Original discussion thread here.
GD Strategy discussion thread here.
I'm going to break this down exactly how the game does it (what a mess). Please play with the default extend setting (3). Be sure to post scores/times in the following format:
Mode - Difficulty - Ship - Name - Score/Time - Stage Reached*
*not applicable for Time Attack
Examples:
Standard - Normal - Phoenix - Kiken - 23,000,000 - ALL
Time Attack - Hard - Rynex R - Kiken - 4'00"
Standard:
Kids:
-Phoenix
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 27,855,300 - ALL
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,616,400 - ALL
2. Kiken - 27,771,800 - ALL
3. ZOM - 27,056,400 - ALL
4. Dragoforce - 23,962,900 - ALL
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,485,200 - ALL
Easy:
-Phoenix
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 27,670,200 - ALL
2. Dragoforce - 24,519,500 - ALL
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,319,500 - ALL
2. ZOM - 27,499,400 - ALL
3. Kiken - 27,233,300 - ALL
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,065,900 - ALL
Normal:
-Phoenix
1. Smraedis - 28,063,500 - ALL
2. Sturmvogel Prime - 27,635,900 - ALL
3. RFP - 26,290,500 - ALL
4. Dial911 - 24,190,200 - ALL
5. The Coop - 23,108,600 - ALL
6. RGB - 22,785,700 - ALL
7. gs68 - 20,825,500 - ALL
8. Herr Schatten - 19,805,700 - ALL
9. Rupert H - 19,686,600 - ALL
10. clp - 19,629,900 - ALL
11. Turrican - 18,692,800 - Stage 6
12. Sonic R - 5,156,700 - Stage 4
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,479,700 - ALL
2. Smraedis - 28,223,100 - ALL
3. PlasmaBlooD - 27,806,100 - ALL
4. Fogelmir - 26,771,900 - ALL
5. Dial911 - 25,508,100 - ALL
6. Squidhead - 24 499 500 - ALL
7. The Coop - 24,114,600 - ALL
8. Azmum - 24,109,600 - ALL
9. gs68 - 22,534,600 - ALL
10. Herr Schatten - 18,891,500 - ALL
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,213,100 - ALL
2. Smraedis - 27,762,800 - ALL
3. ZOM - 25,053,500 - ALL
4. The Coop - 24,792,800 - ALL
5. Dragoforce - 24,396,000 - ALL
6. Dial911 - 23,482,600 - ALL
7. Matsunaga - 22,941,300 - ALL
8. Ruldra - 22,676,000 - ALL
9. DMC - 19,133,500 - ALL
10. Herr Schatten - 17,250,000 - ALL
Hard:
-Phoenix
1. Smraedis - 27,278,400 - ALL
2. Sturmvogel Prime - 25,150,300 - ALL
3. ZOM - 23,882,700 - ALL
4. mar - 23,523,900 - ALL
5. Dragoforce - 23,334,100 - ALL
6. Dial911 - 23,179,400 - ALL
7. gameoverDude - 22,589,700 - ALL
8. The Coop - 21,707.300 - ALL
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 25,859,400 - ALL
2. Kiken - 25,800,800 - ALL
3. The Coop - 25,208,800 - ALL
4. Squidhead - 23 419 800 - ALL
5. Dial911 - 21,466,500 - ALL
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,229,600 - ALL
2. gs68 - 24,581,100 - ALL
3. Dial911 - 22,965,600 - ALL
4. Ruldra - 22,922,100 - ALL
Maniac:
-Phoenix
1. ThunderForce 222 - 36,158,200 - ALL
2. Sturmvogel Prime - 30,134,600 - ALL
3. ZOM - 27,413,800 - ALL
4. Dial911 - 25,985,100 - ALL
5. Dragoforce - 23,509.100 - ALL
6. Seiya - 21,019,600 - ALL
-Rynex R
1. ThunderForce 222 - 36,266,500 - ALL
2. Sturmvogel Prime - 34,952,500 - ALL
3. Kollision - 33,734,500 - ALL
4. Rob - 31,783,100 - ALL
5. Kiken - 30,783,400 - ALL
6. Dial911 - 30,469,500 - ALL
7. Seiya - 25,694,300 - ALL
-Syrinx
1. ThunderForce 222 - 36,436,300 - ALL
2. Kiken - 33,067,000 - ALL
3. Dial911 - 31,802,600 - ALL
4. Sturmvogel Prime - 27,468,300 - ALL
5. Squidhead - 22 739 800 - ALL
Time Attack:
Kids:
-Phoenix
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 01:22:11
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 00:21:53
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 00:45:06
Easy:
-Phoenix
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 01:24:03
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 00:23:30
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 00:53:16
Normal:
-Phoenix
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 01:08:13
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 00:47:93
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 00:55:41
Hard:
-Phoenix
-Rynex R
-Syrinx
Maniac:
-Phoenix
-Rynex R
-Syrinx
Neo Style:
Kids:
-Phoenix
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 27,781,900 - ALL
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,531,600 - ALL
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,509,200 - ALL
Easy:
-Phoenix
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 27,799,700 - ALL
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,349,600 - ALL
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,108,400 - ALL
Normal:
-Phoenix
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 27,917,900 - ALL
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,664,400 - ALL
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,333,400 - ALL
Hard:
-Phoenix
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 27,740,000 - ALL
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,660,200 - ALL
2. Squidhead - 25 787 100 - ALL
-Syrinx
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 28,366,600 - ALL
Maniac:
-Phoenix
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 33,142,200 - ALL
2. Seiya - 4,380,000 - Stage 4
-Rynex R
1. Sturmvogel Prime - 33,318,300 - ALL
2. Seiya - 8,894,400 - Stage 5
Standard - Hard - Phoenix - gameoverDude 22589700 ALL
Here it came on Monday, and it's Friday night. I never bothered with the Normal mode- going straight to Hard. POW, down it goes. I kind of miss the endgame bonus, but what the hey- I suicided on the final form of the boss, then rinsed him to heck and back again with a L2 Over Weapon right at respawn.
