What? _More_ Akai Katana? Hell yes, coward! This time, it's a survival-oriented clear of Shin's Kiwami mode. Well, I say "survival-oriented", but really it's just "scored terribly". I can't really figure out how to score decently in Shin in the first place, much less doing so with all those extra bullets flooding the screen. So, yeah, coward strats abound!
Shin Kiwami's pretty neat. I really appreciate how it's actually different than Zetsu Kiwami. In Zetsu Kiwami, all the zako fire revenge bullets, whereas in Shin Kiwami they have spread-fire instead. It's neat, and it gives the mode a very different flavor, even if the bosses are the same to the best I can tell.
Anyway, for this run, I prioritized energy gain over hagane, since you can always swap into gennin to soak a hit if you need to. Other than that, my main strategy was trying to burst down bosses using Kikyou's nasty-man laser before they could punish me for not having studied their patterns. I made tons of mistakes from beginning to end, which I won't bother listing out, but managed to scrape out a clear, so I'm happy enough with this for now.
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