Jamestown - Croatoa - Judgement difficulty (6-miss, Gunner)

6-miss (2 continues used) clear of Croatoa on Judgement difficulty using the Gunner. This stage is pretty hard.

On Judgement, there's green bullets that go through the immunity given by your normal vaunt shield, making the game a lot harder. These bullets don't go through the immunity given when you cancel vaunt manually though - I abuse this liberally which results in a rather low final score of 1.4 million. Upwards of 2.3 million is possible with a proper score run.

Another technique used at times is tapping the fire button; this shoots more secondary shots than simply holding the button, resulting in a ~15% damage increase.

The Heart of Mars fight has some slowdown at various points; this slowdown occurs even when not recording due to a lack of optimizations in the game. It's likely to be somewhat CPU-dependent, but even the newest systems seem to have some problems. It can't really be helped until there's a patch for it.

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• jamestown
• croatoa
• judgement
• chapter 5
• heart of mars
• gunner
• clear

[stickypummel]

That was just sick. I'm having trouble reaching the conquistador :D

Anyway, do you know any other game like this? I love playing top-down (vertical) shooters, but quality games of this genre are hard to find... Any tips?

[AnotherJef]

@stickypummel We went over other games on the Jamestown forums, look for the "Anyone turn into a shmup fan?" topic. There's really far too much good games to list.

[l3reak]

very nice! keep working on it until you get that no-miss run :D

[AnotherJef]

@l3reak You first!

[mustpickname]

And that first conquistador battle was AMAZING.

[AnotherJef]

@mustpickname It's not too bad really, you get used to it. It's pretty much the same thing as it is on Divine except with some green bullets added. You just need to focus on those and pretty much ignore the rest.

[frickfrock999]

That music at the start reminds me of Evangelion.

Incredibly fitting.

[samtheman264]

Now do that with the bomber.

[jlegoman1]

you pretty good with gunner i love the gunner just because i can change the direction of my bullet s and once you have other people with you it's gets better i think the best weapons to use are (charge, beam and gunner)

[Dragonsol]

WTF. Legendary is ok (but HARD), Divine, I CANT, judgement... other thay xD. (With charge ship)

[TheVrouf]

o.0 I haven't even beaten it on Legendary Difficulty.... (as in that was awesome!) Great job! I can't imagine how hard you worked on this!

[LethalXDSSBB]

/watch?v=wa_I76dqejk

Skip to the last level to see. He vaunts thru the entire Croatoa stage before the first boss. That alone got him 2 million.

Score possible on this stage is probably upwards around 4 million due to how many times he died.

[CalebTheman12]

wow conquistador sure is hard but i always find queen larsa harder.

[bfaulconnier]

Great job !

[redcloud301]

Mind blown. I finally beat the final level and bosses on the seventh try. On Legendary. I'm trying to wrap my head around how I'll do Judgement...

[ImBatMaaaaaaaaaaaaan]

@stickypummel If you want fewer, faster bullets try Tyrian 2000. If you want a screen flooded with sluggish bullets try Mushihimesama Futari Ver 1.5 Black Label.

[MeowsyDancer]

Amazing... only just beat this on Divine and just started over on Judgement... took me so long to figure out what the green Bullets do. Thanks for the tip about canceled shields still works!