Gemini Wing - final boss with main weapon
1*** difficulty is set to Normal ***
A little experimentation where I kill the final boss using the main weapon only. It seems that after it "burrows" at the top of the screen for a moment, when it comes down is a good time to kill it.
However, it looks like you can only hit it safely when it comes down the first time and then every other time after that. Here, I demonstrate dealing damage on the first time it "unburrows" and finishing it off on the third time. It's possible to do this with no speedups, but you'll be dealing less damage since it takes slightly longer to reach the attack point.
It is possible to kill it outright on the first pass by hovering over the blue part before the shell is opened, but sometimes the boss spawns a larvae right before it opens its shell, killing you before you get to attack. Unless there is some way to manipulate it, I wait in the corner for safety...
The position where you can actually deal damage is a bit tricky to find; you have to be a little in between the blue tip and green tail.
You might think that shooting directly down the center from the bottom will work, but it doesn't seem to deal any damage. Too bad =/
You'll probably want to do this if you want the maximum end-of-game bonus (20K per gun-ball * 15 maximum = 300K). This was just practice, so I didn't milk too well and only ended up with 13.
A HUGE WARNING though: a larvae has the chance to spawn while you're hovering over the tail, instantly killing you. I don't know what the chance is or how to manipulate it, but all I know is it's happened to people. I've only EVER had it happen in practice and never in an actual run. Maybe one thing I do is restart MAME every time I do a run (Shift + F3 to reset recording input), but I don't think that does anything...
Oh yeah, if you have any gun-balls that generate points (as I had in this video), the game doesn't use them at the end. So if you have one when you fight the boss, have fun milking 15 gun-balls!
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