[AC] Eco Fighters / Ultimate Ecology - ALL Clear 1.79 Million

Entry for the Calice Cup Tournament.

Eco Fighters, also known in Japan as Ultimate Ecology, was released by Capcom in arcades in 1994. It's a shmup about saving the environment.

Mechanics-wise, it kinda feels like Capcom's take on R-Type. With the secondary unit in front of you that shoots and blocks bullets and whatnot. Difference with R-Type though, is that you can rotate it. It's also further ahead of you, which makes it easier for bullets to slip by.

You have a main shot and a secondary shot. Both have all sorts of different weapons, but there are only really two you ever need. The spike ball, (called the Hammer by the game), and the Vulcan which makes your main ship shoot forward.

Your power level goes from level 1 to a max of level 5. Picking up 20 gems makes a powerup carrier appear.
There are two score extends and that's it.

Didn't really like this game that much. The stage design is very uninspired in many places and it's mostly very boring and easy. Stage 5 is like completely empty and I don't know why. Autofire does kinda break it in some ways, but I'm not sure if that would fix the lackluster design. It does look very pretty at least.

Not a whole much in terms of scoring mechanics. Most of it is just optimizing kills and item pickups. No end-game bonus either. There is a speedkill bonus for bosses though, so you want to do that.

There is also a pretty big scoring strat on the stage 6 boss. If you shoot the main body of the boss, the boss will retaliate by shooting homing missiles at you. These missiles are worth 100 points each and they will continuously fire at you if you keep shooting him. This is a good source of points but it will also make the boss way and way harder. I expect to die at least once there because you can get some truly ridiculous stuff thrown at you. You don't want to die more than once though, because you'll de-power too much and miss the speedkill bonus.

Sound effects are very desynced in places, this happened in the actual game as well. Not sure if it's an emulation issue or not.

I'm not aware of any differences between Eco Fighters and Ultimate Ecology, but if you know please tell.

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