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Tyrian (1995)

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Two words : FUCK. THIS. LEVEL.

Ok, seriously, it took me countless tries to do it. Less than Botany B on Engage (that was 69 tries), but it came close. Details further on in the description.


Asteroid Rock is an alternate level in episode 5. Only in Full Game, you can pick it instead of Miners.


And it probably is THE weirdest level in the whole game... and it doesn't even look like it, at first glance!

First, the difficulty. This was on "Hard", but the enemies have speed and resilience like on "Suicide" or something. Not sure if this level beefs enemies up, or if the game glitched. But man, half a second and my shields would often go from full to empty. And look at what shield I have.


Second, the FAKE difficulty, as in "things that make the level difficult for bad reasons". RANDOMNESS. Enemies appear AT RANDOM, and often they spawn a bit lower than the top of the screen. In all asteroid-themed levels, rocks appear at random, and some shoot at you. Here, you've got the shooting rocks, but also 4 types of ships, all spawing randomly. One also looks a lot like the Armor Ship, to confuse you.

And because of the difficulty boost, they're VERY tough. If you get a random rock spawn in front of a turret, it will buy the turret an entire second to kill you.

Turrets aren't random. The ships are. Sometimes you get no ships for 10 seconds, sometimes you get 2 of every type of ship, plus rocks, while facing turrets, all at once.

My ship had the Zica Laser level 11. And even that has problems killing random rocks. My strategy was :
"SPAM ICE BEAM". I freeze every enemy while attacking them, making it easier to kill them. I literally spam-clicked the mouse non-stop whenever I was attacking.

The Rear Mega Pulse makes the level awesome to play because of the bullets flying everywhere, but it blocks your view quite a lot. Doesn't help that most enemy projectiles push you very easily, when you don't notice.

And the boss is like in Asteroid 1. Only more insane. Probably the hardest boss in the game.

A shame you can't try this on Engage. But without weapons that obstruct your sight, this would be doable. Firebomb + Invulnerability would work very well. Repulsor would boost defense, SDF Main Gun could kill a lot. Only problem would be inputting Invulnerability when you're constantly in danger of having a ship spawn in your butt.

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