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After those Akiha clears, I felt like switching to Arcueid and try and make some progress with her. Unreal was kicking my ass right off the bat so I went with Hard for the time being, in order to learn the stage layouts (a little bit) more peacefully and get them coinz.

As the Sayo archetype, she is very risky to play at first since her shikigami is very close range and has gaps in it. Thankfully it looks like just like the real Sayo, she also has a high scoring potential! At least if this run is any indication, there's lots of points to be gotten since I even broke the magical billion barrier.

The reason why she scores well is likely the milk potential, since the first and second bosses have lots of things to milk. Remember that unlike Shiki games, the stages other than the final one are different for each character. So some layouts might be more juicy than others. The first stage (even though it is completely different from Akiha's) seemed to yield a similar amount of points, but then there's the sword milk in the second stage which is also rather lucrative!

I also incorporated some SDs in the mix to recharge the bombs, especially since there's two milks I do. You don't recharge the lost lives as quickly as in Shiki 3 but since you can carry up to 5 instead of 3 and there's Shiki 1 level-up bomb gains, there's no need to be as close to Game overing in the next stage.

Fighting "myself" in stage 3 was kinda funny, I don't think there's tons of milk potential though, but maybe those helis are more lucrative than I think? They likely could be milked too, but I didn't want to bother finding a setup since it seemed trickier than the previous two.

The Least 100 seconds is also more lucrative with Arcueid since her tools can damage the black cube much better, which results in more crystal spawns to destroy for them puntos. I did mess up my HTM once and bombed instead which is a bummer (and I guess was one of the things that cost me the 1.2 bil! oops), and that's also because I am not fully used to getting those crystal spawns that early and fast lol

Now I gotta try Unreal again and show that difficulty who's boss lol

Played on PC through DXWnd, recorded with OBS Studio
#shmup #STG