Earth Defense Force (SNES) - No Death Run on Hard 

The THUNK sound effects when you're pounding a heavily armored enemy are so satisfying.

The music in this game is fantastic.

SUB’d. Your videos are awesome man. Bringing me back to my childhood. The Darius Twin run was incredible. Keep posting 🙏

Ah yes the tough effort of trying to pass the entire game without getting hit once. Remembered how excited I was when finally did it. I did Homing on stages 1-3. Atomic on stages 4-5. and Grenades on stage 6. Amazing game, amazing music. God I miss old games.

This was the first game I ever bought for the SNES. Still a favourite. For the last boss the Photon weapon can destroy it in about 4 seconds.

Holy crap! This game is hard. I play the japanese version. For some reason 5 shield hits instead of only 3 for the US version. Congrats for the achievement, man. Your channel is a reference for shmup lovers :) thanks for all the videos!

A very nice game from my childhood, I’m glad they decided to make it available on the Switch. Back in the SNES era I was only able to beat it once and even then it was pure luck that I beat the final boss. The only thing I did different from this playthrough is that I used the Photon cannon when I got to lvl 5 and got the seeking mode for the drones, instead of charging I would spam the fire button manually lol.

This made my day. One of the toughest games, brilliant soundtrack.

Nice run! Love this game. I've played it twice on my Switch already in a week's time.

How many times did i hum that ending music. So nice to hear it again. Giving my age a bit but i can remember the day i bought the Snes and a load of shooters just like this. Brilliant memories. Play them sometimes on an emulator but its just not quite the same as having the console and cartridge. Good ole days that's for sure.

I died hundreds of times on the final boss battle alone using save states, this game is hardcore.

I was surprised this game didn't get a Genesis port myself. Fantastic game with a wonderful soundtrack either way though. Brutally difficult but fun as hell.

I've been playing this game for over 30 years and I had no idea the grenade weapon was this OP.

The scenery in this game... The best i've ever seen on SNES i think

You're really skilled gamer. I've struggled with this game on Normal difficulty mode.

ive had this game since i was about 5. 25 years later and i still cant make it past level 3

Actually.. the strongest weapon is explode. I used to play this game a lot and got to the point where im just doing bunch of things on it. I once had a run on level 6 using explode and made it to the 2nd boss (robot stuck on the floor).. i unify all my units where they fire one single shot.. it just so happen that i landed on a precise angle at the face of the robot (since the screen will stop at some point) and the robot didn't even have the chance to fire anything.. I think what happened was all the scatter shot of explode went straight to the robot maximizing its damage.. i never have the same outcome using any other weapons after trying them for hours.. i tried using photon and granade on the same angle but never worked like explode did. In any case.. i guess u can only maximize explode on certain enemies. soo yeah just wanted to throw that one for you guys..

Having just beat UN Squadron on Hard mode, I definitely have to beat this brutal game too. I highly doubt I'll do it with no deaths like this animal in the video though ;) You are really kick ass at this game PEG!

I played this the other day on my Switch. When I played it originally on my Super Nintendo, I never used grenades. I found them hard to use. But damn if that final boss isn't a total pain in the ass with any other weapon! But when you use grenades, it's as weak as a wet noodle. I think I could probably beat hard mode if I put some effort into it. The most intimidating thing in this game is that final boss. But if you can make it with grenades, you can absolutely wreck it!

This is classic to me, one of my old favorites. Final boss attack #1 is still super hard to me.

high af on ketamine rn and for some god damn reason this game popped into my mind. Watching this vid rn, and holy crap nostalgia overload. Honestly the soundtrack slaps so hard im vibin.

This game and the music gave me chills and Nostalgia :')

Thank you haha the nastalgia me and a buddy were talking about Chrono trigger and I remembered being like ten up all night playing this game with door closed for months haha

nice run man.

Not a bad effort by Jaleco, you could tell by this point they started upping their game, especially compared to their earlier work in arcades and the NES.

Im the only one who use s.laser instead of homing?

Well done my brother

This game feels like it's impossible to beat without cheats it seems. So freakin hard.

in hard...good work...congratulationes

man. that stage 4 music. nothing but fire

i slightly remember this game. i think i remember it having a good soundtrack where you put your name

Dang, you're good, bud. Making it look easy.

Very nice run. played the shit out of this game as a kid. Props.

Acabo de terminar este juego ahora mismo. Gracias a tu video tuve una idea para matar este último monstruo.

27:58 i don’t know what that strange creature was when i first saw it.

I want the sound effects.

Way to cheez the final boss! Yertle the Turtle is still damn near impossible for me after 30 years, beat him a grand total of once without game genie, and not sure how I did that.

Incoming Cygni videos!!!!

I’m playing this on Switch and I like it. This video gave me a few pointers on what weapons to use, although the game feels designed with homing shots in mind. In the first level you kinda have to use homing

One of the hardest games ever. I always thought that level four was the end of the game.

Was there a second release or a PlayStation version ?

explain: why the thunder intro beside bosses??

Homing all the way.

16:38 - the Japanese have a thing for space colonies getting destroyed in a war, do they? Personally I prefer Photon, but only at Lv.5 is it strong. So S.Laser in the interim for me.

My mom boyfriend bought this game over one day never forget this shyt was dope

Holy fuck! I knew grenade was really good, but fuck is it ever OP at lv.5. Seeking mode practically mitigates its biggest drawback with how you have to aim it slightly otherwise. And then there's the fact that atomic can destroy any weaker enemy projectiles caught in its blast radius. That's just as OP.

First stage music reminds me of Brindstar in Metroid… 😱

Hi Pegboy, nice run again... BTW, did you play Super Aleste ?

Been playing this on the switch the last couple days, having recently come to appreciate classic shmups. I've been abusing the rewind feature every time i get hit, letting me practise the whole game. It seems for weapon selection, you need some sort of homing capability in stages 1 and 2, with either s. laser or homing, but i guess s. laser has better damage at lower accuracy. I like using photon on stage 3 seeing as theres fewer small fast enemies. I'm yet to know much about what's best after unlocking the last shooting mode (which provides homing capability), it seems grenade kills bosses fastest, better than atomic, but I'm not sure.

Some of the bullets are pink when they should be blue

Those bullets sound like Street Fighter punches at rapid fire?

I thought if you switch weapons between levels they go back to level 1?

Phalanx.

Snes Better because a lot of Weapons unlike the Arcade version only 4. Oh btw my Favorite weapon is also "Smart Laser" or "S.Laser".

26:55 Gyet dat dammege up in der~!

I cannot for the life of me get passed the final stretch. I also didn't know you could upgrade the shield so I could only take three hits

Erinnert an Spiel Gradius

how do you record old games and upload it on youtube?

This game is incredibly hard in my opinion....much harder than Gradius for me. I don't know if I've ever made it past the 3rd level, lol. Very nice run

This game is too ffffffukin hard, take me 2 month hard play to see the final boss,but that turtle shit final boss its totally broken, i cant even stand 10 second of its turtle food bullet

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Games like this always had terrible endings.All that work for this?HAHAHA!