DEL wrote:Now Bashinet 2 is giving me hell with that green disc/exploding homing bomb pattern.
Green Discs:
- Two green discs go out wide when fired, then sweep in to scissor towards your location. The best way I've found with dealing with them is to lure them to aim at a location, then move up the screen to dodge them. It's easier to avoid the green discs if Bashi2 has both arms firing them.
Homing Mines:
- I love these, as they're so good to score from. But they are a complete pain in the arse when mixed with other attack patterns. They tend to move to a position, stop, then charge straight at you, leaving a blue trail that can kill you. Try to destroy the mine before it charges at you.
The problem is that Bashi2 tends to mix up these patterns - sometimes it has one arm throwing mines and another throwing discs, sometimes it has two arms throwing discs etc etc - so your only hope is to try and quickly destroy each arm before they have a chance to flood the screen. The arms with the claws attached to Bashi2's back fire the green discs, Bashi2's regular arms throw homing mines.
There are other patterns as well:
Raining Plasma:
- Bashi2 will occasionally stop on the spot, and launch loads of red bombs that rain down the screen. These will always drop to a fixed distance in front of Bashi2, so you can sit right in front of Bashi2, rooted to the base of the screen, and deal damage. Just as long as Bashi2 isn't more than halfway down the screen ^_-
Missiles/Aimed Bullet Stream:
- A nice little pattern. Bashi2 will fire a continuous stream of regular yellow bullets at you, and launch lots of slow moving homing missilesfrom it's back. The bullet stream is easy to dodge, as there are big gaps in the pattern, and you can pick up lots of free items and Medals from the missiles.
Laser Sweep:
- Occasionally Bashi2 will stop on the spot, open it's arms, and fire lasers in a sweeping motion. Try to find a nice gap in the pattern and stay there, attacking Bashi2 as you go. Probably the best pattern to get, as it gives you lots of time to bash Bashi2 ^_-
Support Fighters:
- Those little flying cloaked things drop Medals when destroyed, but also appear to attach new weapons to Bashi2. They like to kamikaze as well, so beware. Destroy them quickly.