Shikigami no Shiro 2 Practice Mode

[Anesthetize]

Hey all I just started playing this game. Fun stuff!

Quick question, though: I was under the impression that once I beat a level, it should become available in practice mode. How exactly does this work?

Ive gotten all the way to the 5-1 boss, but I can only practice levels 1-1 through 3-2. I die a lot in stage 4 right now, and would love to spend some time practicing it without having to play the first 3 full levels each time, but it's still greyed out in practice mode.

The only thing I can think of is that maybe I have to beat the entire level without using a continue or something, which wouldn't seem to make too much sense.

Thanks for any help.

[Plasmo]

Stages only unlock for Practice mode if you're on your first credit when you reach them.
You're not allowed to ever continue, makes perfect sense imo.

[Ghegs]

This doesn't really belong in the ST as it's more about the feature on the port, so I split it into its own thread.

[Anesthetize]

Ah, I see. I guess I was thinking it was practice for us noobs who are still focusing on survival, rather than practice for scoring. Guess I have my work cut out for me. Still a pretty fun game so far, though.

And thanks Ghegs, I wasn't really sure where to post this.

[Plasmo]

Even if you play for survival, you want to clear a game on one continue?

[xris]

Shiki2 has a good practice mode. You can work on skills like point blanking, only using shikigami, bullet dodging on later level. Work on 3-1, the boss is so much fun once you can no miss it.

[icecreamyaa]

I like girls. But now.. it's about justice

[Anesthetize]

Ok, this might sound pretty strange, but...

After a few weeks of not playing this game, I put it back in this afternoon after work and everything seems much more difficult. There seem to be a lot more bullets on the screen. I haven't changed any options that I know of, and right now the difficulty on the options screen is set to very easy, and I pick Normal under arcade mode, which is what I had been doing before I took a break.

Does anyone have any idea of what might be going on? Am I just going crazy or something? I know that rank affects things somewhat, but if anything my rank should be lower than normal these last few playthroughs since I'm doing horribly.

[xris]

Try bumping up the difficulty a notch or two. The bullets move really slow at too easy. So, they build up. I didn't clear it untill I started playing on notmal. It does effect boss patterns though.

[Plasmo]

There is no Rank in Shikigami no Shiro 2.