[AC] X-MULTIPLY - 2-ALL Clear 10,758,900

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Happy Halloween.

X-Multiply came out in arcades in 1989 and was made by Irem, the same guys that made the R-Type series. It was later ported to PS4 and Switch by Hamster in 2019 as part of the Arcade Archives series. Very good series of ports with plenty of love poured into them, but they're just kinda bare-bones. For practice options you have the one savestate and that's just kinda it, there's not even a stage select.

Everyone knows R-Type for the grotesque, gutsy aesthetic, but that series never really fully committed to the theme. X-Multiply however goes all-out and then some. It's probably the most gutsy game Irem ever made. It plays like a Gieger fever dream and it's great.

The game is fairly simple in terms of level design but I love how unique it is in terms of premise and mechanics.
Like the story is all about how this takes place inside a human being infected with an alien virus. And the player ship got shrunken to microscopic levels and injected into the patient to combat this virus. It's like Bowser's Inside Story if Bowser got infected with the bydo virus. It's a really unique and interesting setting.
The tentacle weapon is also really unique and takes a bit to learn. They move in the opposite direction that you do and spread out when you stand still. They can be quite awkward to use and can be unreliable during moments when it counts. But they're quite fun to use if you can master them. People that played Super Hydorah might also recognizes the tentacles as the origin of the Scorts in that game.

This is probably one of the easiest Irem 2-ALL's. The difficulty and execution required isn't that bad and recovery is pretty easy, so you can still die all you want. The 2nd loop also isn't that much different from the 1st. It's easier than R-Type 1 for sure. Took about 2 days to learn and beat.

Used 30 hertz autofire for pointblanking and 15 hertz for everything else.
The Hamster port actually lets you use 60 hertz autofire, which is pretty crazy.

Game manual: https://imgur.com/a/XpipmYy

00:00 - Intro
00:30 - Stage 1-1
02:47 - Stage 1-2
04:49 - Stage 1-3
07:43 - Stage 1-4
10:09 - Stage 1-5
12:32 - Stage 1-6
16:18 - Stage 1-7
21:01 - Loop 1 Ending
22:39 - Stage 2-1
25:39 - Stage 2-2
27:42 - Stage 2-3
31:14 - Stage 2-4
35:18 - Stage 2-5
37:40 - Stage 2-6
41:04 - Stage 2-7
44:42 - Loop 2 Ending

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