Bees: Getting 35 in the normal route would be pretty tough, since there are only 35. If you can do the trick right at the beginning of stage 1 to enter the alternate route, you get 9 bees per stage. If you can manage to get them all in the first 3 stages (which does take some practice), then you only need 4 in stage 4, and 4 in stage 5. There is a spot near the end of stage 4, right after the backwards scrolling section, with 3 bees in a row, which I relied on pretty heavily to get into the Omote loop.
The downside is, the midbosses get even more ridiculous in the hidden route, and dying (autobomb doesnt count luckily) in the stage kicks you out of the hidden route, which can screw up plans big time.
The 4th boss... there are quite a few tricks for. She was destroying me, but there are some tricky moves you can make to nullify her patterns. It seems like a lot of the midbosses/bosses were designed with hyper abuse in mind. I think its her 2nd form that shoots the pod out? If you know its coming and you hug a wall (you have to use shot to move fast enough most likely, probably lose some hit), the pod will chase you and move off screen. Then you shoot to the other side as quick as possible, and it should chase you back, and end up off screen again. Her first form has a trick too, if you focus on one side of her and destroy the missle, but let the other one stay alive, it will slowly drop off the screen. This causes the boss to very slowly move to her next firing position, which gives you a ton of time to point blank her (tons of damage and a full hyper charge)
....I'm not sure I could handle Power mode honestly. I had a hard time playing Espgaluda just because it had 3 buttons
I like the simplicity of Strong, even though you have to do some off-the-wall stuff to maintain a chain and charge a hyper.
Can't wait to get home from work, gonna play this shit all day.