emphatic wrote:
I have put some more info about the mysterious Omake! mode on my site:
http://www.emphatic.se/?p=665Yes, it's very easy to play for survival, but scoring well is a whole different ballpark. BPzeBanshee and I have discussed this mode recently and found some cool additions, but we're not 100% clear on how they work yet.
1. When you max out gems and gold you will see four green "corners" around your character and the Zesshikai chime can be heard. If you now enter Kakusei, there's a meter in your barrier that should be red. When you kill a popcorn enemy, all enemy bullets touching the meter (now yellow) should turn into gold. This meter depletes very fast so while the yellow bar will clear enemy bullets in your path, keep the bar yellow by killing tanks or other smaller enemies. This "bar mode" only works when you have more than 300 gems though. I also believe that you must stay in Kakusei a while to "unlock" the extra gem mode from ESPGALUDA (and AFAIK all other ESPGALUDA II modes) before seeing these four green corners.
I was going to try and write a more thoroughly detailed view of it but yeah that's about right.
The idea seems to be to get Gems, then get Gold. Having a high multiplier helps, which is really the only time the Barrier should ever be used.
You'll notice at all times in Omake! bullets within certain distance to you will turn red. Entering Kakusei will cancel out those bullets. When killing an enemy the Kakusei meter will turn yellow and quickly drain back to red, chiming a sound. It shouldn't matter what kind of enemy it is but it is better to kill off groups of popcorn enemies one-at-a-time for prolonging length of what is essentially the "cancel chain meter". While you have yellow in the Kakusei bar you can run through bullets and cancel them out, but you don't get long to do it so be careful.
When you get 500 Gems and 1000 Gold *AND HAVE A FULL BOMB STOCK* you'll get the four corners as Emphatic mentioned. I like to call them "ribbons" cause they look like ribbons to me but that's beside the point. While you have gems/gold at max killing enemies will result in bullets within a certain radius (that red field) will turn to gold. Going into Kakusei will maintain the 'ribbons' until you have less than 300 gems. During this time you can chain deaths of enemies and run into bullets turning them into gold. Doing this with those flyers in Stage 1 with their front cannons popped off for example, results in gaining a lot of gold.
If you do not have a full bomb stock however, upon reaching 500 gems and 1000 gold your gold will get reset to 0 and half of your bomb stock will be filled up, thus you should always try to keep a full bomb stock unless manipulating the Barrier charge to increase the multiplier dramatically.
A few things I haven't figured out yet are the significance of the green colouring that occaisionally seems to happen while chainkilling to get yellow in the Kakusei meter for bulletcancelling, and the small circles within the meter that change colour. Chances are they might be nothing but aesthetics but the colours do seem to vary at times so it does have me curious. Also, I'm not entirely sure I agree with Emphatic's view of only using Kakusei to avoid letting things get out of hand. I believe if used properly it can be used to gain much more score than in normal mode by manipulating those ribbons at the right times.
In other news, I feel like an idiot because I can't figure out how to play Arrange Mode as Rank 99*99. Can't find the settings for it anywhere. I don't even know any of the achievements I'm getting, or even what rank I'm playing on right now. :S
EDIT: Found the answer, turns out I already did it and it seems to only apply for Arrange anyway (do correct me if I'm wrong though, still trying to get the hang of the rest of the modes, I've only had it a week

)
Hydeux wrote:
Could someone confirm to me (as it isn't very clear anywhere as far as I know) :
to increase the rank in Arrange, there are two ways :
1. you have to clear the game, with the first or/and the second player, this increases rank 1 by 1.
2. Another way to do is watch a replay of an All Clear Arrange run, press A when asked to, and then you can choose your rank in the Arrange options, with the max rank being the max rank of the replay.
I know the second one is true (I've just done this right now !), but is the first one true as well ?