Akai Katana — AC, AC Limited & X360 (Cave, 2010/2011)

[deexor]

Arcade mode (X360)
deexor - 391,721,500 - ALL - Type 3

Tiny improvement, but got to the 390s on the port too - after a sub-par stage 2, which I've been practicing a little.

[deexor]

Akai Katana Shin
deexor - 1,379,458,042 - ALL (True) - Type 2

Dropped combo on stages 4, 5 and 6 :<

Is there an easy way to keep the combo going at the transition to the stage 4 midboss?

[iconoclast]

Don't destroy the last missile, just tap shot to keep your chain up.

[deexor]

Akai Katana Shin
deexor - 1,482,767,834 - ALL - Type 2

Thanks for the missile tip - I was just overthinking it, it's really simple.

[Y'om]

Hi ! I'm new on Shmups ! Sorry for my bad english... I'm French and i didn't listen my english teacher at school (cool story bro...)

I've some littles scores in Akai katana... because i love this game ! (eh oui je parle tellement bien anglais que j'utilise des mots très compliqués...(ok i'm
stupid).

In brief :

Shin/Slash mode :
øS.Y'om - 1.037.491.095 - ALL - Type 2


Arcade/Origin mode :
øS.Y'om - 351.494.270 - ALL - Type 3


Zetsu/Climax mode :
øS.Y'om - 908.658.959 - ALL - Type 1


I hope to return here with better scores soon! Enjoy !!

[moozooh]

Great first post. Welcome aboard!

[Y'om]

Zetsu/Climax mode :

øS.Y'om - 1.003.634.480 - ALL - Type 1



3 miss in this run... Stage 3, Stage 6 and at the Last Boss...
its very perfectible... to follow !

[iconoclast]

Zetsu/Climax
iconoclast - 1,236,985,072 - ALL - Type 3
Pic: http://i.imgur.com/BRWjx.jpg


Rank in Zetsu is really unforgiving. If you die or take a lot of laser damage before stage 5, you're going to lose 200+ million points due to the reduced bullet density, which is what happened to me here. I should be able to get 1.4-1.5 billion if I can no miss up to the twins.

[moozooh]

Woah, you're about to trample the previous WR there. Do keep this up!

[iconoclast]

Zetsu/Climax
iconoclast - 1,403,566,464 - ALL - Type 3
Pic: http://i.imgur.com/WehkN.jpg

Rank is more of a bitch than I thought. In short, bombing or getting hit by a laser lowers rank immediately, so for best results you'll have to perfect your way to the stage 5 boss. Doing that while scoring well with Type C is really hard, so I still need to use a bomb or two (on the stage 4 boss).

On the bright side, it seems much easier to stay at max rank (or near it) on stage 6. I usually get hit by a laser, but I never notice any difference in the bullet density. I even died in the laser-turret section in this run, but I think I still got another 28-30 million points before the boss, which is what I normally get in training mode. /shrug

[moozooh]

Excellent. How much further do you think you can push it?

[iconoclast]

I'd like to get 1.5 billion, but I'll need a near-perfect run for that since my best training mode scores only add up to 1.56. There isn't much room for error.

I'd also love to know where chrono is getting those extra 500 million points (even if it doesn't apply to Type C)...

[moozooh]

Cool, good luck then!

[deexor]

Here are chrono's scores on each stage, if that is of any use

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         Stage score  Running total
Stage 1   53,335,720     53,335,720
Stage 2  196,252,840    249,588,560
Stage 3  217,032,490    466,621,050
Stage 4  353,473,460    820,094,510
Stage 5  529,736,592  1,349,831,102
Stage 6  574,271,800  1,924,102,902
Stage 7   86,145,010  2,010,247,912

[iconoclast]

Thanks, that's pretty helpful. He's 35, 45, and 55 million ahead of my best scores on stages 2, 3, and 4 respectively, and he's miles ahead on stages 5 and 6 (especially 5).

I've still got a lot to learn. I really should buy the DVD one of these days.

