Now that the comp is done, I can share some little tidbits for anyone that may revisit the Saturn rev.
I’ve been taking my time, trying to find exploits and secrets.
A couple of things:
If you’ve ever seen an action movie, you’ve seen pattern shots…like when Karl puts four in the door (diagonally) trying to cap McClain in Die Hard.
I try and use firearm principles like this on my last couple of runs, and my scores have exploded…and I’m almost no missing all the fast popcorn enemies.
From the far bottom of the screen…I just sweep left to right/right to left in a tight figure eight (another gun gimmick-when target shooting irl you can hold your breath and let the barrel sway in a tight figure eight, and squeeze when the barrel re-centers itself) and letting off highest rapid in measured bursts. It catches almost all the popcorn, and generates so much gold and nickels.
Reaching the Round 1 boss with max shot and two red ‘!’ worth of bombs, after virtually no missing, by the time you point blank the boss (1st middle to eliminate red contra ball grapeshots, then upper right corner hovering over/point blanking the corner=insta boss kill) you are starting Round 2 with ~40k points and up two lives.
When the four big blues show up, shimmy to just off center screen and *hold DOWN ON STICK/D-PAD* as you press bomb, and all four drop like flies.
You now have almost 100k before you get to the boss, and are just plinking everything off with the quickest auto shot, and your wall of lead.
Back with some Round 3 and 4 infos bit by bit. This is one I’ll keep playing into future months, until I 1-all it with the highest score.
*I was on my way with 200k and the wind at my back, and just kept getting sneaky deathed by off screen tanks. Kinda broke my mojo.