Neo Bomber Man
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I have been playing a lot of this lately at the arcade. Or what's a lot for me given what time I can afford gaming at the moment.
Anyhow, as I can't find any good FAQ's on the net about this, let's try here. Does anyone know what if anything affects the behaviour of the medals as you are building them? What causes the growing medal to sometimes home in on the smaller ones, sometimes avoid them completely, sometimes home in on YOU, etc. Dependent on the number of Slave power-ups you have perhaps? It's just irritating as fuck sometimes trying to build it up and it decides to act all finnicky and just fucks you up instead, or you end up getting it when it's tiny.
About secrets, I only knew about the Miclus bonuses myself, so then I found this http://www.gamespot.com/arcade/action/raidenfightersjet/hints.html which was good and but I know for a fact it's missing fairy locations, since I sometimes even get it on Level 1, and have definitely had it twice on Level 5, and somewhere or other else where it's not mentioned there. No idea if it's missing Miclus locations.
Top score so far is a crappy 35.9 million. I say crappy since when I have a score around that there will be for example one bullet on the whole screen and I will fly my plane right the fuck into it to bring my game to an end on a mission I'm quite familiar with, so I still think my potential is rather something better.
On a strategic note, if you want to get off to a good start, first of all shoot the turret on the plane at the start of Level 1, quick shot ALL the medium-sized planes, but most importantly after doing so to the first two kill the larger plane that gives you the slave as fast as possible, and get the Slave. Then your medals begin to build. Since you destroyed the turret, you will get another (idle) plane further up on the left side of the screen to shoot at for another Slave (and another small medal). Since you quick shot all the medium planes, you will get an extra tank to destroy before the boss for another 4 medals. This is the point where I sometimes get the fairy. Get the other medal from the small tank left of the boss while it's still idle and if you collected them all you should already have the Eagle medal worth the 2048000 points. High score tip for the boss: you can either try shooting the 2 guns and 2 back cannons separately and try to do it quickly enough for the bonus, or shoot the back ones more and the front ones a bit and just bomb it for an easy time getting the quick shot bonus up to x 4. Then destroy the boss and off you go.
The real fun comes at the start of Level 5 then, kill the first few planes & mini turrets then hover over the large turret, get the Miclus out, shoot it and BAM! (bomb noise) You now get the big Raiden medals and from here, basically just survive from this point onwards and your score will go insane. Remember that the medals do eventually get up to 100,000 points each. And don't forget to find the other two Micli (proper plural form?) for the huge bonus and all the medals.
Anyhow, as I can't find any good FAQ's on the net about this, let's try here. Does anyone know what if anything affects the behaviour of the medals as you are building them? What causes the growing medal to sometimes home in on the smaller ones, sometimes avoid them completely, sometimes home in on YOU, etc. Dependent on the number of Slave power-ups you have perhaps? It's just irritating as fuck sometimes trying to build it up and it decides to act all finnicky and just fucks you up instead, or you end up getting it when it's tiny.
About secrets, I only knew about the Miclus bonuses myself, so then I found this http://www.gamespot.com/arcade/action/raidenfightersjet/hints.html which was good and but I know for a fact it's missing fairy locations, since I sometimes even get it on Level 1, and have definitely had it twice on Level 5, and somewhere or other else where it's not mentioned there. No idea if it's missing Miclus locations.
Top score so far is a crappy 35.9 million. I say crappy since when I have a score around that there will be for example one bullet on the whole screen and I will fly my plane right the fuck into it to bring my game to an end on a mission I'm quite familiar with, so I still think my potential is rather something better.
On a strategic note, if you want to get off to a good start, first of all shoot the turret on the plane at the start of Level 1, quick shot ALL the medium-sized planes, but most importantly after doing so to the first two kill the larger plane that gives you the slave as fast as possible, and get the Slave. Then your medals begin to build. Since you destroyed the turret, you will get another (idle) plane further up on the left side of the screen to shoot at for another Slave (and another small medal). Since you quick shot all the medium planes, you will get an extra tank to destroy before the boss for another 4 medals. This is the point where I sometimes get the fairy. Get the other medal from the small tank left of the boss while it's still idle and if you collected them all you should already have the Eagle medal worth the 2048000 points. High score tip for the boss: you can either try shooting the 2 guns and 2 back cannons separately and try to do it quickly enough for the bonus, or shoot the back ones more and the front ones a bit and just bomb it for an easy time getting the quick shot bonus up to x 4. Then destroy the boss and off you go.
The real fun comes at the start of Level 5 then, kill the first few planes & mini turrets then hover over the large turret, get the Miclus out, shoot it and BAM! (bomb noise) You now get the big Raiden medals and from here, basically just survive from this point onwards and your score will go insane. Remember that the medals do eventually get up to 100,000 points each. And don't forget to find the other two Micli (proper plural form?) for the huge bonus and all the medals.
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I'd have been all over that lot. Nice one anyway, glad to see you got it.
