STGT'09 Week 4 - Strikers 1945 II

[KennyMan666]

Sandlegs, I hear you. I hate every single Psikyo shump before Dragon Blaze.

That said, stupid game.

KennyMan666 - Team Sweden [Yellow] - 679,900 - 1-6 - Ki84 - MAME

[Twiddle]

You could try, oh, let's say... complaining about at least one single actual characteristic of the game, for a start.

One thing that boils my blood is running sideways into bullets. i never get hit straight on. i am weaving through slow bullets and a fast one comes, i dodge it and run into a slower moving bullet. this is just a personal thing, i'm not trying to say that everyone should hate these games, it's just different strokes for different folks. i'm sure i love games that people hate too. take eight forces for example......just kidding.

Enemies in this game lead you.

You should have figured out how to deal with this thing since Varth.

[DJ Incompetent]

By-golly the rank management works! I <3 science!

DJ Incompetent - Drink 'n Fly - 873,400 - 1-7 - Ki84 - Mame

[Kiken]

Kiken - Drink N Fly - 1,110,900 - 1-8 - Ki84 Hayate - Saturn (Arcade Mode)

Some minor improvement... just gotta clear up some stupid mistakes and work on level 8.

[toby]

toby - Team Sweden [Blue] - 990,800 - 1-8 - Ki84 - MAME

IIRC it depends on which side of the screen you stay on just before it appears.

It seems like it's random, I put a savestate at the beginning of the stage and tried different positions but I couldn't find any pattern to it. Hopefully I'm wrong though

[dex]

Scoreboard updated.

I'll do more frequent updating from Thursday on.

[Ed Oscuro]

Ed Oscuro - Slap Chop My Nuts - 485,400 - 1-5 - Ki84 - MAME

Well how about that, nearly 100K more than my play immediately previous. Lost two lives at Iron Casket (came up 1-4 this time) but managed to hang in a while longer.

First time seeing 1-5

Oddly, I have been using rank control on the game right along but it was still pretty hard for whatever reason, probably not using bomb / charge shot enough.

I have to say, when this game 'clicks' it's a lot more fun.

[Kiken]

Kiken - Drink N Fly - 1,319,900 - 2-1 - Ki84 Hayate - Saturn (Arcade Mode)

I don't remember the loop having quite so many suicide bullets.

[crithit5000]

crithit5000 - letsdestroystgt09 - 585,200 - 1-6 - Hayate - MAME

[Dragoforce]

I can't tell the diffrent variations on the medals apart. Fuck you Psikyo for hating on us colourblind.

[antron]

antron - Team Lower Quartile - 394600 - 1-4 - Ki84 - MAME

I don't think I was signed up for this week, but I got a chance to play. I don't know if it matters.

[MR_Soren]

Mr_Soren - ldstgt09 - 425,000 - 1-4 - Ki84 - MAME

I've never been good at Psikyo games, but they're quite fun when I'm not playing the PS1 versions.

[spadgy]

First of the week - let's hope it's not the last...

spadgy - Team Royale - 413,200 - 1-4 - Ki84 - MAME

Can't wait to get home and play this on a console.

EDIT: Changed Hayate to Ki84

[core]

Is playing the PS2 version on normal ok? There is no arcade difficulty.

[Plasmo]

IIRC it depends on which side of the screen you stay on just before it appears.

It seems like it's random, I put a savestate at the beginning of the stage and tried different positions but I couldn't find any pattern to it. Hopefully I'm wrong though

It indeed is random. Side positioning was important for Strikers 45 and Strikers 99 midbosses, in II it's completely random.

[spadgy]

spadgy - Team Royale - 517,800 - 1-5 - Ki84 - MAME



Ok - slight improvement. Now to look into this rank business...

[Plasmo]

Plasmo - TCACTRM - 1,421,600 - 2-1 - Ki84 - MAME

EDIT:
Since it's a first placer for the time being (it's probably second or third before the next update) I might aswell post a screenshot.

[CHI]

CHI - Team Royale - 419,600 - 1-4 - F5U - MAME

[charlieton]

Bombs away

charlieton - Team Sweden [Blue] - 668,500 - 1-6 - Ki84 - MAME

[Ravid]

Ravid - Team Royale - 977,300 - 1-8 - F5U - MAME

[nZero]

victoly - Drink N Fly - 1,136,400 - 1-8 - Hayate - MAME

Need moar bombs.

[TLB]

so what's this rank control shit, just powering down? does it change instantly, or stage by stage? is this present in all the other psikyo games, but i just never notice?

[DMC]

DMC - Team Sweden [Blue] - 1,500,300 - Ki84 - 2-3 - MAME

This was one of the first shooters I played some more than the others. Although I did not remember all safe spots etc, It was a bit rewarding to see that the enemy attacks I thought was extermely difficult back then, were not as challenging anymore. Either I've become a better player, my memory is failing me, or the original is more difficult than arcade. I hope it's alternative #1.

[Pringer]

Oh booya! Right up to the bottom of the list!

Pringer - Team Loser - 277,800 - 1-3 - F5U - MAME

[CRI]

CRI - Gothloli Luftwaffe - 934,000 - 1-8 - Ki84 - MAME


i know some of you say this game is easy but for me the stage 7 boss and the whole stage 8 are a nightmare.
hope i can still increase a little bit and get my fist psykio 1-all.

[Shatterhand]

Shit, I used to be so better at this.. I am struggling just to reach 1-5 now :/

Shatterhand - Pelé Shooting Team - 543,200 - 1-5 - Ki84 - MAME

[stanski]

stanski - team sweet tacos - 1,328,200 - 2-1 - pancake - mame

So what is this talk about rank lowering? because uh i need it 2nd loop is such a beast.

[Ruldra]

lol at my ship. I used a lot of bombs in places I usually don't, and reached the 7th boss (where my runs end) with a way lower score than usual. But the ship is so strong the boss died before he got too dangerous and broke my previous record in the process. This was supposed to be a joke run.



Ruldra - Garrincha Shooting Team - 951,100 - 1-8 - Mosquito - MAME

[stuminator]

lol at my ship. I used a lot of bombs in places I usually don't, and reached the 7th boss (where my runs end) with a way lower score than usual. But the ship is so strong the boss died before he got too dangerous and broke my previous record in the process. This was supposed to be a joke run.



Ruldra - Garrincha Shooting Team - 951,100 - 1-8 - Mosquito - MAME

Dude, the mosquito rocks! Although I'm sure most people hate it, because its speed is as bad as its power is good.

[luy]

LUY-pelé shooting team - 866.700- hayate-1-7 mame