University has started again and I have close to no time playing Garegga. Nevertheless, I try to play for an hour in the evenings and effectively planning my weekend. I’m quite confident about getting a G now, it’s just a matter of time.

 

The flamingoes: I stopped playing Garegga years ago, when I was still using Iron Makerel, solely because of these damn birds. Then I found a consistent strategy to get 2,4-2,5mill everytime with using Gain and now, with the suicide game over technique in my hands, it’s back to random frustration again.

I got 3,4-3,5mill a couple of times, with a score like that, I’m even allowed to do numerous mistakes later on, unfortunately I usually get like 2,9mill. Stuff that makes the game over technique easier and raises the chance for 3mill+ scores:

 

-Try to destroy the stage 1 boss’ front propeller. It’s difficult to do, I go the safe route with a double suicide on him. This way you can aim for 600k+ scores after stage 1 (my best is 654k atm).With around 600k you respawn faster at the flamingoes since you get the extend earlier. This is crucial, because you want to throw your first bomb after resurrection as soon as possible.

-It’s important to exactly know when to stop shooting to let one enemy live. The enemies seem to appear random, which means that if you stop shooting and the enemy is appearing on the very right of the screen, you’ll going to lose a lot of points, because you first have to wait for him to fly over and THEN drop the bomb.

-Placing the first two bombs is very important aswell. I still don’t have a feeling for the ideal placement yet. After the second bomb you should immediately ram into the enemy. At this point, it comes in handy, if you had a good stage 1 or not. If your stage 1 score was only 500k-550k, you first have to wait 0,5secs before killing yourself.

-After your resurrection you should keep an eye on the big bomber item. It often hides behind the explosion from your last bomb. While trying to collect the item, you’re allowed to drop one bomb. If you are to slow collecting the bomber item, because it’s not visible or even thrown offscreen and you can’t use the big bomber item as your second bomb, you’re going to lose a lot of points.

-After your resurrection, you have to drop three bombs in total. The sprite limit sometimes doesn’t allow a third dropped bomb, again, if this happens, big point loss. The sprite limit seems to be expired sooner the later you try to drop the bombs. Hammer the B button, as soon as you resurrect! If you didn’t ram into the enemy early enough, you now can’t drop a third bomb. Another reason why you need around 600k from stage 1…

-The placement for the latter three bombs is quite straightforward for once. You can just throw them on one spot alltogether.

 

…and even if you did everything correct, you sometimes get 500k less, just because the flamingoes hate you.

 

On another note, my Saturn froze during stage 6 boss the other day with a D,2 score and still a lot of milking to go. Would’ve been around D,5, which would’ve been perfect for a G.

OH WELL