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Synopsis

Espgaluda is a shoot them up developed by Cave released in 2003 on arcade terminal.

Buttons:

The first button is quite classic: repeated presses for a single shot, a long press for a more concentrated shot and slower movements of the character.
The second button is used to enable/disable "kakusei" mode. This mode consumes gleaned green rubies by destroying enemies. When this mode is activated and the number of rubies is greater than 0, then all enemies (and their shots) are slowed down. On the other hand, once the rubies have arrived at 0, everything accelerates: This is called over-mode
The third button is used to trigger the bomb. The more you let the button charge, the more you concentrate energy to launch a devastating wave. But beware, it consumes heavily the green bar of energy present at the bottom of the screen. Note that in "kakusei" mode, a collision will not directly cost you a life, but will trigger a bomb consuming half a bar of energy.

Score:

The bars. When you're in "kakusei" mode, and you destroy an enemy, all your shots turn into bullion at the end of the "kakusei" mode (including over-mode). The more ingots we have, the more points we multiply. To maximize the ingots, it is necessary to wait for a maximum of pellets to appear on the screen before eradicating the shooter.

The multiplier. In a session of "kakusei" (and not over-mode), all destroyed enemies and their pellets turn into a point multiplier that can reach x 100. So you need to optimize your sessions of "kakusei" so that they are long and filled with dumplings.

Rubies. To earn a maximum of points, you need ingot and a high multiplier, but for that you need kakusei, and therefore rubies.

There are 2 ways to increase the accumulation of ingots:

The first is over-mode. If you stay in over-mode for a long time, you will see a circle around you. As soon as the total consumption of this circle you move to the next level. There are 3 levels of overmode, and each one increases your ruby income. If you stop shooting during over-mode, these levels rise faster.

The second depends on the position of the destroyed enemy. When it is destroyed in the top 10% of the screen, you will harvest more rubies.

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