My first "truly hard" Cave clear and easily my hardest one at this moment. About 160+ hours on this mode and about 7 game overs on Aki.
There were some magic pixel/miracle dodges, Stage 2 boss was rather ugly since i killed the first phase at the wrong time, causing the transition earlier than ideal (5:09).
I went very dirty with the Stage 5 boss after that stupid death by abusing i-frames and supershot, killing the boss early.
Now for Aki's final pattern...
I initially was going for the dodging method, while i beaten him in training mode more than a couple times, i couldn't get very consistent at it and had some trouble reading the gaps (especially trying to do the openner without bombs), so i went for screen exploit used by Asagami and Tom runs which used 2 lives. At the end i gained more consistency on the stages to the point reaching it with 3 lives here for the first time.
Kinda dissapointed that i didn't only lose 2 lives instead of 3 since i had planned to do it with 2 lives in mind, at 23:15 i would have killed him if he was a bit more on the left (Aki's movement is random). At least having that extra live gave me the clear, very pleased about this run as i would have lost it if i had game overed it.
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Played on Dualshock 4 pad.
Shutouts to Tom Williams, Kiwi, Jaimers, Asagami, Amenoutski, and among others for their tips and/or videos. I would probably never cleared this if it weren't for these people.
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00:00 Select Screen
00:07 Stage 1
02:31 Stage 2
05:37 Stage 3
10:16 Stage 4
14:45 Stage 5
21:03 Aki (TLB)
24:13 Ending
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