So, I did manage to find a way to deal with Stage 6 boss. Twice in a row I managed to do the whole stage without taking a single hit. Trick in the boss fight is to dodge the homing shots at the last moment, and sort of curve around the screen’s edge so it gives you enough room.  This is good. I’ve now reached the final boss’ final form with a single credit. This is very good.

So why is it that during all three of my runs, I got hit not once, but TWICE on the second stage boss. This is very, very bad. It’s utterly ridiculous. Reviewing the captured footage afterwards revealed that I just hadn’t seen the bullets that hit me. I just navigated directly into them from the side. Though in one case, a single missile just barely managed to get through my cover fire, so that one was just bad luck. There is a 100% safe strategy that I could use with that boss, but it’s slower and it would annoy me to use that when I’ve successfully killed him without ever taking a hit so many times before. The attack that catched me is just random bullet spam, no real pattern to it…makes a it a bit annoying to deal with.

At least I can start practicing Stage 7 now, which is nothing but the final boss. A bit perspective/big lasers silliness at the start of it, but that doesn’t look too hard to figure out. First form is easy. Second  form, the final one,  is the I need the most practice on, but even that doesn’t look terribly difficult…it’s a fairly clean pattern, some aimed shots, some just to mess with you.

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