Wednesday, February 26, 2020

PrinceWatercress plays Griffin - Part 1 of 2


You're a blue-haired girl. You pilot a tank. You shoot things.

Stage 1


The Control Pad lets you move around, Button 1 lets you shoot your regular projectiles while Button 2 lets you use screen-clearing bombs. The blue, yellow and red bar on the right is your shield gauge, and when that depletes after taking too much damage, the game is over.

Pressing Start allows you to switch between the main weapon and the sub-weapon.

You can only shoot in the direction that you are currently facing, so you may have to position yourself in a way as to move around and then face and shoot at the things you're trying to destroy.

The P items increase the power of your guns, while the B items give you more screen-clearing bombs. The E items refill your shields. The C items improve your speed, allowing you to move faster.

The mini-boss here is a helicopter. Keep moving back and forth to avoid being shoot, and remember to face upwards to shoot the helicopter down.

The planes after the mini-boss will try to destroy you with bombs; just stay far away from them to avoid them.

The blue tanks do not fire at you despite having a cannon.

The real boss is a tank-like base that has four turrets. If you can get one turret to fire at you diagonally, you'll get more time to shoot at the other turrets. When you take all the turrets down, you'll clear the stage and get a picture of the blue-haired girl from the title screen.

Stage 2


The tanks that move left and right shoot missiles now.

You'll fight the helicopter mini-boss again, but if you've been collecting every power-up you can, it will be much easier to destroy this time around.

To beat the boss, stay in the lower-left corer and pay attention to whats going on while destroy the left arm. From there, work on the other one without getting hit by any of the projectiles. You may get hit once or twice, but you'll be seeing another picture of the blue-haired girl soon enough.

Stage 3


This time around, you're flying upwards automatically. Keep holding Button 1 down to fire shots the whole time and pay attention to what's going on; if something shoots at you, move away from the shots. You may have to avoid some enemies as well, especially the gray spherical enemies that move at you diagonally.

The boss here is a battle ship. Watch where all the shots go and keep firing so you can hit the turrets whenever possible. Stay on the move and don't focus on any one of the three turrets for too long to avoid getting destroyed. After another picture of the blue-haired girl, it's on to Stage 4.

Stage 4


Shoot down the wall, then take out the turret on the right first. You can use the sub-weapon to take out the blue mechas that come at you from the side, though I keep using bombs.

If you see any brown and black walls, shoot at them to destroy them. The walls will hurt you if you touch them

The flame jets will instantly destroy you if you stay in front of them for too long. Move past them as they retreat back into the wall.

If you die, you will lose all your power-ups, but the game isn't impossible if you die once, unlike other shooters.

The boss here is a superlaser with four turrets. Keep moving from one side to the other and take out the turrets much like you did against the battleship, and never stay in the center or else the big red laser will get you. Also, watch where the shots are going and try not to run into them.

When you beat this stage, you'll start the game's second loop.

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