BulletMagnet wrote:BareknuckleRoo wrote:Use the shotlaser to finish off boss phases to cash in all the bullets into glowing gems, but note that killing a boss with the shotlaser will not grant you glowing medals for some reason, only the basic large ones (killing midbosses with shotlaser will cash in their bullets for glowing medals as normal).
Is there a value difference between "glowing" stars and "not-glowing" ones? I thought that the glow just meant you'd activated your laser and were sucking them in...what'd I miss?
As far as I can tell, 360 Mode has 3 types of medals:
* Non-valuable medals. You get these from killing basic enemies when not currently in hyper and when you use the shot or the basic laser. The big ones recover your hyper slightly more than the small ones. You also seem to get these when you kill a stage boss's last form when not in hyper, even if you use the Shot+Laser.
* Glowing/high value medals. You get these from using the special meter draining Shot+Laser to kill enemies, with the number of medals being dependent on the type of enemy you kill (you gotta learn which are more useful for hyper recovery). They recover a
ton of hyper for each collected, and swarms of popcorn can easily give you multiple hypers at a time. You can pop a swarm of popcorn, then stop shooting and they'll still count at glowing medals when you collect them, you don't need to keep using Shot+Laser. You also get these when you kill midbosses or midboss/boss phases. They always appear as giant medals. For enemies with a lot of health like the large enemies that appear at the end of stage 3, it's best to soften them up with the standard laser and then just finish them with the Shot+Laser (you get the same amount of hyper recovery with less of your meter used up).
* Green medals. Only when hypering, comes in small and big sizes, using the laser when you've hypered is best as each laser hit causes medals to 'shed' off enemies.
I always thought medals when using Shot+Laser glowed more (like a deeper shade of purple?) than standard large medals do... I could be wrong about this though and they may look the same as normal large medals, but I'm quite confident the ones you get when using the Shot+Laser are more valuable than the standard/low value large medals you get from kills using normal shot or laser (look at how many standard large medals you get when you kill a boss and not even earn one hyper).
