[quote name='Draekon']I thought I'd throw my two cents in with some tips and such if anyone cares.
1) Use boost to escape from tight spots instead of bombs. This can be done with the L2 button and the icon in the bottom left of your screen indicated if you're able to boost or not. The blue color indicates how full it is and can only be used once full.
2) If you don't have a shield and an extra ship box drops, don't pick it up and let it turn in to a shield. A shield is essentially the same thing except that you don't lose your multipliers.
3) When going to point boxes, you should try and line them up to boost over as many as possible in one go. The first one you pickup while boosting will be x2 points, the second will be x3, and so on.
4) Weapon boxes will change approximately 5 times (not totally sure). They all change in the same order so if you don't need the weapon there, wait for it to change. Don't wait too long or else it will turn into a points box.
5) When you hit 100% on a particular weapon, the next weapon box you pickup for that weapon will temporarily give you 200% and drastically increase the rate of which you fire. If you feel you do not need it, let it turn into a points box for extra points.
6) On the first three planets you want to focus on upgrading your Rock Crusher (on Lave), then Gold Melter (on Coventina), and finally Ice Splitter (on Nemain). The last two planets are your choice as they really cover all three asteroid types.
7) Use bombs wisely to kill as many enemies as possible. I find it works great on the small ice enemies. By killing more at once, you'll get more bonus points.
8) Use Gold Melter on the bomb carriers as it destroys them very fast. Otherwise you need to use one of the other two weapons to push the bomb boxes out of the side holders to force it to obtain the bombs and force it to explode.
9) Speed. Kill enemies first ignoring the meteors. This will boost you up in points significantly by giving you a timer bonus that is then multiplied by your multiplier and can easily give millions of points.
10) Boost can be used to help with killing enemies, destroying asteroids, and going through bosses for quick rear-side access. This is especially useful with bosses on planets 2, 4, and 5.
11) Like Apossum mentioned earlier, if you beat the final planet on Arcade mode, you will start over on Hard Mode. This increases the speed of things by a noticable amount. If you manage to beat Hard Mode then you will supposedly (not confirmed) hit Elite Mode which is even faster. The only way to get to these modes is by beating the final level in Arcade mode which you can start on once you unlock the planet.
12) Those little ice enemies seem to work best with a wide area Rock Crusher compared to the other two weapons in my opinion.
13) The centipedes I think die best with the Gold Melter as it's mainly about hitting them in the head and the Melter locks on. However this causes them to get bigger and move a little faster before they die, so you've been warned.
14) If you're cornered move in the direction that you're shooting. This will more likely than not lead you to freedom if you can't use boost and don't want to or just plain don't have any bombs. It helps immensely if you're using the weapon that the asteroids are weak against. (Ice Splitter is horrid against Gold Asteroids)
15) Pray to your gaming god that it's merciful and gives you plenty of bombs, shields, and dumb luck.[/quote]
Awesome Guide, thanks
