SOTM: Mushihimesama Futari and Armed Police Batrider

egg_sanwich

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I got the 1.5 clear: that's good.
My score was worse than before: that's bad.

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NERDtendo

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I am always amazed when you guys get the cleats! Nice job. I am determined to get a 1CC on a shmup one of these days...
 

egg_sanwich

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Thanks Nerdtendo. I've cleared 1.5 once before, but it took a good year of on and off playing + some focused time to get there. I pretty much only focus on one game at a time if trying to clear it, and play it as much as I can until I do. This is usually about a month of a couple sessions a week.

There are a lot of easily clearable games out there, I'd start with Gekirindan, Twin Cobra 2, and Prehistoric Isle 2 for some Neo Geo action. Once you play a game enough to memorize the difficult spots, it's only a matter a time till you can clear it.

I've started on Black Label now. My first impressions are that I like the audible cue made when your counter switches colors; I find that extremely helpful, as glancing at my counter caused me many unnecessary deaths in 1.5. Bullets seem faster and more dense, but the added slowdown makes it way more manageable. The importance of proximity leads to some pretty aggressive gameplay, which makes for exciting gameplay.


egg_sanwich - 166,309,303 - St4 - Palm - Black Label - 360

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NERDtendo

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There are a lot of easily clearable games out there, I'd start with Gekirindan, Twin Cobra 2, and Prehistoric Isle 2 for some Neo Geo action. Once you play a game enough to memorize the difficult spots, it's only a matter a time till you can clear it.

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).
 

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egg_sanwich

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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

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Gremlin

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Incremental update, took a shot cause I thought I barely scraped by Skate but I guess not haha. First part of Stage 3 finally clicked for me, just need to hit the lab to make the rest more consistent. Briefly played with Reco today wondering if I'd do better with her wide shot, but I like Abnormal Palm's Truxton laser too much. Hits hard!

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GMEGBLN - 48,156,315 - 3 - Abnormal Palm - 360
 

ShootTheCore

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Still can’t quite break 3 million. Getting close though!

ShootTheCore - 2,907,160 - 5 - Criminal Team - PCB

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Neodogg

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small improvement...getting a little more comfortable on level 3 and made it to the boss...

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Dogg - 38,774,991 - 3 - Abnormal Palm - 360

Also decided since I'm not going to have the largest score, might as well have the largest viewable area and hooked it up the my projector...
 

Gremlin

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GMEGBLN - 62,125,187- 4 - Abnormal Palm - 360

Scrub Score quest continues, still don't feel comfortable at all with the second part of Stage 3. I need to watch replays or something 'cause I'm still getting overwhelmed pretty easily. The bit I've seen of Stage 4 seems quite a bit more manageable though
 

Kid Panda

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Learn where the pill bugs come out and look at their shot pattern. There’s very telling lines you can skip through. Reduce the panic.
 

ShootTheCore

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Scores are updated. We're down to the last few days of both this SotM and 2020 - let's get those final scores rolling!
 

skate323k137

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1.5:

Skate323k137 - 59,284,604 - 4 - Normal Reco - 360


BL:

Skate323k137 - 163,018,747 - 5 - Reco - 360


I can upload pics if needed. It's been a fun month!
 

Gremlin

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In case I don't get to sit down with it before 2021:

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GMEGBLN - 66,658,533 - 4 - Abnormal Palm - 360

Stage 3 is getting easier when routing around the pill bugs, but I def need to bomb more. Still inconsistent but not panicking which is good. Was shooting for > 70m by year end, still got a couple days haha
 
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ShootTheCore

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Final score update. Thank you to everybody that participated - I hope you enjoyed the games. Here's to great success in 2021 for everyone!
 
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