Flawlessly Dot-Eater Challenged the first level in Ikaruga.
Not hit once, didn't fire once (Requirement for Dot-Eater), Normal Difficulty, for now, and more levels to conquer like that still, but it's nice to do that on a full-version of this game finally. Got the achievement.
Just as well, remembering that I scored 92% on
Go With the Flow -- Queens of the Stone Age in Sounddodger+. Go with the flow, indeed. Holy hell that song is intense (7 shooters spinning like a mad top, lots of shotguns and outskirting (though not as many iron-maidens as I recalled) to dodge while being chased by dozens of homing pods in a clusterfuck of bullets and boulders that also get shotgunned out during the more intense parts of the song). Thanks Auto-Gen. Recently replaying it a couple other times, I usually average at 85%.
Shotgun- 3-7 -wide shots; some that are also rail-style (same thing, but 3-7 -deep as well)
Rail- 3-7 deep shots, long rather than wide
Boulder- Pretty obvious; like with homing pods, in the name. In this case, giant shots.
Outskirting- Gatling-Rails cover the outside-edge of the arena
Iron-Maiden- :air guitars: When the center of the arena becomes extremely dangerous; or standing still is a terrible idea. Shot at from all sides. The more guns that do this, or the higher the concentration of fire, the more you're screwed. Type of shot doesn't matter, just dodge.
EDIT:
Bullet-Slalom- Depending on what direction you're going, it's either a bad idea, or a really bad idea. It's exactly as stupid as it sounds. With the current (Slip-streaming), you're passing by like passing traffic, but against the current (Slalom), like I do; zero fucks must be given. You're going through the onslaught of bullets, not around them, but through them, directly, and against the current. If you can survive this, you must have godlike concentration skills, or be completely psychotic. (In my case, I must be both.)
Just as well, a rather suicidal(ly fun) bullet-dodge method has been in quite a bit of frequent use lately. Instead of outright dodging bullets, I can now slalom through waves of bullets, sometimes doing laps around some shots and shotguns. I think I have lost it; but I feel like I'm winning instead. Rocks even harder when you have the right song to do that with. Even more awesome when it's through songs like what I just listed.
Now I can just imagine myself like some crazy awesome samurai doing a bullet-slalom (against the current, as I do; mind you) and then cutting my targets apart with a sword.
Violation of Common Sense is a term that crosses my mind often when I do that, along with many counts of catching myself exclaim "Holy shit!" or "Oh crap!" or "How the hell did I just do that? How am I still doing this?" as I pull it off wave after wave. I still don't know how I am dodging these things like this, but I'm not complaining. This is more badass than it sounds, I dare you to try it out.
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