Thankfully, they're not difficult to avoid and destroy, and the game gives you a warning before a good number of waves of these appear. They appear from behind and in groups, travel diagonally upwards or straight upwards, and they deal huge amounts of Collision Damage if they make contact with you. Goddamned Bats: The small purple ships that resemble claw nails in Gryphon Station.In fact, you can often abandon the more expensive ships in favor of a "Gencore Maelstorm" just because it can refill it's armor with an easy Twiddle Command, something the late-game "Stalker III", and lesser "Gencore Phoenix" can accomplish as well. If used at the most opportune time, you can never run low on armor. Any ship that allows you to convert your shields into armor makes survival of all but most intense levels a breeze.Their ammo maximum is surprisingly generous and it regenerates over time but that just means you need to save the bombs for the targets that really matter and you'll rarely need to worry about running out. Ammo is plentiful and the missiles will melt through bosses like a blowtorch to ice. The Atom Bomb sidekicks really live up to their name.It combines penetration into a huge blue laser the width of your entire ship! On top of a Front Laser/Zica Laser, your damage rate alone is enough to make bosses dead in seconds. Penetration weapons are nasty enough, but in a secret level of Episode 4, you can find a Wave-Motion Gun on steroids, the obscene "SDF Main Gun".The Zica Flamethrower makes this easy to capitalize on thanks to its constant fire. You should die from doing this in a realistic sense, but you don't. Penetration weapons, such as the Mega Cannon and Zica Flamethrower may not seem all that powerful, until you realize that you can "affect" many enemies, including bosses, with them and One-Hit Kill a lot of them by ramming your ship into them.Became Hilarious in Hindsight as nowadays there are mobile freemium games, usually made in Japan and China, that rely more on equipment instead of pure skills, such examples are Yongshi's Azur Lane and even CAVE's ''Gothic wa Mahou Otome''.Both camps are very defensive of their opinions. The latter dismisses "euroshmups" as a mess that's either too easy or too hard, rely more on equipment and grinding instead of skills, have no such thing as hitboxes, and awkward controls, while the former feels that the latter are as linear and as deep as Call of Duty that arcade shooters are too unforgiving. Fandom Rivalry: Fans of this game, along with other early or similar Western shmups such as Raptor: Call of the Shadows and Jets'n'Guns, have a bit of grudge with fans of more arcade-style Japanese-developed shooters.As for the green platforms mentioned above, even the almighty SDF Main Gun will take several shots to kill one of them. On the higher difficulty levels, nearly every enemy becomes a Demonic Spider thanks to massive health levels and faster firing rates, especially in Super Arcade Mode and Super Tyrian where you have no rear gun and crappy shields.At one point in the first Deliani level you have to face six at one go ◊, all of them firing at you which can kill you quickly if you aren't quick enough. They come in threes, fire fast-moving aimed dual shots at quite a fast rate, take a good while to die, and stay on screen for a good bit of time (they travel down to the bottom, fly back up, before charging downwards off screen). The green-and-purple platform-like ships in the Deliani levels.The game's SETUP and SHIPEDIT programs have a "Jukebox" mode where you can just sit back and listen to the music. Awesome Music: The music of the very first level, "Tyrian", the battle music against the green ship, "Deli Shop Quartet", the music of the first level of Episode 4, "Rock Garden", and many more.Anticlimax Boss: The Final Boss of the whole game in the final chapter is a giant pineapple ship of Zinglon's cult that goes down rather quickly in a bog-standard fight and isn't as intense compared to several previous climax bosses (such as the horned ship in Tyrian, the Gryphon, the Microsol Fleet, the Ixmucane core, Javi's Dreadnaught, Muldar's Brainiac, and even Vykromod transformed into Zinglon's Nose).
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