Shikigami no Shiro 3 (PC and Arcade)

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 4:48 am

4,241,755,680 - MrMonkeyMan - Stage 4-2 - Kuga2 - 31,276 - Proof

I'd say my first attempt at ignoring my safety and going all out x8 tension thingers seems to have worked out pretty well.

I just needed one more bomb to get to stage 5 though.

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:27 pm

4,742,743,680 - MrMonkeyMan - Stage 5-1 - Kuga2 - 34,911 - Proof

Sorry, Icarus.

Post by **Icarus** » Tue Oct 10, 2006 7:28 pm

MrMonkeyMan wrote:Sorry, Icarus.

^_-

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 3:20 am

Feels nice to pull 1.1bil from stage3-1.

3,342,720,070 - Icarus - Stage 3-2 - Kuga1 - 27,522

Died in the same place as the previous submission. Think I'll just blaze through 3-2 next time, ignoring scoring, and try to get to the more lucrative later stages.

kotaro · Post by **kotaro** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 12:30 pm

Sorry guys if I go out of topic once again but I 'm not be able to use my stick and a usb pad with Shikigami3 on pc..I'v downloaded the Dx pack as above and follow all your suggestions but It does not work..

The game seem to not recognized the stick imput.....I choose control1 and press enter as the instruction of the games said but when i push the stick/pad button nothing happens!!

Is the problem related to usb pad or to setting in my Pc(I use a Mobile Sony Vaio).
If you have any another suggestions please P.m me...I'm desperate....

Thanks

toby · Post by **toby** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 5:38 pm

3,703,223,400 - toby - Stage 4-2 - Kuga2 - 25163

Icarus wrote:Feels nice to pull 1.1bil from stage3-1.

Not too shabby, I get about half that ...
How many HT-MAX are you using on the stage?

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 6:01 pm

toby wrote: Not too shabby, I get about half that ...
How many HT-MAX are you using on the stage?

All of them. ^_-

I always start the stage with 5 bombs, and leave with the one I get with the Extend. I normally get two Extends from score in-stage, and suicide twice, so thats about 9 HT-MAX used throughout stage3-1.

Dandy J · Post by **Dandy J** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 8:52 pm

2,960,952,470 - Dandy J - Stage 4-2 - Kuga2 - 15916

God, fighting the 4-1 boss with Kuga is really, really annoying. I bet the 4-2 boss is even more fun...

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Wed Oct 11, 2006 10:44 pm

5,284,550,620- MrMonkeyMan - Stage 5-1 - Kuga2 - 39,707 - Proof

Strange how the very first attack the 5-1 boss throws at you is by far the hardest one to dodge in that whole fight.

For the 4-1 boss I suggest you use your Shiki attack as little as possible and go more for the x8 tension shot (I mean hug those bullets, don't waste your ht-max things). First form I start on the bottom left corner and slowly creep my way to the bottom right corner and by the time I reach the right side I throw on the Shiki attack to take him out.

Next Form, I stay on the left side using the Shiki attack, about mid screen and crawl down with the bullets he fires right above me, and then do some tight dodging at the bottom while using the tension shot, and I don't give a damn if I get the x8 kill or not.

2nd last form I sit right in front of the top left box and use the tension shot on it until something explodes over there, then I run off to the right side and blow something up over there. Then I sit in the middle until it's almost dead and go for the x8 Shiki kill.

For the final form I sit just to the right of the bottom most box for immediate tension shot, move down when it turns away and dodge bullets at the bottom of the screen.

You can try to milk all those little sections, but with Kuga I have a feeling it could be a little tough.

As for 3-1, I'm not sure 9 ht-max things on there is really needed. I had around 800 million on this run and I used maybe 4.

msm · Post by **msm** » Sat Oct 14, 2006 6:10 pm

1,306,078,320 - msm - Stage 3-2 - Kuga2 - ????

think kim2 (2 swards?) is more fun but i can only score around half as much

kuga2 is the one where the girl attacks everything for you right?

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 2:55 am

5,654,557,630 - MrMonkeyMan - Stage 5-1 - Kuga2 - 43,408 - Proof

Post by **Icarus** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:00 am

How close are you to the ALL, MMM?
(I'm too busy discussing stuff with the team this week to play. -_-;; )

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:02 am

If I could ever make it past that first attack of the 5-1 boss, getting to 5-2 isn't so hard, but some of those patterns in 5-2 are way to tight for me to dodge through without a couple bombs, so maybe kind of close? I need to get to 5-2 with some bombs and lives in stock if I want to clear this one.

Post by **Icarus** » Sun Oct 15, 2006 3:22 am

Good luck! At the moment, you'll probably be the first to get the ALL here, as I'm concentrating on other things. 5-1 and 5-2 don't look too taxing in Practice Mode if you switch between Shot and Shikigami at the right times to clear out problem areas, but it probably just means you have to experiment to find the correct techniques and safespots to negotiate each pattern.

kotaro · Post by **kotaro** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 7:09 pm

@MMM: against the 2° stage boss, during his last attack there is a leeching as during the last attack of Shiki's2 Anelegos!??! Do you leech the flower bullets!?

I trued to do it these days but it is quite difficult but if you do it you can get a lot of point and x8 action...if you use this tattic do you use the tension bar or not?!!?

