Overview
My first ever guide, so please take it easy on me, honestly It surprises me there are no guides online for THV_CH.This game is awesome, has a half decent story behind it, and once finished it will make you all teary, that is if you are a big softy like me. This is a short guide on scoring. I will add more as I find time. Sadly this is largle overlooked as a serious SHMUP. I personally know many SHMUP fans who are sitting on the fence with this one even thought its a great one. I’m not too sure on the names or terms of this game, so if you want to add anything just comment and I will add it in at a later date, thank you.First off you play as one of 4 pilots, in story mode its from their personal perspective. And ever so slightly different bullet variances.You have 2 gauges on the right of your screen, Shield and GrabusterThe fist gauge is your shield, build your shield by shooting enemies, simple enough.The second guage is whe the fun/challenge begins, the Grabuster. There are different items peppered throughout the game. “G”Pickup the “G” and your Grabuster gauge is filled up, once activated by pressing your Grabuster button “B” in my case, There is a barrage of lights killing everything on the screen. Be sure to use it when you know there will be lots of enemies coming. There are falling stars from killed enemies, pick them up, the more stars you collect, the more points and seconds added to your “Grabuster” mode. After your gauge goes down to zero, and depending on the number of stars you picked up, you have upto 5 seconds in “Grabuster” mode, you essentially go into invincible mode and you have to kill enemies by running into them. Careful though, once your timer runs down to nothing, you lose all your shields and have to build your shields up again. The secondary stars seem to be magnetically attracted to your ship. This is the scoring system system in the game. Once you understand the basics, it really ups your score.Level clears, at the end of each level you get point bonuses. Extra ships are awarded at 15,000,000, but are also worth 500,000 each every level cleared. There are two unlockable characters, the first is easy to unlock, play through story mode with all four characters on easy. The second is supposed to unlock through playing through all characters too, but I have yet to unlock her. Maybe have to play through on normal mode? or harder?