Improving scores, one failure at a time
STGT 07 last week!
I like Gigawing. I’m also not very good at Gigawing. Mostly I’m horrible at reflecting and maximizing item creation: something I was unable to really solve in a week. This is a rather mediocre playthrough to Stage 5 boss; I didn’t even bother milking most bosses.
Marvel at my awesome game over death where I don’t realize those lasers turn 90 degrees and get owned from the side.
STGT 07 Week 4 – Omega Fighter Special…Special
So a bunch of us on IRC wasted about a day trying to figure out how to trigger the end stage special bonus until we realized you had to go into the setup menu and select ’special’ even if you were playing the ’special’ rom.
So yeah. 1M per stage special bonus if you don’t shoot between your previous death and the end of the stage. So suicide kills on bosses are the name of the game. Special mode is insanely generous with 1ups and slowdown bombs, so it’s not that big of a deal to suicide once per level. The bigger issue is your default weapon really sucks and when this game overwhelms you lives tend to drop fast.
One hilarious aspect of the game is that if one of the big multiplier icons spawns under/on you, it will kill you. I’m convinced this could be used for hilarious extra points on bosses, but I never put this into practice.
Playing catchup for the STGT 07 videos; I got a bit lazy…
Third week, Darius Gaiden. We played with autofire allowed, so bosses tend to go down fast and the game is a bit easier.
I’m still unsure how I feel about this game. Sometimes I had fun while playing it, but it relies too much on boss milking and insanely high end-game bonus. Things get hard to see with all the crap on the screen and it’s feels like the liberal shield items are partially to compensate for that weakness.
I took the easy route, so maybe the game feels much cooler on the harder stages. I can only imagine how painful this game is without autofire.
