p-47 aces stage 4

supposedly this is where the real game begins
turns out it kinda does, but it's still easy
so far the game feels like horizontal td2
p-47 aces, arcade
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alternate between shooting the boat and shooting the zako, when the latter are high; make sure to shoot stuff that sticks out with your main shot, or the boat will survive for too long
the grey plane will shoot 5-ways and make an elden ring reference with aimed pairs, even when it dies
---- boss
ignore the front part, shoot until after the grey plane
stay a bit above the flag (this height is A), wait for the bullet, go below it, wait for 5 shots (you can tell when it goes down)
go to A, go down between bullets, shoot
stay a little bit below the second turret, it can't aim that low; don't go far down, there'll be a bullet
shoot the spinner with your main shot, then stay at its approximate height and dodge the main part [M] (it will not die, and the other turret doesn't aim that low yet)
it loops a static attack and two aimed X-ways (idk what X is, and it doesn't matter)
bomb when M aims at you when it's to the left of the centre, then hug the left edge and stay on top of it, and shoot zako there
when the big part to the DR of you dies, go around M and pb the small turret, then go up
shoot zako, watch the big turret
pb the grey plane when the turret is below the high score, then pb the turret
shoot green planes from the previous stage, these go middle-bottom-top-middle but low-middle but high
try to pb them and hug the inner edges of the 3-ways to speed things up
pb the black plane, its mines explode after it shoots the 3rd one so start LRLRL then; the last L is long, you flail after it
stream down from the top left corner, then shoot a grey plane
shoot zako, then shoot the same green formation as before, but without the final one
shoot zako, then when the first debris passes the high score, pb the green guy at the top, then at the bottom, then back off (you can also tell by the music change and a group of zako at top that gets killed)
shoot zako, then hug the top left corner
---- proper fight with M
tap right when the bullets form a space that opens up to dodge the first aimed wave, then tap further right to dodge the second
eventually the ship will stop, and there'll be more space, the strat remains same
eventually something will go boom, and you will have to go left asap, you'll go through a few gaps, macro a tight group of bullets, and dodge a 5-way through the bottommost gap
then dodge a bit and it's dead

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Fuck this stage