Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (Completed)

[ExedExes]

I interrupt our very popular month with a bit of a diversion. An interview with Ikeda and other staff members on this very game is up now at Shmuplations.

[jepjepjep]

Still died at Larsa (again), but this time I broke 200 million!

1.5 Original
jepjepjep - 210,126,343 - Stage 5 - Reco/N - 360

[EllertMichael]

^Nice, Jep!!!

In other far less impressive news, I finally broke 100m

1.5 Original
EllertMichael - 111,140,258 - Stage 5 - Palm/A - PCB

[mjmjr25]

Well, gais, I was sitting on the couch, bored and said, "y'know what? I'm going down right now and getting that ALL." So, I went downstairs and...

played Strider Hiryu

[dsheinem]

finally fired this up...only getting 25m or so on level 3 and dying. I have no idea how scoring works, gotta read up...

[mjmjr25]

finally fired this up...only getting 25m or so on level 3 and dying. I have no idea how scoring works, gotta read up...

Dave - I assume you're playing Futari 1.5 Original Mode?

Scoring is fairly basic.

A button = tap shop
A button (held down) = lazer shot
B button = bomb
C button = tap shot / autofire

There are 4 items to collect - each will raise your multiplier
Small Enemy Gems
Large Enemy Gems
Small Ground Gems
Large Ground Gems

I don't think you can control which ground gems appear (dunpeal?). The key to these is they are worth more than air gems, so hover over them to scoop them up. You'll do a lot of this naturally.

With Enemy Gems - every enemy can release small or large. You want large. The type of shot you release will determine which gem is dropped. If you notice you're only getting small gems, switch the shot you're using to get big gems, when it switches...switch your shot again.

Example:
Stage 1 - Original - the first 20 seconds is all tap shot, all large gems. Then when the first dragon the right comes up, switch to lazer shot for him, then back to shot. You'll get a hang of it....

If you get all large gems on stage 1, your multiplier will be around 5,000 after stage 1. If you get all small gems, it'll be around 2,500...and if you get half and half, then around 3,700. This is important - this is your multiplier.

Now, after stage 1, the most points i've ever had is just over 12million - it's just not possible to get the multiplier that high.

After stage 2 i'm around 37 million.

After stage 3 - anywhere from 50-80 million, depending if I die or not.

This is the key. Dying kills your multiplier, I don't know the formula, but it seems like 30%. Bombing seems to take off 10%.

So, starting stage 3, youre multiplier is probably around 10,000. Die once, now your at 7,000, bomb, bomb, now your at 5,000, die again, your down to 1,000 - your score is terrible. Conversely, hit stage 3, don't die, don't bomb...your multiplier keeps climbing and your score will just start going nuts.

tl;dr
Get big gems
Don't bomb
Don't die
If you must do one, bomb

[dsheinem]

thanks, mike. i've got the blue/green thing down and am ~12m w/~5K multi most Stage 1 finishes. Working on 2 now, but I've broke 30m

[Kidpanda]

Kidpanda - 40,274,525 - Stage 3 - Palm/A - 360 Maniac

Sorry for the huge pic :/

[Nyukki]

For 1.5 original, whether big or small gems get left by enemies depend on the 100 digit of your large gem counter. So if your large gem counter's last three digits are between 000 and 499, enemies will drop large gems when killed by shot. If your large gem counter's last three digits are between 500 and 999, then killing enemies with laser will yield big gems.

[ExedExes]

Original Mode

ExedExes - 63,246,150 - Stage 4 - Palm/A - MAME



It's no 100 million (goodness people!) but it's all I got. I will try Maniac mode again!