Shikigami no Shiro

[cigsthecat]

Update! Kaneda clears the game!

                          Standard Arcade Mode

1. Mode7              1,500,568,140  - ALL       - Kohtaro   - x6
2. Kaneda             1,321,011,840  - ALL       - Kohtaro   - x6
3. Shakey               483,044,770  - Stage 3-3 - Kohtaro   - x6
4. cigsthecat           456,049,020  - Stage 4-1 - Hyuga     - x6
5. Rob                  430,786,060  - Stage 4-3 - Kohtaro   - x6
6. Technosphile         383,870,380  - Stage 4-1 - Kim De Jon- x5
7. PaCrappa             352,456,630  - Stage 3-3 - Kohtaro   - x6
8. Kiken                327,752,650  - Stage 3-3 - Kohtaro   - x6
9. The Wanderer         324,317,110  - Stage 4-1 - Kohtaro   - x5
10.gameoverDude         275,622,640  - Stage 4-1 - Hyuga     - x4 

11.Click_Stick          272,560,660  - Stage 4-1 - Hyuga     - x5
12.James_Pond           257,470,430  - Stage 3-3 - Kohtaro   - x5
13.bocmaxima            197,712,880  - Stage 3-2 - Kohtaro   - x6
14.BoBVila              189,831,050  - Stage 3-1 - Kohtaro   - x6
15.Sidez                152,638,850  - Stage 3-1 - Kohtaro   - x?
16.Tigana               147,823,340  - Stage 3-1 - Kohtaro   - x6
17.Regus                141,716,330  - Stage 2-3 - Kohtaro   - x4
18.phoenix              139,494,720  - Stage 2-3 - Hyuga     - x4
19.Shapermc             118,079,540  - Stage 2-3 - Hyuga     - x5
20.ShineAqua            114,172,860  - Stage 2-2 - Kohtaro   - x5
21.hayato42             102,327,190  - Stage 2-3 - Kohtaro   - x5
22.Master               100,197,320  - Stage 2-3 - Kohtaro   - x5
23.DarkCrow676           62,469,590  - Stage 3-1 - Kohtaro   - x5
24.Chux                  46,207,190  - Stage 2-3 - Hyuga     - x4

                              Evo Mode

1.camps               151,790,700    - Stage 2-1 - Kuga Kohtaro -x4
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The rules:One credit, default difficulty. (3 bubbles filled out of 5) Please list your name, score, last stage reached, character, and tension average preferably in the format used above.

Find your character below:

Kuga Kohtaro
Yuhki Sayo
Hyuga Gennojo
Fumiko Osetta Vanstain
Kim De Jon


Gameplay notes: "They always come in pairs..."
Like another recent shooter, Shikigami uses a "buzz" system. The closer you are to enemies when you kill them, the more points you'll receive. Killing enemies produces coins; if you take them out with your secondary weapon they fly directly to your character. Many times (bosses especially) you'll want to sidle up against the nearest bullet to get the highest multiplier.

[PaperWork]

Here's hoping it comes to the Western World.

[Adrian]

Is this a 1 credit challenge mate? If not I think i've already beaten that score :P

edit: of course it's one credit, your score goes to zero after one is lost. Doh.

I usually lose one by 3-1, 'the slow-down'

[Adrian]

‚PˆÊ 5,633,583,890 5VVY

Oh. My. Word. Those guys are frightning.

[cigsthecat]

Agreed. I'd love to see some videos of the top ten over there. I can do much better, just got to play a little more.

Regarding the slowdown, like I said at TFP- the other night I played for quite a while with no slowdown at all, but earlier any time I died it chugged like crazy. 3-1's as far as I've gotten on a credit as well. That stage actually isn't that hard though, so I'm optimistic.

[Adrian]

I've been on holiday for 2 weeks without my Xbox (only brought my PS2 with me) so i'm out of practice. I'll have an entry whipped out by the end of the day.

[Adrian]

3-1 is bullshit. It's a stop start affair but at least the boss at the end of it can be totally raped with a quick bullet spray followed up with one bomb. 3-2 is again totally piss easy (destroyable bullets... lol) again and the boss can be violated quick. 3-3 the main meat of it can be completed by holding down the A button so that easy again. The boss is hard though :/

[cigsthecat]

What is hard though is killing everything while as close as possible to get that nice 8x bonus. Most of the bosses can be properly milked for quite a bit of points. I like how your hit box is so small, you can get away with quite a bit once you know where it is.

[Adrian]

lol I am so out of practice. One lifed the first stage then fucked everything up on level 2.



I died right at the start of 2-3 but still my score is shit. I must be missing something...

[cigsthecat]

Sidez, I meant to ask you- are you able to translate the character names? Kanji is way beyond me at this point.

And the key to scoring is this- try to kill everything with the secondary weapon (hold fire), as the coins fly directly tp you this way. Then try to be as close to enemies as possible when they die, because the closer you are the more points you'll get. I beleive 8x is the highest multiplier possible. Finally, make sure you take out all the parts of bosses separately (using the above two tactics) before finally killing them. that should inflate your score quite a bit.