Project Beril Stage 4-5 Challenge Mode 1cc (No Autododge/Full Manual)
2This is a fully-manual clear of Project Beril Stage 4-5 (Final Stage).
So for this stage, what you can do is actually disable all of your autododge skill points and dump them into lives and bombs. I used 8 lives and 4 bombs to start with.
Also, unlike other challenge mode levels, you do regain 2 bombs per death in this stage. Your utmost priority then is to never die with bombs in stock.
Overall it's pretty exciting even though a lot of it is bombspamming, because there's some places where you can try some wacky dodges.
Detailed notes:
0:00 Opening: Speedkill all the small fry so that your options can focus exclusively on the large ships. You can get through the first wave without bombing if you misdirect the wide shots slightly as I do. Second wave if you can't kill the ships in time, bomb.
00:37 UFO lines: Should be doable without bombing. The last laser enemy in this chapter is doable without bombing I think but the gaps can be hard to find.
1:01 Small fry scatter aimed shots: You have to bomb these.
1:10 Macrododging. You can actually dodge this manually which is pretty fun, but make sure not to die with bombs in stock
1:30 Start around the middle so that your shots kill all the yellow ships as soon as they spawn
1:51 Surrounding ships; First wave is doable if you stay to the right. The others just bomb after lasting as long as you can. The one at 2:07 can be done manually too if you have the guts for it (I'm surprised I didn't die there).
2:44 Have to bomb here
3:06 Doable manually, but the mentos disintegrate into random small balls which can surprise you. Also the large ships' cancel-on-death works wonkily and sometimes doesn't cancel things entirely so look out for that.
3:29 Speedkill then go to the side to get through, but ok to bomb especially on the second wave.
3:38 Wait a bit before bombing so you kill the red ones from the second wave too.
3:48 Bomb liberally. Wait to suicide to make use of death shockwave damage.
4:12 Delay bombing a bit to get some damage on the boss, but you'll have to keep bombing to kill it
5:00 Preferably do this without bombing
5:20 This is aimed then static, doing the same thing should work every time
5:25 Just left and right. Move quickly to make sure you don't get clipped by the edge lasers. Don't even try to shoot this down
5:46 Survive as long as possible then bomb
6:03 Same. If you circle around Amethyst while she's doing the radial attack, be careful to not ram into the spotlight(?) things like how I did
6:36 These lasers activate immediately after stopping so you have to bomb
6:50 Filler non, should be easy
7:11 The first phase should be doable, once the bubbles and long lines and lasers come out, bomb it
7:30 Survival; should be doable manually
7:51 False final; Bomb liberally when the small bullets are threatening
8:32 You can cheese this entire part by being in the top corners
9:06 This should be doable manually
9:25 Final attack. You need to survive the lasers firing about 8-9 times. Once the dialog box pops up, that's a clear.
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