Friday 7 September, 2007

Updateupdateupdate time. Cleared Normal mode without continuing and without extra lives, cleared Extra, and then recently cleared Phantasm. Slowly working on Hard mode now. Extra and Phantasm are beautifully scripted. Each pattern is like a puzzle. You have to figure it out quickly (before you get hit). Once you figure it out, it's not over. The bullets will come faster and faster until you drain the pattern's life bar. Obviously a lot of thought went into these patterns. I'm glad I stuck with it for as long as I have.

I love your comment that each pattern is like a puzzle. I've always been surprised by how similar some games become at the highest levels of difficulty. Boutique shooters and Guitar Hero being just two examples.