Also managed a slight improvement in Weakbosen (12.5m).
With these X chapters it is so important to maximise your buzz during the chapter - it is worth A LOT of points.
I managed a Graviton score with 1500 better overall buzz and no lives lost, yet it didnt beat my score posted there because I gained about 500 odd buzz extra during the level itself (and obviously 2000 less on the boss). Those 500 odd extra buzz really counts for a lot of points.
500 buzz is worth about 2.5m on the X levels it seems, whereas 500 buzz during a boss is worth less than 1m.
For X-A this is all well and good because you can pretty easily rinse the whole level without killing hardly anything (I wish I could capture the vid of me doing this). However for X-B and X-C, there are so many enemies it is nigh on impossible to complete them without killing anything.
This makes finding a path through X-B and X-C so much harder, and so much harder to find a consistent path. I assume X-D will be similar.
I think on the other levels (other than X) the buzz during the level doesnt count quite so highly, although it is still way more important than the buzz during the boss (see Volcano scores for a good example of this - Mark is much better than me at the level itself, whereas I get much more buzz from the boss).
I wouldnt worry, I have never survived the first attack of the second form of the boss since I have no bombs!
Seriously though, this morning I will be wiping my card and then redoing it all on easy with max bombs so I can unlock each stage to practice on with lots of bombs, and a decent level.
This way it is easiest to practice the levels in replay mode, and the most time efficient way.
Then once I am happy I can do each of the levels with the minimum bombs, I will go back to playing normal mode again (with the standard lives/bombs/difficulty) and up my score.
I wish each of the levels were unlocked from the start in replay mode - I dont play it to see the levels, I play it to master the levels.
I finally put this in my PS2 today (it had the back luck of arriving the same day as PES3).
Overall I've managed: 17088500/86/X-A
Aah well, at least my names up there if not for long . I think I'm gonna have to come up with a different approach now though (or steal one of yours). I seem to have plateaued around this score, having trouble beating it now whichever route I take.
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