🎆 Hard and Expert cleared! 🎆
🏆 All achievements earned! (7 out of 7 earned)
🪙 1CC Hard and Expert
👁️🪙 Blind 1CC Hard and Expert

Returned
🎆 Game beaten! 🎆
⏰ Time Taken: 2 Hours 13 minutes
🏆 All achievements earned! (7 out of 7 earned)

I beaten it on hard mode! I'm finally done with this terri-bad game!

I tried this game on Linux while playing on hard mode and it's a same problem I had with Windows OS. Yet, I beaten the game again on normal mode. No known fixes found. ●●●● this game.

🎆 Game beaten! 🎆
⚡ Difficulty: C64 (Hard)
🪙 Forced 1CC

🏆 All achievements earned. (13 out of 13 earned)

🌟 100 Percent Showcase

Freeware; Steam

Started playing and finished.

🎆 Game beaten! 🎆
⚡ Difficulty: Hard (stackable)
⏰ **Time Taken to 100% (all ach): 76 minutes
💀 Loses (DC): 00 (❣️)
👁🪙 Blind 1CC!

🏆 All achievements earned! (8 out of 8 earned)

I've beaten the game on hard on my first try, plus no game over!

Started playing.

✅ Normal game beaten

▶ Hard mode (have to beat normal first. Grr)

⚡ Hard mode cleared!
💀 Deaths: 09 (estimated)

🏆 27 out of 29 achievements earned.

Joystick and Fish Boomerang are the best legendary weapons in the game.

Now, I'm playing Black (very hard) difficulty. I only need one more legendary weapon to acquire the collectibles achievement.

First Playthrough
Game beaten on Hard difficulty.

I tried to 1CC Hard mode, but I failed. Two continues used.

Unfortunately, the achievements cannot be stacked. Looks like the developer did not learned his mistakes on achievement trigger. Guess I'll play each difficulty.

Second Playthrough
Game beaten on Normal difficulty + 1CC.

I lost a few lives while attempting to 1CC Normal mode. Yet, I managed to earn it.

🎆 Game beaten! 🎆
✅ Normal and Advanced modes beaten w/ no hints used.
✅ All bonus stages beaten.

🏆 All achievements earned.

🎆 Game beaten! 🎆
✅ Normal and hard beaten w/ no hints.
✅ All bonus stages cleared.

🏆 All achievements earned.

Advanced mode cleared!
No hints used.

Not stackable achievements, sadly.

Difficulty: Hard

I bought this game during the Steam Holiday Sale 2023. I'm hopping the difficulty-specific achievements are stackable!

I got this game via Build Your Own Premiere Bundle from Fanatical.

Difficulty: Hard

I played normal a little bit on the first stage (World 1-1). Then I switched it to Hard.

Game beaten!
Ship: Raphael
Difficulty: Hard (stackable)
Time Taken: 02h 34m
Loses (DC): 15

1CC on Hard difficulty! You can stack both difficulty and 1CC related achievements just like in original release.

Game beaten!
Difficulty: Normal
Time Taken: 01hr 45m
Loses (Deaths): 05

1CC on normal

I've beaten the game on normal on my first try without continuing! On my second playthrough, I've beaten the game again on hard difficulty.

All achievements earned.

08/27 ~ 08/28 (3.6 Hrs)
Game beaten!
All stages cleared!
Finished at midnight.
Time Taken: 20 hrs 12 min
Loses (DC): 11

There will be more in the future! Now, I'm moving to daily grind.

08/27 ~ 08/28 (3.6 Hrs)
Game beaten!
All stages cleared!
Finished at midnight.
Time Taken: 20 hrs 12 min
Loses (DC): 11

There will be more in the future! Now, I'm moving to daily grind.

On hiatus

Where I left off: Stage 5 Hard

Returned!

Game beaten!
Difficulty: Hard (Not Stackable)
Time Taken: 81 Minutes
Loses (Deaths): 07

I could have finished this game early in the first place, but I completely forgot. Thank god, you don't have to start the game all over again per difficulty. You just replay stage 7-5 on each difficulty. I thought the game stacks difficulty specific achievements, but it doesn't.

Ship Type-C (Hard)

Game beaten!
Difficulty: Hard (Stackable)
Time Taken: 13h 24m (13.4 Hours)
Loses (DC): 298 (had to lose all of my HP to restart back to last checkpoint on certain stages)

I can confirm that you can stack up other difficulties by beating the game on Hard! However, if playing on hard, the time-based star goals became much harder to get. If for some reason you can't get all stars on Hard, you can at least start all over on new save slot on Easy difficulty. For me, I don't have to as I have finished the game on hard w/ all stars earned.

Where I left off:
World 5-1 Hard

Got all stars in Worlds 1, 2, and 3. Currently playing World 4.

Where I left off: World 4 - 7 Hard

REPEAT
Linux OS (Steam Deck)

1CC!!
Difficulty: Hard
Loop 2 - 8

Final Score: 7,564,260

I ranked #05 on the online leaderboards.

REPEAT/UPDATE

Used to hate the PC port when I played it on Windows OS. Initially, I was skeptical when I looked at the ProtonDB report and its grade; I was wondering if this game works on Linux OS. However, after playing more than fifteen minutes, I was extremely pleased with my experience! As a result, my rating and list has been updated.

I already got all of the achievements before. I decided to replay it for another 1CC attempt.

Difficulty: Hard (there is a separate hi-scores per difficulty)

World 3 Hard cleared.

I have returned! It's been five years since!

Unfortunately, I couldn't find my save data. And since this game doesn't support Steam Cloud Save feature, I had to force to start all over again. :/

Difficulty: Hard

Game beaten!
Difficulty: Normal & Hard (on 4th and 5th boss, I played on Hard)
In-Game Time: 17:21
Steam Play Time: 11.9
Trooper Loses (Deaths): 46
Loses (Game Over): 19

All of the stats I've posted are from in-game.

Chapters 3 & 4 cleared. Moving to 5 and onward.

Had to change the regular stage difficulty to hard, because of euroshmup game design BS. When you're playing on very hard, here's what you get:
1) enemies deal more damage to you
2) enemy HP increased (although not too bad)
3) and worst of all, bosses blast you in few hits, making them look like a euroshmup w/ SNK Boss Syndrome combined.
4) Timed based missions are much more stricter.

The only good thing about this difficulty is, you'll get more XP if played well. Otherwise, you'll get yourself too frustrated by this BS. For boss stages, I'll play on Normal.