Shmup of the Month Club 2013 (Giga Wing)

[Spyke]

Excellent game! I needed a bit of a kick to play my ps2 version againm I'll fire it up and join in.

Ant

[Flake]

I'll be playing the gamecube version and I'll get started on it tomorrow. Any known differences?

[hashiriya1]

I totally forgot I owned a copy. I was about to order one thinking I only had the first and third ones.


Anywho, still learning the game. It's fun!

To get on the board:



hashiriya1 - 905,184,780 - Stage 2-2 - Koutarou - PS2-J

[noiseredux]

dammit, hash.

[brunoafh]

dammit, hash.

It's begun.

[noiseredux]

What I Know Is:

-the closer you are to an enemy when you kill them, the more they're worth (2x-8x).
-grazing bullets increases your shot power.
-each coin is worth more than the one before it (until you die and start the chain over?).
-there's no penalty for bombing.
-max bombs you can hold is 5.
-you get an extra bomb every time you lose a life or hit an extend.
-extend is at 400M (not sure thereafter).

...hash, what are you doing to maximize your score so much. You nearly doubled my score in less stages.

[hashiriya1]

I'm grazing as many bullets as I can. I try to time my bullet grazing with the destruction of more powerful enemies to maximize my score. I'm not getting past 2-2, though, so you've got one over on me.

I am still learning this game, but grazing bullets seems to be key.


hashiriya1 - 1,029,990,370 - Stage 2-2 - Koutarou - PS2-J

[noiseredux]

1B? Haha, I definitely have some serious catching up to do here.

You're def playing way riskier than I am. And that's probably why I'm making it further. When I first got into this game it was before I understood playing for score. I used to only play shmups for survival. So it's like this year playing Shikigami is like totally re-learning the entire game y'know?

[DocHauser]

Just had one go with Kuga so far.

DocHauser - 1,084,232,380 - Stage 3-1 - Kuga2 - DC

[mjmjr25]

So your spinning shield captures all coins or only coins that were first killed by the spinning shield?

First run in forever was 200mil, so will do a few more here to get rolling.