Game:

Chaos Field (2004)

Duration: 25:31

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After clearing the regular Arcade mode in Chaos Field, I now also managed to get a clear with decent scoring on the port-exclusive Original mode!

This mode, available on GC (and maybe PS2, I'm not sure), is a remix of Arcade and the mechanics are the same. However, some segments of the game have popcorn enemies in them. They usually appear before the boss itself, and you can even build, keep (and lose) your chain on them. They can give meta cubes too so they also make boss chaining a bit different as the resources you get for those are not going to be the same as in Arcade. Full chaining stage 4 is something I can attempt now for example. In 2-2, popcorn enemies will also spawn during the boss fight itself, giving you something to save your chain more easily when the boss leaves.

Some of the early bosses have been tweaked a bit too. The patterns of 1-1 and 1-3 felt different for me, 1-3 especially in Chaos Field is a lot scarier than its Arcade counterpart. But it has more bullets too. I felt that starting from stage 2, those boss changes weren't there anymore though, the fights seemed similar. For some reason, stage 5 in its entirety seems identical to Arcade mode, with no boss changes I've noticed and no popcorn waves either.

Overall it seems like the scoring potential is higher in this mode due to the additional resources the popcorn give you and the more lucrative patterns in stage 1. I was able to perform some scoring chains I wouldn't have tried otherwise like the aforementionned stage 4 full chain.

However, in this specific run, stage 5 went very poorly. I'll just let you see it for yourselves lmao.

Played on Dolphin (US GC), recorded with OBS Studio
#shmup #STG

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