Ah man thank you so much for watching it! And for the critique / advice, I definitely want it. Really appreciate it!
Focus shooting, you're right I'm just kinda in the habit with this game of playing like that I think, I never use the rapid fire button. I don't really know why, it feels messier and I just felt like the focus shot was working for me. But like you say, I've been focusing 100% on getting the 1cc here so now I can step back and change it up a bit to improve and get better scores / technique. The advice on playing it as a 3-button game, again that could change everything I guess like the double limit break stuff did. So I'll try that.
Aye, prior to this run (which I may add was on a rare hour of gaming on a Sunday afternoon where my eyes aren't bleeding from exhaustion) I'd never got to Rhombus with more than a life to spare, and I'd just get so panicky and blow it early. I had many runs where I fucked it but continued on to finish it anyway for practice, everything just came together. There are a couple of times I can see trouble approaching and can't get out, I'd like to improve that but there were less stupid mistakes than there have been lately, so on the whole I'm pleased. A few things have improved during my runs through pracice, such as the bit on Stage 6 where two walls are firing at you at the same time, focus on the right wall first as you kill it quicker, then the left. Also how to handle the bit with the lasers blocking the way, preemptive fire etc. And which stages I need to be wary of popcorn immediately coming from above when I naturally move my ship up there for some reason
