Well, I'm glad I'm not alone at least. I thought I was going crazy. What weapon / device combination are you using? I'm doing Mae / Power / Cluster Missile. I feel like the cluster missile does not make things easier though there are some pretty fun scoring things that you can do with it that you maybe can't with other weapons, particularly where you start a chain with it and then it kills enough enemies to max out the chain then all the hits it gets starting at 8 will be worth x64. That being said, I don't think my score is very good either, lol.EmperorIng wrote: You're making better progress than me. Hyper is such a pain. I usually end my run by level 3, but sometimes I make it to level 4. Not counting all the ragequits on the second stage.
A lot of the time though cluster missile means that you have to look up near the top of the screen to aim which often leads to not seeing the bullets near your ship and running into them. Then there's a few RNG places that make it even harder. Some of them probably only affect the cluster missile like those stupid groups of three enemies in stage 4 that randomly choose to be further apart from eachother sometimes than other times. I can't really blame most of my sucking on RNG, though.
so trueragequits on the second stage.