Game:

DoDonPachi (1997)

Duration: 4:26

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Not nearly as optimal as the 1-5 chain, simply surviving through this stage is enough for me here. Due to the large amount of enemies, it's almost impossible to lose the chain normally without getting hit. The only part you might need to watch out for is the end of the middle section. Delaying the purple turrets in the middle just a bit there helps though.

The first part actually isn't very hard here, you just need go up past the small turrets and you don't really have to dodge their attacks. The real challenge is the second part. That one too can be made a lot easier with a good rhythm of left-right moves. The main idea is to roughly follow where the popcorn ships come from to keep their bullets to a minimum.

There's a non-obvious trick with the big building in the end. Destroying all three parts of it causes a screen clear, but the length of that clear is longer if the final part destroyed is the middle one. This is what you want to aim for in order to do the part after it succesfully.

The boss is quite tricky with shot ships, that need to deal with a hard extra pattern at the end. While using the fireball safespot, it's good to remember that the hitboxes of the middle fireballs are a lot more lenient than the ones of the smaller fireballs at the edges.

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