three hours!!)..." Read more

"...Gameplay can range between boringly easy and painfully difficult...." Read more

Top reviews from the United States

Roger Branstetter
5.0 out of 5 stars Very fun game, interesting quite a bit.
Reviewed in the United States on June 21, 2023
Platform For Display: Xbox 360Edition: StandardVerified Purchase
This game sound more like parodius than gradius, maybe it is a mixture of the two. Pick it up if you enjoy shmups.
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Johnathan Perez
5.0 out of 5 stars Shump ingredients good fun.
Reviewed in the United States on September 6, 2017
Platform For Display: Xbox 360Edition: StandardVerified Purchase
If you like shoot'em UPS then this game is right up your alley. It doesn't do much in way of innovating within the genre. However that being said it is a fine example of a bullet hell game. I had a blast from beginning to end. I got exactly what I was expecting.
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Robert C.
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2021
Platform For Display: Xbox 360Edition: StandardVerified Purchase
This arrived fast and in impeccable condition!!! Very happy and would buy from them again, thank you!
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The Tylander
3.0 out of 5 stars 3/4 of a good game
Reviewed in the United States on December 9, 2016
Platform For Display: Xbox 360Edition: StandardVerified Purchase
Shooters, shoot em ups, shmups, whatever you want to call them, are a rare genre of games. They always have been somewhat of a niche category throughout the years, with limited production numbers, and a very loyal and vocal fan base. Sadly, fewer and fewer shooters have been released since 2008, and only a handful in recent years, usually only as digital copies. As such, collectors pay high prices for almost any shooter on disc or cartridge, pushing the prices for some games, like Musha or the Cotton series, through the stratosphere.
The Xbox 360 had shooters though. From classics series like Raiden and R-Type to previous generation games like Radiant Silvergun and Ikaruga. Xbox 360 also had a large batch of new shooter games on the system. Some were released as digital download only and some were region locked to Japan, but many others were ported to North American and European regions and more still were released on region free discs. This means there are quite a few games to buy, collect, and enjoy.
With the brief history lesson out of the way, we come to Otomedius Excellent by the good people at Konami, when they were good people, and allegedly inspired by the "Gradius" series.
This one falls into the "cute em up" sub genre and is also nearly a Bullet hell shooter.
The plot? Oh God I have no idea. Scantilly dressed big boobed anime girls fight a battle across 8 levels. The game supports 3 player simultaneous play and the challenge lies in avoiding bullets and using as few continues as possible, just like in every shooter.
There is a story here but it is impossible to read the subtitles while playing, and almost as hard when watching someone else play. The action simply draws your eyes away. Not that a plot matters in every game. The Darius series, for example, is about killing a bunch of space-robot-fish-monster-ships... or something, but it's great fun!
The downside to Otomedius Excellent are twofold. It was released at a time when DLC was becoming more important than the initial game the DLC was made for, and it was made by a company who loves to charge big bucks for DLC - Konami. Unlike modern games with unfinished buggy games at launch, season pass scams, pay to win and the like, you get a complete working game from Konami, but there are extra levels and characters hidden behind a paywall, and that paywall is still quite expensive, even 7 years later.
On top of that, there are two versions, regular and special editions. Neither version contain any free or unlocked DLC. The special edition comes with some goodies and a sound track. Don't buy the special edition used as it comes with a (possibly used) sexy anime girl pillow case... EEEEEEW!!!!
Since the game sells for $15 or less, the $30 worth of DLC doesn't seem like a bad deal for those who want the full experience. On the other hand, the DLC can't be resold, and if 360 servers are ever shut off, you may lose that data forever. On top of that, Konami prefer "remasters" to backwards compatibility on Xbox One, so you may have to buy it again someday.
With that said, I can't recommend Otomedius Excellent to collectors, as this one has little or no value, and with a third of the content as DLC, it probably never will.
From a player standpoint, I can recommend the complete game only if you fully understand the DLC may suddenly disappear one day.
As it is, the game is good, but those DLC packs make it hard to give a huge thumbs up. There are better shooters out there that come complete and are ready to play.

Otomedius Excellent:
Pros: Ocasional bullet hell shooter, cheap, cutesy, excellent soundtrack, visually stunning, frustrating, but with good frustration.

Cons: The cover alone may get you labelled as a perv, difficulty broken by unlimited continues, slow to start, hard to build up weapons at first, DLC and paywalls prevent any game from being standalone masterpiece nowdays, this is when it all started.

Final verdict: 6/10
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D. Woo
4.0 out of 5 stars Gradius/Konami fan far
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2014
Platform For Display: Xbox 360Edition: StandardVerified Purchase
I love me some Gradius and I like cute girls. The game is fun and easy to play, but the 2 player mode is not the best. Player 2 movements are strangely limited and if Player 1 dies, everyone's game is over. There's little localization here, ergo only English text with Japanese dialogue. Although, for a game like this, that's not a big issue. You REALLY don't need to know what the character's are saying, this game is pretty shallow. Be that as it may, it does feature a cast of cameos from the Konami franchise that are mostly exclusive to the Japanese market, but a little research on the characters will reveal their origins more so than any of the cut scenes or in-game dialogue.

Helpful pro-tip (that's a standard game mechanic but not explained anywhere):
You can press and hold the "Super Bomb" button to charge a special attack that is unique to each specific character. Release the button to unleash the attack. I came across that bit of information NOT in the instruction manual, NOT in any in-game tutorial or online strategy guide, rather while I was watching a Japanese play through of the game on Youtube. Talk about a secret technique. Enjoy.
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harry_mitchell onS○UNDCL○UD.€.●.||\./|.(your favorite musicians favorite musician)
5.0 out of 5 stars A stimulatingly awkward amount of fun!
Reviewed in the United States on March 15, 2017
Platform For Display: Xbox 360Edition: StandardVerified Purchase
Very well drawn everything else and a fun 3D side scrolling shmup in the middle.
Anyone wanna buy me all that dlc lol?
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jerome javier
5.0 out of 5 stars Brings back the memories of playing Gradius
Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2012
Platform For Display: Xbox 360Edition: StandardVerified Purchase
If you've played Gradius, Gradius 2 or Salamander before, this game will bring those late game night memories back, if you haven't tried this yet, you're missing out! I would recommend this to everyone, maybe PG to the younger players.
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Pascal
3.0 out of 5 stars Enjoyable
Reviewed in Canada on January 3, 2019
Platform For Display: Xbox 360Edition: StandardVerified Purchase
Otomedius Excellent is an enjoyable game and is based off of Gradius and the likes, however it pales in comparison to other shooting games. I wouldn't go out of my way to grab this game, though if you do happen upon it for cheap, I'd give it a try.
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The Dude
2.0 out of 5 stars The seller sold me a damaged box
Reviewed in Canada on April 15, 2017
Platform For Display: Xbox 360Edition: StandardVerified Purchase
It's a good game but it came damaged when it was said to be new. Not happy about that
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Dakota McDonald
3.0 out of 5 stars Three Stars
Reviewed in Canada on July 20, 2014
Platform For Display: Xbox 360Edition: StandardVerified Purchase
ok game
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