I DON'T like rougelites! Not saying roguelites are mistakes, but for my choice of entertainment, rougelites is not within my top list. Like, this game's RNG. The first sets of upgrades determine your success chance here! I have this recorded for reference.
You start out naked with slow speed but to its credit, decent shot power. But you don't have any special weapons and you only have your Hyper. Sheesh! Prioritize picking up a bomb first, any bomb is fine since bombing is a score boost, do not bite too much by increasing the difficulty, because it'll jump up to Extreme if you start from Intense, for example, and for the raw stats, focus on Attack and Speed. You can forget the Special Weapons. The upgrade choices are often antagonistic yet they're so rare. My suggestion is to just focus on the raw Attack for your main shots.
I'm not a good connoisseur of rougelites to judge this mode as a proper rougelite, but I have to say that melting the bosses down without the special weapons sure is refreshing... if you're lucky!
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