P-47 Aces - Clear (Swordfish, 2,441,320 pts)

Oh jeez
This is a game made by NMK, one of their last ones. As with their other games, it's pretty hard and very static. In fact, the difficulty list™ lists it as one of the hardest shmups ever, above Daioujou Black Label 2-ALL, but I could not believe that after I saw Big Malone play it live, so I tried it myself. Turns out the list™ was indeed wrong, the game is somewhere between Thunder Dragon 2 and Raystorm in terms of difficulty. I feel like the list™ makers just hate NMK.
Here you've got an air weapon and a ground weapon, and to level them up you collect power items, which are hidden inside some enemies, or in empty spaces as secrets. After collecting some number of these items the game spawns a bomb item (I have no idea how many items you need to collect btw). There are also empty spaces that give you score.
From what I've heard, you score this game by shooting stuff, especially walls, since you get insane amounts of tick points, and by bumping into stuff.
The run itself went pretty much exactly as I wanted. I did get spooked on stage 6 though, so I used an extra bomb (it's just before the boss fight). This forced me to use the more gigabrain strat for the next stage's boss, but from that point onwards things went well enough.
Total time: 29 hours
Play count: 147

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