Dodonpachi Daioujou Scoring and Chaining tutorial : Stage 1

[@nickogden5312]

Your guide has been an invaluable resource for me. With that said 5:11 is such a pain for me with type B! Looks like I’ll be save state practicing tonight.

[@teh0tak1n9]

Awesome. I had some trouble shortly before and after the middle boss to keep up my chain. you guide really helped! Thanks!

[@TheElectricUnderground]

watching again to prep for shmup slam 2 :-)

[@then1533]

This is just brilliant for new doj players like me.Thanks for doing this video!

[@remembershooting2064]

This is superb, mate. Just what I've been looking for. Cheers!

[@lost_in_midgar]

Fantastic explanation, thank you. ❤

[@Jetsun007]

0:24 intro 1:14 1st chain

[@yaya747]

Amazing tutorial. I hope your views run up with the release on reincarnate

[@neondagger]

Great job! I'm going for survival right now and just want to ensure the 2 extends as early as possible. So this will help a lot. Also, stage 1 is otherwise pretty boring and this will help keep my attention early on.

[@AaronKraten]

Awesome video . thank you.

[@kirbdini]

Thanks for being so detailed in your video! I know it's an execution error somewhere, but ive spent almost 15 hours on reloading a save state that begins right before combat begins. I drop my chain right after the first blue enemy explodes. I can consistently keep atleast 2 of the 3 tanks on the steps alive, regardless i still drop between the tanks and the wave on the right. The wave on the right is always the reset point. The number doesnt turn blue it just disappears. I know this message is long just trying to figure out where im going wrong. Its the same in BL, grey, super easy, arcade challenge combo setting. Could i be going to slow at the start and that happens to be where it catches up to me? I also dont know why the numbers dont turn blue at the point of loss lile other times. Aside from that spot i have stage 1 pretty consistent thanks to your videos. Forgot to mention im doing arcade.

[@jujukenobi7801]

If you don't know what you do wrong, a good idea is to record yourself and check the problem. Especially check the chaining gauge and see where it drops instead of checking the numbers. You'll know precisely why and where you break the chain this way. For the link right after the first big blue enemy, I can guess 2 potential problems : either you slide to the right while holding your laser (and don't enough chaining gauge from the small tanks, because you get more if you kill them with shot), or you don't kill the small tanks fast enough right after killing the big enemy. It can be quite tricky at first because you need to move to the right and switch from laser to shot, just after killing the big guy, as soon as your laser catch the first tank that you left alive.

[@kirbdini]

@@jujukenobi7801edit: after watching replays, I barely have my chain when I'm lasering the blue enemy. I lose it as soon as it is destroyed, before I can use shot. So I must do the section sloppy up to then so I'm not in a good spot when I get there. The transition from laser to shot I am a little sloppy on and get a few popcorn with it. It's the moment before the copters come down near the bee it ends. I've got replays saved, so I'll watch closer. This is one of the only games I've ever enjoyed watching all skill levels play. I've got a long ways to go skill wise. I get to the 3rd stage boss before I game over normally. Repeating the section from the start is driving me crazy lol. Practicing patterns isn't near as frustrating. Haha. Appreciate the response. Felt silly to ask since it's an easier thing to answer if it's witnessed.

[@OmKol]

Very nice tutorial, thanks!

[@SOTNHacked]

An amazing tutorial!

[@ValisSoldier]

Thank you very much for this tutorial. There is an arcade near me that has this. I must be the only one who plays it. Quick question, though, and I apologize if this is blatantly obvious. Is this Black Label or Master version?

[@jujukenobi7801]

This is Black Label. I mentionned it on the first video of the serie but I should have mentionned it on the other ones, my bad (I will put it in the description at least) .By Master version, do you mean White Label ?

[@ValisSoldier]

@@jujukenobi7801Yeah, that's probably what I meant.That's the version they have at my arcade and just going by what the ROM was labeled as. At some point I'd like to get the actual board. Played the first two back in the 90s, but didn't get a chance to play Daioujou until somewhat recently. Appreciate the reply. Look forward to more content.

[@thewonkwonk]

Brilliant stuff but f@@ing head wreaking to execute and its just tge first stage.. loving the idea to figure out the route but it is soo frustrating i may give up on this iteration of DDP.. very annoying, unintuitive and not friendly at all unless you want to decipher the puzzle which ironically i found more puzzling than Ikaruga (for whoever ever said it was a puzzle game) .. disappointed i listened to the hype.. it has it merits but its not for me.. calling it a masterpiece is an overstatement.. it feels like without knowing by heart the routes you have little chance to clear the game as heavily relying of hyper and less dodging… im confident with esp rade, or any other cave releases but not this one.. feels like a a pain.. 3 days and yet if not knowing the routes to get hypers feels like a torture to over come bosses.. i realised i dont have the time to memorise by heart a game to enjoy it on its face value.. dont get me wrong its a cool ddp but without mustering the hyper loop game pkay you aint going anywhere… perhaps 20 years ago i would have had time and dedication to do all the above but not today… i wished the hype train would have explicitly noted the mechanism as very much core to the game ratger tgan statinyits a masterpiece because it bloody 10 years old or whatnot.. ranting a lot as i do love my shmups but this one is too demanding for me.. 15 mins video to explain how to clear properly a 2.30 stage!! Thanks for the invaluable resource you posted, it helped me realise that i dont have that kind of time at hand to flirt with the idea to clear this game..

[@jujukenobi7801]

I don't think you get the purpose of this video series. It's just a guide to explain how I execute my scoring routes and maybe help players who want to learn scoring by giving some cues in some specific sections. It's definitely not something you want to apply if the goal is just to clear the game. You can definitely enjoy this game by ignoring the scoring/chaining aspect completely. You don't really need to score much to get the 2 score extends (you might get the 2nd extend pretty late at worst). And you don't need to engage with the hyper system all that much either. You can just use it in a pinch, as a pseudo-bomb, that will often force you to bomb soon after because the game will become way faster. There are plenty of players who cleared both loop of this game in one credit without engaging with the scoring system at all. You can get to the end with mostly shmup fundies, without having to learn extremely strict routes.

[@thewonkwonk]

@@jujukenobi7801 i get all your points- i think i was blowing oout some steam! Ah! Its a VG shmup theres no denying.. the difficulty is a quite up there and found that even after 3 days playing it and exp playing shmups i face a wall of difficulty i wasn’t ready to face! Will persevere of course! It is a very technical game i must say! thanks for taking the time to respond.

[@DianeSteele]

you absolutely do not need to route your hypers at all, at least to 1-ALL the game, even at a low skill level like mine. just use your hyper as an occasional extra bomb, or for areas where you know you want some more firepower