Maybe I uploaded my previous run too early, I just got that one which is much better. There are two routes in this game, one I'll call pacifist (the one I use here) where you let bosses 5 and 6 alive, and another one where you kill those bosses and get different stages/bosses 6 and 7, but they're much harder (but give more points). It's not the perfect pacifist run, but I don't think I have more patience to attempt to beat this score using this route. With the pacifist route, you can hope to reach 4M points but you'd have to play pretty much perfectly. Boss killing/dismantling was pretty much perfect here, stages were very good, hyper speed sections weren't great but still alright. I wasted 100k points with my bomb usage but I don't feel like doing bombless the parts where I had to bomb, it feels too random.

I could have reached 3.9M with better survival in the final stage (it wasn't the worst, but that laser attack from the final boss really hurt my score, so did the waves of zakos that aren't even supposed to be hard), or if I use less bombs (I can do boss 7 with 1 bomb only but messed up and needed a second one, this cost me 20k).

If I want to improve my score, I'll learn the non-pacifist stages 6 and 7, but this will be later.

For the rest, it's still a pretty fun game with a cool art direction, I like the soundtrack too. Scoring is pretty fun since I like boss dismantling. Because they timeout very quickly, even the early bosses never get dull since you need to be very aggressive in order to kill them and get the precious points.

One fun thing about the game is that in the first part of the game you have 3 different ship representing your lives (each with a health bar), and if you lose a ship you get to use the following ship. Then, in the second part, your remaining ships (in this run, all 3 of them) fuse together to form a stronger ship and take on the second half of the game. However, one death in the second part of the game is game over (you have a much bigger health bar to make up for that).

00:00 - Intro/Stage 1
01:38 - Stage 2
03:01 - Stage 3
04:21 - Stage 4
05:59 - Stage 5
07:28 - Stage 6
09:00 - Stage 7
10:31 - Stage 8
14:38 - Ending

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