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In Battle Garegga, is it possible to pull off the scoring trick against Mad Ball with Golden Bat's Weapon/bomb? Try as I might, I just can't penetrate his ring.
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Yep, it’s not as easy as using, say, Gain’s or Bornham’s bomb, but it can be done without too much trouble. Basically, you want to wait for Mad Ball to open his outer turret ring during the first phase of the fight. As it’s opening, suicide into the outer ring, damaging the outer ring and gaining a few seconds of invincibility. If you time it right, you can maneuver into the space on top of him, while invincible, and detonate his bomb to destroy the outer ring. There are a few more particular details, but that’s the basic gist of it.
I spent a lot of time over the last couple of years learning about the ins and outs of Garegga. It’s more complex than what I usually gravitate toward, but I made an exception with this game because its complexity seemed pretty damn interesting.
The strategy guide found in the strategy sub-forum by Icarus is a very helpful, exhaustive source of info about all things Garegga. Also the Garegga page on Shmups Wiki is great, as it mostly pulls from the strategy guide by Icarus. And if you’re in the mood for video, Icarus also did an excellent, long video with Eaglet and Plasmo some years ago, breaking down Garegga exhaustively. Here is a link to the section of that video that addresses the Mad Ball scoring with Wild Snail:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz1kXyXOz ... AAlc8ueATH
Possibly more than you wanted to hear, but there you go!