RQ: Ibara bullet cancelling/scoring/rank

[angrycoder]

Well, this game is trickling into people's hands, time to start a thread. I have no clue how to play this game other than shoot shoot bang bang.

1) Whats the difference between the 4 ship types?

2) How do you trigger bullet cancelling? I've done it numerous times on accident, but I am still not sure what actually causes it. (Note, when I say bullet cancelling I am refering to having all the bullets on screen turn into roses, similar to what happens when you bomb).

3) How does scoring work?

4) What causes rank to go up? So far i've noticed that holding the fire button down makes you rank increase, while firing single shots doesn't.

5) What causes rank to go down? So far I've noticed collecting roses and dying decrease your rank.

[incognoscente]

There is an older RQ: Ibara thread that slipped off the first page :)

[Ghegs]

Thanks incognoscente for pointing that out. I've edited the topic title a bit so it's easier to tell the two apart.