BLACK BIRD - True Mode ALL Clear - No-Miss, No-Bomb (Secret Ending)
220BLACK BIRD is a doujin shmup made by Onion Games that came out recently. It's a very cool Fantasy Zone style shmup with a very unique style and aesthetic to it.
True Mode is the highest difficulty of the game. You unlock it after you 1cc the normal mode. It's also the only mode where the TLB shows up. The requirement for the secret ending is no-miss, no-bomb.
This picture explains the mechanics of the game pretty well: https://i.imgur.com/pKF5WkT.png
Destroy the towers to beat the stage, grab green gems to power up your bird. The value of the green gems decreases the longer they are on screen, so you have to grab them fast.
The towers give a very big gem after you destroy them, so you want to be right on top of them when you do. The pots drop a power-up. The three variants are extend, extra bomb and speed-up. You make it change kinds by shooting it. The max speedups you can pick up is four and you want to max it out as soon as possible, since it's very useful.
The scoring system in this game is very complex and involved. The stages are jam-packed with targets, hidden targets and secrets that all contribute to your score. Ideally you want to build up a chain by killing normal enemies until you hit the max chain, then use a bomb on a bunch of high-value enemies to cash in on your multiplier. Timing all of this is very tricky since you have to juggle a million things at once. The requirement for the secret ending being no-miss, no-bomb is a bit of a weird one since bombs are a vital part of scoring.
The game isn't that bad to NMNB, although it's pretty easy to accidentally take a hit from a stray bullet, since the stages are so busy.
The bosses are pretty easy except for the TLB. The stage 2 boss is pretty easy so long as you don't shoot the big Pang orbs. The final phase of the last boss is pretty claustrophobic but you can macro-dodge the whole thing.
The TLB is pretty hard once it starts shooting a crapton of enemies in random directions. You pretty much have to be in the middle and start shooting as fast as possible to clear a path through it. The asparagus can screw you over if too many come your way at once, since they have a ton of HP.
Buy the game on Steam here:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/857500/BLACK_BIRD/
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