Not much to report on as my progress has been mostly non-existant. The no-miss continues to elude me. Every day I play few full runs which vary between 2-5 miss clears. I got tired of “only mostly working” safespot for the big lasers the final boss sends out in the beginning of the fight when he’s still in the background, so I’ve been training on dodging them properly. I’ve done it several times on practice mode, but on both times I tried it in a full run I got hit. That’s kinda annoying.

I’ve also managed to break the 6 million point barrier twice now. Another thing that’s sorta annoying, but for a different reason. At one point I was thinking that after the no-miss I could work on hitting 6m, because I believed the no-miss to be a requirement for it (since I most often die at bosses and dying there delays their destruction, which has a negative impact on the resulting bonus). And since the game doesn’t reward any points on clear based on remaining lives, it’s entirely possible I’ll get the no-miss with a lower score. Though there’s still at least two score-improving tricks I haven’t used…but it’s not like the game is based on scoring (in fact, it’s somewhat random) so it doesn’t matter much. There’s not even a high-score thread on the forums.

I am getting a bit tired of the game though. I can do most of it on mental autopilot, only needing to really focus on few spots – and the final boss fight – that I know can be problematic. And it’s still at these parts where I get hit. Maybe I should play something else for a while so I can let my poor brain rest and process some of the the accumulated EV data. I’m just worried that I’ll end up forgetting about the game completely.