Succulla tears Thunder Force IV a new one - Stage 10

...and this is how Succulla got No Miss on Maniac.

But seriously, though, if you've never seen the Maniac ending, now's your chance.

0:11 - This boss is a jerk. He moves out of the way of the incoming fireballs that take almost the entire screen really fast. Once you make it to where the last boss is, it hides out and lets the spheres spin around the screen, connected only by a force field that can also destroy.

0:57 - Now this thing finally stops hiding? Wow.

1:08 - It finally goes down, and we can finally see the final boss...

1:22 - ...but first, the final 1-Up.

1:35 - Here it is...the final boss. This thing rains death and lets loose with multiple homing missiles when it reaches the top of the screen, but blowing the sides off temporarily puts a stop to all that.

2:16 - It grows legs! Oh, my! When it starts climbing the walls, something rotates around it as a fireball bounces off the screen like a ping-pong ball. The Hunter takes the guesswork out of where it is, and all one would have to worry about now is avoid the thing that rotates around the boss and the fireball itself.

2:43 - It finally goes down!

3:04 - The Maniac ending.

4:13 - The credits.

6:09 - Can somebody please explain this?
6:20 - The final point totals.

7:19 - ROCK ON!

7:28 - The high score screen. You get different music if you place first on the high score table.