Yes, I finally got my 1st ever 2-ALL of Strikers 1945 II with the F5U Flying Pancake! =D I didn't think I'd 2-ALL it before the end of this year, but I managed to! =)
Okay, so I guess a little explanation is due here… A week after I defeated Zil's score in Gunbird 2 earlier in the year (This was back at Jun. 26th), I just ended up wanting to give Gunbird 2 a break. As much as getting a NMNB 2-ALL of Gunbird would have been nice, really, I was after defeating Zil's score in that game, so in that regard, I got what I actually wanted to do for Gunbird 2, as I was pleased enough with that, so I decided to give Gunbird 2 a break. Immediately after that, I decided that I'd go play Strikers 1945 II and go for the 2-ALL with the F5U Flying Pancake (I decided to play that game earlier back at July 3rd or 4th of this year). Indeed, nothing like more tap, tap & more button tap, haha!
To tell you, I actually have a bit of a history with playing Strikers 1945 II. Back at early 2013, I actually once owned the PS1 port of Strikers 1945 II (Yes, it's that crappy port you all probably heard about). Back then, I wasn't any good with STGs/Shmups, so I didn't have anywhere near the skills to handle that game at that time, so I sold it. Before you say anything, though, don't worry, I assure you, I did start off playing STGs w/ Touhou. A good friend of mines got me to play Touhou back at December 2010 (This was when I was a college freshman. Also, before then, I always wondered where I'd play the Touhou games).
Anyways... After I played Gunbird 2 extensively, putting this together w/ me getting a DOJWL 2-ALL, I thought about my brief run-in w/ S1945 II several years ago &, well, I wanted to settle that old score I had with that game, as I now have more than enough skills to handle it. I was thinking I'd knock this game down earlier than Dec. 28th, but well, I got held up by a number of things later on in the year, so consequently, it took me a bit longer than I would have expected to get my 1st ever 2-ALL of Strikers 1945 II w/ the F5U Flying Pancake.
Alright, so a little bit about the run itself… To start off, this 1st ever 2-ALL of Strikers 1945 II was actually something I got as my 1st full run of the day! =D I No Miss, No Bomb the 1st loop of S1945II, which is the 1st thing you want to make sure you know how to do, if you’re serious about wanting to 2-ALL S1945II, since you’ll want to enter the 2nd loop with as much resources as you can possibly get. That being said, I made a bit of an execution error in the stage part 1-6, but I managed to recover from it. I messed up a number of medal chains in a number of places in the 1st loop, so that dragged my score down a bit there.
Now, for the 2nd loop… Survival-wise, it went better than what I expected, actually, though the 2nd loop was a bit riddled with a number of execution errors I made, due to nerves. I had to use 1 bomb more than what I planned to use on the stage 2-2 boss. I also messed up the last bit of the stage part of stage 2-3, so I had to use 2 bombs to make up for that mistake. I messed up in the middle of stage 2-5, so I died once there. After that, I recovered, to where I played the rest of stage 2-5 relatively well (I used a bomb on the final form of the stage 2-5 boss earlier than I normally would, due to nerves, though, but it’s not a big deal). I ended up using 1 bomb on the final form of the stage 2-6 boss, due to me killing a certain group of popcorn enemies too early, which made them shoot suicide bullets in a way that caused problems, so I had to bomb once to save myself from dying to the stage 2-6 boss. In the middle of stage 2-7, I messed up a bit by not killing the tank on the left, so that was a bit of a surprise there, but I managed to survive it. I messed up the stage part of 2-8 a bit by not killing the turret enemies correctly using my max level special attack, so I actually had to use a bomb there to prevent getting hit. Lastly, I did a panic bomb on the final form of the stage 2-8 boss’s attack because I thought I was in the wrong placement.
Basically, as I played the 2nd loop in this run, I got more nervous as it went on (Basically, needless to say, before this one, I had a lot of full runs, where I messed up early on in the 2nd loop, which sucked, whenever it happened, and then there’s a handful of full runs, where I No Miss stages 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 & 2-4, only to mess up catastrophically in either stage 2-5, 2-6 or 2-7. There were many full runs I had that failed before I finally got my 1st ever 2-ALL of S1945 II).
Yeah, basically, this was the 1st run of the day I did today. I woke up, and did a full run of Strikers 1945 II right off the bat. To my delight, that 1st run of the day turned out to be my 1st ever 2-ALL of S1945II! =D
P.S. - I want to thank Erppo, BOS, I.O and Y.Saito for posting their runs on TH-cam! It helped me a whole lot, in-terms of me getting what to do in S1945II at-large, so it’s very much appreciated! =D