I don’t think it was five credits after my previous post that I got the 1CC in GunForce: Battle Fire Engulfed Terror Island. While having the no-miss clear would be nice, I think it’d be more annoying to go for than its worth to me. I’m not really getting the”must get a perfect run!”-vibe from the game like I did with Shattered Soldier, for example. So I think I’m just going to move on.

It was an okay run overall. My fight against the first boss didn’t go exactly according to my usual battle plan, instead I kept jumping around like a moron, but hey. My first death was in the ladders of Stage 3. Real bummer that one, probably could’ve been avoided. It takes two bullets to take those guys down, and you’ll notice I did shoot him twice, but the second bullet hit him while he was still in the last frames of his invulnerability period which allowed him to take a shot off.

I’m very pleased I didn’t die again until the latter part of the last stage. The game’s all about finding the right pacing for each situation, sometimes you want to take your time and kill every enemy on screen, other times you want to just run past as fast as possible since enemies themselves don’t hurt you, only their bullets do. The hallway of lasers is certainly of the latter variety. The last two deaths were just unfortunate timing, especially the last one. Echoing my first death, the last death happened mere frames after my own invulnerability period had worn off.

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