Solo Shmup League #5 - Cho Ren Sha 68k (CLOSED)

[heisenbergman]

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SSL #5: Cho Ren Sha 68k



Settings

• all default settings
• one credit only / no continue
• no old scores
• autofire is allowed

The playing period ends on December 03, 2013, at 0200 GMT (refer to this site for GMT time)

Please post your scores in the following format:

Code: Select all

| SSL | <score> | <link to screenshot of score> | <stage> 

Example:

| SSL | 6,286,864 | some link | 2-4

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General League Information (game choice, score computation, etc) can be found on the Solo Shmup League (SSL) General Discussion Thread

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Scores

R=Rank & Player & Score & SP & PP & FINAL & Stage R=1 & Jaimers & 21,186,922 & 100.00 & 100.00 & 100.00 & ALL R=2 & Erppo & 17,029,503 & 80.38 & 91.67 & 86.02 & ALL R=3 & saucykobold & 14,654,351 & 69.17 & 83.33 & 76.25 & ALL R=4 & ratikal & 13,378,989 & 63.15 & 75.00 & 69.07 & ALL R=5 & Sakurei & 12,485,952 & 58.93 & 66.67 & 62.80 & 2-5 R=6 & CstarFlare & 11,046,531 & 52.14 & 58.33 & 55.24 & 3-0 R=7 & Nifty & 8,854,882 & 41.79 & 50.00 & 45.90 & 2-6 R=8 & PedroMD & 8,101,813 & 38.24 & 41.67 & 39.95 & 2-4 R=9 & Iori Branford & 7,400,327 & 34.93 & 33.33 & 34.13 & 2-0 R=10 & DocHauser & 6,185,502 & 29.19 & 25.00 & 27.10 & 2-3 R=11 & WizardYuuka & 4,744,736 & 22.39 & 16.67 & 19.53 & 2-0 R=12 & ED-057 & 4,476,231 & 21.13 & 8.33 & 14.73 & 2-0
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ON NOMINATING FUTURE GAMES
If anyone is interested in nominating games to include in the poll for the next SSLs:

1. send your choices to me via PM, in order of most to least preferred
2. I'll just pick the nominees from those titles that I receive
3. I'll give priority to those that are placed higher in the rankings and those that haven't had nominated games included in any of the polls yet
4. In the event that I still have trouble filling up slots for the poll, I'll just pick the games to include myself.

Thanks! Just PM me if interested

[trap15]

IF YOU DON'T VOTE FOR THUNDER DRAGON 2 YOU ARE LITERALLY HITLER. FUCKING DO IT.

[WizardYuuka]

| SSL | 4,036,654 | Screenshot | 2-0

First credit score to start off the thread. 1 miss at 1-6 boss and 2-0 took the rest. Recovery is pretty tough.

[heisenbergman]

Recovery is pretty tough.

I agree. One of the hardest in shmups that I've tried.

[Erppo]

Help how do I stop dying all the time

| SSL | 13,513,834 | http://i.imgur.com/03knEwU.png | ALL

[Jaimers]

| SSL | 17,117,944 | Screenshot | ALL

wee second credit ever without practice

[WizardYuuka]

| SSL | 4,744,736 | Screenshot | 2-0

Died once 2-0 boss oops.

[Iori Branford]

| SSL | 4,517,169 | http://s22.postimg.org/40x7efz75/chorensha.png | 2-0

[DocHauser]

| SSL | 4,949,926 | Screenshot | 2-1

It's not so much that recovery is tough, but that dying anywhere from 1-1 to 1-6 will completely mess up your score...

[Erppo]

| SSL | 17,029,503 | http://i.imgur.com/nwcxFso.png | ALL

Meh. Maybe I should practice the later stages some day.

[PedroMD]

| SSL | 5,115,786 | Screenshot | 2-0

So here I am back where I was one year ago, no-missing up to the stage 6 boss, having the run completely destroyed by it and reaching stage 2-0 boss on my last leg.
Starting stage 2-0 with no power-ups just plain sucks.

[Erppo]

Just use bombs to triple-grab the first two item drops and you're back. The last two power items give only very small increase in shot power. You can handle everything just fine with the first two.

