One interesting thing happened when I beat Normal again:

I said that the stage 4 boss is like the stage 5 boss from R-Type 1; if you're unfamiliar with that game, it's also like the Arrghus (dark world second dungeon) boss from ALttP: Little pieces of the boss fly off it, and you can kill them individually.

On normal mode, this boss didn't seem to put up much of a fight, and I indeed killed all the little pieces of it. At that point, the boss is harmless. I decided to wait around and see if the boss would eventually time out. After a while, instead, the boss completely regenerated! I would think there must be a limit to that eventually, or else the score attack modes would be broken.



In any case, I played a little more of the game, and unlocked some more ships. I was right about the B family of ships. So far, I've unlocked the Digitalius 2 and 3, as well as the Mad Forest (must be named after Castlevania III...) 2 and 3. There should at least be one other line in the B class that has 3 versions of one type of ship. I wonder if a similar thing is true for the R13? It's right above those other ships, and it too has has the ship tree seeming to suggest it could lead to two more ships. The R13 as is doesn't seem nearly as powerful as it did in Delta.

I also earned the Wise Man ship. My guess is that you earn that just by playing the game, without regard to which ship you're using.

So, anyway, I now have 52 ships. I have 25 gallery pictures (a new one was of the Wise Man). I have all the notes on the first two pages, except the one for clearing R-Typer Mode. I have 1/3 of the notes on the next page, and about half of the notes on the fourth page. I've put over 20 hours into the game total.


I don't like games that are fun.