Another great game from Berzerk!
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Thanks man! :D
Awesome game! Really enjoyed it! The only really dificult thing was defeating the thunder trial boss (had to switch to a full def skillset), other than that a balanced skillset got me through normal mode and a treasure one through hard. Ended up with a full set of 999 items, half of them legendary.
I didn't really bother to upgrade tho, felt it wasn't really worth it.
5 stars because the quality is definitely there, although this game is not without flaws, but I'd score it maybe 4.8 stars which, close enough gets 5 stars.
The game is laggy. Not good but unfortunately a common flaw with Flash-based SHMUPS and other games that spawn way too many objects at a time. I've seen Flash-based SHMUPS that manage to not suffer any lag at all, but it's rare.
Some things are basically useless. Meteors? Useless except to get to level 3 so you can get the truly useful Berzerk skill (that scales with your ability). Giant laser beam skill? Completely useless mostly because by the time you get it it's *way* underpowered compared to everything else. Put your skill points in Berzerk instead and forget about "kamehameha technique"
Mana is good to boost up fairly high, as is fireballs.
You'll want everything on the third row at least up to level 3 so you can get the item spawn rarity up at least fairly high. Shield is okay to put some skills in too.
Everything else is useless. Don't bother.
Save your crystals as late as possible but if you feel you really need that epic item, go ahead and splurge -- just try not to splurge too much early on. They literally become exponentially more valuable the later in-game you are, and only use them 10 at a time for item crafting. Saved late enough and you will have options of 999 Legendary gold type equips. This is also the point where the shop becomes useless because best you can do there is 999 rare type equip.
Best setup?
999 Legendary Gold Armor 3 stars
999 Legendary Mithryl Plating 3 stars
Two 999 Legendary Heavy Lasers 3 stars
Two 999 Legendary Heavy Beam Cannon 3 stars
Flame is absolutely worthless. Never get flame. Sell always. Even if the damage looks good. Sell.
Lightning is okay but laser is just so much better you should just stick with laser.
There are secondary attributes of any of the above which are random, so if you're really OCD, maybe try to max out not only at the level 999 legendary stuff, but also try to get the best secondary attributes on it too.
You'll need 10 crystals a pop though since it's the only way to get legendary stuff.
Most valuable stuff in the game = skill points
Next most valuable = crystals
Semi-valuable = gold
Sell anything else you don't want for gold, although gold itself becomes useless once you're looking at 999 legendary equip levels.
You can grind for all of these except skill points, which truly are limited.
Most crystals you can get at a time is 5, but it's very rare.
1 crystal from leveling beyond level 50 + treasure chest luck lands on 3 crystals + 100% in stage giving a star which just so happens to be 5th star, giving yet another crystal = 5 crystals. If you do all of that at the same time.
I was thinking about how I played this awesome game before and how I couldn't remember the name. A few days later, I found it by accident. It's a shame that the game ends with a cliffhanger and we never got a sequel though, I want to know what happened to Scallan. Oh well...