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Cosmo Dreamer is one of the most fun and most satisfying shmups I have ever played in my life. This is my first 1cc+ that fights the TLB on Counter Mode. There are 4 difficulties with Casual being the easiest one. I show the intended way to activate Counter Mode the first time: getting hit intentionally and using Counter-Magic 3 times in Stage 1. This forces the rest of your playthrough into Counter Mode, which just means lots of suicide bullets from enemies. It's not an easy game even on Casual difficulty, because the end of the game ramps up significantly and you have to beat the Stage 8 final boss with 6 or more lives remaining to be allowed to progress to stage 9 and fight the TLB. Stage 9 is insane on any difficulty.

As for scoring, there's several systems at play. Speedkilling enemies and especially bosses increases the score bonus when they die. Additionally, point-blanking increases damage as well as score and meter gain for bombs. But this game ALSO has graze bonuses and bombs grant massive score by converting on-screen bullets into red orbs. So you have half of the system encouraging you to delete enemies up close instantly, and the other half encouraging you to hang back and let bullets and enemies stack up... in order to cash it out with a bomb. It's very fun to route and optimize.

Played on PC on an 8bitdo M30.

0:00 Main Menu
0:16 Stage 1
2:44 Stage 2
5:29 Stage 3
8:30 Stage 4
12:25 Stage 5
17:17 Stage 6
21:55 Stage 7
28:25 Stage 8
33:16 Final Boss "Mu"
36:35 Stage 9 - Bonus Stage
41:52 TLB "Deep Mu"