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>>45161151
yeah, that's more or less my strat for her.

i didn't expect a reply so fast, so sorry for not elaborating further. my problem is the actual stage part. i can beat both bosses one after another when loading a quicksave right before the fight with full lives, but when doing "serious" runs i rarely reach the boss and when i do i have 1 life left...

as the actual boss, evil eye sigma was definitely harder (mostly because no shift button), but i actually managed to beat it with each weapon type because in th2 extra there was a specific wave of enemies where you could easily farm up to 6 lives with some luck by staying on the top of the screen (pic related), and afaik there's no such place in this extra. is there? or is it normal to reach the boss with 1 life and then going onwards by EXTENDs?

as for the actual patterns that always kill me:
>the shooting circle's 2nd/3rd/last (before powerups) wave of bullets. i can't for the love of god do the 3rd one (big blue circles), and i'm not consistent enough on the other 2
>the bullet spam afterward, very inconsistent with specific weapons that don't kill enemies on my sides
>the final clusterfuck before the boss (the second part). i know i have to bomb it once but i still die afterwards, and i have no idea how to avoid the initial pattern