Homura (new thread)

Carmen · Post by **Carmen** » Wed Jun 06, 2007 11:11 pm

I imagine that must've been intense!

*Imitates Homura scream* "Arrrgh!"

Carmen - 992,105,000 - Stage 4 - EEH - 57

antares · Post by **antares** » Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:23 am

Improved my score a little bit in the last couple of days:

antares - 1,127,850,000 - Stage 4 - HHH - 74

Still can't defeat the 4th boss...

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:22 pm

Gorecki - 481,495,000 - Stage 4 - EEE - 43

My highest score yet, but this was actually a very poor run for me. Didn't get the first extend until well into the first boss. Survived past the level 4 midboss (nasty!) and got caught in a huge downpour of evil looking spam.

I'm only playing about 1 credit of this per month, so I reckon with a little more dedication I could easily double my score.

Yamazaki! · Post by **Yamazaki!** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 6:50 pm

erm... have you missed a digit?

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Fri Jun 08, 2007 8:01 pm

Nope

That's me, languishing down near the bottom (I blame my stage 3... no idea what I'm doing on that one).

Carmen · Post by **Carmen** » Sat Jun 09, 2007 12:01 am

Don't worry Gorecki, once you get the hang of it the Stage 4 miniboss is cake... his toughest attack might very well be the first (they're all pretty simple) I remember it was only a week or so ago that I thought he was difficult!!

Edit: Bah, I meant stage 3. Stage 4 is easy too... except for that blue bullet attack...

Yamazaki! · Post by **Yamazaki!** » Wed Jun 20, 2007 6:36 pm

IGH - 1,132,278,000 - Stage 4 - EHH - 76

Getting there... I need to get to stage 4 boss without stupid mistakes earlier on... this run had 2 lives lost on stage 3 and one on stage 2

Carmen · Post by **Carmen** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 1:53 am

Yamazaki, you always seem to improve your score the same day that I'm ready to beat you! Man, that's not cool

1,069,085,000 - Stage 4 - EEH - 62

Yamazaki! · Post by **Yamazaki!** » Thu Jun 21, 2007 6:21 am

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Fri Jun 22, 2007 1:41 pm

Table updated.

Carmen · Post by **Carmen** » Mon Jun 25, 2007 10:58 pm

Well Yamazaki, I'm beating you to the punch this time! I'm really proud of this one...

1,328,261,000 - Stage 4 - EHH - 71

With two very stupid deaths, too!

Yamazaki! · Post by **Yamazaki!** » Tue Jun 26, 2007 7:19 pm

Nice one! Don't think I'm going to improve my score in the near future. For some reason every time I get a no miss run to stage four I throw it away with stupid, stupid deaths. Grrrrr..........

Carmen · Post by **Carmen** » Wed Jun 27, 2007 10:04 pm

Actually the same thing happens to me every no miss run I do - my high scores tend to be runs where I died in stage 2 or 3 (by running into the lone bullet on screen

)! I guess my nerves get to me or something in a no miss run on 4st... because if I could just keep my lives, I could maaaaybe beat the boss. Or at least improve my score... 1.35bn is definetly within reach.

Bah, don't tell me that stuff about not being able to improve your score for a while. Knowing you you'll get a 1.5bn soon, haha.

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 12:24 pm

Beware!

I got a new high score last night, despite stupidly dying twice in level 2. Very avoidable deaths, so I'm hoping tonight I can get a good no miss run up to level 4 and post an even better score. Level 3 is a problem only in score; I have trouble getting a high multiplier post mid-boss on the easy route. I might have to check out the hard route.

Level 4 is insane though. So many scoring oppurtunities. I love how a huge spread of bullets can either seem like mana from heaven or hellish death, depending on if you have the slash attack available or not.

This game is fast becoming one of my favourites.

Carmen · Post by **Carmen** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 4:29 pm

Glad you're getting really into it!!

I had the same problem as you when I used the Easy path of stage 3. I don't know about you but I recall only being able to use the seven barrier slash once to put my combo up to x30 after the mid-boss... really low scoring.