[iconoclast]

Zetsu/Climax
iconoclast - 1,502,864,120 - ALL - Type 3
Pic: http://i.imgur.com/ZJpfg.jpg


Major mistakes in this run:
- Screwed up the stage 3 mid-boss
- Bombed the second form of the stage 4 boss
- Screwed up the final pattern of the stage 4 boss
- Screwed up about thirty percent of stage 5
- And I really screwed up on the final boss. I couldn't decide what to do against him in order to get as many points as possible (ie. suicide or not), so it was sloppy and bad.

Thankfully, I got 449m out of stage 6, which is one of my best scores yet. I got lucky on the boss too, since they opened up with the two highest scoring patterns. That bit of randomness isn't so bad in arcade mode due to the 256 hit cap, but in Zetsu it can cost you 10 million or so.

Anyway, this run was decent, but I'd really like to have that one really clean run where pretty much everything goes according to plan.

[moozooh]

Oh wow, definitely go for it! (And make a video capture for us to see!)

[iconoclast]

Zetsu/Climax
iconoclast - 1,583,536,343 - ALL - Type 3
Pic: http://i.imgur.com/65y86.jpg

I'm not fully satisfied with this run, since I still made several mistakes here and there, but it's starting to approach "good enough" territory. At least I'm #1 on the leaderboards now.

[moozooh]

Amazing. The leaderboards look surprisingly barren though, only five billion+ scores... Are there basically all the same players in the top-5 for each respective ship?

[iconoclast]

I'm the only one that has a top 5 score with every character, but a few other guys are in the top 10 with more than one ship. But yeah, Zetsu is probably the least played mode on the disc. I guess most of the arcade experts didn't spend a lot of time on it. I think it's great, though (and not necessarily superior to the original, but a good alternate version - like a Black Label).

At any rate, I uploaded my latest Zetsu run: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcSE8mc1trE
I'm uploading my 424m arcade run as well, but that won't be up for another 10-12 hours since my connection sucks: http://youtu.be/rVYVP_oxtUc

[adversity1]

Hey Iconoclast, belated congrats on topping the leaderboards!! Major achievement for a western player.

Incidentally, just to give folks an idea about the NESiCA version, top scores are currently around 3.5 billion and top 20 is about 1 billion plus which means that there have been system-level tweaks that are getting them that high. Not sure what quite yet but if I figure it out I'll let you know.

[BareKnuckleRoo]

Akai Katana Novice
BKR - 164,425,318 - ALL - Type 2

Akai Katana Shin Novice
BKR - 71,575,806- ALL - Type 2

They're terrible scores I'm sure but it's something for someone to beat. xD

[Zaarock]

Shin
Zaarock - 877,733,836 - ALL - Type 1

first ALL of the game, been playing this a bit every weekend for a couple weeks. Scoring was bad overall, especially on st5 and 6, just one of the few runs where I dont get dumb deaths. Going to improve on this definitely, and this game has way too few submissions here (11 for arcade mode? o_o)

Very glad I bought this, was thinking it might be worth getting because of iconoclast and deexors activity etc. One of my favorite cave shmups already.

[moozooh]

Welcome guys, board updated.

[Y'om]

Finally ! 400m ! wouhou !! :°

Arcade/Origin mode :
øS.Y'om - 401.713.778 - ALL - Type 3



I think i can go to 415 420M.... more is too difficult for me (sorry again for my bad english...)

[deexor]

Congratulations on breaking 400 I'll have to resume practicing in the near future, I still want to go past 400 million too.

[Aquas]

Arcade/Origin
Aquas - 146,022,866 - ALL - Type 1

This is only the beginning!

[yushin]

Here is mine!
Arcade/Origin
YuShin - 93,051,210 - stage 5 - Type 3

[endoKarb]

Been playing 赤い刀 a bit this week on the 360. It's not drawing me in as much as Deathsmiles and DFK, but it's still pretty fun.
Here's the best score I could manage:

Arcade/Origin mode

endoKarb - 100.658.306 - stage 4 BOSS - Type 2

EDIT: broke 100 millions

[deexor]

Akai Katana Novice
deexor - 309,528,110 - ALL - Type 3

Akai Katana Shin Novice
deexor - 140,822,871 - ALL - Type 2

Just because