Lethal Thunder / Thunder Blaster

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Despatche
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Lethal Thunder / Thunder Blaster

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3 lives, extends at 700K and 1.5M, Normal difficulty. The two versions have different stage orders and probably other changes.

Of course, we're splitting by autofire out of the gate for this game.
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VERSION - AUTOFIRE
NAME - SCORE - STAGE - PLAYER SIDE - DETAILS
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Lethal Thunder
Without autofire With autofire

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 1. Akraten      - 4,797,550 - ALL - 1P - PCB
Thunder Blaster
Without autofire With autofire

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 1. Third_strike - 9,999,990 - ALL - 2P - ShmupMAME v4.2
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Re: Lethal Thunder / Thunder Blaster

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Thunder Blaster - with autofire

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Perikles - 6,434,670 - ALL - 1P - ShmupMAME v4.2

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Was very much surprised how evil this game is, without a doubt the hardest Irem 1-ALL, it's somewhere between the first and second loop of the Japanese Image Fight, even! Also quite a few creative vagaries, I like this game.
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Re: Lethal Thunder / Thunder Blaster

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Despatche wrote:The two versions have different stage orders and probably other changes.
Someone was kind enough to inform me that Lethal Thunder is essentially the novice difficulty version of Thunder Blaster, so I tested it myself - now I understand why some people sneer at the difficulty of the game with autofire, Lethal Thunder is indeed a mere shadow of Thunder Blaster:

- Instead of checkpoints, there are instant restarts. Considering that there are no power-ups, only different weapon types, this alone makes a huge difference.

- Every remotely dangerous constellation of enemies is either absent or altered in Lethal Thunder. The deadly asteroid shower in stage 5 (stage 1 in Lethal Thunder) is gone, bulky enemies that come from behind in Thunder Blaster come from the front, so do bosses etc.

- Enemies fire a lot less, and slower. They are also not as resilient.

- Bosses have almost no health, one or two tossed pods are enough to wipe them out.

- They also have severely reduced patterns on top of that, some of their body parts are either entirely or almost useless.


Just to compare: Lethal Thunder with autofire is even easier than one loop of Fire Barrel (which is otherwise the easiest Irem clear) whereas Thunder Blaster with autofire is the hardest 1-ALL by quite a stretch. It's that huge a difference.
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Re: Lethal Thunder / Thunder Blaster

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So autofire is actually kinda interesting in this game. With the green weapon, which happens to be the default, you can drive up the shot bonus at the end of stages by getting closer to the top of the screen, which requires learning the stages pretty closely. Weapon change items are worth nothing, which is actually good in this game because the green weapon is what you want to use anyway. This also appears to work out the same in both versions, though obviously Thunder Blaster is a lot harder.
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Re: Lethal Thunder / Thunder Blaster

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Here I go!

Thunder Blaster - with autofire

Third_strike - 1,789,760 - Stage 4 - 1P - ShmupMAME v4.2

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Third_strike - 2,593,070 - Stage 5 - 1P - ShmupMAME v4.2

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Third_strike - 6,922,840 - Stage 5 - 1P - ShmupMAME v4.2

I can see the evil in stage 5, there is some pretty garbage quality sections in place. Guess I can't past this stage so early.

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Third_strike - 7,294,500 - ALL - 2P - ShmupMAME v4.2

Finally all :P :P :P

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Third_strike - 8,310,700 - ALL - 2P - ShmupMAME v4.2

I can't deal with stage 5 :|

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Third_strike - 9,355,890 - ALL - 2P - ShmupMAME v4.2

Stage 5, The Perfect Wall!

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Third_strike - 9,945,620 - ALL - 2P - ShmupMAME v4.2

First time which I past stage 5 whithout loose lives

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Third_strike - 9,999,990 - ALL - 2P - ShmupMAME v4.2

Three suicides in stage 5 to make sure which this time it would be the counter stop.
This game has the most inconsistent shoot ever.
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Re: Lethal Thunder / Thunder Blaster

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Lethal Thunder
Autofire
Akraten - 4,797,550 - ALL - 1P - PCB
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