Gorecki · Post by **Gorecki** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 5:41 pm

I wasn't going to post this as I know I can do better, but since it shoots me into the top 15 I might as well.

Gorecki - 523,226,000 - Stage 4 - EEE - 52

Yamazaki! · Post by **Yamazaki!** » Thu Jun 28, 2007 6:31 pm

Try hard on stage 2 as well Gorecki, loads more points available!

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Fri Jun 29, 2007 1:15 pm

Tearfully updated table as my score has dropped 2 places.

Carmen · Post by **Carmen** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 6:15 pm

Big improvement, and probably my biggest for a while unless I can experiment and find more rewarding strategies (or beat the 4st. boss... well I can dream right?

1,380,911,000 - Stage 4 - EHH - 74

Yamazaki! · Post by **Yamazaki!** » Sun Jul 01, 2007 8:54 pm

IGH - 1,174,400,000 - Stage 4 - EHH - 68

Rather messed up stage 4 which gives me some hope for a decent increase soon. Don't get comfortable Carmen!

Carmen · Post by **Carmen** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 2:02 am

Heh, I'll keep on my toes.

So Yamazaki, what do you think of the 4st. boss? Real piece of work, isn't he? Bomb spamming allowed me to ALMOST beat his human form!

Yamazaki! · Post by **Yamazaki!** » Wed Jul 04, 2007 5:27 am

I've beaten the first form! I suspect that with a practice mode, he'd be quite easy

I need to save bombs on stage 4 - but this means more seven barrier attacks, lower multiplier and lower score.

BTW, has anyone ever managed a 100% at the end of stage bonus? I'm sure I'm getting everything on stage one, but it never goes over 95%?!?

Carmen · Post by **Carmen** » Fri Jul 06, 2007 10:57 am

Hmm... to be honest, I've never tried to get 100%. I should give it a shot today. Maybe it has to do with the path chosen? I usually average 88-91% in my normal 1st. runs.

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 2:13 am

I finally decided to knuckle down and try to score good at something and in order to do that I needed to play a game that I had a console version of because I have a little more intrinsic motivation that way for some reason.

Is there a way to get your max combo count other then remembering? The table doesn't seem to record it.

What are your average scores after stage 1? At the end of stage screen I normally have in the ballpark of 285mil.

Pirate1019 - 396,627,000 - Stage 3- EEE - 53

Yamazaki! · Post by **Yamazaki!** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:01 am

Nope, memory only for max combo I'm afraid!

My Stage 1 score is usually around 340 million.

Pirate1019 · Post by **Pirate1019** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 5:38 am

Great! I'm not quite as far behind in the first stage scoring as I thought. I normally have ~50 combo at the junction between paths and just sort of ride that until almost the boss where the popcorn enemies come down in that sorta triangle formation and I use the slash attack on them to refill the counter for the boss. I suppose where I'm lagging behind is in the bullet reflecting.

Carmen · Post by **Carmen** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 1:39 pm

My 1st. is a paisly 310-320m

I recommend writing the combo score as soon as you make a new best.... its only on the enter name screen unfortunetely.

by the way Acidking...you missed Gorecki's new score!

gavin19 · Post by **gavin19** » Sat Jul 07, 2007 10:45 pm

g19 - 599,108,000 - 4 - EEE - 60

*PIC*

Yamazaki! · Post by **Yamazaki!** » Sun Jul 08, 2007 8:57 pm

IGH - 1,266,019,000 - Stage 4 - EHH - 72

New Stage 4 strategy reaps instant reward!

Acid King · Post by **Acid King** » Mon Jul 09, 2007 12:16 pm

Everyone's scores are updated.

BTW, has anyone ever managed a 100% at the end of stage bonus? I'm sure I'm getting everything on stage one, but it never goes over 95%?!?

You may be missing some small enemies or, like Carmen said, it may be dependent on path. Try tapping slash as you're comboing enemies, if you don't do this already. It moves you quickly through the combo and doesn't affect your multiplier. You'll come out of it faster so you'll be able to charge the slash quicker and less enemies will escape when you're comboing. I posted it in the strategy thread but I don't think anyone bothers to look at that.