Uploaded August 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Never spent too much time with this Kaneko shmup, but ended up messing around with it during a MARP Score Blastin stream (I still need to make those videos available here...), and came to the conclusion that I could probably 1CC this game with a little more effort. And so I did!
This game has some awful checkpoints, so as usual it's in your best interest not to die. Sadly I did screw up on stage 4, but after one other death I was able to thankfully recover. After that it's not so bad once you know the trick to avoiding the blue balls near the end of stage 5. I still feel a little shaky on the last boss since the camera scrolling keeps changing.
I spent zero time learning loop 2, some enemies fire revenge bullets and I guess there's less Barrier pickups. Not sure if I'll try to push this farther, probably not.
Full VOD - youtu.be/n7hXhOU38YE
Never spent too much time with this Kaneko shmup, but ended up messing around with it during a MARP Score Blastin stream (I still need to make those videos available here...), and came to the conclusion that I could probably 1CC this game with a little more effort. And so I did!
This game has some awful checkpoints, so as usual it's in your best interest not to die. Sadly I did screw up on stage 4, but after one other death I was able to thankfully recover. After that it's not so bad once you know the trick to avoiding the blue balls near the end of stage 5. I still feel a little shaky on the last boss since the camera scrolling keeps changing.
I spent zero time learning loop 2, some enemies fire revenge bullets and I guess there's less Barrier pickups. Not sure if I'll try to push this farther, probably not.
Full VOD - youtu.be/n7hXhOU38YE




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