[Sakurei]

I'm bad. why am I even submitting this? Not sure if I'll play the game more than this. It's fun, but the penalty for death irks me a lot. Died the first time on the the 2-0 boss. and then 2 more times on it. I managed to recover in 2-1, but I'm not used to revenge bullets, so that was like everything that hit me in the second loop. I crashed on the 2-4 boss pretty badly. lost 4 or 5 lives on it. why does bombing not make me invincible? fucking fuck. Double K.Os are the best

| SSL | 7,707594 | Screenshot | 2-4

maybe I will work on improving it. maybe not.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Bombing does actually make you invulnerable (your ship has a pale white glow) but the protection time is very short, and bombs don't do that much damage alone. You do lots of damage by moving close to enemies and pointblanking during bomb, or even moving on top of them for collision damage.

[DocHauser]

| SSL | 6,185,502 | Screenshot | 2-3

[Iori Branford]

| SSL | 5,213,443 | http://s9.postimg.org/vpisq91a7/2013_11_25_1440.png | 2-0

[ED-057]

| SSL | 4,476,231 | http://www.hyakushiki.net/crsscore.png | 2-0
This game rulez.

[Iori Branford]

| SSL | 7,400,327 | http://s14.postimg.org/53rk3i441/20131126_1433.png | 2-2

[Jaimers]

| SSL | 21,186,922 | Screenshot | ALL

2 Miss

any big tricks? I've scored 18m at most with 1 miss at the TLB

Not really. There is some boss milking but most of the score comes from survival and killing enemies.

[Bananamatic]

any big tricks? I've scored 18m at most with 1 miss at the TLB

[Nifty]

Well that was unexpected

| SSL | 8,854,882 | It crashed at the high score screen :( | 2-6

[Sakurei]

| SSL | 9,418,077 | Screenshot | 3-0

Almost 2-all. Would have scored much higher if I hadn't died like twice in 1-5. no missed 1-6. Press x for 2-0. I recovered in 2-1, but died from time to time and it takes a lot to recover completely. I was out of shield so often, I think I never got the 9m extend. I finished 2-6 with 3 extra lives, no bombs and no shield. Got killed by the first rocket, because somehow it didn't get destroyed. It went right through my shot. Very confusing. I couldn't recover from that death and prettyy much just bombed until I game over'd. I was being retarded with the revenge bullets quite a number of times, it's not even funny. I might go for the 2-all. I am not sure yet. 8 digit score would be nice, too.

[heisenbergman]

Seeing all those scores. Wow. Last I played this game was around two months ago and my high score then was 1.3M... It would be interesting to see if I've gotten any better. Haven't revisted the game for this SSL cycle yet.

I think I'm familiar with most of the basic mechanics such as getting all the power-ups by staying in the middle (which I can't yet do) and letting the Stage 1-1 boss kill themselves on their own for the most part (which I'm able to regularly do) but I still couldn't get past Stage 1-3.

[Bananamatic]

| SSL | 9,418,077 | Screenshot | 3-0
Got killed by the first rocket, because somehow it didn't get destroyed. It went right through my shot. Very confusing.

The stage zero rockets have more HP, just speedkill the enemies at the start

btw you can practice stages through the secret menu(starting with no upgrades so you can practice recoveries too)
by the way, you do realize that you can get all 3 powerups at once, right? the recovering really isn't that bad in this game

[Sakurei]

| SSL | 9,418,077 | Screenshot | 3-0
Got killed by the first rocket, because somehow it didn't get destroyed. It went right through my shot. Very confusing.

The stage zero rockets have more HP, just speedkill the enemies at the start

btw you can practice stages through the secret menu(starting with no upgrades so you can practice recoveries too)
by the way, you do realize that you can get all 3 powerups at once, right? the recovering really isn't that bad in this game

I realize I can get all at once, but I'm bad. I tend to tap too hard when it's about to give me all items and then I move too much collecting the item below me. oftentimes the one I don't need, hurr.

[Bananamatic]

get between and slowly tap down, it's not that hard

also picking up a powerup(any powerup, not just triple) gives you very short invincibility

[ratikal]

| SSL | 11,172,583 | Screenshot | 3-0

Lost my composure at 2-5. Very fun game, even if it is a bit long.

[saucykobold]

| SSL | 14,654,351 | Screenshot | ALL

[ratikal]

| SSL | 13,378,989 | Screenshot | ALL

[Sakurei]

so, uhh, yeah. I am done with this game. I no missed up to 2-5, and then it "crashed" (or rather, stopped responding). I don't care enough to try and redo this shit. I didn't even beat ratikal or saucykobold, but fuck, I don't care enough anymore. Oh right, the game also started bombing on its own right before it stopped doing anything. Fuck this shit, I feel treated unfairly.

| SSL | 12,485,952 | Screenshit | 2-5