Dragon Fogel wrote: ↑6 years ago
The Golden Armor is kind of silly.
"we'll hide these four items that you can only get one of, then if you skip them all you can get ALL of their powers thereby ignoring whatever balance argument there was supposed to be for limiting you to one"
It's not like the game is so long that it would be a big deal if you were completely overpowered with abilities before Doppler 1. Most first-time players wouldn't go out of their way to look for items until they've beaten all the Maverick stages anyways. Instead it just makes one set of collectibles impossible to fully collect.
That's balanced out to a degree by the fact that the Hyper Chip doesn't save to your password. It's the only item in the game that isn't saved. You MUST re-obtain it every time you continue from password.
And, yeah, raocow, reminder that the head chip gives you regeneration if you stay still for a while without pressing any buttons. It was one of the two chips you had encountered previously but didn't grab. This regeneration continues until all 4 subtanks AND X's lifebar are full, which makes using the Frost Shield to farm energy pointless.
Still not as silly as the Ride Armor uselessness, though.
yep, in the grand scheme of things, the Ride Armor is literally only there to gate a handful of items.
Anyways, Doppler 1 has two end-of-stage bosses, the one you fight determined by whether or not the Nightmare Police members (Bit and Byte) were destroyed. If both of them were, you get the Press Disposer which we saw in today's video (which is weak to Tornado Fang and Ray Splasher, BTW). If either of those two were not destroyed (i.e. you didn't defeat them using either of their weaknesses), then you get the Godkarmachine O Inary (which has a minor weakness to Parasitic Bomb and a major weakness to Ray Splasher) and some dialogue from the surviving Nightmare Police members. This is the only difference in Doppler 1 between potential routes.
Next time: Doppler 2... most likely. Unless raocow decides to troll us by going to the other password I provided and doing Doppler 1 again but with Bit and Byte alive.