Uploaded July 2020 | Updated September 2026, 6 hours ago

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1 loop clear of this brutal checkpoint hell from Toaplan
named Fire Shark outside Japan.
There are varius version of this game but this one (1p) is by far the hardest.
I played this great shmup for the first time in "La Calice Cup", a really cool shmup tournament.
Took me 2 months to learn most of the pattern and tactics
and finally in early April i got my 1 loop clear.
The game seem a mixture of previous Toaplan game,
power/speed up system come from Truxton ,
visually is like Flying Shark (prequel of this) and there are
some element of Twin Cobra too.
There are 3 weapon , blue green and red,
but only blue is good, especially with autofire.
Gameplay is brutal, if you die is most likely game over,
recovery is very difficult if you don't know the tactic for that specific checkpoint and without speed it's hard to dodge fast aimed bullet,
green weapon is also very bad and shoud be used only in a few section.
I played this run in Wolfmame 0.219 with 2 autofire button (15Hz + 30Hz)
in addition to regular shot and bomb button.
I wasn't prepared for loop 2 so i couldn't get past stage 3 (13-9).
00:00:00 Title
00:00:15 Stage 1
00:03:43 Stage 2
00:07:27 Stage 3
00:11:12 Stage 4
00:15:00 Stage 5
00:18:48 Stage 6
00:22:27 Stage 7
00:26:07 Stage 8
00:29:46 Stage 9
00:33:50 Stage 10