Recently picked up Psikyo's Cannon Spike, and having a blast. However, I didn't realize it was so melee heavy, like Psikyo just secretly trying to make a close combat third person game — which makes sense considering the direction they've been going with Gunbird 2 and Dragon Blaze. I see that you can combo, chaining as many hits to as many targets as possible to increase it.
Is this the crux of the scoring? Is it worth engaging with it, or is plain survival just better? It's hard to tell if I'm actually scoring in the heat of the moment, and the random stages mean that I don't have much of anchor to tell my performance.
(Sorry if this was already answered somewhere, but I couldn't find info elsewhere.)