I’ve been taking a break from Mushihime-sama Futari to work on RFJ, however prone to restart syndrome it may be.

I’ve been practicing to the point where I can consistently get out of Sim 01 with gold medals enabled. Sim 05 is okay I guess, getting more comfy with the turret Micluses, but I still need to practice my DX Bonuses. And then after that, it all goes downhill:

Sim 15: I get into the habit of dropping bombs once I’m past the waves of quick-shot bombers, lest I die and all 7 of my bombs go to waste. Regardless, there’s usually a random death here or there.

Sim 20: Many opportunities for DESTROYED AT A TIME! bonuses, and there’s a lot of medals here. There’s a Miclus here, I’m guessing, since this is a ground stage, but I don’t know where it is.

Sim 30: In RF, my rule with high-speed sky stages is: FUCK THEM. The clouds and the enemies that swoop in fast and their explosions make the bullets particularly hard to see, so if I don’t die in Sim 15 and thus make it here, I die here instead.

Sim 40: More QUICK SHOT! goodness, and more bombspam. I usually end up here on account of being an idiot.

Sim 45: Rarely do I get here so I can’t really discuss it

Real Battle: MORE SKY STAGE, MORE FAST PLANES + BULLETS. I always die in RB1, not that it matters because I’ll be dead either at the boss or a little into RB2 anyway.

My record so far is 65 million, with Ixion Slave. I try to do some runs with Judge Spear’s slave, but I end up fucking up for unrelated reasons, and I try using the Flying Ray or the Ixion but I can never be bothered to make serious runs with them.

I’ve also been doing score attack. Thankfully, I can trigger more than 1 Miclus on Sim 01, so I can finish the stage with a higher score. I always manage to miss a turret Miclus or two in Sim 05, drastically reducing the extra time I can get from getting gold medals. Since I’m out of time by the time I hit the Sim 05 boss, I just bombspam it in hopes of stopping the timer and taking my stage bonus. Current record is 22 million; hoping to one day get into the first page of the leaderboards.

On a somewhat-unrelated note, I’ve recently learned to take apart the stick part of my FSTE. Seimitsu LS-32-01 replacement to follow as soon as Lizard Lick has it in stock again.