Stage 7 was the hardest so far. The rest of the stage shown here wasnt too bad, but I was luckily able to carry over my power ups to the final checkpoint of the stage and complete it without dying, the first time getting there. Otherwise it wouldve been a very hard checkpoint to start at with no starting power ups. I also managed to complete the first checkpoint of Stage 8 with the carried over power ups. This first checkpoint is normally very hard without power ups (based on the easier Genesis version I completed recently). Still have a mid boss, but should get to the final boss checkpoint soon. Will see how the final boss is in this version.
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