Last Hope: Pink Bullets

[Plasmo]

Time to think pink!


Name - Score - Stage reached

Play on Defaults etc.



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1. THE ALLETT - 187,734,925 - 3-ALL
2. Plasmo - 166,586,909 - 3-ALL
3. RHE - 16,636,438 - 1-6

[RHE]

RHE - 0016636438 1-6

[Plasmo]

Whoa, that's a score submission there!

[ave]

I'll participate on this (but don't expect too much eh) once I recovered my Dreamcast from its reboot problem Some matches will be enough I hope. It's my LAST HOPE!!1

[Plasmo]

Plasmo - 23,619,409 - 1-5

Slowly learning how to deal with those bosses, that's where the real scores comes from.
My best stage 1 score is 5,3mill so far.

[Plasmo]

Plasmo - 70,654,974 - 2-5

Improved it a bit. I don't like the idea of having multiple loops for Pink Bullets. It was already bad in Last Hope, but even worse in PB, 'cause you continuosly want to score instead of just plain survival.

[ave]

LOL, I bet nobody dares to post anymore. Plasmo discourages everyone

I don't get the score system though. Do you have to collect bullets AND those small eye-looking "containers" that are dropped by some enemies? The latter seem to be the only real source of points, but there are far too few to build up a constant chain throughout the stage.
What do you do for getting 5,3m in the 1st stage? O_o My maximum is about 380k and I don't even know how I did it.

[Plasmo]

The first multiplier goes +1 when you absorb a bullet with your pod and doesn't decrease for the rest of the stage. The second multiplier goes +1 for every enemy that you kill with your beamshot and goes -1 after every second or so. Every enemy you kill, will get multiplied by BOTH multipliers, so the boss enemies are by far the most important. After each stage both counters reset. The maximum for the first counter is x999 and for the second x99.

The small items aren't really important at all. You get a bonus when you collect them first (they also get multiplied by both counters) and you get an additional bonus from them after the stage when you no missed it (again very small bonus).

There's at least one secret item per stage which gives you an additional x15 on the first counter. These items are in hidden in various hard to reach places and/or enemies and look like a cat. They also make some kind of strange noise, you'll know what I mean once you've found one.

To get 5mill+ scores in the first stage your first counter needs to be around x280 and your second one around x45. Because the second counter constantly decreases, you should try to kill all bosses as fast as possible.

[THE]

The small items aren't really important at all. You get a bonus when you collect them first (they also get multiplied by both counters) and you get an additional bonus from them after the stage when you no missed it (again very small bonus).

The first counter is increased by those items too. You should always grab them with the pod...

Btw. there are only 3 loops, the last loop is kinda "bullet hell"...

[RHE]

Pretty nice score already, Plasmo.

I don't get the score system though.

Absorbing enemies bullets AND chaining the enemies themselves with your beam is the way to go: http://www.lasthope.ngdevteam.com/#system

[Plasmo]

Plasmo - 88,476,681 - 2-6

Got 5,6nill in stage 1.
Btw, I was wrong earlier, the max number for the first multiplier is x499, not x999.
I credit feed myself to the third loop and it's completely ridiculous. The difficulty jump from first loop to second loop feels natural, loop 3 feels more like loop 10+.
Luckily you can change difficulty and practice the third loop a bit. Nevertheless this will be a pain in the ass to clear...

[Plasmo]

Plasmo - 166,586,909 - 3-ALL

Did it.
I don't know why and how it happened, but I got some kind of glitch, where I immediately got an extra life back every time I die. This only happened during stage 3-1, 3-2 and 3-3. Maybe that was just because the max number of lives is 7 and I got more than this earlier on and instead of never getting them, you'll get them once the counter can go up again.

[the allett]

THE ALLETT - 43,015,874 - 3-2

What a great game this is

Borrowing my mates MVS copy, must now buy this game

[Plasmo]

Wow after all those years finally another score!

Keep it up and go for the clear!

[the allett]

Just had a 3 hr session and the best i came up with was finished the run at mid stage 3-6
Score in the 93,xxx,xxx
Gotta give this game back tonight as my mate is going back home
I will continue on my 3-all Quest once i purchase this quality game

On this run i managed to get 7,4k on the first stage

[the allett]

THE ALLETT - 109,003,833 - 3-ALL

No miss run up to 3-2, then played loop 3 just for survival. I might get the original last hope if its this much fun

When i buy this game i will go for the score

[the allett]

Finaly got my copy last week

187,734,925 - 3-ALL

More people should play this great game!