DarkChaosRenamon plays Bucky O'Hare (Arcade) - Part 12 of 14

Read on for naked toads, an explanation on how Toad soldiers are made, and the Air Marshall performing a terrible desperation attempt to kill us all.

Stage 7

Toad Star (continued)

As you autoscroll downwards, you'll be dealing with both Toad Soldiers on jetpacks as well as a conveyor belt full of Toad ships. 

The little cryogenic tubes with the toads inside just make me sad. It's like they're crying for help, but as soon as they're freed and/or the tubes break, they change into Toad soldiers. It's like they're not brainwashed and then you just finished the final step in their transformation. I guess they were the toads in the Toad Empire that weren't brainwashed by Komplex, judging by how they look.

You'll then meet the Air Marshall. He'll fly around in his personal vessel, looping around the battle area in a very small circle as he sends his goons after you. Kill them all, then wait for him to lower and hit him with everything you've got. Stay at a distance when he spins around in place (he'll attack you this way), then stay on the move when he gets knocked off, as his vessel will bounce around everywhere and go fast as it does so.

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Just when you thought this was over...

Stage 7

Toad Star (continued)

If you don't hurry up, you'll have more enemies to deal with. Ouch.

Anyway, at the end is the Toad Borg...again. He'll come out of the floor in the left center of the battle area, so move a bit to the right before he shows up. There are four cannons in the floor that shoot up a huge crackle of electricity throughout the battle area. The same strategies from the first fight apply, but the big difference aside from the electricity columns around the center of the room is that you have even less room to maneuver around in. What you see in the second Toad Borg battle is what you get.

Once you beat the Toad Borg again, you'll be autoscrolling for a little while...

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We take down the mothership and head to the Toad Star to revive the planets!

Stage 7

Toad Star

When you beat the tank, it's on to the Toad Star. The Air Marshal knows you're getting close and will pull out all the stops to get rid of you once and for all!

As you're surrounded by screens airing the Toad Television News broadcast about the destruction of the Toad Mothership, you'll be taking on both Toad Soldiers as well as panels in the floor that pop out and shoot either regular fire or dual lasers. Use your stronger attacks to take care of the panels.

The purple wall with the turrets will shoot fireballs onto the floor that burn for a little while longer upon impact, but there's a chance that they won't even hit you if you're standing in the right spot. The wall doesn't even take that much of an effort to destroy with your regular attack, so using your stronger attacks on it will speed up the inevitable.

You'll then autoscroll to the right a bit before Komplex (or at least, a huge screen with his likeness on it) shows up from the left and tries to ram into you. Shoot the screen up to split it into nine smaller ones. Use your bombs and your stronger attacks to destroy these screens. Jenny and Deadeye's stronger attacks are ideal, since they cover /a wide range of space allowing you to take out multiple screens if you want to save your bombs.

You'll then be autoscrolling upwards, and as you deal with all the enemies, be sure to take out the laser cannons on the left hand wall to make moving around and dodging stuff easier (even though you can jump over the lasers, which have no room between them).

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We finally enter the Toad mothership!

Stage 6

Mothership

When you beat the mechanical shark tank, you'll go up against even more toads in bumper cars.

You'll then go up against a giant toad tank. You'll be dealing with laser barriers that you'll have to jump over, rockets that are shot at you, the spears at the front of the machine and the spiked arms that can sometimes extend outwards and hit you. When you do enough damage to it, you'll get the head to pop off, and gears will be spilling out of it much like the second boss from the last stage. 

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Banana oil? Banana oil.

When you beat the cyborg spider, you'll free Ro-Dent the old mouse. He'll tell you the only way to restore the polluted planets: find the planetary life force in the Toad Star and send it back to the polluted planets.

Stage 6

Mothership

You'll be in a hovercraft shooting stuff down. The green bumper cars on the track will not only slow you down, but the ones with the toads in them will get closer as they (ironically) move away from you on the tracks they're stuck on. You can actually ram into them to do some real damage, believe it or not.

Unlike the other levels, you have a dual laser blast as well as a huge crescent wave for your stronger attack that can easily reach the other side of the screen.

The lava sharks leave a column of lava in their wake whenever they are destroyed. The large one is a mechanical shark tank, and as you shoot it, watch out for the waves of lava. The ship will sink in and out, but it doesn't really have any other attacks other than splashing the lava at you and the lasers from the laser cannon that can only hurt you if you jump. It can fire the lasers while it's submerged, but the shots are pretty easy to avoid, anyway.

It will send some of the small mechanical sharks to help out, but they aren't anything you haven't seen before. 

Bucky O'Hare Theme

Why not?

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We got not one, not two, but three bosses!

Stage 5

Planet Rat (continued)

For the first boss, you'll need to stand at the left side of the screen and pound it with your strongest attacks. This will help you not only deal with the lasers, but also the missiles that home in on you. Shoot them out of the air.

Oh, and the three guys at the controls? It's the Air Marshal and the toad twins Frix and Frax.

The second boss is a machine that throws multiple gears at you. Once again, stay at the left side of the screen so you can dodge the gears as they come at you, and try not to let that thing ram you!

The boss is the cyborg spider. His main attack involves him lifting his arms up and calling for web columns to come down on you. Watch the shadows on the floor and stay away from them as the columns come down.