Shmup of the Month Club 2015 (Completed)

[dsheinem]

dsheinem - 36,806,901 - Stage 3 - Palm/A - Arcade (360)

Level 3 just kills me. I can no-miss levels 1 & 2 and then I have the wind just knocked out right out of me on level 3.

[mjmjr25]

Level 3, 2nd half, is mean. It isn't the fastest part of the game, or the most bullets, but it is the most difficult piece, because of simultaneous large enemies on both sides of the screen that shoot diagonal bullets.

If i'm having a good run (haven't died) i'll just bomb 2-3 times to get through it.

If i'm having a poor run (died once, or bombed a lot) i'll try and push through it w/o bombing.

[dsheinem]

Level 3, 2nd half, is mean. It isn't the fastest part of the game, or the most bullets, but it is the most difficult piece, because of simultaneous large enemies on both sides of the screen that shoot diagonal bullets.

If i'm having a good run (haven't died) i'll just bomb 2-3 times to get through it.

If i'm having a poor run (died once, or bombed a lot) i'll try and push through it w/o bombing.

Yeah, I find even the first part up to the midboss to be a bitch. I will try bombing, I suppose.

[mjmjr25]

The first part, the large enemies that cancel are much more spaced apart, so it should just take 10-15 runs of getting their locations down so you can start on them early and cancel out before too much trouble comes. Second half...just too many too fast (for me).

[Nyukki]

Level 3 took me a long time to get the hang of. The first half is no problem for me now, but I still use bombs in the second half. Sometimes, when things are going really well so far, I think I'm good enough to make it through without bombs since there's a lot of slowdown during that part that can let you weave through some of the diagonal stuff, but that's usually when I get overconfident and my run turns to mush.

Anyway...


1.5 Original:
Nyukki - 111,997,030 - Stage 5 - Reco/Normal - Arcade (360)

Smooth sailing through levels 1 and two. 16 mil for level 1, fifty something mil after level two. Bomb spammed through second half of level three, died twice on the boss (ARGH!). Level four went surprisingly well. After I heard the chime for the second extend and saw the stage four boss approaching I got excited and realised I might see stage 5 for the first time. Bomb spammed my way through. Made it to stage 5 with one bomb left on my last life. Died before the Erhu started jamming.

One week left!

[DocHauser]

Got the Black Label 1cc



Black Label Original

DocHauser - 364,497,620 - ALL - Reco - Original - MAME

I had been playing with Palm, but it was a wise decision to switch to Reco for Black Label. Once she's fully powered-up, her spread-shot plus the options seem to mop up the popcorn enemies a lot quicker, and I found it easier to clear a path through stages 4 and 5 and not get swamped by enemies. I made it to the final boss with 3 lives to spare, and cleared it with two lives and two bombs left.

In both my 1.5 and BL clears, those are the only two credits I've ever managed to collect the 1up in Stage 5.

[Nyukki]

Nice

[jepjepjep]

I played a little black label this afternoon. A lot more slowdown than 1.5 and the bosses died much faster. I think I'll try some maniac mode next. This game is really great.

Black Label Original

jepjepjep - 390,688,846 - ALL - Reco (X360)

[ExedExes]

1.5:

ORIGINAL
jepjepjep - 210,126,343 - Stage 5 - Reco/N - 360
DocHauser - 199,111,679 - Stage 5 (Boss) - Palm/A - MAME
Dunpeal2064 - 179,195,932 - Stage 5 - Palm/A - 360
mjmjr25 - 147,184,865 - Stage 5 (boss) - Palm/A - PCB
Nyukki - 111,997,030 - Stage 5 - Reco/Normal - 360
EllertMichael - 111,140,258 - Stage 5 - Palm/A - PCB
ExedExes - 63,246,150 - Stage 4 - Palm/A - MAME
dsheinem - 36,806,901 - Stage 3 - Palm/A - 360

MANIAC
jepjepjep - 151,492,984 - Stage 4 - Reco/N - PCB
Dunpeal2064 - 120,161,410 - Stage 3 (Boss) - Reco/N - 360
DocHauser - 79,932,978 - Stage 3 (Boss) - Reco/N - MAME
mjmjr25 - 65,385,161 - Stage 4 - Reco/N - PCB
ExedExes - 43,895,425 - Stage 3 - Palm/A - MAME
Kidpanda - 40,274,525 - Stage 3 - Palm/A - 360

ULTRA
mjmjr25 - 8,422,861 - Stage 2 - Palm/A - PCB

Black Label:

ORIGINAL
jepjepjep - 390,688,846 - ALL - Reco - 360
DocHauser - 364,497,620 - ALL - Reco - MAME
Nyukki - 94,645,706 - Stage 3 (Boss) - Reco - PCB

[DocHauser]

Nice work jep! Have you cleared the game before this month, or is this the first time you've done it?

Still trying to improve in Maniac. It seems that my scores now that I (supposedly) know what I'm doing aren't much better than when I was just going in blind and hoping for the best. I should probably watch some videos to see where the best sections for cashing in those points are...