Here are the reviews for Kageki and Vulcan Venture / Gradius II from the July issue of The Games Machine from the year 1988.
Other reviews of Vulcan Venture / Gradius II can be found in C+VG May '88, YS Jun '88, SU Jul '88 and ACE Aug '88.
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... The things love can drive a man to -- the ecstasies, the
the miseries, the broken rules, the desperate chances, the glorious
failures and the glorious victories.
-- McCoy, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7
-- McCoy, "Requiem for Methuselah", stardate 5843.7