Thanks. I will look into more Prehistoric Isle 2 until I get me a F3. I am very close to a basic clear on Deathsmiles. I die halfway through TyranoSatan (I stew on this game enough that my phone auto-predicts that I am going to type TyranoSatan lol).
In Deathsmiles if you no bomb on Jitterbug, you get an extra life, which makes TyrannoSatan pretty easy to bomb spam through.
When it comes to these Cave games, there are a lot of extends and bomb drops throughout the game that make a quick bomb clear pretty easy. In Futari for example, there are the two score based extends plus the 1 up on St 5, plus 4 bomb drops throughout the game. That's a total of 6 lives + 22 bombs. Follow the strategy that you should never die with bombs in stock and bomb whenever you are in danger, that equates to 28 lives! Obviously this affects score, but is a good starting point to get a scrubby bomb clear and improve from there.
Got the clear on Black Label today and realize I totally fucked myself on the end of game bonus which is calculated as follows:
10,000,000 × <remaining lives> × <remaining bombs>
I had no missed to just before Larsa where I died in the final enemy rush, then used my bombs to no miss through Larsa. So although I had 4 lives left, I had 0 bombs in stock. If I had suicided right before killing her, I would have ended up with possibly 90m more points. Fuck.
egg_sanwich - 414,183,137 - all - Palm - Black label - 360