I think this one realizes itself a bit better than Parodius: Non-Sense Fantasy. As in, it leans in a bit harder and is just sillier and goofier. The first level's music is just various KC & the Sunshine Band songs and that is infinitely fucking funny to me compared to the first Parodius' royalty free music. It's still a bit overlong and the dynamic difficulty thing is strange when playing with savestates, but these are both pretty standardized things in the Gradius series. Not much you can do there.