Dimahoo!

[Bananamatic]

Bananamatic - 6,742,580 - 5 - Karte - 62/108

Regular run now, 1 miss up to the ice bomber, then lost everything on Infernon...as usual

If I only missed a few bomb shards to pick up Mobichan or something else...as I'm not good with picking up sets, I'll have to focus on bomb control to pick a few extra specials.

[Bananamatic]

Bananamatic - 7,011,950 - 5 - Karte - 62/108

What's the deal with 62 items all the time?
If I didn't cock up Dratrion(and milked him without problems), I'd get 8 mil. Only 2 sets again.

[Ruldra]

That's a really high score for a x3 multiplier. I usually score the same amount but my multipliers are like x7.

[Bananamatic]

I just get 2 sets on st1 then focus on special items and treasure chests.

Anyways, I almost beat Infernon...I had a bomb left on his final phase and rammed the aimed attack. Still improved the score:

Bananamatic - 7,534,900 - 5 - Karte - 66/108

Screwups were there...especially on the ice bomber. I HATE that guy.

[Bananamatic]

Hopefully I'm not spamming too much

Bananamatic - 7,976,670 - 5 - Karte - 63/108

x3, was missing 1 items in 3 sets for a complete.

I really need to practice st4 as I finished st3 with 5m(got all 3 items from Dratrion, but missed Mobichan), then I was unable to pick anything until the double legend shoes from the st5 turtles. Screwed up the bombers as usual and Infernon finished me off.

[Bananamatic]

Bananamatic - 8,301,540 - 5 - Karte - 65/108

Figured out that I can easily finish Axe in stage 2...it was a horrible run though. I blew a double legend at the 2 green turtles in st2, died 2 times to Dribling(within 10 seconds), failed to get anything from Dratrion...

By the way, you have a duplicate second score

[Ruldra]

Which sets are you completing in which stages? You seem to be getting a lot of 100k items so if you can raise the multiplier a bit more you might even break 10mil.

[Bananamatic]

Boots and Food in st1, Axe in st2 before the midboss.
Accessory and/or Staves also seem doable along the way but it's rather random with Karte's charge shot.

[Ruldra]

Accessory is probably the easiest set you could add to your run. By the time you reach stage 3 you should have almost all of them.

Then you can focus on these (all of them drop accessories):


They appear at the beginning and halfway through the stage


The small turret on the lower left


The main cannon

I always complete accessories at this point. Try that out and see if it works for you.

Also, I didn't know you could complete axe that early in the game. I'll try going for that on stage 2.

[Bananamatic]

You can get 5 axes by killing the round stationary turrets in st1 and the rocket goblin right before the boss, lv1 at the very beginning of st2, then the 3 red carriers also contain axes.

[Bananamatic]

Bananamatic - 10,606,960 - 6 - Karte - 71/108

x6 by accident, got the third set right at the beginning of st2.

I have no idea how can someone chain DDP's second loop stages without being nervous...I completely lost control at Infernon's final phase.

I should have probably suicided in st5 to get 4 bombs and pick up some more legends...and just quit the run at Infernon. Reached the red bomber with only 1 miss.

[Ruldra]

Awesome! Welcome to the top 3!

[Voxbox]

x6 by accident

I hate you

[Voxbox]

And just after saying that I "accidentally" get x5 and nearly doubles my old score

Voxbox - 3,958,940 - 5 - Karte - 58/108

[Bananamatic]

x6 by accident

I hate you

Well, I get 3 sets rather consistently and the 2 other ones were thanks to the chestmonsters...I'd like to get 11-12m on an .inp, but the 2 sets were 2 lucky ones...compared to Khoa's 7 or so though it's nothing.

[Bananamatic]

Finally

Bananamatic - 11,324,200 - 6 - Karte - 72/108


I'm not sure how should I feel about this run - I missed Mobichan and st4 was terrible - first died against the lasers before Dribling, then screwed up right before a double legend on st4(and 2 more times, missing a ton of points) - I was prepared to ragequit but went on and entered st5 on my last life...

...and I magically recovered by getting a ton of special items and beating Infernon with only one(and my last) bomb.
I was still under Khoa's score after that though - in the end I got some charges and barely got by.

I tried to get the legend armor from the arena entrance but took a stupid hit right as I charged.
Oh, and got an .inp this time(shmupmame 2.2)


I'm not sure if I should keep going or stop playing it for score at this point as constantly restarting st1 is an ass.

[Blackbird]

You seem like you're on a roll to me. Why not give it a few more goes?

[Bananamatic]

I'm not even sure how much I like it as it's somewhat random despite consistently getting 3 sets - sometimes I get x7, sometimes only x5.

Sometimes st1 doesn't cooperate and I spend 10 minutes restarting just to get a few bad attacks on Dratrion or breaking the core early thanks to her spread. Or the fairy dropping right into Busturtle's fire spam like in this run.
Or Karte's options not cooperating and hitting the head instead of one option going for the tail.

Plus many of the special items being 4 bomb/empty bomb meter. Sucks when you accidentally bump into a single extra bomb icon, potentially screwing you out of millions.

My original goal was to low rank 1cc it which should be definitely possible as I'm capable of no missing up to st6 if I don't screw up...and beating Khoa's score

I also have no idea what exactly makes me nervous - I've entered Infernon with 3 lives before and got out with one because of completely losing control of my hands for some reason. Now I entered with 1 bomb and no lives and I was perfectly cool all the way to the game over.

[Voxbox]

1 hour of restart hell last night, only leaving stage 1 once, with no improvement.

Again today, 1 hour of restart hell. Then I decide to lower my standard for stage 1, et voilà!

Voxbox - 5,113,680 - 5 - Karte - 65/108



Anything to keep in mind for a low-rank 1CC?

[Bananamatic]

From what I tested special items(the 100k ones) increase rank by much more than normal items do, and even more than a complete set does(if that one does at all).

[Voxbox]

Alright, thanks. After practicing against the stage 5 boss for a while I've decided not to pursue the 1CC though.

That boss is just... wow...

[Enhasa]

Enhasa - 4,622,700 - Stage 5 - Karte - 59/108 Items

Score from 2010. Uh, to be honest I was playing more to listen to the music than anything else.