Now I realize that a leftover ship is worth 100K in Hard mode (contrary to what I thought, there is an endgame bonus), but I probably came out ahead on that deal. 1M on Maniac is too much to piss away though.
Standard - Maniac - Rnyex R - Kiken - 30,783,400 - ALL
Standard - Maniac - Syrinx - Kiken - 32,077,700 - ALL
Standard - Kids - Rynex R - Kiken - 27,771,800 - ALL
Standard - Easy - Rynex R - Kiken - 27,233,300 - ALL
Standard - Hard - Rynex R - Kiken - 25,800,800 - ALL
Standard - Normal - phoenix- clp - 19,629,900 - ALL
came in the post this morning did this in 6 goes , however i think this game is pretty good tbh im yet to try the harder modes + diff ships but i think there is some challenge there for those that want it .
Since this thread feels like a ghost town, I'll post my crappy Phoenix score:
Standard - Hard - Phoenix - ZOM - 23,882,700 - ALL
EDIT: Let's add Kids & Easy as well:
Standard - Kids - Rynex-R - ZOM - 27,056,400 - ALL
Standard - Easy - Rynex-R - ZOM - 27,499,400 - ALL
Ok, time to tackle Maniac with Rynex. I don't think I can beat Kiken though...
Kiken, did you no miss all stages in Maniac with Rynex to get that score?
ZOM wrote:Ok, time to tackle Maniac with Rynex. I don't think I can beat Kiken though...
Kiken, did you no miss all stages in Maniac with Rynex to get that score?
Yep. It was a No Miss run. And so was this one:
Standard - Maniac - Syrinx - Kiken - 33,067,000 - ALL
I missed a couple of thousand pts in this run (forgot about the extra CRAW in the fire stage and missed a few odd enemies), but I think I used my Over Weapon about as well as I could.
ZOM wrote:^hmm I've seen a youtube video with 35.7 million, I wonder where that guy got the other 2 millions then...?
Anyway, I think i need some more practice till i can no miss maniac.
Which ship was the person using?
I think you'd have to nail every green reticle target for 16x, which is rather difficult. Unless there's another hidden extend or 2 that we haven't found yet.
The video's quality sometimes makes it pretty hard to see if he got x16.
I figured it out. He abuses Phoenix's Wave weapon (which is actually quite powerful), and he tries to finish every level with a good deal of Over Weapon stock.
Kiken wrote:
I figured it out. He abuses Phoenix's Wave weapon (which is actually quite powerful), and he tries to finish every level with a good deal of Over Weapon stock.
Ahhh... Yes, funny thing is, after reading your post about the OW stock in the strategy thread i was gonna check out the video again.
I think the Rynex's Blade is slightly weaker than the Phoenix's Wave weapon;
The big ships in stage 4 go down much quicker with the Phoenix.
I'm still working on that Maniac&Rynex No Miss. Damn ocean stage's crate corridor always destroys my shield or kills me...
Thanks. I use about 3 separate overweapon attacks there with hunter.
Yeah, same here.
But I want to make it through without OW, problem is that freaking corridor is just too random with that blue enemies who pop out of the crates
crappy Maniac/phoenix score:
Standard - Maniac - Phoenix - ZOM - 27,413,800 - ALL
Standard - Normal - Phoenix - Dial911 - 18,426,200 - ALL
Standard - Normal - Rynex R - Dial911 - 19,614,400 - ALL
Standard - Normal - Syrinx - Dial911 - 23,482,600 - ALL
What more can I say I wouldn't be here today if the old school didn't pave the way.
Standard - Normal - Phoenix - The Coop - 23,108,600 - All
Standard - Normal - Rynex-R - The Coop - 24,114,600 - All
Standard - Normal - Syrinx - The Coop - 24,792,800 - All
Standard - Hard - Phoenix - The Coop - 21,707.300 - All
Edit: Updated with a new score for Rynex-R on Normal.
Standard - Normal - Rynex-R - Squidhead - 24 499 500 - All
Standard - Hard - Rynex-R - Squidhead - 23 419 800 - All
Standard - Maniac - Syrinx - Squidhead - 22 739 800 - All
Neo Style - Hard - Rynex-R - Squidhead - 25 787 100 - All
Yeah, I don't think I've ever ALLed a game so quickly.. pretty much everything will go down with two overweapons...
Wish there were more scoring parts in the game, as I feel like there is not much else to do in the game anymore (except play on every single difficulty with every single ship...)