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 9:55 pm

I haven't tried milking the 1-2 boss as of yet. It seems Kuga kind of sucks at it, but I might give it a shot to see if I can get the few extra points I need to have another extra life before the 2-1 boss.

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Oct 16, 2006 10:08 pm

I've tried milking Yukari v2's last form as both Kuga1 and Kuga2 and the flower pods move far too quickly for his Shikigami to tag. The pattern itself is better suited to characters with stronger Shikigami attacks like Batou, Fumiko and Reika.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Wed Oct 18, 2006 2:31 am

945209980- gameoverDude - Stage 2-2 - Reika1 - 4516

I just got my SNS3 today after ordering it from Play-Asia. Good stuff.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Sat Oct 21, 2006 1:49 am

1086220640- gameoverDude - Stage 2-2 - Reika1 - 6484

To get the coins' value up faster I threw down 3 bomb stocks for HT-Max early on, considering you get another bomb with each extend. This paid off, since I had 200,000,000 before the 1-1 boss came up.

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 3:47 am

1965666070- gameoverDude - Stage 3-1 - Reika1 - 13762

Post by **Icarus** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 4:07 am

Scores updated. Good progression there gameoverDude, keep it up. ^_^

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Sun Oct 22, 2006 8:34 pm

2127380580- gameoverDude - Stage 3-1 - Reika1 - 14955

Right in NRS' rear view mirror.

The invisible walls in 3-1 don't trouble me any more. This one ended right on the boss. I was THIS CLOSE to that damn 2200M extend.

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 3:23 am

I just found out my game is running quite a bit faster than the arcade version. I was checking out this Bato-2 video I have to see if I could figure out how the hell the player can keep the shiki attack going forever on the 1-2 boss (whatever, he's magic I guess), and I thought the bullets looked kind of slow, so I compared the game timer to real time and they matched in the video.

Sooo, I boot the game up, head to the 1-1 boss and time one minute of game time and it only took 47 seconds of real time o_O

Anyone else want to check and see if their game is running just a little too fast as well? That's a pretty big difference there, I would say.

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 7:13 pm

I'm assuming that the Type-X version is running at a speed slightly slower than 60Hz for the PC version to be significantly faster. Anyone know what Type-X generally runs at?

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 10:01 pm

2207540810- gameoverDude - Stage 3-1 - Reika1 - 16764

Post by **Icarus** » Mon Oct 23, 2006 11:10 pm

Christ, that's some nasty attack pattern. o_O

4,746,612,160 - Icarus - Stage 4-2 - Kuga1 - 39,228

Owned by the 4-2 boss's second-to-last attack bar.
That's going to take some practicing. -_-;;
Replay verified.

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:14 am

5,775,274,060 - MrMonkeyMan - Stage 5-1 - Kuga2 - 47,253 - Proof

You'll have to ignore the top score in the picture. I was playing with the extends on easy to see what kind of score I could get with constant HT-MAX. It doesn't seem to be much higher than I'm going to get if I can ever clear the thing. There must be a lot of boss milking in this game.

Also, what kind of stage 1 scores are you getting? So far, after 1-1 I've managed 750 million, and after the whole stage I've come out with 1.45 billion.

Post by **Icarus** » Wed Oct 25, 2006 1:29 am

Updated. Nice score, MMM.

MrMonkeyMan wrote:Also, what kind of stage 1 scores are you getting? So far, after 1-1 I've managed 750 million, and after the whole stage I've come out with 1.45 billion.

Heh, wut? You're scoring much higher than me in most if not all areas I'd say. I finish 1-1 with about 580mil, 1-2 with about 1.2bil. I pull about 1bil total from stage2, and 1.4 to 1.5bil total from stage3. Not sure how much I would have come out of stage4 with, but I had added about 1.2bil between the start of 4-1 and 4-2 boss's penultimate bar.

I'm primarily going for speed on bosses.

I can't use Kuga2 effectively enough to score high, and I haven't a clue how to use Batou's spear endlessly like I've seen in some replays. Kim is a pain in the backside as usual (both types). So I'm sticking with Kuga1 for the time being. ^_^;;

gameoverDude · Post by **gameoverDude** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 12:48 am

On the 1-1 boss, I'm thinking it may be good to knock off the parts on the wings then start a tension bar to take out the first two lifebar sections- since normally the full-screen clear when a section of the boss' lifebar is depleted means you can't get x8 for the coins the boss itself spits out.

I'll usually suicide once right when the game starts to get the extra bomb, then double suicide right at the start of the 1-1 boss battle.

My best stage 1 so far is 1.2bil- I've been milking bosses. The 3-1 demon boss is a pain when it shoots the lasers.

MrMonkeyMan · Post by **MrMonkeyMan** » Thu Oct 26, 2006 1:35 am

6,325,143,210 - MrMonkeyMan - Stage ALL - Kuga2 - 46,533 - Proof

Wow, way to fluke out on this one. Surviving that final pattern is hell. In my excitement I forgot to dodge that instant death black spike attack that doesn't even look like an attack, but thank god I had one spare life.

Geez, that's only the 3rd time I've gotten past the first attack of the 5-1 boss.

I think I'll wait and see what's on the Appreciate DVD before I touch this one again.