Panzer Paladin : Inverted Castle : Hard
1Very enjoyable game. Ended up doing that last gauntlet of stages on Hard. My recording failed after beating it twice while doing on Normal so bumped it up to Hard. Turns out the only difference I can tell is that spikes kill you in one hit. The game is moderately hard, but a lot of the difficulty seems to be from just not understanding how to use the weapons properly or how to fight the bosses. A couple of those jumps are tough though, it is easy to mess up. Once you know what to do the game's difficulty drastically decreases. Getting the hidden one ups in each level helps a lot too since it is easy to fall to your death sometimes. Using Wings on tricky jumping sections will see you save lives for sure.
Basically the bosses become easy with preparation. Getting Beam, Attack Up is a great combo. Beam shoots out a fireball when you attack with a weapon. Using the Durability up on a good weapon with a high rate of attack and good damage can be real useful. Absorb and Burst I never really found out their usefulness but that can probably be used too. Deflect could be useful as well when it shoots back projectiles. Heck just getting a bunch of shitty weapons and throwing them at the boss quickly will see their health skydive. Plenty of weapons have healing abilities if you break them, but the "small healing" is next to worthless so use those for checkpoints or for throwing.
The dodge has I-frames but I forget to use it since it is a kind of tricky.
Thought it was amusing though how if you stand in the center after killing the last boss you are forced to pick up that final weapon and get the bad ending. They should spawn that somewhere not on top of you.