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Galaxy Force II (1988)

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One of the most basic of basic clears of Galaxy Force 2.

I usually don't write long descriptions but might aswell do.

Galaxy Force 2 is a rail shooter and one of last few SEGA's Super Scaler series on 1988 released on Sega Y Board and eventually ported into other home consoles. It's well known for it's Super-deluxe cabinet which rotates 360 degrees around during gameplay.

Galaxy Force 2 is more the very same as the first game, just adds new stages and rebalanced the gameplay aswell, more of a kit upgrade than a proper sequel. In this game, the goal is simple, race through the stage before your energy meter is out, if its zero you die. (suprise)
You have two types of weaponry, the standard laser and the missiles. Your missiles can only lock on to 4 and is depenedant where your hover crosshair onto the enemy, sometimes its somewhat finnicky because its also range dependant so sometimes you get 3 locks or 2 and generally its usually recommended to not spam the missles till you get 4 locks, that way you can have good energy bonus kills. Eventually there is a powerup that spawns at the start of the stage or mid-way, all it does you get more missile locks and its ammo is limited.
GF2 is somewhat a special unlike a few space rail shooters, you have a throttle control which comes very important through tunnel sections. Speeding up or down does not affect energy whatsoever so you mightaswell keep the throttle up untill you encounter sharp turns or hairpins throughout the tunnels. What I usually like to do is tap accel during those sections so you can keep the speed, sometimes brake is necessary like stage 4. You start at a fresh 1200, you can get more energy by shooting down alot of enemies on screen untill you've reached the end of the stage or the tunnels. This becomes very important if you want to reach for the last stage. Now in this game at the start you can choose what stage you want to start. Most people including myself go for the scene A. Its a very easy stage to get fresh 800 energy bonus provided if your good enough to clear most of the enemies. Last stage is essentialy an energy check and nothing else, the bare minimum for reaching at the end is like somewhat 1050 and little over? If you pass the test well the stage is kinda a literal nothingburger other the fact that the beginning kills your bitrate and that's about it really.

Overall the "strat" of this game is basically to go fast and kill lots of ships on screen and pray to hope you don't shit yourself on stage 2.

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