Kakusei Seyo! ESPGaluda II

Shalashaska · Post by **Shalashaska** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 12:31 am

Check out my score (and pic) a few posts up.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Dec 04, 2007 4:36 am

Sorry, didn't see that.
Just added.

charlie chong · Post by **charlie chong** » Mon Dec 10, 2007 9:30 am

didn't think i was gonna make my weekly instalment as i was recording and mixing down music stuff most of the week and then got the flu on friday.. still managed to scrape through a better score when i was feeling more alive on sunday evening

charlie chong-129,112,641-ageha-stage 5

so close to 130 mill and beating mulletgeezers score

Jamz · Post by **Jamz** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 1:19 am

JMZ - 151,472,738 - 5 - Ageha

http://static.pici.se/pictures/PlPmqJhqA.jpg

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Jan 08, 2008 4:24 am

Broke the tables up. Maybe that will encourage people to play w/ the other characters. If I bust this out again, it will likely be w/ Asagi.

Jamz · Post by **Jamz** » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:50 am

small but the overall best run for me! got very high scores on level 1,2, and 3 but then I lost it all, if I've had played as good as I did in my last highscore on level 4 and 5 then this would have been a 200+ million run!

JMZ - 152,854,581 - 4 - Ageha

Jamz · Post by **Jamz** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 1:31 am

http://static.pici.se/pictures/vFxWtbEsI.jpg

JMZ - 201,707,530 - Stage 5 - Ageha

DirtyMonk · Post by **DirtyMonk** » Thu Jan 17, 2008 2:03 am

DirtyMonk - 118,816,985 - Stage 4 - Ageha

felixtheninjacat · Post by **felixtheninjacat** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:01 pm

stage 5- 119,921,316 or 116 - ageha

Twiddle · Post by **Twiddle** » Sat Jan 26, 2008 8:29 pm

an impostor felix

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 5:24 pm

i would like to give this another go just for the 1CC but damn i dont know if i cant be bothered to learn all that again , i was playing this for months

great game but so frustrating at times

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Feb 05, 2008 5:55 am

I'll probably whip this out again for a couple of weeks and see if I can't get an Asagi clear of 400 mil or so. She's so freakishly weird to play with, it should hold my interest for a while.

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Mon Feb 11, 2008 9:34 am

I don't have a score to post yet, but holy crap do I suck at the first stage of this game.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:35 am

zakk wrote:I don't have a score to post yet, but holy crap do I suck at the first stage of this game.

It takes a while to get the hang of it. The game is VERY milkable... all stages, and generally to stretch it far, you need some risky play. Looking forward to posting your score though.

Gwyrgyn Blood · Post by **Gwyrgyn Blood** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 12:55 am

Yeah there's just a massive range of points in each stage, even the first which can go all the way up to what... 60+ million? My best is only in the 35m range, although I don't use the tutorial bug. Getting the 1cc is also really important for points due to that massive end game bonus.

felixtheninjacat · Post by **felixtheninjacat** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:32 am

Twiddle wrote:an impostor felix

wtth?? :[ think im lieing *cry*

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 2:56 am

Gwyrgyn Blood wrote:Yeah there's just a massive range of points in each stage, even the first which can go all the way up to what... 60+ million? My best is only in the 35m range, although I don't use the tutorial bug. Getting the 1cc is also really important for points due to that massive end game bonus.

I have no patience for the tutorial bug right now, I just can't sit waiting that long. I use the 'drain all your gems at stage start' method right now. When I do that I keep wanting to delay shooting anything until the first power level goes by, which is kinda risky with Ageha...

My highest overall score is around 60M so far.

zakk · Post by **zakk** » Tue Feb 12, 2008 8:09 am

Ok, finally a score to get on the chart.

Hilariously, after posting about stage 1, I completely changed how I did it and came out much much better.

Zakk - 83,831,697 - Stage 3 - Ageha

I screwed up some prime scoring bits of stage 3 (the 4 big ships in the first half, and I boned up the two big ships at the end) so I think I can get 100M at the same point. Ended stage 1 with 33M

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 5:41 pm

been playing this about a week now , getting into it aswell , got to the last boss on 1 credit today would love to 1cc this

i know its not better than my last score but im getting there , heres my latest score

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 6:07 pm

if i could get the clear maybe i could get another 80mil ? is that right ? Thanks

Gwyrgyn Blood · Post by **Gwyrgyn Blood** » Sat Mar 08, 2008 8:53 pm

Clear bonus starts around 80m but I've seen someone clear the game with 1 life left and get 100m+.

Trevor spencer · Post by **Trevor spencer** » Sun Mar 09, 2008 3:43 pm

Gwyrgyn Blood wrote:Clear bonus starts around 80m but I've seen someone clear the game with 1 life left and get 100m+.

ok thanks

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:13 pm

Ageha

RGC 109,421,751 Stage 5

Picked up this sweet board recently (thanks again, charliechong). I hope to improve upon this score before long, but stringing together good individual stage runs is one tough bitch.

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 6:00 pm

Up one:

Ageha

RGC 113,889,765 Stage 5

Don't worry, I won't post every new score.

