Hello everyone,
I did a good shin mode run earlier today (6.53 billions) and I was trying to find how well I'm placed (or not) but couldn't find anything except this forum. The replay is on the steam leaderboard (where it is 3rd, but I don't know for other platforms). I might upload it on youtube, but I have never captured anything on my pc.
Edit : I can't display the image for some reason, here is the link
https://postimg.cc/MXTjbLfG
I was actually a bit disappointed by my stages 4 and 5, but there are no significant mistake, just "I score 10 or 20 more millions here usually" happening at almost every shot so that adds up in the end. My sum of best in training mode is 7 billions for the first 6 stages. I don't know that much about stage 7 bonus score, sometimes it looks quite random to me, but I know it's low anyway so I never count on that. I'm pretty much a shmup noob actually, my best achievements before that were a last life last bomb type B strong 1CC of DDP DFK and a level 2 Rosa deathsmiles clear. But I was completely hooked by this game that I bought in july, so I dived deeper than I usually do.
Jaimers wrote: ↑Sun Mar 12, 2023 4:56 pm
I think the game bamboozled me out of the TLB clear.
Quite a late reply, you probably moved on from this game, but it can be instructive for other people.
I watched your stage 6 and it is quite hard to tell exactly what health you have at the beginning, but I think you are below 50%. Maybe you never noticed it, but there is some decoration at the end of your life bar that actually hides 25% of your health, so you see damage only once you got touched 3 times (which is already quite much). I would need to watch the whole run and count your laser hits, but that's a bit much to do. To me it seemed pretty fair that you died on your fifth laser hit, taking the full laser route with such a low health is basically suicide : if you compare to sinmoon or nat they enter stage 6 with around 70% health I would say, and they have basically zero when they reach stage 6 boss. So if you copy their route with more laser damage at the beginning, that's guaranteed death.
You probably either had a few double hits in stage 5 (if you hear Botan scream twice that's bad) or you had other random hits before that. I'm just as guilty of this, my life was so low when I reached stage 5 boss (I had 3 unintentionnal laser hits if I remember correctly) that I was wondering how I was gonna suicide in the most optimal way... I was thinking so loud that the stage 5 boss killed me against my will xD