hazeredmist wrote: October 24th, 2019, 9:40 am
Do you understand the limit gauge thing enough to explain it to an idiot? Even going through the tutorial I don't understand it really. Where the gunfire goes massive and yellow. How to activate that without accidentally losing bombs...
I think I get it but largely through repeating stage one for fifteen hours trying to grind for score. This isn't official or anything.
First thing is that the limit gauge counter fills up as you collect medals. You get more medals for destroying smaller enemies with rapid shot and more for larger enemies with focus shot.
When your counter hits 1000, you can enter limit break by pressing bomb, although this doesn't use a bomb. It also cancels all of the bullets on screen and turns them into medals. You'll see the green circle around your ship ticking down gradually. As you collect medals in this mode, you'll see a red circle start to expand inside the green one. This is your double limit break meter. There may be actual names for these mechanics but let's just use these terms.
Ideally, you would want to fill that red meter as quickly as possible by point blanking a boss or in an area with loads of popcorn enemies. That will get you loads of medals. In any case, if you don't trigger it before the green meter expires, you've lost it and you're back to filling up your counter again. Just as the green meter expires, you'll hear a whooshing sound and a yellow light closing in on your ship. That's the latest you can trigger the double limit break, basically.
In double limit break, you get increased shot power and you generate bigger medals so timing this and using it at the best moments of the stage is the basis of the scoring system. Again, when you trigger this, it also cancels all bullets into medals. This means that the limit break system is also a really useful defensive tool, it's like two free bombs, in a way.
I hope that's somewhat helpful. In Normal Mode, there's another score counter and I don't really understand how that works. I also suspect you might get more medals by point blanking and destroying stuff with your limit break meter circle but I might be imagining that. Generally point blanking is good though because you absorb more medals rather than letting them drop off the screen.
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I ran through the game yesterday as a training exercise and found it very useful, I got to Mr Rhombus and blew my old score out of the water despite the run overall being quite poor due to experimentation. So I think a serious go at this I stand a better chance now.
