Yamame's non-spell. I'd love to see if someone can find a way to pass that. For me, the bullets kept coming at me horizontally at the same vertical level as me.
I got lucky with it in the second
replay I uploaded. When you happen to have her go downwards and you are close to the center of the screen, it can work if you start moving slowly to e.g. the right when the bullets starts to get aimed, and then quickly dash to far right side of the screen, sometimes bullets that appear to be on the same vertical plane will miss.
My best when getting to Yamame is now little over 27 million, but I'd guess about 29 should be attainable at that point if Kisume is speedblitzed and every blue item is picked up. I'm going to try more stage 2 and see if I can find a way to pick up all the items before midboss Parsee at max value. My first estimation of what a great score would be was likely too low, even if the player loses at endstage Parsee's opener.
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After some stage 2 testing I'd say 52 million is a good score to reach endstage Parsee at. I managed to time out the midboss nonspell losing only two lives, but was like a second away from passing it losing only 1, perhaps with a better strategy it can be done no miss it, since the bullets are aimed depending on how the player moves.
Parsee only has one completely ridiculous attack which is her first spell card, takes luck to capture unless I'm doing something wrong here. Anathema is quite hard but doable, her opener is also pretty tough, the rest is relatively easy. Tried some more stage 3 and every part of the stage is fine with a bit of planning.
This is all very exciting, I'm looking forward to seeing what others can do with this challenge.
