Uploaded September 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Strong style is the hardest mode in Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu Black Label and it's way harder than Bomb and Power. In this mode your ship has stronger shot and laser but the whole game is harder and it's similar to DFK 1.5 second loop. What makes this mode especially tough is having to do harder set of requirements for unlocking true last boss Zatsuza which is only presented in this mode.
In order to reach this boss you need to:
- No miss the whole game including Taisabachi
- Use two bombs or less for the whole game except Taisabachi
- Defeat all bosses with full RED gauge except Taisabachi
Requirements are really strict and you can't do a big mistake during the run, that includes using hypers which are not planned. Stage 5 is very hard and every hyper is planned here. All other stages also require a lot of routing but during my last days of attempts I was able to consistently reach stage 5. This stage killed a lot of my runs in so many silly ways. For example you can find tons of ways to do the beginning of stage 5 and it's not really obvious which way is the most safe. DFK Black Label Strong is unique because hyper mode is powerful yet revenge bullets and counter lasers can kill your run quickly if you're not careful. There are tons of details which would take forever to describe them.
You can't practice Zatsuza in Steam port but you can do it in Switch port or MAME. Anyway if you know what to do then with all five lives this fight is way more doable than many other Cave TLBs.
Thanks to eandis, inakilbss, Jaimers, Link_Z and many others for their strats. Without all those advices this clear would have taken way more time.
Strong style is the hardest mode in Dodonpachi Daifukkatsu Black Label and it's way harder than Bomb and Power. In this mode your ship has stronger shot and laser but the whole game is harder and it's similar to DFK 1.5 second loop. What makes this mode especially tough is having to do harder set of requirements for unlocking true last boss Zatsuza which is only presented in this mode.
In order to reach this boss you need to:
- No miss the whole game including Taisabachi
- Use two bombs or less for the whole game except Taisabachi
- Defeat all bosses with full RED gauge except Taisabachi
Requirements are really strict and you can't do a big mistake during the run, that includes using hypers which are not planned. Stage 5 is very hard and every hyper is planned here. All other stages also require a lot of routing but during my last days of attempts I was able to consistently reach stage 5. This stage killed a lot of my runs in so many silly ways. For example you can find tons of ways to do the beginning of stage 5 and it's not really obvious which way is the most safe. DFK Black Label Strong is unique because hyper mode is powerful yet revenge bullets and counter lasers can kill your run quickly if you're not careful. There are tons of details which would take forever to describe them.
You can't practice Zatsuza in Steam port but you can do it in Switch port or MAME. Anyway if you know what to do then with all five lives this fight is way more doable than many other Cave TLBs.
Thanks to eandis, inakilbss, Jaimers, Link_Z and many others for their strats. Without all those advices this clear would have taken way more time.
