My total multiplier is always around 3300 before the boss. It's funny, because I can get a
slightly higher score if I take different paths of destruction, BUT I cannot for the life of me seem to surpass it by an admirable chunk of chips.
Something I've noticed: Sometimes, killing off as many enemies as possible from when the chain timer starts and ends gets me more points than if I divided that chain into two (let it drop, start lock on again, etc.), even though in both cases I would be killing basically the same amount of enemies. I don't know about the Insanity dude, but Mr. Monkey Man and SPS appear to swear by this strategy.
And am I crazy or does lock shooting enemies while diagonally backing towards the bottom of the screen give you a higher multiplier than going from right to left or left to right in a straight line? You can probably tell that I am exhausting the possible ways the properties of the ship can be used to score high. Maybe I don't have it pegged down to a T, but I KNOW there has to be SOMETHING there...like, some kind of trick.
How can something so simple in theory (hold C+A) have sooo much depth that separates a player like myself and SPS? It boggles my mind. I know the general answer is "well, he practices more." Yes, but
how? What are his methods? Does he hold both at the same time? Does he hold C for a certain amount of time before pressing A? Is distance to the enemy before initiation a factor? Your middle laser thing seems to have some kind of influence, but I can't find a consistent strategy that works.
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because unlike SPS, SYO is still mostly a human.
That thing (SPS) is definitely not human. I like to picture it as a pillow sized, omnipotent '5' cube that controls the game with the energy rays of its warm green glow.
And I am using Tiger Schwert.
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he probably did several hundreds of runs before come up with what you are watching right now, and he is better at airlocking than you will ever be.
True and true. I just want to be good enough to get to DOOM and destroy it.

Which at this stage I'm at right now will certainly be a forced grind to say the least.
However, I can get to stage 4 without losing a life or using a bomb. It's a start, but I demand a lot more out of myself.