Played two runs today. First was S, S (after three retries, gawd), S, S, S, A (two deaths), S. I wasn’t sure if I were good at the game or not anymore. What happened at Mission 2 was utter travesty over and over again. Died at the boss’ last attack, let one of the rocket troopers right before the tunnel escape…uhg.

Second run fared considerably better and resulted in S, S, A, A, S, A, S. All the deaths were pretty stupid. Hit one of those eggs dropped by the ceiling-climbing thing in Mission 2, accidentally jumped up instead of down a platform at the boss, and got hit by a moai ring at Mission 4. Mistimed a jump dodging Mission 6 boss’ orbs and my thumb actually shook a bit while fighting against the blob, causing me to lose two lives there. I might need to revise my tactic there a bit and switch to flamer when it shoots out those homing stars. Must test it in Practice before trying it in play however, in case it’s too close to the boss…it responds rather violently to getting hit with flamer. Or maybe it’d be enough to stand right at the edge of the screen…hmm.

Anyhoo, though the game regards this is as my fourth clear of the game, it’s really my first legitimate clear on a single credit while not using the 30 lives code. So yeah, I’ve 1CCed the game now. Though even that’s a bit of a dubious an accomplishment, as the game gives out permanent extra lives as you accumulate game time and I had already got one of those. Had it not been present, I wouldn’t have got the clear this time.

I’m still longing for that S-rank clear…

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