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Right now I'm struggling with stage 4 in Gaiares, I can get to what I think is right before the level boss, but its taken a bit of practice to get this far.
So this means you can get to the X-shaped zone with the snake that fires the five-way spread shot?
Not to derail the entire thread, but here are a few tips for the game in general:
1. E-smash is the most useless weapon in the game, period, I can't find any useful offensive use at all, so don't get it and if it's taken by mistake then dump it for any other weapon at the next available non-E-smash TOZable enemy.
2. Stage 2 snake midboss gives V-laser. TOZ it three times to get max V-laser. It shoots through walls. Get rid of it right before the boss battle by TOZing one of the G-beam enemies that fly in and fly out rapidly. It makes that boss battle take less than one minute.
3. On stage 3, only power up the T-missile to 2nd level firepower. It's less powerful than 3rd level but then again the second level firing rate more than compensates for that. Furthermore, the missiles emerging from both sides of the ship make the diagonal fired missiles of the 3rd level T-missle entirely unnecessary. Even the guillotines just before the 3rd level boss go down that much faster when fired upon with 2nd level T-missile.
4. Stage 4 is relatively straightforward, just don't accidentally TOZ a missile with level 2 T-missile because there's no way to power down in the game.
5. The X-shaped zone is best navigated using Low ship speed. Wait in the safe area of each firing pattern until the spread fires, then just use a small tap to dodge it. Return to the middle and repeat, going to the next safe area for the next pattern iteration until the pattern is done. When the screen starts scrolling again, switch to Max ship speed for the stage 4 boss battle.
I won't post spoilers for stage 5 or stage 6 except for on request. (Furthest I've reached is the stage 6 boss, but hope these help anyway.)
This helped a lot, thank you! My main problem with stage 4 is that I wasn't using the homing lasers on those orange snake dudes who shoot the homing "O's"... they were nearly impossible. I can finally get to the second form of Stage 4 boss. I usually use the G-beam for the boss, but it seems that I could also pick up the homing lasers (forgot the name) from the enemies directly before the "X-shaped" area.
Ahhh, so many choices in this game, it's terrific!
Hellfire - Finally plodded through the first loop on Easy mode, took a bit of practice, that last stage has some wicked cool looking enemies, particularly the green dragon looking airships. Easily one of my favorite horis on the Genny.
Thunderforce 3 -Was surprised how easy it was to 1CC, I'm looking forward to Hard mode though. Excellent game, I think I still prefer TF4, but it's close. TF2 on the other hand, is ridiculously frusterating. I'm not entirely against it, but as far as overhead "free-roaming" levels, I think Granada does a better job. I think overall Thunderforce series has some of the best tunes.
Biohazard Battle - Damn I love it, no wonder so many people recommended it here. I might have to hunt down a complete copy of Crying for the collection now, I rather like the abstract design of the art.
Raiden Trad - Credit fed through the first loop, damn I wish I had this game as a kid. I always frothed over the Jaguar port and even rented a Jaguar just to play it (although Temptest 2000 has the highlight of that experience). It's far from perfect, but its classic Raiden and I like that. (is Trad it's own game, or a port of another?)
Still need to hunt down copies of Battle Squadron, Dangerous Seed, Zero Wing, Undead Line, Fantasy Zone, and maybe a few others. Can't get in the $100+ zone at the moment.
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