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:06 pm

OK, I lied. Up a few more:

Ageha

RGC 125,888,890 Stage 5

Problem areas:

-Cannot seem to generate sufficient gems to keep Zesshikai going long enough to get the second extend on ST1 (26mil is my best)
-Serious problems converting both ST2 boss' final two patterns into x500s. I'm guessing I need to go in with a minimum x300 gems.
-Frequently take a hit whilst destroying 6 turrets on ST3 midboss (in order to obtain the extra friggin life

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Gwyrgyn Blood · Post by **Gwyrgyn Blood** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 4:46 pm

Stage 1 is pretty hard to score on, there are many different ways to do it but they are all pretty tricky. The basic trick if you are not getting enough gems is to just make sure you are point blanking EVERYTHING. You can do that without too much trouble on stage 1.

And for stage 2 boss, yeah you just need a lot of gems to do it. You can point blank the first form pretty easy when it's starting to cycle its patterns, and that will get you a bunch extra. You can point blank the two huge ships right at the end of the level by just waiting until their spam stops. If you have enough gems (like 350 some I think), you can actually just stay in Zeshikai for the whole third pattern and kill it just as the first spam wave is going full force. The real hard part of stage 2 is the stage itself, you have to utilize a lot of tricks to get any sort of points in it.

Not much to stage about the Stage 3 midboss, I usually Kakusei the left three turrets because I'm out of gold by that point, and then just pick off the right ones easily. You can force the boss to spawn a lot of extra bullets by getting right next to the center part. Getting the 1-up is tricky though, lots of easy ways to mess up on the second half of stage 3.

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 6:51 pm

Cheers for the tips, Gwyrgyn Blood.

I'll try the ST2 boss technique you mention. My scoring for that stage is currently very poor - really I'm still in survival territory. My routine is to use barrier on Madara (mid ST2), and also to save some for the dense diagonal section towards the end of the stage, just in case! I don't know why, but that area frequently overwhelms me, and I hardly ever risk using Zesshikai there (I guess as GP was saying, you must play risky if you want anything like a decent score).

Gwyrgyn Blood wrote: And for stage 2 boss [...] if you have enough gems (like 350 some I think), you can actually just stay in Zeshikai for the whole third pattern and kill it just as the first spam wave is going full force.

My problem here is when I stop holding A whilst in Zesshikai mode, to allow as many projectiles onto the screen as possible before killing the boss, I nearly always end up twitching into a bullet because of my speed increase. When I'm not doing that I'm running out of gems and facing the red wall of certain autobarrier, losing all potential x500s. More practice required...

Edit: Just noticed you're using Tateha. There's probably some significant strategic differences compared to Ageha.

Gwyrgyn Blood · Post by **Gwyrgyn Blood** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 7:45 pm

RGC wrote:My routine is to use barrier on Madara (mid ST2), and also to save some for the dense diagonal section towards the end of the stage, just in case! I don't know why, but that area frequently overwhelms me, and I hardly ever risk using Zesshikai there (I guess as GP was saying, you must play risky if you want anything like a decent score).

Bombing Madara is a very good idea. Charge your barrier up while he's invincible coming on screen (while the game is moving slowly) and try to time it so you just barely leave him alive, so you can point blank and kill him with shot. The reason for this is that there are the two turret fountains which you only get if you kill the midboss really fast. The second pattern isn't too bad, but I find it's much easier to dodge if you are higher up on the screen.

Likewise there's the trick where you get extra popcorn enemies if you destroy the first boat of the level as it is leaving the screen. Stage 2 is my worst stage other than Stage 5 by far, as there's just not really any simple/free big chains like there are in many of the other stages.

My problem here is when I stop holding A whilst in Zesshikai mode, to allow as many projectiles onto the screen as possible before killing the boss, I nearly always end up twitching into a bullet because of my speed increase. When I'm not doing that I'm running out of gems and facing the red wall of certain autobarrier, losing all potential x500s. More practice required...

Edit: Just noticed you're using Tateha. There's probably some significant strategic differences compared to Ageha.

What you can do is shoot less before you activate Zesshikai (like before the bullets start spewing out) so you can use your laser longer in Zeshikai. Requires a little more planning ahead but it can be helpful. I have a lot of trouble getting hit in that pattern too, but that's because Tateha's laser sucks when in Kakusei.

GaijinPunch · Post by **GaijinPunch** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:00 pm

I've not played this in a while, but for stage 2, I try to have about 250 gems. I stock up gold on the first pattern, and score on the 2nd two. The third pattern I do it with about 30-40 gems. The trick is (with Ageha) to hold off firing for a few seconds, then start w/ your laser touching one side, then slowly inch over. At the last second. Go into zesshikai, wait for some bullets to come out, then finish him.

RGC · Post by **RGC** » Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:16 am

GaijinPunch wrote:I've not played this in a while, but for stage 2, I try to have about 250 gems. I stock up gold on the first pattern, and score on the 2nd two. The third pattern I do it with about 30-40 gems. The trick is (with Ageha) to hold off firing for a few seconds, then start w/ your laser touching one side, then slowly inch over. At the last second. Go into zesshikai, wait for some bullets to come out, then finish him.

That's the basic strategy I've been aiming for, but even with 60 odd gems I still manage to mistime with the third pattern. I either go into Zesshikai too early and red-out, or I twitch into something when I let go of A. I'll try to employ some of the strats recommended above and report back (600mil ALL by the weekend too ambitious?). Cheers again lads.

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