Here's the final stage...and it's a doozy.
Stage 4: Fortress
There are robots that will take off three units of health if they touch you at the start. There will also be a fork in the road. You'll want to go right here, and make your way east in the dark area. From there, you'll be able to destroy the machine that is making that area dark.
Go back to the fork and take the left path (center leads to a dead end). Head north, and stand left of center across from the mini-boss so you can destroy the rockets it shoots at you along with it. Watch out for that three-way shot as well. You can also outrun the rockets by moving to the side if you're able to do it. Take the key when you're done. Head back south and take the right fork again. You can now unlock the door.
This leads to a room of conveyor belts and spikes. Destroy the enemies first, and switch to Mizuki so you can jump the spikes at the right side of the room and get out of here as quickly as possible.
Shoot down the robots in the next room, then head east and carefully destroy the turrets as you make your way to the other side of the conveyor belts. Switch to Mizuki again, as you'll need the agility to get past the moving spikes and the floor spikes. Kill the robots in the next room, then go down the stairs and carefully move across the narrow floor as your controls will be reversed. Shoot the control-reversing machine and head south.
Believe it or not, you can head east from the door, though it doesn't look very clear that part of the wall has recessed into the floor unless you look carefully. Go that way, and shoot the machine. This opens the door to another mecha mini-boss.
Once you get the key from that mini-boss, head all the way back to where you got here from and head south past the retracting floor spikes to open the door with the key. Destroy the enemy here to open the staircase leading up. Watch out for the flying mechs, which will shoot at you when lined up with you. From there, head north, and carefully maneuver your way to the controls-reversing machine and destroy it. It will leave another power-up that will increase your health, which you can pick up if you need it. If you have max health and you're definitely hurting for more, you can pick it up with whoever has eight units of health and use it to get all that lost health back.
From there, head out of the room,then head south. The mini-boss here can easily be destroyed when you're lined up with it. Head back north, then destroy the enemies and go back down the stairs. Destroy the robot and open the door to the south with the key. Shoot down the enemies, and watch out for the ever-changing directions on the conveyor belts.
From here, go west and take out all the flying mines..and boy, is there a lot of them. Once they're all destroyed, you'll be able to go up a flight of stairs. Take it, and destroy that robot mini-boss. It will leave a flamethrower. Take it. From there, head west and take out the turrets as you keep heading in that direction. You'll come across two more of those two rocket-launcher robots. Take the left path on the fork, then maneuver your way to the machine that is keeping the next room dark and destroy it. Head back to the fork and take the right path. This allows you to destroy a machine keeping another room dark.
From here, leave the fork and enter the fake wall to the north in the second turret room prior to the fork. Follow the path to the right and you'll be in yet another dark room. Destroy the machine, then head to the first turret room and enter the fake wall to the north there. There is a pit. Unlike other pits, you have to jump into this one in order to go forward.
You'll be in a part of the stage that you couldn't access until now. Take the middle path in the fork to the south, then destroy the machine making the room dark. Take the left path after this, and feel your way to the west, then north as soon as you're able. You won't be able to destroy the machine making the room dark...yet. From there, feel your way right, then south. Now you can destroy that machine. From here, head east, then north. Take the upper path and destroy the box to turn the lights on and get a key.
Head all the way back to where you started and open the door to the east. Destroy the robot and take the stairs up. Destroy the robots, now that you're back in (somewhat) familiar territory. Head north. You'll face another mini-boss. Stay at the bottom of the screen and shoot at it from left of center, otherwise the conveyor belt will make this battle so much harder. Head west and fight the jeep mini-boss. Yep, that mini-boss is back, and it's as easy as ever. We also have a boss rush on our hands.
Next up is that one-eye alien boss, followed by that robot mini-boss that shoots the rockets. After that, a boss. Take out the center cannon first, followed by the side cannons. Try not to get run over too much when taking out the center cannon, and shoot down or outrun any rockets that fly towards you when you're at the sides. After that, shoot at the eye of the robot when it starts blinking. This is where the flamethrower comes in...hope you still have it! Otherwise, you'll have to shoot like crazy.
But it's not over! You have to head all the way back to where you dropped down to when you jumped into the pit. After all this, you can finally head north. The door here will finally be open once you destroy the robot mini-boss one more time.
This is the final boss. Shoot down the cannons in the center, then take out the cannon behind it with the flamethrower. Destroy the cannons at the sides, then shoot at the flashing light. Just position yourself in front of it and just tank all the damage while shooting at it. This thing will be dead long before you are and you'll finally beat the game! Your mission is complete! My microphone finally decided not to work for about forty-five seconds! I switched to a USB headset for a while after this! It's over!
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