Psyvariar 2 - Buzz Type Leaderboards

[ZeroRisk]

Cheers mate. Will take a look at that tonight. Need some looseness mate. My left arm isn't used to all that physical exurtion. (sp?)

[rjpageuk]

Here is the link - http://www.ikaruga.co.uk/files/Psyvariar2/

The link Saur gave you is the best one though if I remember correctly!

[winky]

Now that I am officially on holiday I had the chance to play this yesterday:

Area 0 : 1350 BUZZ / LVL 38 / DEST 45 / SCORE 3116400

Still getting used to the system and losing lives in silly places. Mech feels far to jittery wihout the rolling slowdown option from revision. Will post more later.

[Saurian]

All Clear
70428900 Score
550 Level

[winky]

Area 0 : 45/1425/3294800/41
Area 1 : 51/3806/6035200/91

Got to the area 1 boss tried to buzz the spiral patterns but killed him. The second form has double pink spirals of doom that I can never do (Revision - City boss anyone?) so just went for the short bomb and the quick kill. Area 2 is cool. I love the little orb puzzles. The spider mech patterns seem pretty easy to avoid apart from the multiple pink lasers of doom (I hated this on the Colony boss second form). Will post more later chaps.

[Saurian]

Area 2 is excellent - the way you can manipulate the enemies sets this stage apart. Got a tip for you to get a little extra out of the boss:

Area 2 BOSS

Start with Neutrino anywhere around 1/2 > 2/3 way depending on how you buzz - the key is to level up at a certain point (4th attack) in order to get behind the boss - it's not risky and gives decent buzz.

1st attack Green & orange light attack

Simply evade and buzz as much as you can. Soft rolling at the bottom if the screen is safe or be adventurous and hard roll close to the origin.

2nd attack Pink lasers & mouth tri-laser

These pink lasers are random as far as I know - towards the end of the attack the boss will shoot 3 lasers from it's mouth with are not random but aimed dead at you. All you need to do to dodge the mouth lasers is edge left or right once, so dodge the pink lasers leaving enough room to nudge the craft sideways once to dodge the mouth lasers. My fave method is to use up and down hard rolling while drifting slowly left or right - the whole lot will miss.

3rd attack Green & orange light attack

As before - Neutrino should be getting there now...

4th attack Pink lasers & mouth attack

Timing is important here, you have to be fast. The trick is to level up when the mouth lasers fire, use your shot to give the bar a push if it isnt high enough.

As soon as you level-up fly upwards past the boss and roll holding the mecha against the top edge of the screen with your hitpoint lined up with the start of the Neutrino gauge exactly and stay there!

Goes like this (note that the mecha's hitpoint is aligned with the start of the Neutrino gauge)



Pink and blue 36? way

When you level-up in this position you set yourself up into dive into the origin using down then up, if you dont level just sit there till the boss explodes - make sure you dont disturb the horizontal position as you must be in line with the start of the Neutrino bar through all remaining attacks.

[Saurian]

Stage 3 is amazing aswell - there are a couple of things I picked up on:

These things:


Have a behaviour assigned,

First set: they start firing a set space away from you so stay low. Take the initial shield from their pink shots from left to right then get in close and Buzz the 3 way blue shots right to left and finally ram through them from left to right. The second set is the exact opposite - blah blah blah then end it ramming through right to left. If you ram through them the right way they bunch in together rather than break apart and leave the screen.

You get 1 set of these at the start of the stage and another at the end - they are both the same.

I have a little routine for the main levelling section of the stage which gets me more buzz that what's shown on the Appreciate DVD (this is all hard rolling and moving very fast starting on the 2nd orange Neutrino reducing orb): (be at the top of the screen to meet the first orange orb, and start the routine as soon as you hit the 2nd orange orb)

If you're up top, as soon as you see the 2nd orange orb ram it and hard roll downwards missing the 2 ships near you (these will be the bottom 2 next lap) and take out the middle left ship - on exploding it do a small 360 on the stick to catch the whole explosion of shots and immediately down to the bottom two ships, ram through both, then ram through the right middle ship (with 360 roll) - and hard roll back up to the top to be just in time to ram through the next orange orb.....and so on in one continuous hard rolling frenzy.



There's a video of it here:

http://www.ntsc-uk.com/reviews/xbo/Psyvariar2/area3.mpg